Hi there,
I have a problem with a ScrollBar.
I have created (creatEmptyMovieClip) on stage and populatedthem with two mc from the library.
One mc contains a textField with some text (loaded from en external file). The other mc contains the Title for the text. The Title is actually a button which will make the text either visible or invisible (alternatively) when clicked.
So far so good.
Next step was to allow the text to be repaced with a much longer one (loaded from an external source again) and resize the mc accordingly with the control “textFiels.autosize=true”.
Now i needed the mc with the text to adjust its size to the available vertical space in the page and assign a ScrollBar to the text field to be able to scroll the text that is not visible in the size reduced mc.
So far so good.
note: To allow the ScrollBar to resize itself to the text height i had to extend the duration of the textField and set the “text.autosize” to ‘false’ in the next frame before assign the ScrollBar to it. If i left the autosize to true the reading of the actual text vertical size wouldn’t be correct (for reason i dont understand).
So far so good.
But now a problem arises. As soon as the ScrollBar is on stage the Title button, as well as other buttons, don’t behave correctly any longer.
Before the scrollbar I used to be able to click repeatedly on the Title button and the text will appear and disappear no problem. Now the button stays on its ‘Up’ status once i clicked on it (rather then the ‘Over’ one, forcing me to move the mouse away (rollOut) before i can roll over it again to activate its ‘Over’ status and ready to be triggered.
In all the various try I did it’s quite clear the problem depends on the presence of the scrollbar, regardless of the Scrollbar and the mc that contains it being visible or not. I also tried to disable it (ScrollBar.enable=false) but the problem doesn’t go away.
Reading through the ScrollBar Class section in the Help I imagined that the conflict might arise from the fact that with a ScrollBar, “unlike most other components, events are broadcast when the mouse button is pressed and continue broadcasting until the button is released”.
I don’t know enough of AS to work out if this is the problem nor how to resolve it anyway.
Anyone with a suggestion on how to fix this? As it happen to anyone before?
Here are some excerpt of the code
// The Button title
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“item0”,8);
_root.item0.attachMovie(“titleMain”, “content0”,8);
//The movie that contains the text
_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“item1”,7);
_root.item1.attachMovie(“Copy Intro”,“content1”,7);
//Frame 1 of the Copy Intro mc: loading text from ext file
var format = new TextField.StyleSheet();
var path = “flash.css”;
format.load(path);
format.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
output.styleSheet = format;
myLoadVar = new LoadVars ();
myLoadVar.load(“Nyet.txt”)
myLoadVar.onLoad = function (success){
if (success == true) {
output.htmlText=myLoadVar.intro;
}
}
} else {
output.text = “Error loading CSS file!”;
}
output.autoSize=true;
};
stop();
// Frame 2 (-goTondPlay(2) is called from a third button on stage).
my_txt.htmlText=myLoadVar.NyetAll;
my_txt.autoSize=true;
availableHeight=_root.maximumText;
actualTextHeight=my_txt._height;
_root.optimalHeight= availableHeight <= actualTextHeight ? availableHeight : actualTextHeight;
//Frame 3
my_txt.autoSize=false;
my_txt._height= _root.optimalHeight;
this.createClassObject(mx.controls.UIScrollBar, “my_sb”, 20);
my_sb.setScrollTarget(my_txt);
my_sb.setSize(16, my_txt._height);
my_sb.move(my_txt._x + my_txt._width-16, my_txt._y);
_root.allinea();
stop();
If anyone can understand this he/she will be my saviour and hero,
Thanks for now
Daniele
