Flash :: Scroller Problem...

Convert Movieclip Scroller To Dynamic Text Scroller
I have code I borrowed that is set up to scroll a movie clip image. However, it doesn't work well if I replace the graphics with a text box as the scrolling becomes "jerky" as I think there is too much information for it to process with the complexity of the text. So I was hoping to change the scrolling content from a movie clip image with text to a dynamic textbox. But it will not function when I do that change. In this currrent setup, the movieclip instance name is "contentmain". I tried naming the instance of the dynamic textbox with that name, but no text shows up next to the scroller when I play the movie.

Here's the code:
scrolling = function () {

var scrollHeight:Number = scrollTrac._height;
var contentHeight:Number = contentMain._height;
var scrollFaceHeight:Number = scrollFace._height;
var maskHeight:Number = maskedView._height;
var initPosition:Number = scrollFace._y=scrollTrac._y;
var initContentPos:Number = contentMain._y;
var finalContentPos:Number = maskHeight-contentHeight+initContentPos;
var left:Number = scrollTrac._x;
var top:Number = scrollTrac._y;
var right:Number = scrollTrac._x;
var bottom:Number = scrollTrac._height-scrollFaceHeight+scrollTrac._y;
var dy:Number = 0;
var speed:Number = 10;
var moveVal:Number = (contentHeight-maskHeight)/(scrollHeight-scrollFaceHeight);

// Setup easing event
contentMain.desiredX = contentMain._y;
contentMain.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._y -= (this._y - this.desiredX) / 3;
};

scrollFace.onPress = function() {
var currPos:Number = this._y;
startDrag(this, false, left, top, right, bottom);
this.onMouseMove = function() {
dy = Math.abs(initPosition-this._y);
contentMain.desiredX = Math.round(dy*-1*moveVal+initContentPos);
};
};
scrollFace.onMouseUp = function() {
stopDrag();
delete this.onMouseMove;
};

btnUp.onPress = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (contentMain._x+speed<maskedView._x) {
if (scrollFace._x<=left) {
scrollFace._x = left;
} else {
scrollFace._x -= speed/moveVal;
}
contentMain._x += speed;
} else {
scrollFace._x = left;
contentMain._x = maskedView._x;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
};
btnUp.onDragOut = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
btnUp.onRelease = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
btnDown.onPress = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (contentMain._x-speed>finalContentPos) {
if (scrollFace._x>=right) {
scrollFace._x = right;
} else {
scrollFace._x += speed/moveVal;
}
contentMain._x -= speed;
} else {
scrollFace._x = right;
contentMain._x = finalContentPos;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
};
btnDown.onRelease = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
btnDown.onDragOut = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};

if (contentHeight<maskHeight) {
scrollFace._visible = false;
btnUp.enabled = false;
btnDown.enabled = false;
} else {
scrollFace._visible = true;
btnUp.enabled = true;
btnDown.enabled = true;
}
};
scrolling();

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave

Text Scroller With Image With Mouse Scroller
Hi to all,
I have problem with flash. that i want to creat dynamic text & image scroller in scroller by creating custom scroller (not inbuilt component) That scroller i can scroll with help of mouse's scroller. (the mouse's scroller & image must be include in to the scroller box)
Help me !
Help me !
Reply me fast if u have solution for it!!!!

Regards,
Samual

Convert Vertical Scroller To Horizontal Scroller
Hi have a cool vertical scroller that I did try to convert to horizontal, but I could not make it work.
Can someone help ??
Below is the code for vertical scroller:
Thanks to anyone who can help.

