# Scrolling A Textbox With Ease

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 15, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660 "2003-07-15T15:20:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/1 "2003-07-15T15:20:18Z")

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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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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/2 "2003-07-15T15:46:44Z")

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Heres an example. Its not mine though

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/3 "2003-07-15T15:53:18Z")

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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

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/4 "2003-07-15T17:05:08Z")

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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…

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/5 "2003-07-15T17:10:16Z")

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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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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/6 "2003-07-15T17:38:18Z")

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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…

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/7 "2003-07-15T17:45:38Z")

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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

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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/8 "2003-07-15T17:47:12Z")

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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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**Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-a-textbox-with-ease/25660/9 "2003-07-15T17:48:49Z")

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ok thanks jubb, i’ll give it a go