flash (macromedia): I've taken over development of a site and there is a need for some scrolling
text in the flash intro to be editable. Thus, I have changed it so that it
loads the text from a querystring. However, the text that is displayed is cut
off - I assume that the textbox's length is shorter than the length of the text
displayed. How can I make the textbox show all of the text?

You can drag the text box to a larger size so that more text can be displayed -
the obvious disadvantages of this that fonts are rendered differently on
different machines and secondly there may still be too much text to be
displayed.

A better solution would be to build some scroll buttons that appear only in
the case of more text than space

The first one is the option that I have gone with so far. However the client is
more than likely to come up with an extremely long bit of text.

The text needs to automatically scroll horizontally across the flash file so
the client would definitely not want to use scroll buttons.

Is there a way of the textbox resizing itself for every string of scrolling
text? I could always count the numbers of characters in the string - is there a
way to set the size of a textbox dynamically?