# Scroller
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 3, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805 "2003-03-03T00:39:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@X\_Alco](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/X_Alco)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805/1 "2003-03-03T00:39:59Z")
Ok here’s my question, I have an input text box with my text and its scrollable and all that stuff. But now I don’t want to use Macromedia’s scroll bar, I’d like to use my own. I don’t know what actions to asign the buttons. I want one to make it scroll up, and the other to make is scroll down. If someone could give me an answer I would be very thankfull.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805/2 "2003-03-03T00:49:35Z")
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/scrolltext.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/scrolltext.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805/3 "2003-03-03T00:54:54Z")
Erm…for me, I will simply create a movie clip, dump everything into that movieclip, and scroll it as a whole. In this way, you can use any button of your choice. Below, i create a boolean variable called ‘scrollUp’ at root level. Then we’ll put the codes below into, let’s say, the ‘scroll up’ button:
on ( press ) {
\_root.scrollUp = true;
}
on ( release, releaseOutside ){
\_root.scrollUp = false;
}
then in the movieclip itself, i will give it another piece of code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if ( \_root.scrollUp )
\_y += 5;
//we take 100 as the boundary. The movieclip cannot scroll
//beyond this boundary
```
if ( _y > 100 )
_y -= 5;
```
}
That’s all. Hope this helps 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805/4 "2003-03-03T00:57:35Z")
they are using Input text. doesn’t really work as well with a MC because then you would probably have to mask stuff…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroller/14805/5 "2003-03-03T02:03:30Z")
Well, I will just mask it. It’s not so difficult to create a mask anyway. 🙂 But again, it depends on what you are trying to do and which method works better for you.