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- klkitchens
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I want to create a help page layout like most iOS games I've seen where the user can simply scroll the text up and down inside a view port on the screen... or the whole screen if need be.

Is this possible?

I don't need the whole layout to scroll (like an arcade game), just let the user scroll up and down the text as they read.
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- klkitchens
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never mind...

TextBox

Type: TextArea

Then set all the CSS properties for font, color, etc. in events.

Scrolling happens automatically. Thanks!
- damjancd
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How did you manage to do this?

Did you do it all in C2?
- klkitchens
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How did you manage to do this?

Did you do it all in C2?

Yep. Add a TextBox and then in the properties set its type to TextArea.

Then in the event page for the sheet, there is an action for setting CSS... basically you just set "color" to "white" or "background-color" to "purple" or whatever you like. "font-size", "font-weight", "border"...
- damjancd
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klkitchens Wait wait wait please. Are you saying you made a user scrollable area which scrolls down virtually through a LOT of text, while the textbox is smaller than the display size?
Is it possible to make this textbox uninteractible, except for the scrolling?

This will solve a MASSIVE problem for me if so. Not only me
- damjancd
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klkitchens unfortunately there is no transparent background on the textbox I can't integrate it into the game
- shinkan
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damjancd most of textbox visual properties you need to set by CSS
https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/624/text-input-using-textbox-and-invisible-textbox/page-3
- Elliott
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damjancd - Yes there is
- damjancd
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Allright, this has the potential to soothe all my pains or completely remove them. I will experiment with this. Thank you guys!
- damjancd
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I've got a spectre over me, and it's haunting me, and cursing my fingers

Ejecta doesn't support textbox unfortunately. So I can't use this.

But I learned something today! Thanks everyone
- Outland Pictures
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On a related point, does anyone know if there's a way to have text of TWO DIFFERENT COLORS within the same TEXT BOX?

I can't figure out how to make this happen because there is no "append text" function that allows you to add text with different CSS settings to the same TEXT BOX. Unless I'm missing it. Any ideas?
- klkitchens
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Yeah, I had to go with PhoneGap for mine.