If you guys have any more specific questions about scrolling in Flash,  just let me know by sending me an email through my contact page or leaving a comment.

Cya

• Fully Customizable by XML
• Easily change the width and height, and a special javascript function handles the resizing in the browser
• No need to even open the flash file
• 3 Different direction types to choose from
• Easily change the scrolling speed, delay time, and duration
• Easily change the font size, font color, font type, and link color
• Handles most html tags for even easier customization
• Add as many items as you want (Displaying one at a time)

Cya

So I have been working on a mp3player that is designed similar to a ipod with a little bit different functionality. I needed the text fields to scroll back and forth so you could see all the text written inside of it, if the field was shorter than the width of the text. After looking around for a tutorial or another persons help and not finding a thing for Actionscript 3, I decided to write my own. I am using Tweenlite to handle the tweens because its really low on weight and its a very smooth and powerful tweening engine. I am almost done with the mp3player and I will show you that very soon, but I wanted to post an example of the scrolling text or flash ticker (as some people call them) to you first before then. The example and code is below. I use one movieclip with an instance name of item that has two items inside of it, a dynamic textfield holding the text and a mask to only show the part I want shown.

//import libraries
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import gs.*;
import gs.easing.*
 
//make the text too long for the textfield and assign the mask for it
item.menuItemText.text = "This text is too long to fit in this tiny textfield, here is the end";
item.menuItemText.mask = item.menuItemMask;
 
//call the scrollWords function
scrollWords();
 
//the scrollWords function
function scrollWords():void {
        //make the textfield wordwrap false and autosize to textFieldAutoSize.LEFT
	item.menuItemText.wordWrap = false;
	item.menuItemText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 
        //if the textwidth is longer than the masks width which is 173 then call goforwardtween
	if(item.menuItemText.textWidth > 173) {
		goForwardTween(item.menuItemText);
	}
}
 
//go forward tween, on complete it calls go back tween
function goForwardTween(tf:TextField):void {
	TweenLite.to(tf, 3, {x:-(item.menuItemText.textWidth) + 163, delay:1, onComplete:goBackTween, onCompleteParams:[tf] });
}
 
//go back tween, on complete it calls go forward tween
function goBackTween(tf:TextField):void {
	TweenLite.to(tf, 3, {x:10, delay:1, onComplete:goForwardTween, onCompleteParams:[tf] });
}

Cya