RE: FLASH: numerals to string

[Paul Watson]

Ok this isn't a full solution to your problem but there is one thing you

should look out for when loading text files and it may just help you

out.


I found out, thanks to John Croteau, that you must create your text file

and NOT use any line breaks at the end of a variable value. If you do

use line breaks the value 2 will be treated as a string and have a space

after it which is highly annoying when your using that number as a

counter limit. So if you open your text file in notepad( or any text

editor ) and at the end of each variable hit enter to make the text file

more readable you'll also be messing up what Flash will think its

reading in.


enjoy


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 -----Original Message-----

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Sent:	Monday, November 29, 1999 11:28 AM

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Subject:	FLASH: numerals to string


Hi folks,

this is my problem:


I´m creating a weather map. I receive the data for this from the

national

weather agency and the file looks like this:


Hamburg 13   2   10  where 2 describes the weather-conditions (sunny,

rain

etc.).


Everething works fine. I imported the file and use the variables as

target-names for TT-commands. My problem is the "2".


I have a MC withe 10 weather-symbols. I labeled them 1-10. But Flash

won´t

accept something like this:


Begin Tell Target ("/hh_cond")

      Go to and Stop (/:hh_cond_go)     (where "hh_cond_go" is 2. )

End Tell Target


So, how can I convert the numeral 2 into a string? I tried to combine

the

numeral with a string, as described in the manual, but it doesn´t work.


Any idea??


Kalle



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