Problems with loadVariables();

[jmguitard]

Hey, ummm

Well ...Later, I plan on getting my entry information from a database... but for the moment, I simply want to get my variables from a external text file. Umm.... I "think" I have used loadVariables(); correctly.... but I'm not to sure....


//File name is "January_2002.text"
//I wanted to place the info on the _root
// would this be correct way to access the file? I always thought it was.

loadVariables('January_2002.txt',0,"GET");

Anyway.... I think my problem may have more to do with finding a correct way to access the variables, after I have brought them into Flash. I don't get any errors from the output window when I test it.... So it does find the file.

So, let say the content my external file looks like this: var1=Ron&var2=Jeremy

In Flash, could I see the variable simply by doing something like:

trace(var1+var2);

or

firstName=var1;
lastName=var2;

I have tried using the variables directly, like in the examples above... but that doesn't seem to work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
JM Guitard

[Syn09]

Hey,

I think I had a similar problem a couple of weeks ago. I have a .txt file with 28,000 variables in it that I had to stream into Flash. I wound up using an #include statement to access the .txt file as an .as file.

But looking at what you've written I think this might work for you;

loadVariablesNum ("./January_2002.txt",0);

Good-Luck

[jmguitard]

I'll give it a try... thanks for replying....
Cheers,
JM Guitard

[nic]

loadVariables ("path/anotherPath/yourTextFile.txt", _root);
if (_root:flag == "done") {
gotoAndPlay ("main", "ready");
}...

The if statement is looped to check for the last var, called "flag" with a value of "done". This makes sure all yer vars are loaded before anything happens:: this has been referred to on this site as swonking - do a search if you don't believe me!

Enjoy.

timeToGoHome = rightNow

[nic]

Ps. the path to the txt file should be relative to the htm file, rather than wherever the embedded .swf is living...

Really home going now!

[guernica]

Hi

I've used #include for both .txt & .as files and yet each time I make changes to the external file I have to republish the .fla in order for the changes to take effect. Why is this? Can I get around it some way?

[Jesse]

include is a p ublish time operation. That is, the code is pasted in when you publish from Flash. There's no way to get around that in Flash 5.