# It keeps crashing :(

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/it-keeps-crashing/105306>\
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**Created:** [March 24, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/it-keeps-crashing/105306 "2004-03-24T22:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![imadesigner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@imadesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imadesigner)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/it-keeps-crashing/105306/1 "2004-03-24T22:28:41Z")

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hi  
i’ve been working on a script that loads some text from an external source and places the text into four ‘overflowing’ dynamic text boxes - like a newspaper column. The script works fine, but if the external text is any greater than 700 words (ish) then Flash will crashes! Can anyone suggest a way to improve my script or a alternative - i wish to use approx 1500 words in the final thing!! See script below:

[AS]// load external text:  
\_root.box1.text = “…loading!”;  
var myData = new LoadVars();  
myData.load(“data.txt”);  
myData.onLoad = function(ok) {  
if (ok) {  
box1.text = myData.TextData;  
insertText();  
} else {  
\_root.box1.text = “Error!”;  
}  
};  
insertText = function () {  
inputBoxText = box1.text;  
layoutText = inputBoxText;  
short1 = layoutText;  
[//box1.text](https://box1.text) = layoutText;  
for (i=0; i\<layoutText.length; i++) {  
if (box1.maxscroll != box1.scroll) {  
short1 = short1.slice(0, short1.length-1);  
box1.text = short1;  
} else {  
short2 = layoutText.slice(layoutText.length-i, layoutText.length);  
box2.text = short2;  
break;  
}  
}  
// overflow for box 3:  
for (i=0; i\<layoutText.length; i++) {  
if (box2.maxscroll != box2.scroll) {  
short2 = short2.slice(0, short2.length-1);  
box2.text = short2;  
} else {  
short3 = layoutText.slice(layoutText.length-i, layoutText.length);  
box3.text = short3;  
break;  
}  
}  
// overflow for box 4:  
for (i=0; i\<layoutText.length; i++) {  
if (box3.maxscroll != box3.scroll) {  
short3 = short3.slice(0, short3.length-1);  
box3.text = short3;  
} else {  
short4 = layoutText.slice(layoutText.length-i, layoutText.length);  
box4.text = short4;  
break;  
}  
}  
};  
insertText();[/AS]

Any ideas? Cheers !!