I need Scrollbar, not component, urgent!

[dafreq]

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!

[pellepiano]

Check the Movies section . There are some examples there.

//example
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...5334/index.php

[dafreq]

thanks a bunch!
Actually I cannot find it when browsing through Top:Scripting:scrolling
not talking about the search

[oldnewbie]

You have like 4 pages of possible scripts...

http://www.flashkit.com/search.php?c...term=scrollbar

[dafreq]

... of tellTarget stuff

http://www.flashkit.com/search.php?t...&submit=Submit

[danthomas]

I would really reccomend having another look at the scrollbar component in MX.

its really not that complicated, unless u want to start editing the look of it, but even thats not overly difficult.

[mal pacino]

What do you find difficult about the component?

here is another tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/scrolltext.htm

Although I think you are making work for yourself making your own.

[mal pacino]

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:

// - - - scrolleyoller properties
scr.setEnabled(true);
scr.setStyleProperty("arrow", 0xFF0000);
scr.setStyleProperty("face", 0xFFFFFF);
scr.setStyleProperty("scrollTrack", 0xFFFFFF);
scr.setStyleProperty("shadow", 0x51618E);
scr.setStyleProperty("darkshadow", 0x333333);
scr.setStyleProperty("highlight3D", 0xFFFFFF);


As you will see, I used red and white for the look of the scroll pane.

Thats it, as simple as that.

[dafreq]

I dislike components firstly because they take too many kilobytes

[mal pacino]

what a load of rubbish.

And thank you for thanking me for taking the time to try and help

[dafreq]

Thank you for your time, but anyway, If I need to make a 8 kb banner ad then I would really like to leave the FStyleformat crap out.

[ericwidi]

What kind of banner ad needs a scroll bar anyway?

[dafreq]

a special kind of banner ad use your imagination

[mal pacino]

well look at this fla if you want to make a custom scroller.

[dafreq]

WHOW! This is a really nice scrollbar
Thaks and thanks again!

[dafreq]

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.

[mal pacino]

yes nice and smooth, looks great

[Trevor Saint]

Love it, but can we use this to scroll dynamic text???? and if yes how?Cheers

[dafreq]

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

[Trevor Saint]

Thats wonderful, a smaple would be perfect, Honestly that would be really ace, if you could spare some time for one.

Just what I need for tomorrow

Please please