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Subject: RE: FLASH: Formatting for external text.
From: Matt Wobensmith
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:46:23 +0100

(whoops, forgot to update the subject line!)

Hi Mark -

You wrote:

>one more question, can you scroll text that is
>linked to an external file?

Sure. Lots of ways to do this. After you load the text, you can create a
"text scroller". One such example, in a TechNote:

How to create scrolling text
TN 14156
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scroll_text.htm

In addition, Colin Moock has posted a few different ways to do this:

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/actionscript/scrolltext/basicscroll.htm
l

There are many samples of scrolling text out there on third-party Flash
developer sites. The master list of sites:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/12046


HTH,

Matt


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Macromedia Tech Support
Flash Team Lead

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