I came across this interactive timeline from HP... [URL] Does anybody know of any tutorials on how they are able to expand each content box in the timeline? When you click on each box, it expands from it's location and fills the screen. Once you close the box, it shrinks back to it's original location.
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I am creating a site in flash that is reading in entries from a database. I want the swf to expand downward on the html page so the user can use the browser scroll bars to see all the content. I don't want to paginate everything into a 800 px high swf or something - I want the page to expand just like it would if it were html
View 1 Repliesi have been using AS2.0 for quite a long time. And i started using papervision3D too.I am using tutorial made by Lee Brimelow's cube tutorial. but i want different results. So long i am able to move the cube in one direction and that is my requirement. But in his tutorial he as link to urls. what i want is to expand one face of the cube which is clicked to expand to fit in the screen.(i am also using fullscreen and stage resize).
View 1 RepliesI have tiled map made of dots. Each dot is interactive.In order to facilitate smooth scrolling over the map I want to be able to mask it as you would a regular image, then drag the masking window to reveal new areas.
The problem I have is that the mask only hides whether you can SEE the underlying map. So, when the cursor is outside 'visible' map area it's still interacting with the hidden portion of the map.
just wanted to get some second opinions on something before I dive into a project.I would like to use the same effect executed in this website: http:[url]....how to go about doing that. I have a few ideas but am quite intermediate when it comes to code, so I was trying to search for some help topics and tutorials that might spark something.But I can't figure out what this sort of method is called! Where all the content slides like that as you click on different parts of the navigation.
* I should add that I am more proficient in AS2 but wouldn't mind learning how to do this in AS3.
I'm primarily a print designer, but to keep up with the times I want to get more familiar with apps and other interactive content. I already know Flash Professional and Actionscript 3, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around AIR, Builder, Flex and Catalyst and their relationship with the other CS programs. When I read through them on this site, they all seem really similar.
Can someone break it down for me? Are there situations where one is more appropriate than the others? Are they just publishers or do you create functionality with these programs too?
I'm a seasoned Flash developer and have just recently switched to Flex, but so far I've been having a hard time with creating the right kind of components. For instance, in Flash if I wanted to add a complex interactive menu, I would have a menu clip in the library, then export it for ActionScript, assign a class to it and add it to stage. How would I do something like this in Flex? It seems all I can do is expand the UI Components, and none of them is really suitable for what I want to do
View 2 RepliesI like to make a general module in ActionScript to create an interactive tooltip. The tooltip has to resize on mouseover() event and then should contain hyperlinks once resized.
View 1 RepliesI'm looking for a tutorial to create a timeline with interactivity similar to the links below.
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Can any one tell me what s/w needed to produce [URL]
View 4 RepliesI'm like a child who wandered into the middle of a movie and wants to know... How do I pull of something similar to a standard NYTimes interactive timeline? I'm not looking for handouts, necessarily. I know the basics of creating a timeline (um, making buttons), but like I implied, I'm very new to the world of Flash. I just have a few questions: I figured I'd go frame by frame for the points on the timeline - one point leads to a frame in which the content box is appropriately positioned. Is this efficent enough, or will this have negative consequences for some reason that I'm unaware of? Does the content box need to be be a movie clip if I plan on housing more than text? How can I ensure that my file size won't become absurdly large?
I'm sure I can reference a book I have for a little bit of explanation, but tutorial books blow, and I'd rather have a dialogue with someone, or some people, about producing a decent timeline. I guess my main concern is ensuring that the file isn't too big.
I'm loading an interactive external SWF into my main timeline. The SWF is a game and when it's completed successfully it plays an animation on the _root timeline. I'm aware that the external SWF _root action is now referring to the the main timeline, but I'm not sure how to make it refer to it's own.
View 1 RepliesWe purchased Flash Media Streaming Server Interactive edition in order to have the security featuers of not allowing unauthorized connections streaming live content to the server. Is there a document with procedures that details how to make this happen, the allowedHTMLdomains.txt does not work when you place in IP ranges that you do not want connecting. I need some help just to figure out a way to keep someoen from connecting to the server and not streaming live content. Has anyone configured this in Linux because the documentation is mainly for Windows. Any help/advice would be great since this seems to be a common problem for anyone who runs Linux.
