ming text....

[CptDondo]

I am trying to do something that should be simple, but it is giving me
headaches...

I am thing to create a text 'dashboard' in a flash movie for an
industrial interface. Nothing fancy, just a few lines of text.

I've not worked with flash/ming before, so I'm feeling my way through
this...

I have this:

$f = new SWFFont("/lib/flashfonts/Techno.fdb");
$t = new SWFText();
$t->setFont($f);
$t->moveTo(0, 0);
$t->setColor(0xf f, 0xff, 0xff);
$t->setHeight(140) ;
$t->addString("loa ding")

and later

$text = $m->add($t);
$text->moveTo(2450,20 0);

where $m is my movie instance.

Now what I want to do is to change the text every time I loop through
the generation. The main loop iterates every few seconds, so I need
something like this:

delete text in $t
add new text in $t
display updated $t

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to do that....

Even adding something like
$m->remove($text )

results in a blank html document....


Could someone please shed some light on this? Or point me in the
direction of a text turorial for ming morons?

Thanks,

--Yan