Problem using layers from another FLA file

Question

Hello
I have an email form in my Flash MX 2004 site here:
http://stevehigham59.7host.com/myFlash/myFlash.html
The form, which consists of three layers and some Action
Script, works fine.
Then I have a site I am trying to customise, so I have
recreated the form layer by layer. I do not get any error messages
from Action Script, but when I try to send myself an email all I
receive is a message entitled 'undefined'.
That is, Flash seems to 'see' the PHP script I have -
otherwise I would not receive any message at all - but it does not
work as my form does in the link above.
I thought, maybe, I had recreated the layers wrongly, so I
did it again, but still no joy.
What could be the problem?
Many thanks.
Steve

Answer 1

In your "Read From Spreadsheet File", you have your delimiter set to "\s", meaning that the VI expects the delimiter between numbers to be a space.
Have you actually looked at the formatting of your text file?  Evidently not.  The delimiter in your text file is a tab...not a space. 
Delete the "\s" input to the VI (a tab delimiter is the default delimiter for "Read From Spreadsheet File") and it'll work fine.  I just did it, and sure enough, it works fine.
The reason that "Read From Spreadsheet" cannot read your .xls file is because a file created with Excel (that is, an .xls file) is a custom Microsoft format, and not a standard text file.  In order to read an .xls file directly, you'll have to use ActiveX.
Hope that helps.
d
Message Edited by DianeS on 02-14-2010 07:46 PM