Dynamic text scrolling

programming flash
1

hey guys,
i need a little help. i’m sure it’s easy to do but i can’t wrap my head around it. i have my site that loads an external txt file. i also have the up/down scroll buttons. but i can only get the button scroll down everytime you click on it. how do i get it so when onRollover it keeps scrolling till it can’t scroll anymore. here’s what i have on the buttons:

upButton: on (press, rollOver) {
if (textField.scroll>1) {
textField.scroll–;
}
}

downButton: on (press, rollOver) {
if (textField.scroll<textField.maxscroll) {
textField.scroll++;
}
}

how can i have it continously scroll on over?

thanks,
tee

2

you could try something like this:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("scrollController", -1);
scrollController.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (upButton.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) myTextField.scroll--;
if (downButton.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) myTextField.scroll++;
};

just paste it in a frame of the movie and change the instance names (upButton, downButton and myTextField) if needed. =)