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jazzman121
May 18th, 2003, 02:22 PM
ok here is what i wanna doo
I have a text box.. which has data loaded from a textfiel(.txt) dynamicaly ....

say this is the data in the text file


variablename=
matt
patt
peter
john

now here is what i wanna doo.. i want the text to load up in flash... but i also want... for each name ... have a movie clip behind it... and that movie clip to duplicate depending on how many lines are there... in this case 4 lines....

soo basically each movieclip has a name in it... and then the next name has a movie clip.. and then when it reaches john .. it stopes

how do i do that?

please help thanks

nunomira
May 18th, 2003, 03:13 PM
something like this?

jazzman121
May 19th, 2003, 09:00 AM
well sort of ... but i want the text on the movie clip to come from a text file... and the total number of movieclips duplicated should be same as the number of lines in the text file... excluding the variable name .... ( hope that makes sense )