# Sliding Menu & loading text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sliding-menu-loading-text/190734>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 14, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sliding-menu-loading-text/190734 "2006-06-14T10:25:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![pandren](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pandren/32/211_2.png) [@pandren](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pandren)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sliding-menu-loading-text/190734/1 "2006-06-14T10:25:23Z")

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Hey…

Using the sliding menu ( [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/slidingMenu.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/slidingMenu.htm) ) and wanna use the movieclips with external text but i cant seem to get that to work.

Inside content1 I have added on frame 1:  
System.useCodepage = true;  
loadVariables(“news.txt”, “”);

and a dynamic text field.

But i cant get it to load. Any suggestions?