people I am a newbie here, I need help and explanation in making a scrollbar like the one in[URL]... I know a slider and a textbox is needed but I need to know the trick behind it.
View 1 Repliesjust wondering if anyone could give me a kickstart with any tutorials or anything? i was hoping to make one like the flashloaded one etc..
aiming to make it work with dynamic text though
making a scrollbar invisible until a button is pressed. (in actionscript)
View 2 RepliesI am currently making a site that uses [URL] old fullscreen scrollbar. It's really perfect. I was just wondering how hard it would be to implement some sort of scrollTo function. For example, I would have all of the content inside the scrollbar window. In this content, I would have a list of movieclips acting as buttons that would scroll to a specific y value (all of which would be in say 200px increments). so I would love to have a simple function where I could execute scrollTo(n); where n=a givin y value. Basically acting as HTML anchor tags. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard, but the code is a bit over my head. Here is the code (the fla is located at [URL]
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I read a lot about accessors or getters/setters, but to date I cannot really understand what they do. The language describing their use is just beyond my comprehension, not being any type of developer nor an advanced AS3 user.Can someone provide, or point me in the direction of, a VERY SIMPLE getter/setter example that includes WHY it would be used as well as HOW to use it? something small that doesn't use just comments within functions (like "// here is where you do xyz"), but actual code (the actual doing of xyz). That way if I want to play with it and build on it I can.
View 14 RepliesFor example, I have a function that is triggered by a button click This function loads an external swf.I then set a global variable swfLoaded to true, with the idea of having an if condition that executes removeChild(loader) if swfLoaded is true.When trying to execute removeChild(loader), I get an error telling me that it must be the child of the caller.I've seen the code below, which loads a default swf, but I don't want a default swf - I just want one loaded if the button is clicked, and then if another button is clicked, the original one to be removed before the next swf is loaded.How do I make this code work without loading a default swf, just loading one once someone clicks a button, and then removing it?
var Xpos:Number = 110;var Ypos:Number = 180;var swf:MovieClip;var loader:Loader = new Loader();
var defaultSWF:URLRequest = new URLRequest("swfs/eyesClosed.swf");
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What I get is that you can pass a function to another function as an argument so that the function that you pass to can "call back" that particular function.
All good. However, I'm unclear about a couple things: Why exactly is this beneficial? is this the same thing that the addListenerEvent method does when you pass it a function as an argument for when the event fires?
I have been reading Learning Actionscript 3.0 for about 1-2 months now on and off and i have stumbled across a paragraph that I don't quite understand concerning the position of a navigation bar buttons.
Code:
var btnNum:int = 5;
var spacing:Number = 10;
var navBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(navBar);
var btn:SimpleButton;
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The current button is positioned horizontally (line 10), offset by the spacing set in line 2, plus the width of the button and another spacing gap for each button in the loop. Therefore, the first button is positioned only 10 pixels to the right of the container's registration point (spacing, plus zero times the sum of the width of the button and spacing). The last button is positioned 10 pixels to the right of the container's registration point plus 4 times the width of the button and spacing. The vertical position is also set, moving the button down 5 pixels. From the above quote, I understand that the button the first button is placed horizontally, but i don't understand what is after it. What the paragraph means and how it does it's position.
I just can't seem to figure out how to use them and what they're used for.
View 2 RepliesI'm a relative noobie struggling to understand object registration points / center points. For example, in this image of an empty movie clip from an XML gallery I'm customizing for my site, there is a circle with a cross and an empty circle.
Can someone point me to a thread or article that explains object registration points, how they relate to each other and how (and why) to move them (or not)?
I try to understand this code ( taken from a tuto). I am learning empty mc and AS... I catch it until a certain point, however some terms are still very very dark for me :So as far I see, there are only 2 objects in the file :An empty mc called Menuholder and a mc called menuitem ( a picture for example)I can track back those 2 objects in the code, however I can not understand what is the object "menu" doing there ???I highlighted it bellow your explanation :align = bottom;centerx = Stage.width/2;width/2;menuitems[i]._x = xpos;}};
View 4 RepliesI was curious to how gotoAndStop really functioned, so I ran a few tests. Results are highlighted for easy skim reading.On each frame, I placed a trace statement, saying which frame is currently displaying.Then, I messed around putting different kinds of code on frame 1.
Example #1
Code:
stop();
gotoAndStop(5);
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how I would convert this vertical scrollbar into a horizontal scrollbar
heres the code:
onClipEvent (load) {
diff_y = bound_box._height-scroller._height;
bounds = bound_box.getBounds(this);
top = bounds.yMin+(scroller._height/2);
bottom = bounds.yMax-(scroller._height/2);
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For a project, I'm making an interactive side scroller.You move the character with the arrow keys and press the space bar to interact with things.So far, I followed DexNote's tutorial on YouTube.I thought that I would make the interactable objects as buttons, while the mouse focus would be on the character and when you press the space bar it make a mouse click in that area.The trouble I'm having now is that I don't know how to make the space bar trigger the "interactions."
