# Dynamic Text Box inside Movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-inside-movieclip/204470>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 19, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-inside-movieclip/204470 "2006-10-19T23:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sean1983uk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@sean1983uk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sean1983uk)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-inside-movieclip/204470/1 "2006-10-19T23:56:21Z")

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I have a dynamic text box called “desc\_txt1” which is inside a movieclip called “thumbScroller”

i cant get it to display the text from the xml file, but if i put the dynamic text box on the main time line then it works…

heres what i have:

on maintime line

thumbScroller.desc\_txt1.text = description[p];

and have tried

\_root.thumbScroller.desc\_txt1.text = description[p];

neither work, does anyone know whats going on?

Regards

Sean