Tweening a movie clip to scroll?

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here's your file with those graphics removed:
http://www.gladstien.com/Files.popupTest.fla

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(Oh, and there is no text involved in this. I just got this code off a tutorial and I haven't changed the variable names yet)
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Thanks for your reply. I'll try to explain it better. I have a long, vertically scrolling movie clip. This movie clip contains lots of thumbnails. When I click a thumbnail, the full sized image is loaded from the library and displayed within the same movie clip. when I click the full size movie clip, it disappears again, and I can click another thumbnail to display another full size image. So I'm not just adding more and more stuff to the gallery if that's what you were thinking. I'm just clicking thumbnails to display the full size image so I can look at it, closing it, and moving on.
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.
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I a "zoom" effect set on two layers - on for the zoom mask,
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What I want to do is pretty simple, I am building a DJ
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down, so technically the pitch controller will have to start from
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I have been going through tutorials for 15 hours but all they
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and srolls down. I am in desprite need as I have a deadline to meet
for tomorrow morning. HELP

ok this is the code I got from a tutorial that i was woking
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 right:Number = scrollTrack._x;
var bottom:Number =
scrollTrack._height-scrollFaceHeight+scrollTrack._y;
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var speed:Number = 10;
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scrollFace.onPress = function() {
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startDrag(this, false, left, top, right, bottom);
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contentMain._y = Math.round(dy*-1*moveVal+initContentPos);
scrollFace.onMouseUp = function() {
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delete this.onMouseMove;
btnUp.onPress = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (contentMain._y+speed<maskedView._y) {
if (scrollFace._y<=top) {
scrollFace._y = top;
} else {
scrollFace._y -= speed/moveVal;
contentMain._y += speed;
} else {
scrollFace._y = top;
contentMain._y = maskedView._y;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
btnUp.onDragOut = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
btnUp.onRelease = function() {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
btnDown.onPress = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (contentMain._y-speed>finalContentPos) {
if (scrollFace._y>=bottom) {
scrollFace._y = bottom;
} else {
scrollFace._y += speed/moveVal;
contentMain._y -= speed;
} else {
scrollFace._y = bottom;
contentMain._y = 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;
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hi how can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it
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a motion tween(its moving from the left to the right of the stage)
this motion tween covers the whole time line ( there is only 50 frames in the time line)
i mean in the frame 1 the MC appears in the left of the stage
and in the frame 50 the MC appears in the right of the stage and there is a motion tween between them
every thing till now working well
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but the MC freezes in the middle of the stage and doesnt go to the right of the stageo until the flash loops and start from the frame 1 again
here is the example wich i am worikng on
http://www.mediafire.com/?ia47r4owha7sz8v
thank u very much and sorry for my bad English

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