Greg Meyer

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Tutorial details:
Written by: Greg Meyer
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Requirements: Flash 4
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NB: Tutorial upated May 23rd 2001

1) Let start.



Create 2 lyers "actions" and "Lyer 1"

Add actionscript for lyer "actions" on frame 1 :

ms = textbox.Message.maxscroll; 
 if (ms>1) { 
 if (dragpress<1) { 
 scale = 138/ms; 
 _root.textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._yscale = 200/textbox.Message.maxscroll; 
 _root.textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = -68+((textbox.Message.scroll-1)*scale); 
 if (textbox.scrollbar._visible == false) { 
 _root.textbox.scrollbar._visible = true; 
 } 
 } else if (textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y<-66 and move<0) { 
 move = 0; 
 textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = -68; 
 } else if (textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._height>69 and move>0) { 
 move = 0; 
 } else { 
 textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+(move*scale); 
 textbox.Message.scroll = ((textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+68)/scale)+1.2; 
 } 
 } else { 
 if (textbox.scrollbar._visible == true) { 
 textbox.scrollbar._visible = false; 
 } 
 }

Add actionscript for lyer "actions" on frame 2:
gotoAndPlay (1);

Create MC (emailmovie) for lyer "Lyer 1" and in INSTANS window name is a "textbox"



Edit MC (emailmovie)



Lyer 2 has an actionscript on frame 1
loadVariables ("message.txt", "_root.textbox"); 
 stop ();

Lyer 1 has a text field on frame 1
Lyer 3 has a MC scrollbar on frame 1 and in INSTANS window name is a "scrollbox"