Flash :: Drag Mouse To Increase Size

[MX] Mouse Drag According To Screen Size
Hi, I'm trying to do a liquid flash layout for the first time. The site is basically one huge image that extends beyond the browser. When you move the mouse, the image moves in the opposite direction so that if you move your mouse to the top left, the whole image would move to the bottom left allowing you to see the top part. Originally I was just trying with bg._x = 400-_xmouse, but the problem I have is I have to use the Stage.width to replace the stage size. How do I adjust the movement so that the movement adjusts to the ratio of the image to the browser size? so no matter at what resolution, if you move the mouse to the very top left, the movement of the image would end so you can see the top left of it. Any ideas? I'll probably be adding a deceleration effect to it too. Thanks!

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How To Increase Speed Of Drag Pieces?
Hi there,
I created one puzzel. You can see the game at:
http://www.geocities.com/sherly_isaac/puzzelflash.swf

It is very slow in moving(dragging) the pieces. How can I improve the speed of this game? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Sherly

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Increase Size Of Mc
i dont get why this isnt working. i have an ant that will move around the screen and when i press my button i want it to grow. but it only workes one time. i tried lots of things but no luck so far. here is the script applied to the button to make the ant grow.
code: on (press) {
setProperty("_root.antgroup.ant", _xscale, _xscale+10);
setProperty("_root.antgroup.ant", _yscale, _yscale+10);
}

anybody got any ideas?
thanks for your time!

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Increase The Size Of EVERYTHING
I don't mean the dimensions, I mean increasing the actual size of everything inside the movie. Not just one thing at a time...or just one fram at a time...is it possible?'

And if I wanted to move an animation that is More than 3 frames, without carefully onion skinning, how would I do that?

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Size Increase
Could someone explain why my flash fla increased in size when I imported an mp3 into the library, even after I removed the mp3 from the library.

thanx

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Increase Text Size
hello!

i have a dynamic text box in a movie. is it possible to place a button on the stage that will increase and decrease the font size of the text??

can this be down with variables??

cheers,

jake

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Projector Size Increase
i was wondering if anyone else was having this problem, or if it was just me? I had a projector (exe) i was creating in Flash in Flash 5, and was just working on it, and published it through MX, and it increased my file size on the EXE from 500kb to 1MB! I mean, I know that the new plugin/player is bigger, but I didnt think it was this mych bigger? Is this the reason for it?

Josh Dura

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How Can I Increase A JPEG Size?
Hi I'm working in a PhotoSlideshow the one from "New from Template" and in the first step of "preparing your photos" I have to change the size of my photos from 352x288 to 640x480,
How can I do this and keep the same quality on the photos.
[Edited by Maldepatria on 07-22-2002 at 01:26 AM]

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Preloader-size Increase?
Hi, I made a preloader that has the size of 6 kb,
"I checked it with a large image" when I put it into a larger movie (main.swf) it seems to be 30kb.

Meaning it doesn't appear until 30kb has been loaded.
Is this normal, or did I do something wrong?

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Increase, Decrease Box Size
Can someone help?

I have a rectangle that is a movie and it's instance name is box. I want to enlarge and decrease the size with actionscript and not frame animation. I thought I would do this with two seperate buttons, once called zoom in and the other called zoom out. Can I do this and how?

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SWF File Size Increase.
I'm working on a site that uses a lot of JPEGs. To reduce size (it was currently at 1.8MB), I compressed the images and cropped to only what was needed. I did this to all the images, which decreased the total file size of the images by 300kB. I updated all the images in Flash, readjusted them so they aligned up, saved the movie, published, and the file size is around 5 MB. Does anyone have any idea what is causing this?

Thanks.

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[F8] Increase Stage Size
Hello all;
Now i make game (Minesweeper). all thing is ok but there are one big problem
i want to custom my stage after the game start as
If user want to incease the width or heigth my game will extent itself.

I want make to button to control my swf width and height ?

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Increase The Font Size
Hi,

I need to make a flash presentation for a client. He wants to give an option to the user to increase the font size or decrease the font size of the text. Can you please give me a sample of actionscript 2.0 code regarding it? Also, please tell me how should I structure the presentation? It will have 50 sections. I was thinking of making 50 different movie clips and load them as needed. If I do it like that, then how can I increase the font size from the base movie clip itself.

