# Newbie needs help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 24, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114 "2002-12-24T15:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@garywee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/garywee)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/1 "2002-12-24T15:50:36Z")
Hi all
I’m very very new to flashMX.
I wanna ask:
i have an input text box A.
Now i want to create another box B to duplicate what i type in box A in real-time. That means as soon as i start typing something in box A, box B will display straight away display the same text as box A.
How to do that?
Can i request for a step by step tutorial?
Or if someone is kind enough, can please do an example for me to learn?
I wanna learn so i had u guys will teach me.
Thanx for your help in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/2 "2002-12-24T16:05:54Z")
im not sure you can do this but what im sure of is you can type in the a text box and then make a button that when you press it it will display on text b what you typed on text a this i know you can do but the method youre saying is in realtime and im not sure if its possible.
Grim
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/3 "2002-12-24T23:57:22Z")
Hint: Use the onChanged handler on your first textBox. :beam:
pom \<:}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/4 "2002-12-25T00:01:24Z")
sorry.
Dun mind if can explain to me what is onChanged handler?
I’m really very new to MX. ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/5 "2002-12-25T00:23:50Z")
this should help you garywee
thank you very much pom … all the credit is yours 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/6 "2002-12-25T00:31:43Z")
Thank you Very Very Much.
Thanx to grimdeath, ilyaslamasse and especially kax.
This is what i’m looking for. I’ll learn from the example.
Really thanx you alot.
Ps: Superb forum! Fast replay too.
\<:} Merry Christmas!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/7 "2002-12-25T00:35:23Z")
Nice example, Kax 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-help/10114/8 "2002-12-25T01:01:36Z")
hey pom … as you can see I didn’t add useless code this time … [size=1]I hope[/size] 😛