Re: FLASH: Scrollbars on text fields

[Colin Moock]

flashershocker [dot] com

,Internet writes:

>I have this working fine in Flash 4, but have a slight problem.  If the text

>that is input from the file is larger than the size of the text field within

>the movie, there is only one way of viewing the later lines.  That is to

>select the text and scroll down with the arrow keys.


you can also set the currently displayed portion of your text field with the

actionscript properties .scroll and .maxscroll.


.scroll is the topmost displayed line in the viewable region of a text-field

variable. may be set with set variable, eg. set variable: "var1.scroll" = "3"	


.maxscroll returns the number of the lowest line that may be displayed as the

top line in the viewable region of a text-field variable. retrievable by

simply stating the variable name and appending .maxscroll, as in

var1.maxscroll


by combining these properties with actionscript, you could pretty easily make

a button that scrolled a text region up or down. more info on page 201-202 of

the flash 4 manual.


colin


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