Create an Scrolling text in Flash CS3
Today we learn how to create an Scrolling Text in Flash CS3 in few steps! Here is an
example and from here you can generate Lorem Ipsum text!
[1] Open Flash CS3 and create a new Flash File (ActionScript 3.0)
[2] Select Text Tool (T) and create a text block
[2] Copy and Paste your text
[3] Now go to Window and select Components. When the Components panel appears, open the
User Interface components and drag a copy of the UIScrollBar component near bloack text
[4] You can change the color of your scroll bar in the Properties Panel
[5] That’s it! Test your Movie, Save and Publish it!
My final example is here and the Lorem Ipsum website here! If I have time I will make a video! Thank you!
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December 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
The text has to be set as “dynamic” or “input” text in order for this to work.
I would like to create a scrollable text box with formatted text (bold, colors, etc.)that I input for viewing by the user.(not editable) Do you know how to do that?
February 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Hi, Great sample! but i’m trying to add it to an existing flash site, when i test it it keeps poping in and out.
the timeline is off somewhere, plus it pops in and out on the the other pages also, can you help? I just need it for one page. and maybe some other text scroll on other pages.
Art
February 28th, 2008 at 3:50 am
I’ve try it…
but it needs more explanation….,
first, you need to make your text “dynamic text” and gave it and Instance name on it…
second, click on the UI scrollBar and go to properties and give the target name same with your text Instance name…
that’s it then test the movie…
enjoy…
March 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Just not enough information. Tutorials should be informative… otherwise you just wasted my time.
Thanks for that.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Hey, thanks dudes or dudets! I knew it should be simpler than action script stuff. Why can’t Adobe put this kind of straight-forward info in their help files? For that matter, why can’t Adobe write a useful help system?
May 28th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I would really like to know answer to Zachary post:
I would like to create a scrollable text box with formatted text (bold, colors, etc.)that I input for viewing by the user.(not editable) Do you know how to do that???
Is this possible??
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for the tutorial mate, very helpful. Also cheers to the other posters for the last steps. CS3 tutorials made this very complicated.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
thank for your tutorial mate …..
July 9th, 2008 at 5:03 am
This is a complete waste of time. I tried this tutorial and it just is not working. I even tried naming the text and scroll bar the same instance name but it still is not working. If your going to post something you have to be thorough and this is crap!
July 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
It worked for me. Bear in mind your text box needs to be dynamic… try that wtf. B
August 15th, 2008 at 12:28 am
To those who cannot figure this out, I was playing around with it really fast. Anggie was right, but you have to go to the component inspector window. under parameter the “scrolltargetname” needs to be the same as the text instance name. you will get an error if you have the instance of the scroll bar and the text box the same. also you will have to click the text and change single line to “multiline” or “multiline no wrap” for this to work correctly.
hope this helps
November 8th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I Follow your advise and those comments advise. This still doesn’t work. The text I past on the text area box spill out of the box and the scroll bar won’t scroll.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:01 am
To have a formatted text for the dynaic textbox. try using HtmlText;
if the instance of your text box is called myText, your actionscript should be:
myText.htmlText = “Title regular text”
this should effectively allow you to put rich html formatting into a dynamic textbox, note that the html can not have manual carriage returns, you will need to remove all carriage returns from your html to not have any debugging errors
November 17th, 2008 at 4:02 am
note i added a bold tag around “Title” above however this comment tool is applying the bold vs displaying it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Do what Marcus says… I did, and it works fine. Thanks Marcus…