MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 904

Example
The following example creates a text field called
and
scrollUp_btn
event handler is called, a trace statement is used to display information in the
onScroller
Output panel. Create two buttons with instance names
and add the following ActionScript to your FLA or AS file:
this.createTextField("scroll_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160,
20);
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 30, 320, 240);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
for (var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
my_txt.text += "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,
sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat
volutpat.";
}
scrollUp_btn.onRelease = function() {
my_txt.scroll--;
};
scrollDown_btn.onRelease = function() {
my_txt.scroll++;
};
my_txt.onScroller = function() {
trace("onScroller called");
scroll_txt.text = my_txt.scroll+" of "+my_txt.maxscroll;
};
See also
TextField.hscroll, TextField.maxhscroll, TextField.maxscroll,
904 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
to scroll the contents of the text field. When the
scrollDown_btn
, and uses two buttons called
my_txt
scrollUp_btn
and
scrollDown_btn,
TextField.scroll