if you are using flash cs then use scrollPane component. Create your movieclip and export it for actionscript using properties in library. Use its export class name as source for scrollPane. This movieclip can contain anything interactive , buttons, other movieclips , animations etc. Scrollpane will create the scrollbars if the movieclip exceeds the size of scrollPane.Delete the movieclip from stage since the scrollPane will pick it from library.

in flex using rawchildren property to add movieclip to any container will not show scrollbar. The hack could be that you can add another flex container inside main container of the same size equal to movieclip and change the x,y position of movieclip by capturing the horizontalscrollbar and verticalscrollbar events of main container.

I'm using Flash CS3 Professional. I don't have Flex, I don't think. Can I do the scrollbar if I am using ActionScript 2.0? I can't get it working. If I switch to 3.0, I can't use behaviours which I have used for the navigation links (I don't like writing scripts much).

Thanks.

Hi david you can use the scrollpane component Flash cs3 with actionscript 2.0 . There is no actionscript involved in this. To ScrollPane go to menu Window ---> components and Component inspector. From components drag the ScrollPane component to stage. Now select ScrollPane and in the "Component Inspector" Window there is an option for content path. Here you need to enter the Identifier of the Movieclip which you wan to show as scrollable content. Your Movieclip will contain all the content (text, buttons, Graphics etc).
To give identifier right click on the movieclip in library select properties and In the properties window enter name in Identifier field.
The size of ScrollPane can be changed. The ScrollPane will show scrollbar if the area of movieclip exceeds the size of ScrollPane component.