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UIScrollBar
Hi there. i am using scroller component and attaching to a dynamic html text. I want the scroller to appear if the text is larger than the text box to fit in. Now what i want to know that how i could make it appear or disappear when the the text limit exceeds the text box. thanks ya all buddies.

Help With UIscrollbar
I can't seem to make the scrollbar component work with my text box. The instance is named, has more text than fits in the box, I've tried the text as either input or dynamic - same result. The scroll bar snaps to like it should, sizes to the box, and appears as a white rectangle in my test movie. I can scroll the text with the arrow keys, but the scrollbar has no arrows, and doesn't respond to my mouse. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! kristensusa

UIscrollBar
Its so simple but it cant figure it out.

i didnt feel like making my own scrollbar, i know how to do that from scratch, im trying to use this UIscrollbar component

i have a dynamic text field on the stage with text in it.
and its masked like a 3rd of the way
and i have the scrollbar component in the library.

every single action i found for the scrollbar just makes the text dissapear and puts the scrollbar off to the side with now arrows

UIScrollbar
is it possible to add easing to the UIScrollbar?

if so could you send me a link.

thanks

Stephen

Looking For A UIScrollBar Example
I tried the one in the help and cant find one online. Please post a simple script that creates a text field attaches a UIScrollBar and it must work. Or tell me what I am doing wrong with mine.

Please.

Attach Code

// Create a stage
this.createEmptyMovieClip( "debugBox", this.getNextHighestDepth() );
// Create a text field
debugBox.createTextField("my_txt", debugBox.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, (Stage.width-40), (Stage.height-40));

debugBox.my_txt.multiline = true;
debugBox.my_txt.wordWrap = true;
debugBox.my_txt.border = true;
debugBox.my_txt.html = true;
debugBox.my_txt._x = (Stage.width/2)-(debugBox.my_txt._width/2);
debugBox.my_txt._y = 20;

// Create a UIScrollBar
debugBox.createClassObject(UIScrollBar, "my_sb", debugBox.getNextHighestDepth());
// is this supposet to be move ?
debugBox.my_sb.move(debugBox.my_sb._width + debugBox.my_txt._width, debugBox.my_txt._y);
// or should it be ._x and ._y ?

debugBox.my_sb._height = debugBox.my_txt._height;
debugBox.my_sb._visible = true;
debugBox.my_sb._targetInstanceName = debugBox.my_txt;

// now set the text
debugBox.my_txt.htmlText = "any old text or html content here";

UIScrollbar
how to add movie clip in UIScrollbar... i know how to add dynamic text field in UIScrollbar.... but i have text and picture.. mean movie clip..and now i want to add UIScollbar with that.. how i do that.. pls help me.. if possible will post with one fla

UIScrollbar Help
Hello I am new to flash 8 and need some help.

I have a dynamic text box that is loading an external .txt and I am (trying) to use the scrollbar component.

the first problem is it seems not to load all of the text. it works fine when i test movie, but not when i post it live.

the second problem is sometimes the scrollbar doesn't show up right away, i have to click on another button and then click back to get it to show up.

would it have something to do with my publish settings? I have looked at in on a mac and a pc, explorer, firefox and safari.

www.icpsgroup.com/new ,pm me for fla.

can anyone help? thank so much in advance!

UIScrollbar Does Not Appear
Hi folks,

Need some help. I have just gone through a tutorial in displaying external data in flash.

(http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm)

Problem is the scroller does not appear fully. It appears as a thin grey line.
If i click somewhere close to that grey line the text scrolls (but that is by luck!). I cannot even see the scroll up and down arrows.

I do not think the tutorial has missed anything out as I have used other scrolling text tuitorials on other sites and the same problem occurs.

Getting kinda desperate with a deadline looming!!

Many thanks

mac

UIScrollBar
Hi, I need to know, haw can I modify UIScrollBar, for example change color...i´d thank any help you can give to me

UIScrollbar
First posted on Flash 8: I read you tutorial on custom scrollbar. I want to know if instead of making the scrollbar, can I use the component interface UIScrollBar? If not, do you have a tutorial showing you how to use the UIScrollbar.

