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When I make my movieclip selectable I lose the ability to scroll the textarea in the movie clip

Asked by dyarosh in ActionScript, Adobe Flash

I am new to Flash and AS3. I've created an application that displays a list of "abstracts" in a scroll pane. THe "abstracts" contain information that includes a name and description of the abstract. Each abstract within the scroll pane can also be scrolled if the text takes up more space than I've allocated. The abstracts are loaded from an XML file. The problem I have and can't figure out is this. If I don't make the movie clip that stores the abstract info selectable (ie. user can click on the abstract and it goes to another frame that displays more information on the abstract) then I can scroll the text that is within the abstract. If I do make the movie clip selectable, I no longer can scroll the text. The scroll bars appear but when I try and scroll, it acts as if the abstract was clicked and goes to the appropriate frame.

This is the last part of my project that I need to get working by the end of this week so any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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             Here are the technical details:
SCENE 1
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ScrollPane, Instance Name: aSp
MovieClip, Instance of abstractContainer, Instance Name: abstractContainer_mc
 
ActionScript
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import fl.containers.ScrollPane;
var mcMain:MovieClip;	// empty movie clip in library with linkage name "scrollMovieClip"
 
for (i=0; i<abstarctcount; i++)
{
mcMain = new AbstractDisplay;	// Get new instance of AbstractDisplay
mcMain.name = "a" + i;		// Set instance name
mcMain.x = 0;		// Set x position
mcMain.y = yPos;		// Set y position, height of AbstractDisplay is 130
yPos = yPos + 135;		// Set yPos height of AbstractDisplay
mcMain.buttonMode=true;                      // Make selectable
mcMain.mouseChildren=false;              // Make selectable
mcMain.audio_mc.visible = false;
mcMain.video_mc.visible = false;
mcMain.abstractText.text = aText;
mcMain.abstractText.textField.setTextFormat(tf);
 
mcMain.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, selectedAbstract);  // Make selectable
abstractContainer_mc.addChild(mcMain);
}
 
// Update the scroll pane
aSp.source = abstractContainer_mc;
aSp.update();
 
stop();
 
AbstractDisplay
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TextArea, Instance Name: abstractText, horizontalScrollPolicy=auto, verticalScrollPolicy=auto

           
         

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When I make my movieclip selectable I lose the ability to scroll the textarea in the movie clip

Asked by dyarosh in ActionScript, Adobe Flash

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