Advanced scrollbar/masking

A week or so ago I made myself a neat little scrollbar by doing this great tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollbar.htm . I tried to get a bit further by experimenting, and these questions came to mind:

  • How can I get this scrollbar to work with DYNAMIC text?
  • Can I use a loader to load an html file with only text into the scrollbar? (so that if I change the html file and replace the online version, the new text will appear in the scrollbar).
  • Can I combine the scrollfunction with a mask? F.e. an image with a layer above it with a mask showing part of it and the mask being manually shifted from one part of the image to the other? Maybe that’s not a scrollbar but a slider…? I just want to be able to manually shift a mask over an image.

Questions questions… Any help much appreciated! Thanks to all who made the tutorials, great help indeed :thumb2: