Flash :: [F8] Scrollbar In Movie Clip Not Working, Outside Clip Works

A Little Confused, Navigation Movie Clip Works Within One Movie Clip But Not Another.
I have a movie clip called “BottomMenuMC.” This movie clip has three button, “Home”, “Contact Me”, and “Quit”. The “Home” button is giving me the problems. The home instance has the following code:

on (release) {
_root.MainIntroMC.gotoAndPlay("Quote1");
}

When I place “BottomMenuMC with in the Movie Clip “Design” it works great. When I do the same thing, placing it in another movie clip, “Animation” it does not work at all.

Both “Design” and “Animation” are movie clips that run off the main timeline.

Any Suggestions why this would work in one and not the other? I am using Flash MX 2004.

And are any of you finding Flash MX 2004 buggy?

Movie Clip Inside Movie Clip, Not Working Right....
hey,

I am making a button...
This button contains two movie clips, Both for roll over.

One is a arrow animation (>>>) looks like that, when roll over it's soposto light up the arrows one by one. At the end of that movie clip I have "goto and play(1)"

Another one is basically a box, that "highlights" the text, this one has a stop at the end of it.. as I want it to fade in, and stop when rolled over.... (which reminds me I have to make a fade out MC to use for roll out... anyways)

Now the problem is, when your not rolled over the button it should just show the outline of the arrows (>>>) as a img is there, and when ya roll over the animation should play highlighting them. The one Arrow MC don't work, it stays with one (the first) arrow highlighted... and won't move on roll over...

So whats wrong, would it help if I uploaded the file for you to DL and look at?

Ian

Buttons Within Movie Clip, Within A Movie Clip Not Working Right
My buttons are in a movieclip, within a movieclip... which might be my problem to start off with, if this is the case please let me know.

But what my buttons are set to do is skip to the next or previous frame like a picture gallery. They do that right, but my problem is with them functioning properly after they go to the next or previous frame. I have to move the mouse for the button to work right again, I can not just hold the mouse in the same location on the button and click over and over to proceed through the timeline. Although if I click several times kinda fast it will work.

Doesnt make any sense to me... Please help.

Preload Works, But Not In Another Movie Clip? S.O.S.
Hello, does anybody know why preloads in an exsisting movie not works?

I used this script:
-------------------------------------------------------
on (release) {
setProperty ("targetscreen", _visible, true);
loadMovie ("text1.swf", "targetscreen");
}

-------------------------------------------------------
when i open text1.fla and run this file , the preload works fine!

But when i open this text1.swf file in a current movie, the preload fails ... I have seen that there are many people with the same question, but does anyone have the answer?

Why Loaded Swf Into Movie Clip Never Works?
I have two major issues.

1. I am trying to load an external .swf into _level3, at 100 on the x-axis and 150 on the y-axis. I try using set property, but the movie is always loading into the 0, 0 location (the upper left-hand corner).
Even though I use the set property action to control the location of the loaded movie, it is not working and I can't figure out why.
Please help.

2. When I load swf into an empty movie clip, the swf never works. It would not play. Actually it only works if there are no action or scripting on the timeline of the swf. Why wouldn't loaded movies play, when loaded into an empty movie clip?
Please help.

Thanks very much.

Break Apart A Movie Clip So I Can See How It Works
I found a movie clip on the site that I want to figure our how it works but don't see how I can break it apart down to the layers. It just says layer 1 in the time lione but I can't see keyframes.

AddListenerEvent Works Only Once In Movie Clip
Alright, so I'm an intermediate with flash but really new to AS 3.0. I've recently started using Flash 9 with CS3 and am having a bear of a time with this one small issue.
Here is the file in use
http://www.cyan-studios.net/hpe2/

It's the left side of the header. So far, I've only made the first drop down menu, under "about us" work. Sort of. If you hover over "Locations", the flyout menu appears. Then if you hover over "Clients", that flyout then appears. Now try going back to the "Locations" button. No flyout.

The drop down from "About Us" is a movie clip called "About us" and it appears in frame 2 of the main scene. Clicking or hovering over the "About Us" button drives us over to frame 2. Not an issue there.

In the "About Us" movie clip, we have a similar setup. Frame 2 shows the flyout menu from locations. Frame 3 shows the flyout menu for "Clients". Frame two is labeled "locationstier2" and frame three is "clientstier2" in this movie clip.

My issue is, why doesn't the flyout reappear next to "Locations" after you've moved on to "Clients" unless you reset it by mousing away?

Here is the action script on the top layer as it spans across the three frames.

Attach Code

locationsclick.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,locationsover);
clientsclick.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,clientsover);
function locationsover(event:MouseEvent): void {
gotoAndPlay("locationstier2");
}
function clientsover(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndPlay("clientstier2");
}

Edited: 04/03/2008 at 07:32:15 PM by cyan studios

Scrollbar For A Movie Clip
Does anyone have any idea's how I can create a working scrollbar for a movie clip? I've looked at online tutorials, but alas, I could not find any I could easily comphend.

So yeah, anyone know how to do this?

Scrollbar For A Movie Clip
I apologize for the briefness, I'm just assuming it'd be better to get to the heart of the matter straight away.

Does anyone have any idea's how I can create a working scrollbar for a movie clip? I've managed to get as far as inserting two buttons that allow you to move the movie clip up and down, it's just getting the scrollbar to be able to move the clip within a certain ratio that I'm finding hard to do.

CS3/F8 - Tween Rewinding - Works, But Not In Movie Clip
I was wondering if you have ever had a problem with a movie clip working if you just tested the particular scene and it worked but then when you tested the whole movie it didnt, because i am trying to run a rewind tween in a movie clip but as i said it doesnt work in the movie but it works in the scene.

AS Code - Frame 1

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
function playDir(forward) {
if (forward) {
if (_root._currentframe<_root._totalframes) {
gotoAndStop(nextFrame());
} else {
clearInterval(_root.playerdir);
}
} else {
if (_root._currentframe>1) {
gotoAndStop(prevFrame());
} else {
clearInterval(_root.playerdir);
}
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
clearInterval(_root.playerdir);
stop();

Buttons

Forward button
on (release) {
_root.playerdir = setInterval(playDir, 1, true);
}

Rewind button
on (release) {
_root.playerdir = setInterval(playDir, 1, false);
}

Mask Works In Movie Clip, Not In Scene
I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in a main scene. The mask looks fine while editing/working the movie clip, but does not show up in the scene.

The really strange thing is that it was working, but suddenly now it won't show up in the scene any longer. I've tried replacing it, making a new layer and bringing it in again. But nothing works.

Does anyone have an idea of why this would be?

Any help GREATLY appreciated!

dm

How Do I Make A Scrollbar In A Movie Clip?
How do i make a scrollbar in a movie clip?

Scrollbar In An Empty Movie Clip
Hello,

I was hoping if anyone could please help me out. I would like to create a scrollbar in this thumbnail (see attachment). I don't know how to do it, as I am a beginner in Actionscript. Thank you so much for your precious assistance.

Scrollbar For Dynamic Movie Clip
hi

I'm trying to make a scrollbar that scrolls a dynamic movie clip vertically and resizes to match the width of that movie clip and scroll the contents .

can someone help me?

Movie Clip ScrollBar Problem
I have these buttons inside a movie clip and when you drag the button I wanted the movie clip to scroll up but instead it scrolls down. I find this code hard to modify.

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
MovieHeight = 135;
ScrollHeight = this._height - MovieHeight;
ScrollbarWidth = MovieHeight - _root.drag._width;
Proportion = ScrollHeight/ScrollbarWidth;
this._y = Proportion * _root.drag._x *-1;
}

Scrollbar Component - Containing A Movie Clip
I just recently got Flash MX 2004 Professional, and i've taken notice of the scrollbar component.

