Flash :: Carousel Style .. But Arrow Or Button Activates The Rotation Without Using Papervisio

Arrow Rotation That Follows Mouse?
Hello,

I am trying to achieve an effect that I believe is probably fairly easy for the right person. Picture a flash movie with a crosshair pattern on it. In the middle of the cross hair I have a simple arrow which I simply want to rotate (staying centered), to point and follow the movement of the mouse on the screen. So basically all is said and done the arrow would be capble of rotating anywhere inbetween 360 degrees, depending on where the mouse is.

Any help or direction would be most appreciated.
If need be I can point you to a preview of the page I am trying to do this with.

Thanks!

Arrow Rotation Which Follows Mouse?
Hello,

I am trying to achieve an effect that I believe is probably fairly easy for the right person. Picture a flash movie with a crosshair pattern on it. In the middle of the cross hair I have a simple arrow which I simply want to rotate (staying centered), to point and follow the movement of the mouse on the screen. So basically all is said and done the arrow would be capble of rotating anywhere inbetween 360 degrees, depending on where the mouse is.

Any help or direction would be most appreciated.
If need be I can point you to a preview of the page I am trying to do this with.

Thanks!

Rotation Of Movieclips Using Arrow Keys
I am very new to this flash thing...
I have searched and searched and i cant seem to find a way to do this...
I have to design a puzzel game, i have worked out how to pick up, move and drop the pieces - thats fine but now i want to rotate the individual pieces in increments of 45degrees using the left and right arrow keys, this piece of code works, but it only rotates the piece once in each direction

on (keyPress "<Left>") {
setProperty("", _rotation, 45);
}
on (keyPress "<Right>") {
setProperty("", _rotation, -45);
}

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Clock Hand Style Rotation
Hello, for an animation i'm doing, I have a character standing still. This character is winged. What I want, is to have the characters wings rotate from the end of one wing down behind the character. I've made a little drawing of what I mean....

the blue bar is where the wing starts, the red one is the position I want it to end. And the yellow is where the pivot point is. I have saw examples using actionscript, but was wondering if there was another way. Thank you.

Else/If Activates 2 Items At Once / MX2004
I have a map. It loads with certain items invisible. I've set up buttons to turn on the invisible items. I have this working.

How do I add another item to this code? Simply, I want when you click on this buttonm, it activates the REM_UNAVAILABLE movie clip AND the UNAVAILABLE_ON movie clip... and when you click again, it turns both movie clips off.

Code:
UNAVAILABLE_BUTTON.onRelease = function () {
if (mainMap.map.pan.click.real_estate_map.REM_UNAVAILABLE._visible == true) {
mainMap.map.pan.click.real_estate_map.REM_UNAVAILABLE._visible = false;
} else {
mainMap.map.pan.click.real_estate_map.REM_UNAVAILABLE._visible = true;
}
};
Its probably simple, but I'm a novice.

Thanks for the help!

Hover Activates A Snazy Glow - How?
If you view the attachment - you'll see "find out more" button and company logo to the right of it.

What are the steps to make the "Find out" button upon mouseover, activate a shimmering glow which travels from the top blue dot to the bottom right blue dot on the logo, following, of course, the golden ring that connects the three dots on the logo? This is to happen only on a hover/mouse over on the "Find out more" button.

How?

Thanks very much

KB

Script Activates Exponentially For Some Reason
is there any reason why the following code,

ActionScript Code:
var KeyListener:Object = new Object();KeyListener.onKeyDown = function():Void{ if(Key.isDown(Key.TAB) && _currentframe == 1){ gotoAndStop("pswd"); trace("tab key pressed. " + "Current frame = " + _currentframe); } else if(Key.isDown(Key.TAB) && _currentframe == 17){ gotoAndStop("user"); trace("tab key pressed. " + "Current frame = " + _currentframe); }}Key.addListener(KeyListener);

would activate incrementally more and more every time the tab key is pressed? It activates once, then once again, then after that it activates the following number of times per key press event:
(number of presses - number of times script activates)
1 - 1
2 - 1
3 - 2
4 - 3
5 - 4
6 - 6
7 - 9
8 - 14...

