Slow loading external txt

[bplesmid]

I made a basic news scroller, but it takes kind of a long time for the text to finally display. It eventually does, but not instantly.

In the flash player on my it works perfectly, but on the web it's kinda slow. Can anyone help me speed this up. I just sits at the root with the swf.

loadVariablesNum("NewsScrollerb.txt", 0);

[oldnewbie]

Well, it's got to load! Depending on the lenght of your text and your connection speed, this may take some time.
Put the loading in a 2 frame loop (until another variable set at the end of your text file becomes true &my_eof = true), and put a loading message on the screen, while it's looping.

[adsalive]

I believe the text font size issue is resolved with flashmx, but one thing you might want to look at if you are using flash5 or below is the type of font. Some fonts become much larger swfs than others. So try maybe playing with a different font and see first if that reduces the swf size for you before loading your text movie.