Retaining Bold and Italics in .txt

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I think what I'm about to ask is impossible, but I wanted to run it by the experts first to be sure.

I have a .doc file. I want to load the text from that file into Flash. So I convert it into a .txt using a website like this one: http://apps.phplivedocx.org/convert/doc-to-txt. I add in the little code at the beginning (myTextField=) and then Flash loads it fine. The only problem is any marked up text (italics, bold, underline) is lost. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Or for Flash to load text from something other than a .txt? Or to manually reinsert html tags to the .txt and get Flash to understand them? Or something else I'm not considering?

My text field correctly displays the text in the "PrimaryText.txt" file. The first line of the text shows like this: Testing this text instead of just showing up bold. And the "Render text as HTML" is checked. Thanks in advance.

Ned Murphy · Accepted Answer

doc files are rich text files that can have all kinds of text formatting applied in them. txt files are simple ascii text files that only contain text and do not have any formatting for the text.

To get your bold text to appear when you use html tags and set the html property of the TextField to true (or choose the render as html option in the properties panel), you need to assign the text to the textfield using the htmlText property instead of the text property...

txt.text = "Bold text"; // displays Bold text

txt.htmlText = "Bold text"; // displays Bold text

(ps - please don't crosspost: it's a courtesy that saves people from unnecessarily posting responses, which I probably just did)

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