Jesse Stratford

Jesse lives and works in Melbourne Australia. He is the Cofounder of http://ActionScript.org. A Flash enthusiast, teacher, author, freelancer and speaker Jesse's main focus nowadays is managing http://ActionScript.org, but he enjoys participating actively in community and the wider Flash scene when he has time.

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So we now know that this code will scroll the text up if the up variable is true. But how does the up variable come to be true? We set it so with a button, that's how! And for this example I've made my button set it to true when it is moused over. Also, on mouse off the up variable is set back to false because otherwise the field would keep scrolling! So here's what the code looks like: 

on (rollOver) {
 _root.up = true;
}
on (press, release, releaseOutside, rollOut, dragOut) {
 _root.up = false;
}

You'll notice I've included a long list of possible events to set the up variable back to false, that's just to be entirely sure it is set back on mouse out. If you want the button to perform some other action on release for example, you can remove the release handler from the above code and add your other actions under a new on (release) handler.

Finally, note that the HTML example also loads the text variable from a text file and uses HTML formatting on the dynamic text field. You have to check the HTML box in this example or the HTML won't work properly, but you knew that I'm sure.

That's really about it. I don't think any more explanation is needed and my dinner smells inviting so I'm going to go eat it! If you think of anything that needs to be added to the tutorial, email me. If you have questions or need further info post on the forums, don't email me questions please, I get enough email as is.

Jesse Stratford is the Co-Master of ActionScript.org and a freelance Flash developer and teacher. He is based in Australia and enjoys all things Flash.

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