FLASH: Loading Text..Branden, Marc, Cheri, anyone?

[Shaun Brazier]

Hi folks.  I thought I should repost this as I didn't explain the situation

very clearly in the last post.


I have some scrollable text within my movie.  The text can be loaded into

the text boxes dynamically.  I have a scrollbar that is needed to scroll the

longer blocks of text.  I am trying to make a system that knows how much

text is being loaded into the text box i.e, how many lines of text.  If the

text box can only display 20 lines at a time but the text that is loaded

into it is 30 lines, it needs to be scrolled.  I only want the scrollbar

(which is a separate MC) to be visible if this is the case.  If there are

only 20 lines of text being loaded, there will be no need for the scrollbar

and so it should stay invisible.


My question:  How would I detect the number of lines of text that have been

loaded?  Is there a way to do this.  So if "example1 txt" equals >20 lines,

tell scrollbar MC to play.


Please help.  Any input valued and treasured!


Thank you very much

Shaun Brazier



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