In this simple tutorial, we will introduce dynamic contents. This is quite an useful feature especially for web sites that requires a lot of updates, like a news section of an Flash web site where there will be constants of updates. The main concept is direct Flash to load the contents outside of your Flash file into the movie.

First we will need a text file to import from. Create a text file with your content inside, and save it as text.txt. Be sure to save it to the same directory as your Flash file.

NOTE: Be sure to start your text file with this line:

textField =

Open Flash and create a new movie. Select the Text Tool and Create a text box. Right click on the text box and select properties. Select the tab dynamic on the text option menu. And name the text box with the instance of textbox. Then find the form that said variable: or var:, and type in textField.

Finally, right click on the first frame and select actions, this will bring up the action script window. Copy the following script and paste it in the blank space of the action script window.

loadVariables ("text.txt", "textbox");
}