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Scrolling Text Box Questions
Ok, I found this tutorial on this site for this scrolling text box. It does exacly what I need it to do except for two things. One, I want to have bigger bold text and a different color font basically as a header for differnet paragraphs that I put in the text box, if that makes sence. I don't see a way to do that in the actionscripts. And two, I keep getting this message when I test the file in Flash.

"Symbol=Symbol 4, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (press) {

Symbol=Symbol 4, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 4: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {"

This is the tutorial I used. (which worked great by the way)
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2...rt/scroll.html

Attached is a sample of what I want the text box to look like and the zip has a sample of what I've done so far. Is there another way I can do this in Flash Mx? Or another tutorial? Something relatively easy.
Thanks,
Mike

Some Questions On Scrolling Text
I have some text set in a text box, with two corresponding arrows you can click to scroll the text. It works fine but there are two minor things I'd like to change:

-When you click an arrow to scroll it nudges a bit then stops, you have to continually click the arrow. How can I set it to click/hold and continuously scroll?

-Secondly, all the text is the same color as of now. I want certain words to be another color- when I change it the text box reverts to the original color once exported or previewed (as .swf) Why is that (and how do I stop it from changing my font color)?

Thanks..

Scrolling Text And Load Movie Questions
Question 1:

I have a dynamic text box in a movie clip that contains a single line of text. I load the text from an outside text file. My goal is to make the text box act like a news ticker. I wish to make it automatically scroll from right to left (text will move left on the screen), and upon "mouse rollover" to stop scrolling. When the text box gets to the end of the text it starts scrolling again from the beginning with a small delay.
I have looked at many tutorials on how to make vertical scrolling text boxes, but I cannot figure out how to modify the script to fit my horizontal text box. I am not much of a programmer (I prefer the graphic designing aspect) so I cannot make a script on my own.

Question 2:

Also, I have a relatively general question. I have 3 movies (A,B,C) and I wish to connect them in the following sense. In Movie A I have a button that when you roll over it, it triggers a “LoadMovie” command and opens up a popup menu (Movie B). From Movie B I want to make it such that if you press on a button in the menu it links back to Movie A, and opens up Movie C in a "LoadMovie" field in Movie A. Is this even possible to do, and if it is how would I do it?

Using Flash Scrolling Text Box To Create Scrolling Schedule
Hi All,

For work, I'm creating a PowerPoint presentation which needs to include a really long schedule. I wanted this schedule to crawl up the screen. I thought of doing this part in Flash and inserting it into the PPT. Has anyone had luck with this sort of thing using PPT and Flash? Is there a better strategy. I have CS3 Web and Production and will be doing this portion of the project this weekend and thought I'd ask some pros. Is there another CS3 product that might be better. I am more Familiar with After Effects but haven't used it for anything quite like this before.

Thanks!

Scrolling Questions
I want to develop a piece on the History of Radio in MX. I have several .flas that use scrolling with inertia,

(e.g., http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...6176/index.php

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...607/index.php)

My piece may be 5 - 7 minutes long, thus I'll need many more sections of 4 slides (if I use the layout fromt he first piece above) than the flash stage area allows. (This piece looks like it ran out of space to the right.) My question is how to address this? Should I call consecutive .swfs?

The other thing I need to figure out is how to have it scroll by itself at set time intervals, say 30 seconds.
Can you have a movie proceed to another frame (or position) after, say, 15 seconds?

Many Thanks!
Rick

3 Text Tool Flash Questions
I am trying to make an animated gif using Macromedia Flash MX, and I am running into 3 problems I cant seem to solve.

1. When in "design time", I can change the color of the text I add to the movie fine, but when I publish it, all the text comes out black no matter what I set it to, the background shows up any one of a rainbow of colors I choose for it correctly, but text is always black, and I want to change that.

2. Even though Flash supposidly uses unicode characters, I cannot use them in the text fields/"text tools", it just turns it into a question mark (?), is it possible for me to use unicode characters like that.

3. When I write text into a text tool, certain characters I want to have diferent font sizes and colors than the rest, at design time, it works fine, but when it is published, everything is (again all black), is the same size and font.

Two Questions About Hyperlink And Scrolling
1. how can i make a hyperlink open in a new window WITH a certain window size and possibly set no resizing.

2. much like a scrolling text box how can i create a scrolling box that can include images and movies?

any info is appreciated!

Flash MX Combo Box And Dynamic Text Box Questions
I am new in Flash MX and I have some Flash ActionScript questions:

- I use a ComboBox and listed 5 items (such as A, B, C, D, E) as pull
down menu and call the component eventCB.

