Can I use the same scrollpane twice in my project?

Question

I am creating a project that has 3 scenes. 1 scene has a movieclip. Inside the movieclip, I have a scrollpane that generates dynamic text called welcome_scroll. The file runs fine when I test it displaying the scrollpane window and loading the text. However, I need to use the same scrollpane with the same dynamic text in Scene 2 titled Home in the main timeline. So I copied and pasted the scrollpane into scene 2's main timeline. When I test it, Scene 1 runs fine, but Scene 2 only displays the scrollpane with no text. Plus I get an error message:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Maritime_splashpage_01_fla::MainTimeline/__setProp___id1__home_scrollpane_0()
at Maritime_splashpage_01_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found. URL: file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/username/Desktop/welcome_scroll
I tried once test. I decided to delete the scrollpane in Scene 1's movieclip thinking that using the scrollpane twice was the problem. But that did not work. Scene 2 stills gives me an error message with just scrollpane and no text.
I was also thinking of duplicating the scrollpane in the library with a different name but not sure if that is efficient or the solution. If that is the case, would I have to duplicate the the dynamic text movieclip in addition changing the actionscript to reflect the changes?
It's just a headache for me thinking Flash would be efficient in allowing you to reuse the scrollpane with the same dynamic elsewhere in my project.

Answer 1

Below is the only code that I had to create which is basically variables for the textfield's point size and fonts to use that I embedded into the library for runtime. The way I was able to get the scrollpane to load the movieclip is by first creating a movieclip, drawing a textfield, naming the textfield instance called welcomeField, creating the actionscript in frame 1 of the movieclip (which you will see below), then setting up the properties of the movieclip by checking Export for Actionscript and Export in frame 1. The class and base class automatically created the names. I copied the class name and entered that into the source field of the component inspector of the scrollpane. That was it.
var myFont1:Font = new Font6();
var myFormat1:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat1.font = myFont1.fontName;
myFormat1.size = 15;
var welcomeField:TextField;
welcomeField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
welcomeField.defaultTextFormat = myFormat1;
welcomeField.embedFonts = true;
welcomeField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
welcomeField.text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam et viverra sapien. Quisque lacinia velit in diam tempor at aliquam nisi tincidunt. Maecenas ut libero enim, eget viverra ligula. Suspendisse potenti. Quisque ut enim lobortis tortor pulvinar lobortis sed lacinia turpis. Nunc quis eros nunc. Curabitur quis tortor neque, in suscipit libero. Duis sit amet nisl lectus, eleifend imperdiet ligula. Integer vestibulum blandit nisi ut tincidunt. Praesent sapien magna, vestibulum sit amet pellentesque a, auctor vitae tellus. Sed dignissim neque non dolor malesuada volutpat. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Pellentesque pulvinar imperdiet facilisis. Aenean tincidunt magna in turpis euismod ac imperdiet lectus luctus. Sed aliquam semper urna vel ultricies. Proin posuere lacinia ligula vel tincidunt. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam eu velit ac ante euismod elementum.\n\nAliquam erat volutpat. Praesent a dolor a leo imperdiet ultricies. Maecenas rutrum varius mi nec bibendum. Proin in leo quam, in mollis quam. In laoreet, lacus sed elementum volutpat, velit elit condimentum lorem, faucibus hendrerit est ante id metus. Morbi sed purus ac felis laoreet rhoncus. Donec a felis vitae ligula pharetra vestibulum. Vivamus vehicula aliquet mauris ut posuere. Aenean eget lacus est. Donec lacinia mi vel tellus blandit luctus ac id lectus. Vivamus pharetra felis ac massa cursus hendrerit. Nulla elementum sagittis turpis in laoreet. Nunc tempor felis ut est fringilla cursus. Praesent in rhoncus velit. Aliquam fringilla felis non tortor auctor sit amet euismod velit dictum. Donec ligula eros, suscipit et egestas eget, ultricies ut dui. Integer et lorem felis, at tincidunt ante. Suspendisse tincidunt ultrices sapien. Nunc nibh elit, varius ut viverra quis, fringilla et sem. Duis nec mattis massa.\n\nVivamus interdum auctor diam, id dignissim risus iaculis convallis. Phasellus ac sagittis elit. Aenean est metus, tincidunt in suscipit ornare, vestibulum at massa. Sed ut enim a orci pharetra adipiscing. Proin quis neque sapien. Sed nec vehicula dolor. Nunc metus urna, adipiscing a euismod pharetra, vehicula eu nibh. Etiam a augue in velit auctor commodo. Nulla dictum tempor faucibus. Nunc porta bibendum ante eget condimentum. Sed in ipsum nec dolor malesuada tristique ac sed lorem. Donec nec tortor lacus, sodales dignissim nisl. Curabitur lacus orci, lacinia in dignissim eu, sodales ac ipsum. Nunc viverra magna at erat molestie non ultrices ipsum faucibus.";