simple tutorial for scroll bar

[jbalyney]

hello,
i am looking for simple tutorial for a scroll bar , that works like a frame. I'm thinking it will have a movie clip and a mask, and a button to make it scroll up and a button to make it scroll down. Can anyone help

[jbalyney]

Ok, this is what i have done so far, i have created a movie clip. in this movie clip i have a mask, i also have the text which is a movie clip with the instance name of text. I have 2 buttons, 1 for up and 1 for down. i need some action scipr that will make the instance name of text move up and down and get stopped on the very bottom and very top. Can anyone help ?

[jbalyney]

ok i hacked some code from somewhere else, im close i think but it doesn't wok yet,

what i have is the text is in a movie clip called london,

the buttons are in a movie clip that has this code

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (this.press == true) {
		_root.london = _root.london + this.movement;
	}
}

each button has this code

on (press) {
pressing = true;
_root.london.movement = -1;
}
on (release) {
	pressing = false;
}

the other button has just a 1

[jbalyney]

ok i changed it again, because im confused anout the movie clip timeine heirarchy

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (this.press == true) {
		_root.ScrollLondon.london = _root.ScrollLondon.london + this.movement;
	}
}

i added the .ScrollLondon to all the code because all of this is in a movie clip called ScrollLondon, but it still doesn't work.

So when i am in a movie clip does the movie clip have its own root? i don't think so, so that swhy i did that

[jbalyney]

where is everyone today ?

[jbalyney]

hello ?
sorry to do this, but i need this at the top so it gets answered

[vladibo]

Simple:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-629/index.php
More complicated:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-640/index.php

[jbalyney]

Thank you, their is only one problem,
You have the scrollable text hard coded into the action script with html formatting, All the formatting works except for align=justify, It aligns it all left. All the text on the site is justified, so the client will not like this, any ideas ?

Also I use an embedded font called helvetica neau medium condensed, the flash blurs it in the swf file, so i had to revert to harial, again the same text issue as before. any ideas

[oldnewbie]

Dynamic text can never be full justified!
As for embedded fonts especially at small sizes, they will allways look more blurry, unless you use pixel fonts and then again a lot of restrictions do apply. Full justify is not possible with pixel fonts either.

[jbalyney]

well oldnewbie,
what about my orginal post, where the buttons control a movie clip that behind a mask, I think im really close with that. All i neeed is the code to make it go up and down

[oldnewbie]

Why don't you just mask a scrollpane component? Rather than try to re-invent the weel?

[ed_stuckey]

This should help, its one i've done and use heaps

[jbalyney]

tx ed,
before i do that, whats a scrollpane oldnewbie, and how do i use it

[jbalyney]

tx, ed
that works great

[ed_stuckey]

no worries, glad it helped - real easy to change the appearance and speed too.

[coolncalm]

Originally posted by jbalyney
tx ed,
before i do that, whats a scrollpane oldnewbie, and how do i use it

scrollpane component is included in ur components panel... goto window >> components


drag it onto the stage and resize it as needed... now open the library and select the mc u want to scroll... rt click and select linkage... give it a name...

Now select the scrollpane component and give the linkage name of the mc and voila...

[jbalyney]

no way,
after all that, i really need to get a book about mx, and learn all the new things.
: )
lol

[coolncalm]

a book wud be good... but wht i just explined just seems to be tough while reading and is actually a very simple procedure. No Rocket Science involved

[jbalyney]

no, no,
you misunderstand me, your instructions are very easy to understand, What I mean is this.... I need a book so that i can discover all the new features that flash mx has, that previous versions of flash didn't have.

I'm using flash mx, but i'm using it like flash 5.

[coolncalm]

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