Loading text from external source

[El Bicho]

In the tutorial with that name there is this code:



on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
};
}


What´s the purpose of this part?



function(success) {
if (success) {


Is there any chance for "success" to be false?

[Maizoon]

I would assume that if TEXT1.txt did not exist or the path to it was wrong...then success would be false no?

[El Bicho]

Yes, I think so but publishing the movie with or without that lines makes no difference. If text1.txt does not exist nothing happens, no matter that those lines are in the code or not...

[brian monkey]

you add the extra code in here and then it would do something if success was a failure. :)



on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
} else {
newsBox.text = "text did not load!";
}
};
}


just an idea,
brian

[flash_legend]

well,,,,,i think it has to be like that



on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("TEXT1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.text = this.text;

};
}




try to use it might be helpfull

[Voetsjoeba]

This link might help:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary433.html