Inorder to be able to scroll through texts on the display I defined as many panels (each 20 heigh by 600 wide) as I wanted to have textlines on the screen. These panels are named TextLinePanel0, TextLinePanel1 etc. In my manipulations with texts I have to address these panels in an 'absolute way'.
Is there some way to define like an array of panels, getting TextLinePanel[0], TextLinePanel[1]...., this would make my life much easier.

Maybe this
[Link: files.binkey.nl]
will give you some idea. It doesn't have an array of panels, but it does scroll and doesn't make life hard either.

Thx Robert, looks nice.
My application though is a TV Guide in which I also highlight a 'cursor line' while scrolling and highlight the program (on a textline) that is currently on air. This I cannot do with one panel displaying all program info at once.

I have several scrolling methods that I use. One of them is similar to what you describe.

Another One however does scroll (from a users standpoint) arbitrary text of unlimited size through a fixed window using a single panel. I use it to display DVD overviews in a DVD librarian I wrote The scrolling is very smooth and is exactly one line at a time. Hold down the page screen and the scroll just moves until you release the key or the begining/end is reached. Instead of an array of panels I used an array of text lines and dumped the appropriate lines into the single panel starting at the point in the array of lines I wanted at the top. It happens so fast that it actually appears to smoothly scroll to the eye. Something about motion as perceived by the eye and a speed of 15 times per second or 75 miliseconds

Since you need a different background per line, you cannot resort to using my scrolled text panel approach that I created for the RSS example. You will therefore need to define your text panels 0-9 as you did as tagged widgets. Unfortunately, the best you can do is to define 10 widgets such as you have done and then initialize an array with them.

var arrWidgets = [];

for(var i=0;i<10;i++)
{
arrWidgets[i] = GUI.widget('TextPanel'+i);
}

Then, with the widgets in an array, you can address just like a regular array. ProntoScript does not currently support creation of widget arrays or creating widgets dynamically such as new Widget(). Another bit of a pain is usually you want to change the background and possibly text colors. You cannot do this via scripting either. As a result, you must define several "layered" widgets for a single row of your list. They are as follows (layers from back to front):

1. Panel for background color default
2. Panel for background color selected
3. Panel for text color default
4. Panel for text color selected
5. Possibly a Panel for text color disabled.
6. Possible Button if you want to click the item.

Then, you maintain state of each entry of your list and toggle visibility as required for the various layers. For example, an unselected but pressable item would have Widgets 1, 3, and 6 where visible=true. All others have visible=false.

Thx Lyndel, that array definition was what I was looking for. Apparently the array variables inheret the properties (.label, .top etc) from the widgets, as was what I required. Your 'layer' description was indeed the way I handled my cursor highlighting.

They do. The following is covered in the Flanagan book.

What one should realize is that Arrays, Widgets, Images, Pages, Activities, etc are Javascript Objects and not Javascript Primitives (Boolean, Number, String).

When you assign an Object to a variable, a "reference" to the Object is stored, not the "value" or "copy" of the Object.

If you assign Primitives to a variable, a copy is made.