[text Field] Load Text From External
Hi, in Flash MX and 5 you can save a .txt file and then load it into Flash textField as long as you give it a variable name, does it work in MX2004 textField component?
asy I have a .txt file I want to load into textField COMPONENT, how should I do??..thanks fo your help!
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Posted on: 2004-02-12
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hmmz.. i followed this tutorial.. http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...40/index.shtml
Actionscript for Flash 5 dummies: Scrolling a text box II
so i manage to get everything to work so far minus the scroll bar which i omitted..
now i would like to be able to have different buttons to load different text files externally into the same text field..
what code shld i put for this buttons??
the movie clip of the textfield+scroller is called textbox
the textfield is called textbox2
the var of the textfield is called welcome
hope someone understands me..
Just Want To Load External Txt File Into Dynamic Text Field
I'm trying to load the contents of a .txt file into a dynamic text field. What am I doing wrong here?
I have a dynamic text field with the Var: phone
I have a text file called: phone.txt
contents of phone.txt:
pn=<HTML><BODY>1-555-555-5555<BODY><HTML>
actionscript on the timeline:
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phone = pn;
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Hello! Got a huge issue with a website , and the problem is that I am not able to load in external text files into a dynamic text field...
I got a button that is suppose to:
on (release) {
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
_root.sub_mc.textHolder_mc.historia_txt.html = true;
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}
};
}
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the target file lies in a movieclip. Why am I experiencing problems with this ?
Would very much appreciate an answer, totaly confused
Greatings from Handyman!
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Hey again,
okay straight into it. I have a few button named b1 b2 b3 and so on. Now these buttons i want to load a text file into a dynamic text field called myText. Now the text files which will be loaded contain html tags, so i want to have that property set.
Now current I have home.text loading into myText automically on swf loading. But when I click any of the buttons the text file won't change over.
Now my menu is seperate to the body. I have 3 swf files, one called base.swf, nav.swf and body.swf. Base.swf loads nav and body onto it.
here is what i have as the script.
Frame1 - body.swf
_root.onData = function(){
myText.html = true;
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}
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Frame1 - nav.swf - gigsbut (button)
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}
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PHP Code:
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window.onload=function()
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I want to use a script which generates a cool text 'type' effect.
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I got this far: (to test if the text is loaded I made a dynamic textbox called 'thankyou' and that works)
PHP Code:
myData = new LoadVars();
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};
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var i:Number=0;
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format.align = "left";
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format.size = 8;
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this.curseur._y=this.conteneur._y=60;
this.curseur._x=this.conteneur._x=65;
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this.curseur.zone.text="";
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this.curseur.zone.embedFonts = true;
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tempo = setInterval(placelettre, 100);
tempo2 = setInterval(affiche, 150);
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conteneur["lettre"+i].setTextFormat(format);
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}
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}
}
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PHP Code:
myVariable=Testing testing oh yes I'm testing %26 Flash and actionscripting are great fun!!! etc.
How do I tell the effect script that it should use the loaded text file?
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I can load text into a dynamic text box when it is on the main timeline.
But when I place the dynamic text box inside a movieclip, I can't get the text too load into the dynamic text box which is inside a movieclip.
Can anyone explain how to get "loadVariablesNum ("text.txt", 0);"
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I tried changing the text file to a shorter piece of text, say 2 words, and then it worked online. As soon as the text is fairly long I get an "undefined" in the dynamic text box.
Anyway, this is the code:
------------------------------------------------------------------
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if (success) {
textboxx.htmlText = this.cont;
} else {
textboxx.htmlText = "error loading variables";
}
}
myData.load("up.txt");
------------------------------------------------------------------
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Cheers in advance
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&A1=correct
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this is pissing me off all i want is a button on release to load an exteranl text file into a dynamic text field and i can't get it to work i tried this code
code:
on(release) {
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I followed the example in the book that I have, (Flash MX Action Script for Dummies)
and it doesn't work.
