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

[Branden Hall]

Ah.. there's a special properties of variables known as maxscroll and

scroll.


You would use the scroll property to actually scroll the box by modifying

the variable /:textBox1.scroll Increment it to go down and decrement it to

go up. You would put these buttons inside of an MC.


Say the variable you have is called textBox1 and load into this box a long

chunk of text. After the text is loaded you could look to see if maxscroll >

1 if it isn't then tell the MC that has the scroll buttons in it that its

visibilty is false. (Using a set property)


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



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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