I’ve just run into a snag with my scrolling window.
I followed this tutorial and got my own scroller to work. Then I placed a dynamic textfield in the content section. It loads an external news.txt file into the field. I have the font embedded. When I run the movie the text loads fine and the scrolling works.
My first problem is the text length. The news.txt file (currently just a bunch of random placeholder text) is rather lenghty. The problem is I can only make the dynamic textfield so long because once implemented in the website I’m making, the length of the news will vary. If the news is short on a particular day, there will be a bunch of blank space after the text but it will still scroll on the blank space. If the news is really long, the textfield isn’t long enough to load all of it and it gets cut off. So I need the length of the textfield to change dynamically with the length of the content in the news.txt file.
The second problem is, I want to use HTML in my news text so I can use more formatting options. But when I enable “Render text as HTML” the text disappears. But the font is embedded so I have no idea why it does this.
- BOB!
