Flash Tutorials

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The goal for the following example is to set up a simple scrolling movie clip with text inside.

1. Start Adobe Flash, open a new document and set a 30 fps or higher in the Document Properties Panel to achieve a smoother animation.

2. Open the Components Panel ( (m) Window/Components). You will find the component in the Flashtuning folder.

3. Drag the component (FtScrollBar) from the Components Panel to the stage. The component graphic symbol should now be displayed on the stage.

4. Create a new Movie Clip to be scrolled:

• Create a Text Field on the scene and type in few text blocks.
• Select the Text Field and convert it to a Movie Clip symbol ( (m) Modify/Convert to Symbol) having the registration point top left.
• Give the new Movie Clip an unique instance name (in the Properties Panel).

5. Select the Scroll Bar component on the stage and configure its parameters in the Parameters Panel or in the Component Inspector Panel ( (m) Window/Component Inspector):

• Instruct the component to scroll the newly created Movie Clip as the target movie clip (targetMovieClip).
• Set the viewAreaHeight and viewAreaWidth.
• Set the snapMode to snapToView value.
• Leave the rest of the parameters unchanged unless you want to adjust some values, as they are already populated with default settings.

1. Test the scene (Control/Test Movie).

(i) Please refer to the Flashtuning Scroll Bar component Flash Help Book for more information and options included with the Scroll Bar.

The component comes with a built in Help Book with all the supported methods/properties and events explained and you can access the files via the Flash Help Panel. You will find the book under the name Flashtuning Scroll Bar or you can perform a search under the flashtuning or adjacent keyword and the documentation files will be automatically displayed.

(!) The free trial version of the Scroll Bar component used in the online trial samples available for download in the Downloads area has a limit of max 350 X 200 pixels visible area size and watermark attached, as a trial limitation. There are no restrictions on the full version.

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