# Flash Var to Dynamic Text Field

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-var-to-dynamic-text-field/288380>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 14, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-var-to-dynamic-text-field/288380 "2009-05-14T22:32:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_webb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@matt\_webb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matt_webb)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-var-to-dynamic-text-field/288380/1 "2009-05-14T22:32:48Z")

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Let me start off like most AS3 noobies and say sorry for the following question that might seem trivial. ![](http://webdesignermag.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif)

I have a 3 word phrase that needs to be in my flash movie, and it needs to be localized. I’m using an external AS file for all my code. Figured I would just make a flash var and pass our string value in that way. So I made a dynamic text field, gave it an instance name of “mytextfield” which is in a MC called “detail\_mc”.

Just for kicks I tested my code on the stage just on a keyframe, this was the code:

```auto
var myText:String;
if (mytext == undefined) myText = "No Value Entered";
mytextfield.text = myText;

```

That worked for my test. So I took this over to my AS file and there is just no magic happening. I’m not exactly sure whats the problem but hoping its a simple fix. I’ve been looking for a few hours but nothing has helped

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance for any replies.