RE: FLASH: Help! - combining externally loaded variables, (F5 bug???)

[Phillip Kerman]

Almost surely the issue is that you're not giving Flash enough time too

fully load the contents of the external file.  The two solutions are "the

old way" and "the new way".


The old way, you place an extra variable in the text file at the end--like

done=1. In frame 1 do your LoadVarNum...  then, one frame later (frame 2)

you place an "if" that says "if done==1, then jump to frame 4.  In frame 3

you say gotoAndPlay(2) --that is, recheck.  Finally in frame 4 you start

trying to use your loaded variables.


The new way requires that you load vars into a clip.  Not level 0, not level

2 etc.  Use a clip instance name to load into.  That clip instance needs a

script that executes onClipEvent(data) --meaning, once all the data is

loaded--that jumps ahead or somehow starts to use the loaded variables. This

method works great.  The only issue is that since the variables get loaded

into a clip you'll either need to refer to them (always) like

_root.clipName.varName  or move them all into your level 0 (where you're

probably using them--if you had been loading them into level 0).  When I say

"move them into level 0" I mean, simply, copy them there.  Realize that

numbers and strings copy by value and objects and arrays copy by reference.

(This last issue will probably work out intuitively if you're using

numbers/strings).


Hope it helps.


Phillip



> I posted this yesterday without a response... I know I'm being impatient

> for a reply, but this is driving me nuts! Fixing this would make it a very

> merry Christmas.   I narrowed my problem down further, and need help

> solving it.

>

> FACT 1:    In F5, I can load & display an external variable, like so:

> (contents of external file, "text.txt")

>

> text=

> &matter1=Alphacon v. Digital Financial, Inc.

> &matter2=Werner Electric v. Jones

>  ...this works great - contents of variables "matter1" and "matter2" load

> and displays fine in a dynamic text field using text = loadVariablesnum

> ("text.txt", 0);

>

> FACT 2:    I can also combine & display two variables I create in Flash

> internally, like so:

>

> var1="My name is: ";

> var2="Jason";

> sentence= var1+var2;      ...this also works great - contents of variable

> "sentence" displays fine in a dynamic text field.

>

> Now, here's the kicker:   I can't seem to combine & display two or more

> externally loaded variables!  For example:

>

> (contents of external file, "text.txt")

> text=

> &matter1=Alphacon v. Digital Financial, Inc.

> &matter2=Werner Electric v. Jones

>

> (then the actionscript in F5)

> text = loadVariablesnum ("text.txt", 0);

> matters=matter1+matter2;

>

> (dynamic text field set to "matters" displays nothing, while others set to

> display "matter1" or "matter2" display fine!)

> ????????  Am I missing something very obvious?  (very possible!)

> Thanks in

> advance...

>

> Jason Merrill

> Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA

> 425.369.5214

> SerengetiUS.com  - "Where Law Does Business"

>

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