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Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1); container.loadMovie("photo.jpg"); container._x = container._y = 50 ; _root.onMouseDown = function () { startDrag ("container",false) ; } _root.onMouseUp = function () { stopDrag () ; }

This tutorial will teach you how to load content from an external text file dynamically into a Flash movie. The Flash Player is capable of dynamically loading various forms of external data such as texts, images, and many other forms at run time. Viewing your content this way makes the updating process of your website much easier as you do not have to generate new SWF files using your source FLA each time you want to update the content and instead simply edit those small text files that should have all the written content of your website. The text in the following example is being loaded at real time from a separate text file located on the server.

129 Intermediate Flash Compatibility: Flash MX Only (Does not work in Flash 5 and for Flash 8/MX04: click here)

There is a Library of Components that come with Flash and these components have predefined tasks. This makes the build/development of your Flash Movie quicker and easier. As you can see form the illustrations below they include things like Buttons, Check Boxes, Scroll bars etc. In this tutorial we are going to use the Buttons and Progress Bar.