Flash :: Carousel - Foreground Image

Animation With Foreground And Background Image
Hi
I have an image with 2 people in the foreground and the background is a busy street. I would like to have a transition effect where firstly, the 2 people in the pic slowly appear and when that part of the image is fully visible, I would then like the background to slowly appear. I have tried cutting the image in two (foreground (with people) and background (the busy street) in photoshop, however when the transition is completed there is a white line around the people (where I separated the image). Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this done with the final image looking as it did originally?

Thanks

AS3 Image Carousel
Hi I am trying to replicate the an image carousel like the one on nissanusa.com.

I have created a movie(image1) with five layers containing the images.

and given them instance names ClipA, ClipB, etc.

I then moved ClipA from the top layer to below ClipB but then the listeners dont catch any mose roll over.

Any Ideas?

Is there a way to dynamically move them up or down layers?

image1.clipA.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,overFunction1);
image1.clipA.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,outFunction1);

image1.clipB.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,overFunction2);
image1.clipB.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,outFunction1);

function overFunction1(obj:Object) {
trace ("on roll called");
display_txt.text = "CLIP A";
bgdark.visible = true;
image1.stop();
image1.clipA.gotoAndStop(10);
image1.clipB.gotoAndStop(20);
image1.clipC.gotoAndStop(20);
image1.clipD.gotoAndStop(20);
image1.clipE.gotoAndStop(20);
}

Thanks

Chris

Anyone Know Any Image Carousel Tutorial?
Hi,

I'm looking for an image carousel (rotating like those found in carnival rides) done in Flash5. Preferably horizontally rotating and customizable...

Anyone seen one lately? Somewhat looks like this except this one is done with java applets and is more like a ferris wheel rather than a carousel.

Thanks!

Carousel Image Gallery
i am interested to know how this IMAGE GALLERY was created and worked out.

i searched on FK and found THIS Carousel sorta thing but i was not successful implementing images within it.

anyhelp is greatly appreciated.

I Need An Image Carousel, Scroller Like This One...
Hi there,

Im looking to build a scrolling image carousel like the one shown here

http://www.nikoleramsay.com/

The requirements are:
The images must be loaded in individually to reduce preload time.
For it to be scrolling.
To have a dragable bar
To remain 100% width in any browser.

Does any know of a script, a site, a tutorial that might help me complete this? Doesn’t have to be a free script, i don’t mind paying for this.

To be honest, any help in the right direction would be fantastically helpful here.

Tim

Carousel Image Quality
Trying to figure out how to make the images in my carousel not jump around so much. Does anybody know of an effect, file type, flash setting or anything else that can help smoooth this out?

Thanks fo the help.

if you want to see what im talking about go here
http://www.symbioticmeg.com

A Static Image To 3D Carousel
I did the fantastic 3D carousel tutorial and got it working properly. I'd like to put a statis picture in the middle of the carousel though, something that the items revolve around, so I'd need the items to go behind the image somehow. I imagine this can be accomplished by a mask but I have no idea how to mask the dynamically created items and now they just move on top of the middle image. Can someone help me with this?

Carousel Tut. Image Instead Of Text
Hi
I am trying to work with the carousel tutorial. It is possible to display text on the right when an icon is clicked. Is it possible to display an image instead of the text (reading from the Xml)?

Henk

Bug In The Attached Carousel Image Gallery
I need to fix the bug in a carousel based image gallery. I tried to figure it out but I couldn't.
Can anybody help me in this. I would be glad if somebody can explain what's going on in the action script

Carousel Image Gallery Scale
I finished my first design in flsh 8 using autoscript. It is a carousel gallery of 14 images rotating around.
I am very new to this area but i hava a knowledge on programming language.
What i want is when an image comes in the center of the monitor to scale
automatically, stay at the max scale for around 2 secs then scale back to its original size.
when an image is in the proccess of scaling, the other images should stop and wait until the image gets its original size.
actually the proccess goes like that:
1st image in screen center - scale for 2 secs - remain at max size for 2 sec - scale back to original size - carousel rotation -
2nd image - scale.....and so on
Actually what i am lookin for is in url http://www.greekmilitary.net/
I would be very gratefull if anyone can supply me with an appropriate actionscript code or any reference tutorials on this

Best Practices - Flash Image Carousel
When creating an image Carousel in flash for a web page, what are the best practices for loading quickly and changing images?

