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Match The Size Of A Dynamic Movie To The Size Of Its Parent Container Using ActScrpt?
I have a program that is dynamically loading images into a nested movie clip. The Parent movie contains the two separate movies within it and images are to switch back and forth in them. I need to know how I can use action script to load these nested movies to the exact dimension of the parent movieclip.

Here is my code:

onClipEvent (load) {
StagePictures._lockroot = true;

e_mc.loadMovie(_root.PathText+_root.imageClips[0]);

}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(a number)) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.something)) {
if (Key.isDown(a number)) {
_root.StagePictures.e_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("SecondClip" , 3);
_root.StagePictures.e_mc.SecondClip.loadMovie(_root.PathText+_root.imageClips[1]);
_root.ScoreBox.text = scvar+1;
_root.Command.text = _root.imageCommand[1];
_root.Response.text = "Correct!";
}
}
}
}

StagePictures is the parent clip, e_mc is a child, and SecondClip is a child within e_mc.

Both e_mc, and SecondClip are loading the dynamic images which are the paths labeled _root.PathText+_root.imageClips[0, and 1];

The size of the images need to be contained within the size of the parent clip of both called StagePictures.

How can I set the size of the two nested clips to match the parent?

Thanks,
sam

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Making The Document Size Dynamic With The Window Size
Im looking to make the flash file dynamic so that when someone changes the window size the flash file expands with it and some of the items contained move also.

thanks for any help.

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Dynamic Text Field - Dynamic Size
Hi all

I am trying to do a tooltip that loads a var from database into
a dynamic text field

This I want to customize with a backgrund movie
pls see my illustration!

Because I dont want to have a static size of the background movie
I hope there is a way to make it scale to the textfield

All Ideas welcome

Have a Nice day

Flemming

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Dynamic Text With Dynamic Size
Background:
I have a Button embeded in a Smart Movie Clip (buttonMC) with many instances of the buttonMC on my stage. I want a separate title (titleMC) to appear next to each instance of the buttonMC when I roll over the button. A dynamic text box that returns the value of a (smart) variable in the buttonMC seems to be the answer for me. This titleMC also needs a background, for which I've made another MC (backgroundMC) which sets it's width acording to the width of the titleMC.

Problem:
I need this dynamic text box to resize acording to it's contents, so that my backgroundMC ends up nicely hugging the text. As it stands I havn't been able to get a Dynamic text box to resize itself dynamically. (Were talking about a one line text box here) When I created the initial box I made sure not to resize it and hence "fix" it's size (square corner). (It still has a circle at it's corner)

Any sudgestions here? Do I need more script and math to judge the size of the text in the box and resize the bacgroundMC from this math? (I was (am) hoping that's not the case.)

Thanks for the thoughts,
Mani

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Dynamic Swf-size, Is It Possible ?
Hi there!!

I'm currently coding an image fader which dynamically creates movieClips and loads a bunch of images into the clips.
The problem to solve here is, that I want to set the Stage-size of the swf-File after loading the images, so that the Stage exactly fits the images size.

small example:
Stage size is 400x400px.
my images are 244x139px.
When I load the images into the swf then they occur in the upper left corner or in the middle (depends on how i place them). The problem is that there is an unused "border" around the images, which I want to "cut" by resizing the dimensions of the swf-file.

There are parameters that show the Stage-size Stage.width and Stage.height but they are read only.
The next thing I tried was to set the flash-application-size in the html-file. But this only scales the whole swf file.

Then I found the command MMExecute() to execute JavaScript commands. There is an accessible flash-object called fl and by using the method .getDocumentDOM() you can get the current Document-Object in Flash and the Document-Object gives access to the Document-Dimensions, but the JSAPI-Documentation says that size-changes only affect .fla-files opened in Flash.

Now I have no more ideas how to solve this problem, do you have any suggestions to me ???

Please help !!

Thanks,
Marc

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Dynamic Swf That Changes His Own Size
I have a SWF in the HTML ... without a scrollbar , centered, everything is right......Ok......The problem is: I have one MC inside of the SWF....and when pressured, the SWF would be enlarged itself vertically, with the scrollbars of the navigator...

I thought about making this ,using the "LocalConnection", but I dont know ...
Thats it....Tks for all

ps: Sorry for the "bad english"

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How 2 Dynamic Size MCs
I'll try to make this as clear as possible without entering actual code. Not sure if this is an Flash or PHP forum post. I'm pretty sure it's flash.

