'update stage' flash equivalent of this director command

[madra]

hi.

i'm writing a flash 5 interface that needs to update the contents of textboxes in a movieclip in response to the user clicking on buttons.

so say in my main timeline frame 1 action is...

thefile = "file1.txt";


and i've got a movieclip [called 'movieclip'] on the stage containing a dynamic textbox [called 'text']. on movieclips timeline i have the following frame action ...

loadVariables (_root.thefile, _root.movieclip.text);

no problem so far. file1.txt loads into the movieclip. now the user clicks on a button and i want to load file2.txt into moviclip instead. i send the main timeline to another frame which has the frame action...

thefile = "file2.txt";

...and i put a keyframe on the layer containing movieclip. [in the hope this will cause it to re-evaluate the frame content] but when i run the movie the text displayed remains 'file1.txt' after the button has been pressed, even tho' a trace within the frame action in 'movieclip' shows that '_root.thefile' is now "file2.txt".

so the new value has been read in but the content of the textbox isn't updating. in director i could put in an'updatestage' command which would probably do the trick but i've no idea how to do this in flash?

any help gratefully received etc.

madra xxx

PS i know this is a very clunky way of doing the whole thing but i'm a bit of a non-propellorhead so i need to write it clunky first and then try and refine it [otherwise i get completely lost]

 

[davdesign]

(removing my propellor while typing...it gets in the way)

ok, sounds as though when your prompting the movie to load text 2 it might be looping to text 1 instead (or as well).

This is not a problem with flash, as it can easily update by reading text files from the server (see CHAT section at

http://www.pinkzeppelin.com

).

So, if you want to e-mail me the fla or post a link to it here I'll have a look and try and sort for you.

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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