Help figuring dynamic text feeds

Question

hello folks,
I'm trying to set up a simple flash file that uses dynamic
text to fade from one text value to another. basically it's like an
alert page that an admin would update the text file with the
necessary alerts, so that the flash file on the page would load the
appropriate new messages.
The flash would work as such: message1 would fade in and
display for a desired time, then fade and be replaced by the 2nd
message (if there is one).
It seems to me that a perhaps a javascript function or
something would be more appropriate? but I'm not familiar with
working with dynamic text so any insight would be greatly
appreciated.
thanx

Answer 1

Hmmm.
Well officially the .text property of a textfield is a string
so what will happen is that the 20 gets turned into string and
concatenated (or appended) the the string value in the text
property.
Can you clarfify the problem? Is your textfield changing or
not?
If it is changing then you will need to do something like:
_root.score.text = Number(_root.score.text)+20;
That requires that a valid number already exists in the
textfield. It might be safer to track the score in a separate
variable and then assign it to the textfield's text property each
time it changes.
If its not changing then try putting a trace in to see what's
happening:
on(press){
trace("textfield is:"+_root.score)
_root.score.text +=20;
If you see 'undefined' then it may just be a typo - perhaps
you called it Score with an uppercase S for example. If its defined
and nothing is visible then it could be that you've embedded fonts
without numbers or something like that.