If necessary, feed XML with CDATA tag, on top of setting text field to htmlText.
Miles
At 10:07 AM 1/3/2006, Johannes Nel wrote:
set it to html text as well On 1/3/06, Tom Sakell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all: I've a pesky Flash question, and since it's a new Year, > I'm going to move beyond lurker on this list. So. > > On my site, I use Flash "news" boxes: Scrolling text boxes that are > populated by a TXT file outside the SWF file. They're easy to upload, > assign to others, etc. The coding is simple -- I'm barely using CSS > in the TXT file. > > My problem: It won't allow special characters (apostrophes, %, &). > When reading the text in the scrolling SWF file, everything stops at > the offending character. > > I could really use these characters -- especially the ampersands. > Anyone have an idea of why this is happening, or a work around? > > In the Flash file, I have the text as Dynamic. > > Tom Sakell > > 703.598.6857 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- j:pn _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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