How do you Import Text

[chucka]

I really need to know how to import text into flash.
My other post may have been more than what I really need help with.

I'm just trying to get text into flash from an external source.
Any thoughs or ideas would be very helpful.

[oldnewbie]

A couple of links that might help you out with scrolling or not text...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ng_text_mx.htm

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...t_scrollmx.htm

[grullense]

And the use of LoadVariables:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...variables.html

[oldnewbie]

The new LoadVars() function is much better!

[chucka]

Thanks for all of the help but i am just not getting it. I'm sorry I don't understand what is going on. I'm not that familier with actionscripting.

[oldnewbie]

Can't you even follow a tutorial?

[chucka]

Yeah I can follw a tutorial but I haven't found one yet.
Have you got one?
All I have recieved thus far is a description of a couple of script but no real definition or explanation of what I'm looking for.
What crawled up your butt?
You don't have to put me down.

[oldnewbie]

The 2 links I gave you explain how (guess I'd called those tutorials!) to create a textfield and how to import a text file into it. If that's not part of your problem, then I must be selling land in Florida!

[chucka]

I am figuring that out now,
Thank you.
i'm just getting frustrated.

[FlashArrow]

You would have a text file called say textFile.txt located in the same folder as your swf.

Inside this file you could have something like:
description="Here is the text that will appear in the desired place."

In your fla, you could create a dynamic text field and assign it the variable name: description.

Then your action script of a frame or a button could read:

on(release){
loadVariables("textFile.txt",0);
}

And that should do the trick.

[Nokturnl]

hey thanx for those tutorial links i have been having problem with fscrollbar and it wouldn't work with dynamic text but i will have a go at the tutorials and see how i go.
do you know if the scrollbar works when you use a html text?

thanx,
l8r,
Peace,
Nokturnl

Originally posted by oldnewbie
The 2 links I gave you explain how (guess I'd called those tutorials!) to create a textfield and how to import a text file into it. If that's not part of your problem, then I must be selling land in Florida!

[oldnewbie]

Yes!

Check this:
http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/scrollbar1.htm

Download files:
http://odin.prohosting.com/~oldnew/scrollbar1.zip

[Rogue Jedi~]

Although the first link solved my problem it also caused one. The scroll bar now works like it's supposed to (yay!) but the content updates a lot slower, and I can't have that, the whole idea around my application is that it's faster than all others, but now it's not since using that method. :-\ It used to take less than a second to update the content box, now it takes a second or more, any ideas?

[oldnewbie]

Curious are people can jump in a thread, use what they think will help them out, and then come down on somebody who's proposed a solution to the thread starter, forgetting that their own problem may be completely different.
What first link are you talking about? And what's your problem? If you're hoping to load a thousand words text file (how am I to now?) in less than a second and on-line with a user with a 486 machine, good luck!

And hey... If the proposed solution is not good enough, just don't use it, and start another thread! Then maybe somebody can address your specific problem!

[chucka]

It works!!
that's always such a good feeling.
Thank you all.
Peace