HORIZONTAL SCROLLING CONTENT

Weird about the scroller not showing up, there’s a preloader in the file!

Anyways, the code is quite simple, but this is just one of the smaller problems that we (flash designers) often spend way too much figuring out how to solve, so I thought it would be nice to have.

Actually it was supposed to open as a new window, so the resizing could be tested, but Flashden didn’t get that one But it works…don’t worry!

To Victor: The code to show content? There isn’t really any special code for that. This file creates a holder for the boxes, and then (in a “for” loop) 40 movieclips containing a black box are attached (attachMovie). It’s as simple as that, check the file to see it. You can use loadMovie to load images into the boxes if you wish (though I would prefer a moveicliploader for that, it gives you better control). In the case you mention in your last post, the loadMovie is inside the loop – meaning that the same image/images are loaded each time. Instead you could create an array with 40 images (for instance: myArray:Array = Array(“img1.jpg!, “img2.jpg”...) ) make sure to create the array outside the loop, so you can approach it from elsewhere. Then you can write this in the loop: – loadMovie(myArray[i], mc); - In your example above, you are loading 6 images into each box, and they overwrite each other. Just replace all the loadMovie’s with this is line.

Hope you can understand, otherwise take a look at how loops work.

Yes it works no matter what screen size it is. You can make the size of the thumbs(boxes) as you wish.

To add links to the button, take a look at the onRelease function and the getURL function. The xml parsing is a rather large thing, so I can’t “just” explain that here!

Inisde the loop creating the boxes, you just put a loadMovie(“myPicture.jpg”, target), that will load a picture – though to load different pictures I suggest you store the pictures in an array (try chekcing the Flash documentation about arrays).

Sorry but it’s not included in the file, and I haven’t got the oppertunity to edit the file at this moment, because it’s on another computer.

But basically you can store the name of your image files in an array like this:

var myPics:Array = new Array(“pic1.jpg”, “pic2.jpg”, “pic3.jpg”;

This is an example of how to load them in a loop (into a movieclip with the instance name of “box_1”, “box_2” etc:

for(var i:Number = 0; i < myPics.length; i++){ loadMovie(myPics[i], this[“box_” + i]; }

It is acttually pretty simple, if you don’t figure it out, just highlight Array in Flash and hit F1, the documentation explains it better than I do!

Yes, but it’s not in the code right now. You have to add some loadMovie etc.

The boxes are created in a loop – so to add images put a loadMovie in there.

Not sure what you mean with “Is scrolling not an option with this” ! Right now as I remember it creates the boxes (attachMovie) in a loop – so different sized images may require some adjustment in the code – the file is just meant as a help for scrolling horizontally in general.