Flash :: Scrollbar And Content In Flash

Browser Scrollbar Scrolls Content Inside A Flash Doc?
Hi there,

I have just been using a site whereby the actual browser scrollbar was controlled by the flash window (it wasnt a fake scroll bar, it was the actual browser bar)

Anyway, there was a list of flash table data inside a flash doc, that when the scrollbar was dragged, this content was scrolled and the frame work of the site remained in place (like a frameset)

I had a look a the code and found this...... does it inspire anyone as to how they have done this?

//var container=document.getElementById('CONTAINER');
var flashDIV=document.getElementById('ONE');
var SWF=document.getElementById('RWONE');
var scroller=document.getElementById('SCROLLER');
var flashHeight=document.getElementById('FHEIGHT');
var username="steve";
function getUser(){return username;}
scroller.onscroll = scrolled;
// ]]>

Thanks to any help in advance!

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How To Get Content Into A Scrollbar
i know how to put text but i want links and pictures inside a scrollbar, anny help.. kinda like a div tag inside a web page

here is an example of what i mean

http://home.iprimus.com.au/lorrainef/untitled.jpg

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Scrollbar Content With Links
Can anyone help me with the following question

I would like some of my content inside a scroll bar function to have links to another page - e.g a login page the user would click on the link and this would take them to the login page or a website for example

How is it possible to achieve this?

Any advice of links to tutorial would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Jess

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Scrollbar And Dynamic Content
hello

I have a scrollbar controlling a movie clip. The movie clip has graphics and some dymanic text content. This means that the movie hieght changes depending on which frame it's in.

I'm currently using a mask set to the max height of the movie clip but I would like he height to change according to the content. I was thinking I could set a variable which changes on each frame of the movie clip which could then be used to control the mask height.

Does this sound like a decent way to do it.. or can anyone suggest another way?

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Content Scrollbar (Revised)
Hi everyone,
Here is something that I worked on earlier today. Basically, it is a simplified scrollbar that scrolls whatever content you place into a movie clip.

From my initial testing, the scrollbar seems easy to use for beginners. The code automatically adjusts for varying heights in the content, scrollbar, and dragger button so that the scrolling boundaries remain consistent.

Cheers!
Kirupa

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Scrollbar Visible Only If Content.....
I have a scrollbar which works great however I want it to only be visible if the content in the dynamic text box is over a certain amount/height can anyone help I thought maxScroll would be the answer but cant seem to get that to work.

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Scrollbar Content Control
I borrowed some code to make a functioning scrollbar for a gallery thumbnail section. I want to tweak its function so that the content that is being moved by dragging the scrollbar slows to a stop rather than abruptly stops once the scrollbar dragging stops.

Here is the code that is the functioning of the scrollbar (scrollface is the instance name of the actual bar that is dragged and the "this, false, left, top, right, bottom" variables are the constraints that the bar can move within)

scrollFace.onPress = function() {

var currPos:Number = this._y;
startDrag(this, false, left, top, right, bottom);
this.onMouseMove = function() {

dy = Math.abs(initPosition-this._x);
contentMain._x = Math.round(dy*-1*moveVal+initContentPos);
};
};
scrollFace.onMouseUp = function() {
stopDrag();
delete this.onMouseMove;
};

What do I need to add/modify to add that functionality?

Thanks,
Dave

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How Do You Get Scrollbar Content To NOT Export On The First Frame
How do you get Scrollbar content (dyamic text box) to NOT export on the first frame.

I have a movie with one scrollbar that scrolls a text box (with a TON of text), and I cant seem to get my loading percentage bar (that works in every other case) to work until the text box loads in first.

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Scrollbar Not Detecting Content In Textfield
when I load my movie I just have a simple textfield with some hard coded links, but the problem is the scroller won't read the text links .

Code:
linkScroller.onLoad = function() {
linkScroller.setScrollTarget("linkfield");
};
links ="<A HREF="http://www.flashkit.com" TARGET="_blank">flashkit</A><BR><A HREF="http://www.google.com" TARGET="_blank">google</A>" // there is more links after this
I have a bunch of more links in the code above enough to need a scroll.
my textfield is instance "linkfield"
my scroll bar is instance "linkScroller"
my textfield var "links"
I think its because the scroller is not getting enough time to read whats in the textfield when its loaded
How can I fix this.

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Scrollbar With Anchor Points For Content?
hi,

anyone know where I can find a sample movie with a scroll bar function to scroll content but also allow buttons to call and jump to certain section within the content (anchor points). Obvious the croll bar will need to work as well.

thanks.

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Help Set Visibility Of Scrollbar Depending On Content
Hi - is it possible to order a scrollbar component attached to a dynamic textbox in mxpro to not show if the content being loaded in is not long enough to scroll? Rather than the 'off state' for the component that you get as default.

thanks

frank

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A Scrollbar For All Content (movie Clips, Etc)
Hi everybody.

I've made a movie using ScrollPane component to show a movieclip inside. But I've notice this increases the load, and I'd like to make it easier, without using any UI component. I'd like to see an example to make my own scroll bar that supports movie clips, not just text.

thank you in advance..

