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Problems With External .txt File Text Format And Links
Hi all,

New to posting in this forum although have found a lot of useful information through searches but not this time!!(I'm sure someone will prove me wrong!!). Here's my problem....

I am just experimenting at the moment but the situation is that i have several dynamic text boxes linked to .txt files. The problem i have is that of formatting this text.
The dynamic text boxes have been set to the font i wish to use and the font has been embedded, html render has been enabled and i have the following code on the frame where the dynamic text boxes appear:

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("home.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
text_home.html = true;
text_home.htmlText = this.dynContent;
}
};

so the text all loads in fine except for its format. I was wanting to use a specific font for this loaded text but even thought the dynamic boxes have fonts embedded the font is not showing on a browser??

Also within the .txt files i have links to URL's and have used <a href="whatever" target="_blank"> but in some cases the links i want to be in a new window wont open in a new window but some do even though the html is the same, apart from the ones that don't work are in a list using to list them (can that make a difference?)

Anyone know of a solution??

David

I could attach .fla if that would help??

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Hi
Not sure if this should go in the html or the actionscript forum, but since my knowledge is quite newbee I thought i'd drop it into this one instead.

My problem is this. When my 'multiline' Dynamic Text box (with wrap) wraps to the next line, it indents the external content (from.txt file) to the left. How do I stop this? (SEE ATTACHED IMAGE)

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Code:
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&

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D

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I am loading some text from a text file, but:
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