I have been searching through the web and various sites, forums but I cannot find any tutorials or samples about how to create your own scrollbar in Flash MX(ver 6). All I can find is how to use components, but they are too complicated...
I need something simple - a scrollbar with up and down buttons and a drag button to scroll movieclips(not just text) up and down...
HELP!
ok if you want to scroll a movieclip with text in it and graphics whatever, follow theses instructions.
1. create the movieclip you want to scroll and on this occasion call it box - you will see a pic of this in the zip file I will send in, look at this pic first before you even open flash.
2. once you have created the movie clip you want to scroll, delete it from the stage and then drag onto the stage the scrollpane component and give it an instance name of scr (this is so we can change the colour with actionscript of the scroll bars.
3. you will also see in the properties inspector a list of options, one of these is called scroll content. in this type box. you can now resize your scroll pane to whatever size you want.
4. ok, create a new layer and call it actions and place this actionscript on the first frame:
mal pacino, if you don´t mind I contributed a little to this file - added up and down buttons so it´s a perfect scrollbar to me.
Hope this helps someone else too.
just convert the dynamic textbox into a movieclip and scroll it?
of course you must set the dynamic textbox to autosize and format the text accordingly