HTML tags in Dynamic Text

Question

I am planning on building a website in flash with 90 percent
of the site in dynamic text. Will flash read the html tags in a
text file as text or html and code it as a browser would.

Answer 1

yes, Flash will accept HTML tags, and there are a couple of
different methods to make this work. But in my limited experience,
it's a little tricky, and both require a little extra Actionscript
to make them function. I read some info about this in some of the
tutorials, but I can't point to them at the moment.
First, one can use use the ' yourtext_txt.htmlText =
yoursource_txt; ' method to read a plain text line that contains
HTML tags. However there are some parameters that need to be set up
before it will function properly, and there are several optionals
to choose from, but it seems most importantly to set the HTML
property to true as in ' yourtext_txt.html = true; ' but there
still are several different things requried, especially if your
looking for dynamic on-the-fly changes to different sections of
text. here's a snipit I'd been working on that uses a similar
system with arrays:
did that work, huh? thought I was adding code.
Another method is to use a CSS or by defining your own
stylesheet tags within Flash Actionscript. This method seems to
work better when using LoadVars, where you would define the
ContentStyle. First you define the StyleSheet, then apply it to the
dynamic text area (I'll try this again), here's a snipit: (OK I
think i get it the code will attach to the end of this post, so I
post the second set in a following post)
These are just some examples though, from my own
experimentations, and of course onw would define thier own
variables. I'm no expert, but I hope this gets you going, just a
few ideas.