- I also have 5 text files (a.txt, b.txt, c.txt, d.txt and e.txt)
which specify what the items are.

- Whenever I select on one of the item from the pull down menu, I want
Flash to display the related information on a dynamic text box.

- I could not figure out the name for the item I selected (I used the
name eventCB.getSelectedItem, eventCB.getSelectedItem.Labels, and so) for Flash to know what I am talking about and load related txt file in the dynamic text box.

- I tried
function loadTxt_() {
select = eventCB.getSelectedItem().data;
loadVariablesNum(select, 0);
}

or thing in that nature and nothing works. What is missing?

Second question is if I have more than one variable in a text file to feed more than one dynamic text boxes at one time, how should I define the variable in the text file? I did the following way:

&begin= This is the beginning for textbox 1 – a.txt file
&middle=description of the subject for textbox 2 – a.txt file
&abc=detail description of a subject for textbox 3 – a.txt file
&end=This is information for the text box 4 – a.txt file

The output font, size and line wrap are all getting mess up for the second and third dynamic text box. What might cause the distortion?

2 Flash MX Effects Questions: Flashing Text & 3D Anim
http://wwww.terminator.com

If you've been too the new official T3 site, you might just know that it was made completely out of Flash MX quite recently, and is looking quite nice. But as watching the intro a few times over, I began to wonder how they did 2 of their effects:

1stly, how did they do that flash entrance button effect on their entrance page ? Im talking about the button that says "ENTER THE SITE" and flashes when u go over it, can someone explain how-to do that ? That would be great, plz mind my flash nubness 8D

2ndly, how did they pull-off that nice 3d animation at the end of their intro of that background menu for their main page ? If you've seen their intro you'll know what Im talking about.. Can someone explain that aswell plz

XML Driven Perpetual Scrolling Thumbnail Slideshow Questions
I'm setting this thread up to field questions or issues with a Multi-part tutorial I'm working on here:

viewtopic.php?p=14125#14125

The tutorial thread has been locked to keep it clean and not become a 48 page monster that would be no help to anyone.

Scrolling Text Box Scales Text (Flash 5)
We have created a scrolling text box that pulls text from an external .txt document. I have been through many detailed tutorials (which have helped out greatly) and have everything working properly except that when the text box is at the size we want it (W:318, H:221) the text is scaled down (to microscopic levels) to fit within that text box. If I scale the text box to a much smaller height (like W:318, H:36) then the text holds on to the attributes set to it (_sans font, size: 10) and the scrolling variables are applied and everything works like a charm. Tried everyhting I can think of and a project deadline is creeping fast. Any ideas as to how we can make that text box hold the font size while at the larger deminsion would be greatly appreciated.

How To Scrolling Text In Flash 4
Hello all

can anyone help me, I try to make thew text scrolling in flash, I thinking I may done something wrong.. my text is scrolling but no line space is between, text didnot alling, all the text just apper like block text... can any one give me a idea how to make scrolling text like normal well format text ...aling , space , line space etc... also how can I highlight some text in the scrolling text , so I can make link (like website address or email links etc)

PLEASE HELP ME STEP BY STEP .......

thank you very much

my emal gary.liu@ntlworld.com

Text Scrolling In Flash MX
Hi all.

Sorry that I had to ask the same question I asked a few weeks ago. Couldnt find my original thread, wasnt looking that hard anyway.

Ok now. Can s/one here please direct me to a tutorial on creating text scrolling in Flash MX?

Thanx a lot.

Scrolling Text Box In Flash 4?
I have Flash 4. I want to make a scrolling text box and scrolling movie clip. The only tutorials I can find for this effect are only in Flash 5. Are scrolling text boxes possible in Flash 4? If so, where can I find a tutorial?

Thanks . . . .

Oh, another question . . . is it possible to manually enter Flash 5 actionscripts into Flash 4? For example, "onClipEvents"?

Flash 5: Scrolling Text Box
I have a design with a scrolling text box in it. Currently the "up" and "down" arrows are jumpy. They scroll 2 lines at once with each click. I'd like to push the "up" or "down" arrow once and have the textbox continue to scroll. The Action script I'm currently using is:

on (release) {
main.scroll = main.scroll-2;
}

How do I modify it to allow scrolling to continue once you have pressed the "up" or "down" buttons?

Thanks.

FLASH 4 Scrolling Text
I'm still using flash 4, and I want to create scrolling text. when I paste my text though, it wont put in spaces for paragraphs how can I get the line breaks in for this?