View 10 RepliesWhen trying to reactive an old app we noticed that embedding flash content in posts (trying both stream.publish and feed) didn't seem to work any more. Instead, Facebook decided to throw the following error message:
There was a problem with the parameters of the request. Body of an error/warning message. Title is: Invalid Request
Further investigation showed that they're indeed working just fine in "classic" profiles, but new timeline profiles were apparently unable to show the embedded flash content. Did anyone else experience this and/or knows a workaround?
can you control/access the timeline of a dynamically loaded swf? If so how?
if I use this code:
Code:
loadMovie("a.swf", "contentLoader");
how can I access the timeline of "a.swf" from the main timeline of my flash movie?
so I'm having an issue with my website design and as I'm relatively new to flash I can't seem to fix it on my own. I know what I'm supposed to do, technically, but not sure how to actually implement it.Below is a picture of my timeline:What my problem is that the buttons for navigating my pages (bio, news, projects, links, etc.) are nested inside of my Navigation MC (on the Navigation layer) and so they appear in the timeline (at frame 20) before my content does (frame 70). Because of this, the buttons can't be aimed at the content because their code is run before the content even exists.
I'm guessing that what I need to do is to instantiate my content at a point in the timeline before the navigation/buttons occur... but as the content is the last part of my loading animation, I'm not sure how to do that.I read something about adding the MC's but keeping them invisible, then making them visible again at teh appropriate time, but I don't know how to do that or if it would somehow mess with my animation (everything fades in one item after the other, with the content being the last part).
On my Flash site, I'm trying to make my my navagation bar run on a independent timeline from the rest of the content on my site. I built my navagation bar in a movie clip, because they use independent timelines. However I can't seem to figgure out how to make the buttons in the movie clip effect the timeline of the main file. Is there something I'm missing? Or am I just going about this the wrong way?
View 16 RepliesI'm trying to catch a variable content (set on the main timeline) from a movie clip added to the stage. I need to set a condition with that variable, so here's my line :
Code: Select allif (MovieClip(root).screenMode == ("full"))
But it's not working, I'm also trying to trace the variable with that command :
Code: Select alltrace(MovieClip(root)[screenMode]);
But this doesn't work too.
I have been searching online to figure out a way to expand images on rollover EXACTLY as is show on this site (skip intro to see what i mean)does this involve AS or just simple tweening.
View 8 RepliesIn a Flash AS3 app I'm building I have 3 MovieClips on stage that I can drag and drop when dropped they're supposed to expand and 2 of then do but the one with the google map practically disappears.
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Is there any function that allows to do this? Say I have an swf that is 400 pixels high and i add some content into it that is say 600 high, can I expand the whole swf's height to fit this new content or is using a scrollpane or something the only way this can be done?
View 14 RepliesI have built in some accessibility to one of my flash websites where you can increase the size using a Combobox - the problem is when I expand it to font size 18 the font obviously goes over the textfield and the scroll bar doesn't increase to compensate for this![code]...
View 5 RepliesI am very new to Flash and would like to find some way to have a movie expand from the page and open larger. I have tried having it open in another window, but that looks cheezy. It would be great to have it sitting in the page (right now it is 375 X 280) and then when someone clicks on the video it opens, without any borders, just viewer, to 900 X 675. I have looked online at various players, but none do anything like this. There has to be a way to make this happen. Right now I am using Dreamweaver CS3 and just using the embed player that is part of Dreamweaver.
View 2 RepliesI have a very long series of images ~ 3000 pixels wide total that I want to put in flash but the work area is way too small and the objects just get pushed off the side of the screen.
View 2 RepliesI've got Javascript expanding the swfobject height (here), but the actual flash stage height is stuck at 60px. What's involved in changing the stage height?
View 6 RepliesResizing the stage seems to expand to the right and down. There a way to re size from the bottom to up?
View 1 RepliesUsing a large amount of formatted text, is it possible to make titles or headlines within the text clickable? Once clicked, the portion of text would expand and collapse accordingly. The text field would likely include around 80 headlines. I found code to show/hide a string of text, but not formatted tlf text.
View 5 RepliesI have created a tree with a custom treeitemrenderer where I have added a textinput box next to each label. My data provider is an ArrayCollection. When I enter value in the input box, I can see the value fine as I expand or collapse the tree using the disclousure arrow. There is a strange issue when I try to expand and collapse tree from the mxml page with a button click to expand and collapse tree using the following code.
The problem is as I expand or collapse tree, the values I entered in the input boxes appear to be moving.
For example, I have entered 15 in input box 1. When I expand and collapse tree, 15 moves to another input box, and moves to another, and then it moves back to where it was entered as I keep expanding and collapsing the tree. I am still learning Flex. I am not sure what is happening, it is something to do with arraycollection.
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Expand a row of AdvancedDataGrid without using HierarchicalData?[url]...
View 2 Repliestalking about this loader: var loaderName:Loader = new Loader();
I have an image inside of it and when i try to scale its width and height its scales from the top left.
how can i make it scale from the center?
