# Help?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help/238893>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 16, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help/238893 "2007-09-16T20:52:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![markymark01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@markymark01](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/markymark01)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help/238893/1 "2007-09-16T20:52:39Z")

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hi guys, im hoping u can shed some light on the subject.

im trying to build some buttons and text fields on the fly. which to be honest i should be able to do based on your walk throughs(which i have to say, have helped me alot in the past so cheers :thumb2:)  
the problem is, is that i am trying to make the textfield text represent what is in an array position…dont know if i have explained that properly but here is my code, hopefully it will explain what it is im trying to do

```auto

for(i=1;i<8;i++){
        
        var bcoordinates = bpos*;
        var bname = array*;
        trace(bname);
        
        _root.createEmptyMovieClip("button"+i, 100+i);
        _root["button"+i].lineStyle(0, 0x820F26, 60, true, "none", "square", "round");
        _root["button"+i].beginFill(0xFF0000, 100);
        _root["button"+i].lineTo(120, 0);
        _root["button"+i].lineTo(120, 30);
        _root["button"+i].lineTo(0, 30);
        _root["button"+i].lineTo(0, 0);
        _root["button"+i].endFill(-25, -10);
        _root["button"+i]._x = 55;
        _root["button"+i]._y = bcoordinates;
        
        _root.createTextField("button"+i, 1, 0, 5, button.width, 24); 
        _root["button"+i].text = bname;
        
        
    }

```

just to clear some things up, bpos is an array containing y co-ordinates, array is an array that contains the text that i want to put into the textfield. setting the y co-ordinates works a dream, but setting the text to go in the field doesnt and the array contains the text because i have traced it(as u can tell).

as u can tell it isnt very fancy code and it doesnt doo too much but it would be much appreciated if anyone were to be able to help.