Photos / pics in Flash from .txt imports?

[MatthewR webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

OK, I'm sure this has been discussed to some extent here, but it's 3 AM and I cannot find it.

I'm sure everyone is familiar w/ importing .txt files into Flash as a way of creating a scrolling text area. I know you can use certain simple HTML tags for formatting (<B>, <I>, <A>, etc), but what about inserting images? I have tried the obvious (<IMG>), but to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

I would also be interested in knowing if tables could be inserted (<TABLE>).

BTW, the reason I use this method is it is easier to format the long articles I edit weekly as .txt / html files.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks!

[billwatson webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

not possible...flash only supports a few tags and img and table are not among them



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[Pete Hughes webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Yes you can read in a .txt file that will contain your image and caption information, but you won't be able to just run it all inside an HTML window. You will have to put the caption part in a textfield and use the image file name part in a loadMovie() command.