new movie won't load variables from txt file 1

[eljacobs]

Hi

Got an annoying problem which is probably easily solved but i'm new to this stuff so maybe you can help.

I have a movie (lets call it movie a) that loads variables from a txt file called answers.txt into dynamic text boxes. So far so good.

I have a swf file (movie b) that also displays text from the same txt file and that works fine too.

The problem occurs when I load 'movie b' into 'movie a' using loadMovie. The dynamic text box in 'movie b' does not display the text from the .txt file.

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks in advance

Elliot

 

[oldnewbie]

What are you using to load the text file?
loadVariables?

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[eljacobs]

thanks for the fatastic response time.

i'm using loadVariablesNum in MX 2004. the code in movie 2 is actually:

loadVariablesNum("exemplar_variables.txt",0);

Elliot

 

[oldnewbie]

Ok! That's fine although you should really get into using the LoadVars() object.
Now since your loading your variables on the main _root level (0), simply add that reference to your variables's name in the VAR box of your textfield.
Thus assuming your variable's name in the movie b's textfield box was my_var, make it _level0.my_var instead, and it should work as a charm!

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[eljacobs]

Thanks

very helpful indeed.

Elliot