I'm new to this CS4 world and I can't make my buttons work...I'm trying to make a portfolio. I have a button created named "books". I created a new layer just to insert the AS of that button and to stop the movie clip...the button is inside that movieclip.
Here is what that layer contains:
[Code]...
EDIT I took off the ":void" part and the compiler doesnt show me any errors. But still it doesn't go to the "design" frame.
I am doing a web portfolio with thumbnail buttons that change the pictures. What is the best way to avoid having to make a new button for each new picture thumbnail? So resusing the button but changing the thumbnail picture in it and what picture it links to? Using CS4.
View 1 RepliesI'm making a portfolio using XML and AS3. Loading the XML is all fine, I put images in a loader using a for loop. However, I would like these images to be buttons and set a TextField.alpha at 1 when hovering the image. The problem I'm having here, is whenever I hover an image, all the set textfields will show up. How do I change this? I've been trying to put it into an Array with no result.
View 1 Replieshow to make a portfolio like [URL] I really want to make a portfolio that I can upload easy with maybe just a couple of XML code or such.
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to make a portfolio. Nested in the mc portfolio are 15 other mc's. site_01, site_02, site_03 etc. When the portfolio button is pressed mc_portfolio is going to frame 2, where the 15 mc's are located. But I don't want them to appear all at ones! I want them to appear with let's say .5 of a seccond pause in between each mc.
View 5 RepliesI've been through Senoculars XML tutorial which can be found here and went further to read another thread (here ). about extending the Portfolio to allow for more thumbs--implementing a scrollbar-to Scotty This brings me to my questionQ: How can I do away with any scrolling and implement page numbers instead? So users could click the page numbers to go to the next lot of thumbnails in the section instead of scrolling up and down. The image below illustrates what im trying to achieve. As you can see I would like it to show current page, and overflow for page numbers that wont fit within the area dictated on the stage (rather like how threads work in this forum)
View 9 Replieshow do you link(code) your swf pages to each other (through buttons) when making a flash site or portfolio?
View 5 Repliesi want to make a new portfolio site in flash... i was thinking on using as much server-side scripting as possible, to make in easier to update and add some features like flash guestbook/mail form and some other stuff... I was wondering... is it possible using php and mysql to add content to the portfolio without modifying the flash itself? Is there a tutorial regarding this? WHat i want, exactly is to be able to add photos, sites, prints and other stuff to my portfolio like i would add a post to this forum... the title being the title, the message being the description of the project and the pic i can attach being the photo itself..
View 14 Repliesive been attempting to make a portfolio of my music and art in flash which is basically just 4 scenes that have buttons at the edges which i want to be able to move over and have it animated to look like its scrolling in the direction of the next scene
i broke each screen down into dummy scenes so i could work out problems without ruining a real project and so far (with this forums help) ive been able to create a music screen with on/off buttons and clickable thumbnails for the art screen etc etc so far so good...i even managed to get the buttons working with 3 different 'entry' animations depending on which scene it came from
so yesterday i decided to make the proper project starting with the navigation structure and space for 3 entry anims per scene...i thought i had made everything the same as before but nothing happens when i publish it...the buttons dont work at all
here is the link to the project 'main002' (dummy animations atm) and my previous working dummy nav test as well as a word document showing how its supposed to work (although ive slightly changed the order of the screens now)[URL]..can anyone tell me why its not working but did on the previous test?
I have a movie clip with 15 frames. Each frame has buttons on it (mc's)... I was going to put the actions on the main timeline/stage and navigate within the MC from the main timeline. Is that possible? I can get the buttons on the first frame of the MC to work, but I can't seem to figure out how to target/make the buttons on the other frames work? I was thinking I could identify the path of the MC with the frame labels, but that doesn't seem to work. like: _root.RMChanger.(frame label).buttonOnFrame = function
I have to move a text box in and out over the MC backgrounds on the main stage... which is why I was thinking to do it this way? I've been switching back and forth bwtween AS2.0 and 3.0
I'm trying to make a menu that has onRelease buttons on top of onRollover buttons (the onReleases are on a separate layer from the onRollovers). The onRelease buttons take the user to different urls, and the onRollover buttons are supposed to allow different parts of the menu to appear.
