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Adjusting the size of a scrollable dynamic text field to the amount of text

Asked by loom91 in ActionScript, Macromedia Flash

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Hi,

I'm building a slightly rotated textbox with dynamically loaded text and a customised scrollbar in Flash CS3 (I've attached a prototype of the coding I'm using for the scrollbar, remove the .txt extension). The text is loaded using the attached code snippet. The fonts are embedded, since otherwise rotated textboxes inside movie clips don't show up.

The problem is that the scrollbar adjusts itself to the size of the textbox and not the size of the actual text. So  when the text is small there is a lot of white space below and when the text is too large it goes off the bottom of the masked and scrollable area. So every time the external text file is updated significantly the size of the textbox would also need to be changed and the movies rebuilt. How can this problem be overcome?

The solution I was thinking of was using autoSize and wordWrap to adjust the size of the textbox to the amount of text present in the file, but that is not working.

This is a time-critical project.

Thank you very much.

Molu
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myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
textri.html=true;
textri.htmlText = this.write;
textri.autoSize=true;
textri.wordWrap=true;
};
myData.load("writeups/writeri.txt");
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scroller-vFinal-v2.fla.txt (64 KB) (Possible File Type Mismatch) 
Prototype of the scrolling mechanism (.fla)
 
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Solution Provided By: loom91
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