Comments on: Free AS3 Scrollbar: Fullscreen and Resizable

By: julifos

julifos — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:42:29 +0000

Nice looking.

If you click the scrollbar then release outside of the movieclip, it’s still active the next time the mc gets mouse focus.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:39:41 +0000

This was perfect for the prototype that I’m putting together.

The one thing that I had to adjust though was that when you kill the scroll bar, the enterframe event listener doesn’t get removed, causing the original scrollbar not to be garbage collected and moving the content around in non-ideal ways. Once that was added, it fixed my problem.

I added soem other removeEventListener calls too to be sure…

stage.removeEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, stopScroll);
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL, mouseWheelListener);
stage.removeEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onStageResize);
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onUpListener);
_grabber.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollContent);

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:24:13 +0000

Hi Jay,

This is great work! Just what I was looking for. I’ve managed to implement your scrollbar and it sort of works fine.. It’s just that if I change the stage alignment from top left to top (for the purpose of centring the site) is screws with the positioning of the scrollbar.

While I have a basic understanding of AS3, I’m just not sure or seeing what it is that I would need to do to correct this. Would you, or anyone still checking the comments be able to suggest a fix?

Many thanks,

Dan

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:19:05 +0000

Hey, I’m an AS3 newbie but love your scroll bar. I’ve seen some of your basic implementation comments but I’m still struggling. Any chance of a step by step to implement it?

By: Ismail Cherri

Ismail Cherri — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:06:10 +0000

If you are using this class with Gaia, this should make it work if you are using the SiteView as container!

In the indexPage.as find the following line, it should be in the initScrollBar() function:

Code:
//Adding scrollbar at the top
//Gaia.api.getDepthContainer(Gaia.PRELOADER).addChild(_sb);

and replace it with:

Code:
//Adding scrollbar at the top
stage.addChild(_sb);

This should separate the ScrollBar from the SiteView without messing with the depth of different Gaia containers.
I hope this works for you…

By: thedark_master

thedark_master — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:17:20 +0000

great code! However, I wanted to take it a step further. What would be the best way to make it resize according to a movie clip? So basically I have a full flash website and somewhere in there I will have a set size movieclip that will contain the text.

By: michalis

michalis — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:05 +0000

how do i get this to work, do i need to import the swf or fla to the project i am working on? please guys i need some help, i am very new to flash, but i like what i see

thanks

By: kl1m4xx

kl1m4xx — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:32 +0000

THATS NOT FREE!!!!!!!!

By: Ajayi Oluwaseun Emmanuel

Ajayi Oluwaseun Emmanuel — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:16:05 +0000

@zack, u must import the full path of use the wildcard in the folder where the classes actually reside.

why cant i get this to work with my project?

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:34:57 +0000

I’m not sure why this isn’t working for me, I dropped the classes folder into the same folder that my FLA file is in.

I imported the classes folder with:
import classes.*

I’m calling it as:
var _scrollBar = new FullScreenScrollBar(portfolioPieces, 0×222222, 0xff4400, 0x05b59a, 0xffffff, 15, 15, 4, true)
addChild(_scrollBar)

I keep getting an error message that say “Call to a possibly undefined method FullScreenScrollBar.”

What am I missing?