FLASH: Text Scrolling in Flash

[Jason Ogle]

Hello All,


My name is Jason & I'm new to this list.


I came across this tutorial on how "easy" it is to make

scrolling text in flash.  


http://www.builder.com/Graphics/ActionScript/ss03.html


Well, I'm following all the instructions & am still falling short of

success.  I can understand all of the scripting stuff that they are

mentioning & have applied that, however I don't get how do you make

the text field a certain # of lines & still have text underneath

it.  I made my custom text box, but evertime I keep adding text to

it so that it's long enough to scroll, it makes my text box longer so

that there's never anything to scroll to because it's already visible

when I test my movie.. is there some type of masking deal here that needs

to be applied to this?  They didn't mention it very clearly in the

tutorial how to set a text box at a certain size.. etc.. 


Please help.


Jason





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