# Need Help! loading external .txt into child .swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-loading-external-txt-into-child-swf/282044>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-loading-external-txt-into-child-swf/282044 "2009-02-17T02:54:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![adove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@adove](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adove)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-loading-external-txt-into-child-swf/282044/1 "2009-02-17T02:54:12Z")

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[COLOR=red] **I need help please!** [/COLOR] I am working on [http://controlkey.pivotalsolution.com/index.html](http://controlkey.pivotalsolution.com/index.html) project which uses a main3.swf file as the root to load child objects. These child .swf files are loaded with loadMovie() ontop of the parent file. The menu named menu.swf is a dynamically created menu filled with XML text. This text can be controlled by url="" target="" and action="". I need to load external .txt files into a child .swf called textScroller.swf when each button is pressed.

parent = main3.swf  
child = menu.swf  
XML = menu\_default.xml  
child = textScroller.swf  
text = text1.txt  
text = text2.txt