I have ideas - I need your Technical Opinion

[TheSlyCat]

Hi guys...Here's what's up. I've written in before about this for a couple different roadblocks...this time, I have ideas, but I don't know enough about Actionscripting to know if they are possible!

Hopefully, you can let me know.

I have built a virtual digital radio. This is what it does so far:

- When the power button is pressed, the clock turns on, the music starts and across the main screen the name of the station appears.

- When the "P-Type" button is pushed, the type of station appears (new rock, classical, talk etc.)

- When the "info" button is pressed, it shows the current song and artist name of the radio station. This information is in an external text file and then displayed on a dynamic text field.

etc...

Anyways,

It is designed to look like a Chevrolet car radio, and I would like it to act as much like a real one as possible.

Here are my questions:

1) I want to have different "presets" for different stations. Ex. "1" is a rock station, "2" is classical, "3" is talk. When one of these buttons is pressed, I want the action to tell the "info" and the "P-type" buttons to go to different external text files that hold the appropriate information.

EX.

Button 1 Button 2 Button 3
| | |
Rock Music Classical All Talk


Info for B1: I try, Macy Gray
Info for B2: Nocture 2, Fredric Chopin
Info for B3: Gardening Hour with Jane

P-Type for B1: Rock Music
P-Type for B2: Classical Music
P-Type for B3: All Talk

[sl]

place loadvariables commands inside your button to load the txt-files.

hope that helps,
have fun
sl