heres a challange

[ikandi-mac]

i have a flash "scroll pane" componet loading a movie clip named "mainbox"

i have a row of buttons that when pressed i need that movie clip to goto another frame and stop

on (press) {
_root.box.mainbox.gotoAndStop(2)
}

that code does not work

btw "box" is the instance name of the scroll pane

what do i do different to thus code to get the script to know that the movie clip is inside thus box?


oh wow, i also just ran into this problem..... when loading txt files into the same movie clip useing

loadVariablesNum("news.txt", 0);
it will not work, any ideas would be great!

[chosenson]

Ok first I will address the second item. Here is a good example of loading text files.

I made this yesterday for another person needing help with loading text files.


for this problem, first thing i notice is the lack of the semicolon at the end of the goto action
on (press) {
_root.box.mainbox.gotoAndStop(2);
}

If this is just a post oversight then could you post your fla. or a small fla example to see

[AlsoGaiusCoffey]

The content of the scrollpane isn't direct in "box", you need to use the getScrollContent method:

eg:

var stuff = box.getScrollContent();
stuff.gotoAndStop(2);

Or more concisely:
box.getScrollContent().gotoAndStop(2);

[ikandi-mac]

AlsoGaiusCoffey, thanks, that makes it work great, had to modify it a lil bit, but now it works great.... I also think i can use that same type of script to load my txt, i will have to find out more about it, and post later on to see if it fully works