Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX 2004
21. Double click "text" movie in the "Mask and Content" layer to enter it. Rename the default layer with shape to the "Mask" layer.
22. Create the new blank layer, call it "Text". Place it under the "Mask" layer. Add some text to the "Text" layer. The text must be located so that text layer began right from the starting of the "Mask" layer. As you can see the text is not visible behind the "Mask" layer but we fix that in our next step.
23. Convert the "Text" layer to the movie clip and change the instance name to "content"
24. Select the "Mask" layer, make a right mouse click and select "Mask" option form the menu. After the option was applied the layers will look like pic.2
Pic.2
That’s it! We are done with this lo-o-o-o-ong tutorial! Press “Ctrl+Enter” As you may see the arrows functional but you need to adjust numbers mentioned in the step 13 and 16(100 and 1600) to achieve smooth scrolling.
On the example you can see adjusted scrolling.
Click here to download source fla file.
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