So for instance, on an ecommerce site, the home page often has a block created in flash in which 4-6 images are included with arrows or image numbers are displayed at the bottom as buttons. The images automatically change to the next ever x seconds unless the user selects an image number or the forward/back arrows.

Obviously, smaller the image the better. But how about best practices for things like:

Do you include one image in the block and then load dynamically the other images? Should all images be dynamically loaded if you want to change them on a daily/weekly basis? Any suggestions for making sure the images, especially the first one is loaded quickly?

Anyone have sample ~gpl code that demonstrates a block like this?

Two examples - kohls.com, jcrew.com

Image In Center Of Carousel Menu?
Hi, I recently built myself a carousel menu that works well, and was just wondering if it was possible to place a movieclip at it's center? the problem i've been having is that the icons at the back still seem to display overtop of the central movie clip, is there perhaps some way to set the depth of the movie clip I want in the center, so that the icons in front pass in front of the movie clip while the ones in back pass behind?

sorry if this is a bit confusing, i've been up all night trying to figure this out =/

thx in adv.

-wraith

3D Carousel Weird Image At Loading?
Hello

The 3d carousel is fantastic but i seem to have encountered an issue

when it loads it has a very odd royal blue blue box about 2 inches tall by half inch wide appear on the screen briefly. this appears in the upper left portion of the screen

any ideas what this might be? would like to make it go away! since it is all loading dynamically i have no idea where this little gremlin is coming from

thanks

justin

Carousel - Image Instead Of Text Upon ROLLOVER
I watched all 3 Carousel tutorials but can not figure out how to use an image instead of dynamic text for the rollover bubble that appears above each icon. I found a few threads on this forum with similar questions but none were answered.

Thanks in advance for your help.

How Can I Load An External Image Using This Carousel Code
I found this beautiful carousel ported to actionscript 3.0.
http://board.flashkit.com/board/atta...7&d=1188450564

How can I change the code so I can click one of the carousel images and have it load the companion large image located in a different folder into a movieclip on stage.

I am a newbie to AS3 and struggling to learn how to do things.

Hopefully, someday I will be smart enough to contribute to the forum with intelligent submissions.

Can't Find A Simple Image Rotator Tutorial (not Carousel)
Hi,

I need to make a simple movie that rotates through images/swfs, in order, and has a small navigation to select any of the images in the rotator. Probably will only contain 3 - 6 images/swfs at a time. I have come across many pre-made flash image rotators, but I need something a bit more open that I can customize to my liking. I'm not necessarily looking for ease of use or automated. I know enough AS that I understand it, I just need help writing it sometimes. Kinda like when you can read a language, but you're not fluent in writing it. Anyway, I'm not asking for someone to write AS for me, but if anyone has something already on hand that they don't mind sharing or if you know of a tutorial that may help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Object On Foreground
I'm building this small homepage for a friend...
It contains a lot of pics so I decided to create a moving MC which works fine. Now the id was to convert every pic into a button, when u rollover the picture enlarges.
The problem with this is (beside the large amount of work) that I can't find anything that places a button on foreground. you can check it in the Pics section of this page :

klik Pics at the bottom

Hope you see now what my problem is
Is there a function to tell a button that it has to stand on foreground ? So that every other object (pic in my case) hides behind my foreground-pic.

Hope I don't have to get all messy with layers... which is also an option but even more work :/

Pictures In Foreground
Hi,

I a have a view pictures in my MC. If I click on a picture it should zoomed (400%) in to the center of my movie, a click again it should have the normal size and position. Now I have the problem if I click on the second picture, that it isn't in foreground.

Here are my scripts oft he picture-mcs and the button in the mcs.

MCs:

onClipEvent (load) {
x = this._x;
y = this._y;
this._xscale = 100;
this._yscale = 100;
this.groesse = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x = xx;
this._y = yy;
this._xscale = this._xscale+schritte;
this._yscale = this._yscale+schritte;
if (this._xscale>300) {
schritte = 0;
}
if (this._xscale<130) {
schritte = 0;
}
}

Buttons in MCs:

on (press) {
if (groesse == 0) {
xx = 421.5;
yy = 249.5;
schritte = 300;
groesse = 1;
} else {
xx = x;
yy = y;
schritte = -300;
groesse = 0;
}
}

I've tried with swapdephts() but without success. Who can help me?
Thanx!

