Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX
2004 - Part 1
16. Create the fifth blank keyframe in the "Down" frame.
Add the action script code:
y = getProperty("_root.text.content", _y);
if (y<-1600) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
} else {
setProperty("_root.text.content", _y, y-6);
}
17. Create 6th blank keyframe in the "Down" layer. Add the
action script code:
gotoAndPlay(5);
18. Click the "Scene 1" label to return to the root scene
of your movie. Select the blank keyframe in the "Control"
layer and drag the "control" movie to the working area from
the "Library" panel. Set the "control" movie instance name to
"control"(pic.2)
Pic.2
19. Convert the up arrow in the "Buttons" layer to the
button symbol. Do not forget the set up the "Hit" area! Add
the following action script code to the new button in the
"Action" panel:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
20. Convert the down arrow to the button symbol and add the
action script code:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
tellTarget ("control") {
gotoAndStop(4);
}
}
21. Double click "text" movie in the "Mask and Content"
layer to enter it. Rename the default layer with shape to the
"Mask" layer.
22. Create the new blank layer, call it "Text". Place it
under the "Mask" layer. Add some text to the "Text" layer. The
text must be located so that text layer began right from the
starting of the "Mask" layer. As you can see the text is not
visible behind the "Mask" layer but we fix that in our next
step.
23. Convert the "Text" layer to the movie clip and change
the instance name to "content"
24. Select the "Mask" layer, make a right mouse click and
select "Mask" option form the menu. After the option was
applied the layers will look like pic.2
Pic.2
That’s it! We are done with this lo-o-o-o-ong tutorial!
Press “Ctrl+Enter” As you may see the arrows functional but
you need to adjust numbers mentioned in the step 13 and 16(100
and 1600) to achieve smooth scrolling.
On the example you can see adjusted scrolling.
