[DenkouNova]

I'm realizing I often have no idea how to work with the asynchronous environment of flash.

I'm trying to load a text file into a variable, with this simple method.

Actionscript:

public function loadPlainText(strPath:String):String {
  var myLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
  var myText:String;

  myLoadVars.onData = function(src:String) {
	trace("src = " + src);
	myText = src;
  }
  
  myLoadVars.load(strPath);

  trace("myText = " + myText);

  return myText;
}

trace("LPT = " + loadPlainText("a.txt"));

Output goes

Code:

myText = undefined
LPT = undefined
src = *contents of the file*

how can I make sure the return statement is executed after onData?

Thanks a lot in advance