ok here what i wanna do, i have meter like thing in flash that display the value it reads from an external text file. the same value read is use to move the meter hand to an approximate value in the meter

below is the script

var maxvalue:Number = 700;
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("Text.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
visitors.html = true;
visitors.htmlText = this.myVisitors;
var actualValue:Number = this.myVisitors;
vhand_mc._rotation = (275/maxvalue)*actualValue;
trace (actualValue);

}
}

the problem is the line mark red, now if i were to replace actualValue with a number, the hand does move, which mean the calculation is correct. but if actualValue is use i get 0 in vhand_mc._rotation. but the trace shows that there is value in actualValue

so i am stump on why it doesnt work even though there is number in actualValue. any help would be much appreciated
thanks

dang stupid of me, problem solve hahaha

share the solution.

simple solution actually, the text file should be coded like this:

&myEvents=69&
&myVisitors=263&
&myOrders=3&

i forgot to at the ampersand to the start and end of each variable