# How to rotate a dynamic text box with external text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-rotate-a-dynamic-text-box-with-external-text/180145>\
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**Created:** [February 26, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-rotate-a-dynamic-text-box-with-external-text/180145 "2006-02-26T02:55:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![samsoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@samsoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/samsoner)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-rotate-a-dynamic-text-box-with-external-text/180145/1 "2006-02-26T02:55:17Z")

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Hi, I went to a tutorial at Kirupa that featured how to update your text from outside Flash, by using a regular text file, and a dynamic text box. The actionscript code allows the dynamic text box to display anything from the text file. The code is:

\*\*loadText = new LoadVars();  
loadText.load(“data.txt”);  
loadText.onLoad = function() {  
lineb.text = this.lineb;

};\*\*

The dynamic text box has a Var: titled \*\*lineb \*\*and the instance name is called \*\*lineb \*\*as well.

In the text file, I have:

**lineb=Whatever I wrote.**

I wanted to see if I could experiment with the dynamic text box by rotating it so that the text could be flush with the diagonal side of a triangle. When I rotated the dynamic text box, the text dissappeared! Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Also, no actions were applied directly to the dynamic text file itself.

Thanks