How do I add multiple items to a scrolling text box in Flash?

Seanie M

Hi there,

Creating a scrolling text box in Flash, that's the easy bit. The problem is adding multiple elements to that box (separate text boxes, images, etc.) and having them all scroll together is the difficult bit. Flash being Flash, there is no concise one-size-fits-all solution. Can anyone offer me some tips? Using Flash CS4 and Actionscript 2 (out of preference).

Seanie.

louie

try loading the text from an external file like a .txt file
This way you have more control over what you want to display.

Seanie M

No, that's not it louie. Check out www.dezynamite.com/abbey as a prelude to what I am doing. I want to add separate text and image elements to the one scrolling area. When in Flash, you can't do it straight up as a WYSIWYG - there's got to be something akin to making it a button and then adding elements inside that button, therefore all of them 'glued together' as one when brought back to the main pane. The problem is that when you convert the text box to a button or movie graphic, the scrollbar function ceases.

:mad:

Placebo

maybe use masks instead of using the built in UIscroll component

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollbar.htm

Seanie M

Thanks Placebo, that (with a few tiny tweaks) has hit the nail on the head. Much appreciated!

Seanie.