Flash :: Scrolling Pages

Scrolling Pages
I have full pages that I was hoping to scroll within a viewing area in an animation. Obviously I can't simply scroll an entire page, full of text, images, etc. That runs too slowly, and requires too much CPU. So how would I do this? Is there a way to get flash to create or only work with objects when they'd be in view in order to not scroll every single thing?

Scrolling Pages
Can anyone give me steer in the right direction about how to create scrolling pages in flash for my content?

To produce scrolling pages do you need to know more than the very very basics of actionscript. If so, where does someone like me start on the learining curve for actionscript?

Many thanks in advance.

Scrolling Flash Pages
I am doing a Flash Projector presentation for CD Rom but have a problem in that certain sections (frames or then additional movies) of the presentation needs to be horizontally scrollable as these will contain large amounts of text per page. Document/movie size will be 800 x 600.

Can either of the Flash components "ScrollBar" or "ScrollPane" be used and how would I apply them?

Scrolling Past Other Pages
Hi,

Could any one please tell me how to do this:

When you click on a button for a page, the movie scolls past other pages o get to the page you want.

For example: http://www.misteeq.com/

:http://www.illbeingz.com

Scrolling Dyn. Text On Different Pages
My flash file contains 12 pages and those twelve pages each contain a dynamic text field. Some of them have to get a scroll-bar. But when I put one in and I change the link to the dyn. text document, each field will contain that text document!!!!

It seems like a well-known problem, but I can't find any solution!

Help me! This is my site:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/jan.cobben/dik_1.html

XXXX Ingrid

Long Scrolling Pages
Hi, I was wondering how this fashion site creates this scrolling effect.
http://www.bureauclothing.com/
I've seen it before but I've never really found a source file or tutorial showing how to do it. Any ideas? Thanks!

[CS4] Scrolling Effect Between Web Pages
Hi All,

I am very new to FLASH, i have known about it for a few years but never tackled it up till now, i recently downloaded the trial version of Flash Professional CS4. Rather than aimlessly play around with it i decided to have a go at a website, its basically a portfolio website for a friend of mine. I have been using the Lynda CS3 training DVD which is very very good but it doesn't cover some of the things i want to tackle.......

So far i have my web page + all the buttons created, i have masked a center section when my main web page will appear whether it be Home, Contact, etc and the outer border will remain constant... This is all working fine i can click from page to page with some basic code (only managed a couple of buttons so far).

My center background is one long image and i have created a tween to slide (scroll) to the next page and so on. which when you scroll using the time line looks great.... UNTIL you preview and its just keeps scrolling and scrolling i have tried the stop command at the top of my buttons but it just doesn't seem to be working... can any one help me with the code please i am EXTREMELY NEW to any kind of coding and picking it up is taking some time, there is so much.

I have put a link below to a website which uses the effect im trying to create which will give you a better idea than me waffling on.

The link does contain some page 3 content so i though i better warn you

http://www.rhianmariesugden.com/

Any help would be appreciated, Thank you in advance

Chris

Scrolling Text/pages
I read the Flash help section on "creating scrolling text" but I am stuck.
First of all, I would like to have my text AND images scroll vertically. (ideally i would like to have only the up/down buttons visible rather than having it in a visible Scroll Pane. but if this is a more coomplicated process, the Scroll Pane would do)
do.)
so which component would I need in order to do this?

i suppose I will follow up with further questions once i at least get this figured out :)
thanks

Edited: 12/13/2006 at 09:01:02 AM by BullocksTroy

Scrolling Pane For Pages
Hey guys,

I'm not even sure what this is called but I've seen it pretty frequently. Basically, it's like a scrolling pane but for your Flash site pages. For instance, you click "page 5" and the flash quickly scrolls through pages1,2,3,4.. and brings you to page 5. Then you click page 2 and it quickly scrolls through pages 5,4,3... and brings you to page 2. It kinda goes through all your pages to bring you the one you selected. I would really appreciate it if someone can point me to a tutorial. Thanks!

