Has anyone made a scroll bar for a dynamic amount of content?

[mwiley43]

I have a scroll bar in place using actionscript. The layer being masked contains a movieclip which loads up a dynamic amount of content. The problem is the movie clip generating the dynamic content, is being read as having a height of 0 in my scroll bar function, which is causing it not to scroll at all. Does anyone have any idea why?

[Paul Ferrie]

Your probably setting the scroll height before your content is loaded into the holder.

[mwiley43]

Originally Posted by Paul Ferrie

Your probably setting the scroll height before your content is loaded into the holder.

I have a function that controls the enitre scroller, loads up the variables and everything. Inside of the function it looks up the _height of the movie clip. The function is called after the dynamic content is created. In theory that height should be the height of the dynamic content. However, it is as if that line of code is ran before the function is called, like the script runs all built in commands before dynamic content is created when the movie is compiled. Is there any way around this? Should I use a onEnterFrame call?

[atomic]

Post your .fla?

[mwiley43]

Here it is.

[atomic]

In your first post you reported that the scrollbar wasn't scrolling...

The scrollar works fine for me in the attached .fla, so what's the problem?

[Paul Ferrie]

Originally Posted by Paul Ferrie

Your probably setting the scroll height before your content is loaded into the holder.

Either will work fine though if using onenterFrame mind and delete it after the content has loaded/been set.