# Need help targetting txt in a movie in a movie

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 3, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-targetting-txt-in-a-movie-in-a-movie/30101 "2003-09-03T23:33:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Psaldorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Psaldorn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Psaldorn)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-targetting-txt-in-a-movie-in-a-movie/30101/1 "2003-09-03T23:33:32Z")

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I have my main flash website, inthis I have seperate text-only and flash movie sections, divided by buttons. My problem is that I’m not too hot on linking to embeded tiems, ive tried many variations… heres what I have

External SWF with a dynamic text box only. File is called “TextMov.swf” and the text itself is called “BigText”

It is loaded into a movie clip (used solely as container) called “MainMovie”

The Main movie, with buttons etc. is called “Index”

Text file I would like to load is called "Welcome.txt

If i want to load an external text file into the loaded dynamic text file I used the following code in the first frame of the loaded site.

- I have put sample text into the text file just so I could see if it was loading properly and it does appear once the frame is played, but I will also use this code in buttons (currently loading welcome page automatically)

loadMovie(“textmov.swf”, \_root.MainMovie);  
loadVariables(“Welcome.txt”, “\_root.MainMovie.TextMov.BigText”)

I have tried as many permutations of the last targeting code as I can think of, with and without quotemarks, root etc. Do I need to include parentfile.container.moviename.textfile?

A newbie question basically.

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**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:** [September 4, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-targetting-txt-in-a-movie-in-a-movie/30101/2 "2003-09-04T15:01:58Z")

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The first line of the code loads the movie with the dynamic textbox in it, so it loads teh movie and then populates it.

Or you could point me to a dot-matrix tutorial i heard about but can’t find yet.

I’ve made a clean example of what I’m trying to do, im sure its something simple ive missed but can’t find anyone else asking questions 🙂

[.FLA zip file](http://www.lookingfortrouble.org/loaderfiles.zip)