News scroller is important for media websites and even others. This news scroller can be accomplished via javascript also But javascripts didn't gives flashy and smart look. So making the news scroller in flash is the good choice.

This flash news scoller will load news text from an external text file. So updating the news text is very simple and only need to change the text file.

Steps:

• Open a new flash document of size 360x90 pixels with a background colour of white.
• Name the first layer as "news" and place a dynamic text box with multiple line type which you can change this at properties window.
• By selecting the text box press F8 and conert it in to a movie clip. And double click the movie clip.
• Create a new layer over the existing layer and name as "action". Name the below layer as "text".
• Select the text box at " text " layer. Open the properties window and give instance name as " content " and var name as " txt ".
• By selecting the "action" layer open the actions panel and paste the below code.

content.autoSize = "center"
message = new LoadVars()
message.onData = function(data){
txt = data
trace(data)
}
message.load("msg.txt")

• Now get back to scene 1.
• Create a new layer over " news " and name it as " mask " in which the fading effect have to be created.
• Create a rectangle box with linear color fill style of size 360x90 pixels, So it fully cover the document size.
• Now set the color positions as shown below.
• Alpha value for the two middle poiters should be at zero. Otherwise the text cannot seen.