# Scrolling text horizontally - HELP

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**Created:** [May 27, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-text-horizontally-help/111510 "2004-05-27T18:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![illuminare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aeb1de/32.png) [@illuminare](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/illuminare)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-text-horizontally-help/111510/1 "2004-05-27T18:29:50Z")

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[font=Arial]Hi all,[/font]

[font=Arial]Here comes another tricky (I think at least) question regarding scroll in Flash. I have followed the tutorial ([color=black][http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm)) for loading text dynamically from a text-file and using the scrollbar component. It works fine. However, what I would like to do instead is to get the text to scroll horizontal instead. This might not be such a tricky thing to do, however, here comes the tricky part. Imagine a HTML-table. For every update I make, another column is added to far most left, and thus the whole table becomes wider. The table has a fixed height and the columns in it have fixed widths. Thus, the newest text will be positioned inside a column to the left, and then the older updates will follow to the right, each in its own comlumn. Is a solution like this (scrolling text horizontally) possible to accomplish in flash (perhaps by using a scroll component and dynamically loading text from a text-file)?[/color][/font]

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[color=black][font=Arial]Again, I apologize if there is an answer in the forums to a question such as this one and I haven’t been able to find it. Help is very much appreciated. [/font][/color]

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[color=black][font=Arial]Best regards,[/font][/color]

[color=black][font=Arial]Illuminare[/font][/color]

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**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:** [May 28, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-text-horizontally-help/111510/2 "2004-05-28T08:01:56Z")

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Is there really no one that can help me out with this? Keeping my fingers crossed that some programming guru can solve this one.

/ Illuminare