Flash Tutorials

In almost every project that deals with large amount of text you will have to use a scrollbar to make it easier for the user to go through the content. Using Flash's default Scrollbar component is not always an elegant solution, especially if we want a more customized, nice looking scrollBar. In this flash tutorial we will show you two methods of scrolling a text: using the scrollV propriety of the text fields and by masking the text field. In the first part of the tutorial we will create the custom scrollbar then we will see how the 2 methods mentioned above work.

Tutorial overview

• Step 1: Setup
• Step 2: Writting the code
• Step 3: Setup the text field
• Scrolling - First method
• Second method