# Writing to a Dynamic Text Box?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 8, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460 "2002-10-08T00:34:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@The\_Bobcat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Bobcat)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460/1 "2002-10-08T00:34:16Z")
Just wondering if anyone knew how to have a flash program that you can wright whatever say “News” to a .txt file?
The way I have it set up is, you enter a password, then it loads a screen where you can update the news as you please. And is will wright over whatever is in the .txt file. Is this possible? Thanks in advance.:cowboy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460/2 "2002-10-08T01:06:07Z")
I use blogger to write to a txt file and then load that in a dynamic text box. Works nice for a news section. However if you have a way of updating your txt file already then who needs blogger 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460/3 "2002-10-08T01:14:48Z")
Thanks byis,
I have no clue what blogger is, but the purpose I am trying to achive here is I made a website for my pops company and it is easy just to dl the text file and edit it then upload it. But no so easy for people who rarely use a comp. So I would like to have a flash page that I could enter a url and then enter a pass and if it was correct load the screen to enter text. Then have a button say “send” that would wright all the text on the screen to the .txt file. Also would be nice to implement “text=” into the code so you do not have to type it everytime.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460/4 "2002-10-08T01:27:52Z")
Ok, then blogger would work great for what your trying to do. First go to [Blogger](http://www.blogger.com/) and sign up an account - its free. I have an example below on how to setup the blogger template and then the AS needed in Flash. Hope this helps.
**Example Blogger Template**
blogtext=\\\ \<$BlogItemBody$\> br br font color="#999999"
Posted by \<$BlogItemAuthor$\> on \<$BlogItemDateTime$\>
/font br br br \
Note: I left out the \<\> tags on the html so it would show up on the forum.
**Text Field Settings**
Instance Name = scroller
Dynamic Text
Render Text as HTML
**Action Script**
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“[http://xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.txt](http://xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.txt)”);
// creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.blogtext;
};
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/writing-to-a-dynamic-text-box/6460/5 "2002-10-08T02:03:58Z")
thanks again byis,
Thanks a kewl setup they have. I may give it a try if this doesn’t work.
I finally got it set up now where you can enter a pass.
If correct make it go to a certain frame where I can enter whatever text I want. Now if I can just get it to wright it to the .txt file I want on the server it will be all good.