# Advanced scrollbar/masking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-scrollbar-masking/197960>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-scrollbar-masking/197960 "2006-08-21T10:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![masskontroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@masskontroll](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/masskontroll)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-scrollbar-masking/197960/1 "2006-08-21T10:13:00Z")

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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](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: