textboxes and scrollers in MX...???

[dvdvault]

Hi All,

Why cant i have differently formatted text in a dynamic text box with a scroller???? (I dont know if the scroller component has abything to do with it??)

i try to make the text in a dynamic text box have various formats...but it just gets overridden by the first format encounetered from top-down..

why is this so???

cheers all

[gazoo]

The easiest thing I've found to do to accomplish this is to load the dynamic text field's content from an outside .txt file using the loadVariables command. If you put a check in the HTML box on the dynamic text box, you can use HTML tags to format your text however you like.

This method can cause problems with special characters (like the ampersand '&'). For these characters you might have to rely on unicode values ('%26' for '&').

I hope this helps.

[dvdvault]

thanks gazo,

ive never used the loadvariables command before...but ill duck into the help file and give her a go

thanks for your help!!!