Dynamic text

[Charliesz]

Hello.

I would like to have text box(movieclip) to update itself with different text content upon button click(i have afew buttons in a different movieclip)
Text is being retrieved from a text file. i have couple of text files with different content in them.

My current text box ActionScript looks as such:

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function(){
dyntext.htmlText = this.content;
};
myData.load(company.txt);

stop();



To acomplish the above question i decided to go with a global variable that will substitute file (txt) name so itll become :

...
myData.load(testtxt);

On my buttons ActionScript i set the following:

on (press) {
testtext='services.txt';
}


Unfortunately , nothing is happening when the button is clicked. What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

 

[benny2168]

When you press your button, your variable is changing fine, but its not loading any text

That's because you have to initiate the myData.load(testtxt); command again after you changed your variable.

Make your button do this instead

on (press) {
    testtext='services.txt';
    myData.load(testtxt);
}

if you'll notice, you also changed variables from testtext to testtxt

you could just remove the variable and say this:

on (press) {
    myData.load(services.txt);
}

i think that might work, try it out

 

[Charliesz]

Thank you.The above partially worked. I also had to tell my text box to refresh itself with the new loaded content.

So my code on the button looks as such:

on (release) {
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function(){
_root.servicemain.servicemaintext.dyntext.htmlText = this.content;
};
myData.load('services.txt');

}

it might be dirty but it works

Thanks alot for your help

 

[benny2168]

well do you have to put all of those actions on that button?

try this:

//put this on actions keyframe:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
	_root.servicemain.servicemaintext.dyntext.htmlText = this.content;
};

//put this for button actions:
on (release) {
	myData.load('services.txt');
}

you dont have to create a new loadVars and define an onLoad function more than once. Once they are defined, they can be used over again