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Subject: Re: FLASH: F5 combining multiple external variables (bug???)
From: Peggi & Ben Rodgers
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:57:38 GMT

MC stands for "movie clip".

Peggi

At 03:21 PM 12/21/00 -0800, you wrote:

>aHh.... that sounds like my problem... since I'm new to actionscript,
>what's MC? mMC? how do you set up a frameloop?
> Anyway could someone send me an example? I have no idea where to start...
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>Jason Merrill
>Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
>425.369.5214
>SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
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>Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
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>You cannot have any actions in the same keyframe as where you're doing the
>loading. This will never work. In this case not offline,
>but defenatly not online.
>You could load the variables into a MC and use the onClipEvent (data)
>attached to the mMC which won't execute any actions untill all
>variables are loaded. Or use a frameloop where you check for some variable
>in the textfile is loaded before proceeding.
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>hth,
>Muzak
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <jmerrillatelftech [dot] com>
>To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 PM
>Subject: FLASH: F5 combining multiple external variables (bug???)
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> >
> > I posted this yesterday without a response... I posted earlier this
>morning
> > and I never saw it appear.... another post of mine on a different matter
> > showed up almost instantaneously... I know I'm being impatient for a
>reply,
> > but this is driving me nuts! Fixing this would make it a very merry
> > Christmas. Anyway, I narrowed my problem down further, and need help
> > solving it.
> >
> > FACT 1: In F5, I can load & display an external variable, like so:
> > (contents of external file, "text.txt")
> >
> > text=
> > &matter1=Alphacon v. Digital Financial, Inc.
> > &matter2=Werner Electric v. Jones
> > ...this works great - contents of variables "matter1" and "matter2" load
> > and displays fine in a dynamic text field using text = loadVariablesnum
> > ("text.txt", 0);
> >
> > FACT 2: I can also combine & display two variables I create in Flash
> > internally, like so:
> >
> > var1="My name is: ";
> > var2="Jason";
> > sentence= var1+var2; ...this also works great - contents of variable
> > "sentence" displays fine in a dynamic text field.
> >
> > Now, here's the kicker: I can't seem to combine & display two or more
> > externally loaded variables! For example:
> >
> > (contents of external file, "text.txt")
> > text=
> > &matter1=Alphacon v. Digital Financial, Inc.
> > &matter2=Werner Electric v. Jones
> >
> > (then the actionscript in F5)
> > text = loadVariablesnum ("text.txt", 0);
> > matters=matter1+matter2;
> >
> > (dynamic text field set to "matters" displays nothing, while others set
>to
> > display "matter1" or "matter2" display fine!)
> > ???????? Am I missing something very obvious? (very possible!) Thanks
>in
> > advance...
> >
> > Jason Merrill
> > Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
> > 425.369.5214
> > SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
> >
> > Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
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> > Jason Merrill
> > Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
> > 425.369.5214
> > SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
> >
> > Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
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