pirate541 wrote:
GnuTux
I followed Your advice on moving the layers,and it worked fine until it was time to save the animation.i saved to gif,and got a message that Gimp needs to crop it because it was out of borders,so i let it(didn't have the choice,mind you) and when i replayed it,half the words were gone
Did you preview your animation using Filters/Animation/Playback?
If it's working properly in your preview, it should work when you save it. It's normal behavior for GIMP to crop the .gif when needed, as you save it.
The purpose of my suggestion was to get you familiar with how .gif animations work.
Once you get the layer moving, you can manually crop the image to give it the appearance of scrolling off an imaginary boundary (or you can fade it as you move it). Here is a small example for you to look at..
Scroll left/right

Scroll left/right off edge

It's a bit tedious to move objects by hand, which makes you appreciate GAP (or scripting). With GAP, you can more easily move an object between two points or along a path. I think doing a few animations manually is a probably a good exercise, prior to working with GAP.