Help Creating a Scrollbar

programming flash
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Hey all,

I’m sorta new to learning flash (i’ve been doing all my old websites in just dreamweaver) and i’m having a hard time with some of the basics of creating a desired scrollbar b/c all of the tutorials i’ve found skip the basic steps or are writen for older versions of flash.

I’m trying to create a site that involes a large picture as the background with a somewhat transparent text box with scrolling options over the picture. The only example i can find to better explain somewhat what i’m trying to do it http://www.petefrancis.com Click on one of his links and you’ll see the type of scrollbox i mean

I can create the graphics in ps, thats not a problem, but i’m not sure how i place a scroll box over the picture and make it transparent. I tried downloading a scrollbox through a tutorial, but i dont know how to put it over the picture. Right now I just import the main picture as the background and drag is ontop of the stage which i make the same size.

I know this is a lot of “i don’t knows” but if anyone could help out that would be fantastic!

thanks

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I’m not sure if people weren’t certain about my post before, but i would be using static text. Thanks!

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bump…anyone please?:stunned:

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I thought I answered this post…hmm… maybe it was a similar one. Why not use the scrollbar component? It is very simple to use. Give it a shot and if you run into problems we’ll help you out.

Hint: Movie clp with alpha at 40% and your text inside. Apply scrollbar.

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I would like to know how to do this also for sure.

Montoya have you got a tutorial anywhere that will explain how to do it, or explain the component?

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it looks like to me it’s scrolling an mc, which is done via lostinbeta’s
code here:
http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20065

this way you could make and use any buttons/mc’s scrollbars you
wanted to match your design.

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I saw that post by LIB its cool, but i am more interested about making a dragable little bar. I would think its just a simple bit of drag code… My AS is ok with stuff that overlaps with C++, arrays, ifs, for loops etc.

Non existant with AS specifics like dragging

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Hello,

I think flash has an option to make a textbox transparent. I have one.

Cheers,

Billy

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you dont need much of anything, if you want to keep it simple.

Create an mc. Change the alpha of the mc. Put anything you want inside the mc. Drag the scrollbar component right on top and to the right of the mc. That’s it. Really simple.

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you can only use the component for input and dynamic text, that isn’t so cool…

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yes ragewolf, i too thought you can only use the scrollbar component for input and dynamic text, and i’m trying to work it for static text. I’m gonna play around with it tonight and see if i can figure it out

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let me know if you figure it out!