# Help with scrolling thumbnails: mouse hovering won't scroll

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-thumbnails-mouse-hovering-wont-scroll/215423
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 7, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-thumbnails-mouse-hovering-wont-scroll/215423 "2007-02-07T06:56:13Z")
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#### Post date: [February 7, 2007, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-scrolling-thumbnails-mouse-hovering-wont-scroll/215423/1 "2007-02-07T06:56:13Z")

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Okay, so, I’m pretty new to Flash, and I’ve been trying to fool around with a website template and I tried to add a photo gallery to it using the thumbnails tutorial. I browsed around the forum for a few minutes looking for anything related to this, but I didn’t see anything specifically related. Granted, I didn’t look very hard, but, here goes anyway.

I started off by heading to the movie clip that I wanted the gallery to appear inside (it’s a rather complex template) and creating a new clip inside it, calling it Thumbnails\_layer (despite it not, in fact, being a layer…).

Once I did that, I went into the new movie clip and copied and pasted all of the layers and code from the FLA that the tutorial had just helped me make. I deleted the colored backgrounds of some things, but nothing else.

The completed .fla from the tutorial worked perfectly, but when I tried to move everything into my other file, everything but the scrolling worked.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

I tried simply putting “thumbnail\_mc.\_x += scroll\_speed” outside of any conditionals in the scroller function, and it moved over every time I hovered on a picture, so I think that rules out naming conflicts…

I tried putting while()s containing “thumbnail\_mc.\_x += 10” within on(mouseOver)s within the hit\_left and hit\_right clips’ actions.

I tried putting “thumbnail\_mc.\_x += 10” within new buttons created in the same layer as thumbnail\_mc.

Ideas? Help?