I am able to load dynamic text from an external php script. I'm using a template system and my variables load fine. The problem I'm having is with the WIDTH.

I have a Graphic symbol on the main op scene and within it (This changes as I work with it) I have movie clips and buttons. I am able to load the data just fine. The WIDTH is my back-stabbing problem.

Currently I must make the whole button's width long enough to hold the text that is dynamically loaded. If the text loaded is too small then the whole area of the button is clickable. I want to dynamically resize the width of the buttonMC so that all sizes of text are shown and buttons still work.

I can't break down the button as it's text that's being loaded. I'm trying to figure out a 'textfield.property' command but not sure what property and where I need to do this at.

I've gotten so far and this seems to be the last thing I need to figure out. Thanks in advance to those that can help. Some1 Please help btw

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Dynamic Text Box Size
Dear Friends

I have a Query ::

Generally we have the Dynamic text boxes to display the variable values. While creating this object in the flash movie, we select the text tool and drag it to create the text box . the text box size now depends on how we have created it .

Is it possible to define the textbox size depending on the size of the variable to be displayed or the number of characters in the variable.

The text box size should change dynamically as soon as the variable value is given.

Can something like this be done??

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Actionscripting For Dynamic Box-size
someone must know this: how do you get the changing size rectangles like on http://www.schmidtfoto.de/?
thanks
ryan

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Dynamic Claculation Of Size
Hai,
I got one problem in my work.

That is:
1) I created three movie clips in a movie called Main.fla
2) In that movie i created three layer and in those three layers i placed three movie clips.
3) I am dynamically loading three various outside .swf files into those three movie clips

And my problem is i want to write a loading sequence for this main.fla.
For this i am first calculating each .swf size, I calculated using this statement
(trace(_root.mc.getBytesLoaded)) but it is not giving correct results.

My idea is first collect size of all those three movie clip (.swf files) size.

And i don't want to add any server side scripting files to my movie.

Can anyone hlep me on this...it is very urgent for me...

thanks
bvsp.

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Dynamic Text Box Size
This sounds like a simple question. I'm trying to make a dynamic text box a certain size so I can snap it to an exact location. I thought manually entering the pixel size in the "W:" and "H:" box was the answer, however the text resizes with the box. Now I can't get the text size back to regular scale.

Is there a simple way to create a dynamic text box with an exact size and not rescale the text. This is simple to do with static text.

Thanks,

Robert

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Dynamic Text-box Size
Hi there,

I tried to create a news-ticker which gets the text information from a database via PHP. This text should scroll horizontal. But know I've got a little problem:
Because the text in the Database changes from time to time it also changes its lenght, so I have to create a dynamic textbox , which recognizes how long this text is...
Does anyone know how to handle this problem???

Thanks a lot,

Daniel,
Germany

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Change Dynamic Fps And Size
Is there any way to change the fps and the movie size (not the scale) to a movie flash???

I make a container movie, on that I load diferent kind of movies and wich one have different size and framerate, cand I change the propertis of the container movie, ??

(sorry my english)
TNKS

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Dynamic Font Size
greetings

i have an email link which is in a dynamic text box. the problem is when i run the application the size of the link is some small it is impossible to read.

i have increased the font size in flash no change and set my size to 7 for the HTML, which makes it slightly bigger but not by much

spider

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Dynamic Movie Size ?
Hello,

I am not a frequent user of flash. I want know whether the stage size of a flash movie can be changed dynamically using actionscript or in any other way while creating swf.

Exmpl: In an html page we need to give options of specifying the size of the movie (height and width) and according to that we have generate or rather display the swf file on the browser page.

Is this possible? If yes, How?

Thanks

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Dynamic Scene Size
hey, I want to know, how in action script, we can set the scene size, cause im using aspx and access to creatre dynamicly some button, it works well but, i want that my scene have the size of the btn.. if i have 1 btn of 60 of height, my .swf will have 60 of size.. 2 btn 120 height.. to set dynamicly the proprities os the scene :P

tx

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Dynamic Size Button
hi,
i got a dynamic textfield and i have put a button in the layer above so there is a visible on mouse over effect. what i need now is the button to be the exact same width as the current value of the var displayed in the textfield. is there any other way than using a mc containing every possible var value in a seperate frame with the specific width ?
thnx for any other ideas

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Dynamic Button Size
alright, i asked this before but i cant seem to find a solution, I have a movie and a button. The movie clip has a simple resize script to resize it, which works. But now i need the button to be the same size as the movie clip. I tried making another movieclip which would resize the button but couldnt figure out how to get it to work, is there any other way i could do this?

