SWF & Dynamic Text

Hi all,
I'm getting myself a little confused. I think this is so easy
I am missing it.
My Flash file contains some dynamic text fields. When I
publish the Flash file I get the swf, great.
But, how do I publish the file that contains the dynamic text
changes?
THX.

A couple of guesses are:
1. If the HTML document you got with the purchased template
was the same
name as the movie, then by republishing the Flash movie you
could have
overwritten the HTML doc that contains the Javascript. If
this is the case,
then you needed to turn of publishing the html
File->Publish Settings and
hopefully you have the original copy.
2. You may not be using the correct HTML file. How are you
testing? If you
are using File->Publish Preview as mentioned above Flash
may be generating
an HTML document for the testing convenience and you may not
be using the
correct HTML with the Javascript in it.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"DesignBetty" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:e269d1$pp5$[email protected]..
Thanks for responding. Please excuse my "neophytness" about
this. Javascript
and php seems so easy right now.
Let me explain a bit clearer.
I am updating an old template that was purchased (groan).
The fla file has
dymanic text boxes. I also have the swf file. And then I have
another html
doc
that stands alone. This html doc allows me to changes the
variables in the
swf
doc.
Sounds great, huh?
But I have made a few simple changes in the FLA doc (font,
position, etc).
Now
when I republish it I get a SWF doc that doesn't reference
the html doc that
lets me change those variables.
Am I missing a step?
thx!

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