# Difficulty Loading Text from External Sources
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-loading-text-from-external-sources/58948
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-loading-text-from-external-sources/58948 "2004-07-27T10:09:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@OrangeHeart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OrangeHeart)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-loading-text-from-external-sources/58948/1 "2004-07-27T10:09:38Z")
Hello everyone I’m new to the forum and I just wanted to ask for some help. I’m new to flash and I have been working with flash for about a couple of months now and I’m still new to everything especially ActionScript.
I have been working on my first site which is my personal blog and I’m having trouble getting my external text files to load in my dynamic text field. I have even followed the tutorial that is given here and still seem to be doing something wrong. Basically want I want to accomplish is the same results as the tutorial. I would like to have my buttons when clicked to load my text files. This is the swf file that I have been working with: [SWF FILE](http://www.orangeheart.com/gm1.3/work.htm) and these are my current dynamic text settings:
[center] [/center]
This is the altered code that I used from the tutorial page!
```auto
on (release) {
loadText.load("index.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
main.html = true;
main.htmlText = this.index;
}
};
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-loading-text-from-external-sources/58948/2 "2004-07-27T10:40:41Z")
you forgot loadText = new LoadVars();
should look like this:
```auto
on (release) {
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("index.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
main.html = true;
main.htmlText = this.index;
}
};
}
```
Hope it works!
Cheers
MZA
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-loading-text-from-external-sources/58948/3 "2004-07-27T10:47:41Z")
OMG that worked, Thanks!!!