- Nick

edit: this is an example of what I'm looking for (but in flash):

http://dibusoft.com/services

Printing Pages With Scrolling Text Boxes
I'm wondering if anyone has ever had any success getting the contents of a scrolling text box to print for users. I know how to get the page to print but I would like to know if scrolling text box contents can be programmed to print.

Is there a work-around to this?

Printing Mulitple Pages Without Knowing The Actual Number Of Pages Before Hand
Does anybody know how to print multiple pages without knowing how many pages there are going to be?

How Do I Link Swf Pages To Other Swf Pages
I just designed my first complete website using only Swish. However the site is over 5meg and takes forever to load. I realize that i have to design only one scene in a movie for the main page and then have it link to another single scene movie. I'm not sure how to do it. any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Dave

Loading Pages Within Pages
I have a flash menu I made. It's pretty big (741 x 426). I have several buttons on the menu with some animation. Each time you click on one of the buttons, the menu and the button does an animation.

My problem is my main menu, has many sub menu's. I dont want to go to a new page each time they click on a link.

I want the sub menu's to be able to load any of the pages on my site at the bottom of the page clicking on the buttons. So I want the page to be blank at first except the flash menu, when you click a button it loads a page at the bottom, without having to go to a new page...

I cant do frames because of the large size of the menu and I want the menu to dissapear when you scroll since it's so big.

So what's the easiest way to load a html page within a page and what action would I use to make it happen? I just recently got a flash mp3 player that loads files using xml, is that possible to laod html files onto a page with xml?

Pages With In A Page? Sub Pages
I need some help,
On my flash site i have a a section called "photoshop" and i am almost running out of space to put pop up buttons that you click and it brings up my artwork
(see image)

I know its possible and that if I put some buttons that say something like next and back for browsing through pages I can have more than one page on the "photoshop" section, sort of like a sub page

I know I can do it I just don't know how so if anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated and thanks

Simple /:xpos Scrolling, However Load External .swf When Scrolling Stops
Hi guys I need some help with a simple horizontal slider. (See attached)
Basically I have a horizontal slider with 3 buttons which make the slider go to a specific position using:

on (release) {
/:xpos = -376;
}

Now what I want to happen is that when the button is pressed I want it to load an external .swf movie (say video.swf onto level 1)

I have tried just adding using:

on (release) {
/:xpos = 0;
loadMovieNum("video.swf", 1);
}

which just loads the movie and then scrolls. However I need it to be the other way around. It scrolls to the location and then loads the movie.

I would really like it to use some type of statement telling it that if xpos = -350 then load .swf onto level 1 and if xpos has not yet reached -350 to do nothing.

However the major principal is to get the scroll and then the load, rather than the other way around.

Cheers
Dom

Scrolling Text Field That Stays Scrolling On Rollover
on (rollOver) {
mytext.scroll--;
mytext.maxscroll = x;
}

Here is my code, you have to keep clicking the button to scroll the text field, how do I code it to just have the mouse rollover the button and the text field will continue to scroll automatically? Thanks.....

Fancy Scrolling, Need That Slidy Scrolling Effect For Text
Can anyone point me to a tutorial where the textbox speeds up and slows down the scrolling when u hit the arrows...kinda like www.jossstone.co.uk

On Press Scrolling Problem. Scrollbar. Scrolling. Button
How do I make this actually work for on press? It works fine for when you just click it, but the on press function doesnt work.

thanks for any help.

on (press) {
textbox.text._y += scrollVal;
if (textbox.text._y>upperLimit) {
textbox.text._y = upperLimit;
}
lineLoc = slider.line._x;
linelength = slider.line._width;
slider.handle._x = ((textbox.text._y/lowerLimit)*lineLength)+lineLoc;
}

Using Flash Scrolling Text Box To Create Scrolling Schedule
Hi All,

For work, I'm creating a PowerPoint presentation which needs to include a really long schedule. I wanted this schedule to crawl up the screen. I thought of doing this part in Flash and inserting it into the PPT. Has anyone had luck with this sort of thing using PPT and Flash? Is there a better strategy. I have CS3 Web and Production and will be doing this portion of the project this weekend and thought I'd ask some pros. Is there another CS3 product that might be better. I am more Familiar with After Effects but haven't used it for anything quite like this before.

