Scrolling a movie clip

Hi,
I know that there are a number of threads on similar issues, but these are all confusing me quite a bit so I thought I should start a new thread to get an answer I'll hopefully understand.
I have made my sight with specific diameters. I've got a heading I want to retain on all pages, but the content will change. I guess this would have to be in a movieClip as some pages the content will fit my stage, other pages will have content that is larger than the stage.
I'd like to be able to scroll down through these pages which contain both text and images. I'm not sure how I would be able to set this up. I've used the component on text before, but never for contents with both text and images. I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some guidance on how to do this.
Thanks

Thanks kglad,
I've tried this using...
on(press) {
if(content._y > -66) {
content._y = content._y - 5;
...and the equivalent for scrolling the other way. This works well at moving the contents, but it requires a click to move. I was thinking that by putting it under the press state, that whilst I held the button down it would continue scrolling until it either reached the limit or was released. How would I get it to do that?

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help before Monday.
Someone has made a movie with a different set of text on each
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I have been asked to make these frames appear in a pop-up on
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i thought this would be easy...just cut and paste them into a
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www.darkflame.co.uk/flashwork/Flash_popuptest.fla
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Thomas Wrobel

you have extraneous graphics on-stage that are slowing the
scrolling (and even causing problems in the authoring environment).
here's your file with those graphics removed:
http://www.gladstien.com/Files.popupTest.fla

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I hope I am posting this in the right forum.
Ok, I'm using actionscript 2.0, and I am trying to make a scrolling image gallery. I have a movie clip with three layers. the first contains a movie clip used as a scroll bar. The second is a mask used to hide the overflow content, and the third contains movie clip thumbnails. when I click one of the thumbnails, it loads a symbol containing a larger version of the picture over top of the thumbnails on the same layer. My problem is, the large image is added at the very top of the movie clip, even when it is scrolled out of sight. I want it to appear in sight, so the user doesn't have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see it. This is annoying and confusing. Is there a way to do this?
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But the full sized image is fixed at the very top of the scrolling movie clip, so if I click a thumbnail at the very bottom, I have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see the full size image. I just want the full size image to appear on screen no matter how far down I have scrolled to click a thumbnail.
I made my basic gallery useing this tutorial:
http://flashexplained.com/actionscript/making-the-ultimate-dynamic-image-gallery-in-flash- 8/
if you want to take a look at that, to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
Now I'm just trying to add some scrolling functionality, which wasn't included, but I don't really understand actionscript well enough to do this easily on my own.
Sorry for the long reply. I hope this is clearer.

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from, but I dont really understand it in detail what I do know is I
dont need the arror buttons in this code becuase all I need is a
the scroller.
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var maskHeight:Number = maskedView._height;
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var bottom:Number =
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var dy:Number = 0;
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startDrag(this, false, left, top, right, bottom);
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scrollFace.onMouseUp = function() {
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scrollFace._y = top;
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btnDown.onPress = function() {
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So,
btn1 will go to and play Lge_1(Frame 1 of Gall_Lge_1)
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Then on the Scroller you have that function again. Remove it
from the scroller, as it does nothing there. Inside of the scroller
all you need is code to attach png files from pressing the buttons.
Make sure each button has a unique instance name, which isn't the
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Hope someone can help with this.
I have a simple horizontal scrolling gallery of 24 thumbnails
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