I drag it into the stage, and i've got my movie clip all set up and ready to go. Everything on the movie clip is named, without quotes, "thumbnails_mc" The instance, linkage (exported for actionscript), and name are all set to "thumbnails_mc." However, when i type "thumbnails_mc" into the contentPath line of the 'parameters' window, and test my movie, it doesnt show. So now i've accepted that its ME doing something wrong, so i'd be honored if someone would guide me.

Form Works, But When In Movie Clip. It Dont Work.
I am trying to put a form on www.menardinfosystems.com
When you click on it, the form will slide out. Now this is done in ASP/FLash.

When I upload the form by itself, it sends pefectly. When I copy all the frames and paste it into a movie clip, it functions half way. I can type in the form and everything, but its like the send and clear buttons deactivate. To see what Im talking about you can go see the form at www.menardinfosystems.com/form/testing.html , and you can view the site with the form in it at www.menardinfosystems.com/form/site.html .
Ive tried loading the form as an external component into a movie clip, and tried having the form in the actual site. If you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks a million!

Movie Clip Buttons - The Animation Works, But No Action
Well, I've created a movie clip button that does everything I want it to do, except for load the next clip, or open a new window! Please help if ya can! What next?

on(rollOver) {
this.gotoAndPlay("buttonclip1");
}

on(rollOut, releaseOutside) {
this.gotoAndPlay("buttonclip2");

}

AttachMovie Works, But Movie Clip Won't Play Correctly
I used attachMovie to have a button, when clicked, load an mp3 player into an empty movie clip. The mp3 player is a component and it worked before when I put it directly into the main movie. I created a movie and put the mp3 player in it, inserted a stop() actionscript so it wouldn't loop, and linked it to export for Actionscript in the first frame. I also placed a stop() inside the empty movie clip. When I test the file, the button works to load the mp3 movie, but the mp3 player won't play. I even tested the specific mp3 player movie and it will play it, just not when it loads into the main page. Any ideas? - I'm stumped.
Thanks

Event Handler Works With Button, But Not Movie Clip...why?
So I am trying to get my head around event Listeners. When I use this example on a button it works fine:

but when I add the same listener to a movie Clip on the stage with an instance name of "box", it does not work. Is there something basic I am missing?

Attach Code

var buttonListener:Object = new Object();
buttonListener.click = function(eventObj:Object) {
trace("click");
};
mybutton.addEventListener("click", buttonListener);

Control External Movie Clip From Main Swf - Works In FP6, Not In FP7 - Why?
Hi,

I'm loading an external clip into the main swf, and then endeavouring to control it from the main swf. If I publish as Flash Player 6.0 it works. If I publish as Flash Player 7.0 it doesn't work.

Why? I'm using the correct variables syntax etc...This is driving me mad!!!!

I need it to be FP 7.0. The images should scroll left to right depending on what button is pressed.

Files attached - please take a look...

Flash 04 7.2 ScrollBar In Dynamic Movie Clip..
Hi everyone...

Any chance someone's had experience attaching the scrollbar component into a dynamically drawn movie clip?

Thus far I've got the clip drawn, text shows up, and the scrollbar attaches where it should, and is the right height, but doesn't scroll.

I've attached the fla and searched through the forums with no luck.

Thanks as always...
Chris

Text Scrollbar/Movie Clip Issues
I have created a movie clip which features a text box and scrollbar. This works fine.

But when I have this movie clip (swf) opening within another flash document the scrollbar doesnt work...the rest of the movie clip works fine (and the mouse recognizes the scrollbar buttons), but the scrollbar won't scroll.

any suggestions??

Scrolling A Movie Clip Relative To Scrollbar
I got pretty close to getting my mc to scroll with a custom scrollbar. I need help in the math of it all. my scroll bar moves on the yaxis from 70-434, my mc yaxis scrolls from 11 to -529. The mc has mc nested in it.

I want to know when I scroll down with the scrollbar, how do I get the MC to scroll up within the 11 to -529 range.