Thanks.

Gaurav
www.gauravchandra.com

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Increase Font Size
Is there a way of putting a button together, that when pressed increases or decreases the size of text onscreen?

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Increase The Image And Scene Size.
Hi...Is there a way to increse the scene size?
I have imported a jgp file. Made a layer of llinks on it and saved it as fla and swf and html. When I open it on the browser...there is alot of white space around the picture. Is there away to increse the size of the work space on flash so that when I save it and run it on a browser...the fla takes up the ENTIRE space so there is no white space around?

I appreciate any help I can get.
Layla

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Increase, Decrease Textfield Size
is it possible to increase and decrease the size of a dynamic text box?

i would like the user to be able to increase and decrease the size of a text box both horizontally and vertically without physically stretching the text inside.

tnx

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Increase And/or Decrease Size On Flash Mx
Ok... in my website I have three buttons. What I want to do, but still haven't figured out how, is to perform an action in wich if I rollover a button, this will increase its size to a certain value, decreasing the size of the other two at the same time, and on rollout the three of them would go back to their normal size.
What I've done so far is put three movieclips on a layer on the scene with invisible buttons over them on a different layer. All three buttons are the same size so there won't be much trouble defining the desirable "big" and "small" size for all of them

I tried to set variables for the height and width and make flash check it on a loop, but what I haven't figured out yet is the action for the buttons to make the size animation change.

Thanks in advance.

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Increase And/or Decrease Size On Flash Mx
Ok... in my website I have three buttons. What I want to do, but still haven't figured out how, is to perform an action in wich if I rollover a button, this will increase its size to a certain value, decreasing the size of the other two at the same time, and on rollout the three of them would go back to their normal size.
What I've done so far is put three movieclips on a layer on the scene with invisible buttons over them on a different layer. All three buttons are the same size so there won't be much trouble defining the desirable "big" and "small" size for all of them.

I tried to set variables for the height and width and make flash check it on a loop, but what I haven't figured out yet is the action for the buttons to make the size animation change, as well as the rate of this change.

Thanks in advance.

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Increase Size Mx 2004 Focusrect ?
Is there a way to increase the size of the focus rectangle on v2 components from 2 to 2 or 4?

How about moving the rectangle in, so that 1px is on the edge of the component?

Finally, is there a way to get the focus rectangle to turn on when the user clicks on a text input? (not tabbing)

Any help would be appreciated!

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Increase Width Size Of Stage
I believe when u increase width size of stage at document setting. The width will increase on the right of the stage. Is there anyway to make it centre. Which means both sides of the stage width will increase. Cos it will be hassle for me to shift all my objects position again. Please help me. T_T

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Object Size Increase With Text
Hey guys,

Im having a problem figuring this out, or even if its possible... but I want to create a Text Bubble. Is there a ways that when I type text inside the bubble, the bubble will expand Horizonally, Verticially, or Both based on a setting?

A URL or tutorial of this would be greatly appreciated.

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[F8] Library Items Increase SWF Size?
Hello,

Does it affect the size of the final SWF if I have a lot of large-sized items in my library that are not used in the SWF?

Thanks!

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[F8] MX Transition, Object Increase SIZE
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var xScaleT:Tween = new Tween(ball_mc, "_y", Strong.easeOut, 500, 340, 1, true);

Using simple mx trans like the one above, how do you increase the size of a object. (instead of moving it up like the example above).

I have had a poke about on here but the search keeps crashing my firefox : (

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Increase/decrease An Element Size
Dear all!

I am working on a project, in which I need to make an object increase to 150 and decrease to 25% from ite regular size, by pressing the Key.UP on my keyboard. My problem is that i can not get it to increase gradually as I press the Key.UP.

I am also programming a previous channel on remote control. The pc is suppost to go to previous channel when I press the button. I tried different ways, but I don't know how to make the function remember what was the last channel..
Please help or give some hints.. I'll appreciate your help

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How Can I Increase The Size Of The Scrollable Area?
hi,
i want to create a scroller that is larger than the default, which on my system in roughly 750 px. this doesn't seem right? i want to have a long list (ideally, thousands of pixels tall!), and i can't seem to see how i can increase the size of the movie clip...?

can anyone help?

thanks!

