linking in a flash file

pbrollwitme · #1 (**permalink**) 05-22-2005, 10:44 PM

I would like to import text into a flash movie and have linkable text within them movie when it is imported, similar to an html file where Check out the Conn-Men would say check out the conn-men and be linkable to the conn-men.org website. I know a normal txt file can't do that. I've tried to use an xml file to import the text, which i have done. I have put the attribute link in the xml file. Now i'd like the text box in which the text is imported to link to that webaddress. Any ideas. I know this is kind of scattered but so is my mind at this point.
Thanks!

zodex · #2 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005, 07:20 AM

Hi,

you can use HTML Tags in the text file you are importing to Flash. Flash can recognize them and interprete HTML tags.

pbrollwitme · #3 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005, 04:31 PM

it doesn't seem to be working. I've tried naming the external file both news.txt and news.html, both with the same text.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
&news = This is a test
</body>
</html>

I've added &news= because when flash imported it without a news variable it was jumbled html code. My actionscript looks as follows:

newsText = new LoadVars();
newsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if(success) {
_root.screen.news.newtext.text = newsText.news;
}
};
newsText.load("http://www.bartbryant.net/news.html");

i've tried loading both news.html and news.txt
I have been succesful in loading the actual text of the html file but it isn't linkable, but rather shows the coding.

Any thoughts?

zodex · #4 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005, 04:40 PM

1.Select the dynamic text field in which you want to load the text file.

2.select the "Render Text as HTML" button in the Property Panel for that text field.

That is it!

pbrollwitme · #5 (**permalink**) 05-23-2005, 06:11 PM

i clicked the render as html button and this is what is coming up in the text box...

This is a test
</body>
</html>

my html looks like this:

<html>
<body>
&news=This is a test
</body>
</html>

my actionscript looks like this:
stop();
newsText = new LoadVars();
newsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if(success) {
newtext.text = newsText.news;
}
};
newsText.load("http://www.bartbryant.net/news.html");

am i doing something wrong?? Is my html right? Should i take out the &news= ? when i did that and took out news in the actionscript, the following appeared in the text box...

%3Chtml%3E%0A%3Cbody%3E%0A%3Ca%20href=%22http%3A%2 F%2Fwww%2Econn%2Dmen%2Eorg%22%20target%3D%22%5Fbla nk%22%3EThis%20is%20a%20test%20%3C%2Fa%3E%20%0A%3C %2Fbody%3E%0A%3C%2Fhtml%3E%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A&on Load=%5Btype%20Function%5D

I really appreciate all your help in trying to get this to work.
Thanks!

pbrollwitme · #6 (**permalink**) 05-25-2005, 03:02 PM

nevermind...got it...thanks!