# Large amounts of text pasted stalls Flash(AS3)

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**Created:** [October 19, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/large-amounts-of-text-pasted-stalls-flash-as3/315156 "2010-10-19T06:17:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![iHeartFlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b77776/32.png) [@iHeartFlash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iHeartFlash)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/large-amounts-of-text-pasted-stalls-flash-as3/315156/1 "2010-10-19T06:17:19Z")

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Hi everyone! After reading an interesting article on asynchronous calculations written by Senocular I’ve been given a viable solution as to how to parse copious amounts of text through an input textfield. My problem however is when I actually do paste a huge amount of text into the textfield, the Flash Player will freeze for about 5-10 seconds before becoming active once again. My question is, is there some way that this “stall/freeze” could be mitigated? Or at least, could the inputting of text be somehow asynchronously handled? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated - THANKS :ne:

PS: just to give you an idea, the sample text I’m trying to paste into the input textfield has about 400,000 characters spread across about 13,000 lines.