external txt

[dommega]

I am trying to load txt from an external text file. I know that the files need to be encoded differently for flash. I went through the tutorials and I don't understand; the one listed on this site is hard to understand. So if somebody could please tell me how to encode the text for flash, I would appreciate it.

Dommega

[Jesse]

a search on the forums reveals plenty of examples:
&variable1=value1&variable2=value two&variable3=value3... etc etc

[timmyRED01]

im having the same problem. i want to load a news.txt and
so i used this.loadVariables ("news.txt"); and it only loaded the first 3 lines of the file. could someone help me pleassee

[timmyRED01]

nevermind. turns out that flash for some reason doesnt like to see & in external text files and it stopped loading from there i guess

[gala]

Hi timmyred..

All you have to do for it to read the "&"amperstand.is use the URL encoding for special characters for the characters to be read..in the case of the "&" you would replace it with
"%26" (without ""quotes of course..)
There is a Macromedia technote on the subject that you can look at for reference .
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm

i hope this helps..
good luck
gala

[timmyRED01]

thanks!!