After all of this time spent getting scrollbars to work, I figured it out using the
easydragger .fla from the tutorials section! There’s no need for scrollbars, a dragger does EXACTLY what I need! After finishing this…
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/menudragger.htm
First open ‘clipgeneral’ and make 2 duplicate rows of the graphic on top, don’t forget to open the align panel and center your (now 3 square by 4 square) grid graphic. should look like…
|1|2|3|4|
|1|2|3|4|
|1|2|3|4|
Go back in, and on top of the ‘Drag’ layer, make another layer called ‘Drug’. Then, go back and assign the instance name ‘X_btn’ to the instance of the ‘bouton’ button. Make a duplicate movie clip of ‘dragger’, name it whatever you want (I named mine ‘crouton’, don’t ask why). Inside ‘crouton’, the instance of ‘bouton’ is ‘y_btn’.
Give it the same AS as the X_btn:
on (press) {
dragging = 1 ;
}
on (release) {
dragging = 0 ;
}
but change the AS in ‘crouton’ (your vertical slider) to read:
onClipEvent (load) {
yold = _y ;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (dragging) {
_y = _root._ymouse ;
dydrag = _y - yold ;
yold = _y ;
_root.general._y += 3*dydrag ;
}
}
this exactly mirrors the code in the ‘dragger’ instance on the stage:
onClipEvent (load) {
xold = _x ;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (dragging) {
_x = _root._xmouse ;
dxdrag = _x - xold ;
xold = _x ;
_root.general._x += 3*dxdrag ;
}
}
You should now have working X and Y sliders! Huzzah!
Now, here’s where I run into a problem - how do i set parameters for my draggers so that it doesn’t scroll past a certain point in either direction?
is it…
setproperty(general)=_x.max=400, _x.min=-400 or something like that?