Nearly locked up my computer the first time, when I kept mashing the tab key over and over again (must've hit it around 15 times).

Mouse Rollover Activates Movie Question
I have a "cloud" shape and I want it to have paint streaks that slowly stretch down from it when the mouse scrolls over it. Then, when the mouse goes off of the cloud shape, the streaks retract back into the cloud.

I have an animation on the stage that starts out with just the cloud, then 20 frames later, the streaks stretch out and reach their furthest point, then 20 frames later they go back in the cloud. I have each streak on it's own individual layer.

Then I copied all of the frames into a new movie clip. It has like 5 layers.

I also have a button in the form of the cloud.

How do I combine the two so a rollover affects the movie clip?

Can anyone help? I am new to flash so don't assume I know anything. Thx.

Debugger Arrow Line Arrow Indicater Invisible
When I try run a project in debug mode, it works as it should, but the arrow that indicates which line the debugger is not visible. I can still step forward (tested with trace commands), but the arrow not there. It makes debugging very difficult. Anyone have this problem before and have a solution?

Thanks!
fitz

Keyboard Shortcut 'Left Arrow' And 'Right Arrow' Don't Work
I have an iMac running CS3 on 10.4.11

I'm using the normal keyboard that came with the mac, and the arrow keys are not moving the playhead in the timeline back or forward a frame at a time. Is there something I need to do to the keyboard to get this shortcut to work?

Button Row With Arrow ;)
Hello

I need this:

[BUTTON1] [BUTTON2] [BUTTON3] [BUTTON4] [BUTTON5]
......................^........................... ............................

If I place my cursor on 'button3', for example, the small arrow is supposed to slide under button3... it would be nice if the sliding arrow had some acceleration/deacceleration so it doesn't look too stiff... the possibility for easily integrating more buttons would be really nice as well

Does anyone know where I can download something like this?!

Thanks in advance

Have The Arrow Instead Of The Hand When It Comes To A Button
hi guys
small favior
how can i have the arrow instead of the hand when it comes to a button

Arrow Pointing To A Button
Hello, I need that an arrow point to one of the buttons that I have created around a circle (there are four buttons) when I move the cursor over one of them.

Please, help.

Arrow That Goes To Highlighted Button?
Hey everyone!

I am currently making a new site.. and admittedly it has been a long time since I've used flash again. But either way..

I am working ont eh navigation, and am wanting to have an arrow underneatht eh home button, then when I go over another button on the navigation teh arrow smoothly glides over underneath that one, and stays under it until I highlight another button, then it moves to the new one.

I hope this is at all understnadable, and ANY help would be amazing.

Thanks in advance for any information -

Arrow Key Movement For Button?
Is it possible for a button to be contolled by arrow keys?
if it is wats the code for it?

Button Problems And Mysterious Arrow
I have a problem with a few buttons that do not unload a movie. The problem occurs in the cabinet jewellry section where there are four buttons. If you click on countetops, the empty movie clip loads fine, then if you click on hardware, it goes to the main movie and frame asked for, just fine. The problem occurs whennow when you try to hit countertop again. Now both the content for the hardware and countertop information load. It happen for the other two buttons also. I do have an unload movie action but it does not seem to work.

My code for the countertop buttons is as follows:

Code:
on(release){
_root.loader.unloadMovie();
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("loader",100);
_root.loader._x = 2;
_root.loader._y = 44;
_root.loader.loadMovie("counter.swf");
gotoAndStop("COUNT");

}

My code for the hardware button is as follows:

Code:
on (release)
{
_root.loader.unloadMovie();{
_root.gotoAndPlay("HARD");
}
}

Any suggestions as why this is not working properly?

