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[F8] Displaying HTML Entities In Dynamic Text From External Text Files
I'm pulling content for a dynamic HTML formatted text box from a series of client-editable text files using LoadVars.

Flash 8 allows for the use of HTML entites in HTML text, and my client's text includes copyright and trademark symbols.

If I load some HTML text from within a script, the text box displays entities fine (like &174 to display a ® trademark symbol).

However, when using LoadVars to load the text from an external text file, I can't use ampersands in the text file, because the LoadVars interprets them as indicating the start of another variable.

I tried using Unicode, for example u00ae. Again, this works fine when the text is drawn from within a script, but when the loadVars displays it from the text file, it just displays the Unicode as a literal string. Other HTML formatting in the text files, such as bold or italic, displays fine.

Does anyone know a workaround for this (short of converting all 80 of my text files to XML)?

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I'm trying to retrieve the text from a text file and put the text into a dynamic text field with a variable called "text"
Here's what I've done:
created the dynamic text field with the variable
created txt.txt and it's contenst are "text=blablabla"
placed on frame 1 the actionscript
"loadVariablesNum(txt.txt, 0)"
it says it's having trouble opening the folder that both these files are in (they are in the same folder)... any suggestions?

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Okay, i've looked at the dynamic text questions but am still having a little trouble. I can make dynamic text load if the dynamic text is on the main timeline, but what if it's embeded into a movieClip?
On my main timeline, i have a layer called actions. On a particular frame, i have the following:

loadVariablesNum("about.txt", 0);

A few frames down, i have a movie clip called "placeHolder" that slides in. This movie clip contains a dynamic textbox with both an instance and variable name of "aboutText".

The text file about.txt reads as follows:
aboutText=This is a test

When i test run my movie and it gets to the part where the variable should load, my placeHolder comes across the screen, but the dynamic text box reads:

_level0.instance18.aboutText

I changed something (don't remember what), and it made the actual text from the file show up in a new browser window!!!

How do i get my text to load into the movie clip?

if you need to see the fla and text file, post a request for the files with e-mail address..
Is there a way to attach files here?

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Hi. When getting text from a .txt file to a Dynamic Textbox, I can see for like 0.3 seconds something like "_lever0.content" and then my normal text appears. "content" is my Dynamic Textbox.

Code:
System.useCodepage=true;
content.html=true;
myLoadVar=new LoadVars();
myLoadVar.load("content/linkscontent.txt");
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}
};
Thanks in advance.

Mark K.

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Hi there,

first off, apologies for the long post, but its a tricky problem to explain... and on my first post too! (sorry )
Im have a bit of bother with flash calling variables from a text file, and using them to make paths to other variables, and to control the amount of time a duplicate clip occurs. The first of these 2 problems is this:

Im loading a text file "content.txt" into _root. (this works fine)
it contains the variables:

webclipcount=2
&webhenry=hello hello
&webbutton01=henry

on the main timeline I have this button

on(press){
sectiontitle="web"
clipcount=webclipcount
}

there is a text box on the main timeline with variable name of bodycopy.

on a clip on the main timeline I have this;

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (num< _parent.clipcount) {
duplicateMovieClip(thebutton, "button"+depth, depth);
this["button"+depth].name = _parent[_parent.sectiontitle+"button"+num];

this gives button01 the name henry- this works.

on the duplicated clip I have these actions:

on(mouseDown){
_parent._parent.bodycopy=_parent._parent[_parent._parent.sectiontitle+this.name]
}

so we end up with a path like:

_parent._parent.bodycopy=_parent._parent.webhenry

and it in turn should make the textbox on the main timeline contain "hello hello"

but it doesnt.

also for the duplicating clip, unless i use:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (num< 2) {.....
<snip>

it wont work either. it seems neither can be dynamic/ pulled from the text file. (well, i can get them to work!)

If I use direct paths like:

on(mouseDown){
_parent._parent.bodycopy="bloody hell it works!"
}

and

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (num< 2) {.....
<snip>

it works, but not if they are dynamicly set from the txt file...
Anyone care to shed some light onto this? its doing my head in!
thanks in advance or the help.

cheers,

chris

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Hello, just have a quick question...

I've looked through the FK movies, using a few different searches. Looking for a way to call in text into a scrollable text field from an external .txt file, using buttons as a trigger.

So I would click "about" and it would read an external text file and display said text into a scrollable window.

I've seen tutorials where this is done, but damned if I remember where.

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I need help getting dynamic text to display. I've used the following tutorials (among others).
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm

In Flash 8 on last frame of maintimeline of movie, I have a layer with a background image, 2 buttons and a dynamic textbox (made scrollable) with scrollbar component. Textbox is given a var of "content", and an instance name of "textBox", which is referenced in scrollbar parameters.

I have created 3 text .txt files, and saved them to same folder with movie .swf file. Text in files is preceeded by "content=" on line preceeding text to correspond with var of dynamic textbox. The files were created in Rich text format on Mac OSX4.11 and saved with .rtf extension, then file extension was changed to .txt (wouldn't save as .txt)

I've added the following actionscript to this last frame:

loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TEXTintro.txt");
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function(success){
if (success){
textBox.text = this.content;
}
else{
trace("Error loading external content");
}
}

Buttons have an instance name assigned with the following actionscript:
on (release) {
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success){
if (success){
textBox.text = this.content;
}
else{
trace("Error loading external content");
}
}

When I test movie, I can see buttons on last frame of movie, but they don't load any text when pressed, and "undefined" text appears in upper left corner of text box before I press either button.

I am getting the following Output errors:
**Error** Scene=MoonOfWintertime, layer=TextBox, frame=2500:Line 1: Statement block must be terminated by '}'
on (release) {

**Error** Scene=MoonOfWintertime, layer=TextBox, frame=2500:Line 11: Syntax error.
}

**Error** Scene=MoonOfWintertime, layer=TextBox, frame=2500:Line 1: Statement block must be terminated by '}'
on (release) {

**Error** Scene=MoonOfWintertime, layer=TextBox, frame=2500:Line 11: Syntax error.
}

Total ActionScript Errors: 4 Reported Errors: 4

Edited: 01/02/2009 at 05:44:31 PM by dstx

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www.jugalli-racing.com/main.html

As you can see, sometimes the page loads the wrong text source. Can I preload the .txt urls in the "<!-- *** --!>" area of my html or what? I need this text to be easily editable text in .txt format for my client.

Any tips would be great!

Also, on this page, for my scroll buttons, is there a way to make the page roll down by holding the mouse botton or by making it roll on the mouseover???

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the simple code:

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}
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textfile.txt

news="this is the news"

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help with text files and paths

i need some help with input text field and text files.

i have a 'presentation' movie that has three buttons. these buttons influence a sliding menu that has three sections to it. the sliding menu is a movie clip made up of 3 separate graphic elements and is placed on the main stage. the code on the movie clip is:

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var a = 5;
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fscommand ("allowscale", false);
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I have a list of 30 things that need to go in the place of the word imports, one each per line.

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