Scrolling a movieclip

How do I have a standard ScrollBar (or ScrollPane) scroll a
custom MovieClip?
Basically, I am creating a custom menu list, and need to have
a standard looking scroll bar able to scroll all of the items. If I
am making this from scratch, what is the best method? It seems that
the ScrollBar component only works with a TextField, and that the
ScrollPane only works with importing external images or SWFs. Is
there a way to use the ScrollPane to target a MovieClip?

Found this option online:
http://www.flashscaper.com/blog/?p=3

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Hello,
I'm trying to found some extension or library to horizontally scroll a movieclip in a iOS aplication made with AIR 3.5.
I tried some, but the perfomance are not so good, even in iPhone 5 or iPhone 3Gs, so if anyone knows a good way to do it, i'll be thankful.

I just played a little with tweenlite, and bought a GreenSock Club membership, to get all the plugins. A bit expansive, but totally worth it, now my scroll works very well when moving a very big image, even in the old iPhone 3Gs.
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I have an application in which i am making a dynamic photo
gallery. I have made a scroller movieClip "thumbs_mc". Now i want
to make it scroll. for that i created 2 movieClips ,left and right.
and wrote some code. but its not working.
1st depth is the main picture's movieClip's depth, 2nd depth
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Hello everybody. I am very very novice to actionscript, so probably my question will sound a little silly.
I am trying to put an arabic text to scroll with a custom scrollbar. So I found a nice video in youtube about doing that with a dynamic text field. It works wonderful for latin characters (left to right and separated letters) but unfortunately not for arabic characters (they don't get connected). Actually, I don't care to use just a movieclip with the text instead of the dynamic text field. But I don't know how to change the actionscript code for the movie clip instead of the dynamic text field.
Here I show you the code for the scrolling text in a dynamic text field (it's a short code), on the stage I got just the dynamic text field (instance name: texto_txt), the scrollBar (a vertical line, instance name: scrollBar_mc) and the scroller itself (a little rectangle, instance name:scrollHandle_mc):
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What I want to do is clear the dynamic text field and use instead a movieclip (text_mc) that includes already the text, the bounding box would be a mask. How do I change the actionscript? Could anyone help me out?

It isn't really a matter of math, as much as it is logical reasoning, but if you plan to do things with programming, you better plan on getting comfortable with learning math as well. Programming and math go hand-in-hand.
Here's a simplified explanation of what your code needs to do -> If you move the scroller 25% of the total distance it can move, then the movieclip should be moved 25% of the distance it can move (in the oppostie direction).
Your scroller handle can be moved a predefined distance. In your code that value is called "intervalo". See if you can figure out how that value is determined in the 3 lines of code.
var min: Number = scrollHandle_mc.y;
var max: Number = min +(scrollBar_mc.height - scrollHandle_mc.height);
var intervalo: Number = max - min;
Later on in your progress function you can see where the scrollbar handle values com into play again when determining where to place the textfield. But if we change that to be the movieclip, it becomes more like the following...
function progress(e:Event)
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         yourMC.y = percent * (yourMCmaxY-yourMCminY) + yourMCMinY;
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        // which is likely to be negative since yMax is likely < yMin for the mc.

Can someone please help me code scrollbars to scroll a movieclip?

Hi guys,
Thanks for the interest in my post...
I've created a scrollbar with up and down buttons for a site
in Flash 8 but the up button was behaving very oddly even though
there were no syntax errors.
Because of this I have decided to start again as nobody could
find what was going wrong.
I've created an fla (www.spindriftmedia.com/scroll.fla) with
all all the elements that will be used but would really appreciate
it if you wouldn't mind taking a few moments to add the code to the
buttons and dragger to make it work if that's alright please. I've
looked all over for tutorials but just can't find anything relevant
other than the one I used originally.
Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.
Take care,
Mark

Generally, people will not download files, so your chances of getting help improve if you include everything in your posting. In this case you should include the relevant code with which you are having trouble. Since you say it goes one way or another, I assume that involves coding it different ways, so it might be helpful to show and explain both.