Scrolling Text In Flash
Hello,
First off, I already performed a SEARCH with no successful results, which is why I am posting.

I have a US Map, and when a state is clicked on, it will show a list of members from that state....

Is there anyway to do this dynamically where it calls from a text file, or is there a way to put in a scolling text box in the clip itself?

I tried putting a scrolling box in, but I couldnt figure out where to put the list of names.

It doesnt have to be a complicated thing, just something that will allow me to add names to the list, without having to rearrange the page.

Thanks!

Scrolling Text In Flash...
Hey guys,

I needed some beginner help and yet I didn't want to post it in the beginner forum because I figured by going straight to the pro's on this board I could get the answer right the first time.

Okay...here's the deal. All I want to do is place a certain amount of text on a page and scroll it within a text box via two scroll buttons. I don't have to have an all out scrollbar...and I don't have to load external text if that can be avoided. All I want to be able to do is type in text as I see it in flash and then apply some actionscript to an up arrow and down arrow thereby letting me scroll the contents of the text box.

If anyone could help me out here I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance...

-Zay

[F8] Help With Flash Text Box Scrolling
Hello,
The problem i'm having involves the dynamic text box. I have different external txt files inputting to my dynamic text fields on the click of different links. That works fine and everything but when i scroll down on one text and click on another link to load another text inside, the text field doesn't reset to the top.. meaning i have to scroll up to the top after a new page is displayed. Is there a way to action script the text field to reset to the top when i click a new link?
The problem can be viewed at "http://www.neccaonline.info/regnum" after clicking one of the four main links.

thanx

Flash 8: Scrolling Text
Hi,

I am tying to set an events box. It will show a list of future events with date and venue. Now the events are stored in an external file and i've loaded the file into a dynamic text box. But the problem is the layout in which this events box will be set. Its small and will only allow 4 lines of text to be displayed at a time. I want the text to scroll upwards automatically and continue again from the start when all the text has been displayed.

Event 1 Venue 1
Event 2 Venue 2
Event 3 Venue 3
Event 4 Venue 4
^
^
Event 5 Venue 5
Event 6 Venue 6
Event 7 Venue 7
Event 8 Venue 8
^
^
Event 1 Venue 1
Event 2 Venue 2
Event 3 Venue 3
Event 4 Venue 4

It'll be great if some one can help me out with this.

Thanks in advance

Scrolling Text Box W/ Flash 5
How do I go about making a scrolling text box in Flash 5? I could not find a tutorial for such a thing under Flash 5...

Flash Scrolling Text
Hi,
I just want to know apart from font color, , , can we give any other HTML tags in notepad file to amke our text look good.
Let me give you an example: like formatting the text, or using tables in scrolling text etc.. etc

Neets

Scrolling Text In Flash
Im trying to create an .swf file to place in dreamweaver of some scrolling text. What is the best whay of doing this in flash?

When I create the text it all looks fine in flash but when uploaded it looks squashed and condensed?? Does anyone know why?? Im using Handel Gothic as a font.

HELP!!

Flash 5: Anchors In A Scrolling Text Box?
It is possible to have anchors in a scrolling text box? By anchors I mean a link in the text that when clicked "jumps" to more information further down in the text area.

If it is possible, please tell me how!

Thanks.

Scrolling Text Question In Flash 5
Hi..I have noticed on other web sites that no matter what computer I look at them on their scrollint text looks the same as far as spacing. On mine , when I look on different computers, the spacing of my text varies, sometimes making it look screwed up. Is there a way, or am I doing something wrong, to lock the text in place so that it does not change its spacing no matter what different computer, or smonitor you are viewing it on?

Also, could someone explain to me (like I am a 2nd grader so i will understand) the html selection in the properties window of text when you are making a text box.

Your help is always greatly appreciated!

HTML Scrolling Text In Flash 5
i'm using a dynamic scrolling text box and sending text to that box through the actionscript window using a simple:

mytext="This is my text...."

where mytext is the variable name of the text box.

this works fine. i've got two problems though.

1. i learned that i can use simple html tags to edit the way the text will be in the box. the following tags work ok , but if i want to make a link using <a href="http://www.mylink.com">, the whole movie freaks out. is there any way to make a link within this text field using html code? putting buttons over the text window is not an option because it scrolls.

2. my text is a pretty long, much longer than the text boxes (so i'm using a scroll bar), i've found though that i have to type the text all in one long continuous line in order to keep it working, if i hit enter in the actionscript window it doesn't work. is there a way around this.

i'm learning all this as i go, if there's an easier way to do html text in flash someone please help. i'm using Flash 5 still...

thanks

Virtical Scrolling Text (FLASH 4)
Can anyone point me in the direction of an example of the above. Lots found in 5 but none in 4.

