Loading Text Help Please?

[grooveepants]

Hi,

I'm trying to help someone else and I can't figure this one out, so now I'm helping myself too

I (or this person) has a text file with a load of different variables in it. It is set up like so.

Lx1=Here is the Lx1 variable&Lx2=Here is the Lx2 variable&Lx3=Here is the Lx3 variable&Tx1=Here is the TX1 variable&Tx2=Here is the Tx2 variable&Tx3=Here is the Tx3 variable

Now I have two buttons on the stage and I want to load one of these variables at a time into my dynamic text boxes each time a button is pressed. Here is the code.

code:

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var n =1



next_button.onPress = function(){

        n++

        load_Text()

}

prev_button.onPress = function(){

        n--

        load_Text()

}



MyVars = new LoadVars()

MyVars.load("test1.txt")



load_Text()



function load_Text(){

        T="Tx" add n;

        L="Lx" add n;

        

        myText= MyVars.T;

        mySlide= MyVars.L;

        

}

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Now when I debug this the T and L variables = what they are supposed to but the myText and mySlide variables are undefined. Why is this?

Thanks.

[grooveepants]

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[grooveepants]

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[grooveepants]

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[grooveepants]

I'm not giving up, someone must know the answer

[oldnewbie]

Can you attach this test .fla and your text file?
Zip them up and in MX only format.

[grooveepants]

Thanks oldnewbie

[oldnewbie]

Been looking at your code and no offense, but IMHO it's pretty shaky!

Waisted tonight... I may proposed something completely different tomorrow...

I'd look into filling an array from your text file, and then simply refer to that array on your previous & next buttons.

[grooveepants]

Well oldnewbie, IMHO I think its pretty shakey too

When I debug the code though, the variables T and L do go up or down each time the buttons are pressed. ie TX1, TX2, TX3 and so on and if you change these lines of code from

myText= MyVars.T;
mySlide= MyVars.L;

to

myText= MyVars.Tx1;
mySlide= MyVars.Lx1;

then the text is dragged in from the txt file, so why is it that when you place a variable at the end of the code it doesn't work? Am I supposed to use something else?

Thanks

[grooveepants]

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[Steve_w_V]

"IMHO"?

[oldnewbie]

In My Humble Opinion! IMHO!

[grooveepants]

Well for those of you who are interested, I found the answer. I asked a guy I work with (maybe I should have done this in the first place, he's a bit of a smart bugger) and he said my code is fine. Supposedly I am referring the variable to a string or something like that? so he said all I need to do is put square brackets around the T and L like so:

code:

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myText= MyVars[T];

mySlide= MyVars[L];

---

Now it works!

[Tim H-L]

I was interested.
Well done for all the :bumps: it helped me out
Tim

[uhebbar]

Hey guys..

What is so shaky with the code.. just wondering how it can be improved.. you guys are the experts.

Thanks