Thanks!

Flash Script - Scrolling Menu With A Scrolling Background
This is a dedicated thread for discussing the SitePoint article 'Flash Script - Scrolling Menu With A Scrolling Background'

How To Smooth The Movement (scrolling Background And Scrolling Menu ) ?
hi! i'm new here and also a beginner in flash.. i need some help on how to smooth the movement in my flash project.. scrolling background with scrolling menu.. i got this script from a tutorial and i did some adjustment on it.. but somehow both the background and menu movement are not smooth as i want. its kept jerky along their movement. this is the script that i use to move both background and menu.. hope someone can help me to repair or to alter this script.. thanks! =)

//scrolling background with scrolling menu
//when mouse moves left, background and menu moves right

if ((_xmouse>-0.5) && (_xmouse<230) && (_ymouse>-0.1) && (_ymouse<450)) {
_root.back._x =_root.back._x +6 ;
_root.menu_mc._x =_root.menu_mc._x +10 ;
}

// when mouse moves right, background and menu moves left

if ((_xmouse>400) && (_xmouse<616) && (_ymouse>-0.1) && (_ymouse<450)) {

_root.back._x =_root.back._x -6 ;
_root.menu_mc._x =_root.menu_mc._x -10 ;
}
if (_root.back._x>1309.5) {
_root.back._x = -79;
}
if (_root.back._x<-697.8) {
_root.back._x =679;
}
//----------------------------------------------
if (_root.menu_mc._x>1200.5) {
_root.menu_mc._x = -99;
}
if (_root.menu_mc._x<-730) {
_root.menu_mc._x =569;
}[/size][/size][/size][/size]

(quickie) Scrolling HTML Field Not Scrolling To The End
Hey guys and girls,

I've got some data from a file displaying in a wrapped, HTML textfield. text is formatted and appears as expected but as i try to scroll, it only scrolls one line down and stops.

the maxscroll property returns 5, and the scroll goes down to 2 and for some reason won't go further down.

but, and here's the fun part driving me f*3%# nuts... if i select the field and then use arrows, i can scroll it that way... but then once i've done that, the buttons work too. I tried using the selection object .. but nothing... and i've turned off the HTML and seen that scroll (probably coincidently) would have a maxscroll of 2.

so question is... what the ****? how can i get thing to work? thanks world. peace.

Question: Text Scrolling Vs. Clip Scrolling
I'm working on a scrollbar right now, and have it working quite nicely for scrolling a movie clip. But I began to wonder, which is better, scrolling a clip with text or scrolling the text itself?

Any thoughts on this flash community?

Personally, I like the fact that you can implement easing and get a smooth scroll by scrolling the clip, but then again, with the scroll wheel now available for the text scrolling, that's cool too.

Anyway, just curious on everyone's thoughts on this. Which do you like to see when you visit a site?

Automatic Scrolling On Mouse Over For Text Scrolling
hi all, ive made a scrolling text box with an up and down button as listed in the tutorials. i know how to make it move 1,2,3,etc lines at a time when the mouse is over but what code/variable do i need to replace the number with to make the text scroll continously as long as the mouse is over it?

thanks
bast

Stopping A Scrolling Thumbnail Scrolling On Its Loadup?
Firstly hey all hope you can help me with what is hopefully an easy question.

Firstly I've made a vertical scrolling verison based on the actionscript of this Tutorial. However because of the lopped motion Tween it begins scrolling instantly after its loaded. I want it to load frozen until the mouse is rolled-on is there anyway in actionscript or by editting the tweens to make it this possible???

This link is an example of my thumbnail scroller (sorry for the shameless self promo of my website!)
http://seantooley.com/pages/Scars&Sp...sGallery15.htm

This is a link to the tutorial I used (tutvid.com) Though it was good!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrIQ...1DBDD6&index=5

Lastly the actionscript if it helps. which I hope someone can! I would be a very grateful man to whoever can provide the answer !!

