Scrollpane border not in scene but re-appears in movie

[cyclegeek]

I have the usual kind of scrollpane problem - getting rid of the border.

Oldnewbie had a good tip to use the following in the actionscript for the scrollpane movieclip instance:

_level0.scrollpaneinstance.boundingBox_mc._visible = false;

I've also tested this:

myColor = new Color(_level0.OrgChart.boundingBox_mc);
myColor.setRGB(0xFFFFFF);

and this (which I couldn't get to work at all):

this.setStyleProperty("border", false);

The first two solutions work when testing just the scene that the scrollpane belongs to. But when the whole movie gets tested, the border reappears.

A couple questions I keep asking myself are, is the code in the wrong place? do I have the wrong syntax for setStyleProperty border property?

I've read some articles on 're-skinning' components but I'm still very new to Flash so that sort of thing is still scary.

Cheers and thanks,
cyclegeek

 

[pixl8r]

Just to make sure... Is the scollpane actually on _level0 in your full movie?

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[cyclegeek]

From the debugger window I see the following path:

_level0.SECTION_ORGANIZATIONAL_CHART.OrgChartMC.boundingBox_MC.boundingBox

It looks like there's only one level for the whole movie.

OrgChartMC is the name for the scrollpane instance.

 

[pixl8r]

_level0.instanceOfScrollPane.setStyle("borderStyle","none");

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[cyclegeek]

Yeah, for some reason that particular line of code doesn't even remove the border when testing only the scene. I wonder if .setStyle is MX2004 syntax and .setStyleProperty is just MX.

Anyhoo - I think I came up with a temporary, albeit much less elegant solution - I opened up the scrollpane component and futzed with a class that controls the dimensions, adding in a line that sets the _visible property to false. I don't like it, because it's like shutting off the water main to fix a leaky faucet, but it gives me some breathing room to look for a better solution.

Thanks for the feedback and let me know if you have any other ideas.

Cheers,
cyclegeek

 

[pixl8r]

I'm using MX 2004 Pro. That method above works like a charm for the v2 scrollpane component. Unfortunately I don't have an install of MX here at work so I can't check it out.

Bummer...

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!