# Horizontal scroll of text - this is tricky!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 28, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/horizontal-scroll-of-text-this-is-tricky/111579 "2004-05-28T13:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![illuminare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aeb1de/32.png) [@illuminare](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/illuminare)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/horizontal-scroll-of-text-this-is-tricky/111579/1 "2004-05-28T13:32:29Z")
[font=Arial]Hi all,[/font] [font=Arial]Here comes another tricky (I think at least) question regarding scroll in Flash. I have followed the tutorial ([color=black][http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm)) for loading text dynamically from a text-file and using the scrollbar component. It works fine. However, what I would like to do instead is to get the text to scroll horizontal instead. This might not be such a tricky thing to do, however, here comes the tricky part. Imagine a HTML-table. For every update I make, another column is added to far most left, and thus the whole table becomes wider. The table has a fixed height and the columns in it have fixed widths. Thus, the newest text will be positioned inside a column to the left, and then the older updates will follow to the right, each in its own comlumn. Is a solution like this (scrolling text horizontally) possible to accomplish in flash (perhaps by using a scroll component and dynamically loading text from a text-file)?[/color][/font] [color=black][font=Arial]Again, I apologize if there is an answer in the forums to a question such as this one and I haven’t been able to find it. Help is very much appreciated. [/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Best regards,[/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial]Illuminare[/font][/color]