Kyle -
I think you'd be closer to home if you stayed native to Director, and just
used a list that contained your info and wrote that list to a single text
file. You're actually focusing on abstracting the wrong (imo) part by
creating your flash sprite ... what you really want to do is concentrate on
your data handling... I think you're probably doing the same thing w/ your
flash sprite, just not as directly -
If it were me, and it's not, so blah, but anyway- I'd write a routine that
puppets the 30 or so sprites onto the stage (just cause i hate authoring
repetitive things), pull in a property list from your text file, perhaps
formatted something like.. [#november:"a person typed something for
november", #december:"it's snowing near canada", #january:"minnesota is so
fun, i can barely stand it. i just wished it snowed more"...well you get the
idea...anyway...then read and write that list to and from your text file and
populate the 30 boxes like that. If you wanted, you could concentrate all
your 30 boxes for each month in miaws, or filmLoops, or something equally
complicated, but probably isn't necessary. Oh...crud, you might want your
property list to be one more level deep for days, have your 12 months with
data for each day, either:
aList=[#sept:["sometext","someothertext"]]
put aList[#sept][1]
-- "sometext"
or
aList=[#sept:[#day1:["hi"]]]
put aList[#sept][#day1]
-- ["hi"]
hope this starts to help,
Evan
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