External text box scroller Options

[j_natale]

Does anyone have a external text box that can be updated by a xml file with a scroller that can be used to scroll thorugh the text. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[browndrake]

I guess that it would depend on how your xml is set up.

I have done very little with xml and there are others far better qualified to answer this than am I. However, I have done a little here and there (and I tend to make things do what I want them to). Here is a restaurant menu that I made. It is a text box/scroller that is populated from an xml exported from excel. (it is not pretty, but it did what the client needed..I made it in sm2 then translated it to flash for him)

It should give you some ideas about at least one way this can be done.

good luck

Aaron

EDIT: just a note. The script is the most important part of it. I just threw it onto the external text scroller that I had made earlier. The txt file name, in the parameters, is not used. The text object can be deleted. etc. As I said, I was doing this in flash cs3, but I don't use it much so it was easier to do in sm2 first and just transfer the script.

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[j_natale]

I tried updating the scroll bar with my text in the xml file and it wouldnt update

[browndrake]

if you provide a sample of the xml, perhaps somebody can more easily help

aaron