flash actionscript: I put together a small news scroller and use Action Script to scroll the
Dynamic text file. Everything seems to work find but the text does not show up.
The lay out I have is this.
I am a noobie
Flash MX 7.2 pro

Timeline 3 layers
layer 1
Action Script scene1
script: frame 1
loadVariablesNum("welcome.txt", 0);
welcome.autosize = "left";
var maxheight = welcome._height;
var maxpos = 365-maxheight;
gotoAndStop(2);

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script: frame 2
if (welcome._y<maxpos) {
welcome._y = 370;
}
welcome._y -= 1;
gotoAndPlay(2);

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layer2
Text
The text I use is in the same folder as the rest and is 1k file and has the
name welcome

Layer3
background A jpa pic









if (welcome._y<maxpos) {
welcome._y = 370;
}
welcome._y -= 1;
gotoAndPlay(2);

you have a textfield with no instance name and with associated variable =
welcome and that textfield exists on frame 1 of your swf. both true or no?

and your code in frame 2 is supposed to do what?

Thanks for the tip kglad. I can see now why it could not see the text. You got
to let it know what to use. Forgot all about the associated variable fpr the
text.

What I am trying is a non stop scroller and in 2 It is to keep the message
scrolling. I may have to work with the number to get it to work with in the the
background frame. I have tryed it and now the scrolling stop but can see the
text.

as soon as the playhead enters frame2 the code executes which directs the
playhead to frame 2 (it's already there so that causes no change), stuff is
revealed on stage in frame 2 and then the playhead continues to frame3.

the result of your gotoAndPlay(2) on frame 2 is the same as not having that
code. ie, it does nothing.

if you want a frame loop so frame 2 plays repeatedly, place that
gotoAndPlay(2) in a frame after frame 2. but if you place it in frame 3 then
nothing on-stage in frame 3 will be displayed because the code executes first
and then the stage is updated.