How Do I Make Scrolling Text In Flash 5?
Can someone help me as to how to make scrolling text?
Thanks

Scrolling Text In Flash MX 2004
hi buddies.
i'm using MX 2004 and I want to scroll text (including graphics). I usually did it before with a animated MC, but maybe there's a better way (and faster when you wotk with a lot of info) in MX 2004.

Your help will be really appreciated!

Scrolling Text Box Error Flash 5
Symbol=stormTextBox, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
onClipEvent (load) {

Symbol=stormTextBox, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 6: Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

Got that when I am trying to get my scrolling text box to work, what does that mean? ahhhhh. Thanks!

Horizontal Scrolling Text Flash
I know i have used the search and found some post about this but nothing that works for me.

I have this we page http://silver.tritoncore.com/~purly/ I am in the middle of building it. The top part of the page is flash and it has a scrolling text. But I put this from other fla file.

This is the only code that came with it.

onClipEvent (load) {
_root.text = "Knit Night Bring your project & come knit or crochet with us. "
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
tmp = _root.text.substr(0, 1);
_root.text = _root.text.substr(1, _root.text.length-1)+tmp;
}

The only think i want to now how to so is make it scroll at a speed i give it. And not change the frame rate of the stage.

So can anyone help i don't know ANY codeing.

Scrolling Text From A Button (flash 8)
I'm sure it's really easy but i'm a new flash actionscript user but I do understand the basic.
I have two movieclips on my stage. Number1 with 3 buttons and number 2 with 3 paragraph of text.
I want clip 1 to tell clip 2 to scroll to a certain paragraph (1,2 or 3) depending on the released of the button on clip 1 (1,2 or 3).

Easy? Well if it is for you, I wish I were you!!!

If you can answer me in french, that would be the best. If not, well I understand the basic in english too!!!

Thanks

[CS3] Flash ActionScripting Text Box Scrolling
Hi,

I am having trouble with some ActionScript I am doing for a website. My Flash file dynamically pulls content from a mySQL database via a PHP/Flash component and displays it in a textbox. I have a frame with actionscript in it which codes the scroller actions to it.

However, because the website content can be edited by my client, the content size will vary at times, and will vary between pages (as I am using this Flash file for each page but varying the content it pulls in by my SQL query). Can somebody tell me how I can modify my actionscript so that the scroller works out how high my content is rather than the textbox or mask, and decides how much it needs to scroll or that it doesn't need to display the scrollers because there is not enough content?

A Flash file for you to look at is available at http://www.testingsite.com.au/ggtave...o/function.fla

Scrolling Text/Image Flash 8
Hey all,
I am new to ActionScript especially 2.0. Anyone know why this text scroll works in ver.6 but not in ver.8? I'm just trying to get it to work in 8.

Thanks!

Scaled Scrolling Of Text In Flash MX?
Hi everyone, ok I found this awesome site and I'm trying to figure out how the artist created the scrolling list to the right of the picture box. When you mouse over the list, the words are scaled to a percentage. I'm thinking he used the HScroll command, but I believe that can only be used for a text box. These are seperate buttons. Here's the link, its a really amazing site, any input on how he achieved this would be a lot of help.

http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html

THX

Flash Dynamic Text And Scrolling
I have a movie clip with dynamic text. it loads text from a txt file. it is attached to a scroll bar which came from the components. My client asked if I can make that an "active scroll bar," by which I assume means that the scroll thing on the physical mouse, can make the text scroll. is this possible? and how? thanks

Flash ActionScripting Text Box Scrolling
Hi,
I am having trouble with some ActionScript I am doing for a website. My Flash file dynamically pulls content from a mySQL database via a PHP/Flash component and displays it in a textbox. I have a frame with actionscript in it which codes the scroller actions to it.
However, because the website content can be edited by my client, the content size will vary at times, and will vary between pages (as I am using this Flash file for each page but varying the content it pulls in by my SQL query). Can somebody tell me how I can modify my actionscript so that the scroller works out how high my content is rather than the textbox or mask, and decides how much it needs to scroll or that it doesn't need to display the scrollers because there is not enough content?
A Flash file for you to look at is available at www.testingsite.com.au/ggtavern/Bistro/function.fla

Scrolling STATIC Text In Flash. Can Anyone Help Me?
Does anyone know a tutorial to show me how the scroll STATIC text, not Dynamic text? Please help.

Thanks!

