I've seen this tutorial in the Actionscript Forum and it's nice : ) Unlike before, I always use the component scroller that came with Flash MX. Now i'm really learning.I also come across numerous flash web sites in the past few weeks. They also have fetures like news, blog and etc. with customized scroller but their scroller scrolls with an ease? You know, it scrolls smoothly like it's sliding
View 4 RepliesHas anyone got any alternatives to what Colin Moock has coded to GET VISIBLE WIDTH/HEIGHT OF A DISPLAY OBJECT in ActionScript 3? That esp. in perspective of DisplayObjects that have 3D transforms applied and visible dimensions of which you need to consider for a calculation.
View 2 Repliesmy problem is that if you go over the menu text above my scroller it controls the scroller. I wan this areas movement to have no effect on the scroller below. is there a way to script my scroller to set it to this?
View 1 RepliesI would like to position relatively a scroller in my application like below.When I scale the image, I resize the scroller...
<s:Scroller width="50%" height="50%" >
<s:Group>
<mx:Image
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eading through Colin Moocks ASDG v2 come across a preloader which is
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stop();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("loader",1);
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So Colin Moock (author of a bunch of well-known AS books, among other things) posted a long comment on one of Brendan Eich's (original author of JS) blog posts, and then Brendan responded.In short, Colin questions why Harmony (the nebulous "next" version of JS) probably isn't going to support a lot of the things that were originally in ES4 and that are in AS3, like optional strict typing and classes. Brendan responds with his reasons.It's a good read, and probably of interest to many of the people who made the AS1 -> AS2 -> AS3 transition, or people who write code in both AS and JS and like to argue for one direction or the other.
View 1 RepliesI know there are a ton of AS masters around, and am wondering if you ever used this book, did it help?I can't wait until I get it... my AS up until now has been half assed and improper.
View 8 RepliesI have a text box that i want people to enter a location into, and then when you press submit, a link takes you to [url]...
is this an easy script to do in actionscript 2.0?
Since I began this project I have changed how I work and opted to create all text from here on out via actionScript.Since making the decision, however, I have to deal with text that has already been implemented. I am trying to reference a text field that has been statically created and cant quite figure it out unless I convert it to a MC symbol. Is there a way to access one of these fields through my actionScript much like I would if I were doing it striclty in code .. much like:
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var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
Where I could then access and assign properties... eg:
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I'm using the dynamic text scroller from [URL] found at [URL] Here's a link to my zipped files too... [URL]
1) I can't figure out how to have URL links in the text that loads.
2) How can I make the scroller refresh to allow for new text in the dynamic text area. The content changes alright, but the scroller stays in the same position and if it wasn't needed initially, the scroller disappears and doesn't return on new text.
I want to make a Flash app that will scroll text whilst music plays. The music part is easy, but scrolling the text...I've tried simply importing ALL of the text, resizing, and scrolling that one giant object upwards, but when the screen was full of text it began to slow down. I need the speed uniform to sync it with the music in the background.
I could have a 70,000,000,000 frame movie and move each element individually, avoiding the heavy load, but the amount of work on my end this would require would be so astronomical that it just wouldn't be worth it. Ideally I want something like a component that I can dump text into and have it deal with making the scroll speed uniform.
It would also be a major plus point if it could be used/created by another program, so that someone without Adobe Flash could produce a similiar kind of movie simply by putting in their text and MP3 file and hitting a "Generate" button.
I want to start basic. Are there any tutorials or samples where I can make a simple flash website with 1 pic and 1 text content in there and be able to change it like in a CMS system using whatever methods are best php, xml, asp. Maybe using PHP or whatever is the standard for Flash CMS at the moment. How to make a simple content management Flash site starting from there. Where an admin logs in and then change the content for the pic and the text.
View 3 RepliesI dowloaded and played with the following scroller on this site... [URL] I see where the text is under Actions but I'm wondering if I can input hyperlinks and email links as well or will I only be able to use this with plain text. If formatting and links are allowed, how can I input the text to show as a link. Sorry, I don't know much about flash and just trying to make a simple text box with scrolling capability that will allow hyperlinks, bold, etc...
View 3 RepliesCreating 3 dynamic text fields (caption, caption1 and caption2) on stage loading from XML. First set of data loads fine into respectable fields from XML, however buttons are not changing data on click. Working in Flash 8 using standard XML format. I have traced succesfully. All fields are on main frame (simple test page), but I am still not getting a response from my handlers on prev and next buttons.
