For the first problem, how about adding a number of blank lines to the end of the news story so the total number of lines is a multiple of the TextArea's visible page size to allow a full scroll?
-Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Thompson Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:56 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] TextArea - Impossible requests? Dear All, I'm working on a "daily news" site - headlines display on left, and when one clicks on a given headline the story loads on the right. I'm using the UI TextArea component to display the story. All is well, but as usual, customer has tossed a couple of curves. 1. When there is only a fragment of the story left to display, say 15 additional lines for example, and the reader scrolls down, the TextArea scrolls only 15 lines. What the customer wants is a full scroll so that the next line appears at the top of the story, with white space below. 2. At customer's request NextPage and PrevPage buttons were added to the movie to scroll the TextArea; they've been programmed to turn on and off, etc. in response to .scroll, .maxscroll and .vPosition information provided by the TextArea. Now the customer does not want the ScrollBar to show at all, but to use these buttons only. Relating to 1. - Can one force a full scroll, say 28 lines, when there are only 15 lines remaining? I've tried resetting .maxscool, forcing .vPosition to an unrealistic values, incrementing .scroll in a loop. Nope, Have not been able to do it. Has anyone, or do I revert to the MX control? Relating to 2. Is there a property to set somewhere which will permanently hide the scroll bar? I've not been able to find one, but possibly someone knows a hidden or undocumented property. (Cripes, this is a ridiculous question! Let's roll everything back to Flash 3!) Sorry to be asking these questions. When we moved to MX 2004 thought I had the solution to my text problems by the tail. Now it's turning and biting. Regards - Miles Thompson _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
