Thanks a lot. You get here through viewing/using the Icon Creator? Seems I'm getting all sorts of attention recently...

Thanks! If you start with my other tutorial, you may find it easier to grasp some of the code and concepts presented in this one. Anyway... good luck in any of your Flash endeavors.

I'm actually going to be coming out with an AS3 re-hash of this tutorial plus the things you're asking about and more. The scrolling is actually a really easy one though. You simply make the background graphic into its own movie clip, give it an instance name, and tell it to move in the opposite direction the character clip moves. Then you just encase that movement in an if condition that controls when it stops moving as the character approaches the edge of the level on either side.

The coding scheme/object/class setup is, regretably, not compatible with AS3. The project will work in Flash CS3, as long as you create it as an AS 2 document.

Any of the code-boxes that you click to open during the tutorial should be copy and paste-able. You DO have to click and drag to highlight all of the text in those boxes... or I think pressing the [Control] + [A] key combination will also select-all in the text box. Then just use [Control]+[C] to copy, and paste into your text-editor of choice... or directly into Flash.