help with scrolling gallery

[nekoboy86]

http://www.theprivategallery.com/exhib/NYbeige.html

I'm supposed to make something like this...with Flash CS3.

everything is all set, as in a strip with all the pictures nicely arranged, and all I need to know is how to make it scroll like the one in the link, as all the other tutorials are either autoscrolling or not for CS3.

help!!

[arsenik]

http://www.zoondev.net/blog/?p=36

[nekoboy86]

I followed the tutorial exactly but I'm getting 3 errors when I try to run:

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: myMask.
1120: Access of undefined property myMC.
1120: Access of undefined property myMC.

[fx.barrett]

Did you give your movie clip an instance name of myMC ?

[nekoboy86]

okay...that got rid of the 2 error messages...but 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: myMask. still remains. how do I get that off?

[fx.barrett]

Did you declare that one ( i mean, the variables ) ? Of if it's an instance name, make sure you have your movie clip named. If that's all done, then make sure that you have it on the same frame number as your code. If you declare it without having it on the stage ( on the same place where to code refers to it ) then you'll get an error ( i.e.: if you have your code on frame 1, and the myMask only appears on frame 2 then it will give you that error, meaning that it's not finding any myMask movie clip on compile time... ).

[nekoboy86]

Did you declare that one ( i mean, the variables ) ? Of if it's an instance name, make sure you have your movie clip named. If that's all done, then make sure that you have it on the same frame number as your code. If you declare it without having it on the stage ( on the same place where to code refers to it ) then you'll get an error ( i.e.: if you have your code on frame 1, and the myMask only appears on frame 2 then it will give you that error, meaning that it's not finding any myMask movie clip on compile time... ).

both myMask and the code appears in frame 1, and both the instance name and the object is myMask.

[fx.barrett]

Post your file so that I can take a look.

[nekoboy86]

this is the file, I have seriously no idea how to work it...

[nekoboy86]

um...help anyone?

[fx.barrett]

In your library, you have myMask exported for actionscript ( linkage... ).
Delete the linkage and it will work (don't export it for actionscript ).

[fx.barrett]

PS: After that's done, you'll get another error, but since I have no idea what were you trying to do with the second line of code, I can't help.

[nekoboy86]

yea...the 2nd line of code comes from the tutorial. I'm just following the tutorial and I get this error...

[fx.barrett]

Ahh, I totally forgot about the tutorials. Anyways, to solve that mask problem simply unlink the symbol from the library ( don't export it for actionScript, or if you do, then don't use the same for the linkage as you did for the instance name ).

[nekoboy86]

it should be invoking the init function from the script as stated by the tutorial. But for some reason it works in the tutorial sample but not with mine.

[fx.barrett]

Well, I didn't see any init function in your file, did you declare it ?

[nekoboy86]

but what about the null object refrence?

[nekoboy86]

no but it's located in a script that I obtained from the tutorial

[fx.barrett]

null object means that it does not exist. it may not be added to the stage at the point where you were trying to refer to it.

[nekoboy86]

Strangely, all the objects are on that exact spot....argh...