Scroll text/html text

[sunmune]

Awhile back, someone was nice enough to let me use his scrolling text box for my site.

It works wonderfully, but I really need to distinguish certain text with either bold, italic, or color.

Is it possible to add html text code to this scroll box. I'm not very good with actionscript so any help would be very much appreciated.:

<b>function scroller(f, x, y, w, h, e, o, l, c, r) {
var z = 0;
p.removeMovieClip();
function drawsquare(t, n, w, h, c, b) {
t.createEmptyMovieClip(n, ++z);
typeof (c) == "string" ? t[n].lineStyle(c, b) : t[n].lineStyle(1, b);
typeof (c) == "string" ? t[n].beginFill(0xffffff, 0) : t[n].beginFill(c);
t[n].lineTo(w, 0);
t[n].lineTo(w, h);
t[n].lineTo(0, h);
t[n].endFill();
return t[n];
}
function scrollcontent(xy) {
ra = r;
dy = 0-((xy/(y+h))*mc._height);
updateAfterEvent();
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
Math.round(dy) == Math.round(mc._y) ? delete mc.onEnterFrame : mc._y += (dy-mc._y)*ra, ra += r*r;
};
onMouseUp=function() {
delete onMouseMove;
}
}
p = this.createEmptyMovieClip("scrollinglayer", ++z);
p._x=x, p._y=y;
mc = p.createEmptyMovieClip("textlayer", ++z);
fm = new TextFormat(o, l, c, null, null, null, null, null, null, w/e/2, w/e);
lv = new LoadVars();
lv.load(f);
lv.onData = function(r) {
s = r.toString().split("\r\n").join("\n");
mc.createTextField("tf", 0, w/e, 0, w, h);
mc.tf.wordWrap = true;
mc.tf.autoSize = true;
mc.tf.setNewTextFormat(fm);
mc.tf.text = s+"\n";
};
o = drawsquare(p, "o", w, h, "1", c);
b = drawsquare(p, "b", w/e, h, "1", c);
k = drawsquare(p, "k", w/e, h, c, c);
d = drawsquare(p, "d", w/e, l+e, c, c);
m = drawsquare(p, "m", w, h, c, c);
d.setMask(k), mc.setMask(m);
d.onPress = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
d.startDrag(false, d._x, 0, d._x, h-(d._height-1));
d.onRelease = d.onReleaseOutside=d.onMouseUp=function () {
d.stopDrag();
};
onMouseMove = function () {
scrollcontent(d._y);
};
};
b.onPress = function() {
scrollcontent(_ymouse-(d._height));
d.y>h-(d._height-1) ? d.y=h-(d._height-1) : d.y=Math.round(_ymouse)-d._height;
d.onEnterFrame = function() {
d.y>h-(d._height-1) ? d.y=h-(d._height-1) : Math.round(d._y) == d.y ? delete d.onEnterFrame : d._y += (d.y-d._y)*ra;
};
};
}
//scroller("faq.txt", xposition, yposition, width, height, percentage, "fontfamily", fontsize, color, scroll speed);
scroller("faq.txt", 0, 0, 520, 390, 40, "verdana", 15, 0xb3b3b3, .1);</b>

[zhenjyu]

That's awefully complex code for a simple text scroller. At least for me.

[sunmune]

lol, well, for me too. I didn't write it and I'm lost lol

But still, it's a very cool scrolling text box.

[oldnewbie]

This is most probably Moagrius' script, and yes he likes complicated scripts. He's mostly on the actionscript forum, so you should post on that forum, and ask him!

http://www.flashkit.com/board/forumd...php?forumid=30

[moagrius]

i heard my name...

the o, l, and c parameters are font-family, font-size and color respectively.

if you want more than that, take this line

fm = new TextFormat(o, l, c, null, null, null, null, null, null, w/e/2, w/e);

and beneath it put

fm.bold = true;
fm.italics = true;
fm.underline = true;
fm.indent = 4;
fm.leading = 6;
fm.color = 0x000000;
fm.size = 12;
//etc...

whatever properties you want to affect. for a complete list of properties, go to the help docs and look up TextFormat class.

[oldnewbie]

Yeah sure! And I have land for sale in Florida!

[sunmune]

Your ears were ringing, I'm sure of that.

Again, I need to thank you for such an awesome scroll bar. I've tried creating my own but am still a novice and they come out very simple and boring

I have one question about this scroll box. How easy or difficult is it to move the scroll from the left to the right side? I've tried to mess around with things and ...well, I royally screw it up


THough this isn't massively important, it just seems that I always want to go to the right to scroll, like on a regular webpage.

Thank you for the code, I'll add that. On the otherboard I got some suggestions also that have worked. THough everyone seemed to be in concensus that your code is most difficult

Thanks