# Simple Question - Scroll Text Inside External swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question-scroll-text-inside-external-swf/224906>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 7, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question-scroll-text-inside-external-swf/224906 "2007-05-07T04:00:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![kinney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@kinney](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kinney)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-question-scroll-text-inside-external-swf/224906/1 "2007-05-07T04:00:11Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I have a really simple Newbie question regarding scroll text.  
I have some text in one swf, “about.swf” that you can scroll through  
using up and down arrows. I would like to load it inside of my master  
swf, “backbonemetals.swf”. Of course, it works fine when I test it (about.swf)  
on it’s own but it doesn’t work inside of “backbonemetals.swf”. I know  
this has something to do with the movie referring to “root” in  
my actionscripting, but I’m new and I don’t know how to change it. I’ve tried  
replacing “root” with “this” but it still doesn’t work. All my coding is listed  
below and you can download both fla files from the links below.

Thank you for your help!!!

The “backbonemetals” fla  
[http://www.movedigital.com/go/peral…kbonemetals.fla](http://www.movedigital.com/go/peraltatv/66550/backbonemetals.fla)

The “about” fla  
[http://www.movedigital.com/go/peraltatv/66561/about.fla](http://www.movedigital.com/go/peraltatv/66561/about.fla)

My coding for “about.fla”

On Main Timeline-

Up Arrow:  
on (rollOver) {  
tellTarget (“control”) {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
}  
}  
on (rollOut, dragOut) {  
tellTarget (“control”) {  
gotoAndStop(1);  
}  
}

Down Arrow:  
on (rollOver) {  
tellTarget (“control”) {  
gotoAndPlay(5);  
}  
}  
on (rollOut, dragOut) {  
tellTarget (“control”) {  
gotoAndStop(4);  
}  
}

Inside My “control” Movie Clip-

Down Layer:  
y = getProperty("\_root.text.content", \_y);  
if (y\<-1600) {  
gotoAndPlay(4);  
} else {  
setProperty("\_root.text.content", \_y, y-6);  
}

Up Layer:  
y = getProperty("\_root.text.content", \_y);  
if (y\>100) {  
gotoAndStop(1);  
} else {  
setProperty("\_root.text.content", \_y, y+6);