External Variables

Question

Hi I was wondering if someone have an idea how to make this
work. I have 4 buttons in my flash movie.
btn1,btn2,btn3,btn4 (instance names)
in an external txt file I have variables.
&Etage1=on&
&Etage2=off&
&Etage3=off&
&Etage4=on&
&done=yes&
when I trace the variable it show me on or off but if I make
an if statement to disable btn1 if Etage1._visible = false;
nothing happen. Any Ideas... thanx.

Answer 1

I would probably look into using XML to define the structure of your external text file. There are many good things about that approach.
Your post is also very difficult to read due to all the crazy characters and all. And in the end you ask if there is a way to "fix this?" but it isn't at all clear what "this" is.
Often I recommend if you are having trouble doing something to set aside your current project and create a simplified "test." So can you just read in the project title and does it work? What about if you add just the color? At what point does it break?
My guess is a combination of things.
if you do something like this in your text file:
videoTitle=Some Title Goes Here
&someothervariable=etc
&etc.
You will get the invisible returns from the ends of the lines. So in that case your file should be formatted like this:
videoTitle=Some Title Goes Here&
&someothervariable=etc&
&etc.
I also suspect that everything will be loaded in as text. So
colorHexCode=0xff0000
Will mostly be a string instead of a number, so you might have success with it in certain cases, but in others it will behave as a string. So
trace(colorHexCode-2) // this will trace out a number
trace(colorHexCode+2) // this will trace out 0xff00002
If you want to be sure to convert it to a number you should use parseInt() or parseFloat() to do the conversion.