I'm creating flash image galleries for a local design firm's site. Their pages are long, vertically scrolling, with large image galleries spaced down the page (about 900x400px each). Each of these shows an initial image, and then has buttons above to select image 1-9, or pre/next image. The images will need to dissolve from one to the next.Because there are so many of these galleries, I want to put each in a folder, name all of the images Image1.jpg, Image2.jpg, etc. and include a txt file to tell my navigation button how many images are in the gallery (this part works).
OK, but I just can't get the thing going now. Here's how I've approached it:
Each Gallery image is a MC that has an alpha in/out animation, with a stop action in between that also swaps it to a certain level (just so I can identify it using getInstanceAtDepth when I need to fade it out).Image_1 is attached to an empty container on stage at the start. I want to define a function that will be called by my gallery buttons that will 1) tell the clip currently onstage to fade out (that works), 2) attach the appropriate clip to my container clip at a particular level (this does not).
Code:
_global.galleryFader = function(clickVar) {
// "clickVar" is returned when the gallery number buttons are pressed
I took the basic image gallery tutorial on this site and messed about with the code a bit so that the images move back and fourth rather than fading in and out. I'm sure there are better ways to do that than how I did, but it mostly works so I'm happy. My problem now is that I don't know how to make the center of the photos align to the center of the stage. I can of course allign the first one, so it starts aligned, but as soon as I start scrolling through images it aligns the left side of the image to the center of the stage,
I am adding flash galleries toon the Facilities and Gallery pages. On my mac I've tested the galleries using Firefox, Safari, and Opera and they are working perfectly as expected.However, there is no gallery, or error message on PC machines. I do not have a PC so I can't test it, but I've had a Vista and XP user both test the site and the galleries do not display at all.
I am using the fla's that were posted on [URL] regarding the image gallery where the box scales and resizes depending on what it loads(using XML) within it. The boxe's top left stays static which is the goal and the rest resizes according to what loads. Now inside the actionscript it has spacing of 10 which puts space around the bottom and right sides of the image that is loaded but does not put spacing on the left and top. I m trying to get the space so it is on the top and left also, basically so the image loaded is centered within the border. To clarify more simply I just want a even border around the images that it loads. Here is a link to the files being used: [URL] Also for some reason when I tried testing to download the .fla myself from the above link it loaded a page with a whole lot of characters.
I was working with the XML Photo Gallery Thumbnail Tutorial on this site: [URL] And I modified it for my own usage, making it a vertical gallery instead, and had no problems until I came upon the thumbnail images. When I replaced the original thumbs with my new thumbs (that I sized based on width, as it is a vertical gallery) it got all screwed up. The images are of all different shapes. So when it loads up, some of them had huge gaps in between them, and others were even overlapping. So I fixed it by making the heights of all the images the same, resulting in a working thumb gallery, but now half my thumbs are cropped off by the mask. I'm looking for a way to fix it where I still have the same spacing between the images, and that they are all the same width, but can vary in their height. Here's the section of the code I am using:
Ive made myself an xml gallery already, i just wanted to put a fade on the thumbnails and main images after they are fully loaded, so they appear gradually. thought it would be simple using the onLoadStart, onLoadProgress and onLoadComplete functions that are envoked by my movieClipLoader, but having soe problems with the images and thumbs disappearing a short time after fading. a link to what ive got so far is here, have a look and wait a while and youll see the thumbs, mains disappearing [URL] my code for the gallery is such (all contained in one frame, no buttons involved):
I'm trying to mix the simple photo gallery code with the xml gallery. i'm trying to get the images to fade in and out like the simple gallery, yet have all the features of the xml gallery. I'd like to do this without making two different movie clips/xml files, like the simple gallery. Again, any help would be terrific. I'll post the two codes.
simple gallery:
loadMovie(this.pathToPics+this.pArray[0], _root.photo); MovieClip.prototype.changePhoto = function(d) { // make sure pIndex falls within pArray.length this.pIndex = (this.pIndex+d)%this.pArray.length;
The images are loaded via XML and fadeIn in the order set in the XML file.At the moment a new image is required, it fades in. After the set time it gets deleted (setEndFlag) and the next image fades in.i guess i need to set a timer in order to fadeOut the "previous" image and fadeIn the "next" image. and after the "previous" image has run out of time it gets deleted.how could i include this in the script below? i really don't now how to do it anymore, since my as3 knowledge is not yet there where i'd like to be... and after hours trying to get my head around it i'm getting blind.[code]
I already created my photo gallery with : down thumbnails and up a display with the big picture appearing when I pass my mouse over the thumbnails. Till now the pictures are just appearing in the display with no effect . How can I make them appear fading in the main display. May'be see my fla for better idea.
I have a gallery that I built from a tutorial I found online--it has an empty mc with a border around it, and when you click on a thumbnail an image is loaded into the mc and it fades in when it loads in and out.Ofcourse it works fine offline, but when I test it online the image will load in off-center, if you click the thumbnail again (after it has loaded the first time) it loads in the position it should be in. Here is the code I have on the first frame:
Is it possible to call a function defined in a movie clip from a class?Here's a sample project setup I'm trying to achieve this simple feat:
func.fla - Has one movieclip "fooinst" which is library item "foo". - The "foo" library item has linkage is to the "Foo" class - The "foo" library item has one script on it's first frame:
I've made this photo gallery but I'd like to add some extra things but don't know how to do it. #1 - a preloader for the image loading, #2 - make the image to show gradually like fading in in the box.
i have an xml driven photogallery with thumbs and the slideshow starts automatically and is cross fading and it has a next/play/pause/for buttons. Everything is fine but i don't like the way the thumbs scroller operates, it's way to mechanical and i would love to add an easing effect to it. How do i do that? this is the code of the whole gallery:
I've been trying to put together a function that I can reference through various symbols in a movie to fade their alpha properties. So far all I've found is code that forces me to reference the specific symbol in the function, however I have to do this to a BUNCH of symbols over different periods within my timeline, part of which will be triggered by a loaded movie. Any function that will fade up or down that can sit on the _root. and be referenced by any symbol whenever needed?
I have been trying to execute functions in a sequential order, but I am totally stuck, and I dont know what else to do. I basically want different movie clips to be faded in and out, but one after the other... just like a movie intro with the name, stars etc.. text fading in, text fading out, etc etc... Maybe this is TOTALLY retarded what I am trying to do, but I didnt want to do the classic motion tween in the frames, cause thats just too tedious, and on the other hand I want to learn AS3.0. So here is the code, I am fading in the first movieclip, and displaying/delaying it with the timer function, so it sits on the screen for 4 seconds, until it fades out and stops. Problem is that both clips act the same, and I dont know how to delay //text 2 (clipTwo).
I'm trying to create a function that will help me fade in sounds with the help of setInterval. I'm almost there! Here is the code so far:
// Begin melodyhalf1 = new Sound("melodyhalf1_mc"); melodyhalf1.attachSound("melodyhalf1"); melodyhalf1.start(0, 99);
[Code]....
I placed a comment in the Sound.prototype.fadeIn to test if it was being called, as well as to see if the melodyhalf1 variable (object?) was being passed.
The results are that the fadeIn function *is* being called, but the trace(this) comes back with 'undefined'.
I'm trying to play 2 external flash movies. its already running ok but i need the scene to be somewhat to gradually become transparent so that the timebased scene2 will comeout to of the screen.
Here is the script of it:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader(); var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("scene2.swf"); myLoader.load(url); addChild(myLoader);
I can't work out why - but when I try to fade out some text (by calling fadeoutSecondText), the text fades out, and then immediately fades back in. Fading in and out struggle against each other, resulting in rapidly flashing text!
when i test the movie all i see is a large grey box (border color) with a medium white box (box color) in the bottom right.when i edit the border and lose the grey box but leave its line borders then i get the image with the white box in the bottom right. i've got an image: instance named 'image', a box: instance named 'box' and a border: instance named 'border' and pasted in the actionscript in
i've done the Fading Grid tutorial that Voetsjoeba wrote but i seem to be de-railing somewhere when i test the movie all i see is a large grey box (border color) with a medium white box (box color) in the bottom right.when i edit the border and lose the grey box but leave its line borders then i get the image with the white box in the bottom right. i've got an image: instance named 'image', a box: instance named 'box' and a border: instance named 'border' and pasted in the actionscript in place but it still hangs.
i bought this gallery online and it looks really cool but i am trying to add some more to it but is not easy.