_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(_root._xmouse<240) {
myVar=false;
}
if(_root._xmouse>2) {
myVar=true;
}

if(_root._ymouse<13 and myVar==true) {
ImageBar.prevFrame();
}
if(_root._ymouse>445and myVar==true) {
ImageBar.nextFrame();
}
}

Thanks again Sean Tooley

Scrolling Flash Pane On Scrolling Web Page
This is a repost, but I've still not figured out a solution.

I have a Flash movie that appears on a webpage. The Flash contains scrolling content ( scrollpane, text field, whatever).

The containing webpage is tall, and therefore also has scrollbars.

My Problem: When users try to use the MouseWheel to scroll through my Flash scrolling data, the browser page scrolls as well. It's very annoying.

I would like to be able to have the MouseWheel scroll my Flash scrolling content when it's over the flash, but scroll the webpage when it's not over the Flash.

Does anybody know a way to supress wheel-based browser page-scrolling while my mouse is over a Flash movie??? Is there a way to eat/stop propagation, whatever, of the wheel event in the brwoser, either from Flash or from Javascript?

Scrolling A Dynamically Created Mc (rollover Scrolling)
I've been trying to find a way to do this for a while...

Anyone have any good tutes, examples on creating the horizontal scrolling menu with dynamically attached clips? the style where if the user mouses over the right hand side of the menu it slides left, etc?

there's lots of tutes out there for simple scrolling but not much that take a dynamically sized clip into consideration!

thanks for any input.

Scrolling Photo Gallery But Not Flat Scrolling, Please Help Out
Hey everyone...

First off all, I thank you all to read my first thread in this website and also thanks Kirupa to give me chance to learn from you all masters.

As I am designing a website in which I am stuck where there is a flash script required. I am looking for a script which makes a small 5 to 6 Image scrolling photo gallery.

My problem is I don’t want flat gallery I am looking for a gallery which shows the perspective image coming from a deeper wall (e.g. image attached). In this Image below asume gray is a piller and the image have to scroll from the deep part of the piller in perspective.

Hope you guys and gals can help me.. I'm really stuck here.

Thanks
Rupesh

My Scrolling Pane Won't Stop Scrolling OnRollOut...
I'm having trouble getting the scroll to stop, and can't find a problem in the code. It's in a movie clip called "timeline."

Code:

panel.onRollOver = panelOver;
function panelOver() {
this.onEnterFrame = scrollPanel;
delete this.onRollOver;
}
var b = stroke.getBounds(timeline);
function scrollPanel(){
if(_xmouse<b.xMin || _xmouse>b.xMax || _ymouse<b.yMin || _ymouse>b.yMax){
this.onRollOver = panelOver;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
if (panel._x>=-900) {
panel._x = -900;
}
if (panel._x<=-3100) {
panel._x = -3100;
}
var xdist = _xmouse-0;
panel._x += Math.round(-xdist/7);
}

You might notice that I have timeline specified in the var b bit of code, which was the only way I could get it to scroll smoothly - otherwise, it scroll jerky and only a few hundred pixels.

Web Pages
Real newbee here - I want to create a web page to be viewed standard 800x600. I want to use flash to do this. When I create the homepage, do I design it as one graphic and add buttons as layers as an example.

Msn Pages
[font=century gothic]I am totally new and green to flash until buying the swish 2.0 ...wait a minute still green ... my ? is can i use swish created movies in msn pages ? and if so ... how ? i copied the html to the clipboard then pasted it in the msndialog thingy and got a bunch of code when the page finally loaded ... HELP !

Web Pages
I would like to make a webpage made almost exclusively with Flash MX and the rest with Dreamweaver MX. I found a few tutorials on making popup menus and the like, but how can I go about making the rest (buttons, other pages, etc) and then do I import it into DW? Please help, but speak in lamens terms as I am new at Flash.