Game Foreground
I'm sure this is really simple to explain, when you see platform games and the foreground moves but charator doesn't how do they get around the restrictions of the stage width?

i.e. the stage can only fit so much platform on it can't it?

I'm sorry if I haven't explained myself very well... Cheers...

Foreground / Background
Hi i have a problem im using action script to make a 3d pyramid for a banner
and cant seem to get anything in the forground whatever i do everything goes to the background and the pyramid stays in the foreground
is there a way to put the pyramid in the background and bring the logo picture to foreground
here is the banner
http://www.flashtro.com/banner2.htm

Foreground/background - PROBLEM
hello there,

my txts doesn't make much sense.... iknow

the jpg might explain more.

i'm adding actionScript 2 a button in my menu (a yellow square in the background - yboxMC)

In order to see the yellow box, once the green box has moved on top of it, i need some way to make a button (called News) in the yellow box check if the green box (gboxMC) is open and if it is, i need the button to goto the frame within the gboxMC and tell it to close

is there any way of using actionscript to check...

"if gboxMC has got to frame 20 (the green box in the forground)
then go back to scene 10 (for example)"

i'm doing this from inside a different MC (i.e the yellow box, not the green box)

plz could someone reply or email me, even if u don't fully understand the problem and I will email u the SWF file and it'll be more obvious what i mean

Open Window In Foreground
im making a stand alone kiosk for our company

and it will run full screen, but will need to open 3 websites (that we define)

but when i do a:
getURL("http://yadayadayada");
the website opens up in a window behind the flash file.

is that a client side setting?
is there something i can do to avoid this?
am i using the wrong code?

Background 100% Foreground Pixel.
if you go to this site http://www.massiveattack.com you see that the content on the site doesnt resize when u move the browser window around, but the background does, its like 2 swf, one with pixels one with percent.

does anyone know who this is done??

thanks in advance

Code To Bring To Foreground
Hi there!

(assuming that all objects are at the same layer in the timeline)
i wonder if there is a code that enables one to click an object in background, in the way it comes to foreground, overlaping any other objects.

Thanks in advance.

Fading From Background To Foreground?
does anybody know how to get a picture to fade in from the background over an image in the foreground so that only the image that was in the background shows? plz post and tell me how. thanks

Text Flying Towards Foreground
I want to create something similar to this: http://www.finish.tv/
where I have moving objects & when you mouse over one object it flies to the foreground centred vertically & horizontally.

Has anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers.

Want File To Launch In Foreground...how?
Hello, i am doing a CDROM project and I am launching word docs using the bat file method.

I want my app to be fullscreen, however, I want the app launching the doc (Word or, in my case, Open Office) to launch in the foreground. Right now it launches behind the projector and is invisible to the user. This is not good.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Drawing Lines To The Foreground
I have a script which creates a sprite to draw lines, but I cant see the lines if I have a background image, because it is always in front of them. How do I move them to the foreground?

Thanks!

MC Plays On Foreground Not Background ... Why?
Howdy?

I am working on a site and, as I am trying to learn both CFML and FMX, I figure I work on combining them.  So, I created a simple MC, published it and place HTML on navigation bar on my site.  So far, so good ...

I juse JavaScrip pull down menus.  I noticed that as my menus are expanded, the menu items resolve behind the MC.  Of course this means -NOT GOOD-

My work around was to re-arrange my menus so that it does not expand where the MC is.  This soltution leaves me with the bad taste as it means that I cannot use FLASH for my content.

How do I make my MC to play nice and play on the background?

Thank you all in advance!

Jose Lerebours

KNOWLEDGE: Something you can give away endlessly and gain more of it in the process! - Jose Lerebours

Foreground On Patterned Background
OK, this is bugging the crap out of me. I appologize ahead of time if this has been brought up before. I made a pixel pattern which Im using as my background in dreamweaver, and my flash will be imported and centered there.

