# Am I asking too much for imported text?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-asking-too-much-for-imported-text/173549>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 27, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-asking-too-much-for-imported-text/173549 "2005-12-27T03:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![benFusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@benFusion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/benFusion)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-asking-too-much-for-imported-text/173549/1 "2005-12-27T03:53:10Z")

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OK. I’m experimenting with some things and I really want to make this site truly dynamic. At the moment I have all the data inside an XML file, which gets loaded and parsed into an array in Flash. Good.

Then I take that data and create a string with HTML tags for bold/italics for date and time and subject. That’s great.

Then I put that text into a createTextField and it loads OK, everything is fine. But then I try to mask it (so I can put a scrollbar on it) and it just dissapears.

I try to embed the fonts. I’ve tried the put the font in the library. The best I can do is limiting it’s height and using textField.scroll++ which neither smooth nor sexy.

I’m wondering if I’m simply asking too much of Flash in this situation, or if I forgot some technique that would make it work. I’ve been staring at this for over an hour now and I simply can’t figure it out.

Thanks in advance for any help 🙂