Xavier

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How Do I Get Clear Text, In Scrollbar Content?
i followed this guide: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollbar.htm

On how to make a scrollbar (But i only want to use it for text).

The bar works perfect. But here is my problem.
If you look at my page http://www.datacomm.dk
you will see that the text below "Welcome" is perfect clear.
But the text inside my scrollbar area is Static Text..
Everytime i change the text inside the Scrollbar graphics, to Dynamic text, og Device font, it just dissapears. It only appears when i choose "Static Text".

Can anyone help mw with this, and get the same clear text, as in the "Welcome" box?

Thanks

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[F8] Custom Scrollbar With Content STARTING Above Y=0
Hey,

My problem is with scrolling vertical content with a custom scrollbar, where the dynamic content often starts at a y value ABOVE the viewer (or mask). I can get the scrollbar to reflect the correct % of available content on the scrolltrack, but for the life of me am stuck allowing scrolling for the full height of the content.

The attached FLA (v8) shows where I'm stuck and how far I got. It's a much simplified version of the final movie, with static content for now, but demonstrates a case in point.

I can't use the built-in scrollbar component/s because the content MC will be dynamically populated with further MCs and the content._y value will change constantly, usually ABOVE the 0 y coord of the movie.

I'm going mad with this, and it's probably easily sorted, but my poor brain has melted. I have looked high and low, but haven't found the solution, or cleared my brain enough to work it out. I'm waiting for that 'doh' moment. Any help much appreciated!

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Help With External Content And The Scrollbar Component
Hey peoples,

I am designing a site for a client: http://www.colsmusichouse.com.au and I am having trouble with the Scrollbar component with my external text. (from text files)

Heres the problem:
If you click on another section other than the main, eg. the contact section. Move the scrollbar down to the bottom, then click the title writing (Col's Music House) to go back to the main section.
The scrollbar is at the bottom.
This however does not happen if the text has not already been loaded.

What I've Tried:
I've tried next to everything to get this to work, setting Scrollposition and all that. I've tried asking at ego7.net but no one there seems to be able to help.

A Solution?
I am thinking that if there is a way to ensure that the text files are loaded everytime a button is clicked then it should work. The problem is that I have no idea how to accomplish this. I've tried using identifiers but with this method my text files won't load.
This is the code I'm using to load the data into the textbox:
TextData = new LoadVars();
TextData.onLoad = function(){
TextBox.htmlText = this.content;
};

Is there a way to ensure that the content loaded will always be from the server rather than from the cache.
If it's necessary then I'm happy to use a different approach to load the content into flash.

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MichaelxxOA And Kirupa Content Scrollbar Help
Hi everyone,

I have been reading through the Source/Experiments threads and trying to implement suggestions in the Content Scrollbar (Revised) http://kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206127 thread. I'm using Flash MX 2004, Actionscript 2.0 and throughout the course of this great thread the suggestions seem to shift and become geared for Flash 8. There are a few hints that MichaelxxOA kindly left for MX 2004 people loading content dynamically but I haven't been able to get to work. It's been a long work in progress but I feel like I am getting closer. At the moment I have been able to get the xml content to load into flash but I had to create a kind of dummy cell in the contentMain that is approximately the length of the combined images in the xml document. Is there a way to change the code so that it can read and load the content of the xml document so that when it varies flash loads into contentMain what ever combined height the xml includes? Here is the zip including .xml, .fla, .swf, .as and image with progress so far. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Auto Adjust Scrollbar To Content
Hi There,

I am a product design student and I have to make a website as an assignment for my school. Next week is the presentation and now I have this little problem:

I found an instruction on this site on how to make a scrollbar and so far so good; it worked. The problem is that this scrollbar was only meant for a 'non changing' content. It means the 'slidebar' will always stay the same size. The problem is however that my content varies, one time it's only text, when you'll click a button, pictures slide out and so, the content will be bigger. For example, look at your screen on the right, this is the kind of scrollbar a need: The size of the slidingbar will change if you fold content out.

Now, the problem is I am very bad at actionscript, so that means that I need some help.
I can send you the file by email so that you can take a look at the script.
I would be very grateful if someone's able to help me out!

Thanks in advance.

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Anyone Know Of A Tutorial For A Scrollbar That Snaps Content...
Hey guys.. I'm looking for a scrollbar or tutorial for a scrollbar that snaps it's scroll content to various y positions... I have a news list and each item is in a 50px high box, so when I scroll I'd like them to always show exactly 4 items at all times.. so when srolling if you release the scrollbar with an item half in view it'll round it's y position and either snap it up or down into position. Does that make sense? I know I've seen them out there.. yet surprisingly all of my searches turned up empty. Maybe I need better keywords.

Thanks!

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How To Make Scrollbar For Content With Images And Text?
Hi all! I seriously need help in this!!!!

Does anyone know how to make a scrollbar for images and text altogether? To be specific, I need a scrollbar for a context that contains both images and text.

If you noe how, I need your help URGENTLY!!!!! Pls tell mi how to do it.... I'm searching for it for days! *argh*

Thanks!

