# Stumped on some AS in textboxes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stumped-on-some-as-in-textboxes/178167>\
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**Created:** [February 8, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stumped-on-some-as-in-textboxes/178167 "2006-02-08T06:00:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brokoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@Brokoro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brokoro)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stumped-on-some-as-in-textboxes/178167/1 "2006-02-08T06:00:43Z")

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Hello, im trying to make a simple profile for a friend’s site, and im gonna do it in flash, so for convenience sake, im using a list box menu,

im learning from the tutorial given here, my only problem, i dont know the AS to make it display text and not a date, … i tried using a string command but that didnt work much at all… unless i wasnt using it properly

any help on this would really be appeciated…  
thanks