loading external text (and extending its textbox)

Is it perhaps the \'word wrap\' text option that is active ?

ive experimented with all the possible check boxes associated with text....:(

Once your text has loaded, you\'ll have to check the maxScroll property to see by how many lines your text exceeds the visible text. The purpose of your scrollbar should be just that.

scrollUp/down actions could be as simple as

on (press) {
  if (textField.scroll < textField.maxscroll) {
      textField.scroll++;
  }
}

or

on (press) {
  if (textField.scroll > textField.maxscroll) {
      textField.scroll--;
  }
}
To Control the layout of the dynamic text you can include forced line breaks.
Inserting the \\n  or newline keyword in the external string controls the exact location of your line breaks.

eg.  \"DynamicTextVar = this is\\na test\" displays the string as

this is
a test

I hope this helps :)

regards,  geo

The dimensions of the Dynamic Text Field does not expand automatically to accomodate more lines in the Player, as this only happens in the authoring mode. That is also why we should include scrollbuttons and scrollbar functions if the number of lines change dynamically.

If the text box were able to expand to show all the text, what would be the purpose of your scrollbar ?

max scroll helps a lot. thanks.

lingoman...if you post a svar, i can give you some points:)

Thanks,
I am still curious though, what did you intend to use the scroll buttons for if the textField expands to accomodate all text ?

a svar :)

i didn\\t want to expand the text field, i just wanted to be able to see all the text that was loaded into it when i scrolled. until i understood the maxscroll function i could only scroll through as much text as would fit in my text box, then for example 20 lines loaded into a 10 line text box would scroll, but would only reveal 10 of the 20 lines cutting off my paragraph half way. thanks for your help.

anytime :)