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Dynamic Button Hit Size
I have a menu button that when moused over causes a panel to roll out below it, with more buttons on it, and the user can select one of those buttons.

My starting point here (mouseover ananda collection)

I would like the rollout to stay down as long as the mouse is over it, but because it only rolls out when the menu button hit area is moused over, it will disapear as soon as I move my mouse down to the rollout area.
I would like the rollout to stay down as long as the mouse is over it, and when the mouse is moved away, the rollout goes back up.

So can anyone help me solve this?
Also how do I make the rollout roll back up instead of disapearing when the mouse moves away?

Thanks for any help.

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[F8] Dynamic Stage Size?
Hi

I'm trying to make a flash animation for browser sizes from 800x600 upto 1600x1200. This will make my stage size grow from 250x450 pixels, to around 550x1000.
I don't want to stretch everything to fit (the larger stage size will reveal more objects on the larger stage), so how will I keep text always at the bottom, rather than at the bottom when the stage is small and only half way down when it's at its maximum?

e.g is there some kind of percentage placement for objects like in html, say 95%, rather than putting text at say 400 pixels from the top?

Many thanks

M

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Dynamic Movieholder Size
hey, i've seen sites where in the gallery, the picture holder has a stroke or something as a border. when you click on a picture, the frame will animate to a different size then stick the picture in it. when you click a new image, it will animate to the new size and then fill with the new picture. any ideas or tutorials on how this is done? i'll try to find examples if i can. thanks!

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Dynamic Pic Size 3D Carousel
I have successfully created a 3D Carousel based on the great tuts www.gotoandlearn.com...I would now like to modify it to work with different sized thumbnails and images so I can use it as a more practical application...I have searched all over, and cannot find any info about editing the carousel to make this happen...I have also tried to find some tuts for photo galleries that have dynamic sized thumbnails/images but have come short of a solution...does anyone have any idea how this can be done or where I can find the answers to all of life's questions? - Thats probably askin a little much...

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[F8] Size Of A Dynamic Button
Hi,

I need to create a dynamic horizontal menu with a xml file.
It will look likez this:
Section 1 > Sub-menu 1 > sub-sub-menu1

I would like the size of my buttons (3 buttons in the example above) to be adjusted depending on the size of the text upon it...

I thought I could give my button the size of my text area with this method:
mybutton1._width = mytext1._width but it doesn't work because mytext1._width gives the width of the texte area and not precisely of my text.

Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance!

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Dynamic Canvas Size
i was wondering if there was an action script to resize teh canvas of a movie.
i do NOT want the movie to re-scale i only want it to re-size the canvas.

i dont accually now if this is called the canvas maybe tahts why i cant figure out this problem.

i.e. my problem is i want sometimes my .swf to be 750 X 1000 and otehr tiems i want it to be 750 X 500.

but i dont want my my movie just to shrink/grow to that size. i just want to have a bigger area to display more information or not display this information

Jesse

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How To I Do This.. (Dynamic Document Size)
Hi everyone,
Please anyone help me in this, how to i change the document size dynamically.. ie am using xml file like the follwing

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FINANCIAL>
<graph1 bgcolor="0x78A615" Line_Size="1" opasity="100" miterDepth="4">

<value xval="20" yval="30.6"/>
<value xval="30.5" yval="32"/>
<value xval="40" yval="35"/>
<value xval="50" yval="40"/>
<value xval="60" yval="43"/>
<value xval="70" yval="70"/>
<value xval="80" yval="30"/>
<value xval="90" yval="52"/>
<value xval="100" yval="56"/>
<value xval="110" yval="58"/>
<value xval="120" yval="60"/>
<value xval="130" yval="64"/>
<value xval="140" yval="66"/>
<value xval="150" yval="40"/>
<value xval="160" yval="51"/>
</graph1>
<FINANCIAL>

from this xml file i want to find the maximum value of yval. Depending upon the size of yval, i want to modify the document height.

