Flash and Me

[Spriggan]

umm, just right-click on the text feild and select "Scrollable".  That will add scroll bars.

To use buttons make a button and have 2 copys of it (or two different ones).  Name your text feild anything you want (you assign instance names in the top left hand corner).  Then on the buttons have

Code: [Select]

on (press){//or release, rollover or what ever you want
_root.myTextFeild.scroll++ //++ just automatical increases by one.  You could do +1 for the same or +2, +3.
}

on the other

Code: [Select]

on (press){
_root.myTextFeild.scroll--//this is like ++ except it subtracts one.  You could use -1 if you wanted.
}

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Coolest line in a tutorial:

"The machine can produce different results depending on what you put into it. For example, if you put bananas in a blender, you get mashed bananas, not mashed peaches."

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ok Sprig, here's a question for you on Flash.

build a global function that I can call from any of the objects in the timeline...
How do I do that best? Preferably one that I can use from ANY timeline

[Spriggan]

well define the function in the root timeline (or path), that way you can easly call it from any path.  So if you have

Code: [Select]


myFunction(){
/all my code here
}


then when you wanted to call it you'd use

Code: [Select]


_root.myFunction();


for calling other objects you'll need to use pathing too, you could easy call a function defined anywhere at about anytime, but it's easier to do it when they're in the root path.  If you haven't allready read something like this I recomend reading this pathing tutorial.

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/beginner/paths/index.shtml