Dynamic External File Access

[Hex]

Ok.... so... complicated enough title, simple enough question.

Can flash go to out to a folder, a website, whatever, copy the data from the file, and hold it as a string or whatever it may be while also updating whatever you want to show on screen?

[Lui]

so your thinking of making a news thingy?

[Hex]

Nah, actually, i'm trying to integrate flash and java to make a chat program for my school server...

But, since I can't run anything server side, I have to have each client independant of each other.

[Lui]

Nope, sorreh, you would have to depend on TBC on that one.

[arkhan]

look in the flash help files for loadVars and setInterval
then you can experiment a bit, and if you cant get it working come back here..

[The Brown Cow]

The loadVars and XML classes will be your friends.

Make a file named mydata.txt and type this in it:
myString=This is some text to display in Flash

In Flash, you can load it in with loadVars...
loader = new LoadVars();
loader.onLoad = function() {
trace(this.myString);
}
loader.load("http://mydomain.com/mydata.txt");

[Lui]

Yeah, I was going to tell that to Torrent, thats what you gave me for my news thing, but I suppose it would work for other loaders.