# Moving to position in dynamic text

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-to-position-in-dynamic-text/170682
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**Created:** [November 28, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-to-position-in-dynamic-text/170682 "2005-11-28T20:19:36Z")
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### Author: ![misterpatrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@misterpatrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/misterpatrick)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-to-position-in-dynamic-text/170682/1 "2005-11-28T20:19:36Z")

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Hello all,

I am working with a block of dynamic text that is being loaded from an external text file. Imagine it looks like this:

Image 1:  
Some text here.

Image 2:  
Some text here.

Image 3:  
Some text here.

You get the idea. This text is in a scrolling text box. What I’d like to happen is when the function gotoImage2() is executed, the text scrolls the down to Image 2 so that it is at the top of the text box. Make sense?

Seems like a variable needs to be embedded in the text file, but I have no idea how to do the rest.

I also can’t get any of my custom scollers to work. They all embed the text in a masked mc. Is this the only way to scroll dynamic text? Any good pointers to smooth text scroller tutorials would be appreciated.

I’m using Studio 8.