Steve

Name.php?id=1 Pages
hi all ive been to this websaite at this url http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/ adn at the top where the pictures at each picture refers to the same housemate_news.jsp page with ?id=1 to ?id=12 could some 1 please tell me how this is done i was told its a $_get templete done aany1 know how to do this please if so could you post it hre 4 me as i'm in need i cant do it ive tryed but not sure how to do it thankyou

Help On Swf And Htm Pages
Hi Guys I just got started in Embedding my Flash movies with my dreamweaver and when I upload the swf and htm pages to my web site if I click on the swf file it takes time to download the file BUT if I click on the htm file it opens the page a right up. is it ok to link to the htm file so it opens right up and you don't have to wate for it to download like you do with the swf file? thank you for your help.

joekid54

Going To Pages
Hey... i am making my site using a movie i found here but i am editing it and soo on... but ya this is what i have so far http://24.82.2.93/~sean/Site/SeanzPlace.swf

BUT when you go to the "main menu" and go to about us it works fine but when i started to change the pages and add some i got lost! SO VERY LOST!! when i click on the friends link it goes to about us...

the action script that is on the about us link is something like

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("open about us");
}

and on the friends link it is

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("open friends");
}

i dont know if this will work but heres the .fla

http://24.82.2.93/~sean/Site/SeanzPlace.fla

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME OUT!!!

Help With Two Pages.
I put up a website for my mom's daycare for her birthday. It's gonna be used mostly for the parents to see their kid pics as she always has a waiting list so it's not to draw more business. I tried to keep it simple as she cares for mostly middle to low income families that don't have high-speed internet. I would like to add a flash picture viewer for those that have high-speed. Something with a globe where you can click an arrow and make the pics spin around the globe. I've gone through tutorials, and even tried templates but they just don't work or at least I can't get them to work.
Can someone point me in the right direction to getting this done. The website is www.lilmunchkinschildcare.com Any help would be appreciated.
I use Macromedia Pro Flash 8

Pages
Hey guys, what i'm haveing an issue with is, when A page loads it doesn't fit the interface window. I've tried resizeing the .html file but it's running off of the .swf file so it wouldn't work. Is there a way to resize the .swf without haveing the .fla file to do it. I lost it when my hdd fried.

www.tromiano1.com

click on the MMORPG and Family links. You'll no what I'm talking about.

Thanks.

Pages
Hi all, i'm a noob at flash design and I need some major help with the actionscript coding for my flash website. I have designed the home page, however i can't figure out how to get the other pages to load when the corresponding button is pressed. For example, I have a movie clip that will transition the "about me" page in when the "about me" button is pressed using the following code:
var aboutme:MovieClip;
var aboutmebtn:Button;
aboutmebtn.onRelease = function(); {
aboutme.play();
}

When I load the clip and click on the button, it works the first time, however if I try to click on the button a second time, the animation will not play. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? please help!

Pages
Hi, I am building my first all flash website. I am wondering what is the best way to build the pages. Is is best to create them as 'movie clips', scenes or anything else? Also what is the best actionscript to use for a simple pre-loader.

Can anyone help me?

Many thanks,

Chappers UK

How To Do This Web-pages?
I need help finding flash tutorials to do web-pages like these examples:

http://www.chromazone-imaging.co.uk/
http://www.jonathanyuen.com/

please help me!!! I am not an expert in actionscript that is why I don't know exactly how to search.

Pre-loading Pages?
How can I load all my pages and content into the users memory so that when they click on a certain link..the media (external .swf's) load faster? I dont want to know how to make a preloader..I want to know how to then when a user comes to my site..all my content pages continue to load in the background..(or whatever)

Thanks.

-whispers-

Loading Pages
I am very new obviously, I want to make a simple flash loading page for my site. If anyone can help me make this please let me know. If you could even just send me the .fla file so i could see how it's done then THANK YOU! but what i'm looking for is a black page with a blue and white graphical loaing bar. I really dont know how to do alot with this so any advice is major help to me.

