Re: FLASH: Scrolling Text?

[Helen Triolo]

Jefferis Peterson wrote:

> 

> Excuse me Helen,  I thought I was just told on this list a little while

> ago that the text fields don't scroll but that they expand to whatever

> amount of text you have in the text field box...

> 

Well, if you set a textfield to multiline and word wrap on, it

automatically sets the scroll properties to work if your text doesn't

fit in the textfield (at least I don't remember doing anything special

other than that).


As the only example I have, on the sockman/flashlist page, I have the

answer in a textfield and I do this to get to the bottom of the

textfield


On (Release)

      Set Variable: "answer.scroll" = answer.maxscroll

End On


and this to get to the top:


On (Release)

      Set Variable: "answer.scroll" = 1

End On


and this in a 2-frame loop to get it to scroll down one line:


      Set Variable: "answer.scroll" = answer.scroll+1


> Am I wrong? So how do you scroll text and /or why would you want to if

> there isn't hidden text in a box?


So you can fit a variable amount of text into a fixed size box and allow

your user to scroll up and down through it.


Regards,

Helen

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