Hi everyone. Need a little help. On the webste I'm working on, I need to have something similar to this: http://www.staind.com (the News section). I want to have the "news" with up and down arrows that work on mouse over. I'm guessing javascript (I'm a newbie), but I can't seem to find what I need on the web. Thanks for any and all responses.

Hi

You could try

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...nualscroll.htm

they have some DHTML scrollers like the one you are after, good resource site. Have you considered using Flash, it gives a much smoother scroll effect than Javascript. Try this site

http://actionscript-toolbox.com/sampletextscroller.php

David

I actually just posted something about this in the flash forum I created. It will actually load your text from a plain .txt file created the box on the fly and input the text. you can find the code at
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22496

Peace
Mike

I just realized i didn't include the scrolling code that goes with this, if you can wait i will post it here in a while.

Mike

here is the scrolling function, just create buttons, call one up_btn and one down_btn and with the script above you should be good to go.

function scroll() {
    var speed:Number = 10;
    if(direction == "up") {
        if(bio_txt._y - speed + bio_txt._height > (startingY + bottom)) {
            bio_txt._y -= speed;
        } else {
            bio_txt._y = (startingY + bottom) - bio_txt._height;
        }
    } else if(direction == "down") {
        if(bio_txt._y + speed < startingY) {
            bio_txt._y += speed;
        } else {
            bio_txt._y = startingY;
        }
    }
}

var scrollButtonPressed:Boolean = false;

down_btn.onPress = function() {
    scrollButtonPressed = true;
    direction = "down";
};

down_btn.onRelease = function() {
    scrollButtonPressed = false;
}

up_btn.onPress = function() {
    scrollButtonPressed = true;
    direction = "up";
};

up_btn.onRelease = function() {
    scrollButtonPressed = false;
}

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (scrollButtonPressed) {
        scroll();
    }
};

Peace
Mike

Thanks guys, I'll look into all your replies. I was really hoping not to have to use Flash, because Flash and I have a hate/hate relationship ( I hate using it and I'm pretty sure it hates me too....lol)