Hello,
This is my first post. I have learned so much here already, so thanks for all the info! I’m trying to do something like at this site:
www.suncuredred.com
go there and click on “The Band” button. See how the text is scrolling and there is the fade out thing? How can that be recreated? I have searched and read the tuts here but have had no luck-sorry if I’ve missed something-I’m sure I have. I can’t even manage to get the Textarea component to work for me…
Thanks!
Waygray
Do you mean where the scroll text box fades in? Just create a text box like in the tutorial here at kirupa.com and set the movieclip symbol to motion tween its alpha from 0% to 100% when the button is pressed.
I’m sure there are many other better ways to do this but since I’m new that’s how I would do it.
rberry88
Well, my problem seems to be that I can create a scrollbar and text to scroll in a new document. I can even copy and paste it into another new document and it works great. If I do the same thing into my page that I’m working on, It doesn’t show me the buttons or scroll bar part, just a grey rectangle where it should be. What is going on?
Waygray
Hmmm, so you say? Here is my site I’m working on (my first flash site so no laughing). You see the right text box that comes up? If I open my site on my PC at home using Firefox 0.9 it only comes up as a grey rectangle (no buttons, sliders etc) like you mention, but if I use Opera, IE or Safari (Mac) it shows up fine. Others who have Firefox 0.9 say they can see it fine so I’m stumped.
My site: http://rberry883.home.comcast.net
Maybe this is what you are getting also?
Your site looks great! Yes that sounds like a similar problem, but I’m using IE-I see your scroll bar fine. Also the strange thing is that I can get it to work on a blank document, just not on the site I already have populated with stuff. Argh! It’s driving me nuts. Notice also at www.suncuredred.com that the text can’t be highlighted? How did he manage to do that?
Waygray
I think to get it so the text can’t be highlighted it may just have a clear symbol over it (alpha 0%) but that would just be a guess.
If you notice as the text scrolls and as it appears at the bottom you can tell there is some sort of mask over where it comes up from to get that fade in look.
Are you putting the textbox with scroller on its own layer? That is how I did mine and just put empty frames in front of it so it started where I wanted to on the timeline. Might not be the neatest way but it works for me.
text.selectable = false;
I assume that is and Actionscript? Where do I put “text.selectable=false?” I am using the UI scrollbar and there is no option for that in the properties. Thanks.
Still getting no love when I view as movie. I have the text in a box and if I highlight it I can scroll down (also works with the mouse wheel) but there are no buttons or the moving part of the scroll bar visible.
PS yes I am also just putting the scrollbar on it’s own layer (the top)
an easier way to make text.selectable = false is to just select the textbox (in your flash file) and then select this button:
Thanks 2nd day. OK, so I got the text unselectable, but now it won’t scroll (as there are still no buttons in the scroll bar).
I tried to create a button and used this actionscript:
on (press) {angelasecondtry.scroll-1=1;
}
where “angelasecondtry” is the instance name of the dynamic text, but still no luck. Error says “Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.
on (press) {angelasecondtry.scroll-1=1;”
Waygray.
PS thanks for helping out a newbee!
maybe this works: select your textfield in flash, the right-mouse-click it and select “scrollable”, have you checked if your text is dynamic?
otherwise: couldn’t you post your .fla so we can check it out for ourselves…
I edited while you replied. Text is checked as “scrollable”. How do I post the fla here?
press the reply button under my post… then in the additional options click manage attachments and then browse for the file and press upload… then press close this window… and then you’re done!
you dont have to use that actionscript when you’re using the scrollbar component…
It’s a 5 meg file, so it’s taking a minute to upload, but it’s on it’s way…Thanks!
OOPS, file’s too large…
couldnt you try to make a new flash document with a scrollbar to see if it will work. have you ever made a scrollbar with text before?
let me get rid of some of these extranious things…
maybe this will help too:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/textscroller.htm
Yeah, that’s the crazy thing. As I said in an earlier post, I can create a scroll barin a new document and even cut and paste it into another new document and all works well when playing in the movie. But it won’t go into this document-I got it less than 2 meg…it’s heading your way. You can see when you hit the button of the womans face, the text comes up, but no scroll buttons:(. If you change the text to selectable, then you can select the text and also scroll with the mouse wheel, but still no buttons…
Waygray.
I don’t get it. First time I tried to upload, it said that limit was 2meg, so I got it under 2 meg. Now I try and upload it and it says limit is 75k!
