actionscript failing in my scrollbar

[jamiebettles]

Hello. I'm making a very small and simple flash website and have made a scrollbar which works almost perfectly. When manually selecting the 'scrollbox' and moving it up and down it stops exactly at the top and bottom of the scrolltrack. the 'up' arrow also works perfectly but when pressing the 'down' arrow the scrollbox always over-shoots the end of the scrolltrack. Here is the link to what I've made so far so anyone can see for themself:

http://www.pitzundpartner.de/flash/kubiq.html

There is a lot of actionscript involved both in the main stage and in each component of the scrollbar so for now i wont post all the script. If it's impossible to work out whats going wrong without seeing the actionscript then please let me know and i'll go ahead and post it. Thanks very much to anyone who can be of assistance.

Jamie

 

[oldnewbie]

Something in your code yes... Most probably the height of the scrollthumb you forgot to retreive from the stopping point...

Post your code (copy & paste), better post a link to your .fla!

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[jamiebettles]

ok, here's the script from scene one which regulates the stopping points of the scrollbox...

ms = textbox.Message.maxscroll;
scale = scrollheight/ms;
if (ms>1) {
if (!dragpress) {
textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._yscale = 2000/textbox.Message.maxscroll;
textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = -(scrollheight/2)+((textbox.Message.scroll-1)*scale);
if (!textbox.scrollbar._visible) {
textbox.scrollbar._visible = true;
}
textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = boxypos
} else if (textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y<-(scrollheight/2)+1 and move<0) {
move = 0;
textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = -(scrollheight/2);
} else if (textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._height>(scrollheight/2)-1 and move>0) {
move = 0;
textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = scrollheight/2;
} else {
scrollfix = textbox.Message.scroll = ((textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+(scrollheight/2))/scale)+1;
boxypos = textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y = textbox.scrollbar.scrollbox._y+(move*scale);
}

}

And here is the script from the bottom arrow that is misbehaving...

on (press) {
if (_parent._parent.textbox.Message.scroll<_parent._parent.textbox.Message.maxscroll) {
_parent._parent.dragpress = 1;
_parent._parent.move = 1;
}
if (_parent._parent.textbox.Message.maxscroll) {
_parent._parent.move = 0;
}
}
on (release) {
_parent._parent.dragpress = 0;
_parent._parent.move = 0;
}
I'll get onto posting the .fla thanks jamie

 

[jamiebettles]

http://www.pitzundpartner.de/flash/kubiq.fla.zip

 

[oldnewbie]

Ummmmmh. File not found on your link?

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[jamiebettles]

Sorry, i'm a complete arse. correct link:

http://www.pitzundpartner.de/flash/kubiq_test.fla.zip

thanks a lot for persevering

jamie

 

[oldnewbie]

Yeah, that worked... But pretty buzy this afternoon... Will look into it later... If no one else replies first.


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[jamiebettles]

Hi,

thanks, whenever you get some free time, that would be great. Here is a link to a file with just the scrolling section of the website, it may be much easier to work with:

http://www.pitzundpartner.de/flash/scroll.fla.zip

thank you

jamie