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Dynamic Stage Size
Hi,
I have a problem reg. Stage size, when i'm loading diff. sized images at runtime from xml(img path) - the stage size shd be resized according to loaded image sizes. Is there any possiblity to do his? If Yes,Please give me related commands or any...

Your help will be appreciated...

Thanks,
Phani.

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Q: Dynamic Textbox Size ?
I make a dynamic textField, this in load an external text file. My question is when i make this textFiled only 1 row, the text that appears in the textField will be limited by the textField bounding box. How to make the textField expand with the text(as long as the external text is)? Thx you,

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Dynamic Stage Size
is there a way to create a button that would change stage size? i am able to change the size for all the symbols i got on the stage with a click of a button but i haven't found a way to change the stage size with a button click. i basically need two different stage sizes that users can select from. (480,320) or (480,370). i don't know how to make a button that would switch between the two sizes. is there a way to do this?

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Dynamic Movie Size
Hi all,

Is there any method to make the flash movie size dynamic, I want to control it through the flashVars on HTML page, is it possible?

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FLV Dynamic Buffer Size
Atm I'm building a site which contains a rather high quality FLV.
Normally I would just give it a big buffertime but for this one I would like to make it dynamic.
What I want to do is make it so that it buffers enough to play the entire video without having to rebuffer no matter what connection you got.
I have been searching around a bit and couldn't really find anything.

I'm using the Embedded Video object together with the netStream and netConnection.

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Dynamic Font-size
I have a dynamic text field that is populated by an XML string that is constantly updated. I want the text that appears in the text box to fill the stage, i.e. if the text is very short, the font should be very large, and if the text is long, the font should be small so that it always fits.

how is this done?

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Photo Size Dynamic
Hi i have searched around a bit for this and i think it is easy. I am loading photos into mc with xml and that works fine. But what i want to do is no matter what the size of the photo is i want to have it scale down to be the same size as my mc. My mc is 175x50 and i want the outside photos to scale to fit. It does not make a difference if the photos become distorted because of different width and hight.

rL

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Dynamic Text Box - Max Size
Hi,

Do dynamic text boxes have a maximum amount of characters that can be in the text box? I have a text file that is being truncated, and am trying to determine if this is the fault of the text box.

Thanks.

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Resize Dynamic Jpg From Xml, In Max Size
What I want to do is load external jpgs and display them within a predifined box. I use the Kirupa's code for the image loading part ( http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...otogallery.htm )

But the original images are larger than the display box. I want to rescale them with actionscript, and keep the size ratio of it. But the original pictures don't have the same size.

Does someone has a mathematical equation (or a link) to solve this problem?

Thanks

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Dynamic Stage Size
Is there any way to change the stage size (width/height) while running ?

Example: I would like to pass the width and height of the swf file via querystring through browser, so when the swf loads up in browser, it will have the specific dimension.

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Dynamic Movie Size
Now I have been thinking for a bit, and am having some troubles...

What I want to do:

Have the movie detect the size of the brozer it is loading in... and have the movie be full-size within that browser...

Also, I would like the main part of the swf to be centered within the movie, which will automatically depending on the browser window size...

Its confusing to explain...

So, basically, there is a "container" that is the size of the browsers window, with a few buttons on the top, and then my main movie loaded to the center of that screen.

Thanks.

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SWF Dynamic Verticle Re-Size
Hello,

I don't know if this is even really possible, but I'm trying to accomplish something and am looking for some help.

I have a few pages that are constantly growing and getting smaller (with text content). What I'm looking for is a way for the SWF to re-size dynamically to always be 100% the height needed to show all the text.

Is this possible? Or is it just something best left to plain HTML?

Thanks,

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Dynamic Button Size
Hello Everyone,
I would like to create a button, which contains a dynamic text box.

The text box is being fed from an xml file.

The problem that I am running into is that, some of the text or button titles are longer then others.

Is it possible to have the button grow/shrink to the size of the text + 5 to 10 pixels on either side of the text.

Thanks in advance!!!

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Dynamic Size Images
All i'm attempting to do is set a laoded file to match the size of a empty_mc located into - on the stage. Of course I alredy tried setting properties to a second clip empty_mc2.

What happens is, the movie loads & resize but, resize is either to small or to large. At any rate, the loaded clip is not matching the size of the clip properties i had assigned. I could manuall y adjust the clip to make it fit, but I'm trying to resize the images dynamically.

