Make me Bold!

Question

Hi everyone, first time in here..
Got this really annoying problem! Just made a text box scroll
thing, which is working fine. Only problem is that I need to make
some of the text bold in the external .txt file. I've been sticking
the text in <b>here</b> but for some reason it doesn't
work and it is driving me crazy! Here is my action script:
var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var textFile:URLRequest = new URLRequest("text/enlaces.txt")
var scrollPercent:Number = 0;
var minScroll:Number;
var maxScroll:Number;
var targetScroll:Number = text_mc.y;
var easing:Number = 5;
var scrollAmt:Number = 15;
var scrollDirection:Number = 0;
function textLoaded(event:Event):void
text_mc.external_txt.htmlText = textLoader.data;
minScroll = text_mc.y;
maxScroll = minScroll - text_mc.height + mask_mc.height;
function dragScroller(event:MouseEvent):void
var dragX:Number = line_mc.x - scroller_mc.width/2;
var dragY:Number = line_mc.y;
var dragW:Number = 0;
var dragH:Number = line_mc.height - scroller_mc.height;
scroller_mc.startDrag(false, new
Rectangle(dragX,dragY,dragW,dragH));
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDragging);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, setScrollPercent);
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollText);
function stopDragging(event:MouseEvent):void
scroller_mc.stopDrag();
function setScrollPercent(event:Event):void
scrollPercent = (scroller_mc.y - line_mc.y) /
(line_mc.height - scroller_mc.height);
if(scrollPercent < 0)
scrollPercent = 0;
else if(scrollPercent > 1)
scrollPercent = 1;
targetScroll = (scrollPercent * (maxScroll - minScroll)) +
minScroll;
text_mc.y -= (text_mc.y - targetScroll) / easing;
function scrollUp(event:MouseEvent):void
setDirection(scrollAmt);
function scrollDown(event:MouseEvent):void
setDirection(-scrollAmt);
function setDirection(dir:Number):void
scrollDirection = dir;
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollText);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopScrolling);
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
setScrollPercent);
function scrollText(event:Event):void
targetScroll += scrollDirection;
text_mc.y -= (text_mc.y - targetScroll) / easing;
if(text_mc.y > minScroll)
text_mc.y = minScroll;
targetScroll = minScroll;
else if(text_mc.y < maxScroll)
text_mc.y = maxScroll;
targetScroll = maxScroll;
scrollPercent = (text_mc.y - minScroll) / (maxScroll -
minScroll);
scroller_mc.y = (scrollPercent * (line_mc.height -
scroller_mc.height)) + line_mc.y
function stopScrolling(event:MouseEvent):void
scrollDirection = 0;
textLoader.load(textFile);
scroller_mc.buttonMode = true;
text_mc.external_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
scroller_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,
dragScroller);
textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textLoaded);
up_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, scrollUp);
down_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, scrollDown);
Help Please

Answer 1

use the trace() function to see if your html-text is loading
correctly and make sure your textfield is html-enabled, though i
don't think that would cause the problem when assigning a htmlText
property.