issues with single carriage returns

[talytech]

I'm having the hardest time trying to get my dynamic text box to display single line feeds instead of doubles. I can't find a solution.

I have a text file named "mFile.txt" and the following content:

2nd Saturday at Twelve Lounge
1123 H Street/ NE Washington DC 20003
Battle of the hottest djays


In my movie, I have a movieclip on the stage called: "mc3"

Inside that movie clip is a dynamic text box with a instance name of "txt1"
In the code of the movie clip, I have the following AS:

var R;
  //
  res=new LoadVars();
  res.load("mfile.txt");

  res.onData=function(info){
    if (info==undefined){
      R="Loading failed";
    }else{
       R=info;
    }
    txt1.text=R;
  }

When I play my movie the content from the text file is displayed like this:

2nd Saturday at Twelve Lounge

1123 H Street/ NE Washington DC 20003

Battle of the hottest djays


What do I need to do to get it to display with the single line?

[Nig 13]

It's a double-linebreak, simply switch it to a single-linebreak:

var R;
  //
  res=new LoadVars();
  res.load("mfile.txt");

  res.onData=function(info){
    if (info==undefined){
      R="Loading failed";
    }else{
       R=info.split("\r\n").join("\n");
    }
    txt1.text=R;
  }

[talytech]

Hi,
Thank you but I'm receiving a syntax error on the following line:

 R=info.split("\r\n").join("\n");

it telling me that its expecting a variable for the property target.

Should I be including the variable "R" some kind of way. I don't understand the error.

FYI, I'm using actionscript 1.0

[Nig 13]

Actionscript 1.0 :O??

Now that's old, but I changed my settings to Actionscript 1.0 and Flash Player 6, and tried the code above, and it worked perfectly

[talytech]

Ok. I will try it again. Maybe my text box has to be set to HTML even though it doesn't contain any HTML. What do you think?

[talytech]

nope. still didn't work. It doesn't like this line:

R=info.split("\r\n").join("\n");

its expecting a variable for the property target. I don't even know what that means to fix it.

what is this line suppose to do: R=info.split() ..

[Nig 13]

R=info.split("\r\n").join("\n");

\r\n = double-linebreak
\n = single-linebreak

it's basically removing all the double-linebreaks from the fetched data from the text file, making all the text in-between being saved into one single array, and then it's joining that array by joining all array indexes (text parts) with single-linebreak. In other words, it's replacing all the double-linebreaks with single-linebreaks

I checked the documentation online, and it says that Actionscript 1.0 supports split() and join(), so I don't know why it's not working. Mind posting your FLA file?

[talytech]

Oh .. maybe thats the problem .. I'm using KoolMoves software. not Flash. I wonder ...

guess I need to post this on the koolmoves forum.

[Nig 13]

oh, that's probably the issue