html links: link from one text box to another

arunbe, im not quite sure i understand what it is your saying

Hi fanmap81,

Wrinting so many functions is not fair.
So, if you are adding more retailers means then again you have to write more functions and will continue the same till you get a set of fixed retailers.
So , its better you can use some variable that will be passed from the asfunctions and can get it in the Flash. So that you can identify that variable and can proceed according to that....

what?

I can tell you that "a bunch" is the collective noun for grapes.
An nothing else.

alright i got it to work......it seems that if you embed the text in the textbox, it wont work. I have one last thing to ask. How do i write the code to make it increment by 1 for each new variable. The way it is now it seems i would have to write my actionscript like this:

function testCall() {
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TextFiles/RetailAddress.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
RetailAddress_txt.text = "";
RetailAddress_txt.html = true;
RetailAddress_txt.htmlText = this.RetailAddressVariable;
}
};
}
function testCall1() {
trace("Called !");
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TextFiles/RetailAddress.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
RetailAddress_txt.text = "";
RetailAddress_txt.html = true;
RetailAddress_txt.htmlText = this.RetailAddressVariable1;
}
};
}
function testCall2() {
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TextFiles/RetailAddress.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
RetailAddress_txt.text = "";
RetailAddress_txt.html = true;
RetailAddress_txt.htmlText = this.RetailAddressVariable;
}
};
}
function testCall3() {
trace("Called !");
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("TextFiles/RetailAddress.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
RetailAddress_txt.text = "";
RetailAddress_txt.html = true;
RetailAddress_txt.htmlText = this.RetailAddressVariable1;
}
};
}


But wisdom is telling me that if i have 100 retailers, it dosent look to be the wisest of options too place testcall1-100 throughout my actionscript, and have an extremely long set of code. Im looking to increment the testcall by 1 in my text files, so that flash knows to go to the next retailer. I hope you understand what it is im saying. Thank you for your help thus far. Much appreciated.

Instead of accessing directly,
You just give the instance name of the movieclip in which you are having the text feilds.
Suppose, you are having a text Feild inside a movieclip with the name "my_mc".
then ,
_root.my_mc.RetailList_txt = "text".

im trying to use that revised code, but its not working. It works in your file, but not in mine. Is it because my textboxes are inside of two movieclips and not the root? If this is the case, how do i alter the code for it to work, because i tried _root. in a few places, with no success.

hi
just try this code.
it may help you...

http://development.agriya.in/test/Files.rar

Try these 3 links instead. My server it seems dosent allow to access whole directories, only the files themselves.


http://www.fantasticfantasymm.com/RetailersTest/RetailersTest.fla

http://www.fantasticfantasymm.com/RetailersTest/TextFiles/RetailAddress.txt

http://www.fantasticfantasymm.com/RetailersTest/TextFiles/RetailList.txt

hi,
the link is not working......... :(