updating text

[aph]

Hi all,
I have a client that wants to update a text section on a regular bases that is part of a swf file how do i link the the external text file to the swf file?

(the build is a HTML page with a 1x1 table in it that contains the pages swf content.)
Should the text doc go into the same parent folder as where the swf file is ?

thanks if anyone can help

andy

 

[oldnewbie]

Yes!

Regards,

 

[wangbar]

Not necessarily - you can put the text file whereever you want as long as you include a path so that the swf can access it, you could stick it in a subfolder making the path:

'text/textfile.txt'

or in the directory above the swf in which case the path becomes:

'../textfile.txt'

or give it an absolute address such as:

'

http://www.mysite.com/text/textfile.txt'

 

[oldnewbie]

Same folder would just be the easiest!

As we are talking about a client uploading! Can't ask to much of them!

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

i always leave this to clients......just leave instructions in the text file...do's and dont's and they will be fine

 

[aph]

thanks for the info folks how do I go about coding this?
EG what action script do I to connect the text with the swf file?

 

[billwatson]

mydata = new loadvars();
mydata.onload = function(){
mytext.html = true;
mytext.htmltext = mydata.theText;
}
mydata.load("theFile.txt"


//where the text file starts &theText=blahblah

and the dynamic text box has an instance name of mytext