Hello all,
I know there is an action to add 2 buttons and make scrolling text. Is there anyway to get an actual mini scrollbar that shows alongside this text, or are we stuck with just the buttons. I suppose I could bring in a flash scrollbar but i was wanting to keep it simple. Thanks for any help.
Wayne
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On 26 Oct. 2007, 9:52 am, wayne Miller wrote:
Hello all,
I know there is an action to add 2 buttons and make scrolling text. Is there anyway to get an actual mini scrollbar that shows alongside this text, or are we stuck with just the buttons. I suppose I could bring in a flash scrollbar but i was wanting to keep it simple. Thanks for any help.
Wayne
I don’t know of any actions that do this. If you’re googling, the thing that moves is called the “thumb” for some reason.
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Wayne, I found the following link that shows a way to do this with DHTML. Haven’t tried it yet, but looks promising.
http://13thparallel.com/archive/dhtml-scrollbars/
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Sometime around 26/10/07 (at 11:07 -0400) waltd said:
the thing that moves is called the “thumb” for some reason.
Simply because if it was a real-world thing it would probably be your
thumb that you’d use to move it. It has always been referred to as
that in app development and UI lingo, right from when the Mac GUI was
first unveiled.
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Thanks all. I played with making the html box and then use the scroll setting in the inspector. Unfortunately you can’t really adjust the box size. I guess for now I will just use the actions and up/down buttons.
Thanks again,
Wayne
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Ok, I managed to get the scrolling text block with custom scroll bar to work from the site I mentioned earlier. It’s not too dificult.
I’ll post a tutorial as soon as I can throw one together. Relies on Javascript for the scrolling function, and css for the hidden text.
Had trouble at first finding a way to keep the overlow text hidden, but something Big Erns said in posts from last year got me looking in the css list…and low, a light fell upon the answer. 
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As promised, I have posted a link in the Tutorials forum to a tutorial page I setup explaining how to integrate the Javascript I found that give you the ability to create scrollable areas that include a custom scrollbar. Not too difficult to integrate. There is a problem using it with IE 6 on Windows, but works in Firefox 2. I hope you find it useful.
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I’ve been using the scrolling text actions for some time… and wished I could make it look different. Will check this out right away! Thanks!
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