dynamic text problem

[beforedawn]

Hi,

Check out the fla and xml links below. The xml loads in and is processed fine but I can't seem to get it to display in the scrolling clip. The scrolling clip used to work fine with static text but now doesn't at all.

link to folder: http://www.beforedawn.net/probs/

any help most appreciated.

thanks

ash

[lunatic]

did you embed your font outlines? is there a mask involved?

[beforedawn]

Hi,

i just checked the font outline weren't embedded but that didn't help, there is a mask involved. What does that change?

thanks

ash

[Dutchy]

It's not that easy to mask dynamic fonts... You need to put the dynamic text in a movieclip and before you can mask it...

hope it helps,
Dutchy

[beforedawn]

Guys,

I have managed to solve the problem. I think there were two issues, first the mask. And second how the text was being set, I was using a method which was very complicated.

It has a bit of struggle to find a scroller that will do dynamic text properly. Now that this scroller works I thought I should post it.

Here is a dynamic text scroller with resizing scrollbar and text. It also processes xml, at the beginning, if required.

thanks

ash

[lunatic]

Very cool of you to post your solution! This will help a lot of people. Thanks! =)