User Guide

904 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

Example

The following example creates a text field called my_txt, and uses two buttons called

scrollUp_btn and scrollDown_btn to scroll the contents of the text field. When the

onScroller event handler is called, a trace statement is used to display information in the

Output panel. Create two buttons with instance names

scrollUp_btn and scrollDown_btn,

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;

};