# Please Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 2, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730 "2002-06-02T04:08:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/1 "2002-06-02T04:08:23Z")

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Hey all flashers, I have two questions that have been troubling me for some time. I was wondering if you guys could help me out with them.\r\r1. Is there a way to use the “stop” actionscript command with a single layer instead of the whole scene?\r\r2. How do I get a scrolling text effect? I want it where there is a single body of text. Throughout the animation, the text would scroll upwards. Then, when a line reaches the top, I want it to go back down to the bottom of the text box and start going up again. This would be a continuous loop.\r\r\r

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/2 "2002-06-02T04:10:36Z")

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1: Put everything in that layer into a movieclip and then use a stop action at the end of the movieclip\r\r2: Put the text in a movieclip and change the y position.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/3 "2002-06-02T14:55:08Z")

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You can also use .scroll, maxscrol and such (see text scrolling tutorial on this site).\r\rpom 0]

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/4 "2002-06-02T18:07:34Z")

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If I put the text into a movie clip then when I change the Y axis will it recycle to the bottom when it gets to the top?

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/5 "2002-06-02T18:23:35Z")

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If you tell it to, yes it will ! Simple matter of \*\* if\*\* tests :

```auto
 if (I'm out) {move the text up}\r\rif (I'm out the other way around) {move the text down}

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/6 "2002-06-02T20:20:26Z")

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Would I have to make each line of text a symbol or just the whole body of text?

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/7 "2002-06-02T20:51:50Z")

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The whole body. Controlling each line is not interesting…\r\rpom 0]

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/8 "2002-06-02T20:57:13Z")

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Hey could anyone here write the actionscript required? I have just touched the edges of the code and don’t know much about it. Maybe if you could explain it also? Thank you very much!\r\rPS. \r\rCode: Continuously move text body up. When a line of text reaches a certain Y value, the line goes back down to the bottom and starts back up.

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**Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/1730/9 "2002-06-04T10:12:35Z")

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Turn your text into a movie clip and then this is the code you have to put to this movie clip :

```auto
 onClipEvent (load) {\r\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp starty = this._y ;\r\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp limit = starty + 200 ;\r\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp increment = 3 ;\r\r}\r\ronClipEvent (enterFrame) {\r\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp if (this._y>limit) this._y = starty ;\r\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp this._y += increment ;\r\r}

```

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