[2Dfruit]

I'm looking to create a text only flash banner that pulls the text from an external file using actionscript. The text has to move and animate. The animation i can handle, but i don't have a clue when it comes to actionscript.

Can anyone give a link or some tips? thanks.

[Intrinzik.v2]

might not be exactly what your looking for (I have no idea when it comes to flash) but try this http://www.azroc.co.uk/flash/flash_t..._component.htm

[2Dfruit]

no, that's not what i'm after but thanks anyway.

All im doing is animating a piece of text..ie: twisting it and fading it.

What i want to do is change this text from a .txt file so that the banner can be changed by someone without flash.

[digitaloctane]

This is copied directly from flash help.

this line: features_lv.load("safetyfeatures.txt"); Thats where you would reference your .txt file.

and: newFeatures_txt is the instance name of your dynamic text field.

// Load text as variable and assign it to the 
// dynamic text field
var features_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
features_lv.onLoad = onText;
features_lv.load("safetyfeatures.txt");
function onText(success:Boolean) {
    if (success) {
        newFeatures_txt.text = features_lv.safetyfeatures;
    } else {
        newFeatures_txt.text = "unable to load text file.";
    }
}

[JiRaffe]

this would be best done in xml. check out the xml object is the flash help files.

[digitaloctane]

Originally Posted by JiRaffe

this would be best done in xml. check out the xml object is the flash help files.

Agreed. XML is the best option

[2Dfruit]

thank you