HOW TO LOAD DYNAMIC TEXT FROM A NOTEPAD

[Jobin Joseph]

Hi all,

I am a fresher in this Action Script  world ,well now i am trying to do a project .

I have to show the staff seating arrangement in a compnay ,so i did an interactive presentation in that slide i gave a top view of the seating by an illustration so each cabin is a button .Now when i pressed on each button it will go  to another slide showing a detail of people sitting in that cabin ,suppose 4 people are sitting in a cabin .i like to show each persons 1NAME ,2EMAIL ,3PHONE EXTENSION, ....

I have to show more than 100 cabin same way .......i tried to give all data in each frame and did it in a static way ...but when new people are coming it is hard to repalce ther name and email ...so i tried to calling data form NOTEPAD ..so by doing that any perosn can easily edit this with out the help of a technical programmer ......hope all of you getting me .....

I just tried a goole search ..i ifnd out a basic one  please check the given link below ...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm

In this we have option only to add one data ..simple only a name ..HOW CAN I ADD MULTIPLE DATA IN ONE NOTE PAD ... for the seat 2 i made a notepad it will have the data of NAME ,EMAIL ,AND EXTENSION NUMBER .....

and one more thing  if i am able to od all data within a single notepad ..mean if i applied the above logic ,i may need more than 100 notepad files ..if ican add the whole things in 1 file ...IT WILL BE GREAT ...

anybody can help me ??????? 

thanks a lot ,

jobin joseph

[kglad]

use the urlloader class to load a text file.

[Jobin Joseph]

can you please little more clear ...............................

[kglad · Accepted solution]

here's an example:

var urlLDR:URLLoader=new URLLoader();

urlLDR.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,f);

urlLDR.load(new URLRequest("yourtextfile.txt"));

function f(e:Event):void{

trace(e.target.data);

}

p.s.  please mark this thread as answered, if you can.

[Jobin Joseph]

thank you so much i will try this ...................

[kglad]

you're welcome.

[Guest]

How can I load text from my txt file in text area or simple dybamic tex box???????

I do that but with trace fanction I have not view text in my application !!!!!!!!!!

[Ned Murphy]

Start your own posting and show the code that is not working for you