Thanks for the update :).

Did creating a new CS6 file work for you or did you have the same issues with that new file as with your previous CS5 file?

My thought was it looked like
dialog.text=”newstring”+dialog.text;
dialog.text+=dialog.text;
Of course, if I typed out these commands myself, flash would give me an error message on the second line and ask me to use the more efficient function .append()

I will go experiment with a brand new file that cs6 created itself, as recommended, and I will keep you filled in.

I haven’t personally used CS6 yet however I have been doing some research on this issue for you.

You are correct in that in CS5 dialog.text=”new string” would replace the text in the ‘dialog’ field with “new string”.

Having looked into this issue I cannot find anything which should stop this same code working in Flash CS6. The behaviour that CS6 seems to be exhibiting in your case is that rather than performing dialog.text=”new string” it seems to be performing dialog.text=dialog.text+”newstring”, which is obviously unexpected behaviour.

The main probable cause that I am thinking at the moment is a compatibility issue between Flash CS5 and Flash CS6, relating to the save files.

Could you confirm whether creating a new CS6 file (in Flash CS6), creating a TLF text box and then using the code you provided gives you the same erroneous result you mentioned above or does that work?

If it works correctly in a new CS6 file this would suggest that it is a compatibility issue between CS5 & CS6 save files. I know that previous version upgrades have had compatibility issues regarding save files.

Let me know whether the above works. Once we know the result of the test above I will be able to give you more advice on how to proceed :).

Let me clarify. (I will discuss the brilliantly named tlf text, “dialog”)
In older versions of flash professional, saying dialog.text=”new string”; replaced the text in dialog with the words “new string” Now, it seems to add the new text at the top and double the text every time I tell it to change.

So I get

“Original text
Original text
”
on the first round

“New Text
Original text
Original text
New Text
Original text
Original text
”
the second time, etc. I’m really confused. I haven’t changed the code yet, and I can’t come up with the right keywords to get help from google.