Confused Over loadVariablesNum() 1

[Kijori]

don't seem to be able to display external variables in textfield. here's my problem...

in main timeline, i've got a movie clip (myMovieClip) which contains a dynamic textfield (myTextfield). the dynamic textfield has a variable named myText. in the main timeline, i have this script;

loadVariablesNum("../Docs/Example.txt", 0);

inside Example.txt is the line;

myText=Greetings

when i run the movie, nothing is displayed in the textfield. should i move the script to the myMovieClip timeline? what's wrong here?

 

[oldnewbie]

Since you're loading your variables on the main timeline (_level0), simply reference your variable in your textfield's VAR box to the main timeline , by adding _level0 to your variable. Thus make it _level0.myText rather than myText alone. Should work fine in any textfield, nested in whatever number of clips.

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[Kijori]

hey thanks oldnewbie!

by the way, care to explain the purpose of _level0 thingy? what specifically does it do?

 

[oldnewbie]

I did somewhat explain it... Since you're loading the variables on the main timeline (_root or _level0), with

loadVariablesNum("../Docs/Example.txt", 0);

The zero in the above tells Flash to load the variables on _level0. So when setting a variable's name in a textfield, where do you want it to find it's value? Where it was loaded of course, thus on _level0, thus you would add _level0 to your variables to indicate where the variables where loaded!

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