The onRelease buttons work fine, but I can't get the onRollover buttons to work consistently. Sometimes the onRollover buttons will correctly advance to a different frame, and sometimes they "stick" and do not advance. The script has no errors and I've tried changing the sizes of the onRollover buttons (in case they were too large and the cursor was hovering over more than 1 at the same time), changing the order of the code for the onRelease and onRollover commands (in case the onRollovers were being superseded by the onRelease commands), and countless variations of the layers and frames.
I'm sure that you'll want to see the script, but I don't think that pasting it all on this post would be reasonable? So I've put the .fla and the .swf on this page for reference: [URL]
But need help at this point! Can't get both galleries to work in harmony they load in but only one functions properly Zipped up the source [URl]..
View 2 RepliesI kinda got a problem with my xml portfolio image loader. I want to load multiple images and the images have a thumbnail and a big image. loading the thumbnails works, but what do i have to write in the mouse down handler to let it work right? since i really got no idea how to pick the right image :Othis is how my xml file looks like:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<portfolio>
[code]......
Somehow through tons of research I've been able to make myself a flash website which features my work. There is one big problem, my site loads really slow and I'm afraid I'm loosing all of my potential clients who probably won't wait for it to load.
Here's my website url: [URL]
I'm hosting with hostgator if that matters at all, I've also optimized the images.
What ist the best dimension for photography portfolio in Flash?I would like to make my portfolio website with my photographs.
View 3 RepliesI am wanting to create a website that uses flash elements to show my portfolio/ resume/ contact information.it worries me because I look at these professionally done flash sites and I honestly have no idea how to make mine look even close to that!
View 1 RepliesMy company has 50 flv files that we regularly show to clients. I was planning to set up a website that had all 50 videos on it and the client could pick and choose what videos they want to watch by selecting thumbnails. The problem is that our account executives want to be able to choose what videos are available for them to watch, so they can't watch the entire library. I can't be chaning the interface for each client request, so I am thinking the account excutive could select from a list of videos and send them a link that only has those thumbnails of those videos on it.
Any ideas on how this could be accomplished? It is kind of like having an interface for the account executives with a menu of movies, and then a different interface for the client to play the movies chosen for them in the order in which they choose. It would dynamically build according to the account executives selections.
So im trying to get my flash portfolio up and running. And im using the code I usually do for buttons which is for example:
function onbrandingClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("branding");
}
branding.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onbrandingClick);
All my menu buttons are working until I click on portfolio which has 6 different catergories and it just stops at branding and the other category buttons wont work. They are all set up fine with instances and such. However the buttons in the menu will still work.This might be confusing but I am up for sending the file to show someone if anyone is interested!
I'm pretty new to the action script side of things, but am starting to get the hang of it. I've been following a computer arts tutorial to set up a dynamic xml portfolio, which has been going well, however the problem is the tutorial is just for a one page portfolio, when I try and link more than one page I hit a problem, the menu info on first won't go away.
What it needs is a line or two of code that closes the previous movie clip, when a new one is loaded, if any of you out there can help with this I'd be massively grateful - this problem has literally had me pulling out hair for the last week.
here is the relevant bit of code, if it helps I can upload the fla and xml too.
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I'm trying to build a portfolio and I'm using a var imageNumber code to cycle through images on my page, but I want to have a dynamic text field caption change every time the image changes. I've found a way to do it (I made it bold), but the code is long and bothersome when there is a ton of images. Does anyone know a better way to do this?
