RE: FLASH: Formatting for external text.

[Matt Wobensmith]

(whoops, forgot to update the subject line!)


Hi Mark -


You wrote:


>one more question, can you scroll text that is

>linked to an external file?


Sure. Lots of ways to do this. After you load the text, you can create a

"text scroller". One such example, in a TechNote:


How to create scrolling text

TN 14156

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scroll_text.htm


In addition, Colin Moock has posted a few different ways to do this:


http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/actionscript/scrolltext/basicscroll.htm

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There are many samples of scrolling text out there on third-party Flash

developer sites. The master list of sites:


http://www.macromedia.com/go/12046



HTH,


Matt



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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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