FLASH: Help! - combining externally loaded variables, (F5 bug???)

[jmerrill]

I posted this yesterday without a response... I know I'm being impatient

for a reply, but this is driving me nuts! Fixing this would make it a very

merry Christmas.   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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