Loading A Text File Into A Flash Movie
We've all seen Applet tickers that load text files and then scroll the text zontally or tically, how do I get a swf movie to load a .txt file?
Easy in HTML. I know how to tween, etc., but I don't know advanced stuff. I know how to paste in action script, obviously.
Any help would be great.
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Posted on: 09-25-2001, 09:01 PM
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