A scroll bar/scrollPane

Question

I'm having some buttons populated in to a mc (using a mysql db). At the moment there are abut 700 buttons. But I don't know how to get it into a scrollPane or some other way so has a scroll bar beside this mc.

Answer 1

I initially had the patHolder on the swf stage (not exported to actionscript) and then after the buttons are populated i tried to use the refresh() to make the scroll pane work. After reading your post I tried the following, but I'm a bit lost here.
//content path (Componant inspector): patHolder
var myContent:MovieClip= scrollerGS.content
var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var receiveLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
senderLoad.sendAndLoad("http://www.web.com/the.php",receiveLoad,"POST");
receiveLoad.onData = function(src) {
     var messageA:Array = src.split(",,,");
     messageA.pop();
var xPosition:Number = 0;
var yPosition:Number = 0;
for(var i:Number=0; i<messageA.length; i++){
           var msgA:Array = messageA[i].split(",,");
//_root.patHolder.attachMovie("XBtn1","btn"+i,_root.patHolder.getNextHig hestDepth());
var currentButton:MovieClip=myContent.attachMovie("XBtn1","btn"+i,1000+i) ;
//_root.patHolder["btn"+i]._x = xPosition;
//_root.patHolder["btn"+i]._y = yPosition;
currentButton._x=xPosition;
currentButton._y=yPosition;
yPosition = yPosition + 31.0;
_root.patHolder["btn"+i].textBlack.text = msgA[0];
scrollerGS.invalidate();