Scrolling bar with external text

Hi,
I'm trying to create a scroller bar with external text on Flash, but not suceeding much. I want to do it in AS 2.0, as my whole website is created in AS 2.0. I found a tutorial on Kirupa for Flash MX 2004, but does not work with Flash CS4, which is what I'm running.
What I need is, basically, to have a scroll bar to scroll up and down an external text (XML or .txt). I just don't seem to be able to do it. Also, is there a way of customizing the scroll bar?
Thanks for the help!
N.

Hey, I had to do a VERY similar thing for a student project a
few months ago. If you go to
Flashkit.com, you can find
tutorials on how to import XML and CSS or XSL. I was able to do it
and I don't know a lot of actionscript. If you want to see how I
used it, go to
the University of Scranton's MIT
website.
Hope that helps!

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"OscarSSS" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I want my scroll bar to not the default one but a
different color one. Am I
> able to do this on Dreamweaver.
> WHen I set a layer with the scroll property if the text
goes beyond the
> area
> it becomes scrollable but the scroll is the default one
, so I would like
> to
> chage the properties of the scroll bar(collor, size,
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> possible
> using Dreamveaver?, I know you can do different using
flash but I am
> trying to
> don't use too much flash on my website.
>

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, so I would like
> to
> chage the properties of the scroll bar(collor, size,
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> possible
> using Dreamveaver?, I know you can do different using
flash but I am
> trying to
> don't use too much flash on my website.
>

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