Second button problem is in the countertop section, where there are six buttons. Each button calls upon a frame with a scrollpane which loads a movie clip for the text. There are url links in each of these movie clips, The granite section and soap stone sections, the url links do not work, but they do in the rest of the sections. i made them all the same way, why would some work and not others?

The site can be viewed at:
http://www.ecaledonhills.com/TCWW/index7.0.html

There is also a problem with a gold arrow that appears on only four frames. I can't find it on any of the layers or movieclips. Any ideas of how I could troubleshoot to find this arrow to remove it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Taz

Use Standard Arrow Cursor On A Button?
Can I change the cursor over a button from the hand to a standard arrow (like you can with CSS)? I have tried to search this and I have only found instructions for creating a custom cursor. Do I really need to create a custom cursor?

I have an area with a rollover event but nothing happens when you click through. That is why I don't want a hand cursor. I am doing the rollover as a button, if I can do it another way that does not change the cursor, please let me know. I am using Flash CS3.

Thanks,
Sheri

Show Arrow Pointer Over Button?
I thought I knew how to do this, nevermind. I am trying to keep the arrow pointer remaining when hovering/clicking on a hidden button. I have tried the following lines in various orders...

hidden.mouseEnabled = false;

and / or

hidden.buttonEnabled = false;

???
Thanks

How Do I Make The Mouse Stay As An Arrow When Over A Button?
Im my flash movie, I want the user to be able to click on a particular button, but I don't want the mouse pointer to turn into the "hand" when it is over it. However, I do still want it to change for the rest of the buttons.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!
Lee

Slider Problems | Having Arrow Go Back To Certain Button
i have a slider that follows (arrow) that follows 4 different buttons i have when you mouse over the corresponding button.

my question is, when you mouse off the button, i would like the slider (arrow) to revert back to a specific 1 of the 4 buttons.

this is my button number one's code. it is also the button i would like the slider to revert back to:

on (rollOver) {
// slider - Movie Clip's Instance Name. button_1 - Button's Instance Name.
slider.xMove = button_1._x;
gotoAndStop(3);
}
on(rollout) {_root.gotoAndStop(3);}

as you can see, "slider" in the line of code is the instance name of my arrow. is there a way i can have it move to button_1 when you roll out?

thanks!

Arrow Up Button (in TextArea) Doesnt Work
It just simply doesnt work. The arrow down button works but there is a little sliding.

I really appreciate if anyone can tell me how to solve this problem

Here is the url of my website: http://www.dongsondrums.com/

You can find some text areas with scroll bar. Try Origins section

Custom Combobox (border + Arrow Button)
Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble fully customizing a comboBox. With HaloTheme, I skinned every element I wanted and/or used the CSSStyleDeclaration. The problem is I can't pin point the actual way to change the down arrow's background color which remains bright green. I went to the document's library and changed the arrow assets (Themes/MMDefault/ComboBox Assets/States...) but I think there's a line of code that keeps it green when I press it down. The up state is ok, it's the down state that's annoying.

I've spent many hours searching forums and tutorials, got answers to most of my questions except these ones.

My question is : how do I access this bright green when I click the down arrow button ?

I have the same problem with the border color. How do I access the white border color ? Here's an image of the actual combobox :

Many thanks in advance, guys.

Joshley

Button In Flash5: Don't Want The Mouse Arrow Turn Into A Hand ...
I have this button for a scrollbar in Flash5, and I don't want the mouse arrow to turn into a hand when rolling over the button ...

I know I could make a custom mouse arrow, but this feature is slow and buggy ..

Can Scrollcomponent Use Arrow Keys And Pageup/pagedown Button?
I'm trying to find a way to get the arrow keys and the page-up/page-down buttons to scroll the contents of a scrollpane component. Is this possible? Users seem to be griping that they don't want to click on the slider to scroll --they want to just hit the arrow keys like they can do in a Windows scroller.

Any ideas? The scrollcomponent code is a little intimidating for me.

