Load external text in Animate

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Hello, in flash we was able to load text in dynamic text field from external .XML file. Does anyone know how can I do that in Adobe Animate?

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kgladCorrect answer

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var r = new XMLHttpRequest();

r.addEventListener("load", rF);

r.open("GET", "path/file.xml", true);

r.send();

function rF(e) {

alert(e.target.response);

}

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Caleb Washington

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I've got an external text file, and i'd like to know,

I want to have each word in the file on one dynamic text field.

Can you help?

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kglad

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are the textfields on stage or are you going to create them dynamically using a movieclip with linkage id or some other way?

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Caleb Washington

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Linkage

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berzins

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I wonder for many things including why this works for me only in the preview window - directly opened by Animate.

As I open exported HTML file in the browser - that external content doesn't show up anymore. Why?
I'm on the way to create the page where the Name on the screen will be chosen randomly from an external text file. It works less or more ok in AS but I can't figure out how to move it to HTML canvas.

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kglad

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what code are you using?

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berzins

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The same from here marked as the correct answer. It does the thing only when hit cmd+Enter. After opening the HTML file from the disk none of the external content loads.

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