CThese examples demonstrate three different ways to load an external text file into Flash.

Example 1

This example loads an external text file named "params.txt" into Flash and displays the contents using the 'trace' command, so you must run it from within Flash to observe any results.

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Download the params.txt file.

Example 2

This example loads an external text file named "params.txt" into Flash with a button click and displays the contents in a text field.

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Download the params.txt file.

Example 3

This example loads an external text file named by the contents of a file name text field into Flash with a button click and displays the contents in a text field. You may load one of three example files provided with this example: params.txt, 9003.txt, and data.txt.

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Download the params.txt file.

Download the 9003.txt file.

Download the data.txt file.

Jeff Sale