Thank you!

Reply: Here's one place I'd start.
Just pretty much follow the directions.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/ma...0004219.ht ml

Second post: I have tried this and I can't get it to work! The paragraphs don't separate, so it's one long text and I can't get the UIScrollbar to work. Is there other help??? I got my website almost done except the UIScrollbars.

Thank you!

No reply:

Is there no easier way to use the UIScrollbar???

Thanks!

UIScrollBar - Help?
Hey'a!

I have a UIScrollerBar on the Stage that attaches to a Dynamic Textbox named 'dTText' - I am filling dTText with "text
" each time something is clicked and when the text fills past the bottom of the Textbox the scroller works fine, however:

When the scroller starts to grow as the content does, how can I have the scroller be snapped at the bottom? Eg: Similar to MSN / Chat services, as the messages go down the scoller grows but does not stay at the top, instead it goes to the bottom and you can scroll up to see your previous comments (this is what I would like).

Cheers,
Ryan

UIscrollbar Does Not Appear?
I have a UIscrollbar attached to a dynamic text field it. My problem is that when I test the file the UIscrollbar does not appear properly there is no thumb or arrows or anything but if I test it again or go to a different page and then back to the page with UIscrollbar it does appear. Does any one know how to fix this or at least point me in the right direction

Cheers

UIScrollBar
Hi all
Can I drag from the library a UIScrollBar component from the Component Panel?

I want to scroll my dynamic text field with UIScrollBar.
I did make a target to text field because my text is all ready in text field .
Can I do that ?

Thanks advance .

UIScrollBar
Hello,

Is there any possible way to modify the UIScrollBar component in Flash 8? Like color, shape, and so on? Its very useful but incredibly ugly

Can it be customised?

Thank you in advance.

UIscrollbar
Can someone tell me how to change the color of this. Please explain yourself because I know little about flash. So please don't say something like "use skins". (I looked in the guide wich was really confusing and on google I only found MX help, I use 8.0 prof.)

Loc

The UIScrollBar
im just wondering if there is a way to make the UIScrollBar component smoother so text doesnt jump if you know what i mean because i think it makes the text harder to follow.

How To Change UIScrollBar
hello,

I was wondering how you would go about customizing the scrollBar component in Flash MX 2004 pro. Wondering how you would change the color of the scroll bar, and if there was a way you could customize the up and down buttons and the scroll bar to look the way you want them to look.

Thanks in advance,

Rhino

[F8] UIScrollBar Fault - HELP
Hi,
does anyone know how to get a UIScrollBar to work? It worked on a Imput Textbox last time but this time I am using a Dynamic Textbox, which had the infomation entered through a loadVariables from a text (.txt) file.
If the text which was loaded over used the textbox the UIScrollbar doesn't work either.
Or can anyone supply a tutorial to scroll the dynamic text through with a homeMade scrollbar?
Thanks
Tongxn

[F8] Help With UIscrollbar Component
I'm having problems with the UIScrollbar component in F8 and urgently require some assistance.

I have a dynamic text box with the UIScrollbar component attached to the side saved as a mc.

upon loading this mc.preload looks up a text file and loads it's content.

at the top of my page I have other clips that look dynamic content into what will become my buttons.

when the user selects a button it loads the desired clips (all based upon mc.preload) which in turn look to the text file and load there dynamic content.

The problem I have is....

my first clip mc.box1 loads fine and the srollbar works fine.
any of my subsequent clips load the text content fine, but the sroll bar doesn't work and so the user is unable to read all the text.

has anyone else had any problems with the UIscrollbar component and how can I go about changing this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Is UIScrollBar Active?
I'm looking for a way to test if my flash 8 UIScrollBar is active.

I'm dynamically filling up a textField, so if there are only few charecters, the scrollbar is sitting there not active, and not looking so great.

