Loading from a text file

[RandalGroves]

I was just wondering if someone can tell me how to load text from a .txt file into a flash document.

I have a program and ceratin text will change every day and it will be easier to simply have the program load the text straight from a .txt file every time it is loaded so I only need to change the text in the text file.

I will have about 4 of these boxes all loading text from the .txt file, all different instances (eg BoxA, BoxB, BoxC,...). Each box will only need to get a line from the text file and no more, so the text file will have 4 lines and each line will go in a different box.

Im asumming each box will need an empty text box inside, but I don't know how to get the text from the file and insert into the box.

If anyone can point me in the right direction with this one I will be very thankful to them.

 

[oldnewbie]

You would have to set up 4 different variables in your 4 boxes, and then simply seperate (with the &) and identify these 4 variables in your text file.

In notepad or whatever create test.txt.

&first_variable=This is the first box text!&second_variable=This is the second box text!&third_variable=This is the third box text!&fourth_variable=This is the fourth box text!

No spaces or new lines in the above.

Then from Flash, you simply have to add a frame action:

loadVariablesNum ("test.txt", 0);

The text should appear in your 4 boxes.

After typing all of the above, just realized that although this would work, maybe you're better off using the onClipEvent(data) action, and you should maybe check this:

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

Regards,

 

[RandalGroves]

Thanks,

I was wondering if you could also help me with this :-
I have a movie clip called Questions which is simply a empty text file with variable text.

I then make 4 instances of the movie clip Questions named - QuestionsA, QuestionsB, QuestionsC and QuestionsD. So all these instances have the empty text file with variable text.

How do I load the text from the text file into each one of these instances?

Thanks in advance.

 

[josel]

Hello RandalGroves!

You can use several methods to do this. You can load the text using a button or load it as frame itself is loaded.

IMHO, loading it upon frameload is best and appears to be very consistant. So, double-click on frame where you placed the MC and add action script to load text file.

Follow these links for step by step on how to:

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Actionscripting/Basic/Reading_-Brett_Ta-139/index.shtml

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Creating-Patrick_-532/index.shtml

Hope this helps!

Regards;


josel KNOWLEDGE: Something you can give away enlessly and gain more of it in the process! - Jose Lerebours