About adding html in flash

[killbuzz]

Okay this is going to sound confusing, but I'm making a website for a paintball store and they want all flash for the site. I’m going to add a cgi file called newspro for them to update news for the site. What I’m wanting to know is if there anyway I could add the newspro HTML code in the flash so the text would show up in the flash instead of like on the html page.

Here's the code I have to add in the html, <!--#include virtual=&quot;news.txt&quot; -->

Here’s a site of what newspro looks like when you add it to html.

http://www.bransonelvis.com

skip the intro and you will see the newspro. I remember seeing something about using html in flash to make stuff work, but I’m not sure if you can with this. Anyone know how I would go about doing it?

Thanks

 

[LittleHavoc]

Within Flash you can have a text box, with properties of Dynamic-text, Multi-line, variable &quot;myText&quot; and HTML ticked.

To load the external code in you can place myText= in front of the code when it is output. ie

myText=<!--#include virtual=&quot;news.txt&quot; -->

Then use LoadVariables to get the variable value for myText.

But since Flash is of a fixed size you will also need to add a scroll buttons on(press) myText.scroll+=1 etc..

But dont forget that this is only basic HTML so adding image tags will not work.

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On the creation side the client would need to add in the html code themselves. However you could do a little BBcode to make things easier ie bold [red] red text.
To accomplish this you must do a search and replace before displaying the results (you can do it before you save it but it is difficult to edit).
replace with <b>
replace [red] with <font color=red>
replace [/red] with </font>