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alokwww

alokwww

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Dec 25, 2002
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Hi, I'm trying to follow the tutorial at but am having some troubles.

All I'm trying to do is load an html file named test.html into a dynamic text box with an instance name of scroller.

I'm sure this is much simpler than I'm making it, but I'm totally lost... do I use loadVarsText or loadVariables? I tried loadVariables but it said I needed to define 2 or 3 spaces (I had it like loadVariables(test.html);).

It seems like even when I follow the tutorial instructions exactly, I end up with an empty text box.

Could someone with a minute or two please let me know what code I should use with an html file named test.html and a textbox named scroller?

Thanks
-Alok

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Loading content into text boxes is best done from a plain text (.txt) file not an HTML file - Flash can only read certain HTML formatting tags. If you're trying to load in a normally fomatted HTML file into Flash that's whay nothing's appearing: things like <HEAD> tags etc aren't recognised.

You can use <FONT> tags and the like in your text file to format the text you want to display.

Also remember that you have to have the text as a variable:

myText=blahblah

...then set the MX textfield's htmlText property to be equal to that variable or, again, nothing will appear.

myTextBox.htmlText=myText;

In MX loadVars() is definitely the way to go.
 
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vars.txt:

var1=blablabla&var2=yadieyadie<b>bold</>

----- flashMX

mydata = new loadvars();
mydata.Load(&quot;vars.txt&quot;);
mydata.onload = function() {
gotoAndPlay(2);
};
stop();


then your variables can be called like this:

_root.mydata.var1
// this is &quot;blablabla&quot;
_root.mydata.var2
// this is &quot;yadieyadie<b>bold</>&quot;


good luck

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Thanks for your responses! Everything worked great. I have one mroe question. Can I use loadmovie to load an html file into a movie clip using something like:

loadMovie(&quot;one.html&quot;, &quot;onemc&quot;);

Thanks guys!
-Alok
 
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i dont think that will work,

you can load swf's, gifs, pngs, and jpgs but i dont think you can load html's

if you want an entire html in your flash y not use a framesetting. with a flash menu left and the right frame being either HTML or flash?

that way the html can become a part of your site without having to import it.

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Okay, thats good to know. Thanks again!
 
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glad to help :)

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