scrolling a film in flash

[disfasia]

i have text in a mc and i have it load in an empty frame. the problem is the text is a bit longer than the page and i want to put a simple up and down arrow allowing the user scroll. after doing a search here and reading the scrolling comments,i am actually more confused by this. i do not want to make a box as one tutorial has me do, i just want to make two buttons that scroll. is this difficult? thanks for any information you might lend me...

regards,
julian

 

[disfasia]

after reading a zillion reports on how to scroll, i cancelled the idea of the loadvariable with a txt format and simply tweened away my text image. now i wonder, why is the loadvariable used since it seems MUCH more complicated?

thanks again...

disfasia

 

[oldnewbie]

Because you can easily change the text in the text file and the new text will appear in the Flash movie without having to redo a new movie each time you want to change the text!
Get it?

;-)

 

[davdesign]

....and the text file can be changed online using PHP for example, without the need for ftp/publishing, resulting in time-saving and easy-option for non-technical clients.

dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

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[disfasia]

When I tried to use the txt file and a load variable, i had many problems trying to get the text file to load. and all the tutorials i found fr this are for flash 3 and 4 and i get somewhat lost. do you know of a tutorial for this that involves flash 5?

thanks
disfasia

 

[davdesign]

Don't know what problems you faced, but there's only two basic rules you have to follow:

1>>>give the text box a variable name which matches that stated in the text file
2>>>load the text file into the correct level, and make sure the text-box variable takes this into account.

oh, and make sure the text file is where you say it is in the loadvariables action.

You'll find plenty of tutorials on this subject at the various flash info sites (although it's probably been discussed in here before, but the search engine seems to be down), but you can use your time for that search. There's a thread below this one I think, which has a few tutorial sites.

dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

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[disfasia]

thanks for your help! i will take a look.

disfasia

 

[disfasia]

ok, i have spent the entire day reading tutorials and i am still confused. now i decided NOT to do a load text variable, since i would have to go into flash anyway to delineate font changes, styles, etc. fine, i don't mind adjusting in flash and reuploading. but then i got to one posting where somebody said,'i keep reading and reading and i still cannot do this scrolling thing.' i have to echo this sentiment. i just want to scroll this text as if it were a graphic. so far, i have just used the keyframes to build an 'animation' in which the button leads to kf 1-3, leaving me with not really scrolling but jumping. how do i scroll up and down?

any help is greatly appreciated!

regards,

disfasia