# Need help in text scroll
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-text-scroll/116788
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 21, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-text-scroll/116788 "2004-07-21T14:18:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@icube](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/icube)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-text-scroll/116788/1 "2004-07-21T14:18:20Z")
i’m using [this tutorial](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/scrolltext.htm) to make my dynamic scroll text in flash mx… i din choose to use the inbuilt flash mx component because i wanted a custom one…
the thing is… how do i **click and hold** on my down/up button and the text continue scrollling…
i tried changing the tutorial code
```auto
on (press, release, keyPress "")
```
to
```auto
on (press)
```
and it doesn’t work…
please advice me what to do… thanks…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-text-scroll/116788/2 "2004-07-21T14:47:32Z")
I usually do mine similar to this. Put this code on the timeline and give your buttons the instance name of ‘up’ and ‘down’ and name your text box ‘textbox’
up.onPress = up.onDragOver = function() {
pressing = true;
movement = -1;
};
up.onRelease = up.onDragOut = function() {
pressing = false;
};
down.onPress = down.onDragOver = function() {
pressing = true;
movement = 1;
};
down.onRelease = down.onDragOut = function() {
pressing = false;
};
\_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (pressing == true) {
textbox.scroll = textbox.scroll+movement;
}
};
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-text-scroll/116788/3 "2004-07-21T15:34:25Z")
if you’re using a high frame rate…this would work better:
```auto
scrollUp = function () {
contentText.scroll--;
};
scrollDown = function () {
contentText.scroll++;
};
//down
down.onPress = function() {
scrollDown();
scrollTextDown = setInterval(scrollDown, 100);
};
down.onRelease = down.onDragOut=function () {
clearInterval(scrollTextDown);
};
//up
up.onPress = function() {
scrollUp();
scrollTextUp = setInterval(scrollUp, 100);
};
up.onRelease = up.onDragOut=function () {
clearInterval(scrollTextUp);
};
```