Looking for Scroller w/ Easing tutorial

programming flash
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Just as the title says. I am using Flash 8, and I am looking for a tutorial that covers using a scroller with easing applied to text that is being dynamically loaded in through XML. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

2

Have you thought about using Claudio’s scroller?

scotty(-:

3

Hey Scotty,

I have but I am really not sure what is going on. That is a really long thread and I am not sure what to read/which files to glance at, etc. That and towards the end it looks like people are having a hard time getting CSS to work, which I need to have working. Are there specific posts I should look at?

4

There is also another tutorial on easing scrollbar.

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206127

Hope that helps.

Martha Stewart.

5

I was just looking at that.

How would I go about implementing some CSS formatted XML into this? I’m sorry I am familiar with CSS and XML but actionscript still troubles me.

Thanks.

6

As ong as you use CDATA and a html enabled textfield, there shouldn’t be any problems I think. I fyou want to use different fonts, be sure you have all fonts embedded, you can use dummy textfields for this.

scotty(-:

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Hey scotty.

I’m trying to combine different .fla’s I am finding all over the place and I am not having any luck. I took kirupa’s scroller w/ the easing and tried to make it load XML and can’t even get it to do that. I actually can’t get it to load anything, mainly because I’m a moron.

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Post your files?

scotty(-:

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Uh…I don’t want to sound noobish but its just the code from that kirupa scroller with easing and some XML code I had from another example. The only problems I seem to have is getting the XML to show, in the dynamic text field, inside of the movie clip, as per kirupa’s scroller. I can get it to show as long as it isn’t in the movie clip.

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Did you embed the font, cause it’s working for me…

scotty(-:

11

Yes sir. Still not having any luck.

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Here’s an example of Claudio’s scroller with xml and CSS :slight_smile:

scotty(-:

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Hey scotty,

Thanks for this example. It makes more sense to me seeing the code and how it works, except…

the CSS isn’t working. I fixed all the code in the CSS file to this


.headerText {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  font-size: 15px;
  color: #FF0000;
}

.bodyText {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  color: #0000FF; 
}
a:link {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  color:#0000FF;
}

a:hover {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  color:#FF0000;
}

and I changed the XML to this


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test>
	<txt><![CDATA[<span class="headerText">Hi there</span><br /><a href="http://www.kirupa.com">Kirupa</a> ]]>
	</txt>
</test>

When I left it the way you had it the CSS didn’t work at all. The text showed but it wasn’t styled. Now that I changed it to how CSS should look and what not, the text now doesn’t show at all either.

Sigh.

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Weird, it wasn’t styled in the swf as well?
Change your CSS like this

.headerText {
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 15px;
  color: #FF0000;
}

.bodyText {
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 12px;
  color: #0000FF; 
}
a:link {
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 12px;
  color:#0000FF;
}

a:hover {
  font-family: Arial;
  font-size: 12px;
  color:#FF0000;
}

and it will work (embed the font)

scotty(-:

15

Ok this is strange. when I change the font on the dummy FoundrySansBold text field my styled text stops working. If I leave it at FoundrySansBold (which I don’t have) it for some reason styles the text? :h: This makes no sense to me lol.

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Skip the dummy field and change the font in the main mc textfield to Arial and embed it.
Or leave the dummy field and change it there to Arial.

scotty(-:

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Sweet that worked. Now one last question if you don’t mind.

If I don’t want to use Arial how would I get that to work?

EDIT: Hey scotty nevermind. I just removed the font tags from the CSS document. Thanks a lot buddy!!!

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you’re welcome :thumb: