Problem adding images to html text box.

Question

This one, like a steering wheel down the trousers, is driving
me nuts....
Source can be downloaded where is says 'herehere' below (not
used to this forum, seems a bit weird.)
I have 2 text boxes on the stage, both are set to 'multiline'
and set to render 'html'.
they are also set to show the contents of the variables html1
and html2 respectively
via the 'Var' field in the property window.(so this is an
Actionscript 2 thing).
the html I'm using is a very basic <img src /> tag.
You can use any small image file you like to try this out,
just change both source file names.
(mine happened to be called bonkers.jpg, but gifs and pngs
seem to be the same).
When I define 'html1' directly, it works fine.
If I define 'html2' directly it works fine,
However if I define html2 via an array, although the content
of both html1 and html2 both seems the same,
(and all the trace code that follows checks this) the second
html box doesn't work.
It took me the best part of a day to figure out it was the
process of transferring from an array
that was causing the issue, but why ? What does an array do
to a string that makes it stop working at html ?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Gaz
here
here

Answer 1

Giving them the same instance name was an error on my part, I
think it happened when I copied the text box across, but even
without the instance names or different instance names, the set-up
only worked when the html didn't come via an array. Perhaps not a
bug, but an anomaly.
I think I need to get out of the practice of using the
preference panel to assign variables to text boxes (something I do
a lot when debugging), and one barrier that's held me back from
switching to AS3. Now you've introduced me to htmlText(), there
will be no holding me back :-)
Thanks again.