I created a text file that I saved into the same directory as the flash file.
I inserted some action script to load the tesxt file, but i don't think its right
here it is anyway.
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Please could someone suggest a way (that I understand) to do this.
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any help would be much appreciated.
dfmsguitar
Please Help Me Load Text To Field From .txt File - Thanks
***resolved***
Hi everyone, I've been struggling for a while to get a text field to load text from a text file with html and css formatting - any help would be very much appreciated - the link to the example is here.
As you can see, the text loads ok but its html tags are visible and the text isn't formatted correctly.
Here is how I'm loading my css and text files:
Code:
var flash_css = new TextField.StyleSheet();
flash_css.load("hometext.css");
flash_css.onLoad = function(success:Boolean){
if(success){
hometextp_txt.styleSheet=flash_css;
}else{
trace("error loading css");
}
};
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hometextp_lv.load("hometextp.txt");
hometextp_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean){
if (success){
hometextp_txt.text = this.content;
}else{
trace ("unable to load text file.");
}
};
Can you see if there is a problem with the code above? Could the text in the .txt fil be wrong... it reads thus:
Code:
&content=<h1>title: first post</h1> <h1>date: 18/09/05</h1> test
And here is the .css file if that is whats causing the problem:
Code:
body {
font-family: fff harmony;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size:8px;
}
h1 {
font-family: fff harmony;
font-size:8px;
background-color: #3d3d3d;
color: #00cc00
}
a:link {
color: #00CC00;
text-decoration: none
}
thanks for reading all that and helping me if you can. much 'preciated
*edit - sorry about that middle bit - the html rendered incorrectly...
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Code:
var a:Array = new Array ();
var myArray:Array = new Array ("a", "b", "c");
for (i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
{
a[i] = myArray[i];
// output abc
trace (a[i]);
// fill only c
entries.text = a[i]
}
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Hey
I have a question about who to load an image into a text field.
I know that i can use the loadMovie function, but that only takes jpg.jpeg files.
so my question is...
How can I load an image (jpg,gif,png,swf) into a text field or a TextArea (component) ?
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I'm trying to load a data element from a mySQL database. I have constructed a PHP application that works properly. I have formatted the output to look as follows &nmpoints= <?php echo row[2]; ?> and the php app extracts the correct data.
My Action Script 2.0 looks as follows:
var lvPoints:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lvPoints.onLoad = function(bSuccess:Boolean):Void {
if (success) {
nmpoints = this.mcCartsuccess.tdPoint2.text;
}
lvPoints.load("nmpoints.php", "this");
}
My Action Script run find, but it never populates my tdPoints2.text field.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Text Field Undefined On First Load
I am importing vars from a txt file and they come up undefined at first then when you advance the photo everything works fine
they display the gps coords for each photo,
I have been working on the for a while and cant get tit to work.
here is the file is any one can take a look at it
http://lstatic.com/junk/images.fla
How To Load Array To The Text Field?
Someth. do I wrong :rolleyes:
I tested it simply with this code and the textfield aslo displays only the last index c even if the array has content a,b,c and trace() outputs abc :confused:
Code:
var a:Array = new Array ();
var myArray:Array = new Array ("a", "b", "c");
for (i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
{
a[i] = myArray[i];
// output abc
trace (a[i]);
// fill only c
entries.text = a[i]
}
How can we fill it?
Load XML Node Into Text Field?
I"m at a point where I can't figure out the next step.
I'm trying to lead some of the text from an XML file into a text field.
I'm pretty sure this needs to be a dynamic text field so I can put an instance name on it.
I just dont know how to implement that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Code:
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML);
xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.kirupa.com/net/files/sampleXML.xml"));
function LoadXML(e:Event):void {
xmlData = new XML(e.target.data);
ParseBooks(xmlData);
}
function ParseBooks(bookInput:XML):void {
trace("XML Output");
trace("------------------------");
trace(bookInput.Book.author.text()[0]);
}
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