How To Dram Arrow From My Arrow Symble To In My Di
how to dram arrow from my arrow symble to in my diagram editor

Carousel With Button Navigation?
Hello-
I've recently been mess'n aroud with the carousel tutorial from gotoandlearn.com. I've learned a lot, but I can't seem to figure something out. Instead of having the icons rotate continuously and relying on the mouse position...I would like the rotation to be driven by button clicks. So there would be navigation to click through each icon. I've attached an .fla that I've put buttons in it to further demonstrate what i mean. Any help much appreciated...

[3d Carousel] How To Add A Back Button ?
Hello everyone

i just discovered this place (through a friend of mine) & i love it !!

i followed 2 tutorials this far and i have learnt lots of different stuff !

i have a question concerning the 3d carousel :

is it possible to make a 'back button' appear somewhere on the scene after we click on an icon of the carousel ?

i know that clicking on the icon itself sends back to the spinning carousel but it may not seem obvious to people not used to flash the web in general.

i have some more questions but i'll wait 'til i don't find out myself

thank you !!

Button In Carousel Tutorial?
I have used the tutorials to create the carousel. This works great. There is only one thing that I really would like to accomplish but haven't been able to yet:

What happens now is that when you click on an item it moves to your left, and a text box becomes visible (as in the tut.). What I would like is to be able to click on a button there and go to a detailed php or html page on that subject.

So there must be a button, like 'more info' wich has an getUrl action, and that url will also be loaded in thru the xml.
It shouldn't be too hard, but i don't know how.....

any tips?

Carousel Add A Button After Toolbar
Hi,

IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢m new to Flash, but IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢m so lucky I found this fantastic site.

I have been doing the lessons on Carousel 1-2-3 and I have 3 questions.

Is it possible to add another icon once you are inside the toolbar giving the option of going to a new web page without altering the option of going back to the Carousel?

The other question I have is it possible to add a logo to run in the background behind the Carousel and how can I make the stage smaller i.e. 700X250 and keep all things in prospective?
Thanks for any help. :shock:

Carousel With Button Navigation?
Hello, I've been playing around with the wonderful carousel tutorial. I am learning a lot and have been racking my brain on trying to modify it. Instead of the icons constantly moving with the mouse, is there a way to only move the icons when a button is clicked? For example, All icons will be stopped until I hit a "next" or "previous" button, and it will move and position the next icon in line. I hope this makes sense ;). Has anyone done something similar? Thanks in advance...my brain is fried!

Making The Mouse Stay An Arrow When Rolling Over An Active Movieclip Or Button
I need to be able to put an active area on a graphic, but I don't want to have the mouse change to the hand, it needs to stay the arrow. This is for an educational application where I need the user to find a certain part of a graphic and click it, but if the mouse turns into the hand, it will give the answer away. Is there a way to do this. Thanks in advance.

Carousel Visible On One Frame By Mc Button
I have coded a carousel for a portfolio that will take the user to different examples of work. I would like to have this carousel visible only on one frame, which will be the portfolio page. I have a movieClip button that will take you to that page, and I can get it to show up on that correct frame. But then when I click another button to go to another frame, I need it to go away. I tried some things as simple as:

item0._visible = false;

item0._visible = true;

on different frames, but then if I leaev the frame I want everything on, thrn come back, it puts two on top of each other which won't work. Below is the code for the carousel which works fine. If anyone has any ideas how to make the carousel only show up on this one frame that I can have my buttoin go to, I would appreciate it. Here is the URL if you need to see whats going on.

http://www.arocreative.com

var numOfItems:Number = 6;
var radiusX:Number = 50;
var radiusY:Number = 150;
var centerX:Number = 200;
var centerY:Number = 275;
var speed:Number = 0.015;

for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
{
var t = this.attachMovie("item"+i,"item"+i,i+1);
t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
t.onEnterFrame = mover;
}

function mover()
{
this._x = Math.cos(this.angle) * radiusX + centerX;
this._y = Math.sin(this.angle) * radiusY + centerY;
var s:Number = this._x / (centerX+radiusX);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s * 100;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);
}

this.onMouseMove = function()
{
speed = (this._ymouse-centerY)/7000;
}

item0.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item0.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item0.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie0");