Code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
forwardBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextImage);
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There was a post about a month ago about page numbering what i THINK was senocular's xml portfolio. with the recent loss of some posts, this was wiped out as well. does anyone have it archived anywhere or does anyone have the file that was being passed around in that post?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to build a xml driven portfolio. What i am trying to build is something like this [URL].. if you check the random works section you see 6 projects. What i want is to have 3 projects next to eithother and when a new one is added in the xml file then it puts it underneed the other 3 and starts a new line of projects. The project files will be external swf files. i would like the view projects mouse over part also to come out the xml file and i need a information part telling the company name and then the programs it was made in. I dont have a clue how to do this. Really would like some help i am checking out books and tutorials but cant find any good info. If somebody could hook me up with a quick and dirty source file with now extra's just the technique behind it.
View 1 RepliesI have forged senoculars XML Portfolio into a site, one thing I need to add to make me (and my boss) happy is a scroll function to the thumbs at the bottom. I have everything working super cool except for the scroll, my boss is starting to get antsy in the pantsy..I am not awesome at AS, But know enough to implement any suggestions you might have.the effect i am trying to get is similar to the XML gallery with thumbs mousover effect, accept with a little bit o' easing.The XML is set up differently, so I don't know if I can gut the one and implement it in the other...
View 2 RepliesI am a young designer working on my portfolio website [URL]. Each TV (apart from a broken one) has a pop-up window which loads a section of work. This works fine with firefox but sadly the pop-ups dont load in IE. The script I used to load the pop-up can be found at: [URL].
View 1 RepliesI've tried applying Ilyas' infinite menu to the Senocular's XML portfolio. However, the movement looks bad--you can see where the thumbs stop and begin. I was wondering how this could be fixed??
Also, would it be possible that when you click on a thumbnail, a PDF file is launched? How could I do this from the XML file? I'm trying to create a continuous scrolling horizontal menu. The menu would contain pictures of news articles and when you click on the picture, you could read the article in the PDF!
Since each article is pretty long, like news clippings, I don't think having this info in a flash pop-up box would work?
I'm working on building a personal portfolio site right now. I wanted to add a scroll feature to one the pages. I wasn't sure how to build it, so I down loaded one off here [URL] and just plugged my own graphics into it. It scrolls up and down just fine, but when I try to put a mask over it, it doesn't work. In the content the author wrote for his movie he says "Note: If you want to have a mask over the content: copy MC:frame and make it a mask for MC:Page. If you do so, notice that "non-anti-alias text" is not possible anymore. This is a common thing in a Flash Movie. I keep trying that and it just blocks everything out all together. So what am I doing wrong?
View 1 RepliesI have recently created a flash site and I am trying to update my online portfolio. How do I take a snapshot of the homepage of the flash site for my portfolio?
View 2 RepliesI am working on a portfolio in flash which dynamically defines the target of the buttons. When a button is click an external swf is loaded, and the button sends the value of a variable to the loaded swf. So far I got it to work as I want it to, BUT the ouput-panel keeps giving the message:
Target not found: Target="this._parent.project" Base="_level0.button_1"
I am using this code:
on (release) {
this._parent.project.loadMovie("project.swf");
tellTarget ("this._parent.project") {
pnumber = a;
}}
The "pnumber" var is used in de project.swf to define a folder. "a" is a var with a numeric value. I know the tellTarget is an old-fashioned way of scripting, but so far it is the only piece of script that actually does what I want it to do (except for the error-message)
I tried:
Code:
on (release) {
this._parent.project.loadMovie("project.swf");
this._parent.project.pnumber = a;
}
But this resulted in an undefined var in my target clip, while the tellTarget did return the value for 'a'/'pnumber'.
using flash cs4 the overall website is looking and functioning fine but i want to add an image gallery.I downloaded one which included .fla .as xml and swf files but i dont know what to do with them in the sense of adding them to a particular page in my flash site..
View 2 RepliesI have created a portfolio with flash using action script 2. But when I click on the button going to the portfolio Scene (containing pictures and tweens) it stutters on all the images when they are first clicked on. As the image increases in size, it is a smooth tween until the one from last frame which it stops then flashes on to the final frame. Is there a way I can preload all the images so that this will not happen? Or anything else I could do?
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