# Having Trouble Loading Text from external source, but with a twist

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-trouble-loading-text-from-external-source-but-with-a-twist/120457
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**Created:** [August 24, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-trouble-loading-text-from-external-source-but-with-a-twist/120457 "2004-08-24T14:21:46Z")
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### Author: ![onemiddlefinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7bcc69/32.png) [@onemiddlefinger](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/onemiddlefinger)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-trouble-loading-text-from-external-source-but-with-a-twist/120457/1 "2004-08-24T14:21:46Z")

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Hey,  
Im brand new to this forum and flash in general so be gentle C:-)

Basically I have used the kirupa tutorials for scrolling text as seen on a site like  
[www.wordsfromreuben.com](http://www.wordsfromreuben.com)

and now im trying to use this in conjunction with loading external text from a .txt file. I’ve tried just putting the actionscript from the external text tutorial into the scrolling text file i have done, but it doesnt seem to work or load the external text file.

Can anyone help, it would be really appreciated!  
Thanks a lot  
Ben  
:snug: