In Flash 8, how can you the get data you inputted in a textfield

Question

i need the data from the text field to greet the user

Answer 1

Let's say your textfield has the instance name of username, then just access it's 'text' property.

username.text

I don't know much AS, but in a normal a normal language such as Visual C#, I would just use:

label1.Text = "Greetings, " & username.Text;