how to get a scrolling thumbnail photo gallery to work with an imbedded bonus array. What I can't figure out is how to change the caption on the photos so that when I click on the bonus thumbnails (b2, b3, b4, etc) the text/caption changes on the website.I can upload the flash file if anyone is interested in helping. [code]
View 14 RepliesI've completed the Hover Caption tutorial at [URL] successfully. What I'd like to do in addition, is to resize the caption box to match the caption text's length.
I've tried giving the background box a name (box) and turning it into a button and then doing:
_root.caption.box._width = _root.caption.help.length * 8;
But the box never aligns with the text properly after that. don't know what methods to call in order to get the bottom corner of the text and bottom corner of the box and align them properly.
I have an audio slide show and I need to add caption and on off button to show and hide the caption. how can I make on and off button to show the caption?and is it possible to add caption on my audio (not video) using actionscript 3.0?
View 1 RepliesI'd like to build a gallery of photos which has selected thumbnail on each of them before displaying their photos.
Ex: photo.xml
Code:
<gallery>
<photo id="1">
<thumb>pics/thumbnail/img_001.jpg</thumb>
[code]....
I have written a tab nav class for learning purposes but have run into an issue with the tab captions. I invoke the tab class by sending in an array of the buttons that are needed, tabs are displayed accordingly. with the tab creation loop, I create the textfields for earch tab caption which is displayed as expected. I then have MouseOut and MouseOver effects which works (tab color changes accordingly), however, when MouseOver and MouseOut effects are triggered, the caption is no longer visible because, the mouse effect changes the caption text color which I don't know how to stop. I just want the the tab to change color NOT the caption.
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I can set captioning to true in component inspector; is there any other way that we can set the caption to true?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to learn Flash and as soon as I think I am in good shape, comes along this "curve ball". Take a look at the .FLA from this site ([URL]) How in the world do the alpha buttons get their captions? I understand the numeric ones, but alphas completely baffle me as there is no code (that I can find) that sets them. I have deleted all of the Actions, I have deleted virtually everything there is, and I still can't figure out how does the button instance appear as the caption in the text box.
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View 11 Replieswhat the subject says: Closed Caption for Video Flv. Every documentation on internet speak about FlvPlaybackCaptioning.. I would like to made a flv player with caption on my own...
I also found an interesting component called CCForFlashAs3, but I'm not able to use it...
I just can't see it. I took a resizing prototype function from the compiled fla in the resizing slideshow thread (found here, post #171) and combined it with the concepts from the hover caption tutorial on kirupa. But instead of creating a dynamic text box in the hover movie clip I am creating the text dynamically using createTextField and then autosizing it using textfield.autoSize = true (didn't seem to work when I used "left"). When you use createTextField you have to specify a width and height. The autoSize command seems to dynamically resize the textfield in height but not in width. When running a trace the width is always the same though the height changes
View 14 RepliesI am looking for some opinions or ideas for the best way to do this. I have a scene that is loading a swf. I have a dynamic text field that is displaying captions relating to what is happening in the loaded swf. The captions are relatively short and I am wondering what the best way to display them would be? Right now I am loading from a text file and can dynamically load the next file using this:
[AS]
function loadCaptionText(){
textnum ++;
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I cant see why the first caption of a dynamic text box want load. Its the caption from a xml gallery Once I go to the second pic it starts loading and if I go back to the first pic it loads.
View 3 RepliesI'm using the flvPlayback and Captioning component/skin for some videos. Works great, but I can't figure out how to have the captions off by default and use the caption button to turn them on for users who want to see the caption buttons.
flvCaption.showCaptions=false;
Hides the captions, but also disables the captionButton in the skin, so there is no way to toggle showing and hiding the captions.
I have made an image gallery using a tutorial by blue chiIt is basically constituated of thumbs that once clicked let a large image appear. I now want to add captions to these large images, on a rollover. I tried applying the tutorial "Hover Captions" to my movie, without success.Being relatively new to all that language, I am not sure it is appliable, and mostly where I should put it, i.e, should i include it to my main timeline or to each image (which are movie clips), on an other layer and so on.Here is the code I have for now
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
import mx.transitions.Tween;
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I am using the XML and Flash photogallery that Kirupa has in the tutorials [url]. I was wondering how I can:
a. make a second caption
b. make a caption with a link on it.
Does anyone know a simple way to add to the following AS a caption into a dynamic text box from a text file to go along with each jpeg?
Code:
stop();
/
// i wrote this code, but you can use and abuse it however you like.
