# Flash text box thingy

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-text-box-thingy/2134>\
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**Created:** [May 25, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-text-box-thingy/2134 "2002-05-25T11:18:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-text-box-thingy/2134/1 "2002-05-25T11:18:09Z")

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im making a website in flash for a client, but i am having problems with the text box what i want is a text box that can read from a .txt file ( i ahve one already) but what i also want is it to be able to be minimised etc, (i have that too) my problem is that they are in seprate files and i’ve tried putting it into one file but it did not load the text from the .txt file.

Thanks so much if you can help,

p.s if u think u can help post a reply and i can email u the zip with all the fla’s that i havve for this

Thanks again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-text-box-thingy/2134/2 "2002-05-25T12:33:46Z")

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[mailto:joeker@free.fr](mailto:joeker@free.fr)  
i think it’s just the path you need to correct if you embedded one clip into another…