I am trying to write this logic, but don't exactally know how to get it to work. If anybody could help, I would be very appreciative. Thanks in advance..

if(myScroller != active){
myScroller.unloadMovie();
}

[F8] How To Reset UIScrollbar?
Hi, guys!

I´ve got this project in which I have a single swf file which loads external txts in a single dynamic textfield box through buttons. So, let´s say, I click on "Home" Button and home.txt gets loaded inside my dynamic textfield. If I click on "products" button, products.txt gets loaded and so on...

So, as you can see, all txt files load fine. The problem is that whenever I scroll the txt using flash UIScrollbar standard component the next loaded txt will load already scrolled, when it is supposed to load showing its first line...

So, I think that there must be a way to reset the scrollbar (or the textfield for this matter) so that when you load the next txt file it will be displayed correctly...

Can any of you guys give me a hand here?

Thanks in advance!

[CS3] Problem With UIScrollbar
Hi.

I made a horizontal scrollbar, and it's working fine, but there is one problem which i cannot fix.

if i scroll to the end of the scrolled MC and rollover the last 2 buttons in there, the scrollbar jumps back to the beginning. See for your self:

fla-swf.zip [400kb][CS3]

Need help to fix it!
thnx in advance

[F8] Problem With UIScrollBar
I created a Flash document and in that document, I need to place a text field on a certain frame. This text field has to be user-scrollable, because it contains a large amount of text.

I used the Text tool to draw a rectangle for the text box, making sure it was set to "Dynamic Text" and "Multiline". Then I went to Text>Scrollable in the menu, to make sure it was set to scrollable. Next, I pasted in the text I want displayed within the text box. Since the text was larger than the box, it scrolled down within the box, as expected.

Then (after making sure Snap to Objects was checked), I dragged and dropped the UIScrollBar component to my text box. The component showed up on the stage, glued to the right side of the text box, where it should be.

I verified that the drag-and-drop process had given my text box an instance name, and that this same instance name was show under the _targetInstanceName parameter for the UIScrollBar.

However, when I publish or test the movie, the scroll bar does not work. I see a blank scroll bar to the right of my text, but this scroll bar looks grayed out and has no up/down arrows or scroll slider.

I have repeated the process several times, but with the same results. I do not know what I am doing wrong, because I have created text boxes with working scroll bars on other frames within the same Flash file. Those work, but this one doesn't. So far as I can tell, I have used the same procedure for creating this.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[CS3] UIScrollbar In Movieclip
On the main timeline I have a movie clip "content", inside content is a movieclip "welcome", inside welcome I have a dynamic textbox but it's not working. I created the textbox, made it dynamic, checked off scrollable, made the instance name welcome, and then added my text. Next I dragged the uiscrollbar onto my textbox (snap to objects is on) and it positioned itself on the right. I then changed targetinstancename parameter in the uiscrollbar to welcome. When I test movie all i see is a small white rectangle at the top right of my textbox and it's not scrollable. But when i take this same textbox/uiscrollbar and put it into a new flash document it works fine. For some reason it's not working inside these movieclips. I even tried setting the parameter to _root.content.welcome.welcome but that's not working either. Any ideas?

[CS3] UIScrollBar Issue
I have a project that loads an external swf and that external swf in turn, loads several external text files into movie clips in the timeline. I've attached scrollbars (UIScrollBar) to each dynamic text field so that the user could scroll the text IF the dynamic text ever overflows beyond the visible field (on a couple, it already does). Now, when I publish, everything works fine locally. If I move all files and assets to another machine, it works fine there as well. However, when I upload to the web, the scrollbars ALL become disabled (obviously, only the ones without enough text should be disabled). I have no idea why that is. Any thoughts or suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!

MAADPV

UIscrollbar Component
Hi,

I've got some little issues with the scrollbar that would be nice if they were solved.
First off, I load my text with xml in a textfield. With AS3.0 I attach the scrollbar to the textfield. I'm using the standard code found in the help files for this.
First problem, which I actually think has more to do with the xml. My text fits perfectly in the textfield, yet the scrollbar is visible. It seems to me that the xml file or the textfield adds an extra line or something. Is there a way I can tell the scrollbar that it doesn't have to take the last line in account.

