Hasan Otuome

Hasan Otuome is Chief Architect for Marx Media (http://www.marxmedia.net) where he can usually be found developing Rich Internet Applications for the company's clients. He champions creative uses and combinations of Flash, PHP, AJAX and MySQL, among others, for their benefits in user experience improvement.

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In case you didn't know there have been a lot of improvements made with Flash 8. Some are well documented while others are not. This tutorial deals with one of the lesser known gems in Flash 8 - scrollRect. scrollRect is a property of the MovieClip Object and, as we'll see, it allows us to quickly scroll movie clip content without having to use all of the techniques we had to use prior to Flash 8. This is what we'll be creating: