RE: [flasher] RE: Please help me!!! Scrolling text boxes!!!

[Cheng, Kynan (London)]

Set up your text file like this:


TextBox=This is the text for the text box. I can keep typing and let the

text wrap automatically in the text box or I can put in my own line breaks

for

every

word.



Note that the & will tell flash that another separate variable is being

entered, so you have to use a code %something for special characters like

that. but spaces and line breaks seem to have no problem.

In your movie, load the file onto level 0, and the variable TextBox should

be automatically created on level 0.



> > -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Mathew Smith [msmith2sc [dot] rr [dot] com (mailto:msmith2sc [dot] rr [dot] com)]

> > Subject: [flasher] Please help me!!! Scrolling text boxes!!!

> >

> >

> > I've tried everything and still can't find what I'm looking for!!!

> > Please help!!

> >

> > * I'm looking for a simple tutorial on creating scrolling text boxes

> > that read info from an external .txt file. I need there to be line

> > breaks. I've tried Patrick Jansens tutorials on Flashkit, but get

> > different results that don't work. I'm desperate! Please help!

> >

> > * I tried the one on Macromedia's site. The REALLY simple one.. But I

> > can't do line breaks in variables.. can I? Is there a character to

> > use in an ABC variable for a line break?

> >

> > Thank you somebody!!!

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> > Mathew Smith

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