Scrollbar in embedded SWF

Published by: jane 2009-01-09

We're embedding an SWF in another flash file that will be exported out as an EXE.. When the file is played just as the SWF, the scrollbars are fine... BUT when played from the flash EXE file, non of the scroll bars work properly! We are trying to scroll using the TEXT AREA COMPONENT that is pulling in XML.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

I see what you mean and that is very odd . . .

Thank u all for the help! We fixed it

instead of loading the 2nd SWF into a movie clip "loadMovie", we changed it to "loadMovieNum"... and everything seems to be working fine...

Thanks again

And you wonder why there's so many Flash noobs:D Sometimes flash can just be a pain in the a** for no reason:)

I see what you mean and that is very odd . . .

Mp3 Player with XML Playlist - SWF Spot - Flash and Actionscript ::
When I click and drag the scroll bar I again can't seem to get it to rest on the When i changed some colors and embedded it there where no effects.
http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/samples/flash8/Mp3_Player_with_XML_PlaylistHOME

post your code and describe the structure better.
When the file is played just as the SWF, the scrollbars are fine..
Do you mean your playing the mother clip? or the embedded clip by itself?
If it's the embedded clip, it's probably either a _root issue or a component embedding issue.

Yep, sounds like a path issue to me. :)

maybe you should post the FLA and code if possible

Edit: too slow:)

post your code or post your files - hard to tell what is going on from your description :)

lol, include me in that flash noob comment :P

Yep, sounds like a path issue to me. :)

We did have path issues and we had to change everything to _parent, but where's the path issue in the scroll component, cause our text is coming in fine, just not scrolling right... when you scroll it, it just selects all the text and wont let you scroll back up.

That's really odd. The first thing I did when I opened your file was remove the level0 you had in the loadMovie code so it simply loaded into the movieclip and it still had the same problem. Strange that simply loading into a level with loadMovieNum worked better?

ok...
Here's the FLA.. just a test.. try scrolling w/ the arrows...

Test2.SWF is the mother movie... it loads in test.SWF

csminteractive.com/sean/Test.zip (http://csminteractive.com/sean/Test.zip)

Thanks for the help