For the scrollbar I used startdrag with the 70 - 434 range so that it stays in that bracket. Thanks

here is the code I need help in:

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
with(menu){
_y = -+"something here"
}
};
scrollslider.scroller._y = 70;

Scrolling A Movie Clip Relative To Scrollbar
I got pretty close to getting my mc(menu) to scroll with a custom scrollbar(scroller). I need help in the math of it all. my scroll bar moves on the yaxis from 70-434, my mc yaxis scrolls from 11 to -529. The mc has mc nested in it.

I want to know when I scroll down with the scrollbar, how do I get the MC to scroll up within the 11 to -529 range.

For the scrollbar I used startdrag with the 70 - 434 range so that it stays in that bracket. Thanks

here is the code I need help in:

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
with(menu){
_y = -+"something here"
}
};
scrollslider.scroller._y = 70;

Scrollbar To Control Timeline Movie Clip
Hi All,

Was curious if there is code that when you have a move clip and inside the movie clip you have a scroll bar that controls the movie clips timeline so you can scroll forward or backwards similar to the scroll bar in quicktime...also with the buttons..stop..pause ..play etc...

Any good tutorials on that would be appreciated...I have flash professional 8...do they have components in flash 8 so you can drag a component on the stage of the movieclip and then ad your parameters to make it work.

Thanks inf advance.

Grant

SWF Not Playing Inside Scrolling Movie Clip. Works Locally, But Not On The Web
Alright,
I have several SWF's on different levels all talking to each other and working great. Here's a brief breakdown of the structure.

- level0: has the navigation loader (AS) which brings down the navigation items on level2

- level1: all navigation items bring up content on this level
- level2: the navigation

So basically, you call the navigation level, you choose a link, and it loads the content on level1.

Here's the problem,
on one of the content SWF's (level1) I have a horizontally scrolling image that moves when you click on items on the page. The scrolling works great. It's a a long movie clip that moves left and right depending on what is clicked.

Inside that movie clip I have 5 sections (which correspond to the link being clicked). I've imported SWF's into each of those sections. These SWF's are simply imported AVI's.

So the idea is when you click something, it shows you a different AVI for each link.

It works locally, but not on the web. Sometimes! I can get one or two of them to show, but not all.
I'm guessing it's got something to do with having to load the 5 AVI/SWF's, and maybe the actionscript hasn't had enough time to do so.

Help

Scroll Movie Clip With Scrollbar Component (Flash 8)
Hello all,

I've worked out how to scroll dynamically loaded text, but now I need to scoll a series of images using the same scrollbar component.

I've attached my working dynamic text scroller, I would like my image scroller to work in the same way, really simple just a column of images which can be scrolled up and down.

I guess I need to arrange my images within a movie clip which is then linked to the scrollbar in some way.

I'm sure this is simple I just can't quite crack it.

Any help greatly appreciated,

Cheers

Tom

Using Drag And Drop Works Until Content Added To Movie Clip Using Loadmovie
Hi,

Hope someone can help?

I have a blank movie clip on the stage with drag and drop capabilities and it works fine!!

That is, until i call the loadmovie() function and attach an image into the empty movie clip.

Anyone know why the movie clip is no longer draggable when content is loaded into it?

Code:
function downloadImage(file:Object):Void {
var Pic = "./files/" + file;
loadMovie(Pic, "_root.imageLoader");
}

Code:
this.imageLoader.onPress = function(){
imageLoader.startDrag("");
this.swapDepths(this.getNextHighestDepth());
}
this.imageLoader.onRelease = function(){
imageLoader.stopDrag();
}

Movie Clip Within A Movie Clip Not Working
Hi everyone,

I have made a movie clip which can be dragged on stage. This dragable movie clip in turn contains a text box and two scroll buttons. The scroll buttons should scroll the text in the text box. When I publish the movie, the parent movie clip can be dragged but the scroll buttons nested inside it do not work. Doesn’t flash support interactive nested movie clips. If not, does any one know of any other way to achieve this result?

Please see the attached file for the code.

Cheers!

