Comments on: ScrollPane

By: mike

mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:55:19 +0000

Hi Matthew, this scrollbar works great with text i love the ease control. I'm a bit of a newbie though and was wondering if I could load a MovieClip with live buttons rather than text?

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:33 +0000

Hi Mathew!

Sorry for my late reply. I've been very busy. So far I've tried to make a movieclip out of the mask and noticed that in the EasingScrollPane.as you needed to add import flash.display.MovieClip;. Works like a charm - thanks again for taking some of your time to help me out!!

Niklas

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:09:08 +0000

Hi again, Niklas! Yes, there is a way to scroll without the mask.. what you would do is just use the scroll bar (BaseScrollBar) by itself, listen for its scroll events, and move your content in the handler. As to your second question, you can make the mask a MovieClip. From the documentation of BaseScrollPane:

If [the BaseScrollPane] has a child named "_mask", it will be used as the mask; otherwise the Shape object of the highest index in the display list will be used.

So just name your MovieClip "_mask", and you should be good to go.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:04:53 +0000

Hi there again!

I have actually have two questions:

Is there a way to use the scroll but without the mask - kind of like on this page: http://emehmedovic.com/xmca/toobplayer/#/download/ ?

My second question is this: Is there a way to have the size of the mask change dynamically? I've tried to make a movie clip out of the mask so that I can name it with an instance name but the scroll stopped working…

All the best, Niklas

By: Oddmachine

Oddmachine — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:37:19 +0000

Thanks so much, came together nicely!

-Oddmachine

By: Niklas

Niklas — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:28:07 +0000

Hey!

Thanks for your help. Now it works perfectly - awesome!!

Niklas

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:34:09 +0000

Yeah, when a class is linked to a symbol in the library, it must import the classes of its children. Since the ScrollPane in example 2 contains a TextField, you'll have to import flash.text.TextField in the EasingScrollPane class. It doesn't matter that the superclass (BaseScrollPane) already imports it, Flash adds the children to the definition of the linked class.

I'm glad you're finding the site useful!

By: Niklas

Niklas — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:55:58 +0000

Thanks for your answer.
Hmmm…
When I change the base class to EasingScrollPane and put the class in the same folder I get this error:
EasingScrollPane.as Line 4 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: TextField.
Not quite sure why this is happening… Do I have to import some import somewhere?
Line 4 is the refering to the import of the BaseScrollPane class but in that class, as far as I can see there is an import flash.text.TextField;

Niklas

P.S Some great stuff here on your site.

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:35:25 +0000

Simple! Just change the linkage base class from "com.exanimo.containers.BaseScrollPane" to "EasingScrollPane" and put the EasingScrollPane class included with Example 6 in the same directory as your FLA. If you take a look at the contents of the EasingScrollPane class, it should be clear how to make your own custom easing. All you have to do is extend BaseScrollPane and override a method.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:40:32 +0000

How do I add easing to exampel no. 2?

Really like the possibilities of this scrollbar pane…

All the best, Niklas