Scrolling Text With Links Within Flash? Can You Please Help?
I have a flash website. I can make a scrolling box with text and links to other sites work.

I need to make this link go to another frame within the Flash site? I am using Flash MX. Can you please help me out?

I also would like the links to be buttons. So I would like to have text that scrolls, with buttons that scroll with the text???

Any suggestions???

Thanks so much,
vv

Optimizing Scrolling Text In Flash MX

my results are too choppy.. i need to make it smoother...
what settings, methods or structures should i use to make it as smooth as possible.. its just too choppy on a pentium 2.

Help: MP3 Flash Player Scrolling Text
Hi all,

I'm having trouble with the scrolling text aspect of the mp3 player. I need to make the text display a little bigger, but when I do that it causes problems.. The text doesn't scroll properly, bits get cut off etc.

I can post my fla if it'd help?

Thanks!

Ben

Scrolling Text Field That Stays Scrolling On Rollover
on (rollOver) {
mytext.scroll--;
mytext.maxscroll = x;
}

Here is my code, you have to keep clicking the button to scroll the text field, how do I code it to just have the mouse rollover the button and the text field will continue to scroll automatically? Thanks.....

Fancy Scrolling, Need That Slidy Scrolling Effect For Text
Can anyone point me to a tutorial where the textbox speeds up and slows down the scrolling when u hit the arrows...kinda like www.jossstone.co.uk

Actionscript For Flash 5 Dummies: Scrolling A Text Box II
Hello,

I'm new to Flash and was working my way throught some tutorials to get the hang of it. However, I'm having a bit of difficulty with this particular one: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-640/index.php

More specifically, "Step 1:Loading an external text file"
It calls for the following code:

onClipEvent (load){
this.loadVariables("text.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
needInit = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
if( needInit ){if(daTextBox.maxscroll > 1){//Text is loaded!
needInit = false;
}
}
if( frameCounter % speedFactor == 0){
if( scrolling == "up" && daTextBox.scroll > 1){daTextBox.scroll--;
}
else if( scrolling == "down" && daTextBox.scroll < daTextBox.maxscroll){
daTextBox.scroll++;
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (data){
needInit = true;
}

I'm sorry if the wrap is wrong!
The following is the code I've inputted to Flash:

onClipEvent (load){
this.loadVariables("text.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
needInit = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame){if( needInit ){
if(textarea.maxscroll > 1){
//Text is loaded!
needInit = false;
}
}
if( frameCounter % speedFactor == 0){
if( scrolling == "up" && textarea.scroll > 1){
textarea.scroll--;
}
else if( scrolling == "down" && textarea.scroll < textarea.maxscroll){
textarea.scroll++;
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (data){
needInit = true;
}

The only thing I've changed is "daTextBox" to "textarea" (just the name I've given it)

My problem is that it wont display the contents of the txt document.

If anybody knows the solution to this problem, please let me know. I'm still pretty much a Flash newbee so I'm sure it'll be something stupid on my part

Thanks,
Steve

BTW: If someone wants to see the fla email me: steve@revfans.com

Scrolling Dynamic Text Inside Flash
Okay,
in my movie i have a scrolling text field which is NOT linked to an external text file. So how do i make hyperlinks inside the text? Do i need to make it an external text file? How do I make that happen then?
-cody:L

Scrolling Text - Button Behavior In Flash 4
To start with I'm coding this in MX, but it has to be compatible for flash 4. (client restriction)

I have quite a few pages on this site calling external text files.
The site is here.
http://bigquizthing.com/index2.html

if you click into any of the links you will see the scrolling text.

Let me tell you what I did.
I inserted 4 frames
Frame1: loadVariablesNum("./thetxt.txt", 0);
Frame2: if (text ne "") {
gotoAndStop("end");
}
Frame3:gotoAndPlay("load");
Frame4:stop();

the buttons for the scroll have this behavior:
on (press) {
text.scroll = Number(text.scroll)+1;
}

The problem is the text scrolls 1 click at a time.....normal windows / mac behavior when you hold down a button it scrolls auto.

is there a way to accomplish this in flash 4?
if not, what would you guys do.....I'm not a big fan of mini fonts but I quite a bit of text.

help?
thanks-

Stepon
"bring the noise"

Flash 4 Scrolling Text Questions

Hey there!I have a project where I need to have scrolling text. Some of the text will be different sizes and fonts. Is that possible in flash 4 and if it is is there a place to find a fla?

Hey there!

I have a project where I need to have scrolling text. Some of the text will be different sizes and fonts. Is that possible in flash 4 and if it is is there a place to find a fla?