Dynamic text.

[Ivan1]

Hello.
I have a news section/window on my site that's done in Flash, I would like to make it easily updateable through an external file. Also I'm uncertain of how to make links within that file to other parts of the website.
It also needs to scroll.
Is something like this possible?
Any suggestions on how to best implement a frequently updated list of news within FLASH?

Here is the URL - news window is at the bottom

http://www.foundation-one.net/A101/home.htm

Please let me know if you have any ideas on this subject.

Regards,
Ivan

http://www.foundation-one.net

 

[coldfused]

here ya go..

http://www.orlandomediasolutions.com/news_scroll/news.swf

http://www.orlandomediasolutions.com/news_scroll/news.fla

in notepad:

textField=NEWS<br><br>This will be your daily news.</br></br><br><br>Power systems with the newest AMD and Intel processors duke it out on our chart, but the contest ends in a virtual draw. The third-place ABS Awesome 3300, running AMD's 1.8-GHz Athlon XP 2200+, scored a 123 on PC WorldBench 4--a negligible two points ahead of the Best Buy Dell Dimension 8200 and its 2.53-GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, and one point ahead of a 2.53-GHz P4-bearing Falcon Northwest Mach V that missed the chart. (For more new Athlon and P4 test results, see News and Trends.) An earlier Mach V, with an Athlon XP 2100+ processor, still holds the speed title with a score of 125; it's seventh on the power side.</br></br>

save as news.txt

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[Ivan1]

Thank you.
What about having links to internal .SWF or external links within the dynamic text.
Can't seem to find a solution, without building a scrolling MC with link buttons.
I would love to know if there is anyway the dynamic text can contain links.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Ivan

http://www.foundation-one.net

 

[coldfused]

<A HREF=&quot;

http://www.yoursite.com/&quot;TARGET=&quot;mainsite&quot;><U>This

is my link</U><BR></A>


just make your links in the text file as you would in any html document..

flash supports basic html tags such as href's abd font colors and such..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[coldfused]

<A HREF=&quot;

http://www.yoursite.com/&quot;TARGET=&quot;mainsite&quot;><U>This

is my link</U><BR></A>


just make your links in the text file as you would in any html document..

flash supports basic html tags such as href's and font colors and such..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[wangbar]

If you also need to link to internal pages within your movie you can use asfunction to call functions from the external file in much the same way as Virt's suggestion above. Slainte

http://www.wangbar.co.uk