Hi all,
CS3/AS2,
It’s been a while I know but I’m back to ask for more help lol. You probably thought you got rid of me but not quite haha! 
I am working on a timeline (imagine one you would see in a history lesson or something). I have the very basic idea sorted - which i have attached - and before you ask, no its not the final design :hugegrin:
Until about 10 minutes ago, there was an arrow which you clicked on to make the timeline move. The timeline itself is just a movie clip which is masked, and when you click the arrow, it plays the appropriate part of the MC which will make it move backwards and forwards. That all worked fine but I wanted to improve it.
I have uploaded a version of what I want - but it isnt done purely with actionscript as I dont know how. If you move your mouse towards the right hand side or left hand side, directly over the blue horizontal line, the timeline moves backwards or forwards. This is just done with an invisible button which i have given an instance name and use a onRollOver command to play the MC. The inv’s get disabled so that you cant constantly roll over them once they have started the process of moving the timeline.
The code is pretty simple but if you want me to post it i can. What I really want to do is basically make a version of my file but “properly” i.e. using actionscript to make the timeline move backwards and forwards.
I have seen lots of examples of photo galleries etc which do this sort of thing but they all use XML and all sorts, I just basically want to be able to have this timeline move around.
There is a possibility that it would extend in size over time and so I would want it to be masked, and just move when the user mouses over the right hand side or left hand side.
Hope that all makes sense and I hope by uploading my files it will make more sense and you can help me. It wont let me upload a .swf so i zipped both the fla and swf and uploaded it. I know its possible to be done, i just dont know where to start.
Thanks in advance
Theo
