Hi,

I'm new to actionscript and experiencing a problem...

I made ? photo gallery that I would like dynamic(not finished) but for the
moment I have the following problem :

My gallery works when the picture name array is written in the movie :

myimg = ["photo1","photo2","photo3","photo4"];

I use this array to load the jpegs in the movie.
I am trying to load this array from a text file but it won't work.

I actualy tried the following code :

in flash : box.loadvariables("info.txt");

in txt file : myimg = ["photo1","photo2","photo3","photo4"];

I dosen't work....

Would someone be kind enough to correct my mistakes...

Thanks in advance.

Seb

textfile:

&myimg=photo,photo2,photo3,photo4& // make sure there's no spaces around the
comma's

then in Flash use myFlashArray = myimg.split(",");

Manual has more info on the string.split method. Bottomline is that
variables from a textfile always arrive as a string in Flash. U use the
String.split(delimiter) function to create an array out of it. Compare:

myString="What a string this is";
myArray = myString.spli(" ");
trace(myArray);

will output:
What,a,string,this,is

And obviously you have to wait for the variables to arrive before performing
the split()

John

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Thank you for your help,

It Works but not completely...

It works great with a button :
on (release) {
.....
}
But I would like it to work with a clip :

onClipEvent (load) {
....
}
End it seems impossible...
The same code in the same clip gives "undefined" width the clip and the
correct string with the button...

Thank you again for your help...

Maybe you should start 'studying' the loadVars Object which I feel is much
easier to use, especially as it comes with the onLoad event.

Try something like this

onClipEvent (load) {
// create a new loadVars object
myVars = new LoadVars();
// define what has to happen once the textfile has been loaded
myVars.onLoad = function(success) {
// if the file was successfully loaded
if (success) {
myFlashArray = this.myimg.split(",");
// just a trace to check; skip in final code
trace(myFlashArray);
// skip the else partprobably in final code; or replace with something
else
} else {
trace("file could not be loaded");
}
};
// load the textfile
myVars.load("info.txt");
}

Now remember that myFlashArray will belong to the timeline of the movieclip.
If you want to access it from _root, use

trace(clipInstancename.myFlashArray);

John

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