//code by Billy T

//set a variable
targY=0;
//set the x position of the dragger
dragger._x = 370;
line._x = 370;
//set the drag action of the dragger
//drag is restricted to the height of the mask
dragger.onPress=function(){
startDrag(this,false,this._x,0,this._x,theMask._he ight-this._height);
}
//stop the drag
dragger.onRelease=dragger.onReleaseOutside=functio n(){
stopDrag();
}
//set the mask for the text
theText.setMask(theMask);
//the scrolling animation
theText.onEnterFrame=function(){
/*set a variable
this variable basically stores info regarding what fraction of the total text
is being displayed through the mask and ensures that dragging the dragger
from top to bottom will reveal all the text.
this allows you to change the amount of text and the scroller will update itself
*/
scrollAmount=(this._height-(theMask._height/1.3))/(theMask._height-dragger._height);
//set a new target y position
targY=-dragger._y*scrollAmount;
//set the y of the text to 1/5 of the distance between its current y and the target y

//change the 5 to a lower number for faster scrolling or a higher number for slower scrolling
this._y-=(this._y-targY)/5;
}

Horizontal Scroller...NOT Vertical Scroller
Hi all:

I was just curious if anyone knows of a good tutorial for a horizontal scroller ... I want to use arrows not a bar, and I can find the vertical tutorials, but I was curious if anyone knew of a horizontal one.

THanks in advance

Image+text Scroller, Form Scroller, And Loading External Text Files - Urgent
Hi everybody!

Does anybody know how to do the following things in Flash MX?

1.Make a scroller with text + images in it;
2.Make a scroller with text + a form in it;
3.I followed the tutorial entitled "Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text", but the text that I tried to load has over 160 lines, and I can only scroll down to about half way of the total lines. Why is that?
4.I also tried to load xml files using the code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> on the first line of each xml file, but the ', &, and " " don't work.

Can anybody help me, please? This is urgent!

Thanks in advance!

animind

Text Scroller Help - Scroller Won't Scroll Full Length Of Text?
I have a text scroller that calls for a external text file. I have 16 numbered items in the .txt file but only 12 items will scroll. Why is this and how do I fix it? Also, is there any way to format text in the .txt file so that it appears formatted in flash? Right now there is a bunch of spaces between the numbered items. Thanks anyone!!

Scroller Help
Hi,
OK, I have a scoller and I was wondering if their is a way to skew it and have it scroll at a slant? Its a vert scroller and I would like to slant it to the left and have it scroll...you know slanted..
thanks
Mätt

Scroller Help
What I want to know is

if you make a scroller you have to make restrictions to the StartDrag ( top, bottom, left and right)
And now I'm wondering If you have a MC (MAIN)
and in that mc have an other MC (SCROLLER)(with the scroller and the scrolled text in it)
then how can you set the Startdrag properties(top,bottom, left right) with the _X position and _y position of the SCROLLER Mc instead of the MAIN mc

Help For Scroller
Well, my english is very bad, but i can read something.
I need help for to do an object accompanying the mouse moviment. For ex.: a menu that moviments to right, and the person puts the mouse on it, so it stops at that position.
I really like you understand this message, thanks.

Scroller
Please can someone help me, I'm looking for a scroller wich allows me to scroll dynamic text and pics
Thanks Mike

Scroller
How can i Ad links and pictures to a Flash scroller do i have to ad a script for this scroller cuz it only suports text but pictures and links it wont ..

Scroller Or Not
OK I have a problem....I am making a movie that uses an external text file....it will be in the form of a scroller but it will be a movie that scrolls on its own....for ex...

the movie will scroll the text automatically no scroll bar just a pane....

it will scroll to the first part of the text, then stop for about 5 seconds, then proceed to the second part of the .txt file and then stop for the same time and so on. then it will replay.....Help please.....

Scroller Within MC
I've got a simple text scroller worked out iwth actionscript but i want to place the whole thing within another movie clip. The problem is I don't know how to self refrence the clip for the buttons to control the text object.

onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
if (hitTest( _root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, false))
{
for (i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++)
{
if (_root.Myobject._x > -50)
_root.Myobject._x--;
}
}
}

I don't want to use the root command as it references back to the Scene1 timeline. I've tried "this" but that doesn't seem to work either.

If anyone can come up with an answer i'll be well chuffed.
Cheers

Scroller? How To?
I know there is a tutorial on it , but I tried it and didnt made it work! plaese help me out!!

I know it must be dynamic texte...HARRRRGGG!
I'm going crazy!

