# Roll Over to get text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/roll-over-to-get-text/188739>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/roll-over-to-get-text/188739 "2006-05-10T13:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![thesleuth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thesleuth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thesleuth)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/roll-over-to-get-text/188739/1 "2006-05-10T13:03:07Z")

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On my stage, I have a movieclip, in the movieclip (movieclip A), I have a dynamic text box and {another movieclip with buttons in it} (movieclip B).

How do I rollover a button in movieclip B so that the dynamic text box in movieclip A will show a word. For example, I rollover the ‘News’ button and the text box will show the word ‘news’ I have tried \_root.(variable name) = “News” but it does not work…