}

item1.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item1.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item1.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie1");

}

item2.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item2.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item2.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie2");

}

item3.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item3.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item3.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie3");

}

item4.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item4.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item4.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie4");

}

item5.onRollOver = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item5.onRollOut = function(){
new mx.transitions.Tween;
new mx.transitions.Tween;
}

item5.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndStop("movie5");

}

Thanks you anyone who can help.

Carousel Duplicate Movieclip And Button HELP
Hello I have integrated a version of Lee Brimlows carousel into a flash MX 2004 document, the carousel works great , except when I click on a button to go to another section of the flash document, the carousel does not disapear as I would like, it continues to duplicate in another section of the flash doc, Please help I have tried on (release) {
removeMovieClip("tn_mc");} amongst other things, please can you help solve the problem I have attached the code below. Thanks in advance Sandra

stop();

// total is length of label_list OR link_list
// OR total frames inside "flashmo thumbnails"
var total:Number = 6;
// length of label_list array and length of link_list array must be equal
// to length of frames inside "flashmo thumbnails" movieclip

var label_list:Array = new Array( "Radio planning", "Tactical radio planning", "Digital cartography", "Spectrum management", "Web based applications", "Antenna systems", "047_present", "048_vertical_menu_xml", "049_horizontal_menu_xml", "050_star_effect", "051_star_motion", "052_design");

var link_list:Array = new Array("http://www.atdi.com/icstelecom.php", "http://www.atdi.com/htzwarfare.php", "http://www.atdi.com/icsmapserver.php", "http://www.atdi.com/icsmanager.php", "http://www.atdi.com/icsonline.php", "http://www.atdi.com/antios.php", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_047_present", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_048_vertical_menu_xml", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_049_horizontal_menu_xml", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_050_star_effect", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_051_star_motion", "http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_052_design");

var radiusX:Number = 330;
var radiusY:Number = 70;
var centerX:Number = 400;
var centerY:Number = 240;
var speed:Number = 0.005;
tn_mc._visible = false;
info.text = "";

for( var i = 0; i < total; i++)
{
var t = tn_mc.duplicateMovieClip("tn"+i, i);
t.gotoAndStop(i+1);
t.fm_label.text = label_list[i];
t.fm_url = link_list[i];

t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/total);
t.onEnterFrame = mover;

t.fm_button.onRollOver = function()
{
info.text = "URL: " + this._parent.fm_url;
}
t.fm_button.onRollOut = function()
{
info.text = "";
}
t.fm_button.onRelease = t.fm_link.onRelease = function()
{
getURL( this._parent.fm_url );
}
}
function mover()
{
this._x = Math.cos(this.angle) * radiusX + centerX - tn_mc._width * 0.35;
this._y = Math.sin(this.angle) * radiusY + centerY;
var s = this._y /(centerY+radiusY);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s*100;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);
}
this.onMouseMove = function()
{
speed = (this._xmouse-centerX) * 0.0002;
}

Carousel Button Load A Movie?
Anyone know of a way to make the xml file load an imported quicktime movie?
I'm not asking you to do the work for me, im just asking for suggestions.
Thanks so much

Adding Link Or Button To 3D Carousel
Hi,

I'm fairly new at using xml with Flash. How would I add a link or button to the 3D Carousel? I mean in or near the paragraph.

Thanks!

Windows Style Button
I'm not sure if anyone else was unhappy with the Flash MX 2004 buttons and the size bloating that occurs by adding them. I know I was. To get around this I created a windows style button. You just adjust the width of the button and then assign text via action script. It automatically redraws itself at run time. This cuts the file size down by 25k.

