# Dynamic text not showing up \[renamed\]

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734
**Category:** random
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734 "2006-04-07T10:30:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![andrew\_t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@andrew\_t](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andrew_t)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/1 "2006-04-07T10:30:00Z")

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I have a deadline and am relatively new to flash - I’ve used a tutorial to load dynamic text into a text field using buttons. The code on each button is

on (release) {  
loadText = new loadVars();  
loadText.load(“TEXT1.txt”);  
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {  
if (success) {  
// trace(success);  
newsBox.html = true;  
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;  
}  
};  
}

Obviously button 2 loads “TEXT2.txt” and so on

But I need to scroll it using a dragger rather than up and down buttons provided in the components (whch don’t look great). Can anyone help!!!

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### Author: ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/2 "2006-04-07T10:44:52Z")

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this should be in the flash forum;)

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### Author: ![andrew\_t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@andrew\_t](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andrew_t)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/3 "2006-04-07T10:47:54Z")

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> [@hybrid101](#):
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> this should be in the flash forum;)

But where!?

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### Author: ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/4 "2006-04-07T11:06:27Z")

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what version of flash do you use?

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### Author: ![andrew\_t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@andrew\_t](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andrew_t)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/5 "2006-04-07T11:11:08Z")

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> [@hybrid101](#):
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> what version of flash do you use?

Flash 8 but I’m saving it out in 7!

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### Author: ![Bokke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Bokke](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bokke)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/6 "2006-04-07T11:21:07Z")

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Just post it in the Flash 8 or Actionscript forum 😉  
Does not realy matter witch of those 2, but dont post these questions in random please! (-:

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### Author: ![bootiteq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@bootiteq](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bootiteq)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-not-showing-up-renamed/184734/7 "2006-04-07T11:28:23Z")

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LoadVars();  
not  
loadVars(); (as the tute suggests)

in mx 2004 that is…
