# Scrollers?Text? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 2, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496 "2003-01-02T08:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![imxtremelybored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9a28c/32.png) [@imxtremelybored](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imxtremelybored)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/1 "2003-01-02T08:57:10Z")
Okai… I jus learned how to create scrolling text via a .txt file it works but it seems to b limited to a number of characters and words did i do it wrong? n if it isnt wrong, can i change it so dat the length can b longer? how?:hangover: ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/2 "2003-01-02T09:05:56Z")
Hmm, I have had no problems scrolling any lenght txt file. Post the source so I can take a look and see whats up… ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/3 "2003-01-02T09:16:50Z")
Da text file is here ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/4 "2003-01-02T09:26:52Z")
I think s/he meant to post an FLA file or code snippet… Did you set your textbox to be multiline? myTextfield\_txt.multiline = true; Or select your textfield on the stage and in the Property panel you should see a dropdown list that has three choices 1. Singleline 2. multiline 3. multiline no word wrap Either way should work. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/5 "2003-01-02T09:30:46Z")
Dis woz da code dat i used… loadText = new loadVars(); loadText.load(“profile.txt”); //creating the loadVarsText function loadText.onLoad = function() { scroller.text = this.profiletext; }; ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/6 "2003-01-02T09:34:09Z")
Yes the fla would help…you have scroller as the instance name on the textbox? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/7 "2003-01-02T09:34:25Z")
Give this a go… ```auto loadText.onLoad = function() { scroller.multiline = true; scroller.wordWrap = true; scroller.text = this.profiletext; }; ``` ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/8 "2003-01-02T09:53:28Z")
hmmz… I gave da dynamic textbox an instance name…but not for the scroller the code doesnt seem to b working…i tried with the old code with multiline, but it didnt work either i’ve also attached the amount of text i really want ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/9 "2003-01-02T09:55:54Z")
Also…now dat i hav put the old code bak in…it doesnt seem to either scroll or is taking in less characters ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/10 "2003-01-02T10:00:14Z")
THANZ DUDES… :beam: i kinda figured it out…i had some sort of character dat caused the scrolling to stop…but i got rid of it and it now works!!! thank u so much… ps. happy new year ---
**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:** [January 2, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrollers-text/10496/11 "2003-01-02T14:22:31Z")
> \*Originally posted by imxtremelybored \* > \*\*THANZ DUDES… :beam: i kinda figured it out…i had some sort of character dat caused the scrolling to stop…but i got rid of it and it now works!!! thank u so much… ps. happy new year \*\* yeah thanks to this thread , the same problem happen to me too…keep racking my brains why it wont scroll to the end…checked back my txt file and figure out that its the “&” char which prevents it from scrolling! :!: