How to freeze background

If you are using button symbols, you can disable the buttons with the
enabled property when you load the external cast movie.
myButton_btn.enabled = false

If you are using movieclip buttons, the you delete the event handlers when
you load the external case movie.
delete onMouseOver

Another approach is to use frame 1 for your loader buttons and move to frame
2 for loading the external movie. Then back to frame 1 when the view is
needed.

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"JakeSee" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Expert,
>
> How to freeze background
>
> i have a single frame swf (1000x500) with buttons all over. clicking on
> the
> buttons will loadMovie into a movieclip same size as stage (1000x500).
> Apparently, the oringal swf is still active and will still react to mouse
> overs
> and presses. How can i freeze the background so that mouse events are
> ignore in
> the background and focus is only on the forground movieclip?
>
>
> How to scroll a movie clip or content with picture and text
>
> I searched high and low, but looks like my search terms are all in the
> wrong
> direction. I couldn't find any tutorial that teachs that. for one, i'm
> using
> version 7.2.
>
> Basically i want to feature a "cast and crew page" that will be loaded
> into
> the Movieclip as described above. now, i've got to be able to scroll the
> pictures of the cast and crew and their description. Flash help only
> teaches
> scrolling for dynamic text. The rest i don't understand.. can someone
> please
> help?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Jake
>

to freeze button:
makesure they're in a wrapper mc (maybe buttonHolder)
then you can:

for (var n in buttonHolder){
if(typeof(buttonHolder)=="movieclip"){
buttonHolder).enabled=false
}
}

>How to scroll a movie clip or content with picture and text

take a look at the scrollbar component for other