Dynamic Text in a Projector

[ravi23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi, I'm developing a way to put general education courses on an interactive cd. Some of the courses have content that would need to be changed yearly or bi-yearly. I'm trying to figure out the best way to "link" an external text file to a projector. I thought about taking the XML route but I've heard some negative things about it on some forums. The reason I want to do this is because I want the teachers to be able to update their content without having to go back into director and changing content. Hope this makes some sense. Any help is appreciated.

..nathan

[rick_utd webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

largely depends on where your text will reside - if it's to be picked up over the web then you could use getnettext() or an ASP. If it's within a local file on the user's PC then you can easily import text on runtime providing the text is always in a specific directory. If you're going this route then simply use something like FileIO to import te file, parse it and display it as required. Hope this is of some help.

[ravi23 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

is it possible to do this with XML? There is a lot of content therefor I would need to break it up into sections and only display certain sections for each "slide." The professor may just edit one slide at a time but the file would reside on the CD and we would just burn new cds for that semester.

Also, I'm pretty novice when it comes to Lingo so any tutorials or books to help with with the XML connectivity would be great.

..nathan