LoadVars() w/ Dynamic Text

OK. My text file is: Who_txt=<HTML><BODY> yadda
yadda </HTML></BODY>
First frame code:
var txtWho_lv = new LoadVars();
txtWho_lv.onLoad = function() {
who_txt.htmlText = Who_txt;
txtWho_lv.load("../folder/folder/Who.txt");
When tested, I am only getting the following message in my
textbox:
level0.whotxt

I suggest you do not temp the Flash HTML parser with tags it
does not
understand. <html> and <body> are not understood
and may be the reason you
are seeing nothing as what happens in a web browser when you
feed it tags it
does not understand.
See:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001459.html
for supported
tags. You can go beyond that list with styles and CSS or
TextFormat.
Add a trace before the assignment to see what is in the value
From LuigiL's correct notation:
who_txt.htmlText = this.Who_txt; // this points to the
LoadVars object
trace (this);
trace ("this.Who_txt = ["+ this.Who_txt +"]");
The this inside of txtWho_lv.onLoad refers to txtWho_lv
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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actually, <HTML><BODY> work fine. All the tags
that I had prior weren't
supported.
And adding "this." prevents anything from being loaded into
the textField.
I
haven't really instantiated anything as "this." --- so...to
make things even
more difficult, once I get the text to load properly, I will
be placing the
movie within another movieClip, and will have to retarged
where the
LoadVars()
will load.
ps. Also having trouble getting my text to present as Full
Justified. I
have
it an Input TextField, Font embedded, and it appears Full
Justified when in
author mode, but onced published returns to Left Justified.
If I adjust to
Right or Center, they will publish, but Full Justified text
still won't.

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Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
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