The NpScrollingPanel is a ActionScript 3 Implementation of a scrolling panel. Pretty common place stuff. The NpScrollingPanel Class is designed to create a scrolling pane of content. The Class itself does not handle any loading in of content. You must provide the class with DisplayObjects for it to scroll. I wanted it to be completely content agnostic. The Class uses a mask rather than using a scrollRect. I messed around with scrollRects and found that using them with content that changes dim
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