About #17 tutorial

[kingarturo]

Hi there,

Is there a way to stop the scrolling when it reaches the ends of the text field?

Thanks for any response.

Peace.

[Jesse]

I'm looking into it...

[kingarturo]

Thanks Jesse.

Peace.

[Jesse]

I'll bet you thought I'd forgotten about this one. Well if you did you were wrong, I've just been fiddling with various ways of doing it and I've come up with one I like a lot.

So here goes, just a few simple adaptations (note that paths are important in this so change it at your own peril!)

ON the fat controller MC add this code:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.bounds = _root.masker.contentText.getBounds(_root.masker);
_root.yMax = _root.bounds["yMax"];
}

Then change the code from frames 2 and 3 of the fatController which look like this:

_level0.masker.contentText._y = _level0.masker.contentText._y + ( _level0:direction * 5);

To this:

if (_root.yMax > 5) {
_level0.masker.contentText._y = _level0.masker.contentText._y + ( _level0:direction * 5);
}

And boom! Your scroll will stop when the lowest point of the content clip (in our case, the last line of text but this will work for graphic scrolls too), is about 5 pixels above the bottom of the mask.

Note that this is dynamic so if you resize the text field and stuff it'll still work.

Cheers

Jesse

[Jesse]

Hmm that solution is flawed though as if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the text, and it stops, you can't then scroll back up because the if on the fat controller prevents it...

so what you need now is one fatController for up and one for down.
or a better method of stopping it

I'm still looking into it

Cheers

Jesse

[kingarturo]

Hi there,

Thanks Jesse, for looking into it. I never doubted you (cough...cough).

Peace.

[Sephiroth]

so is the scrolling all fixed now?..

i'm using images instead of text.... and how would i change to scroll horizontally..?

thx

[Nerosyrius]

For it to scroll horizontally use the x axis instead of the y axis(change all y variables to x)

[Seshoki]

For anybody looking for a working version of this, Im not sure if its the same as jesse tutorial but it accomplishes the same thing here is the link to a source file in flash kit

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...1468/index.php