Having trouble with scroll

programming flash
1

Hi can someone give me a hand with my scroller.
I cant get the text to show in my movie, its a dynamic scroller all my action are there the text is in the same folder as my flash file
the target to get the text is also good. why can i see the text??
and its not the color of the backround text is white background black. I cant post the fla its way to big .

2

embed fonts…?

3

eyezberg what do you mean embed fonts
when I try my scroller on its own it works fine but no go in my movie

4

on the dynamic textfield, in the property inspector, you have the option to embed the font you’re using, or try _sans…
also, use a trace() to check if your terxt is really loaded, and don’t set it as the textfield’s text before it’s done loading or it won’t show…
so many things can go wrong here, hard to tell without the code at least.

5

ok here the code for scroller

stop();

loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load(“hometext1.txt”);
//assign a function which fires when the data is loaded:
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace(“done loading”);
//Now that we know the data is loaded,
//set the text content of the Text Field
//with the instance name “scroller” equal to the
//contents of the variable
scroller.htmlText = this.article;
} else {
trace(“not loaded”);
}
};

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
sbFrame();
}

// start line-by-line scrolling
function pressArrow(d) {
mode = “scroll”;

// remember direction
amount = d;

// do it at least once
sbFrame();

}

// stop scrolling
function releaseArrow(d) {
mode = “none”;
}

// start page-by-page scrolling
function pressBar() {
mode = “page”;

// remember location of click and compute limit of paging
clickLoc = _ymouse;
limit = getSlider(_ymouse);

// compute number of lines in page
amount = (_parent.scroller.bottomScroll - _parent.scroller.scroll);

// scroll the other way?
if (clickLoc < slider._y) amount *= -1;

// do it at least once
sbFrame();

}

// stop paging
function releaseBar() {
mode = “none”;
}

// signal to follow slider
function pressSlider() {
mode = “slide”;
}

// stop following slider
function releaseSlider() {
mode = “none”;
}

// code to perform once per frame
function sbFrame() {
if (mode == “scroll”) {
// scroll one line
_parent.scroller.scroll += amount;
setSlider();

} else if (mode == "slide") {
	// compute new line and scroll to it
	line = getSlider(_ymouse);
	_parent.scroller.scroll = line;
	setSlider();		
	
} else if (mode == "page") {
	// scroll by page
	_parent.scroller.scroll += amount;
	
	// stop scrollng when limit reached
	if (((amount > 0) and (_parent.scroller.scroll > limit)) or ((amount < 0) and (_parent.scroller.scroll < limit))) {
		mode = "none";
		_parent.scrollText.scroll = limit;
	}
	setSlider();
}

}

// set the slider position according to the scroll
function setSlider() {
sbHeight = bar._height - slider._height;
sbAmount = (_parent.scroller.scroll-1)/(_parent.scroller.maxscroll-1);
slider._y = bar._y + sbHeight*sbAmount;
}

// get the scroll according to the slider position
function getSlider(y) {
sbHeight = bar._height - slider._height;
pos = (y-bar._y-slider._height/2)/sbHeight;
line = Math.ceil(pos*(_parent.scroller.maxscroll-1));
return(line);
}

ok in my movie I have a link, this link is called archives,
press this link and a new page opens, this is where I want the scroller to be. when I test movie the scroller is there but it doesn’t scroll and there no text.