flash actionscript: I'm using the "scroll" property with a couple of onPress events to fluidly
scroll text up or down in a dynamic text field. For example:

myTextField.scroll += 1;

It seems that there's no way to reduce the speed of the scroll below "1,"
which is relatively fast for most font sizes. I understand the increment (1 and
up) is moving that many lines of text, but am surprised that ActionScript
doesn't seem to allow incrementing by a half or a quarter line (.5 or .25,
respectively), since AS mostly speaks in pixels.

Without creating a custom class or writing a bunch of AS, is there a simple
way to slow down the scroll speed while still using the "scroll" property (and
not coding this the old fashioned way with masks and _y actions)? Seems odd
that the "scroll" property would be introduced to alleviate lots of
programming, and then fail to include better control for speed. I'm assuming
I'm just missing something...

Thanks, kglad. Just don't understand why they put so much functionality into
that property but tied it to lines of text rather than pixels. Too bad we don't
have both options. Anyway, I replaced my up/down buttons with a dragable
shuttle that controls the scroll property of the textfirled. It's smoother and
easier to control, anyway...

you can do pixel by pixel scrolling, but not using the scroll property of
textfields.

if you make your textfield a child of a movieclip, then you can do pixel by
pixel "scrolling" (really adjusting the _y or sometimes _x property) of the
parent movieclip. this technique also allows easing.