Re: FLASH: how to make a responsive scrollbar in Flash?

[Russell E. Unger]

Dave...


I've got one that I worked up after a lot of different suggestions, and it seems

to work rather well.  I will happily provide you with the URL and the will

cut-and-paste some source for you, if you are interested; email me offline at

russ [dot] ungerdivineinterventures [dot] com

 and I'll get at it for you.


Kind regards,


Russ Unger


Dave Hollinden wrote:


> Has anyone made a continuous scroll bar for scrolling a movie clip in Flash

> that is really responsive?

>

> I have a section of a site where I want to showcase 20 or more CD's, and I

> think scrolling through a long display of them would be nice.  But the

> scroll bars I've seen in Flash aren't that responsive, meaning that the

> scroll bar doesn't keep up with the mouse, and the movement of the content

> isn't very smooth compared to a browser scroll bar. (take a look at the

> scroll bar in http://www.badboyonline.com/ to see what I mean)  I've built a

> version that scrolls by TellTargeting to new frames and by SetProperty to

> new _x coordinates and haven't been happy with the performance.

>

> Another example is a really cool site at:

>

> http://www.m-three.com/

>

> If you go there and pick a snowboarder, and pick Story, they have a

> not-so-good scroller that scrolls an interview.  But if you pick Action, you

> get a kick-ass scroller that scrolls a bitmap sequence of a snowboarder

> going down hill.  Why does one work better than the other?

>

> Any help?

>

> Dave Hollinden

> Web Design Team Lead

>

dhollindensonicfoundry [dot] com

>

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