# Text within a scroll pane
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 28, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952 "2003-07-28T17:26:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/1 "2003-07-28T17:26:20Z")
When I load text into a scroll pane, it cannot be controlled by the commands I use on the scroll pane. For example, if I change tha alpha on the pane to 0, the text is still visible. It is also visible outside the scroll pane. Is there any way around this? I need to load in both text and pictures into a panel where I can control them.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/2 "2003-07-28T17:35:45Z")
If you are loading it from a .txt file, you have to use actionscripting on the central timeline. make a new layer named actions, then insert a keyframe in the first frame. then add this code:
[AS]loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“kirupa.txt”);
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
scroller.text = this.kirupatext;
};
globalStyleFormat.textColor = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.arrow = 0xFFFFFF;
globalStyleFormat.face = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.shadow = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.darkshadow = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.highlight = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.highlight3D = 0x000000;
globalStyleFormat.scrollTrack = 0xCCCCCC;
globalStyleFormat.background = 0x006699;
globalStyleFormat.applyChanges(); [/AS]
and look in page 237 of the manual to find a list of all the options you can use in this code. hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/3 "2003-07-28T17:51:19Z")
I’m not loading it from a text file. Right now, I just have a whole external swf file that I load in. In that external swf is a scroll pane and in that scroll pane are text boxes and pictures. If there is a way I could set the text alpha to zero, that would solve my problem. They are dynamic text boxes within a scroll pane in an swf which gets loaded in using the loadMovie function.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/4 "2003-07-28T18:17:29Z")
if you’r not loading it from a text file, why not to make your own scroll pane?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/5 "2003-07-28T18:19:58Z")
Don’t know how. Otherwise I could.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/6 "2003-07-28T18:26:57Z")
simple maths
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-within-a-scroll-pane/26952/7 "2003-07-28T18:27:27Z")
If anyone knows of a tutorial on how to create a scroll panel I would greatly appreciate it/