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How Do I Increase Size Of Trace Output?
Hi,

I'm running the developer edition of FMS3 on my local machine for development purposes and I'm working with large amounts of XML data. I try to check the veracity of the data by using appropriately located trace statements to spit out the current document. However, some of the data is large, and instead of outputting it I get the message "String too long to display". Is there any setting I can adjust in order to increase the size of traceable messages? It's not as if I care if I have a whole load of data in my log screen. Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Dave Spaar

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Possible To Increase Font Size For Help File?
Is it possible to increase the font size for the Flash MX 2004 help file? I'd really like to change it's color scheme too.

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Increase/decrease Movieclip Size Help
Hi

I have a movieclip slider_mc that can be dragged across the screen. There are also lots of small movieclips on the stage that I would like to increase and decrease their size depending on how close the draggable movieclip is to them. If you know what I mean please can you help!
Thanks

A

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Do Instances Increase Your File Size?
do instances increase your file size?

so will my file size increase whether i have one instance of a symbol on my stage or whether i have 20 instances of that symbol on stage?

thank you kindly for answering these silly questions

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Possible To Increase Font Size For Help File?
Is it possible to increase the font size for the Flash MX 2004 help file? I'd really like to change it's color scheme too.

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Fuse Kit Increase File Size?
So as the title goes, this is a very simple and direct question.

Recently I am learning how to make animations with the Fuse Kit. I just created an animation that moves a vector ball drawn in flash from one position to another and also change its blur value from like 65 down to 0.

I tested the move, the swf file is like 30K big. I go ahead remove all teh scripts, it's only like 160 bytes big.

Is that normal?

- mark

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Why The File Size Increase When I Try To Save As Flash 5
I made a flash movie for my company web site with flashMX, the movie size is 64k, but lots of people said that they couldn't load the movie, so I save as flash5 and export another swf movie, this time everybody can view it but the movie size increased to 100k. Why and how can i still keep the small file size??? Thanks!

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Increase Size Of Button Hit State Dynamically
Hello,
I have a button with a regular over, Press and Hit states. When you rollover it another MC becomes visible. How can I then expand the button's hit area to include this now visible MC ?? Because when you try to rollover the MC it goes away because now you have Rolled out of the button. (BTW - I cannot make the button's hit state large enough to include the MC at all times -only after the original button hit area is rolled over) Is this possible ???

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[F8] Do Comments In ActionScript Increase File Size?
I know inserting a lot of comments in your ActionScript will increase the .fla filesize. Does commented text get published with the .swf?
I would like to add a lot of comments to my code, so that the other guys on my team don't have to come to me every five minutes asking what this variable is, where did that value come from... etc.
However, the code is complex on it's own and uses a lot of Flash Player's resources just to execute it, so it's imperative that I keep the code as efficient as possible because I don't want to cause anymore "slow down" than is necessary.
Example:
If I have the following AS in my .fla and publish a .swf will it contain the fully commented text:

Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
// Hey look here's a comment
finalday = ((lastyear * 365) + (lastmonth * 31) + lastday) - (range * .78);
// And another comment, so do this and this and this
startday = ((begyear * 365) + (begmonth * 31) + begday);
/* And a really loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
comment telling them in detail that if they come to me asking
about what the following code means, I'll shiv 'em. */
if (nav == true) {
newday = currentday + offset;
if (newday >= startday and newday <= finalday) {
currentday = newday;
}
}
}
So the .swf has the comments in it and it just skips them (which in my mind would cause more "slowdown", even if it is miniscule, than without the comments)

Or, would the .swf contain all the code WITHOUT the comments:

Code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
finalday = ((lastyear * 365) + (lastmonth * 31) + lastday) - (range * .78);
startday = ((begyear * 365) + (begmonth * 31) + begday);
if (nav == true) {
newday = currentday + offset;
if (newday >= startday and newday <= finalday) {
currentday = newday;
}
}
}
I know in this example, we're talking about saving a few lines and maybe a few bytes, but for the really complex app I'm working on, the amount of commenting I would have to do could make a measureable difference.

Thanks for any input!

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[CS3] TIP: How To Increase Font Size In Flash CS3 Help Pane
I finally got sick of trying to read the miniscule text in the "Flash Help" pane so I figured out how to change it. If you are having the same problem (everything may look fine on your machine... depends on your screen resolution and personalization settings), try this:

Go to:
C:ProgramDataAdobeFlash CS3enConfigurationHelpPanel\_sharedassets

Here you will see some CSS files. What you need to tweak will depend on your system. I had to modify the "help_pc.css" file.

