How do you scroll a text member to the bottom?

[Jerry Ndo]

Hello all. I'm new in Director. I have a question on text scrolling. The
text, unlike field member, cannot use scrollByLine or scrollByPage. The text
that I have will be updated by the script and it needs to be in colors, thus
omitting field member as an option. It's for chat function where you will
see the last message on the bottom and the scroll has to stay on bottom
unless the user scrolls it up.

Please help.

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 09 Dec 2003, "Jerry Ndo" <ndookie2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello all. I'm new in Director. I have a question on text scrolling.
> The text, unlike field member, cannot use scrollByLine or
> scrollByPage. The text that I have will be updated by the script and
> it needs to be in colors, thus omitting field member as an option.
> It's for chat function where you will see the last message on the
> bottom and the scroll has to stay on bottom unless the user scrolls it
> up.

Subtract the member's height from the sprite's height and set the member's
scrollTop property to the difference.

#field members can have colors, too. It's just that if you're manipulating
chunks of text in them, you have to use the old syntax and they use the
indexed color system.

set the foreColor of word 3 of field "fieldMember" to 6

To convert a color object to a palette index:

idx = rgb(255,0,0).paletteIndex
set the foreColor of word 3 of field "fieldMember" to idx


--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[Jerry Ndo]

Thanks, Mark. You're da man!

"Mark A. Boyd" <mblist@sanDotrr.com> wrote in message
news:Xns944CBA22C53CBmblistssanDotrrcom@65.57.83.2 09...

> On 09 Dec 2003, "Jerry Ndo" <ndookie2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>

> > Hello all. I'm new in Director. I have a question on text scrolling.
> > The text, unlike field member, cannot use scrollByLine or
> > scrollByPage. The text that I have will be updated by the script and
> > it needs to be in colors, thus omitting field member as an option.
> > It's for chat function where you will see the last message on the
> > bottom and the scroll has to stay on bottom unless the user scrolls it
> > up.

>
> Subtract the member's height from the sprite's height and set the member's
> scrollTop property to the difference.
>
> #field members can have colors, too. It's just that if you're manipulating
> chunks of text in them, you have to use the old syntax and they use the
> indexed color system.
>
> set the foreColor of word 3 of field "fieldMember" to 6
>
> To convert a color object to a palette index:
>
> idx = rgb(255,0,0).paletteIndex
> set the foreColor of word 3 of field "fieldMember" to idx
>
>
> --
> Mark A. Boyd
> Keep-On-Learnin' :)