# Help: How to change/hide text while external text is loading

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-change-hide-text-while-external-text-is-loading/262866
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-change-hide-text-while-external-text-is-loading/262866 "2008-06-10T17:23:05Z")
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### Author: ![justlizzay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@justlizzay](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/justlizzay)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-change-hide-text-while-external-text-is-loading/262866/1 "2008-06-10T17:23:05Z")

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Hi. I’m not an actionscript person and I got this from someone else on the forum a while back but I can’t seem to find the original post. I was wondering what I would have to change in order to get rid of this text ([COLOR=darkred]\_level0.scrolltext.filltext) [/COLOR]that shows up while the external text file is loading. It looks really unprofessional.

Here is the code and I’m assuming its the last line of code that’s doing it but again I really have no idea:

```auto
 
stop();
var loadtext:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
loadtext.load("home.txt");
scrolling = function () 
{
 var scrollht:Number = scrolltrack._height;
 var boxht:Number = scrollbox._height;
 var scrollarea:Number = scrollht-boxht;
 var ms:Number = filltext.maxscroll;
 var scale:Number = (ms-1)/scrollarea;
 var ypos:Number = scrolltrack._y;
 var textpos:Number = filltext.scroll;
 var left:Number = scrolltrack._x;
 var top:Number = scrolltrack._y;
 var right:Number = scrolltrack._x;
 var bottom:Number = (scrolltrack._y+(scrollht-boxht));
 var ymove:Number = 0;
 var textmove:Number = 0;
 
 scrollbox._y = ypos;
 
 scrollbox.onPress = function() 
 {
  startDrag(this, false, left, top, right, bottom);
  this.onMouseMove = function() 
  {
   ymove = (ypos-this._y);
   textmove = (Math.round(ymove*scale));
   filltext.scroll = textpos - textmove;
  };
  scrollbox.onMouseUp = function() 
  {
   stopDrag();
   delete this.onMouseMove;
   ypos = this._y;
   textpos = filltext.scroll;
  };
 };
 if (ms==1) 
 {
  scrollbox._visible = false;
  scrolltrack._visible = false;
 } 
 else 
 {
  scrollbox._visible = true;
  scrolltrack._visible = true;
 }
};
loadtext.onLoad = function (success)
{
 if (success)
 {
  filltext=loadtext.filltext;
  scrolling();
 }
 else
 {
  trace ("not loaded");
 }
};

```