Topic: Flash 'keywords' needed

Heya,

quick intro:
I've a flash movie which is a times b big. Now I am to turn this into a smaller flash movie and have the old movie scrollable
by clicking and dragging with a mouse.
Later on, I'm supposed to dynamicially load data via flash-xml, but that's not my current problem.

Problem: Apperantly I'm trying google with all the wrong searchterms. All I ever find is scrollable text, and somehow I can not translate those to my problem at hand. Is a ScrollingPane the right thing to use here? If so, why does in never show my newly created movie clip (I did export it for action script) if I just type it's exported name into the appropriate property? Do I need to do some action script magic?

I do know next to nothing about flash, and either some pointers on what to search for, or some icq tutorage would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
->Tyberius Prime

TP;

I'm not sure what you're trying to scroll - text or an image?

In my limited experience, I find ScrollPane Components difficult to work with.

Give more info as to what you are trying to scroll/drag and I'll try to help.

A complete flash movie, honestly.
I mean, I can easily turn what the designer made as a scene into a movie clip (just choose everything, and create a new movie clip out of it).

I'd also be happy just to change the view port coordinates, if that is possible.

Thanks Steve!

I've always find the scrollpane easy to work with, you just need a global event on it to measure the point of the mouse click-and-drag point and update that with the current mouse position each time the mouse moves until the button is released. The difference between startX and currX will tell you how much to scroll horizontally and the difference between startY and currY will tell you how much to scroll vertically. You can then hide the scrollbars and have the pane scroll with that event. I would love ot give you some code examples, but this is purely me pulling stuff off the top of my head from my meagre knowledge.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Ty Pri -
I'm not sitting in front of MX 2004 at the moment, but I recall that te ScrollPane Component Inspector should let you drag inside the content. Maybe? So yeah - you want to make the scene or whatever it is into either a library symbol or a separate swf that you can load into the ScrollPane of another movie. Is there interactivity in the content that will get loaded? Might get sticky with scope but why don't you start there and report what happens.