Thak You

function fimage(){
//empty_mc coordinates
xpos= empty_mc._x;
ypos= empty_mc._y;
//loadmovie & position to coor
loadMovie("images/image1.jpg","empty_mc");
_root.empty_mc._x=xpos+1;//115set to scale and position to ghost clip on stage
_root.empty_mc._y=ypos-1;

//scale to fit empty_mc min image size
//get size
xheight=empty_mc._height;
xwidth=empty_mc._width;

//seto size
empty_mc._height = xheight; trace(xheight);
empty_mc._width = xwidth; trace(xwidth);
//end size
}

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Page 2 - How 2 Dynamic Size MCs
Just a heads up on best practices for actionscript:

The "_" is a signifier for reserved properties and some objects in actionscript such as "_root" or "_xmouse." As a rule I would steer clear of a leading underscore in your instance names, as it will confuse anyone else looking at your code.

There are also some instance naming conventions that you can follow to make handcoding a little easier within the editor. Terminating your object instance names in things like "_mc" or "_text" will prompt the editor's contextual menu to open at your cursor and choose from a list of available methods.

As for the problem your running into with _alpha, I recall having problems with that in Flash 5 -- I think that's only possible in MX/6

With regard to the length issue - there must be some maximum lenth beyond which you don't want your text fields to run. This is less of a programming issue and more of a design dilemma. If your navigation is running horizontally, you'll run into all sorts of undesirable results, depending on what kind of text you end up with. If your nav is running vertically, then I would make one clip with a dynamic text field inside and duplicate it for as many text strings you have. Then set a cap on the string length of your variables.

Remember, the visibility of the text is not limited by the size of the clip it's sitting in, but the size of the text field. Think of the text field like a mask. Scaling the parent clip will only distort the textfield, not make any more of the text visible. MoviecClips are objects, so what ever changes you make to the object (scale, position, etc.) are inherited by all of the objects contained therein.

Hope this helps and good luck.

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How Do I Get Pixel Size Of Dynamic Text?
Good people

Is there a way to get the pixel size of string? My problem is I am passing menu button titles dynamically to my flash movie and the menu buttons need to be the same sime (or just a little bigger) as the text being passed.

I understand that I can use: variable.length to get the number of characters in the string but I cant use this dependably to get the actually size the text takes up.

Any help is appreciated.

cheers

stevo

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Can I Change The Size Of A Dynamic Text
Here is my question. Is there a way to dynamically change the size of a text box in flash 5 while the movie is running. I have send data from a database to be displayed in a dynamic text box but I need the text box to grow or shrink depending on the amount of text I send to it.
Thank you all in advance.

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Dynamic Text Size Always The Same On All Machines?
Just a quick one

I would like to know if any one has noticed if Dynamic text and the distance between lines of dynamic text (with no embeded font) is always the same pixel size between different machines, browsers and platforms. Eg, if some text loads into a dynamic field and shows say 9 lines, will it be the same on all platforms, browsers, etc ...

Cheers

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Changing The Size Of A Dynamic Text Box
I have a dynamic text box which gets its contents from a php file and displays the details in the flash file.
I need to be able to change the size of this dynamic text box according to the size of the text which is passed into it from the php file (This is news and always changing and also of varying lengths). Can anyone help me with the actionscript code which I would need to do this?

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Dynamic Text Window Size
This may not even be possible but....

I have a dynamic window with loads contect from a varible (loadVars) I also have a script that dynamically changes a scrollbar that controls that window. How do I get the window to change its size based on content. (short of calc'ing the number of carriage returns)

Thanks

Christopher

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Dynamic Movie Clip Size
I am creating a wishlist of things I want, and I want to be able to make a movie clip which will show all of the items and a little information about them. I am drawing all of the information from a database and it will grow/shrink as things are added/deleted from it. What I would like is a little movie clip which would hold the information for one item in the list. I would have another parent movie clip which would create copies of the child clip one under the other (by under I mean a greater _y value). Then that parent clip would be inside another movie clip so that I could scroll up and down. Is this possible? Does anyone even understand what I'm trying to get across? I'll try to post an example using HTML, ASP, and Frames in a little while.

~ Joshua Dees

P.S. ~ I'm using Flash MX

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