Disappearing Text

sure I can take a look and see how you've got it structured. And I'm sure you'll do fine, you've already got a good start.

Wow. Thanks cbeech!

That sounds pretty complicated. I'm fairly new to action script so i'll probably screw it up! Would it be too much to ask if I sent you the FLA file and you could put it together for me? Just tell me if it's too much trouble....You have already been very helpful.

Thanks

Kit

Well, let's see. You'd need to pick some 'break points', like at 1000 px or a couple of good spots in your layout. Create some new MCs, and copy everything into them so that all together (end to end) they layout the same as you have them now. Then attach the first in the series with attachMovie, so that it fits into the box, I'm assuming that you already have a mask set up since this was in a MCs before.

I don't know what type of function you're using for the scroller, but it's probably an onEnterFrame or setInterval. Within the code you'll need to check to see if the bottom of the current MC has reached the bottom of the viewing area, when it does, use attachMovie again to bring in the next clip in the series and attach it at the coordinated of the bottom of the first clip. Also you'll need to be checking to see when the bottom of the first clip reaches the top of the view box, when it does, you'll get rid of it with removeMovieClip(). So you just need to set up a check function that runs through however many movieclips you end up with and determines if they are within the view box, and whether the first and last clips have reached the 'end' and then stop the scrolling.

I would set the clips into an array so that you can loop through, and keep track of which clips are currently visible, and which one comes next.

Hmmm, how would I go about doing that do that?

Kit, How about breaking it up into a few clips and attaching/removing them when scrolled in/out of the boxes view.

kglad,

I tried removing the lines of text as you suggested but it remains the same. I even removed 30 lines of text and the text still disappears when I export the movie.

Could I possibly send you the FLA?

Thanks

Kit

sorry (duh to me), wasn't thinking with the 'multiline' static field thing.

yes, that's probably the issue. your movieclip that contains that textfield is probably over 2880.

try removing the last 10 lines of that static textfield and see if it all displays without problem.

The height of static text box is 2865. Close!

But there are 3 columns of static text within the movie clip. Is that a problem?

what's the _height of your static text? if it's greater than 2880, that's a problem.