FLASH® LITE™ 2.x - Adobe Help and Support

Defines the vertical position of text in a text field. The scroll property is useful for directing
users to a specific paragraph in a long passage, or creating scrolling text fields. This property
can be retrieved and modified.
The units of horizontal scrolling are pixels, while the units of vertical scrolling are lines.
Horizontal scrolling is measured in pixels because most fonts you typically use are
proportionally spaced; meaning, the characters can have different widths. Flash performs
vertical scrolling by line because users usually want to see a line of text in its entirety, as
opposed to seeing a partial line. Even if there are multiple fonts on a line, the height of the
line adjusts to fit the largest font in use.
Example
The following example sets the maximum value for the scrolling text field my_txt. Create two
buttons, scrollUp_btn and scrollDown_btn, to scroll the text field. Add the following
ActionScript to your FLA or ActionScript file.
this.createTextField("scroll_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160,
20);
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 30, 320,
240);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
for (var i = 0; i