Text speech engine (how to scroll the text?)

[Oreo]

I have made many engines for alternating text between characters in text boxes, but I end up having to condense the speech from each character to fit into the box so I don't have multiple slides of one character's speech.

So, how would I go about scrolling text that's too long to fit in the box.

(If you're confused by my explanation, think of character dialogue in the older Pokemon games.)

Oreo

[ratty]

Im gonna bump this. How would it be possible to scroll, even if it does go slowly? I have a need for such a thing.

[redpandagames]

Im gonna bump this. How would it be possible to scroll, even if it does go slowly? I have a need for such a thing.

I have a need for this as well. I'm thinking that if user scrolls mouse wheel up, you could add 1 to an index and subtract 1 for going down. Then show strings based on an index value. However, you wouldn't go back through the frames or backgrounds or anything...

[lh37]

There is an extension called Easing Object which gives you the potential to "scroll" a string of text smoothly based on co-ordinates.

For instance, if you had the string starting off the frame at X 0, Y 640 -- you could scroll (move) to (0,-640) for 10000ms to reveal the whole thing and take it off the screen in 10 seconds, which would be like a slow scroll.