1) i would like to add a next and prev function to the xml gallery, buttons that can advance the images just by clicking left or right with the mouse
2) I'd like to add a caption text that stay still(the one that is there moves on rollover action and is added to each thumbnails but i deleted them) and that will show the caption everytime i press a thumb, basically an info text box that communicate with the xml.
I want to add two buttons in as2 for a photo gallery. The funtions must be: go to next picture or go back. I've created my buttons "imageBack" and "imageNext".I'm not familiar with scripting and I need to create the script that does this operation.The current status of the gallery is this script that enables to go on the next image when i click on the image but i have no options to go back
HTML Code: over.onPress = function() { if (pic<total-1) {
i'm calling a php file, which is supposed to make an xml file. whenever i call the php file using this syntax, most of the time i get "cannot load file" in the xml loading section, but this updates the xml file.
[code] loadVariables("http://localhost/file.php",this,"POST");[/AS] but when i do it this way. [code] loadVariables("http://localhost/file.php",NONE,"POST");[/AS]
the "cannot load file" messge doesn't get displayed, and the file loads perfectly, but this doesn't update the xml file.
so everytime i have to first use "this" and then "none".
what can i do so that whenever php is called, it'll update the xml file, and still load in the swf.
i'm calling a php file, which is supposed to make an xml file. whenever i call the php file using this syntax, most of the time i get "cannot load file" in the xml loading section, but this updates the xml file.[code] loadVariables("http://localhost/file.php",this,"POST");[/AS]but when i do it this way.[code]loadVariables("http://localhost/file.php",NONE,"POST");[/AS]the "cannot load file" messge doesn't get displayed, and the file loads perfectly, but this doesn't update the xml file.so everytime i have to first use "this" and then "none".what am i doing wrong? what can i do so that whenever php is called, it'll update the xml file, and still load in the swf.
When I use the code below it works fine and loads the CSS-file and shows the the html-textarea as it should be CSS-formatted. BUT when I try to put the SAME code into a movieclip within another fla-movie it does not work (loads text but not css) and I get un "undefined" all the time. After trying a lot of different things I've come to the conclusion that it MIGHT have soemthing to do with the .onLoad that gets "undefined" in some way. As you can see below I'm getting two vars from input textfields and then use a button to activate the function loadCSS().
I was reading your tutorial on adding a thumbnail to an image gallery. Im trying to use your thumbnail_final.fla inside another movie and is not working for me. I made a movie, in Scene 1 of this movie i have an empty movie clip(DisplayArea) and a menu button(Gallery) so that when i hit the Gallery button it load the thumbnail)final movie into the empty movie clip DisplayArea. Everything work except for the thumbNailScroller function. It load all the thumbnails and you can click them and they load the matching big picture and all but the scrolling function is not working.
Like any of it's simple, but here's what I've got...I'm doing my loadVars, everything's going peachy, but now I want to swap the variable. I've got a bunch of vars in a text file, and here's how I'm doing it right now...
Code: on (release) { output1.text = myLoadVar.name2; }
Now, this works ok, but with as many vars as I'm planning for, I'd like something that I didn't have to make a ton of frames just to have it run.
Code: on (release) { output1.text = myLoadVar.(name('prevnum'+1)); }
Im making my first flash game so forgive me if there is anything with my actionscript or my explaining that is messed up.
This game is a 4 player (<--will be) tank game that fires bullets and stuff. so far its working just how i want it to apart from one thing... the duplication for the bullet. This snippet of the script is the bit that should make the bullet firing. if you look at these to bits of script "_root.depth += 1;", "duplicateMovieClip(_root.bullet, "bullet"+depth, depth);" to my understanding the "depth" should increase BUT it doesn't? does anyone know what is going on?
var u = clips.clip1.getDepth(); clips.clip1.duplicateMovieClip("clip1clone", u-1);
the problem is that clip1clone is not generated. I think it has to do something with path, I have to add somehow a path to clip1clone? I tried 0 instead of u-1 but it didnt work so I guess the problem is with path?
