# Controlling a nested movie from an external text file...help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-nested-movie-from-an-external-text-file-help/283202>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 3, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-nested-movie-from-an-external-text-file-help/283202 "2009-03-03T16:47:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-a-nested-movie-from-an-external-text-file-help/283202/1 "2009-03-03T16:47:09Z")

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Hi, new to the forums but hoping you guys can help…i have a nested movie file with a bunch of different icons, each pertaining to a different sport (it’s a scoreboard that can be updated by typing in a text file on the server which gets imported to the swf) i’ve gotten the text to import to the swf file no problem, but what i want to do is give whoever updates the text file the ability to change the icon in the swf by displaying a specific frame in the nested movie (ie: if its a football score, itll show the football icon, etc)  
any thoughts?  
(i’m using as2 in flash cs3 on osx, and go easy because im much more of a artist/designer than a programmer :-\