Modular Text into Projector

[Toolman21 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

This is probably something simple, but I can't seem to make it work. I want to be able to create a Shockwave project that will end up being a CD distributed to a lot of people. In the idea of being able to have someone else update the cd next year, I want to include all the text that will be on the CD as txt files so that they dont' have to know Director to be able to update it. I have looked and tried several things, the closest thing I have seen to what I need to do is this.

on enterframe
importFileInto(member "Date", "Date.rtf")
end if

I want the files to be stored locally and not a webserver as some of the people that will want to view it might not have internet connections. What I have is a text box called Date, and a file called Date.rtf I have tried txt also, and I just want it to read the text from the file and populate the text box with that data. Can someone point out what I have missed or possibly direct me to a good tutorial website. Thanks in advance!

Toolman21

[JPrice]

You could use FileIO:

fileObj=new(Xtra "FileIO")
filename=the moviepath & "date.txt"
openfile(fileObj, filename,1)
member("Date").text=readfile(fileObj)
closefile(fileObj)

Judy
"Toolman21" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> This is probably something simple, but I can't seem to make it work. I

want to be able to create a Shockwave project that will end up being a CD
distributed to a lot of people. In the idea of being able to have someone
else update the cd next year, I want to include all the text that will be on
the CD as txt files so that they dont' have to know Director to be able to
update it. I have looked and tried several things, the closest thing I have
seen to what I need to do is this.

>
> on enterframe
> importFileInto(member "Date", "Date.rtf")
> end if
>
> I want the files to be stored locally and not a webserver as some of the

people that will want to view it might not have internet connections. What
I have is a text box called Date, and a file called Date.rtf I have tried
txt also, and I just want it to read the text from the file and populate the
text box with that data. Can someone point out what I have missed or
possibly direct me to a good tutorial website. Thanks in advance!

>
> Toolman21
>
>

[Loren Schwarz]

I had a similar problem and here's what I did: I created two text members,
one of them is visible on the stage (member("explanation")), the other one
is - as its name says - a dummy to load the text from a file.

theFile = the moviePath & "/text1.txt"
member("loadingDummy").filename = theFile

After these statements all of the text from file "text1.txt" is loaded into
member "loadingDummy". Now you can copy portions (single lines) or all of
the text into the member shown on the stage, for example:

member("explanation").text = member("loadingDummy").text.line[i]

Hope this helps you :-)
L.S.