# CreateTextField text location - simple question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createtextfield-text-location-simple-question/127302>\
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**Created:** [November 1, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createtextfield-text-location-simple-question/127302 "2004-11-01T21:43:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Erron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Erron](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Erron)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createtextfield-text-location-simple-question/127302/1 "2004-11-01T21:43:23Z")

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please help me with a simple problem.

im using CreateTextField to get data from php, no problem there, but the placement of the text has be baffled.

here’s what i got:

here.CreateTextField(“t\_txt”, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10);  
here.t\_txt.Size = 12

what i WANT is to put the text in the top middle of the movie but no matter what i change in the number it just moves to strange places in different sizes and sometimes cut in half, heres a screenshot of current one.

![](http://www.warforpeace.net/flashtxt.JPG)

also, one other thing, this number basically keeps track of people in a chatroom, how can i get flash to refresh itself every few seconds to ensure it has the latest number, just have 2 frames the same and loop them?