# How do I do variable speed streaming text?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-do-variable-speed-streaming-text/197811
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 19, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-do-variable-speed-streaming-text/197811 "2006-08-19T14:44:05Z")
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### Author: ![Pixelmech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Pixelmech](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pixelmech)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-do-variable-speed-streaming-text/197811/1 "2006-08-19T14:44:05Z")

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Hi there,

I need to have a stream of binary 0’s and 1’s going across a text box (I suppose it could be images too, it doesn’t really matter). Kind of like a news ticker I suppose. I need to be able to have like 9 instances of this, looking all the same but some going faster and some going slower.

It would need to be contained inside a certain area - so its not text going across the screen, but its text scrolling inside an area - again like a news ticker.

I have no idea how to approach this - I’m assuming AS of course, but if someone could get me started that would be great.

It would be best if I could do it somehow in a text field, as the streams really need to be at different angles (there are 9 of them shooting out from a large box on the left, to a smaller box on the right.)

Thanks!

Tom