"Include" external .txt file in AS3

Hi.

Can you give an example of why do you need to load ActionScript code from a .txt?

As ActionScript is converted to bytecode in compile time, loading code externally doesn't make too much sense for me.

Regards,

JC

You can use the load() method of the flash.net.URLLoader class to load an external .as file at runtime and execute its contents via the eval() method.
For example:

// create a URLLoader instance
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

// specify the URL of the external .as file
var url:String = "http://example.com/examplefile.as";

// add an event listener for when the file has loaded
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileLoaded);

// load the file
loader.load(new URLRequest(url));

// this function will be called when the file has loaded
function onFileLoaded(event:Event):void {
  // get the loaded file's contents
  var loadedCode:String = event.target.data;

  // execute the loaded code using the global 'eval' function
  eval(loadedCode);
}