# Please help newbee with scrolling text :(

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 13, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294 "2004-08-13T07:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![2nd\_day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a4c791/32.png) [@2nd\_day](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2nd_day)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/21 "2004-08-14T00:08:07Z")

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are the parameters of the scrollbar component okay? is the targetInstanceName the same as the instance name of your textfield you want to scroll?

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**Author:** ![waygray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@waygray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waygray)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/22 "2004-08-14T00:33:10Z")

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yes, Instance name and target instance name are the same. As I said, when playing in the movie, the text comes up, and I can even highlight it and use the mouse wheel to scroll, just no buttons…

If you have an email, I could email you the fla. It’s about 1.9 Meg. Or if you have a yahoo account, I can put it in a yahoo briefcase, and you could get it there. Why would the upload function now say the file can only be 75k? Weird.

Waygray

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**Author:** ![2nd\_day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a4c791/32.png) [@2nd\_day](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2nd_day)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/23 "2004-08-14T00:38:16Z")

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yes you could email it to [thomas@zeal-music.com](mailto:thomas@zeal-music.com) and you’re file cant be larger than 75k because otherwise the whole server would be full of all the .fla’s posted…

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**Author:** ![waygray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@waygray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waygray)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/24 "2004-08-14T01:08:27Z")

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you’ve got mail

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**Author:** ![waygray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@waygray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waygray)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/25 "2004-08-14T03:08:43Z")

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any luck?

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**Author:** ![2nd\_day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a4c791/32.png) [@2nd\_day](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/2nd_day)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/26 "2004-08-14T11:29:38Z")

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well i went to bed yesterday (it was about 3am here), so now i’m busy with you file, but i just dont get it. do you use flash mx 2004 or just flash mx? if you’re using flash mx you’re in the wrong forum. but it is very weird…

if someone else would give it a go… the file bandpicturepage.fla is downloadable here: [http://thomas.zeal-music.com/flash/](http://thomas.zeal-music.com/flash/)

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**Author:** ![waygray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@waygray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waygray)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/27 "2004-08-14T16:40:12Z")

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I am using MX2004, but the original file was from an earlier version of flash. I have just started over on the file from scratch, and things seem to be working now. Thanks for your help though. See I had taken the fla from another site, and replaced the images and buttons with my own-I’m new to this, so I don’t know if that is even “allowed” or not, but anyway that is what I did, and that may be the problem, because now things are going relatively smoothly with my own file…

Waygray

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**Author:** ![waygray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@waygray](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waygray)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/28 "2004-08-15T18:53:09Z")

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ok I have the new file up at:  
[http://www.rattletree.com/aboutus.html](http://www.rattletree.com/aboutus.html)  
things seem to be working ok-though all the text is not updated yet. The strange thing is that three of the pictures the scroll bar fades in with the picture, and the other three, the scroll bar hesitates and then comes on-weird. Any ideas?

Waygray

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**Author:** ![newhopekenny](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/newhopekenny/32/317_2.png) [@newhopekenny](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newhopekenny)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-newbee-with-scrolling-text/119294/29 "2004-08-16T11:43:13Z")

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You’re getting that “left side blah blah blah” error because you can’t change a variable on the left side of the equals sign.

Try changing:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll-1=1;
}

```

To:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll += 1;
}

```

OR:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll -= 1;
}

```

The above is/are the shorthand version of:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll = angelasecondtry.scroll + 1;
}

```

You could even do:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll++;
}

```

OR:

```auto
on (press) {
     angelasecondtry.scroll--;
}

```

That should work for ya (assuming everything else is in order or course). Just remember – you can not ever (in Flash) assign/change any properties of a variable on the left side of the equals sign. 😉

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