Vertical Scrolling Marquee

programming flash
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I’m looking to create a vertical scrolling marquee in flash. Right now I’m using an “IFRAME” and another page to scroll it, but would like to keep the flash theme going for my site.

On the left side of this page: http://www.dvmrs.net/home.htm, is what it looks like now under “Recent Incidents”. I’m trying to turn this into flash so it works a little better.

I’ve noticed in IE it doesnt start to scroll until you put the mouse over it, and in firefox it goes back to the begining after you take the mouse off. So I would like to make something that starts automatically, and keeps going from where it is too.

I’ve tried putting the hard code in the actions but the box is blank when it loads. I’m just wondering how to get it to work when the flash loads. I’ve tried

_root.onLoad = function() {
    theText.htmlText = "<font color=#FF0000><b>Motor Vehicle Crash</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2024>at Mascher &amp; Roosevelt Blvd in Philadelphia</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>Garage Fire</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1986>in Upper Moreland, Montgomery County</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>Serious MVA</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1979>with Medevac in Horsham Township, Montgomery County</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>All Hands</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1960>in a 3 Story Row Dwelling in West Philadelphia</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>Basement Fire</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1959>in a Row Dwelling in West Philadelphia</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>Basement Fire</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1967>in a 1 Story Dwelling in Philadelphia's Nicetown Section</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>All Hands</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1937>in a 1 Story Commercial in Philadelphia's Richmond Section</a><br> <font color=#FF0000><b>4th Alarm</b></font><br><a target=_parent href=phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1929>in a 3 Story Commercial in Marple Township, Delaware County</a><br>"
}

but that doesn’t work. I tried it with the scroll bar but it didn’t work, and I really am not looking to have one, so I left it out.