Flash Website help

[AIDS]

Ok so I recently started learning flash and I have been working on building a site in CS5 but I have run into a problem that I can't seem to solve.

My site is currently 1000 X 1200 pixels but when I open it up I only see part of the image with no scroll bar.
http://www.villeventuresfilms.com/phastraq/
Even when I preview the site in flash I get the same issue.

This has been driving me crazy for the past couple of days and I am unable to find a solution anywhere online. I was hoping some one of you web gurus can tell me where I'm going wrong.

I want to finish off the site but I am wondering if I may have to rebuild it from scratch to solve this issue.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[UltimateGamer]

I'm not seeing what you're talking about, it seems to be working fine? Can you post a screenshot of the problem?

[AIDS]

The problem is that there is a footer and additional controls on the page that are not visible but there are no scrollbars to allow you to view lower down the page.

It's as though the browser assumes that all the content is within the visible area already.
Even if I reduce the size of my browser window I still don't get scrollbars.

I assumed this is something that should happen automatically as a function of the OS but everything else works fine in my browser and only my page acts in this manner.

In the first pic attached you will see the scrollbar on the right that I'm talking about. Nothing is wrong with my browser and I have tested it on multiple machines.

The second pic shows my full page as I designed it in flash. Notice the footer bar.

The last pic shows what is visible in the browser window but I don't get a scrollbar to view the rest of the page.

I hope that makes more sense.

[UltimateGamer]

Flash doesn't usually allow scrollbars. Usually what is done is you set the flash to resize with the browser.

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<param value="noborder" name="scale">

 Now if your footer is not showing up (I'm guessing under the footer navigation - Films, Music etc) perhaps it may be a layering issue? You need to go through a standard debugging method. Start turning things off until what you are looking for becomes found. Then turn it on 1 by 1 until it disappears to identify the problem. Before you know it you'll be up and running.

**Edit*** give me 1 minute here let me show you something

Edit 2:

Is this how its supposed to be showing?

[AIDS]

No that is still only a little over the 50% 0f the page.

The footer is the grey bar way at the bottom. I had more content to go underneath the second navigation bar but if flash just doesn't allow scrolling I'll have to redesign or find another way to build the site.


Thanks for the assistance and quick response.

[Czar]

Well, it may or may not be ideal, but you could use the CSS overflow property:

#flashContent { width:100%; height:100%; overflow:scroll; }

[AIDS]

Ok after a little bit of searching I found a tutorial to make my own scrollbar in flash.

It means I may have to do a little redesign on the page but to the end user the only difference will be the scrollbar.

Thanks you all for your support on this.

[Czar]

Seems a bit much to do. Don't like the result from the overflow property?

The reason I would shy away from putting scrollbars in Flash is that it looks awkward to have scrollbars that don't belong to the browser, if you know what I mean, particularly since they're meant to do the same job as the browser's scrollbars.

Attached my edited version of your page - puts on the scrollbars for me in IE8, Chrome and Firefox.

[AIDS]

Hey thanks a mil Czar.

You sir just saved me a bit of work and for that I am eternally grateful.

YOU ROCK!!!!!!!

[Czar]

No sweat, I enjoy getting back into a bit of development from time to time, particularly in figuring out little quirks like this.