Loading text from outside file

[janna30]

Hi! I am trying to load text into a Flash presentation from an external text file. The external photos are loading without a problem. When I push a button, I want the text to load. But I am having trouble with the action script (I am new to this). I am not receiving any error message in Flash.

I have the following on my actions frame in main movie:

total_photos = 7;
myCaptions = new LoadVars();
myCaptions.load("maptext.txt"
info_txt.text = eval("myCaptions.info" + newnumber);
title_txt.text = eval("myCaptions.title" + newnumber);

On the buttons inside the movie clip I have (number of photo varies):

on (release) {
current_photo = "photo2.jpg";
newCaption = myCaptions.title2;
newCaption = myCaptions.info2;
};

Thanks for any suggestions you can make!

Janna

 

[pixl8r]

Try this:

on(release){
current_photo = "photo2.jpg";
newCaption = _root.myCaptions.title2;
newInfo = _root.myCaptions.info2;
}

If I understand your problem correctly that should do it. Notice I changed the second variable name. The way you had that written "info2" would have overwritten "title2".

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!