Dynamic Text Randomly Adding Letters!?

[farseeb]

http://www.nigelpwatson.com

If you visit his biography, you'll notice that random letters are added, which look like spelling mistakes, however I can assure you there are NO spelling mistakes what so ever....i don't understand. Its adding random letters!

Anyone have any input? I have all the code to submit if anyone wishes.....thanks,

-Geoff

 

[oldnewbie]

Why are you using an .html file (rather than a .txt file as on the other sections...) in the biography section...

...
// [Action in Frame 53]
loadVariables("nigelcontact.txt", this);

// [Action in Frame 63]
stop ();

// [Action in Frame 68]
loadVariables("nigelbiography.html", this);
...

And by the way your added characters are in that html file...

http://captive-audience.net/nigelbiography.html

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[oldnewbie]

...And another thing... You should be using the LoadVars object rather than loadVariables... With loadVariables there's a lag when used online, and sometimes the text doesn<t even appear, or only appears after a refresh.

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[farseeb]

What is the LoadVars command to load an external text document into a text box? my text is named "nigelbiography.txt" and the var for it is "data2".

Could you show me what i'de put in my actions to get the text to be loaded? Thanks!

-Geoff

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16142

BTW, you still have a few repeated characters...

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[farseeb]

The repeated characters are not in the .txt file I upload. Thats the problem, somehow they are automatically being added in! I just downloaded the .txt file i used before, and fixed it then re-uploaded....and it added a whole new set of random letters.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[oldnewbie]

Whether it be the .html or

http://captive-audience.net/nigelbiography.txt

file, I still see some duplicated characters in those files, and obviously when those files are read, that the duplicated characters come with it...

Maybe you have an uploading problem (binary vs ascii) to your server.

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[farseeb]

It has to be an uploading problem. Because the .txt file doesn't have extra characters before the upload. How would I check to see what type of uploading issues I'm coming across? You mentioned binary vs ascii but how could I check this / fix it ?

 

[oldnewbie]

Are you uploading your files through an ftp software?

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