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There are several ways to create scrolling text in Flash: Make dynamic or input text fields scrollable by using menu commands or the text field handle. This does not add a scrollbar to the text field, but instead allows the user to scroll the text with the arrow keys (for text fields also set to [...]

The following tutorial illustrates how to create scrollable text object and use ActionScript to scroll the text up or down. Launch Flash Designer and choose “Blank document” from the startup screen. Choose “HTML Text tool” and draw a rectangle to create blank HTML text object. This will be the text to scroll. Type some text [...]