Scrolling A Textbox With Ease

programming flash
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Ok, I thought I had the answer to this a while back. Not sure if it’s possible, cuz I didn’t see anything on this specific topic. Can you scroll a textbox with php data with ease? Please tell me yes.

Here’s is the simple code i have now just to test
[AS]
on(release){
myText.scroll ++;
}
[/AS]

I tried dividing this by numerous numbers, in fact I tried so many things I don’t know where to begin to start

Thanks!

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Heres an example. Its not mine though

3

claudio, thanks but this is kinda slow and bulky, i’ll try to tweak it, to get it to work better.

Any more ???

Thanks again claudio

4

well text boxes can only be scrolled with whole numbers (as far as i know) the only way I can think of to do that is to put the dynamic textbox in a movieclip and use buttons to ease the movie clip…

5

yes i thought of that, but wouldn’t that scroll the entire textbox? in other words i just want the text to scroll, i think that would make the textbox itself scroll

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yeah it would, but i don’t think its possible to do easing like that unless you put the whole box into a movieclip and mask it…

7

hmm, would you suggest forget loading the data from the database and just making my news an mc? Would rather not cuz i’m also making an html site, and i dont really want to have to update 2 pages ya know

8

no, just put a dynamic text box in the MC and that way it will update with the database. Just make sure you embed the font so that you can mask it.

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ok thanks jubb, i’ll give it a go