TUTORIAL Loading External Text in Flash and Flex

Perkins brother and Flash expert, Todd, shows you how to dynamically load an external text file.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• flash
• dynamic
• external
• text
• load
• cs3
• flex
• adobe
• tutorial
• podcast
• perkins
• todd
• brothers
• actionscript

[tareq8193]

Very nice tutorials.....................­.

[krisnarocks]

var loader: URLLoader = new URLLoader();

loader.load(new URLRequest("external.txt"));

loader.addEventListener(Event.­COMPLETE, onComplete);

function onComplete(event:Event):void

{

external_txt.text = event.target.data;

}

It works great!

[Stormlizard]

Thanks for this, works great

[donharritzio]

Hey great tutorial man. I have a bit of a problem though. The scroller works when you preview it in flash but when you publish it, it only works in IE no other browsers work.

I'm designing a website for a friends band and need the scroller to work on multiple browsers.

Any thoughts?

[tradecycles]

Wish you had done that AS2 :((

[ZeToCosta]

for ARISPREVEZA

u has a wrong....

u need write ( " ) in ("external.txt"));

[ARISPREVEZA]

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

loader.load(new URLRequest("external.txt));

loader.addEventListener(Event.­COMPLETE, onComplete);

function onComplete(event:Event):void

{

external_txt.text = event.target.data;

}

am I right?

[IQ168]

In AS2 it takes 1 line of code only.

[Geomaverick124]

How would you configure a button so that when clicked it opens an .swf file in the UILoader?

[animmate]

Hey Todd, This is an awesome tutorial. I wonder if you could let me know if there is a way and how to load data from an excel file into flash cs3.

Thanx