Re:FLASH: Scroll bars and text fieldsRe:FLASH: Scroll bars andtext fields>

[Jefferis Peterson]

Gee Helen,


Maybe what I want to do Flash can't do?  Can you create a text field that

has more text than the visible text area and would that create scroll

bars inside the text area as it would on a form?  What I was trying to do

was have an area that I could fill with an article of a certain length

without having to create multiple pages and/or clips. Is that possible?


Jefferis Peterson, Pres.

Flash and Web Design

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>

>Jefferis Peterson wrote:


>> but it doesn't seem to create a scroll - able text field.


>Hi Jeff,

>

>You can't set maxscroll, only read it, to find out whether you've

>scrolled down the max amount in a textfield.  Scroll can be set or read,

>and should be set to the line in your textfield that you want at the top

>of the scrollable field.  The textfield itself will appear as you set it

>(dragged it out) on the stage.  I don't know of a way to set the size

>(length) of a textfield based on the amount of text that will be in it

>- -- you'd have to use a movie clip and some kind of calculations based on

>the font size, etc (messy), I think -- hope that's not what you were

>hoping to do.

>

>Helen


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