# Problem loading external text. Anyone heard of this?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-loading-external-text-anyone-heard-of-this/90095
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**Created:** [May 14, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-loading-external-text-anyone-heard-of-this/90095 "2005-05-14T12:56:35Z")
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### Author: ![fantim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@fantim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fantim)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-loading-external-text-anyone-heard-of-this/90095/1 "2005-05-14T12:56:35Z")

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Here’s my problem I made a movie that loads an external swf file. The external swf then in return is supposed to load text from a txt document. The problem is that the text box is appearing but not the text. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?  
[http://www.fantim.org/flas/041405.fla](http://www.fantim.org/flas/041405.fla) is my source file and  
[http://www.fantim.org/comic/](http://www.fantim.org/comic/) contains the finished results. I’m stumpped and stuck so if anyone has any idea let me know. Thanks.