Build the scrollbar in Flash

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I found this when looking around for something useful
http://www.philterdesign.com/blog/archives/000013.html
but I can’t make it work. Is there anyone out there that has been using this or something similar? Do you know any tutorials or maybe example fla files that I could use? I’m kind of a beginner so I would need things explained a bit more…

Cheers

Mike

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Works fine for me.

For this script to work you need to create a movie clip symbol called “clipHolder” and in the library right click on that movie clip and select “Link” and choose to “Export for Actionscript” and have the linkage name set to “clipHolder”

Then inside that movie clip you put all your content.

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Heres an example (I also changed a bit of the code, not much, but there was a useless line in there that I removed).

4

…the zip file is empty

5

I thought that might happen, sorry.

The forum went all crazy on me when I tried to attach it.

6

GRRR… it did it again, the forum locks up when I try to upload (most likely my computer though).

I can’t FTP to my server right now so I can’t upload it there and link to it.

I guess you will just have to take my advice a few posts back on how to get it to work.

Oh, and in the script you can remove the line _root.macStyle.-----whatever-----

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I just can’t make it work… I followed every step in the instructions, but there is no scroller! Could you maybe upload your example file later on when you have the possibility?

Cheers a lot!

Mike

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Let’s give this another shot :sigh:

9

SCORE!!!

10

Thanks!

11

No problem :slight_smile:

12

I’ve noticed that there seem to be kind of a bug/problem in there when using movieclips that fit the screen.
If I use a movieclip that fit the screen, re-size the browser window so that the scroll bars appear, scroll down to the bottom-right corner, maximize my browser window… then part of my movieclip has disappeared!
Have you noticed this before? Is there a workaround for this?

Cheers

Mike

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Sorry, I can’t think of a solution offhand, it fixes it self if you resize the window again because it works onResize, so technically I would think it would auto-resize when you maximized the browser, but apparently not… I find that odd.