# How to make a variable that points to an external textfile? (supernoob)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-variable-that-points-to-an-external-textfile-supernoob/275902
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-variable-that-points-to-an-external-textfile-supernoob/275902 "2008-11-19T22:00:13Z")
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### Author: ![andriusain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@andriusain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andriusain)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-variable-that-points-to-an-external-textfile-supernoob/275902/1 "2008-11-19T22:00:13Z")

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Hello.

A quick question here!  
I have several external text files that load on click of their respective links into a text field .  
I need to fade out the textfield onClick to then fade it in for the new coming text file. For that I need to make a variable that stores the current page. But the current page is a text file which cannot be tweened so I would need to tween the text field for a specific text file that has been loaded. Can this be done?

I’m puzzled, probably my question is puzzling too, but hope it makes some sense.

Thank you for your help.