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kitjunkie · Jul 25, 2003, 05:19

Hi Guy's and Gall's

I have a couple problems, i imagine probably easily fixed, but over my head

Number 1...

My flash movie loads an external text file on loading, then display's it in another scene in a scrolling box.
The problem is all the line breaks, it seems to add 2 for every 1, is that to do with the text file? or have i missed something in flash? can i remove them with action script?

Number 2...

The Flash movie doesn't reload the text file every time you oven the page, it seems to open a 'cached' version, can i do anything about this?

www.bexinoz.com

Thanks in anticipation of any help you guys can give me!

Andy

greg.harvey · Jul 25, 2003, 07:00

Regarding the caching, the usual trick is to make sure that the URL changes slightly each time to fool the browser. Do this with a querystring. It doesn't have to do anything. You could generate it randomly with JavaScript, so that your Flash page URL is maybe something like:

Code:

http://www.yoursite.com/flash.html?14526

freddydoesphp · Jul 25, 2003, 11:19

As for the two line breaks between paragraphs. Its because windows newlines are \r\n and so flash interprets that as two line breaks.

I have written quite a bit on this subject over at actionscript.org

Code:

function loadText(txtFile, target) {
 myVars = new LoadVars();
 myVars.load(txtFile);
 myVars.onData = function(raw) {
  var tmpText = "";
  if (raw.indexOf("\r\n") > -1) {
	tmpText = raw.split("\r\n").join("\n");
  }
  else tmpText = raw;
  target.text = tmpText;
 }
}
loadText("myText.txt", _root.myText);

So this is my method and works quite nice. Keep in mind you need to have a text file that is just raw text, for instance

Code:

Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
v
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
Yo I am some text with windows line breaks, yes I am 
v

So there you go, this is my method for taking care of that problem.

Curtis782 · Apr 4, 2004, 19:12

I currently have a dynamic textbox with an actionscript input of:

t = "Text1\nText2\n\n";
text = t;

What I would like to do (keep in mind this box is linked with a scroll bar but it should not matter) is have Text1, Text2, etc. called from a text file called calendar.txt using the code above where I believe I could just list event titles in an organized way and have flash separate the lines for me.

How can I make this work?

speedball · Jul 18, 2004, 22:53

hi
try this way

t = Text1 + "\n" + Text2 + "\n\n";
text = t;

Jul 25, 2003, 05:19	#1
kitjunkie SitePoint Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Taunton Posts: 28	Loading External Text Files into Flash MX Hi Guy's and Gall's I have a couple problems, i imagine probably easily fixed, but over my head Number 1... My flash movie loads an external text file on loading, then display's it in another scene in a scrolling box. The problem is all the line breaks, it seems to add 2 for every 1, is that to do with the text file? or have i missed something in flash? can i remove them with action script? Number 2... The Flash movie doesn't reload the text file every time you oven the page, it seems to open a 'cached' version, can i do anything about this? www.bexinoz.com Thanks in anticipation of any help you guys can give me! Andy

Jul 25, 2003, 07:00	#2
greg.harvey Drupaler Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 3,299	Regarding the caching, the usual trick is to make sure that the URL changes slightly each time to fool the browser. Do this with a querystring. It doesn't have to do anything. You could generate it randomly with JavaScript, so that your Flash page URL is maybe something like: Code: http://www.yoursite.com/flash.html?14526

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Apr 4, 2004, 19:12	#4
Curtis782 SitePoint Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Plymouth, NH Posts: 5	I currently have a dynamic textbox with an actionscript input of: t = "Text1\nText2\n\n"; text = t; What I would like to do (keep in mind this box is linked with a scroll bar but it should not matter) is have Text1, Text2, etc. called from a text file called calendar.txt using the code above where I believe I could just list event titles in an organized way and have flash separate the lines for me. How can I make this work?

Jul 18, 2004, 22:53	#5
speedball SitePoint Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: coimbra Posts: 1	hi try this way t = Text1 + "\n" + Text2 + "\n\n"; text = t;