Skinning the scrollbar and scroll bar area

programming flash
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hi there! 2 questions… firstly i just wanted to know if its possible to define an area like a text box… but where u can put text and images together so it can be scrolled up and down? (i am wanting to do like a timeline with pics and words on the side of the dates… so the user can scroll up and down and look)

Secondly! what is the easiest way to skin the premade scrollbar? i wanted basically just the 2 boxes with the triangles in it but with no middle bit… ive tried just deleting it out of the library (The middle part) but the whole thing dissapears!

thanks heaps :smiley:

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I don’t know if this is quite what your looking for, but I had roughly the same problem with the scrollbar. it’s just plain ugly. so what i did was this: (after I checked the forum and found some more help)

I created two movie clips, on called up, one called dn and attached this script to the action keyframe in my animation.

up.onPress = function() {
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
textwindow.scroll –
}
}
up.onRelease = function() {
delete _root.onEnterFrame
}

/************************************/
dn.onPress = function() {
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
textwindow.scroll ++
}
}
dn.onRelease = function() {
delete _root.onEnterFrame
}

that gives you two buttons that scroll your text up and down in a dynamic text box, but I did note a few bugs. one is that if you drag your pointer out of the box while it is pressed then the scrolling never stops. and the second bug is well, I had a heck of a time making any sempblance of a nice up and or down arrow.

And I may be wrong, but if you allow html in your text box (the <> button on your properties panel) then in the text file use the <img src=“imagename.jpg”> tag it might work. but I’ve never tried it.

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[font=Verdana]LOL it’s also worth noting that I have since been told that may not be the most efficient script in the world, but hey, it worked for me just peachy.[/font]