Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text ?

[Deb]

I followed the tutorial for Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text & its works well. The problem I am experiencing I have a limited about of space in my movie for the text box. The text file has all the data that I need to display but for some reason I only see a portion of the information & I can't seem to figure out my mistake.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Deb

[lostinbeta]

if you have an & symbol (ampersand) then it won't show past that point.

& defined a new variable, so Flash reads it that way and considers it a stopping point.

[Deb]

Lostinbeta,

You are the best. Thanks so much for the help.

Deb

[lostinbeta]

LOL... no problem :geek:

[lilynet]

Lostinbeta,

I had the same problem as Deb and reading about this "&" helped me too. Thank you so much.

[lostinbeta]

No problem Liliya! :)

If you found this thread, my guess is that you used the search feature of the forum... and I have to say THANK YOU!!!! I was beginning to think that was something only mods could see because no one ever uses it. It makes me happy that you did :beam:

[lilynet]

Yeah, I did use the search feature. In fact, I searched till the end of the internet back and forth these past few days to find out all I need to know about loading external text files. I am new to flash, but I pick things up quick. Your post really took me of the stumbling point. Now I just have to figure out how to scroll my externally loaded text.

Anyway, thanks so much once again.

[lostinbeta]

For scrolling dynamically loaded text you could use the scrollbar component method as seen here....

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm

Or an up and down arrow method as seen here...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/scrolltext.htm


The up and down arrow method tutorial doesn't have dynamically loaded text, but I am sure if you skip the part about adding text into the textbox and just have your loaded text get loaded in it should work just the same (in theory).


Creating a custom made scrollbar like the component is a lot of hard work and coding, so you might not want to tread there yet. I am not even sure I can do one of those.

[lilynet]

wow, thanks for the URLs. The scrollbar component I;m not crazy about, I'm really trying to get the up and down scroller, which I will try now from the tut you gave me. You are a lot of help, lostinbeta. Thank you so much.

[lostinbeta]

Im not too crazy about the scrollbar component either, so I don't blame you.

I am glad you foud those links useful :)