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

[Mountain, Mike J]

Just an idea, if you know how it's going to format in the box, add a

variable to the top of the text file, eg.


Lines=20


then let that variable tell Flash whether to scroll or not,


if lines > 20.......etc.



Hope that helps.


Mike M

++ -----Original Message-----

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+ From: Shaun Brazier [shaunbrazierfreeuk [dot] com (mailto:shaunbrazierfreeuk [dot] com)]

++ Sent: 13 March 2000 16:38

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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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