Scrolling a text box

[DeepBlerg]

Hi,

I've been reading a tutorial over on Flashkit

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Actionsc-Patrick_-640/index.shtml

and this tutorial loads text from a .txt file into a nice scroller box thing. What I'd like to do is actually have the text in the movie instead of loading it in. Has anyone does this before?

Thanks.

 

[wangbar]

Yep - just set your dynamic textbox to a variable ("text" will do) and then define the variable in the first frame of your movie as:

text="whatever your text is";

 

[oldnewbie]

The nice thing about loading text from a text file, is that you can update the text, without having to update the movie each time, which is not possible when setting the text as a variable within the movie itself.
But yes! This textbox, like any other, can be adapted to display a text set within the movie itself, and not reading it from a text file.
A few script changes have to be made, more so if you change the dimensions of the textbox, but yes, it is definately possible.

Regards,