[Deansatch]

I have a playlist that is generated in a dyamic textarea using a for loop. How can I make a scroll bar appear when there are so many items in the playlist that they go off the bottom of the stage?

[Deansatch]

*BUMP*

I can post code if needed!

[blinn_shade]

sure lets see it.

[Deansatch]

Hopefully this is enough of the code for the part in question:

//Load Playlist
 
 
var wrapper:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("wrapper", this.getNextHighestDepth());
 
 
wrapper._y =120;
wrapper._x = 220;
 
//load playlist
var xml2:XML = new XML();
xml2.ignoreWhite = true;
xml2.onLoad = function()
 
{
    var nodes:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(var i = 0; i <nodes.length;i++) 
{
   var playListEntry:MovieClip = wrapper.attachMovie("playListEntry", "playListEntry" + i, i);
   playListEntry._y = (playListEntry._height * i) + 10; 
   playListEntry._x = 0;
   listen = "Track "+ (i+1)+": " +(nodes&#91;i].attributes.artist + " - " + nodes[i].attributes.track);
   playListEntry.playList.text = listen;
   playListEntry.trackinfo = "Now Playing: " +nodes&#91;i].attributes.artist + " - " + nodes[i].attributes.track;
   playListEntry.listen2 = "Track "+ (i+1)+": " +nodes&#91;i].attributes.artist + " - " + nodes[i].attributes.track;
   playListEntry.gotoAndStop("plist");
   playListEntry.songToPlay = nodes&#91;i].attributes.url;
   s.loadSound(nodes&#91;0].attributes.url, false)
 playListEntry.onRollOver = function() 
   {
      this.gotoAndStop("plistOver");
        this.playList.text = this.listen2;
    }  
    playListEntry.onRollOut = function() 
   {
       this.gotoAndStop("plist");
        this.playList.text = this.listen2;
   }
    playListEntry.onRelease = function() 
   {
       s = new Sound();
    
    s.setVolume(75);
    s.loadSound(this.songToPlay, true)
       trackInfo.text = this.trackinfo;
 
    mute.gotoAndStop("on");
       playPause.gotoAndStop("pause");
       next.gotoAndStop("next");
    }
   
  //Next Button
 
 
 
}
}
 
//Load xml document
xml2.load(songurl); 

[blinn_shade]

How many items can reach till the bottom?

[Deansatch]

at the moment about 5. But it just depends on how big I set my text area and stage in the fla file.

[blinn_shade]

You could try using the setproperties and make it invisible if there is 5 or less items.

[Deansatch]

would that create a scroll bar or would it just make tracks 6 and onwards totally inaccessible?

[blinn_shade]

It will not display the scrollbar if there i only 5 items, it will display the scrollbar if there is 6 or more items.

[Deansatch]

ok. As I am a total beginner in flash, could you help me out on how to add this to my code. Do I add it to my actionscript file? How do I determine how many entries there area?

I assumed t would be something like this:

Code:

 if (i > 5) {
setProperty("playListEntry", _visible, 0);
}

But I don't know exactly where to put it and it is probably totally wrong.