Loading text and formatting

[Baterax]

Hi!

I know how to load external TXT files into flash.

What I need now is, to load it and format certain parts of it automatically.

For example, I have a blog with lots of posts, and the posts are:

---------begin-------
TITLE
DATE

Content
----------end--------

And so, I need the title and the date to be one font, with different colors between them, and the content is another font, on a third color.

I have to do this because I've been putting the posts directly inside flash, and they got so long after a while, that I can't have all of them on my screen at any one time, they exceeded flash's height limit...so, to edit the older ones, I need to keep scrolling everything up, which is a pain...

Anyone?

[holliebelle]

Can you have a different text field for each of the title, date and content in your flash document.
You can give them each a variable name.

Then have scroll bars just for the content field.


ETA.
Sorry, just thought of something even simpler....
Can't you just put <font color="red">Title</FONT>
<font color="blue">Date</FONT>
<font color="black">Content ..</FONT>

in the actual text file?

[Baterax]

Hmmm

I can't do that, each post has its title and its content...
Also I have another problem, they all need to be equally spaced, so if I throw the text fields in there, and they all have different lenghts of content, which they do, they're gonna start overlapping each other...

I need to do it in one text field, that way I can control all the spacing in the TXT file, that way it's uniform.

[Baterax]

LOL, I fail.

I was gonna try and delete the duplicate post, but alas. Serves as a bump!

[Baterax]

Hmmm

I just read your edit, will try that and get back here. Thanks already!