# Trouble with changing variables

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-changing-variables/87512>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 21, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-changing-variables/87512 "2005-04-21T16:30:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Firescone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Firescone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Firescone)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-changing-variables/87512/1 "2005-04-21T16:30:16Z")

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I’m designing a website and I have run into a bit of a snag.  
I have a movieclip inside of a button that scrolls a dynamic text in a way that it looks like a news ticker. The dynamic text gets its information from an external xml file.  
What I want to set up is a row of buttons, and when you roll over a button the description for that button will scroll in the movieclip i mentioned above.  
I thought it would be a simple use of variables to change which text is loaded into the scroller, but I cant seem to get my variable to change on rollover.

If I declare my variable to be a certain number in the first frame, the text scrolls fine, but when I try to have the variable changed by a rollover on a button or simply declared when rolling over the button nothing happens.

Any ideas why this might be or how I can fix it?