# Text file Object color change

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-object-color-change/109231
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 3, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-object-color-change/109231 "2004-05-03T16:03:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![gary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@gary](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gary)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-object-color-change/109231/1 "2004-05-03T16:03:34Z")

</div>

Please help!

I need to know if there is anyway to create a text file or something external, that I can set the properties of a symbol with. and what kind of action script that I could achive this goal with. if anyone knows of a tutorial it would be helpfull…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-object-color-change/109231/2 "2004-05-05T17:14:49Z")

</div>

Thanks, This helps, at least I have a starting point now…

How would I load multiple colors into multiple symbols from one file?

Something that works like this it calls input information for multiple fields from a single .txt…

[FONT=Courier New]  
[size=2]  
loadText = new LoadVars();  
loadText.load(“data.txt”);  
loadText.onLoad = function() {  
name.text = this.name;  
email.text = this.email;  
location.text = this.location;  
};  
[/size]  
[/FONT]

Gary