Essaeyu

Movie Clip Within A Movie Clip Not Working
Hi everyone,

I have made a movie clip which can be dragged on stage. This dragable movie clip in turn contains a text box and two scroll buttons. The scroll buttons should scroll the text in the text box. When I publish the movie, the parent movie clip can be dragged but the scroll buttons nested inside it do not work. Doesnâ€™t flash support interactive nested movie clips. If not, does any one know of any other way to achieve this result?

Cheers!

Essaeyu

Input Text In A Clip That Is Loaded Inside Another Clip Not Working
Hello,

I have an input text field inside a clip that works as it should but when I load that same clip inside a parent clip I am unable to edit the input text, and any text that I had inside it doesn't display.

This occurs even when I use just plain _serif fonts instead of the embedded fonts from my library. I'm not sure if this is a font issue or if it's a limitation of flash, and i'm seeing the same sort of thing happen with a compiled component that I downloaded.

I'm compiling for Flash player 7 and AS 2.0 using MX 2004 7.2

I would greatly appreciate your suggestions, (god willing) fixes. I am about to pull my hair out...

Cheers,

Drew

Making A Movie Clip In A Movie Clip Go To The Next Frame Of The Original Movie Clip
I have a movie clip (for simplicity I'll call it movie_a) in movie_a I have another movie clip movie_b.

in movie_a i have a button that when pressed makes movie_b play (it has a stop frame every once in a while so the button acts as a "next" button)

I want it so that when i get to the last frame of movie_b and press the button, it will go to the next frame of movie_a

I hope that doesn't confuse u and u can help me solve this problem, as i am stumped and I've tried everything I could think of (which isn't that much as I'm not too good with actionscript)

thnx

Movie Clip Not Working
Heres what i did... i have a movie clip with an animated "banner" so i have this in my library... when i see it as "Symbol" i see all the frames and the animation works perfect, but then i go to scene1, i drag the MovieClip to the first frame and nothing happen... its just a frame with an image of the first frame of the animation, if i create new frames the image remain static and nothing change... so how can i drag the movie clip to the scene and make it animated like its as symbol? i cant make the animation directly in the scene cause i want to be able to move the entire movie clip not frame per frame
sorry im so noob :P
thank you

How: 2 Get Working Button In Movie Clip
I'm having trouble getting the button inside my movieclip to work.

I working on a draggable menu for a flash piece.

I know it involves actionscript.

I would be greatful for any help.... Thanks!

almightysounds
Michael T.
mtkleven@yahoo.com

Button In Movie Clip Not Working. Help
i have made a popup menu that has for buttons in them and i have made the buttons in the movie clip but when i put actions on them to go to a main scene it does nothing. can some one help me pu somthing on this button to make it work!

Movie Clip Buttons Not Working
Hi I'm trying to load images into the MC called DropZone_mc, the button being used is a Movie clip, I'm just not sure whats wrong with the code

fallenangel_mc.onRelease=function(){
fallenangel_mc.onRelease.DropZone_mc.loadMovie ("portfolio/fallenangel.jpg");
}

Thanks in advance

Help? Button Not Working In Movie Clip
Flash 5

I have attached the file to this thread.

I don't know why I can't figure this out.

I have a file that contains two scenes.
The first scene contains one movie clip.
The movie clip contains a menu.
The menu has one button on it.
Action script on the button is goto scene 2.

Not working?

Thank you for any help you can offer,

--steve2000@excite.com

Preloading A Movie Clip----not Working
on my main time line, let say I have a movie clip instance sitting at frame 10, and I put some script that check to see if the movie clip on frame 10 has been loaded completely on frame 9. But the problem is flash has no idea how big is the movie clip on frame 10, because if the movie clip is too big, the playhead wont even get to frame 10 until its fully loaded, and if the playhead doesn't hit frame 10, flash has no idea about anything sitting on frame 10. So the script on frame 9 would never work.

Anyone has any idea how to fix this problem?