In the very first tag (body) simply change "font-size: .7em;" to something else. That's it! No more tiny, illegible text!

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Increase Size Of Object/button In Flash 8?
Okay, well, I have a button link thing (the whole .FLA is a website). The button has up, over, and out frames, and the button is supposed to animate up when you hover over it and animate back down when you roll out - I got that part okay, but the animation gets messed up sorta and goes up and down when you leave your mouse hovered over the button, because the button is too small so it thinks that you rolled out when you keep your mouse there but the button goes up.

I hope that makes sense.. if not, what I only really would like to know if it is possible to increase the size of a button, not enlarge your button, but increase the like, space of it.

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Page File Size Increase Until App Fails
Win xp + flash 8 and flash player 8 THIS IS A KIOSK PROJECT, no browser involved.

Greetings.

I have a kiosk project that loads very large (200-300mb) external swfs with embedded video as a "screen saver" function. The screen saver loads (and unloads) maybe 3 or 4 times, then, on the 5th time, the app won't load the SWF. I would also get a "virtual memory too low" message from the task bar.

Based on that observation, i started monitoring the "task manager" for "PF Usage" and found that every time the screen saver loaded, a few hundred MBs would be added to the Page File...AND LEFT THERE. So, with each successive screen saver loading, the PF would get larger and larger.

I believe this to be the reason for the screensaver swf ceasing to load after a number of times.

I have tried to change the PF settings in windows to very large settings, but doesn't seem to help. The swf stops loading when the PF is about 1.5 to 1.7GB, even though i set the max pf to 4096mb.

Is there then a way to "flush" the PF when the extern SWF is unloaded?

ADDITIONAL TESTING:

I've done some more testing. I made a test base movie that loads an external swf, the code is below.

the "loadtest.swf" has a large tiff file on the stage that gives the swf a size of about 5mb. Also on this SWF is a button that calls removeScreenSaver() to unload itself.

What i observed in this test is that when the loaded swf is removed, SOME of the memory is cleaned up from the page file, but NOT ALL OF IT. So this presents the same eventual problems.

This seems like a pretty huge problem but I have had no luck finding any posts or help on this?

Attach Code

function loadScreenSaver():Void {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("ssLoader", 100);
ssLoader.loadMovie("loadtest.swf");
}
//
function removeScreenSaver():Void {
ssLoader.removeMovieClip();
}
mc.onPress = function():Void {
loadScreenSaver();
};

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On Click Increase/Decrease Font Size
Morning Everyone.

I have a presentation that is filled from an XML file. All the text boxes are dynamic, loops go through and populate clips and what not.
I want to add a function, that if they click on the big "A" it increases the Font size by 1 pt. so 12pt>13pt The little"a" would Decrease the font size. 13pt>12pt.

To start, I just want to increase/decrease by 1 pt. but if later I can make it so each click increases/decreases that would be ideal.

Not sure if this is possible, but I wanted to toss the question out there as I do my own research as well.

Appreciate it!

Tim

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Can Having Extra Items In Your Library Increase SWF Size?
My SWF file just went from 200k to about 450k. I added some extra stuff to my library, could that be it?.?.?. I can work to make it smaller, but I was just wondering if that is the case. I don't think adding stuff to the library could possibly make the exported file bigger... but who knows.

thanks.

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File Size Increase When Using Trace Bitmap
How can I avoid huge swf file increase when I am using trace bitmap?

I also found swf file that matches this same bitmap that I am trying to trace converted to vector and its size is arround 6 kb.

With trace bitmap I end up with 190 kb file. If I lower the trace bitmap settings I end up with a low quality vector that is not good enough.

Any tips?

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Increase Value While Mouse Is Down. Little Problem
Hi,

I'm having a little problem. I'm trying to increase the value of a textbox when a user presses a 'button' wich is actually a movieclip. While the user keeps the mousebutton presed in the button I want the value to increase in steps of 1.
Al is working except the value is only increased once. I know the code is being processed because I put a trace statement to check.
Here's how I build it:
One main movie with an onclipevent(mouseDown); This sets a global variable called _global.increasevalue to 1.
in the main timeline I have an action:
if(_global.increasevalue){
_root.mainmovie.valueholder.text=parseInt(_root.ma inmovie.valueholder.text)+1;
}

The statement above only increases the value of valueholder 1 time. after that nothing happens. I put a trace underneath and it get's called as long as i keep the mouse button down.

