Custom Scroll Bars

[Curt]

When creating text areas in flash I have been using the built in scroll bar feature that Macromedia Flash has. However this is always grey with a green highlight and I would prefer to use something more custom. How can I create three seperate images for the up arrow, scroll bar and down arrow which will operate the text area?

Thanks,
Curt.

[coops]

well mate,
i'm no flash expert,
but to do this,
i would make the images in photoshop,
and save them as a PNG file.

open them up into flash,
and then convert them to buttons..
which on rollover or on release they either activate a tween,
or use actionscript to move the text area up or down.

hope this helps?

[skemer]

just make two button instances. Give one an instance name of scrollUp and the other on a instance name of scrollDown and give your textarea the instance name of news_txt



this.scrollDown.onPress = function() {
scrollDirection = "down";
scrollText();
};
this.scrollUp.onPress = function() {
scrollDirection = "up";
scrollText();
};
this.scrollUp.onRelease = function() {
delete _root.onEnterFrame;
};
this.scrollDown.onRelease = function() {
delete _root.onEnterFrame;
};
function scrollText() {
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (scrollDirection == "up") {
news_txt.scroll -= 1;
} else if (scrollDirection == "down") {
news_txt.scroll += 1;
}
};
}

[coops]

yeah or do it the expert's way...
lmao.
just ignore what i said haha!

[Curt]

Matt sent me this tutorial which I find quite helpful:

www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Smooth-Scrollbar/7844

Thanks for your help anyway guys