# Movie Clips Inside Text Field. How?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-inside-text-field-how/57793
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**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-inside-text-field-how/57793 "2004-07-16T03:53:04Z")
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### Author:  [@Kannan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kannan)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-inside-text-field-how/57793/1 "2004-07-16T03:53:04Z")
Hi everybody,
I am trying to create a flash based LAN Messenger, using flash & third party applications.
My Messenger uses Text Field similar to all the messengers. Also I want to place smileys(moviclips or images) inside the textfield.
As far as I know, there is only one Flash Component called “SmileyTextField” by “Julien” available at [http://www.jolan.org](http://www.jolan.org). But it seems this text field is not
compatible with Flash MX 2004 Pro.
So I want to know whether it is possible to place a moviclip (smileys) inside a textfiled during runtime.
Thank You,
Kannan.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clips-inside-text-field-how/57793/2 "2004-07-16T03:58:14Z")
Unfortunately I have no solution that is neat and tidy but when I was doing something like this a while back I had to make a function that found the location of a smilie code, then it replaced the code with 3 spaces, and another function would continue to trace those spaces and move movie clips in a layer above the text so that the smilies would look like they were in the text. It worked but wasn’t always neat on slower machines. If you find a better solution I would be interested in it also.
Good Luck