Smart Scrolling Text

Imagine the following situation:
Say you got a dynamic textfield on the stage, acting like the title of your content;
Your content needs to be updated very often and your can’t expect how long the title is going to be;
There’s limited space to display the title(you don’t want to expand the title all the way across the entire screen);
What would you do?

This file might just solve this problem

Features:

•This file helps you to automatically scroll the text in a text field when the text is too long to display
•It will detect whether text scrolling is needed
•Two scrolling mode is included(bouncing back and forth or looping)
•A soften mask (created in AS) is applied at the edges, making it looks more natural(it will only be applied when the text is too long for the display area)
•There are many other possibilities with the implementation of this file(sample file is included)

Files included are:

1.FLA File: Smart Scrolling Text
2.FLA File: Smart Scrolling Text(preview)
3.FLA File: Sample
4.Help File

Customization:

1. Change the scrolling mode(as mentioned above)
2. change the time interval of the timer by changing the interval variable
3. Specify how much the text is scrolled every time the timer is triggered
4. Add more than 1 scrolling texts (refer to the sample file provided)
5. Play aroung with it such as integrating it with other application to enhance user interaction(also refer to the sample file provided)

Other information:

The sample file demonstrates how to create a playlist like the one shown in the preview;
Post any problems or queries below, or send me an email: ”>chenyang3@hotmail.com
Enjoy!
Regards,
Yang

Please check out my portfolio.
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http://activeden.net/item/circular-preloaders-5-color-schemes/14423
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http://activeden.net/item/xml-based-mp3-player-with-search-function/24775

The problem has been fixed. Thanks to Strobus and diveloper for making great suggestions.

11/13/08
As promised AS2 version of this file is available now. Enjoy!
2/05/09
Flex version of smart scrolling text is available now.