# Loading dynamic text w/ ListBox **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005 "2002-12-02T21:43:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daVoodooChile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@daVoodooChile](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/daVoodooChile)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/1 "2002-12-02T21:43:37Z")
Hey all-- brand steeking newbie here. I haven’t been able to figure out the answer to this issue with the other posts/tutorials, but there’s a good chance I saw it and didn’t know it. Anyway, here goes: I’d like to create a ListBox to change the source of a dynamic text box. Big picture, this will be for the lyrics section of a musician’s site-- in the ListBox go the names of the songs, and when someone clicks a song, the lyrics are displayed in the dynamic text box. I’ve got a textbox (“Lyric”) and a ListBox (“lyriclist”), but I can’t figure out how to put them together to change the source of the box. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks all– ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/2 "2002-12-03T04:12:44Z")
Did you try the components tutorials? Might give you some ideas 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/3 "2002-12-03T04:22:04Z")
I did look at the components tutorials, but I’m not sure what to apply to this situation. Specifically, I can’t figure out how to change the source of a dynamic text box. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/4 "2002-12-03T04:27:21Z")
There’s a combobox tute where you’ll find pretty much what you want. I think. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/5 "2002-12-03T04:43:50Z")
Sorry, ilyaslamasse-- I’m really not sure what tutorial I’m looking at for a Combo Box. Is it in the MX Section? Thanks, JT ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/6 "2002-12-03T04:54:26Z")
Oups, it was a listbox tute :beam: [Search](http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=00040c2f-sp00000000&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=listbox) pom 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/7 "2002-12-03T06:07:49Z")
Ah yes-- I’ve looked at this one for a while. My confusion is this: The listbox tute shows how to display sections of set text as you click on the menu items. I want to use the menu items to call external text in a dynamic text box. For example: I click on menu item “Mac’n’Cheese.” Textbox displays the file “Mac’n’Cheese.txt”, which contains my mother’s recipe for Macaroni and Cheese that I can update on a regular basis as she changes her margarine substitute regularly. I have to believe that as powerful as Flash MX is, I don’t have to go in and type the whole recipe into the code every time I want to change it, no? Thanks– ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-dynamic-text-w-listbox/9005/8 "2002-12-03T06:12:10Z")
Well, no, off course, but as I said, everything is in the tute. If you have problem importing text, there’s a tute about that also (something called scrolling imported text or something like that). pom 🙂