Problem with controlling movieclip from _root level.

January 6th, 2009

I have created a flash animation as follows:

- "ButtonsClip" (movie clip) with thumbnails as buttons.
- "ScrollClip" (movie clip) containing "ButtonsClip" as an animated tween moving right to left, with a mask to reveal 3 buttons at a time.

On main stage i placed "ScrollClip". I also have a symbol with instance "container", when you click on a button it loads that .swf file into the container area.

This seems to work so far. But what i also want to do is to stop the scroll moving when you rollover that area and then continue scrolling when you rollout. I tried doing onRollOver and stop(); on the mask area in "ScrollClip" but the problem is that it then seems to stop the animation as well as the ability to click the button and launch the .swf file into the container...

help please!

Here you go!

scotty(-:

What's your code for the scrolling or even better can you post your fla?

scotty(-:

thanks for the advice scotty! i tried googling some stuff about hitTest() as i havent used this before... but i couldnt find anything that applied to this situation... is it possible for you to explain a little further about how i would do it using hitTest? how do you use hitTest to tell whether the mouse rollsover the area and then tell when it rolls out?

Okay... i have attached a mock up of the structure of my flash and all contained actionscript... cheers dude.

Okay i tried the following code and could get it to stop and yes i could still click the buttons...

my only problem is i cant seem to figure out how to get it scrolling again when i move my mouse out of the movie clip...?

one other question - instead of it grinding to a hault, could i make it slow down to a stop?

code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
stop();
}
}

If you want a continuous scroll, you have to make the menu like in the infinite menu: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/infinite.htm
Just letting you know.

scotty(-:

If your thumbnails are inside ScrollClip and you use onrollover/onrollout actions on ScrollClip, the button actions on the thumbnails stop working.
Instead of the rollover/rollout actions on ScrollClip use hitTest(), this will keep your thumbnails working.

scotty(-:

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