# Scrollpane question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollpane-question/252441>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 20, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollpane-question/252441 "2008-02-20T06:53:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracksuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@tracksuit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tracksuit)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollpane-question/252441/1 "2008-02-20T06:53:01Z")

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this is probably not a difficult question, but im trying to get text into my scrollpane, essentially what i want to do is be able to dynamically load a picture with text next to it into a scrollpane and be able to just keep adding more in using xml.

probably the easiest way to explain it would be to imagine a cd collection with the cd name next to it and each new one i get i add to the xml file.

now im not the greatest at actionscript so i went straight to kirupas tutorial and have been nutting over it for the last week.

i can manage to create text fields along with the movie clips involved however i havent been able to populate them with any text. ive started off just adding in static text until i get that working and then from there id substitute the xml information in once it was working.

ive googled the world and scoured these forums and i just cant get the hang of it.

any help would be greatly appreciated. the flash file i used is simply the one that came with the tutorial and below is the code with what i have so far.

cheers!

```auto
var i:Number=0;
var mcMain:MovieClip;
var txtname = new Array();
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

fmt.bold = true;
fmt.font = "emb";
fmt.size = 24;

function init() {
    //empty movie clip in library with linkage name "scrollMovieClip"
    scrollPane.contentPath = "scrollMovieClip";
    mcMain = scrollPane.content;
}
init();

btnAdd.onRelease = function() {
    //attaching blueMovie to the content location stored in mcMain
    mcMain.attachMovie("blueMovie", "blue"+i, mcMain.getNextHighestDepth(), {_y:50*i+5, _x:5});
    i = txtname.length;
    txtname* = "txt" + i;
    mcMain.createTextField(txtname*,mcMain.getNextHighestDepth(), 5, 50*i+5, 100,100);
    mcMain.txtname*.setNewTextFormat(fmt);
    mcMain.txtname*._rotation = 0;
    mcMain.txtname*._alpha = 50;
    mcMain.txtname*.autoSize = true;
    mcMain.txtname*.embedFonts = true;
    mcMain.txtname*.text = "blah blah blah";
    i++;
    scrollPane.invalidate();
};

btnRemove.onRelease = function() {
    if (i != 0) {
        i--;
        removeMovieClip("scrollPane.spContentHolder.blue"+i);
        scrollPane.invalidate();
    }
}

```