album scroll bar

[crsinteractive]

I need to add a scroll bar to the albums …. we have 27 albums and it will only get larger… the scrolling goes way too fast for the people that will need to use the gallery. I was able to set the thumbnail scroll bar to true so that works fine… is it a similar way to set the album with a scroll bar?

[crsinteractive]

is there a way to put the albums into something more generic like a dropdown menu or simply list them as links?? anything is better because it would be usable and the album scroller is not ... also, i have made many people unhappy over here with the album scroller.

Please help

[crsinteractive]

i have figured out how to add a scroll bar to the albums ... please post here if you're interested in knowing...

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Hi crsinteractive, i'm interested in how do you put a scroll bar the albums.

Can you explain it?

Thank you

[crsinteractive]

kirupa.com - Simple Custom Scrollbar, Page 9 go to this 'movie clip scroller' tutorial and download the FLA toward the bottom of the page.

1. copy all the layers in that FLA's main stage.

2. Open up the gallery.fla file for the tab gallery & create an empty layer folder.

3. paste all the scroller FLA layers into the layer folder you created in gallery.fla

4. replace the movie clip that is in the content layer (it's being masked) with the TabSlider_mc.

5. We are not done yet but Test your movie. You should be able to scroll even though the album slider will still be sliding too...

6. if the scroller is working then we have to do edit the actionscript to remove the tab slider functionality... now the code lines may be off a bit because i've done a lot of customization to this file but never the less... open up TabSlider.as

7. around lines 117-122 find this code:

private function checkIfSlideNeeded() {
		allowSlide = false;
		if (totalHeight>h-2*margin) {
			allowSlide = false;
		}
	}

8. notice the two instances of allowSlide = flase; within the code above. your code wont have them both set to false so make sure your code DOES have them both set to false.

9. That is it! test the movie and it should work.

10. Just a side note - You may want to change the default background of the tabslider_mc as well... don't delete it or the tab slider wont work... just change the color to match whatever your main movie's background color is so that way nobody can tell it's even there.

Please do let me know if this works out for you or if you have any trouble.

[crsinteractive]

there is one other thing you should know...

take a look at this post about a similar but way better gallery than tab gallery: Similar but better gallery than tabgallery...