# How would you do "updates"?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-do-updates/108261>\
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**Created:** [April 23, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-do-updates/108261 "2004-04-23T05:22:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-do-updates/108261/1 "2004-04-23T05:22:26Z")

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I’ve just started learning Flash, and I was wondering if it would be really troublesome to have some sorta “updates” section on a personal flash website… So thereotically a user would have to re-download the entire flash swf again just because you added a sentence or two to the updates section?

Is there a way in Flash where you can just put in some actionscript to make it retrieve and display the contents of a txt file (eg: updates.txt)  
Or are there any alternative ways to a solution?

I’m thinking there probably is a solution to this, but I’m just itching too badly to find out the workaround to this. Thanks