# Creating a auto-scroll text that was loaded from an external text file **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 13, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346 "2003-03-13T05:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![djazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@djazz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/djazz)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/1 "2003-03-13T05:31:45Z")
:trout:I like to know an easy way to create a text autoscroll (vertical) that worked when the text was loaded from another text file. it can use for news/site update. see the attachment.😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/2 "2003-03-13T05:38:01Z")
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/3 "2003-03-13T05:38:58Z")
this might be of some help: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/4 "2003-03-13T05:42:11Z")
thanx liam, but i dun want the scrollbar…the text scroll up automatically ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/5 "2003-03-13T06:23:29Z")
I’ve been looking for just a plain auto-scroller for text! Actually, djazz, what you showed as a sample would work for me. Would you mind sharing the .fla for that? I will need to load text from a MySQL database so we will be working on the same problem in the end. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/6 "2003-03-13T06:44:56Z")
sorry gareal, i dun have .fla for this sample…i’ve just copy the swf file from the site that i found it…to let u understand how it works… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/7 "2003-03-13T07:01:30Z")
most of the samples \*.fla auto-scroller text that i’d found are moving on horizontal path…i need the text that moving up vertically ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/8 "2003-03-13T18:04:14Z")
Found an answer in another site’s forum… I think. Check here: [http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=432845&highlight=scroll](http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=432845&highlight=scroll). I think we need to use the Maxscroll function and modify the delay property to control the speed of the scroll. The above article also discusses loading from a text file. Let me know if it works for you. I also found someone’s sample of a working autoscroll, but I can’t load it and look at it until later. Hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/9 "2003-03-14T11:57:13Z")
thanx gareal…i have joined the forum by [flashkit.com](http://flashkit.com). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/10 "2003-03-14T17:54:49Z")
A couple more thoughts on this Djazz… First, I did get a reply on another forum that is VERY promising: [http://www.bit-101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10523#10523](http://www.bit-101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10523#10523). I can’t check it out until later. Let me know if that helped. I played around with loading text into a text box from an external file and the advice going around works fine to load text into a variable that is defined in a text file. I tried another method of getting text to scroll by trying to get the whole box to scroll in a loop. To make a whole box scroll I had to convert it to a movie clip. And you can’t convert a text box to a movie clip by itself; it has to be combined with something else, then you can convert both into a movie clip. (I laid out a rectangle shape and dragged the text box over it. I selected both and converted to Symbol.) Unfortunately, once the box was part of a movie clip it would no longer accept input from a variable. There’s a tutorial on this site on how to create an infinite menu. This would be a good method to have a box scroll over and over. ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htM](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htM)). I played with this and it’s promising but not exactly what we need. But take a look as the ideas are useful. Do let me know what you come up with as this seems to be harder I would have thought! Good luck… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/11 "2003-03-17T03:56:00Z")
i played around the dinamic scroller movie that we found in kirupa tutorial. wt i have done now is… first, i had convert the textscroller to a movie then, i deleted the scrollbar component and make the text scroller …moving up now, i have done wt i want. The text was loaded from the .text file and it was moving up. but it cant add a hyperlink on the text. i will attach you the that \*.fla file later…ok…hope hear from u soon… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/12 "2003-03-17T05:36:57Z")
here is some example… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-auto-scroll-text-that-was-loaded-from-an-external-text-file/15346/13 "2003-03-17T05:41:43Z")
thanx gareal, u give me an idea to play the infinite menu movie…i will try it whether it work or not…but now, i try to learn more from the news flasher tutorial to fulfil my need