Re: FLASH: flash and loading variables from a text file

[John Croteau]

Hi  Mick,


> Load Variables ("ticker.txt", 0)

> Set Variable: "/title:headline" = head

> Begin Tell Target ("/title")

>       Go to and Play (2)

> End Tell Target

> however, and here's where i'm hoping someone will be able to offer me

> assistance.  i can not load "head" from ticker.txt and then use it as a

> variable to do any of the fun things we like to do with variables.  in

> the example above i'm trying to declare "/title:headline" to be the same

> as "head" from ticker.txt, but alas! it stubbornly refuses.

Load variables is not nor can it be immediate. You must setup a check to

see if and when your new information is received. This might entail a

loop to check to see if a particular variable is empty or not. Of course

until you  have received the data you can't use it.


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John Croteau

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