Re: FLASH: A Variety of Questions

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Rachel,


Second batch then ;)


As I told you before you do have to try and forget your lingo when in

Flash.

The process as you described :

"get line 1 of "updated.txt" and put it into x

put x into myTextField"

With Flash the updated.txt file will have to contain pairs of

variable_name=variable_value.

Each pair is seperated from the, possibly, next one by the '&'

character.

An example of the contents of an updated.txt file could be something

like :

name=widget&price=2.50&quantity=10

This defines three variables, name, price and quantity.

To get these variables into Flash you would do a Load Variables. 

In the action scripting area choose Load movie then select Load

Variabels into location. In the URL box place the url to your

updated.txt file, this can be an absolute or relative path.

For location choose Level and use 0 instead of the default 1. In the

variables drop down box choose Don't send.

When this action is performed Flash will locate the updated.txt file

open it and read it's contents. This will instanciate the three defined

variables that will from now on be available to you.

To get one of these values to appear in a textfield you can either give

that textfield the same name as that of one of the variables or set the

textfield's value to the value of one of the variables. So if you had a

textfield called price it would be filled with the value 2.50, and if

you had a textfield called 'something_else' then you could do

Set Variable "something_else"=:name and it would be filled with the

value widget.

Notice how Flash uses ':' to reference a variable. There is more to this

of course but try to get this first idea working and progress from here.


Anything else just give a shout on the list ans someone will answer you.


Nigel


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