Now...I dont want there to be a seem when the viewer adjusts their browser size. Take for example http://www.sixstation.com/mix.html

...when you adjust the hieght and width of your browser, the image stays centered (of course) and the transparency in the drop shadow actually shows the image "gliding" across the window with the background pattern showing through. There isnt a seem anywhere in sight!

Now look at http://www.albertlan.com/...theres a seem when you adjust the browser size.

Now, I figured that I could use the pattern as a background in my flash movie, but when the viewer adjusts the broswer, the seem will be visible when it centers itself.

Any clue as to how I can achieve what sixstation.com did?

thanks
-Dom

How To Send Loaded Movie To Foreground ?
I'm trying to create a draggable windows navigational system similar to that found at http://theremediproject.com.

To achieve this, I created a separate swf for each window and loaded these swfs onto different levels.

The problem is that windows on higher levels overlap windows on lower levels. Is there any way to bring a window to the "front" of the pile, so to speak?

I've tried looking for some way to change the _level of a loaded movie, but I can't find anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
juicysauce

Background Percent, Foreground Pixels.
if you go to this site http://www.massiveattack.com you see that the content on the site doesnt resize when u move the browser window around, but the background does, its like 2 swf, one with pixels one with percent.

does anyone know who this is done??

thanks in advance

Expand Background Independent Of Foreground
I have been trying to pull off an effect for a while and I finally found another website that uses the effect I want to use. what I am trying to do is have whatever the background image is on each page of a website take up 100 perecent of the screen and stretch with the window, but I dont want the foreground text and images to scale along with it. an example is at www.redtettemer.com.
Can anyone assist me with this or at least push me in a general direction?
Thanks in advance.

Flash Background Independent From Foreground?
I've started seeing sites like this recently: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/courier/teaser/

Where there is a flash background image that resizes, but the foreground information stays the same size. How does that work? I know you can set a flash movie to 100%, but that resizes the whole thing, not just part of it. Is this a new flash 8 feature?

Any ideas?

Background/foreground Color Change
I ran into a problem. A graphic designer created a beautiful flash interface. But the buttons need to be dynamic and the selected button ends up having a red background on it. The text in the foreground needs to change fonts dramatically from one item to the next (because they are logos for companies) but are always black text on white background. I want to find a way to get the color of the attached jpg to turn red background with white text. I can change the background, or I can change the foreground with the color object and set transform, see this link for a sample.

I do not want to swap a new image in, because that would require two graphics for the client to create. I don't want to create extra work for the admin. If it can't be done, that is fine too. But I want to be armed with that information when I make recommendations to the client.

Bring File Download Prompt To Foreground
How do I bring this to the foreground. I have a player that will run off a CD. Neither full screen or minized alters this problem. I realize that if I did a download over the internet that would bring IE to the foreground but I want to have everything contained on the CD.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

getURL("Downloads/Word/"+WordDocVar);

How Can I Insert Flash Swf File As Foreground Effect?
I am using Flash MX (6.0), and I would like to know if there is a way to insert a foreground flash effect sfw file into my project.
Is there a way to do this?

[MX04] Background, Foreground, And Character Movement.
Okay so I need help with my character. I followed this tutorial: http://www.awestyproductions.com/tut...ng-background/
And I have my character and background working but I'd like to add the foreground - since I've been using Actionscript for like a day now I have no idea how to alter the code. It's probably a simple case of duplicating it but I'm not sure how.

Can anyone shed some light?

Scaling Background & Fixed Size Foreground
Is it possible to have a single jpg (1024x768) scale up & down with the browser window (no matter the aspect ratio, stretched to 100% browser width/height), while keeping the foreground content (most likely added via loadMovie) in a fixed scale and centered on the screen?

An example can be seen on the Second Story home page (http://secondstory.com/). I have a feeling I'm missing something very simple.

Thanks!

Slow Moving Of A Flash Application From Background To Foreground
I have created a Flash application running in a browser (Firefox 3 on Windows XP). When I move this application from foreground to background and (after some time) viceversa, I notice a considerable slowdown, i.e. for about thirty seconds the application becomes unusable.

My swf is very small (~200 KB), but this swf creates *many* buttons and *many* other graphical widget (with statical images), so the RAM occupied is considerable (~150 MB).

