Can I use text defined in external source (xml, database etc)?
You can use text which has been defined as variable. Activate the “Use Dynamic Input” in the custom UI and instead of the text type the name (and correct tree-level) of the variable you want to call as to-be-shown-text. This way you can assign any text which has been set by means of actionscript (defined as a variable value) as the to be displayed text for a component. If you read in variables through xml, asp, php, javascript, from .txt file or other ways, these can be used as text for the components. Example: Define in first frame of main timeline myVar = “hello world”; Now place any effect on stage and in the textfield modify This is a dummy text. to _parent.myVar and activate the “Use Dynamic Input” checkbox.. test your movie and it should show “hello world” as effect text. NOTICE: Preview in Parameter Panel will not work anymore when using “Use Dynamic Input” since it is not possible to extract the content while in runtime authoring environment.