I hope you can understand what I'm trying. I find it very difficult to explain. If someone can help me, I'd be very happy!!

Thanks in advance for your help.

Bas

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Font Size Increase - Creating Scorll Bars
Hello,

I have a normal dynamic text box and I have included an increase text size button to aid usability. However, the text area is small so when the text is enlarged it runs out of the text area.

Is it possible to dynamically increase text size which automatically creates a scroll bar in the text area?

Thanks, Rob

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Button Size Increase, While Other Buttons Slide Over To Allow Space?
I have a line of 12 horizontal placed buttons. I want whatever button is rolled over to get larger (no problem), but I need the other buttons to slide over to allow for the new size that the larger one would bring. I have no idea what type of code I should be looking for here.

Can anyone lead me in some sort of direction?

thanks for any info!!!
mx 2004

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Movieclip Doesn't Increase Its Size When Children Are Added?
Hi, I've created a thumbnail collection class that holds (as the name suggests) all the thumbnails. I intend to use this as the source of a scrollpane so that the user can scroll down the thumbnails. Here is the code for the ThumbNailCollection class:

ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.xml.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;

public class ThumbNailCollection extends MovieClip
{
private var thumb_names:Array; // all the file names of thumbnails in this collection
private var row:int; // counter for how many rows of thumbnails in this collection
private var col:int; // counter for how many columns of thumbnails in this collection
private const START_X:Number = 25.5; // the x coordinate of the starting point
private const START_Y:Number = 33.5; // the y coordinate of the starting point
private const HORIZ_GAP:Number = 70; // the horizontal gap between thumbnails
private const VERTI_GAP:Number = 54; // the vertical gap between thumbnails
private const THUMB_W:Number = 150;   // width of the thumbnail
private const THUMB_H:Number = 112.5;    // height of the thumbnail

public function ThumbNailCollection(xml_name:String)
{
row = 1;
col = 1;
thumb_names = new Array();
readList(xml_name);
}

// reads the list of picture files
private function readList(file:String):void
{
var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete);
ldr.load(new URLRequest(file));
}

private function loadingComplete(e:Event):void
{
var pictures:XML = new XML(e.target.data);

for(var i:int = 0; i < pictures.pic.length(); ++i)
thumb_names.push(pictures.pic[i]);

for(var j:int = 0; j < thumb_names.length; ++j)
addThumbNail(thumb_names[j]);
}

public function addThumbNail(thumb:String):void
{
var t:ThumbNail = new ThumbNail(thumb);

if(row == 1 && col == 1) // no thumbnail added so far
{
t.x = START_X;
t.y = START_Y;

addChild(t);
++col;
}
else
{
t.x = START_X + (THUMB_W + HORIZ_GAP) * (col - 1);
t.y = START_Y + (THUMB_H + VERTI_GAP) * (row - 1);

addChild(t);
++col;
}

// if the column is more than 3, create another row and set col to zero
if(col > 3)
{
++row;
col = 1;
}
}
}
}

This works perfectly (I can see all the thumbnails being added in their correct positions). But when I set an instance of ThumbNailCollection as the source of my scrollpane, the scrollpane doesn't have a scroll bar. So I traced the size of the instance of ThumbNailCollection, and it turns out to be 0 * 0. I even tried to explicitly change the size of ThumbNailCollection whenver a new thumbnail is added, but then the size is still 0*0 and now I can't even see the thumbnails.

My questions are: Why doesn't the Movieclip class automatically adjust its size when a child is added? How can I make it adjust its size accordingly whenever a child is added?

I'm new to actionscript, so this may turn out to be a really easy, basic question so please be tolerable, and thanks in advance!

