stupid scroll menu i cant get it to work damit

[Wicked Mouse]

No, it didn't...

As I continu learning I change it directly.. for that site:
myfile.txt=welcome.txt (contains that whole 'story')
stuff=welcome (textfield Variable)

so I pasted the script after I selected the button (down arrow):

on(press){
_root.welcome.scroll--;
}

I did that, because I wanted to see if it would scroll down the large text. But it didn't
I tried the button in the same layer as the field, but that didn't work either, so I placed it back in another layer (easier for me).

[deadbeat]

Check out these tutorials...they probably explain things more clearly than I can...

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...29/index.shtml

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...40/index.shtml

K.

[Wicked Mouse]

Okay! I managed to make a scroll-able text with the first tutorial..... BUT... instead of..

onClipEvent (load){
welcome = "Insert text here";
}

pasting the WHOLE text into the script... I used your script:

onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables ("welcome.txt", this);
}

It works fine...... BUT.... I want to have looping animations... so what do I do: I make frame label and I let the last frame

gotoAndplay ("loop");

I load the text at ..let's say frame number 1 but the frame label is at frame 10 ...still when it loads the frame label again it will refresh the text also.
I used both the tutorial script and your script (which I prefer to load the text).. but I still get same result

[deadbeat]

Put the looped animations into their own, separate movie clip (with frame labels & gotoAndPlay action) and place it on the stage...they will run on their own loop and won't affect the loaded variables...

Good luck,

K.

[Wicked Mouse]

Ahhhhhhhh... I do understand the "Movie clip" better now
I still have my lopped animation AND a FULLY functional "scrollable-text"!
I thank you very much!

With the new obtained experience I will enhance all the less advanced scenes to save a lot more frames and so bites for the viewer to load

And next time I have something to ask, I will post it in the proper forum.

More and more I'm becoming a real Flash-Junkie
Thanks again

[deadbeat]

No problem, we were all newbies once...



K.

[Wicked Mouse]

No doubt about
[Edited by Wicked Mouse on 03-28-2002 at 08:59 PM]

[Wicked Mouse]

Oh... one more thing (I already screwed up this Flash MX thread ):
because it safes layers and is easier I use a movie clip which I track as a button for the menu buttons, which appears in every scene. That works perfectly, except for 1 scene.
for example it looks something like this:

[Hello]
[Gallery]
[Links]
[Contact]

when I click on 'Hello', 'Links' or 'Contact'... it goes perfectly, but when I click on Gallery it goes wrong (the player rewinds). Firstly I made a mistake by refering the button 'Gallery' to 'Links' (all examples) and that went flawlessly. So it has to be that scene in particular. What to do about this problem, Capt'n?

[Wicked Mouse]

Ow wait a minute... I managed to make it completely out of order again
And I don't get much further with any of the tutorials