# Newbie doing complex(?) things

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**Created:** [December 5, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-doing-complex-things/130481 "2004-12-05T16:42:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dr\_poof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dr\_poof](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dr_poof)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-doing-complex-things/130481/1 "2004-12-05T16:42:53Z")

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I’m having some trouble with loading external content into a flash movie, and I’m looking for some plain english “click here, do this” kind of help.

I have a flash movie with some buttons I have drawn up on the left for a menu, and a large rectangle I have drawn on the right for content to appear in.

I want to load this content from an external file, hopefully HTML, but formatted text if necessary, and display it in the window (kind of like a browser window).

I can’t seem to figure out how to do this, even after reading the turorials things don’t look the same to me as what is being described.

Specific problems I need help with at this point:

1: when I drop a scroller onto my newly drawn dynamic text box, it does not snap to the edges, but simply puts a scroller on top of my text box and de-selects the text box underneath.

2: I don’t know how to specify what external text file/html file to pull content from.

Thanks in advance.