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Flash CS5 Textfield

The following code creates a textfield and imports text from a text document to fill the textfield.
Then, when the playhead hits frame 30, it triggers the 2nd part of the code to replace the text.
All that works.

However, when I navigate back to frame 1, it's creating a new textfield on top of the old one (which is what my code tells it to do).
However, I just want it to create the textfield once, then on all subsequent visits to frame 1, just replace the text like it does in frame 30.

Any ideas?

Start AS3==============================
var TextURL:String;

//Setup Text Box to load external text file
var myTextLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var myText:TextField = new TextField();

TextURL = "text/introduction.txt";
myTextLoader.load(new URLRequest(TextURL));
myTextLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

function onLoaded(e:Event):void
{
      myText.text = e.target.data;
      addChild(myText);
      addChild(mySb);
}

//THE FOLLOWING CODE SITS ON FRAME 30

TextURL = "text/texture.txt";
myTextLoader.load(new URLRequest(TextURL));

END AS3==========================

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tlengnick

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Hey g3nu1n3, thanks for the speedy response.

I ended up doing just what you suggested (see code below). Is there anything I could do differently that would be "cleaner" (less overhead)?

START AS3================

//Format Text
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
if (myText)
{
      trace("Doing nothing because there's already a textfield");
}
      else
      {
      var myText:TextField = new TextField();
      myText.visible = false;
      mySb.visible = false;
      txtBG_mc_i.visible = false;
      }

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