How to scroll MC

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Export ur movie clip for actionscript
Than use the scroll component found in CS5 flash and in the properties panel of the scroll component give the class name of the class name of the movieclip as the source for the scroll component.
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I have a simple scroller script that works fine for scrolling
a movieclip in Flash 6, but when I publish in anything later, it no
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that anyone can see of why this should be? When I test the script
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thanks _name for your help, although i didnt have any luck
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inside of the ScrollBar MovieClip and of course the scroll bar
would move to its correct coordinates. For example, I need the
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the scroll bar to go to its corresponding location. Anyone have a
good example of this that is pretty dynamic?
I have an example of this which is close to working, but I
would like to know if there is a better more dynamic way of doing
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Continuing this conversation with myself, I opted to use the
ScrollPane component and use the vPosition property. We had to use
all the event listeners before it worked,
my_sp.addEventListener("complete", listener);
my_sp.addEventListener("progress", listener);
my_sp.addEventListener("scroll", listener);
This worked well and I could feed the vposition and wind up
where I needed to go in the scroll pane.
So now I am having a problem with skinning the scroll pane. I
can skin it just fine. But seeing as my scroll bar, the scroller in
the middle of the scroll pane that you drag to get to the location
you want to go is different in size from the original (aka scroll
thumb). It does not adjust its size so it believes it has something
like 56 more pixels in either direction.
What happens is the scroll thumb will start 56 pixels below
where it should and it stops about 56 pixels before it should stop.
So, your content finishes scrolling and your scroll thumb does not
finish its entire scroll - it is hanging 56 pixels above where it
should. You drag it back to the top, the content that is being
scrolled is back at it original position where it should be while
the scroll thumb is hanging about 56 pixels below where it should
ultimately be.
Is there a way to adjust the size of the middle scroller
– what in the skins is called the scroll thumb? I need it at
a constant size. I can re-skin it so it looks like it should but it
does not function as it should.
Any suggestions?
Anybody I can call at Adobe? (Should I send smoke signals?
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Control MovieClip that's inside ScrollPane

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MovieClip that's been placed in a ScrollPane? I want to be able to
manipulate a MovieClip at runtime with ActionScript, but allow the
viewer to scroll the MovieClip...
Do I need to find a different approach that doesn't use the
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Is the movieclip part of the content of the scrollpane?
I use the following line of code to affect one of the MCs
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HTH,
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> Does anyone know if it's possible to access and modify a
MovieClip that's
been
> placed in a ScrollPane? I want to be able to manipulate
a MovieClip at
runtime
> with ActionScript, but allow the viewer to scroll the
MovieClip...
>
> Do I need to find a different approach that doesn't use
the ScrollPane
> component?
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I'm building a simple game in flash lite. Whenever I move the character, I instead scroll the movieclip the opposite way to give a moving effect while keeping the character in the center of the screen. The problem is that whenever the top of the background image goes above the top of the screen, the entire image is no longer rendering, liked its being clipped or culled out by flash. Its still visible, and runs fine in flash player and air. The problem only seems to be recreatable in the device central testing on CS5.5. I'm currently trying to get a phone that runs only flash lite to see if the error persists.
I have tried the scrolling, which as I said doesn't work, scroll rect, which isn't allowed in Flash lite, thus doesn't work, and creating a bitmap background and using its draw method to copy the movieclip background onto the bitmap (which fails once the matrix passed in in the draw command has a negative y coordinate). Copy pixels hasn't been successful either (copying the movieclip to a bitmap, and trying to copy a section of that bitmap onto the background bitmap). The normal scrolling command, the scroll rect, and the draw method all work in flash player (even when compiling with flash lite), just not on the actual test with the flash lite phones in CS5.5.
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Hi, I'm trying to set a scrolling panel to load images of a
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So I embeded all my elements into a movie clip, everything
work fine, except that I cannot use the buttons inside the
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Here is
the link to the gallery I'm working on:
I also have another problem with the scrolling buttons. If I
click to scroll down and then click to scroll up, the scroll up
doesn't work on the first click, I need to click a second time.
So if you can help me with any of those problems, with a
tutorial or some explanation on how I can make this work, that
would be a great help.
Thanks in advance.

