How to swap text members

Question

Hi to all and PLEASE HELP!
First I'm a total beginner and nonprogrammer.
I recently started a "must end" project and it's almost
finished. But i've got one last problem.
I want to swap a scrolling text sprite with another scrolling
text sprite when user clicks a button.
But without moving the framehead into another frame. My movie
has 7 scrolling texts.
I'm trying to do it with this primitive method:
I placed 6 of them out of the stage where no one can see.
And I inserted these scripts to the button which "swaps" the
text sprites (or better to say: relocates them).
This is the script inserted into the button which shows the
sprite textone:
on mouseUp me
sprite("textone").locH = 177
sprite("textone").locV = 460
sprite("texttwo").locH = -600
sprite("texttwo").locV = -600
sprite("textthree").locH = -600
sprite("textthree").locV = -600
--note: I wrote the first three. it's actually 7
end
And this is the script inserted into the button which shows
the sprite texttwo:
on mouseUp me
sprite("textone").locH = -600
sprite("textone").locV = -600
sprite("texttwo").locH = 177
sprite("texttwo").locV = 460
sprite("textthree").locH = -600
sprite("textthree").locV = -600
--note: I wrote the first three. it's actually 7
end
This script works and changes the positions of my text
sprites. AND HERE IS THE PROBLEM:
After the text sprite positions are changed they don't scroll
down or up.
What is the problem in this case? And I'm sure there are many
other ways to swap sprites.
How do I solve this issue? Sorry for my poor English and
thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Rather than moving sprites around, you might want to just
exchange the member of the sprite. You would then use something
like this for each of the buttons:
on mouseUp me
sprite("textOne").member = member("firstText")
end
This way you only need one sprite, you don't need to worry
about locations.
I have no idea why a text member would not scroll after its
been moved.