Loading External text in Dyn Text box 1

[brainpudding]

This is probably a basic one for you guys

All i want to do is have a dynamic text field witha scroll bar load its text from a .txt file. dats it

 

[billwatson]

text file

&content=blah...............


flash

lv = new LoadVars()
lv.onLoad = function(){
mytext.text = lv.content
}
lv.load("some.txt&quot
bar.setScrollTarget(mytext)

textfileld instance name mytext scrollbar bar

i have a couple of downloads demonstating this in more detail

http://billwatson.no-ip.info/public/tektips/dloads.html

 

[oldnewbie]

Somewhat better explained here... With punctuation and proper syntax...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scrolling_text_mx.htm

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/dynamic_text_scrollmx.htm

Regards,

 

[brainpudding]

Bill i get a page cannot be displayed on your link do those include how to have differnt formationg in the text box? like using html code? I need some lines to be bold and some to be regular. also i got it to load using this .. but do i need all this code?

brief = new loadVars();
brief.load("txt/test.txt"
//assign a function which fires when the data is loaded:
brief.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading"
//Now that we know the data is loaded,
//set the text content of the Text Field
//with the instance name "scroller" equal to the
//contents of the variable
briefing.text = this.var1;
} else {
trace("not loaded"
}
};

 

[oldnewbie]

It's clearly explained on the second half of my second link!

As for Mr Bill Watson, he shuts down his machine when he goes to bed, and by this time (Nova Scotia), Bill's in bed!

Regards,

 

[brainpudding]

im al little rusty on the ol html

I want the top line to be bold and then under it regular

UPDATES - BLAH BLAH
this is the regular text

UPDATES - BLAH BLAH
this is the regular text

how would you right that .. when i right it i get these huge spaces between lines

 

[oldnewbie]

Text in the text file should really be on one continuous line, without any linebreaks unless you do want one displayed...
Thus if you want a bold header, and the next line with just one linebreak, you file should look something like this...

my_text=<b>HELLO WORLD!<b><br>This is the second normal line of text.

Note that's all in one continuous line eventhough it may appear on two lines here on TT.

Regards,