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September 30, 2009
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how do i make a scrolling text box?

  • September 30, 2009
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hi, i'm looking to make a text box that the user can control the scrolling, i've made it how i want it to look already, but i haven't got a clue where to start as to how to make it actually work.

here's how i've got it set up so far, okay this is gonna take some explaining:

i've got the document made up in AS2, the movieclip known as 'Philosophy_tween' is on the main timeline, and inside that movieclip are two more child movieclips, one for the text and another for the scrollbar.

the text movieclip is set to scroll upwards, behind a masking layer using a motion tween on the parent movieclip, whereas the scrollbar movieclip motion tweens (inside itself) the scroller button. look at the attached image.

both motion tweens have a stop(); script at the beggining.

i don't know what to do after this though, so please help, thanks in advance!

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Correct answer Ned Murphy

If you download the file linked in the initial message of the following posting, you will see a different approach that may be simpler for you to manage.  Just rename the file to have an "fla" extension to open it in Flash.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498506?tstart=60

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September 30, 2009

If you download the file linked in the initial message of the following posting, you will see a different approach that may be simpler for you to manage.  Just rename the file to have an "fla" extension to open it in Flash.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498506?tstart=60

September 30, 2009

that way does look alot easier, but it doesn't let me have different text formatting in the text field or use a sliding scroller button, both of which i'm using. is there any way i could adapt this technique to allow for these as well?