I took a look at the fla file and have the following to
offer:
For the buttons, you probably need to code them with:
function loadPicture(event:MouseEvent){
(this.parent as MovieClip).gotoAndPlay("frame label");
One problem I see is that the buttons themselves are static,
so you'd need some way of changing what the frame label is for
different sets of images relative to something about the button.
What you might try instead is having each thumbnail as a
button-movieclip that carries its own var identifier for the the
frame label (call it framelabel). That way you could do something
to the effect of...
function loadPicture(event:MouseEvent){
var frameLabel:String = event.target.framelabel;
(this.parent as MovieClip).gotoAndPlay(frameLabel);
As for the double clicking, I think the problem might lie in
your having a stop(); at each menu set. So when you tell it to
gotoAndPlay(...)... it goes to and stops. Instead of having those
stops, while moving forward you could continually check the current
frame number in a loop and have it stop when it reaches the desired
frame number.
A possible redesign, which could save you some effort when
more menues get added is to only have the forward going transitions
for the timeline, and then have the timeline play in reverse when
you intend to move backwards (looping current frame-1 until you
reach the destination). If you tie in a 'direction" variable
(assigned 1 or -1), you could have the same function for moving in
either direction... as in gotoAndPlay(currentframe + direction);
A project like this gives you plenty of opportunity to learn
some good stuff that will make creating it much simpler the next
time around.

How do you horizontal scroll a movie clip?

Can anyone suggest any resources for horizontal (left to right) scrolling a movieClip? I want to be able to scroll through a movie clip that has pictures in it. I can't find any good ones that explain the code. FYI, I do not want the user to use a scroll bar to scroll through. They should be able to touch the screen (on the movieClip) and scroll left or right. I looked at the ThrowPops plugin example on Greensock's website but the code is not explained very well. So I need a basic description of how to scroll a movie clip.

google: as3 beginner tutorial flash ios movieclip scroll

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a script that does this:
movieClip clicked = start drag
if it is dragged to the LEFT 100pixels it stops drag and
scrolls to the left that is -800pixels if it is dragged to the
RIGHT 100pixels it stops drag it scrolles +800pixels.
movieClip on release = stop drag
it returns to its position before dragging.
I made this so far (DOESN'T WORK):
stop();
background.onPress = function () {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
this.startDrag();
mouseX= _xmouse;
onMouseMove = function () {
mouseX2 = mouseX - _xmouse;
if (mouseX2 > 100) {
this.stopDrag();
_root.lokacija1 = _root.background.targetx = background._x -
Stage.width;
mouseX= 0;
mouseX2 = 0;
play();
} else if (mouseX2 < -100) {
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_root.lokacija1 = _root.background.targetx = background._x +
Stage.width;
mouseX = 0;
mouseX2 = 0;
play();
background.onRelease = function () {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
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mouseX = 0;
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Alright, accepted. Here's the thing, it was very difficult to
tell what you were needing from your first post, and now having
reviewed the file, it is much more complex than you had indicated.
However, there still is a great deal of extraneous code in the
scripts you have been working on, and the task can be accomplish
much more simply.
I have taken a moment to reconfigure an example of your file,
you'll find that the operating code is far less complex than that
which you had been trying to force into functioning, and requires
very few variables, and loops the panning between the two images.
this script can be modified to accomidate more images or use the
speed of the mouse movement as a ratio to effect the speed of the
tween, or any number of other effects. The codes you previously had
on the p1 and p2 MCs have been stripped out, as well as the
'symbol(s)', all of which are not necessary. I haven't done any
testing as to scaling the swf in a html doc, but if you set this
publish settings up correctly it should scale to the right size
without have to use the onResize method. so here's the file:
FLA
good luck, I hope this helps you out.

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I need to make a scrollbar for a long text area. I wonder how can I achieve this with HTML5 canvas in Flash CC2014?
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the text looks ok to me, http://www.kglad.com/Files/forums/test2.html
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