RE: FLASH: TEXT SCROLL - Is there a better way? (revisited)

[Branden Hall]

I have an idea here... if you preformat your text into a line-by-line

variable basis... the scroll bar could be swapping those variables in and

out of a text box...

basically it would work like this:


line1= blah blah blah

line2= foo foo foo foo

line3= bar bar bar bar

line4= wee wee wee wee

line5= duh duh duh duh


Then you would have a text box with its variable set to textbox

you would then have a variable called pos and a variable called size

size would be the # of lines you could display at a time.. for this example,

say it is 2

your initial pos would be 1...

you would then just have a loop run everytime that someone pressed a button

that first either incremented or decremented the pos variable...

then the following would happen:


set variable "textbox"=""

set variable "temp"=0

loop while (temp<size)

	textbox=textbox&Eval("line"&(pos+temp))

	set variable "temp"=temp+1

end loop


as for the text its self.. It wouldn't be tough to write an ASP, PHP or CF

script to take in  a chunk of text and divide it up into lines like that...


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software


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Subject: FLASH: TEXT SCROLL - Is there a better way? (revisited)



Resending as I figure my first one got lost over the weekend.  :)

BTW, I already know about moock etc but those won't do what I'm looking for

as 1) I need to be able to use pretty much unlimited lines, and 2) I want to

keep the curved scrollbars.

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The site in question is at http://www.clanpi.com/newpi


Click on the circle in the upper right corner.


Notice I've used a basic text scroll that tweens.  Also note that the

scrollbar is curved, and also part of the tween.  Given the amount of text,

it is extremely clunky-chunky slow to scroll.


Has a better way (without the limit to the number lines allowed) been found

to accomplish this so the scrolling is smooth?  I'd also like to keep the

curved scrollbars (if at all possible).


Thanks

DGL




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