# Dynamic scrolling text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-scrolling-text/252643>\
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**Created:** [February 22, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-scrolling-text/252643 "2008-02-22T01:15:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jimbo\_James](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jimbo\_James](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jimbo_James)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-scrolling-text/252643/1 "2008-02-22T01:15:53Z")

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Hi All,

Firstly - let me appolagise - I am a nube when it comes to programing flash and this is my first post so here it goes:

I would like to create some flash that displays a word that scrolls from left to right accross the screen (this bit I can do) but I would like to use approx 10 different words. I can do this using 10 slides but I was wondering if I could get flash to look at a .txt file and cycle through the words to save me having to create 10 differents text boxes, also - this would mean I can change the text at a later date if I wanted to without having to re-compile.

I have been searching for a few days now but can’t find quite what I am looking for.

Hope I have made sense and I hope that someone knows how???

Thanks in advance,

James