Seconde problem is more of an user experience problem with the scrollbar. Some of my xml files contain a lot of text. As a result, the bar of the scrollbar itself get very tiny. It's already the size of the scroll up and scroll down button. Is there a way that I can set a minimum size for the height of the bar? Now it's rather difficult to drag.

Thnx in advance.

Cheers

UIScrollbar Problems
Hi, I'm importing some HTML text into a dynamic text field. The text is bigger than the text field so I've dragged the UIScrollbar from the components panel & attached it to the dynamic text field. When I export the movie & view it in flash player the scrollbar works fine & the text scrolls without any problems.

My problem is, that when I put the swf into an HTML page & view it in a browser, the scrollbar doesn't work. It imports the HTML text fine, but the scrollbar is just displayed in it's 'inactive' state & I am unable to scroll the text. Has anyone else had this problem? or are there any parameters I should be activating to enable it to work in a browser? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

UIScrollBar Bugged?
Ok so one problem after another .

This time I'm having a problem using an UIScrollBar for my dynamic textfield. Its very easy to attach and it works fine until I insert my text from XML into the textfield . If it isn't possible to manage, is there any tutorials for making custom scrollbars for textfields?

Thanks guys!

UIScrollBar & ScrollPosition
Hi

I'm trying to make anchor links for a text field, but I'd like to have the links sit beside the text field, instead of inside it. In other words, I'm trying to use buttons to manipulate the position of a scrollbar.

I'm using...

PHP Code:

b_home.onPress = function(){
ui_scroll.scrollPosition = 0;
};

b_middle.onPress = function(){
ui_scroll.scrollPosition = 25;
};

...which moves the scrollbar (ui_scroll) to the expected position, but not the text! The scrollbar works fine when I click on it directly, and is correctly linked to the textfield. How can I get the text to move with the scrollbar? I know I'm missing something painfully simple...

Thanks in advance,
Charles

UIScrollBar Problem
Hi! How can I change the components of the UIScrollBar? I want to change the design and the color of this component. The command: ' my_scrollbar.setStyle("themeColor", "haloOrange") ' change only a little bit the color, I want to change the white-gray color completely.

Thank you for the answers, WISION

How Do I Assign The UIScrollBar To A MC?
I would like to assign the UIScrollBar to a Movie Clip. I tried, but it didn't work. I went to the help section, and it only gave the script to assign it to a text field. Is this even Possible? I don't have enough knowledge in AS to make my own scroll bar for this item, and it has to be a MC, because it is a form, with text inputs, checkboxes, and a submit button. Thanks for your help.

NonyBD

UIScrollBar Problem
I've got a dynamic text box that updates it's content from an XML file everytime a 'section' button is pressed. I noticed some odd UIScrollBar behaviour: When a section is first loaded that extends beyond the text box bottom, there is a scroll bar, and when I click to load into a section that has text longer than the text box, the scroll bar persists appropriately. However, when I click into a section that does not have enough content to create a scroll bar, the scrollbar appropriately disappears. When I click to load another section that has enough content to extend past the text box bottom and create a scroll bar, the scroll bar does not appear.

It is only after I click into a section that does not have enough initial content to create a scroll bar does the actual bar disappear. The scroll 'pane' or 'track' is still there, just not the bar for scrolling. I've looked at the Adobe LiveDocs here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003694.html

I did not see a way to 'refresh' the scroll bar or ask it to reconsider whether or not it needed to be drawn.

A UIScrollBar Problem
hi

is it possible to scroll 2 text fields with one uiscrollbar
if you know something pls tell me

i know this same topic is in action script thats becuse i placed the message in the wrong form
pls can a moderator delete the one in actionscript

thanks in advance
kevin

Edited: 10/30/2007 at 02:41:13 PM by kevin-net2

UIScrollBar Component
I'm having trouble getting this thing to scroll can anyone guide me in setting this component up. I'm trying to scroll a long block of text.

