Refreshing a movie clip

Can you show an example of what you mean?  Ideally an FLA if possible.

I've uploaded an example at http://www.boredatuni.com/refresh.html
from which you can also download the fla.  I *think* i may be referencing the text box incorrectly, although I don't know how.

Thanks for your time

I'm afraid it's because you dont have the text component:

mc1.mc2.tb_txt

on frame 1 of your movieclip.  You can't reference it otherwise.

The best you can do is to hide it (or the mc it's in) until it's in the state that you want it to show.

The reason the fla you posted isn't working is because your setting the value BEFORE the movive clip has been loaded. For example put a trace("1"); in your mc2 on frame 2 and a trace("2"); on the first frame of the root movie after the gotoAndPlay(2); . In your output you'll notice that it puts a 2 before it puts a 1.

To fix theres a wide range of solutions. Possibly on mc2 when it reaches frame2 call a function that places the word "test" in the box, or on load the text gets loaded in. The input box isn't instantiated until the movie gets to that frame and thus since it goes to the next command before even getting to frame 2 it can set an object with that variable but it can't exactly process that data into the textinput because it doesn't exactly "exist" yet.

I forgot, I also changed the code to:

myStyle = new TextArea.StyleSheet();
myStyle.load("styles.css");
myStyle.onLoad = function(success) {
      if (success) {
            trace("loaded");
            TextHolder.styleSheet = myStyle;
      }
};
thisText = new LoadVars();
thisText.load("example.txt");
thisText.onLoad = function(success) {
      if (success) {
            TextHolder.text = thisText.myText;
      }
};


but my statement above still stands

D'oh - ignore my last post, as it's strangely irrelevent.  Brain isn't working

thank you both for your input.  Now i've learnt that it's not working because the text box doesn't actually "exist" when i'm trying to populate it, i think i will use the setInterval method to put the text in the box (just a first attempt, i may decide on another way later)...

mc1.mc2.gotoAndStop(2);
a = setInterval(addText,200);
function addText() {
      mc1.mc2.tb_txt.text = "TEST";
      clearInterval(a);
}

Looks like a decent solution to me - I hadn't noticed your gotoAndStop, so I didn't get to the crux of your problem