# Help with scrolling text...please?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-text-please/255205>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-text-please/255205 "2008-03-20T00:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JennyB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JennyB](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JennyB)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-text-please/255205/1 "2008-03-20T00:54:47Z")

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Hi there,

I’m new to this forum, but not to the site…

I have a limited understanding of actionscript, but can usually get it to do kind of what I like and copy and paste elements etc…

so what’s happening is this:

I have a Flash 8 movie that loads little submovies with content into a MC called container. On every submovie, I have to load scrolling text in different places on the timeline. I have about 5 sections on each submovie that the timeline jumps to, when you click on nav buttons within the submovie frame in the container flash. So I figured out how to do scrolling text with both the UI component and alternatively, with programmed buttons with this code:

on(release, press, keyPress “\<Down\>”){  
TOGI\_txt.scroll +=1;  
}

and of course the opposite for the up button

so when I go to test the movie, the text disappears and the scroller turns white, or just doesn’t work.

so I’m wondering how I would set up a scrolling text box that doesn’t live on the first frame of the movie, and is loaded into a submovie, in a container in another MC…

is it because the target is different when it’s loaded into another movie? or because you can’t have text boxes in a different frame than the first one?

Please help, I’m beating my head against the wall trying to figure it out…

thanks a bunch

JB