Left/right scrolling movie clip

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I’m pretty new to actionscript (though I’ve been using Flash since it was called Future Splash!) and would appreciate help in how scroll a movie clip across the stage with actionscript rather than tweening.

Basically I have a simple movie clip that consists of around 12, text only, buttons and I want mutiple instances of the movie clip to scroll left->right across the screen, repeating itself seamlessly. At the moment I am tweening it but the file size has become unmanageable.

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Oh, I meant to say that I’m using Flash5

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Howdy and Welcome… :wink:

Future Splash, eh??? Familiar name it is…

I can’t really say anything without seeing what you have there… But basically what you need is to change the _x property of the movieclip when the button is pressed… Maybe putting all of your multiple movieclip instances into the big one movieclip and changing the _x property of it would be how you’d go about that…

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cheers for the advice, what I’m actually after is different speeds for each movie instance - here’s what I’ve done by tweening http://www.iris-spectacles.co.uk/index.cfm?do=catalogue q the problem is that the tween has produced a large file so I’ve had to speed it up.

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Aha, cracked it thanks.

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I haven’t done much… You did all the job… :wink:

I have noticed that the preloader keep loads the file from the beginnin again and again when I refresh the browser… and it was taking some time for 56k to download… :frowning:

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The size of the file was the problem, at 350k taking 56k modems an age to download, I’ve sorted the problem now reducing the file down to 8k! Doesn’t even need a preloader anymore. have a look at: http://www.iris-spectacles.co.uk/newbrands.htm

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WoW… 350k to 8k??? Yup… I DO see the difference… :wink:

How did you do all that??? All the tweens to the ActionScript???

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All actionscript instead of traditional tweens, so the only real effect on size now is the text which is only 8k. Before it was the length of the tween that was bloating the file. To be honest this was my first foray into writing ActionScript from sratch, I’d always tweaked other peoples files to suit me.

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Great job you have done, olvado… :wink: