Text Scrolling... need some help here

[Kijori]

I'm able to scroll a chunk of text line by line by creating my own scrolling script at every onRelease function.

How do I make the text scroll continuously while the mouse button is depressed? It's kinda not effective to be pressing the mouse button many times.

By the way, I don't want to use the scroll component.

 

[DJCordel]

Hello...

Create two movieclips for your up and down arrows and place this code on them (needs to be movieclips, not buttons). Make sure you place them on the movieclips themselves and not the timeline.


// FOR THE UP ARROW
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
_root.myText_txt.scroll -=1;
}
}



// FOR THE DOWN ARROW
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
_root.myText_txt.scroll +=1;
}
}


Hope that helps! And of course, you will have to change the name and target of the text field I have here to reflect the actual name and target you have in your movie.