text animation action script needed

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  14 years ago

  by genius_supreme

  genius_supreme

  , Malaysia

  Joined 18 years ago

  hi there,
  
  

  i need to do some news flash thingy... where...all the text are animated by lines (if it has more than 1 line)
  
  

  but the thing is the text are to be read from an external file (can it be done that way?) and i was wondering if flash can read from an external file... what file format that external file should be?
  
  

  preferably with a sample script...please...
  
  

  thank you in advance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

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  14 years ago

  by cmetcjr

  Caleb Clark

  Eugene, United States

  Joined 14 years ago

  Here is ONE way to read from an external file.
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  myData = new LoadVars();
  myData.onLoad = function(){
          scrollText.text = this.text1;
  };
  myData.load("info.txt");
  
  stop();
  
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  "scrollText.text" above is the name & tool  that the text from "info.txt" will be displayed. "text1" above refers to the variable name INSIDE "info.txt"
  
   INFO.TXT------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
          text1=this will display using the code above
          &text2=this could display if you used the above script to call text2 instead of text1
  
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  EXAMPLES:
  View the Flash
  View the Text File
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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