*regrds*

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Text Window/scrollbar That Gets Its Content From A .html Possible?
I'm looking for the flash equivalent of an I-Frame, something that will scroll up and down and display both formatted text and images that are placed inside a file, like a .html document. The only scrollbars I was able to find on this site only seemed to get their contents from a .txt. Are there any out there that get their content, correctly, from another file that allows formatted text and images?

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Showing And Hiding A Scrollbar If There Is No Content To Scroll?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have a text box on the main stage "desc_txt".

Then I have a movieclip "scroll" on the main stage that scrolls the "desc_txt" dynamic text field.

How can I say, if no content, don't show "scroll". Or, if there is content, show "scroll"?

Thanks in advance and please someone try to help!! I'm no star actionscripter so any advice is good advice.

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How Do I Get Clear Text, In Scrollbar Content, From Tutorial?
i followed this guide: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollbar.htm

On how to make a scrollbar (But i only want to use it for text).

The bar works perfect. But here is my problem.
If you look at my page http://www.datacomm.dk
you will see that the text below "Welcome" is perfect clear.
But the text inside my scrollbar area is Static Text, and isnt that clear..
Everytime i change the text inside the Scrollbar graphics, to Dynamic text, or Device font, it just dissapears. It only appears when i choose "Static Text".

Can anyone help mw with this, and get the same clear text, as in the "Welcome" box?

Thanks

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Force Textarea With Scrollbar Component To Top On Change Of Content?
Hi

I have a movie that has a text field with a scrollbar component. It loads the content from a Loadvars object, and there's a set of buttons to change the content of the textbox. It all works fantstic... with the exception that when you change the content the scrollbar retains its position... is there a way to force it to go to the top when the content changes?

If you want to see it in action: http://www.themedialounge.com/mistertwister/ choose any location [consett has more content but not relevant for this] navigate to PARENTS section on the main menu and ADDITIONAL INFO on submenu.

Thanx in advance

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AS 2: Working With Content, Scrollbar, Window And Update. Hard To Describe 1 Lyn.
Okay... Here goes.

I made my own scrollbar which works with 2 movie clips that are outside of it - mcContent and mcWindow. The mcContent is masked by the mcWindow and the scroll reads the heights x's and y's of both mc to get them to work together.

Normally, it works fine. But the problem is that my content's height may change at runtime. When the mcContent gets longer (taller), I have trouble updating the scroll to fit snuggly.

The first time the program runs, the scroll arranges itself and puts the thumb on the track. (THUMB - the middle part of the scrollbar, TRACK - the bar the thumb can slide through). Furthermore, the thumb becomes as big as it should be, depending on how big the mcContent is in relation to the windowMC (just like the internet explorer scrollbar works). The more content, the smaller the thumb. If all the content fits in the window, then the thumb is as big as the track.

Later on though the user has the option to resize what's inside the content. This is where I have the problem. How can the scrollbar read where the mcContent is in relation to the mcWindow so that the scrollbar stays at the right place?

For example, if I scroll to the bottom, then I make the mcContent longer, the thumb should become shorter, yet stay at the bottom. If I scroll to the middle, and I make the mcContent longer, the thumb should stay in the "center" and resize itself there.

OTHER STUFF:
I had an easier time reading the thumb's position then translating it to the mcContent because it's a single point that I read from. From the the mcContent though, I have a harder time reading it.

Of course, I'm gonna continue working on it. If I come up with a solution I'll let you know. I don't expect replies anyway - this whole thing is too long and it's obscure. I'm afraid my code will make it worse because I haven't cleaned it up yet.

thanks,

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I've checked a number of different tutorials but none go in depth enough to give me the proper knowledge.

The main page will be done completely in flash, I've provided pictures below of what I want to help you understand what I am trying to do:

This image shows how my site would work in flash:

And this image shows how the website (main page) would look:

As you can see, its not an overly complicated page, but I am clueless of how to achieve it and need your help as soon as possible.

I would like a run through of how I would get stated, how I should organise layers, and how I would go about putting in animations/actions and then making them interact with other parts of the flash, such as the big turning wheel.

I don't mind you speaking to me as if I'm a newbie, because I am in this particular area

If you would like my Email or MSN messenger addy please ask.

Thanks in advance,
Joe

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Payment $40 via paypal.

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As far as I know, what I need isn't very demanding. I have all of the artwork completed and prepared for Flash animation and scripting.

If interested please contact me as soon as possible. Compensation isn't overly high, but if I'm pleased with your work, I'll certainly contact you for future projects which will pay considerably more.

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P.S. Please attach a file to show me how it is done because I have no clue!

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I hope I wrote this so you can under stand it. I will post this in a few other locations becasue I'm not sure where to put it.

If no one can give a a code or website to look at I will buy a book if I have to, could some one tell me which book to buy?

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Dear All,

New here. Nice to see an active group of people working here.

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I want to know how i can put the animation (some 100-200 ) into the main interface (flash)

Shall i export them to flash and place them ? or shalli convert them (export) to quicktime files and then place them in flash interface???

pls help

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Applied Gravity
http://www.appliedgravity.us
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__________

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