# Styling a scrollbar, how? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014 "2003-07-08T15:37:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cheddar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cheddar/32/267_2.png) [@cheddar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cheddar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/1 "2003-07-08T15:37:50Z")
I’m back again with another question 🙂 Does anyone know how I would go about changing a scrollbar component? Instead of having the big box with borders around it, I want something very simple. Basically just a scrollbar, even with that I don’t want any arrows or anything just a little bar the user can dgar up and down. I checked the site and found the great tutorial on using the scrollbar component with dynamic text. This is perfect for what I want, it’s just I don’t like the scrollbar style. Can anyone help me out? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/2 "2003-07-08T15:52:12Z")
I dont know if you can actually customize the scrollbar component. I guess it would be easier if you design your own scrollbar. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/3 "2003-07-08T16:00:18Z")
> \*Originally posted by claudio \* > \*\*I dont know if you can actually customize the scrollbar component. I guess it would be easier if you design your own scrollbar. > 🙂 \*\* Dude don’t say that. I really want a nice and clean scrollbar :\*( ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/4 "2003-07-08T16:24:51Z")
you can open the library, go into scrollbar components folder and change one by one. delete the arrow, delete the box, do whatever you want. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/5 "2003-07-08T16:26:05Z")
> \*Originally posted by Neo-Geo \* > \*\*you can open the library, go into scrollbar components folder and change one by one. delete the arrow, delete the box, do whatever you want. \*\* Cool! Thanks, that was a lot simpler than I would have thought. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/6 "2003-07-08T16:27:06Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/tip/013.html](http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/tip/013.html) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/7 "2003-07-08T16:27:14Z")
Oh, never thought of dat… but its a pain in the a ss! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/8 "2003-07-08T16:32:04Z")
it such a tedious process, but i learned it from macromedia ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/9 "2003-07-08T16:33:55Z")
Thats why I quit using those components 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/10 "2003-07-08T16:38:07Z")
Hmm i got the arrow of the scrollbar red 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/11 "2003-07-08T16:38:46Z")
[AS] globalStyleFormat.face = 0xECECEC; globalStyleFormat.highlight = 0xC0CCD8; globalStyleFormat.highlight3D = 0xC0CCD8; globalStyleFormat.darkshadow = 0x000000; globalStyleFormat.shadow = 0x4E657C; globalStyleFormat.arrow = 0x484848; globalStyleFormat.foregroundDisabled = 0xC0CCD8; globalStyleFormat.scrollTrack = 0xEBEBEB; globalStyleFormat.focusRectInner = 0xDBDCE5; globalStyleFormat.focusRectOuter = 0x9495A2; globalStyleFormat.background = 0xC0CCD8; globalStyleFormat.selectionUnfocused = 0xff0000; globalStyleFormat.border = 0x4E657C; // applying changes that we made to globalStyleFormat.applyChanges(); [/AS] its rather easy actually ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/12 "2003-07-08T16:41:01Z")
Thx digitalosophy… though i hate dat scrollbar component 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/13 "2003-07-08T16:43:22Z")
lol yea it tool me a while 2, but the same applies to textFormat’s. That’s how I learned. Your Welcome 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/14 "2003-07-08T16:44:10Z")
oh and BTW, that applies to all components, not textfields. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/15 "2003-07-08T16:44:37Z")
Digital: That changes the colors, but editing the symbols directly allows you to change the look. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/16 "2003-07-08T16:48:55Z")
yes your right LIB, i miust have misread this thread a bit, you can do that, but I found it to be a major pain in the you know what. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/17 "2003-07-08T16:50:39Z")
Yes, it is quite a pain to do, I will admit that. But if you want a new look, it is easier to edit the symbols rather than building your own scrollbar similar to the scrollbar component altogether (if you don’t know AS). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/18 "2003-07-08T16:55:32Z")
oh ya def, custom scrollers are definatly tricky, especially if you want them to work correctly with out glitches ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/19 "2003-07-08T18:17:12Z")
Got it working now with new scrollers and even text loaded in from a text file 🙂 I do have a little problem though, I am using a text file to hold the text. Every time I put a space in the text file the gap that flash displays is a lot bigger. Example. **Text in the text file :-** ## Cheddar’s stuck again with another problem. What a surprise i’m stuck again. **Text outputed by Flash :-** Cheddar’s stuck again with another problem. * * * What a surprise i’m stuck again Does anyone know why this is happening? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/styling-a-scrollbar-how/25014/20 "2003-07-08T18:30:56Z")
Here’s an example of a text file that i used recently ```php faqText= 4/22/03?
Where do I submit form num#155?
4/15/03?
Where can I find UPS tracking Numbers?
4/05/03?
How long will it take to get form num#2700 approved?
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