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I'm hoping this one will be fairly simple though - I just can't see it. I took a resizing prototype function from the compiled fla in the resizing slideshow thread (found here, post #171) and combined it with the concepts from the hover caption tutorial on kirupa. But instead of creating a dynamic text box in the hover movie clip I am creating the text dynamically using createTextField and then autosizing it using textfield.autoSize = true (didn't seem to work when I used "left"). When you use createTextField you have to specify a width and height. The autoSize command seems to dynamically resize the textfield in height but not in width. When running a trace the width is always the same though the height changes.
View 14 RepliesI am creating a very basic AS3 XML Gallery. The problem I am having is including the description or "caption" along with the photo. I have been going around it for awhile, but I can't seem to get my head around it.
These are the basics I have for my XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<images><image>
<url>pics/first.jpg</url>
<big_url>big_pics/first.jpg</big_url>
<description>The first time</description>
</image></images>
Here is the code:
var captionLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
captionLoader.load(new URLRequest("caption.txt"));
captionLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
var captionFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
captionFormat.font = "Helvetica";
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All properties under "captionField" work fine, but none of the three under "captionFormat".
I am working in CS5/AS3 with an FLVPlayback component and a pre-made skin with some custom colors. It is a skin with the caption button included (SkinUnderAll to be exact). I'm using Timed-Text files for the caption content. The captions work just fine. All other buttons on the skin show up, but the toggle button isn't showing up.
I checked all of the linkage in the skin's FLA, checked the AS that creates the FLVPlayback and FLVPlaybackCaptioning objects. All seems fine there.
I've checked the paths and SWF locations to be sure all are in the right places.
I've also included a SKIN_LOADED event listener to get around the default captions-on issue. I'm just not seeing what the issue is. I'd prefer to not go back through my code and make a custom control panel with button components. Started this in CS3 and moved the file to CS5, so I'm not sure if there's something I overlooked in the documentation that spells this out.
I followed the hover caption tutorial but sometimes the hover caption goes out of the movie.How to make it stay inside the movie and a certain distance of the mouse?
View 9 RepliesI've done the Tutorial written here by Kirupa on how to display an hover captionTutorial It works perfectly in the stand alone movie.But i need to put this in another movie as external.When i do so, it doesn't work , actually 'cos it drag ALL the external movie and not only the item i want to do a Hover Effect.Why this??Maybe because it consider the command_root.x = 1 (and so on whenever there's _root)the root of the Main movie and not the one of the external??Must i correct all the code with level1 or there's another way??
View 1 RepliesI followed the hover caption tutorial, everything worked, etc. What I want to do is experiment with different uses for the hover captions. I tried to put longer text inside the quotes ("something something blah blah blah" instead of "Portable Devices", etc), but it extends the yellow box way past the text, and if I try to make it multiple lines I get this error mesage:
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how modify gallery from this tutorial [URL]to load caption from xml.
View 3 RepliesBased on the kirupa xml gallery I am loading a random image opposed to starting with the first image in the xml file. It works fine, but I have not been able to figure out how to get the accompanying caption to load with the specific image.
Code:
function loadImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
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I know it has to do with this: "description[0];" I'm just not sure what to change the '0' too....?
Using FLVPlayback and FLVPlaybackCaptioning components with a Timed Text xml caption file. I must use a tt xml, I can't use cue points; our workflow isn't set up that way. I want to shift the screen components around to make room for the captions (which I am displaying underneath the controls). My current workaround involves a frame listener and checking if the dtCap.text != "" (then captions are on, else they are off). I am using a TT xml, with no @dur; so this works fine except...
Since the captions do not start immediately, but default to on, the video frame shifts up abruptly when the captions finally start. There must be an event or a property associated with captions being toggled On or Off; but I can't find it in the reference. I have found Adobe labs posts referencing a state of the skin itself, but they reference private variables which would require a rewrite of the FLVPlayback component. TL;DR: How do I attach an event listener to the Caption button in an FLVPlayback skin? Or what property can I reference to determine if captions are On, even if the current caption is blank?
am having totally 30 movie clip ( name it as layout_1 to layout_30 ) for that i want hover caption to each movie clip from xml data note: not load dynamic movieclip only xml data load dynamic
View 1 RepliesMy query is in respect to the tutorial posted on kirupa : [URL] Now :
1) If I want to add a line of caption ,the moviclip expands in a horizontal manner. So , if I write a big description , the caption movieclip occupies whole stage width. How can i make this movieclip exapand in a vertical fashion after a fixed no. of characters
2) Suppose a button which is inside a movieclip has been applied this function , the button action doesnt work !!!! only the hover caption appears. ( specifically the button on(release) action ) !! What is the possible solution.
I followed the hover caption tutorial but sometimes the hover caption goes out of the movie. How to make it stay inside the movie and a certain distance of the mouse?
View 8 Repliesam having totally 30 movie clip ( name it as layout_1 to layout_30 )for that i want hover caption to each movie clip from xml data note: not load dynamic movieclip only xml data load dynamic
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