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Movieclip Doesn't Increase Its Size When A Child Is Added?
Hi, I've created a thumbnail collection class that holds (as the name suggests) all the thumbnails. I intend to use this as the source of a scrollpane so that the user can scroll down the thumbnails. Here is the code for the ThumbNailCollection class:

ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.xml.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;

public class ThumbNailCollection extends MovieClip
{
private var thumb_names:Array; // all the file names of thumbnails in this collection
private var row:int; // counter for how many rows of thumbnails in this collection
private var col:int; // counter for how many columns of thumbnails in this collection
private const START_X:Number = 25.5; // the x coordinate of the starting point
private const START_Y:Number = 33.5; // the y coordinate of the starting point
private const HORIZ_GAP:Number = 70; // the horizontal gap between thumbnails
private const VERTI_GAP:Number = 54; // the vertical gap between thumbnails
private const THUMB_W:Number = 150; // width of the thumbnail
private const THUMB_H:Number = 112.5; // height of the thumbnail

public function ThumbNailCollection(xml_name:String)
{
row = 1;
col = 1;
thumb_names = new Array();
readList(xml_name);
}

// reads the list of picture files
private function readList(file:String):void
{
var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.addEventListener

This works perfectly (I can see all the thumbnails being added in their correct positions). But when I set an instance of ThumbNailCollection as the source of my scrollpane, the scrollpane doesn't have a scroll bar. So I traced the size of the instance of ThumbNailCollection, and it turns out to be 0 * 0. I even tried to explicitly change the size of ThumbNailCollection whenver a new thumbnail is added, but then the size is still 0*0 and now I can't even see the thumbnails.

My questions are: Why doesn't the Movieclip class automatically adjust its size when a child is added? How can I make it adjust its size accordingly whenever a child is added?

I'm new to actionscript, so this may turn out to be a really easy, basic question so please be tolerable, and thanks in advance!

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Movieclip Doesn't Increase Its Size When A Child Is Added?
Hi, I've created a thumbnail collection class that holds (as the name suggests) all the thumbnails. I intend to use this as the source of a scrollpane so that the user can scroll down the thumbnails. Here is the code for the ThumbNailCollection class:

ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.xml.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;

public class ThumbNailCollection extends MovieClip
{
private var thumb_names:Array; // all the file names of thumbnails in this collection
private var row:int; // counter for how many rows of thumbnails in this collection
private var col:int; // counter for how many columns of thumbnails in this collection
private const START_X:Number = 25.5; // the x coordinate of the starting point
private const START_Y:Number = 33.5; // the y coordinate of the starting point
private const HORIZ_GAP:Number = 70; // the horizontal gap between thumbnails
private const VERTI_GAP:Number = 54; // the vertical gap between thumbnails
private const THUMB_W:Number = 150; // width of the thumbnail
private const THUMB_H:Number = 112.5; // height of the thumbnail

public function ThumbNailCollection(xml_name:String)
{
row = 1;
col = 1;
thumb_names = new Array();
readList(xml_name);
}

// reads the list of picture files
private function readList(file:String):void
{
var ldr:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
ldr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingComplete);
ldr.load(new URLRequest(file));
}

private function loadingComplete(e:Event):void
{
var pictures:XML = new XML(e.target.data);

for(var i:int = 0; i < pictures.pic.length(); ++i)
thumb_names.push(pictures.pic[i]);

for(var j:int = 0; j < thumb_names.length; ++j)
addThumbNail(thumb_names[j]);
}

public function addThumbNail(thumb:String):void
{
var t:ThumbNail = new ThumbNail(thumb);

if(row == 1 && col == 1) // no thumbnail added so far
{
t.x = START_X;
t.y = START_Y;

addChild(t);
++col;
}
else
{
t.x = START_X + (THUMB_W + HORIZ_GAP) * (col - 1);
t.y = START_Y + (THUMB_H + VERTI_GAP) * (row - 1);

addChild(t);
++col;
}

// if the column is more than 3, create another row and set col to zero
if(col > 3)
{
++row;
col = 1;
}
}
}
}

This works perfectly (I can see all the thumbnails being added in their correct positions). But when I set an instance of ThumbNailCollection as the source of my scrollpane, the scrollpane doesn't have a scroll bar. So I traced the size of the instance of ThumbNailCollection, and it turns out to be 0 * 0. I even tried to explicitly change the size of ThumbNailCollection whenver a new thumbnail is added, but then the size is still 0*0 and now I can't even see the thumbnails.

My questions are: Why doesn't the Movieclip class automatically adjust its size when a child is added? How can I make it adjust its size accordingly whenever a child is added?

I'm new to actionscript, so this may turn out to be a really easy, basic question so please be tolerable, and thanks in advance!

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