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Question

I am having a problems with dynamic text fields and
strings...
Using Flash 8 Professional by the way.
I have a number of swfs that load their content from XML
files generated by Flash using the strings panel.
My problem is that when I update one of the XML files it
seems to populate the text field in all of the files (even although
they all have seperate XML files) fields that share the same string
id...and then I get undefined in most of the other text fields in
the other files?
Has anyone come across this before?

Answer 1

__icarus__ wrote:
> Urami
>
> let me get this straight...do you mean that for every
text field regardless of
> the fact that it is in a different file or not, they all
need a different
> string ID?
That is correct. If you use same ID across multiple files, it
will get all confused.
Never the case if you have unique ID for each string.
> Here is my situation...I am creating a ELearning course
that has a main
> interface that loads content swf movies into a blank
movie clip within it. So
> for example I have a file called introduction.swf and
one called
> objectives.swf. In each of the files I have a text field
heading with a string
> ID of "my title "...are you saying that I need to give
each heading a seperate
> ID even although they are in different swf's and have
their own XML file?
Yes that is what Im saying. Flash does not care where the
data comes from.
It seek it by its ID name, Variable name etc... If you load
movies into each other
they start sharing the same main movie and it's easy for
cross level string
contemination. That is why you should be naming them
differently, throughout the
entire project.
> so if
> I gave the text field in introduction swf an Id of
"intro_heading" and the one
> in the objectives swf an id of "objective_heading" it
should work?
Certainly.
Best Regards
Urami
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