RE: FLASH: windows scroll bar?

[Brack, Jeremy]

Thanks for responding!

Someone else suggested Mooks website and I used his sample.. (which uses a

variation of the Content.maxscroll code you list below)

the Mook scroller works really well for about 3 paragraphs of text.  I mean

almost identical to the speed of a pure windows scroll bar..

but when I try to add in like say 20 paragraphs... the Flash movie bogs down

the performance of your entire PC when you try to click on one of the scroll

buttons inside Flash.. think of like 5 seconds per frame of animation..

thats painfully slow..

and I am on an NT machine with a PIII 450 CPU, 256MB of RAM, and a nice 16MB

Voodoo 3000 video card.

My company has MM Generator, so I may just see if the Generator scroller

works..


Otherwise, does anyone know of another way to make Flash scroll large

quantities of text without slowing down the entire computer?

I think it might just be beyond the abilities of Flash 4.  Another

alternative I may use is to break up the page, with Flash navigation on the

left and HTML text on the right.. (yuck)


thanks again,


Jeremy


----Original Message-----

From: Mark Sheppard [

zach29columbus [dot] rr [dot] com (mailto:zach29columbus [dot] rr [dot] com)

]

Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 8:59 AM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: windows scroll bar?


----- Original Message -----

From: "Brack, Jeremy" <

Jeremy [dot] Brackimgusa [dot] com

>


> I have created a very crude version, but it only works when you click on

the

> button, it doesnt scroll when you hold down the mouse.


Make a MC with 4 frames and two layers and put the button in alternating

frames all with the same action.


 |.| |.|

.| |.| |


button action:

On (Press, Drag Over, Drag Out)

      Begin Tell Target ("_level1/")

            If (content.scroll < content.maxscroll)

                  Set Variable: "content.scroll" = content.scroll + 1

            End If

      End Tell Target

End On


Do the same for both up and down buttons.

There is a tutorial on Mooks somewhere if you need an example.

HTH,

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Mark Sheppard

AKA Zachnefein

zach29columbus [dot] rr [dot] com

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