View 1 RepliesI want to generate large text files, basically 4 columns, several thousand rows, of numbers. Making an array with all this info in it occurs farily quickly, it's getting it to a displayable format that takes a really long time. Right now I use something like this:
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I want to create two textfields in flash wich will move the text simultaniously by using one scrollbar. for example. the left textfield contains text and the right textfield contains pictures. and the scrollbar is in the middle.
View 1 RepliesMy table is too large to locate whole in frame. How can I add the ScrollBar in this frame?
View 1 RepliesI have created a dynamic text box and attached the default UIscroll bar from the components library in CS4.I have attached it to the text box and it works ok.When i drop it onto my page it appears white (my background is black). When I preview it does what it is supposed to. So far so good. NO! The default Scroll bar is hideous. I want to change it but I cannot figure out how to.
I have tried double clicking it but it cannot be edited. Is this an action Script thing? I have recreated it in another flash document with the text box and the scroll bar which I have attached called 'scroller with text'.I have double cliked the scroll bar and changed it to how I want it and it works, i know how to but its not in my main flash file i am working from. I have saved the one Ire-created one as a SWF and tried importing it but it has errors on it. see attached 'MAIN_Menupage'.I have been through all the tutorials on this website and cannot get this to work.
When opening an .fla in Flash CS4 everything is aligned top left and no scrollbars appear:Have I forgotten something really simple here !? Can this be a mac to pc issue? I tried resaving the .fla but nothing changed.
View 1 RepliesI have a movie clip that loads thumbnails from images folder by reading the location of image from xml file...The problem is I have put up a scroll bar but its not working i.e its not scrolling the thumbnails' movie clip contents. I am uploading the fla...any line of code I need to change I think its the scrolling function. The scrolling script I used is from kirupa. I don't want to use classes in this...and want the up n down buttons to remain.
View 6 Repliesgive me a few simple steps to create a drag/scrollbar like this one?:
[URL]
My client would like his pages without the right scroll bar. I realize it is a bit crazy on his part, but this is what he wants. How can I publish Flash ani so that there is no vertical scrollbar on the right side? Here is the example that he is using..[URL]..
View 4 RepliesAlright so I'm a flash idiot, got a premade template that's flash with XML for the page's text / titles.. now that's fine and all, and I can write lots of text.. but the downside is.. there's no scrollbar.. so if you write too much, you can use the middle mouse button and scroll down to read the rest.. but I'm wanting to add a scrollbar to be more user friendly and visually 'appearling'.. now I'm wondering since I'm a flash idiot how I can add a scrollbar to certain pages (or every page?) when needed.. can anyone tell me how to start.. whether it would be strictly in the XML (easier I guess because it's just adding in code..?) or does it have to be done in Flash? (harder.. since I have no idea wtf to do)..
View 5 RepliesI'm pulling an external SWF in to a smaller movieclip. I need to have a scroller bar. How and where do I need to put it?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to build a AS3 only project and I ran into a problem that when I turn some MC's visible on...they are out of my browser window and there is no scrollBar for browser to scroll down.
View 3 RepliesI'm having few scroll bars for some text which is been pulled in dynamically.
How do I change the color of the UI Scrollbar? I'm using CS4.
How do I set the swapDepth for my UI ScrollBar? (the scrollbar show-up when some external text is being loaded). Or how do I make 'abc' right on top of all other items?
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I want to specify amount to scroll with VScrollBar. So in Flex 3 we have "lineScrollSize" but how this property called in Flex 4? I thought it VScrolBar.stepSize but it dose not do anything.I just whant my content to scroll faster on mouse wheel.
View 3 RepliesI have an AS 2 scrollbar that I use over and over when I need to. The scrolls layers sit on the main timeline so in the past all I did was copy to the new fla main timeline edit the scroll, buttons, colors etc. I need a scrollbar in a project and I want to use the same scroll but the problem is the scrollbar must sit inside of a movieclip called "page-design"
The scroll uses the old Tell target method in AS 2 and I'm having trouble getting the correct code to work. rather than copy and paste the original code here, I have the fla of the original scroll working off a main timeline. What I need to do is to put the scroll inside a movieclip so the scrollbar is inside "page-design_mc and page design _mc goes on the main fla timeline follow?
How do you reset the scrollbar in Flash? (I'm using the component, not a cusom scrollbar.)If you go here, scroll ALL the way to the bottom and then click on "Donations" - you'll see the scrollbar stays in place.How do I get it to refresh each time new text is loaded? I've tried refreshPane() and a few other things, but nothing works.
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