Help Loading Big Pages
I have a site with a few diff. flash movieson each page. they are not huge, but on a 56K it's a bit slow. I was wondering if there is a way to make it so when you open my home(index) page it loads that page and then starts loading other images and movies on dif. pages so they will open faster when you go to them. I want to be able to have my index page open and usable while other objects on other pages are being loaded.

can someone tell me if and how this would be possible.
please, I would appreciate any help. I've posted so many Q's here in the last month and always got an answewr, just wanted to say thanks for that.

Tansfer Between Pages
if I want to click a button and have a new scene sorta expand over what is being viewed while the button is pushed--how would I do that?

I want after you click the button what is there stays, but a box or something expands overtop of it for the new page(which I want to be a scene)...can I do this with a scene or only layers? I don't want 50 million layers in my page but I want the effect of it opening up over the current page.

would movie clips be better?

thx

Flash And ASP Pages ?................................................. ...............
I am creating an all flash web-site, I would like to load an ASP page in the flash movie,without going to a different html or asp page. Is this possible, if so how?
Thanks

Web Pages Entirely In Flash
This question is about Flash 4, and I'm using it with Mac OS9.
.
I'm an advanced Flash user as far as making animated cartoons goes, but I never had any formal training in how to use it for web pages!
.
My site is entirely flash, and even though all my links, animations, and Flash "programming" works, I'm having trouble getting the pages to display like everyone else's I see.
.
First problem is, when I scroll down the page (on any computer, in any browser) it scrolls very slowly and turns white at the bottom where the movie should be, then fills it in as I scroll down. So it's not like I'm scrolling down a solid page that has been completely downloaded, because it it has to redraw everything at the bottom every time I scroll. It doesnt look smooth. Are we not supposed to make long pages that require scrolling? Will reformatting the page so it fits in one screen fix the problem? Or should it not be glitching like this?
.
The other problem is the way it displays the long rectangular page in the browser window. Most people's pages fit in the window and aren't distorted or anything when you resize the window. Mine has a border around it, and on some browsers, it shoves the page to the left and leaves a big white space on the right. I think this stuff is governed by something in the HTML publish settings, but I can't seem to get the right combination to make it fit in the window and just look like a regular web page. Again, should I reformat wider and shorter, to fit in one window, or can this be fixed some other way?
.
When I make cartoons I just center the little window that the movie lives in using HTML. Getting flash to work as a whole page is new to me. Thanks for your help!
.
Robyn

Clearing Pages
Hi,

I've set up a menu which calls up pages and clears up previous pages. However each time I call up a page I have to clear any possible previous pages.

On clicking the Homepage button it goes to frame 2 of the homepage movie instance which contains information. All other movie instances are made to go to frame 1, which are blanks.

EXAMPLE:
on (release) {
_root.ClimbingPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.AbseilingPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.OutdoorSkillsPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.EventsManagementPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.AthletesPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.AboutUsPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.EmploymentPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.PortfolioPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.ContactUsPage.gotoAndStop("1");
_root.OurExpeditionsPage.gotoAndStop("1")
_root.HomePage.gotoAndPlay("2");
}

This seems like a really dumbass way of doing it. Can anyone please help?

Cheers

Can Flash Act Like Asp Pages?
Hi all

I'm looking into using flash as a data display and update method...

i work with sql, dlls, asp, and javascript to give an environment of data retrieval update and storage in sql server

from what i have read so far its possible for flash to post data just like a html page

what i was wondering was.....it seems to be quite object based.....the movie clips seem to act like containers....(ie for a text box)

can these movie clips be built to encompass user validation

javascript normally does all validation on client browser

could i build movie clip objects......say

numberclip :-
params in :- value to display
validation :- is a number
output :- textboxs value

ok i work with recordsets but i think i could define structure in xml that would tell flash.....this requires numberclip object

can i dynamically call 5 of these to be set up if five number nodes were in the xml

hehehe and thats just my first question ;-)

basically i am looking to treat flash like a browser....
make it output a display (like the tread listing for this board)......basically make it do all the things forms and asp with recordsets can.....is that possible?