UIScrollBar Position
I used a UIScrollBar with a dynamic textbox. On release of some button, the text change (with .htmltext ="textehere";)

If the user scroll down then click, the scrollbar stays at the same position and the text change so we don't see the title. I want to reset the position. How can I do this ?

UIScrollBar Componet
HI

I'm working with a dynamic text field and a UIScrollBar componet. Users can update the text field.

I need that the UIScrollBar componet show automatically the last imput to the text field, I mean thta auto scroll to the botton of the text field.

any sugestions will be apreciated.

Thanks

UIScrollBar Class - Huh?
Hello -
I have UIScrollBar components in my Flash files and they are very inconsistent - sometimes they show up, sometimes they do not. It doesn't seem to matter what or whose computer, it's kind of random. I read something about if the length of the scrollbar is smaller than the combined size of its arrows, that it could make it disappear - but this is NOT the case on mine, so that can't be the reason. I read on further about parameters and class (mx.controls.UIScrollBar)...but not knowing action script very well (at all), I am not quite sure what to do with it. (The action script in my files were created by somebody else).

Help? Thank you!

UIscrollBar Problem
I am using CS4 and trying to snap a UIscrollBar next to a dynamic text filed. I have assigned an object name to the text field and drag/snap the scroll bar to it. However, the scrollBar wouldn't show on the screen (it can't be scrolled and the two arrow buttons on the top and the bottom didn't show at all). Is there any other setting required? Thank you so much.

UIScrollBar Not Showing Up
I hope someone can help me with this,
I am using external XML in 3 dynamic text boxes all 3 have a UIScrollBar attached, when I play the movie In the IDE the scrollbars all show up as they should but if I put the swf file in a HTML page the Arrow Up, Arrow down and the thumb do not show up so I have no scrolling. Any Ideas why this would be happening ?

UIScrollBar Problem
I have a text field called "textBox_txt". There are 20 different button in my flash document that place portions of text from an XML document in "textBox_txt". This all works correctly, but some portions need to be scrolled and other portions are small enough to see all of the text in "textBox_txt". When I use a UIScrollBar Component with an instance name of "text_sb", it works fine for all of the text until I get a portion of text that doesn't need to be scrolled. Then when I hit a button that has text that needs to be scrolled again, the UIScrollBar stops working and shows as if "textBox_txt" has a portion of text that does not need to be scrolled. Is there a way that I can reload or reset the UIScrollBar when a button is clicked?

UIScrollBar / TextField
Hi --

I have a UIScrollBar attached to a text field. When I update the text via
Actionscript in the field the scroll bar does not update correctly even
though I call the update() method for the scroll bar. However, if I click on
the text field or the "down arrow" at the bottom of the scroll bar it
updates itself correctly.

Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what I'm doing wrong or a way to fire
whatever event is updating the scroll bar?

Thanks

Rich

Using The UIScrollBar Component
i am trying to attach the UIScrollBar to a movieclip, i want the scroll bar to slide the movie clip relative to the scroll. If anybody has experience with this or can't point me in the drection of a good tutorial i would appriciate it.

I have seen this done easily with text but can't find anything about doing it with a movieclip!

UIScrollbar, Skins, Help
How do I change the look of the scrollbar? I want it darker, smaler, and maybe remove the scroller(just the buttons), and i want some other buttons, the current ones are boring and dont fit the flash app Im making.

Skinning A UIScrollBar
I used to work with Flash MX2004 and a downloaded scrollbar I could skin by changing the actual movieclips. Pretty straight-forward.

But now I'm wondering about the UIScrollBar in Flash 8. Is it possible to change everything about that scrollbar? The shape, size, colors, ... not just a silly color when you click on the buttons by using a Theme. If so, how do I do this?

Hope you guys can help me because google is failing me