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466 Chapter 6: Components Dictionary

Description

Property; scrolls the list horizontally to the number of pixels specified. You can’t set hPosition

unless the value of

hScrollPolicy is "on" and the list has a maxHPosition that is greater than 0.

Example

The following example gets the horizontal scroll position of myList:

var scrollPos = myList.hPosition;

The following example sets the horizontal scroll position all the way to the left:

myList.hPosition = 0;

List.hScrollPolicy

Availability

Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).

Edition

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

listInstance.hScrollPolicy

Description

Property; a string that determines whether the horizontal scroll bar is displayed; the value can be

"on" or "off". The default value is "off". The horizontal scroll bar does not measure text; you

must set a maximum horizontal scroll position (see

List.maxHPosition).

Note: List.hScrollPolicy does not support the value "auto".

Example

The following code enables the list to scroll horizontally up to 200 pixels:

myList.hScrollPolicy = "on";

myList.Box.maxHPosition = 200;