# Text Cycling Effect, from external text file?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-cycling-effect-from-external-text-file/121858>\
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**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-cycling-effect-from-external-text-file/121858 "2004-09-08T02:43:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![audible\_melody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@audible\_melody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/audible_melody)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-cycling-effect-from-external-text-file/121858/1 "2004-09-08T02:43:16Z")

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Does any one know how I’d alter the actionscript in the .fla attached so it would load text from an external .txt file? Yet still keep the same effect?