Button In Movie Clip Not Working
I did try the response to the same question that was asked but it didn't work for me, my button is in a movie clip on the main time line but when pressed it doesn't respond (roll over or press down)and of course it doesn't work can anyone help me I tried

on(release){
_root.moviecliponroottimeline.gotoAndPlay("framela bel");
}

and

on (release){
gotoAndPlay("framelabel");
)

did i do something wrong or omit something?

thanks for the help.

Button Not Working In My Movie Clip
Hi there, I need some help.

I have a movie clip with two doors that open. I want the doors to open when the mouse has rolled over the movie clip and close when the mouse rolls off, so i used this code to open and close them:

on (rollOver) {
this.gotoAndPlay("open");
}
on (rollOut) {
this.gotoAndPlay("closed");
}

That works fine.
But I have a button inside the movie clip doors that is revealed when the doors open. The problem is that the button won't work, I'm assuming because of the the "on (rollOver)" event. How can I make this work so the doors open when the mouse rolls over it and the button inside the movie clip will work?

Thanks in advance!

Dave.

Go To Not Working Inside Movie Clip
Hi

Have been searching for answers to this and only finding TellTarget solutions which aren't very clear (I'm an actionscript novice!) and aren't MX actions.

I've got a Level 0 file that has a main nav scene, the buttons in this fire to respective scenes that have animation transitions as Movie Clips inside. After the animation has completed a Level 1 file is opened which then preloads content (basically want all my navigation transitions to load up at start, then pages can be loaded as and when).

But when Level 1 is loaded I want the Movie Clip in Level 0 to then Go back to main nav scene, but the GoTo action inside the Movie clip just seems to loop around scene 'x'. I have specified the scene in my GoTo but it just doesn't work

Any ideas??

Movie Clip Navigaton Not Working
I am having issues wih a movie clip navigation not working outside its own movie clip.

When you click on the button, it just re-loads the movie clip. I have tried specifing to go to the scene and then the label.

the SWF is here
www.cougarmedia.com/test/

If you have any suggestions please let me know!!!

Thanks

Loading Jpg Into Movie Clip - Not Working
Okay I have this working, it calls a jpg jsut fine...
Code:
loadMovie("images/102.jpg", 102);
BUT... It only appears at the top left of the main movie and I want to place it with x and y coordinates. How do I do this?

I've tried this, but it really screws everything up.
Code:
with (102){
_x=50;
_y=50;
}
loadMovie("images/102.jpg", 102);
An even better question, I guess, would be: How do I call a JPG WHILE positioning it at the same time? I have to do this for 12 JPGs on the page.

Thanks!

-spack

Nested Movie Clip Not Working
Could someone please help me out on this small issue? In my flash file, I have a button called health programs (main movie file, underneath Lincoln folder). When a visitor's rolls over this button, all I want is for a nested movie clip to play a specific frame label (lincolnHealth). I wrote a function like this in my first frame of my main movie file (first frame, top of file, very bottom of action script):

Code:
function lincolnsubmenu(){
if(lincolnsub=="lincolnHealth"){
lincolnHealthMenumc.play();
}
}
lincolnsub is the variable, lincolnHealth is the frame label in the nested movie clip. On the button itself, I say this (frame 20, main movie file):

Code:

healthProgramsBtn.onRollOver=function(){
lincolnHealthMenumc.gotoAndStop("lincolnHealth");
}
Then in my nested movie clip, in my first frame of AS, I set the variable and frame label like so:

Code:
_parent.lincolnsub="lincolnHealth";
I know my button fires, my nested movie clip just doesn't play. Surely that makes sense to someone. This same problem has been nagging at me for three days now. Attached in the stripped down version. I done a similiar approach with highlights in this same project and everything worked peachy. If anyone can give a hint, I would be extremely grateful.

http://midwestwebdesign.net/temp/tour.zip

Movie Clip Button Not Working
I have created a moviclip with a button inside it, what i want to do is when the button is clicked make the the movie clips visible property to false, I have tried these 2 methods and they dont work:

on(release){
menu_bar._visible = false;
}

and

on (release){
setProperty("menu_bar", _visible, False);
}