# Help a newbie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479 "2006-10-11T12:44:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![phoenixMM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@phoenixMM](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/phoenixMM)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/1 "2006-10-11T12:44:20Z")

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Hi all,  
I am planning on making a flash presentation where if someone was to write some text into a text box and press a button then flash would look up the word that goes with to a picture and show the picture. Only problem is i have no idea how and where i should start?

Any help you can give would be great thanx.

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**Author:** ![salvador\_marley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@salvador\_marley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/salvador_marley)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/2 "2006-10-24T16:47:23Z")

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I tried that but no luck.

What i have is this: my three jpg images in the same directory.

the actionscript you provided on the first frame

An input text field with the instance name of myText

a button with the instance name of myButton

when i type in any of the words such as bug or baseball, nothing happens

I’ve obviously missed something here. I am using flash mx.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/3 "2006-10-24T17:10:01Z")

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Could you attach the flash file?

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**Author:** ![salvador\_marley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@salvador\_marley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/salvador_marley)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/4 "2006-10-24T18:04:54Z")

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file

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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/5 "2006-10-24T20:59:16Z")

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You had a space between “my Button” on the instance name of your submit button.

Change it to myButton 🙂

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**Author:** ![salvador\_marley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@salvador\_marley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/salvador_marley)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/6 "2006-10-24T21:16:40Z")

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doh - homer time digital - sorry

thank you.

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**Author:** ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-a-newbie/203479/7 "2006-10-24T21:28:07Z")

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haha np happens to all of us.