# Cannot use LoadVariablesNum variables outside of textboxes **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [February 15, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-use-loadvariablesnum-variables-outside-of-textboxes/304857 "2010-02-15T16:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![losergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@losergeek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/losergeek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-use-loadvariablesnum-variables-outside-of-textboxes/304857/1 "2010-02-15T16:50:28Z")
Does anybody know any reason why I can’t use variables loaded from a text file using loadVariablesNum anywhere but in the Var field of a text box? If I try this: \*The loadVariablesNum (“textfile.txt”,0); \*it loads the text \*variable1=3.14159&variable2=cow \*from the text file, and if I make 2 dynamic text boxes with the Var parameter as variable1 and variable2, they’d have “3.14159” and “cow” show up in them when I run the script. So I know that the textfile is being read and the variables are being loaded. But if I try newvar1=variable1; newvar2=variable2; in my code, and then put newvar1 and newvar2 in my textbbox Var, I get nothing in them. I should be able to assign the newvar variable the same value as variable1, but I can’t. trace (variable1); should output the text “3.14159” when run, but it displays “undefined” every time. Every site I have been to says I should be able to access my loaded variable values simply by using variable1, or \_root.variable1, or \_level0.variable1, but none of these work any differently. I can assign an instance name to the textbox and then assign a value to that instance name, and if I do that, assuming the instance name is “box”) box.text = cow; then I can get the textbox to display “cow”. If I try the variable box.text = variable1 I get nothing. Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work? Thanks!