# Adding text to the Photo Gallery
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 28, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532 "2004-08-28T22:03:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Rain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rain)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/1 "2004-08-28T22:03:33Z")
Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone could help me out with adding dynamic text to the photo gallery (the same photo gallery as outlined on this site). Basically, as the picture changes, I also want a dynamic text box to display the title of the photo (or at least the filename). Should be relatively easy, but my programmin skills aren’t the best.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/2 "2004-08-29T01:06:49Z")
Hello
How’s about this:
```php
function caption (text) {
_root.dynamicText = text;
}
```
And everytime you want to call the function just go:
```php
caption ("Here's me taking my bubble bath!")
```
i think that’s right
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/3 "2004-08-29T07:51:02Z")
hmm… but that won’t change everytime a new picture is loaded…
How can I give each individual picture a caption?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/4 "2004-08-29T08:33:54Z")
yes it will…just change the message to something else…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/5 "2004-08-29T08:35:10Z")
eg: Frame1
```php
function caption (text) {
_root.dynamicText = text;
}
caption ("Hello World")
```
Frame 2
```php
caption ("Bye World!")
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/6 "2004-08-29T23:42:08Z")
OK, I see what you mean. The problem is that my images are loaded dynamically and I only use one frame for the slideshow. So all images will appear on one frame, otherwise your idea would work just fine. Any other ideas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2004, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/7 "2004-09-03T09:25:21Z")
Place them in a movieclip?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-text-to-the-photo-gallery/62532/8 "2004-09-03T13:44:34Z")
check out XML.