# Why won't the XML-fed news ticker wrap long lines?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 26, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363 "2006-03-26T09:55:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ChadT523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@ChadT523](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ChadT523)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363/1 "2006-03-26T09:55:59Z")

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I’m hitting the forums because I’m not much of a coder and I’m stuck. I’m working with the flash news ticker tutorial here:

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm)

and the thing jams up when my text is too long to fit as a single line within the text box! Can’t figure it out. If anyone can see a problem with the code, or suggest a better way to do a nice news ticker, please help!

- Chad

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**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363/2 "2006-03-26T14:40:32Z")

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Set the textfield to multiline?

scotty(-:

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**Author:** ![ChadT523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@ChadT523](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ChadT523)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363/3 "2006-03-28T08:34:40Z")

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Text is set to multithread. If there are too many caracters, the banner just gets stuck on itself and wont move to the next item. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-wont-the-xml-fed-news-ticker-wrap-long-lines/183363/4 "2006-03-30T09:27:17Z")

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Post your .fla?

scotty(-: