how do i make a scrolling text box thingy

[funkykitten]

Hello,

Is there an easy way to create a box of text that scrolls using wee arrows that you roll over to move the text up and down?? Any help would be FAB! D

Cx

[Bartsje]

Which version of Flash do you use?

[enpstudios]

Yeah, we need to know which version your using to help you.

[funkykitten]

Sorry, am using MX )

[catbert303]

you can get a basic fla file from http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2...rt/scroll.html in the example it works using

on (press) {

}

and

on (release) {

}

but these can be changed to

on (rollOver) {

}

and

on (rollOut) {

}

if needed

[funkykitten]

Cool, thanks for that. If you have any guidelines on the different variables I might be able to change while working with scrolling text boxes, please let me know! I don't really know what can and can't be done!

Cx

[funkykitten]

Actually, while we're on the topic, could anyone let me know if the text that I've inputted for use within the scroll box can be formatted? Different font/bold/italic, etc, and can images be placed within the text?

Cx

[catbert303]

if you set the textbox to render html you can use simple html tags in the text for bold, italic, fonts etc see http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...s/htmltext.htm

for images (you can also use this to display text) it is probably easiest to use the scrollPane component, simply create a movie clip with the content (images/text etc) inside. next find your clip in the library, right click on its name and select linkage, check the export for actionscript option and fill in the identifer field with some name for the clip.

now open the components panel and drag a scrollPane onto the stage, you should get the parameters for the scrollPane appear in your properties panel, in the scrollContent field put the instance name you gave your movie clip.

[funkykitten]

Crikey, that'll take me a while to work out! (quite new to flash!) One question though - how do I "set the textbox to render html" ?

Cx

[funkykitten]

nevermind, just found it on the link you gave me!