[Moderator]

Can anyone help me use an include with my Flash movie? I'm decent with Flash but have no idea where to put the include. I'd like it to point to a text file that will reside in the same directory as the swf. Thanks

[philzilla]

i used to have a news page, on a band site i run. pressing the news button would load the news.txt incude, and make the news window (a movie clip, called 'news') visible. to do that, i used this code on the news button

on (release) {
loadVariables ("http://www.domain.com/flash/news.txt", "_root.news.textMovie");
setProperty (news, _visible, true);
}

i hope that's of some help to you...

[Moderator]

Originally posted by philzilla:
i hope that's of some help to you...

very helpful...beginning to make sense now...

so you create an empty movie, much like you would if you were loading an outside swf, and direct the txt to that?

[gskinner]

If you are working in MX, take a look at loadVars in the reference. It is a much cleaner way to load variables from an external file than loadVariables.

Post back if you have any questions on using it.

Cheers,
Grant Skiner.