Scroller
Hi u all
maybe this question is already asked but plz help me its urgent

Plz i wanna creat a scroller by mouse, i mean when u move the mouse down in the scroll zone so the zone will scroll down and if the mouse move up so the zone will scroll up
I hope u understand
Thx in advance
c ya

Scroller. Can U Help Me With This?
Hello,

i am creating a scroller which has the buttons Up, Down and the small bar inside the scroll bar which u can drag up and down.
i want to scroll a MC.

I made everything work but if i drag the small bar in the end the position of the MC will be a few pixels (sometimes 5 to 10) different from the position i would get using the down or up button.

Does anyone has some kind od code which does this?
If u want i can also send my code so u can see what is wrong. I think it's because of the way i did it and the aproximations...

Anyway, if someone knows some really good code which scrolls a MC with Up, Down buttons, and dragable bar, let me know.

Do the components have the dragable bar? until now i couldn't find any.

Thanks,
Miguel

Scroller Help
Hi, is there a way to dupilcate a scroller from one frame to the next, even changing the text would not effect the other one?

Mine is a movieclip, and I am not sure how to go about to duplicate and make changes without effecting the other one.

Please help, great thanks.

Scroller Help
I have a movie clip called holder that holds a movie clip called textbar0. Textbar0 is duplicated using script on the main frame. with everything I have done to this file, this should be easy, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to make the textbar clips scroll depending on how many of them there are. can anyone help?

Scroller
Hi , i'm searching for a fla file for a movie.
It needs to be a textscroller where people that visit my site can add there own text and the scroller scrolls all the texts that are saved in the file.
I have been searching in the movie section but can't find what i'm looking for :-)

Greetz

Scroller
hi everyone,

ive submitted on much forums and with the question:
HOW DO YOU MAKE A SCROLLER.
I have got a lot of response, but for me itwas all crap!!!(no offense)
So please...do YOU know how to make a scroller(and wich actions you must use!?)

i hope someone knows how frustrated i feel right now, and have a solution.

thanks for your time.

Scroller Help
Hi, I am hoping someone could help me understand and change this movie clip i have (Flash - 5 btw).
The movie clip is a scroller which I download a while back (I can't remember where from now).
The contents of the scroller which i want to scroll is a seperate movie clip which loads it's contents from a .txt file.

The problems I am having are:

1 - I cannot seem to change the height of the text box movie, I can change it in flash, but when i publish and play it just appears at a set size.

2 - the last link in the contents jumps like crazy when I hoover over it.

3 - when there is less content than the size of the text box I would like the scroller to disapear.

4 - If I add a mask around the text box, the contents disapear, i have in place a custom mask for the mean time but this will have to go.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Deef

Help Me With My Scroller
I tried to create a simple scrolling text box in flash using a turorial i found on this site - for some reason i cannot understand it's not working - would anyone mind giving it a look and chekcing out what's wrong for me ?

thanks so much

Scroller
ok I want to create a simple scroller that will scroll a movie with static text in it. I've tried a million and a half tutorials and I can't figure it out. Please help!

-= greendog =-

Scroller
I want to change the actionscript so i fits my page, because I have the scroler in the middle of the page and I dont want the scroller to scoll when I am below y380 and over 300

if (_ymouse>300) {
reelSpeed = (_xmouse-center)/10;
reelPos = Math.round (reelPos+reelSpeed);
if (reelPos<leftStop) {
reelPos = leftStop;
}
if (reelPos>rightStop) {
reelPos = rightStop;
}
reel._x = reelPos;
}

tried to use || and && in this if (_ymouse>300) {
with _ymouse<380 so its stops below the but nothing works =/
Please help....sorry 4 my bad english....
/RaZorCleaN

Scroller
I am looking to make something like this: http://www.rcarecords.com/artists.html

If anyone knows tutorials or something that I can download to learn how they made it, that would be great.

Thanks!

Michael

SCROLLER - Please Help
In regarding to :
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...y-87/index.php

I was wondering, if it may be possible to stop the scrolling when it reaches one end of the numbers (when it reaches 1 on the left side and 10 on the right side) instead of snapping back into the other set of numbers? If so, how? Can someone PLEASE show me how to do that?

