# Question about text scroller script

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-text-scroller-script/44981>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 9, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-text-scroller-script/44981 "2004-03-09T20:52:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![marc123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@marc123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/marc123)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-text-scroller-script/44981/1 "2004-03-09T20:52:09Z")

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some one gave me this script to make my text ‘max scroll’

[AS] this.createEmptyMovieClip(“scrollHandler”,-50);  
up.onPress = function(){  
scrollHandler.onEnterFrame = function(){  
textF.scroll–  
}  
}  
down.onPress = function(){  
scrollHandler.onEnterFrame = function(){  
textF.scroll++  
}  
}  
up.onRelease = down.onRelease = function(){  
delete scrollHandler.onEnterFrame  
}[/AS]

but i cant get it to work?

few things i dont understand…

1. this.createEmptyMovieClip(“scrollHandler”,-50);

is scrollHandler the name of the Movie Clip that contains the scroller. if so my movie clip has 2 b that name.

1. what if. my scroller is in a movie clip called “mainTextBox” that is in another movie clip called “bothleftnrightmain”…would the fact that my text scroller is in a MC that is in another MC?

any ideas?:h: