[RESOLVED] Textformat tabstops problem with loading dynamic text

[rickibarnes]

Hi team!

Basically what I have is a dynamic text field that gets text into it from an external file using loadVars(). I have got every single HTML tag to work, except for the one I really need, which is the tabstops attribute of the <textformat> tag.

The content I have is like so:

<textformat tabstops='[50,100]'>Damn stupid\t tabstops\t doesn't work.</textformat>

Which displays as:

Damn stupid\t tabstops\t doesn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be? I really need this to work, as for my purposes it is not practical to set up two dynamic text boxes in two "columns", and obviously I cannot hardcode the text into the timeline, as I need it to be dynamic.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

[gparis]

Try and replace \t by %09 in the textfile.

example:Damn stupid%09 tabstops%09 doesn't work.

Here's an example of more or less the same method. this one works:

var myLV = new LoadVars();
myLV.load("tarifs3.txt");
myLV.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        
//Creates column headers, formatted in bold, separated by tabs
var rowHeaders = "<b>Description\tTarifs</b>";
//Creates rows with data

//Sets two tabstops
table_txt.htmlText = "<textformat tabstops='[0,300]'>";
table_txt.htmlText += rowHeaders;


table_txt.htmlText += this.myTarifs;

table_txt.htmlText += "</textformat>";


    } else {
        // the vars couldn't be loaded.
    }
};

gparis

[rickibarnes]

Brilliant! That fixes it.

The %09, I mean; I didn't need to try the other bit.