Enjoy,
Joshua

Alternative Return To Home Button For Carousel
I am currently using the Carousel III for a navigation model. Ive got the nav to work perfectly but am struggling as I want to add a home button in a side menu Ive added myself. I attach the 'unReleased' function on release and all the other icons return to the Carousel structure except for the icon which is highlighted. What Im looking for is almost a 'reset' function to initiate the main Carousel. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Toggle Or Check Button (on/off Style)
Ive created a mute button on my audio mixer, i want the mute button to change color when it is active.

At the moment ive used flash's over state to give me the correct hover state however when the user clicks the button the button reverts back to its 'off' state.

How do i get my button to have a clicked state so that when the user clicks the button it changes colour, and also so that then when they click it again it reverts back to the original state???

Any help at all is most appricated, thanx

Need To Code YouTube Style Button
Hi,

I'm using the FLV Playback component to play an external .flv.

However, I'd also like to add one of those BIG play buttons that sits in the middle of the video area, like youtube.

I tried adding the FLV Playback Custom "Play" button to the stage, but I can't find any info on how to code it.

Can someone give me an idea how to code a button to play an external .flv?

Thanks very much

Radio Style Button Behavior
Hi, I'm pretty brain drained from this video player project, and a major stumbling block at this point is the following:

I have a List component that is propagated by an XML file with different categories that are instantiated by the user via a series of buttons. So the behavior goes as follows.

User clicks button, button holds highlight, list is propagated, user clicks another button, first button goes dark, second button gets highlight, list is refreshed.

I'm having problems with the first button goes dark part.

Oh wait. I guess I could assign each object to a static array on construction then cycle through that to find the enabled button and dim it.

Well, lets try that. Thanks actionscript.org!

How To Change Button Label Style
Hi there,

I've subclassed the Button component class and created a button skin for the 4 button states (up, down, over, disabled) and everything works fine.

Now, I also would like to style the button's label for the 4 button states. The problem is that the label is dynamically set so that I cannot just create a button with the static label text and style...

For example, in the over and down state I would like the button label to change color. And in general I would like to change the font used for the button's label.

How do I do that?
Thanks,
Dan

Edited: 04/17/2007 at 01:54:46 AM by dnii

Mocking A Hyperlink Style To A Button
hey, i have a button that contains text which i want to have to have the rollover effect of a link (underline), the link itself should not actually link to another URL but go to a certain frame in the timeline.

any ideas?
thnx

Edited: 05/09/2007 at 02:20:16 AM by CapiRight

Changing Scrollpane's Button Style
Hello guys. Need to scroll a movie, and i managed to get rid of the border... the scrollpane;s border but now i want to change the buttons as well, and every other details (scroll bar, etc) ... MX2004 Pro ... it can't be done like in MX by simply editing the skins from the library?

Really in hurry ... please give me a hand here.

Thanx a mill times

Regards,
Dragos.

Mouse Over Button Cursor Looks OLD Style, Why?
Last edited by enen : 2004-04-19 at 02:14.

I start a clean flash (i'm not a pro ) and do a buton and so on...

Why is the cursor, that apears when my mouse is over a button, why is the cursor old style/ugly not that normal style the normal hand (its an old flash hand i think).
I'm using MX2004.

How can i make it the NORMAL LOOK and how can i make it costum ?

Thank u very much.

Flash Button Movie Style
Hello there!

I am brand new to flash, so plz apologize my little knowledge. I would have a question:

I know so far how I can do buttons in flash, but the way I know of so far only allows me to do buttons on mousevents, meaning kinda like the graphic/javascript way. The button looks one way on no mouseevent and another on e.g. mouseover. But what I wanna do with flash is to have the button e.g. morphe from one way to another. So I guess I have to do another movie or scene somehow and make some syntax like:

onMouseOver load scene_button or something like that? Is that correct? How exactly would I do so?

thx in advance!