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- spifflink
so I am trying to use this scrollbar component in flash 8 and i am trying to attach it to this dynamic text box, and all the tutorials i have seen said just to drag it on top, but that doesnt work! how do i get it to point to the dynamic text box i have set up?
- mightyj0
give the textbox an instance name like you would a movieclip and make sure to set that same name in the scrollbars component prefs in the propperty inspector
- spifflink0
i did that and it seemed to attach it, but i tried to type in a bunch of text and it only made the box bigger, instead of going down and making it scrollable. (??)
- mightyj0
right click on the text box and make sure the scrollable option is selected.
- spifflink0
ok! i am retarded! thanks! it works, but the text isn't appearing now when i publish it out.
- lvl_130
you got to make sure you embed the font.
- spifflink0
its not giving me the option to, its all greyed out, booooo
- orkman0
Did you make sure the textbox is set to "dynamic"?
- spifflink0
yeah its dynamic. i have done this before and had it work perfectly, i don't know why it isn't now. it is pretty frustrating. :(
- st33d0
This is why I wrote my own componenenenents.
Boo to Flash Componenensnsents
Boo to spelling.
(I'd link you my code - it's open source, but seeing as it generates the whole thing with pure code, even I don't know what the fuck it does anymore. It just works)