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  • brentjlaf
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Post December 11th, 2007, 8:28 pm

I am trying to get external text files to load depending on what day of the week it is,

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var dateNow = new Date();

if (dateNow=!Sun) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("sunday.txt");
}


if (dateNow=!Mon) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("monday.txt");
}


if (dateNow=!Tue) {

    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("tuesday.txt");
}

if (dateNow=!Wed) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("wednesday.txt");
}

if (dateNow=!Thu) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("thursday.txt");
}


if (dateNow=!Fri) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("friday.txt");
}

if (dateNow=!Sat) {
    myData = new LoadVars();
    myData.onLoad = function() {
        myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
    };
    myData.load("saturday.txt");
}
  1. var dateNow = new Date();
  3. if (dateNow=!Sun) {
  4.     myData = new LoadVars();
  5.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  6.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  7.     };
  8.     myData.load("sunday.txt");
  9. }
  12. if (dateNow=!Mon) {
  13.     myData = new LoadVars();
  14.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  15.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  16.     };
  17.     myData.load("monday.txt");
  18. }
  21. if (dateNow=!Tue) {
  23.     myData = new LoadVars();
  24.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  25.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  26.     };
  27.     myData.load("tuesday.txt");
  28. }
  30. if (dateNow=!Wed) {
  31.     myData = new LoadVars();
  32.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  33.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  34.     };
  35.     myData.load("wednesday.txt");
  36. }
  38. if (dateNow=!Thu) {
  39.     myData = new LoadVars();
  40.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  41.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  42.     };
  43.     myData.load("thursday.txt");
  44. }
  47. if (dateNow=!Fri) {
  48.     myData = new LoadVars();
  49.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  50.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  51.     };
  52.     myData.load("friday.txt");
  53. }
  55. if (dateNow=!Sat) {
  56.     myData = new LoadVars();
  57.     myData.onLoad = function() {
  58.         myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
  59.     };
  60.     myData.load("saturday.txt");
  61. }
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Post December 11th, 2007, 8:28 pm

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Post December 15th, 2007, 5:25 pm

well I see two problems off the top. First the Date object returns a number not text for the date so Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, etc. Second problem is that your if statements won't work. "=!" isn't valid for what you wrote you want "==" (is equal to) or "!=" (is not equal to). You'll probably have better luck with a case statement instead of a chain of if/else statements.

[code]
var currDate = New Date(); // get date from computer
var currDay = currDate.getDay(); // get day of week from date
var myData = new LoadVars(); // new load vars object

myData.onLoad = function(){
myText_txt.text = this.toString();
}

switch (currDay) {
case 0 :
myData.load("sunday.txt");
break;
case 1 :
myData.load("monday.txt");
break;
case 2 :
myData.load("tuesday.txt");
break;
case 3 :
myData.load("wednesday.txt");
break;
case 4 :
myData.load("thursday.txt");
break;
case 5 :
myData.load("friday.txt");
break;
case 6 :
myData.load("saturday.txt");
break;
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