Scroller...but Not?
hey can someone tell me how to do like a scroll bar thing?..

not a norm scroll bar but one where you click one of four links and you see that 1/4 of a screen.

if you dont get that then look at http://www.kurtnoble.com/ (posted by someone else on this forum)
on the details of websites they've done

(click portfollio then click on the "now" website [bottom right] on that look at the "details 1-7")

that effect!!!!!

thanks for reading and any help you may have

Scroller
Can anyone tell me where to locate a tutorial on how to make a scroll page?

Thanks

Scroller
I am trying to get this setup to where i have about 30 of those little pages and each has a image on it and when you click the image it pulls the bigger version of the image that you click on onto the page. Also, the scroller is acting all weird. Thx in advance for whoever can help figure this out. it is going to go on the site www.seauxpierce.com

Scroller
In flashMX there is this ready made text scroller, which I used to scroll through some text. There's a tiny little problem though. How do I make this scroller narrower? Everything I tried so far doesnt work. Can some1 please tell me how to make the scroller narrower?

Thanks.

Scroller
Heyya...

I am trying to make a bar scroller on a movie clip, I had followed a tutorial on this site before to make one but the tutorial is not there anymore... The link is still there but the page is unavaliable..

Can anyone help me out?

Cheers,
Mike

Self Scroller
Is it possible to have a self scrolling movie that scrolls a dynamically loaded text file? What I mean by self scrolling is that the movie doesn't use scrollbars instead it sees wher your mouse is and then calculates how far down the page to move.

If such thing exists, can you post a link to the site where I can download the .fla?

Thanks

Scroller
I used one of the movies on the site to make a scroller, like a browser window when there is too much info. Is there a way to make it so that the scroll wheel on a mouse will control it. On a standard HTML page this is easy but it flash I can only figure out how to drag it. Which confuses some people, they try to use the scroll wheel and it does nothing.

Scroller
Hi People,

Could any of you smart people out there tell me where i'm going wrong with this scroller.
When i test it the text will not show but the image will(Text and image are all in one MC).
I'm missing somthing and i don't no what.
I've enclosed the flash file.

Cheers me dears.

Scroller Help
Hey. I got a horizontal scrollbar that I wanted but the scripting is confusing me a bit. So I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to fix the few problems I have.

First, the thumbs movie clip starts way to the right when u first scroll so you have to scroll to the right a bit before you can see them.

Second, the left click only goes so far to the left and the right click goes too far.

Third, the scrollbar scrolls past the limit to the right.

To get to the scrollbar area double click on the long horizontal line with instance name of submenu, and go to frame 61, 62, 63

The scripts for the scrollbar are on the movie clips slider, and leftclick and rightclick, and also on the actions frame in 61,62,63, the bulk of it is at frame 62.

Thanks, and by the way the file is in Flash MX.

Scroller Plz Help
Hey. I got a horizontal scrollbar that I wanted but the scripting is confusing me a bit. So I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to fix the few problems I have.

First, the thumbs movie clip starts way to the right when u first scroll so you have to scroll to the right a bit before you can see them.

Second, the left click only goes so far to the left and the right click goes too far.

Third, the scrollbar scrolls past the limit to the right.

To get to the scrollbar area double click on the long horizontal line with instance name of submenu, and go to frame 61, 62, 63

The scripts for the scrollbar are on the movie clips slider, and leftclick and rightclick, and also on the actions frame in 61,62,63, the bulk of it is at frame 62.

Thanks, and by the way the file is in Flash MX.

Scroller Help
I would appreciate any help that can be given on the following problem

I would like to create a scrollbar for content which contains both images and text. I have found this tutorial on the tutorial section of this site.

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-683/more2.php

I can easily create this but it isn't what I am looking for totally
I would like to have buttons which allow me to scroll when they are pressed (up and down arrow buttons)

I have and example of this at the following link
http://www.pixelranger.com/

The example is the news content section on this site. It has a nice working scroll bar and it can use both images and text in the scroll content (most likley a movie clip being scrolled)

Does anyone have an idea as to how i can acheieve this ? As I have said before all help is much appreciated.

Mc Scroller
What would be the best wat to scroll a MC...

Scrollers only scroll text content in a dynamic text box right?

