 | | Re: [Flashnewbie] External data - What am I Doing Wrong? I 'm at
a deadline, | Re: [Flashnewbie] External data - What am I Doing Wrong? I 'm at
a deadline, 2004-02-06 - By Jim Cheng
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Alan Rafael Bleiweiss wrote:
> If I put the on(press) removemovieclip code in every one of them
> buttons, AND if I want to have dynamic CF generated text on almost
> every page, can I get away with using that one textfield on all
> those pages? I figure I can because the script will be doing the
> loadvariablesnum for a unique file on each page. Make sense?
That's actually a terribly good idea. Like you said, it really
does beat having 16 versions of the same thing over and over
again. I typically go with such a technique for a lot of sites
in Flash and HTML where I can just load and insert text into
a common template.
While you're at it, you might also write one function to clear
the textfield and go to the proper frame. Say at the main
timeline, write something like:
function clearTextAndGo(frameNum) {
if (_root.txtField) {
_root.txtField.removeMovieClip();
}
gotoAndPlay(frameNum);
}
Now the buttons' code can be simplified to:
on(press) {
// Change the number as appropriate for each button
clearTextAndGo(1054);
}
I'm going to head out to dinner with my wife and a friend of
ours (it's 6:00PM here in Denver). I hope it all works out
well for you. I'll probably be back online in about two or
three hours--I've been quite hard at work moonlighting on
several open-source Flash projects these past few days.
Jim
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