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I'm populating a dynamic text field using instance_mc.textField_txt.htmlText = "some string of text";Can this method of populating a text field be styled with CSS? or do you have to use an external text file?One thing I have tried is using basic html tags <br> tags in the string and this works, and so does <b> bold is there away of just specifying in the string a different font size and colour?I've tried writing an inline css style and this didn't seem to work.My text field is not created with as, but the movie clip in which the text field resides is added from the library in a function.say for example i have "Ricky55<br>Some Street"; is it possible to make Ricky55 in a larger font that some street?
View 3 RepliesI'm workin' on a cool project for school. I'm loading up some text from an external XML doc, and bringing it in to a flash textField.
It's working great, but I want to do a little formatting, first off, apply a bold tag or a bold font to some headings.
Here's the .text field as I have it now:
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motorcycleInfo.text = "Make: " + bikeMaker[evt.target.selectedIndex] + "
" + "MSRP: " + bikeCost[evt.target.selectedIndex] + "
" + "Ride Category: " + bikeCategory[evt.target.selectedIndex] + "
" + "Engine Size:
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(ps I finally figured out how to wire up my mp3's so they play, and pause, I just haven't loaded that swf up to my server... so if you press the music buttons and they don't play, that's the reason.)
I am trying to build a vertical slide scroller based on a tutorial for a horizontal slide scroller and am having difficulties undertanding what values I need to change in the code for the slider mc in order to make it work. The horizontal slider is quite smart [code]
View 3 Replieshave a cool vertical scroller that I did try to convert to horizontal, but I could not make it work.
//code by Billy T
//set a variable
targY=0;
//set the x position of the dragger
dragger._x = 370;
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change vertical scroller to horizontal scroller?
View 2 RepliesI want to copy 4 separate columns of text from one application into flash and be able to scroll the columns up and down. I never used flash so I'm lost and don't have a clue where to start. I'm using Flash CS5.
View 1 Repliesi'm looking for a text scrolling script with ease.is this possible with the scroll function?does it creates problems when you want it to you for sharp rendered texts?
View 3 RepliesI am having the worst time creating a text scroller with CSS. I just wanted a simple text scroller for my site for the news. I noticed that when I use the Font FFF Harmony it does not show up in MAC only on PC.
View 1 RepliesI've created a horizontal dynamic text scroller (like latest news ones found on some websites) in flash 8 with as2, and this swf file reads data from a .txt file. the problem is that when change the txt in the file, it doesnt show in my browser until i clear its cache. But if a client doesnt clear cache he will get the old text...I would like to know how to prevent the browser from caching that swf content, any code or script will be most welcomed. I've tried to add <meta> tags in my html but of no use.
my embed code is like this:
<embed width="980" height="34" align="left" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
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I would like to use it as a horizontal scroller for an image gallery. Just to clarify a horizontal dragger and a horizontal stage motion for image viewing.
fscommand("allowscale", "false");
bar.useHandCursor = dragger.useHandCursor=false;
space = 20;
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I can find tons of articles/tutorials on custom scrollers but none of them actually replace the browser scroller. If the browser is made smaller the custom scroller and the browser scroller are there. [URL]...
View 1 Repliesthis post references the files listed at:i've implemented a dynamic text box that calls a txt file into it. it uses a scroller that i found a tutorial on:i've got everything working splendidly - everything EXCEPT the scrolling bar... as you can see, it scrolls up and down just fine, but doesn't control the text.i've pretty much exhausted my search through the actionscript to locate the problem and i can't find it.
View 1 RepliesI found a simple and effective text scroller in your tutorial archive by Billy T -[URL] The internal as was just what I was after except I would like the dragger bar to be on the left instead of the right. I've changed x's to y's and added co ords for left positioning but I've had no response. I feel there could be a very simple answer to this one.
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Is it possible to load videos in a scroller ( just like text scroller) and when the play button is clicked it starts playing( say there are 10 videos and I have to put them in two columns and in five row).
View 2 Repliesi am wondering how to make a text scroll with JUST the slider..no arrows?!?! also once done with that i want to add pictures/icons/links on the inside of this text scroll (in place of the text)....does anyone know how to do EITHER ONE!
View 10 RepliesIs there a way to display hyperlinks in a text scroller in which the text is dynamically loaded using variables? I'm talking about the basic text scroller
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