Any way to scroll the content inside a movie clip with buttons?

[madkat]

I have a big problem. I have a series of images (movie clips) inside a container movie clip.

I need to somehow scroll those images within the clip left and right with buttons rather than a scroll bar.

How might you suggest handling this operation?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[regbolD]

presuming the images are all the same width, each button click should tween or just move the whole container left or right by that ammount and desired spacing as well...

whats the big problem about that ? :P

[regbolD]

presuming the images are all the same width, each button click should tween or just move the whole container left or right by that ammount and desired spacing as well...

whats the big problem about that ? :P

[madkat]

Well, getting the container to stop at a certain point... so if I keep clicking either the right or left button eventually it's going to "fall off" the sides of the stage and keep going into the Ether.

BTW, might not be a big problem to some - in fact I know it But I'm not quite there.

[madkat]

...or maybe I'm just missing the extreme obvious.

[regbolD]

well obviously you need to set the bounds.

[madkat]

regbolD - is that obvious to someone with little programming experience? I want to know for real, not being smarmy. I've been having a lot of issues with Flash like that.

I'll do some searches for setting bounds.

[regbolD]

so thats whats bugging you, how to set the bounds?
well put a sketch on a piece of paper and everything should be clear to you.
if you content.x is at 0 (wheather you using stage, or other movieclip and you maybe have a mask and you want to move away start of the content to the right) your previous (left in this case) button should be disabled or hidden, if you content is scrolled to the end, so if its at - content.width + stage.stageWidth (or whatever you are using) your next (or right button) should be disabled or hidden.
something like that...