Re: FLASH: Problem with loading text into textfield

[Helen Triolo]

OK, Thorvald, I tried Jason's suggestion and it worked.  (I'll email you

the fla and txt file offlist if you want).  Here's what I did:


Create textfield, name it nestedfield. Convert it to a movieclip mc2. 

Make a red rectangle (just so there's something), convert to movieclip

mc1.  Edit mc1, drag mc2 into mc1.  Give that copy of mc2 an instance

name of mc2instance.  Edit movie, drag mc1 onto the stage, give it an

instance name of mc1instance.  Now in first frame do Load Variables

("myfile.txt", "/mc1instance/mc2instance") then goto and play showvars. 

Frame showvars has mc1instance in it and has a stop action.  (you should

also put a wait loop in the middle of those frames to make sure vars are

loaded, but i did it with just one var and tested locally so i didn't

need it).  The contents of myfile.txt were:


nestedfield=abcdef


and the frame labelled showvars does indeed display abcdef in the

textfield.  (and of course, when I changed the contents of myfile.txt,

the display changed accordingly on rerun).


So, you can load vars directly into your movie clip if your instances

are set correctly.


Helen

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