# Custom Scroll/Text Length

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-scroll-text-length/45356>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 13, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-scroll-text-length/45356 "2004-03-13T17:17:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![fm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@fm1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fm1)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-scroll-text-length/45356/1 "2004-03-13T17:17:16Z")

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Hey everyone, this is my first time posting here. Nice to meet you all.

I am having a problem with my custom scroll using actionscript. I am scrolling only text, not images. I have never ran into this problem before, as the text I have scrolled were never this long.

My text is so long it runs beyond the whole Flash MX window. When I use the scroll, it will not work because of the length. If I make the text shorter to where it is all visible in the window, the scroll works fine. Is there a way I can get around this, or do I have to make the text shorter?

Thanks a lot.