# Problem: cant get bold text to display in swf, must be something simple!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-cant-get-bold-text-to-display-in-swf-must-be-something-simple/276418>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 27, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-cant-get-bold-text-to-display-in-swf-must-be-something-simple/276418 "2008-11-27T00:15:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![flycafemadrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@flycafemadrid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flycafemadrid)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-cant-get-bold-text-to-display-in-swf-must-be-something-simple/276418/1 "2008-11-27T00:15:10Z")

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Hi everyone, first time in here…  
Got this really annoying problem! Just made a text box scroll thing, which is working fine. Only problem is that I need to make some of the text bold in the external .txt file. I’ve been sticking the text in \<b\>here\</b\> but for some reason it doesn’t work and it is driving me crazy! Here is my action script:

var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();  
var textFile:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“text/enlaces.txt”)

var scrollPercent:Number = 0;  
var minScroll:Number;  
var maxScroll:Number;  
var targetScroll:Number = text\_mc.y;  
var easing:Number = 5;  
var scrollAmt:Number = 15;  
var scrollDirection:Number = 0;

function textLoaded(event:Event):void  
{  
text\_mc.external\_txt.htmlText = textLoader.data;  
minScroll = text\_mc.y;  
maxScroll = minScroll - text\_mc.height + mask\_mc.height;  
}

function dragScroller(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
var dragX:Number = line\_mc.x - scroller\_mc.width/2;  
var dragY:Number = line\_mc.y;  
var dragW:Number = 0;  
var dragH:Number = line\_mc.height - scroller\_mc.height;

```
scroller_mc.startDrag(false, new Rectangle(dragX,dragY,dragW,dragH)); 
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDragging);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, setScrollPercent);
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollText);

```

}

function stopDragging(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
scroller\_mc.stopDrag();

}

function setScrollPercent(event:Event):void  
{  
scrollPercent = (scroller\_mc.y - line\_mc.y) / (line\_mc.height - scroller\_mc.height);  
if(scrollPercent \< 0)  
{  
scrollPercent = 0;  
}  
else if(scrollPercent \> 1)  
{  
scrollPercent = 1;  
}  
targetScroll = (scrollPercent \* (maxScroll - minScroll)) + minScroll;  
text\_mc.y -= (text\_mc.y - targetScroll) / easing;  
}

function scrollUp(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
setDirection(scrollAmt);  
}

function scrollDown(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
setDirection(-scrollAmt);  
}

function setDirection(dir:Number):void  
{  
scrollDirection = dir;  
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, scrollText);  
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_UP, stopScrolling);  
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, setScrollPercent);  
}

function scrollText(event:Event):void  
{  
targetScroll += scrollDirection;  
text\_mc.y -= (text\_mc.y - targetScroll) / easing;  
if(text\_mc.y \> minScroll)  
{  
text\_mc.y = minScroll;  
targetScroll = minScroll;  
}  
else if(text\_mc.y \< maxScroll)  
{  
text\_mc.y = maxScroll;  
targetScroll = maxScroll;  
}  
scrollPercent = (text\_mc.y - minScroll) / (maxScroll - minScroll);  
scroller\_mc.y = (scrollPercent \* (line\_mc.height - scroller\_mc.height)) + line\_mc.y  
}

function stopScrolling(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
scrollDirection = 0;   
}

textLoader.load(textFile);  
scroller\_mc.buttonMode = true;  
text\_mc.external\_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;  
scroller\_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN, dragScroller);  
textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textLoaded);  
up\_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN, scrollUp);  
down\_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN, scrollDown);

Help Please