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[sumire]

I have three questions...
please help if you can.
1. Scrolling text. Is there a way to create scrolling (scroll bar and all), with the background remaining transparent? Can I do this with the scrollbar offered from the components?

2. So far for my text my code on the arrows looks like this:
on (release) {
text.scroll-=1
}
What code should I add if I want the text to continuously scroll on "hold"?

3. Finally, If I want the text to be able to load as a PDF.... um... how do I go about doing this?

Thank you so much for your time and consideration!
-sumire

[NTD]

Hi,

You can use a dynamic textfield with no border or background for the transparent textfield. You can use a component scrollbar to scroll if the text amount is larger than the textfield size. Set the target in the scrollbar component to the textfield instance name. For continuous scrolling, try...

Frame code...

btnName.onPress=function(){
this.onEnterFrame=function(){
text.scroll--; 
}
}
btnName.onRelease=function(){
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}

As to loading a .pdf file into Flash, it can't be done. A .pdf file will only open in the default application for .pdf files(acrobat reader) which is a seperate application from flash. Flash can only load text files.

NTD