I initially assumed that was caused by the swap mechanism of the operating system or of the browser. This was *not* true, and it was confirmed by the fact that, by default, Mozilla Firefox prevent Windows from swapping out memory when the program is minimized (see config.trim_on_minimize option). Nothing has changed even disabling the paging system of Windows.

Later, I noticed that during the thirty seconds in which the application is unusable, the cpu usage is close to 100%. Weird, right?

The same problem occurs using:

- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or Mozilla Firefox 3 on Microsoft Windows XP
- Mozilla Firefox 3 on Linux, or
- Air on Linux and on Windows

so I am reasonably sure is not a problem of the operating system or of the browser.

Do you have any suggestions?

Depth Effect, Movement Within Foreground And Background Objects
Hello everyone,

I'm new here and was wondering if someone could help out. I have a project that has stumped me and could not find any tutorials or topics about how to achieve this.

I am trying to get a combination of effects found at these 3 places:
http://www.matthewmahon.com
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...re_panning.htm
http://www.finish.tv

Does anyone know of a tutorial that shows how to move vector or bitmap objects on a stage with actionscript, to pan in and out smoothly and give a sense of depth?

I haven't come across any site that lists out a function that can easily be used. Thanks in advance for any help.

Loading PDFs And EXEs Into Foreground From A Projector File
Hi,

I have just written a flash projector file (my first ever!) and it runs fullscreen. However, when users use it and click on links I have embedded into it to load PDFs or executables (like install shields) on their PC's they load BEHIND the fullscreen projector file so they see nothing happen. However, when I use my OWN PC and click the buttons the PDFs and Exes load into the foreground, in new windows.

Can anyone help me make sure links always load into the foreground? I use the getURL statement to load the PDF's (into explorer) and the FSCommand Exec statement to load the install shields. If anyone can recommended better ways of loading these file types please let me know!

Also, is it safe to assume that all windows users can load projector exe files without requiring any other software - such as the Flash Internet Plugin? I need to know this as I will be creating an AutoRun cd that will launch my projector file.

Many thanks in advance,

Anders

Anders@dwl.co.uk

Background/primary Swf Auto-loading Secondary/foreground Swf On Site Access?
ok i am building a website in Flash MX. my index.html loads up home.swf automatically (which is the background of my site with a navigation), but i want home.swf to load news.swf automatically when someone enters the site.

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for example:

when i enter my website home.swf is running in the background while news.swf is running on top of it. then when someone clicks another section news.swf goes away and othersection.swf is on top of home.swf

basically home.swf is always in the background but i want news.swf to load up automatically on the foreground when someone enters my site

Slow Moving Of A Flash Application From Background To Foreground [cross-post]
I have created a "big" Flash application, ~150 MB RAM. When I move this application from foreground to background and (after some time) viceversa, I notice a considerable slowdown, i.e. for about thirty seconds the application becomes unusable.

This behavior occurs using:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firefox 3 on Microsoft Windows XP
- Mozilla Firefox 3 on Linux, and
- Air on Linux and on Windows.

Do you have any suggestions?

Bring Browser Window In Foreground, When Clicked Inside Flash Movie
is currently working as...

- open up browser window
- link in window, opens up new flash movie in another window and bring it in foreground.
- flash movie has links, which if clicked is loading content in 1st window which stays in background

problem is, user will not be able to figure out, what happened or where the content is loaded in background window

requirement is...
- to bring browser window in foreground when link in flash movie is clicked, this is to let user know, window content is been changed

any help ?

many thanks for all your efforts

niraj

Dynamic Background Width/static Foreground Width?
I am trying to make a site with elements that resize dynamically depending on the browser width, but have the foreground element stay the same size all the time?

The first part is easy to do. If I set the height and width of the Flash file in the HTML to 100%, when the browser is resized, the Flash will also resize.

But I can't figure out the second part.

An example of what I'm trying to do is at Rilo Kiley's website

Another example is gskinner.com

No matter what your browser size, the background scales and the foreground is always the same width and height.

I am using Flash MX 2004.

Carousel - Foreground Image

What would be the best way to overlay an image on the carousel script. I'm trying to make the icons in the rear pass behind the overlayed image.Here's an example of what's happening now when I simply place the image on it's own layer.http://pmgroup.com/ready2go/_caro2/caro ... enter.html