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levisuel
August 4th, 2003, 08:52 PM
Hi pros of flash :thumb:

ok, heres my prob... I got a textbox with a external file with html... this is working fine ! the problem is, that the textbox (with a scroller) shows only the 1/2 of the whole text.. is there a max of characters to put in my .txt file ? is there something to put it longer... if u guys dont understand my question, ill upload what i did and show u..

thx

:link:

b.rich
August 4th, 2003, 09:36 PM
is ur txt properties set to 'multiline'?

comicGeek
August 4th, 2003, 10:45 PM
Post your FLA and your txt files so we can have a look at it!

claudio
August 4th, 2003, 10:57 PM
Probably you are using some html tags the wrong way. If flash doesnt recognize the html tag on the txt file, all the text after that tag is ignored.

kode
August 5th, 2003, 01:18 AM
Also, you should URL encode special characters (such as the ampersand (&)).

URL Encoding: Reading special characters from a text file (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm) <-- LINK

levisuel
August 5th, 2003, 05:29 PM
thx for those reply... is here the link, i uploaded files on my server..

http://levisuel.mespagesx.com/test.html

It's the page (Célébrités) celebrities in english..hehe

here is my txt file

http://levisuel.mespagesx.com/celeb.txt

see. it's stops at letter M... there is text till T..

It's my first flash site... is it good ?

kode
August 5th, 2003, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by kax
Also, you should URL encode special characters (such as the ampersand (&)).

URL Encoding: Reading special characters from a text file (http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/url_encoding.htm) <-- LINK
There's an ampersand here: Mia & Chyler. :sigh:

levisuel
August 5th, 2003, 07:53 PM
thx its working now... :ub:

kode
August 5th, 2003, 07:55 PM
... No problem.