I need to scroll a mc like a text box.

How would I go about that?

Scroller Bar Help
How can i make a movie clip scroller with up and down arrow buttons (using a down sate or press script) and a slider (using press and drag)? None of the tutorials on flashkit really help to acheieve this.. pleas help i have no clue what actionscripting to use. is someone could prvide and example please that would be helpful

Scroller
How do I make a scroll bar inside an image... I'm having text that is longer than the height of the template and would like to have a scroll bar but don't know how.

Is there an easy way or tutorial for when I click on a small, thumbnail image inside a scroll bar (left hand side) that the space on the right hand side, the bigger image loads?

Thanks

PS: I'll make an image to show you what I mean for clicking the thumbnails and making it bigger in another place, if you would like.

Scroller
Hi,
I am tweaking on a scroller, and I've had no problems so far.

Please look here:
http://www.mr-andersen.no/scroller6.html
( source available)

The text will be loaded dynamically( right noe I've placed some test
text in a variable, Frame 1, Layer 3)

But can anyone here explain how I can make the scroll bar stop
at the end of the dynamically text.
Now it allways stops way under the text.

see dragMC.buttonMC -> button action

Can anyone please help me?

best regards

T

Help With My Scroller
Okay.

This is what I want to happen.
Inside an MC called "place",
there is another MC called
"you", which can move around
inside "place". That works.
But, when "you" moves, the
"place" doesn't move with
it, therefore if "you" moves,
it isn't always in the middle
of the screen. Basically I
want to create a scrolling
game.

INFO
width of "place" = 746 px
height of "place"= 384 px
default x pos of "place"= -78.1
default y pos of "place"= 14.1

default x pos of "you"= -78.1
default y pos of "you"= 14.1

Plz plz plz try your best o please!

Thanks

Scroller
I know I've asked before, but I hope that someone would realy help me out here.

I have this scroller which is 90% ready, the thing that needs to be done is how to make the scroller stop at the end of the content.

Demo and source:
http://www.mr-andersen.no/scroller6.html

It is important since the contents height is dynamic,
but I am a bit stuck right now and can't see what is needed to be done.

Hope someone have a clue and thanks in advance

best regards,
T

Pic Scroller
I Wrote this, and put it on a row of pics....

code:
onClipEvent (load){
trace(this)
xcenter=140
speed=.12;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
if(_root._currentframe==40){
trace("good");
if(_root._ymouse>=43 && _root._ymouse <=273){
trace("y")
if(_root._xmouse>=40 && _root._xmouse<=250){
trace("x");
var distance=_root._xmouse-xcenter;
_x-=(distance*speed);
if (_x > -58) _x=-58
if (_x < -784.6) _x=-784.6;
}
}
}
}

On a row of pics.......it works like a charm, but I am just wondering if some one has a quick little blurb that will make it so that it moves with the mouse...

like

if _xmouse == +1 , then picRow._x==-1

If that makes sense....So that if the mouse is at the end you see the last pic.........

Please ask if this makes little to no sense....

*edit*
Some thing along the lines of flash level, come to find out. Just on the X axis not Y

I am thinking something along the lines of a ease script that makes the pic row move as much as the mouse?

I think thre is an easier way......

Scroller Help...
Hey guys,

Bit of help if you wouldn't mind. Im trying to get my scroller, to actually scroll and at the present time it's not co-opporating. Can one of you guys give it a once over and tell me where Im going wrong.

I downloaded a pre made scroller and tried to apply the same theory to mine, but its not working, anyway here it is...

Scroller Help
Again, I am in dire need of all your expertise, on something that's probably trivial, but having me baffled for hours:

I have included the FLA and source files, as explaining would take forever, and would probably be confusing for us all.

Never mind the terrible transitions between loaded images, as I can get that fixed.

All I need fixed is the scroll bar's dragger button, so no matter where I position the "nav" MC, the scroller will work perfectly.

So far, it only works perfect if you have the "nav" aligned against the left side of the stage.

It would be super if someone can fix this for me, and get the entire scrollbar working perfectly, then post up the FLA, or the code I should copy to each MC.

Thank you in advance!

--iMat