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Example
The following example loads information from a text file called params.txt into the
target_mc movie clip that is created using createEmptyMovieClip(). The setInterval()
function is used to check the loading progress. The script checks for a variable in the
params.txt file named done.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("target_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
loadVariables("params.txt", target_mc);
function checkParamsLoaded() {
if (target_mc.done == undefined) {
trace("not yet.");
} else {
trace("finished loading. killing interval.");
trace("-------------");
for (i in target_mc) {
trace(i+": "+target_mc[i]);
}
trace("-------------");
clearInterval(param_interval);
}
}
var param_interval = setInterval(checkParamsLoaded, 100);
The external file, params.txt, includes the following text:
var1="hello"&var2="goodbye"&done="done"
See also
loadVariablesNum function, loadMovie function, loadMovieNum function, getURL
function, loadMovie (MovieClip.loadMovie method), loadVariables
(MovieClip.loadVariables method), load (LoadVars.load method)
loadVariablesNum function
loadVariablesNum(url:String, level:Number [, method:String]) : Void
Reads data from an external file, such as a text file or text generated by ColdFusion, a CGI
script, ASP, PHP, or a Perl script, and sets the values for variables in a Flash Player level. You
can also use this function to update variables in the active SWF file with new values.
The text at the specified URL must be in the standard MIME format application/x-wwwform-urlencoded(a
standard format used by CGI scripts). Any number of variables can be
specified. For example, the following phrase defines several variables:
company=Macromedia&address=601+Townsend&city=San+Francisco&zip=94103
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