Text Wrap around screen?

[Nihilist]

Hi, new to the forum and new to flash. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I need help wrapping text.

What I want to happen is for a line of text to draw left to right from the bottom right to the bottom left and then immediately restart as soon as it ends, I want it to be seemeless, I can do a simple motion tween, but there is a gap between the end and the beginning, I want to flow into itself.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Billy T]

hi there

I'm having trouble picturing what you are after...have you seen this done before or anything?

[Nihilist]

Well, I am actually embarassed because I know this must be something simple.

Lets say the text is here





xyz

and then moves to here through motion tweening

xyz

well, its long enough line of text to fill the screen and then some

1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz1234567890abcde fghijkl

Ok, well, when it gets here

jkl

All of this area ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

is blank until jkl disappears
then it starts back at
123


Does that help? I will try to find a website with the effect on it, its a very simple text wrap thing I am sure.

[Billy T]

you mean like this?

[Nihilist]

No, like that, but see how when you play it, it doesnt start the S right behind the last B? I want it to be seemless, no space between the start and end.

[Billy T]

like this?

[Nihilist]

Yes, just like that, and I even tried using multiple motion tweens but I could not get an affect similar to that. I will keep trying. Thanks a lot.

[Nihilist]

Sorry wasnt clear. I didnt mean break that down, I have that concept.

What is getting me, looking at it, you have two tweens going, one for the first set of text, one for the duplicate, and and the duplicate starting after the initial, and then you have the whole thing looping. I try it, but I just cant get it, I guess its just a timing issue on my part.

[Billy T]

its just telling that timeline to go back to frame 20 and play from there....causing it to loop that end bit

cheers

[Nihilist]

Here is the file I am trying to do, can you help me with it?

[Billy T]

I think you would benefit from doing some basic tutorials

have a look here - http://www.tableau.com.au/tutorials/

and at the tutes on this fine website

anyway I've redone your thing using actionscript

cheers

[Nihilist]

Thanks, its what I was looking for originally, I knew there had to be a way to do it with actionscripts.

I will do the tutorials, its been a time thing recently, I got thrown into flash without knowing anything about it, about 1 week ago, so I will have to RTFM and use this site to get myself up to speed.

Thanks again.