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Hi anonymous , Yes it is possible, look in the doc...

2009-06-27T05:15:18.822-07:00

Hi anonymous ,
Yes it is possible, look in the documentation at the TextField class; there is a property textHeight that holds the width of the text contained in a text field. Compare this property with the text filed height if the textHeight is bigger that text field height you will make the buttons visible.
I have updated the source files to have this capability; you can download it

Thanks for the tutorial. Easy, yet very helpful. ...

2009-06-25T09:07:30.662-07:00

Thanks for the tutorial. Easy, yet very helpful. I do have a question.
What code would I have to add to make the buttons disappear if the text fits within the text field?
For example, my text field is 512px high. If the text fits within that area and does not extend beyond, I want the arrows to not be there. But if I add text and make fill more area than 512 px, then I want the

God, man! you're a genius! thankx again for the ti...

2009-02-17T14:57:00.000-08:00

God, man! you're a genius! thankx again for the tip. I'm looking forward to get a decent as3 manual or tutorial, because since Adobe switched to ActionScript 3.0 I can't seem to make things work... I don't know... I just belive the programming changed a lot. Anyways.

Cheers!

Hi chickenChemo,You can’t unload the loaded text i...

2009-02-15T23:32:00.000-08:00

Hi chickenChemo,
You can’t unload the loaded text in flash. You must load a new .txt file every time you click on the next button and when it’s loaded you just assign the loaded text to your text field. This will work .

Hey Biochimistu, sorry to bother you again, but I ...

2009-02-13T12:35:00.000-08:00

Hey Biochimistu, sorry to bother you again, but I have a new problem and I haven't managed to solve it by myself. I have a movie clip that loas the *.txt, but when I try to load a new one, it obviously marks a lot of mistakes. I tried to unload the URLLoader, and the textLoaer.unload(); but they don't work and I don't know what am I suppose to unload un order to load new text when users click on

Dear god!!! you did solve my problems! I was looki...

2009-01-26T10:13:00.000-08:00

Dear god!!! you did solve my problems! I was looking for a custom scrollbar that'd work with actionScript 3.0 so that I could combine it with your code to load an external txt file... and it's done! it works fine. Thank you for the tips, nice blog.

Java nice day

Hi chickenChemo,check this tutorial: Custom scroll...

2009-01-26T03:21:00.000-08:00

Hi chickenChemo,
check this tutorial: Custom scrollbar,I think that this is what you looking for.

Hi, I was looking at your tutorial to get a glimps...

2009-01-23T16:59:00.000-08:00

Hi, I was looking at your tutorial to get a glimpse on how to scroll a dynamic text field and obviously load it from a txt file. I'm done with the first part (the text loading) and it works like charm, but I'm working on this project that requires a scrollbar with no buttons, just the scrollface, and I honestly have no idea about how to solve it. I had this AS code with which I used to scroll the

I actually found a pretty good one here:http://www...

2008-04-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

I actually found a pretty good one here:

http://www.fuoridalcerchio.net/wordpress/tag/scrollbar/

but I there is more than one way to skin a cat ;o) Maybe you would have done something different . . . or maybe you can look at how it was made and explore it for us ... anyway thanks for your useful site.

I will try to write a tutorial about this subject,...

2008-04-30T01:50:00.000-07:00

I will try to write a tutorial about this subject, scrolling a movieclip/graphic, but I don’t know when it will be done.

Hi, I have had a look at a few of your tutorials a...

2008-04-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

Hi, I have had a look at a few of your tutorials and they seem very good and very close to what I am looking for. I am trying to find a way to do the 'old school' tweening-movieclip-under-mask custom scroller from the Flash MX days. But I need to do it in CS3 which I am clueless with... do you have any suggestions? Or Is there a way I can modify some of your existing tutorials