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Here is an easy but very useful tutorial on Dynamic Text.

I used Flash MX for this, but MX2004 should be pretty much the same.

Open a new document and import of make any background you may need. I made a simple notepad image. Place your image on the stage at frame one in layer one. Note that the whole movie will only take one frame in this example.

Create a Dynamic Text Box and place it where you want the text to appear. Pick the font, colour and font size, and give it an instance name of dtbox

Make a new layer and add the following open the Actions section. Add this Actionscript:

var contentVars = new LoadVars();
contentvars.onLoad = function(ok) {
if (ok) {
dtbox.text = contentVars.content ;
}
};
contentvars.load('ramblings.txt')

You can see that we're giving the our intended text a variable name of content. We're then telling it to put the content into our dynamic text box. Finally we're telling it where to find the content.

Now open Notepad and make a text file beginning with content=
Add your text and then save the file as ramblings.txt and save the flash file in the same folder.
If you test the movie now, you should see it working. Remember when you export the swf that the text file must be in the same folder.

Here's my working example.
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You may wish to add an error catch in there.

if(ok){
/* Do it */
}
else{
dtbox.text = "Error opening the file. Please report this to an Admin. Thank you.";
}

Just a suggestion.

~Brett

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