Ok,

This is on Flash MX

I am working on an online TV show that displays my sports simulations. My Main SWF is a TV that has a basic menu. We will call this moviea. When a channel is selected, that channel is loaded as a separate swf file we wil call movieb.

MovieB is loaded into a movieclip with instancename "screen";.

Now in movie b, i start to give the weather forcast and want to display some random variables for temperature, wind etc. So I have dynamic text boxes. Because i want to fade them in and out, that is saved in a local movie clip in Movie B. I have given this movieclip instance name weatheroverlay.

Now i have tried accessing the variable by every name and its mother and i cnat seem to get the blasted text boxes to display. According to the debugger the values have been saved(see below), but they just arent showing up. Among the names ive tried are:

_root.screen.weatheroverlay.temp=
_root.screen.weatheroverlay.temp.text=
_root.screen.weatheroverlay.temp.value=
_level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp=
_level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp.text=
_level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp.value=
_level0.weatheroverlay.temp=
_level0.weatheroverlay.temp.text=
_level0.weatheroverlay.temp.value=
_level1.weatheroverlay.temp=
_level1.weatheroverlay.temp.text=
_level1.weatheroverlay.temp.value=

Ive checked all the obv stuff like my text color being the right color etc... The text box has the variable name temp.

When i set them to the following, the show up in the debugger:

var temp = random(40)+40;
_level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp=_root.screen.te mp+" F";


This is what the debugger shows:

Variable _level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp = "70 F"
Variable _level0.screen.weatheroverlay.precip = "60%"
Edit Text: Target="_level0.screen.weatheroverlay.temp"
variable = "temp",
text = "70 F",
htmlText = "70 F",
html = false, textWidth = 93, textHeight = 27, maxChars = null,
borderColor = 0x000000, backgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF, textColor = 0xFFFFFF, border = false,
background = false, wordWrap = false, password = false, multiline = false,
selectable = true, scroll = 1, hscroll = 0, maxscroll = 1,
maxhscroll = 0, bottomScroll = 1,
type = "dynamic",
embedFonts = false, restrict = null, length = 4, tabIndex = undefined,
autoSize = "none",
condenseWhite = false

But alas no text, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I will note i have the SWFs in different directories, ive heard rumors that could be a no no, but im not going to jarble them all up until i hear otherwise, and everything but the dynamic text works great.

Rob