The Oo Design And Analysis Of Actionscript

Chipotle.com Design Analysis
I'm looking to build an online photo album for a camp I'm doing a website for. I want to base my idea off of the "Play" section on http://www.chipotle.com where each square brings up a new ad. But, I can't quite completely figure out how they did it! Can anyone take a look at this and help to analyze how it was done? That'd be awesome, thanks!

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Actionscript OOP Design
I've started getting into ActionScript 3 lately and its been a fun learning curve. The one thing I seem to be struggling with is laying out my code into multiple classes. I've been learning it from the AS3 Cookbook and from http://livedocs.adobe.com.


The one thing these seem not to explain is how is best to structure you code across multiple .as files. Does anyone have any handy tips? or is it best to start looking into OOP Design for this?

**edit**

Could anyone recommend any good books for OOP design, preferably geared towards AS3?

Cheers

Dave

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Has Actionscript Replaced Design?
Has Action script replaced design in Flash? This is the question that many flash designers (like myself) are left asking when we see featured sites that have very nice action script effects, but are missing what used to be an important element of web DESIGN; the Design.
Big Flash design firms like 2advanced (2advanced.com) and Widegroup (widegroup.net) usually put out a new version of their site about every 6 months, and of course, Flash designers around the globe flock to imitate their “new” style and the effects that they produce with action script. Often times the case is that in doing this, the rest of us (who are [obviously] not as talented as widegroup and 2advanced wind up creating action script based websites that may impress other flash designers, but don’t necessarily do much for the rest of the world, that sees a button (for example) in Flash that causes flash designers to “freak out”, but is nothing more than a distraction to them.
So keep in mind, flash designers, you are NOT designing for other flash designers, but for the target audience in question. Always ask yourself, “Is there another way I could do this that would save time and fit in with the rest of the image of the website better?” If the answer is no, then by all means use action script, but try to keep a balance between scripting and good old fashioned design.

Until next time,

-Apropos

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Actionscript Design Consideration
Hello

I'm working on a website navigation. I came to a problem where I have a few MovieClip objects (simple buttons).

I'd like to make it so that all buttons would minimize on rollover specific button (which would resize to bigger size)..

I dont know what would be the proper way to implement this.

Should I make a new class navigation and there put all button objects in an array and then somehow call the handler to minize all, or would it be better to have everything in one class - which I think is easier solution - and then handle everything from there?

Is there any similar tutorial online anywhere?
Would be really helpful.

Any help is highly appreciated!

Many thanks in advance!

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UML Examples Of Actionscript Design
Hi,

Does anybody know of anywhere with UML diagrams of flash projects available to view?

Would really like to see overviews of how other people hadle things like complex menu systems.


Thanks

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Best Approach For Design And Actionscript?
Hi All,

i´d like to know and hear about the best pratices to combine one flash app design and positioning components on the Stage versus to have their position fully set through Actionscript.

I´m building one app while the Designer is creating the Art, I´ve been creating the components dynamically and setting their positions "by hand" into the code, so when I receive the final art I´ll have to reset all the components coordinates and sizes again.

The first thing occurred me was to leave some mc´s, like small dots, positioned on the stage and use their position to ajuste the components position and size, so when the art arrives I´d lay it beneath the layer containing the dots and move them to adjust to the design.

Is it a good solution ? is there anything better ?

thanks in advance

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New ActionScript And Game Design Tutorials
Hi Everyone,

I had some tutorials sitting on my hard drive that I thought I should share:

http://www.kaleidoscope-multimedia.com/interactive/

The documents cover these topics:

- Flash game design, from scratch. No prior programming experience required
- How to program using ActionScript - a guide to programming for non-programmers
- Lingo 3D for the complete beginner.
- A tutorial on how to build a 3D interactive art gallery with Plasma and Director.

Hope someone out there can make some use of these.

Cheers,
- Dandylion_13

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Actionscript Variable To PHP - Design Issue
Hello all,

I would appreciate your help with a design issue I am having.

I have a form with a few fields and a flash object in this form that users can choose things from (lets just say variable A). Now variable A can change but i want to get the last value of variable A when the submit button is clicked which PHP is aware of.

The problem is i cant keep sending the change of value of variable A to PHP (using AMFPHP etc) because the latest value is what is important.

I need help in thinking this through and some suggestions.

Apologies for any "woolyness"

Thanks all

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Actionscript Design Patterns, And New Member Greetings
Hey all, I wont spam with various links to my blog. As a new member I would just like to say hi and introduce you all to my blog I just started.

As part of key section I'm working I started writing various articles about design patterns in ActionScript 3, something that I hope to keep updating over time and eventually complete.

Here's links to my blog and the article. Hope it is of use to you all.

blog: www.matlevy.co.uk
design patterns stuff: http://www.matlevy.co.uk/design-patt...-actionscript/

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Design Pattern Samples For Actionscript 2.0
Hi All

I would like to know whether there are any web based material for Design patterns (Actionscript 2.0) likeMVC
Singleton
Observer
I recently took plunge into Object Oriented implementation

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[AS3] Voice Analysis On AS3
Greetings people, its been a while since i needed a helping hand.

Can anyone give me any pointers on how to capture sound from Mic, and then analyze the spectrum of it

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Pic Color Analysis Possible?
Is it possible in Flash 8 to do some quantitative analysis on the colors present in an externally loaded JPG or PNG?

I would like to have my slideshow automatically pick an appropriate background color based on the color of the image it is loading. Is this possible, if so, How?

Thanks for any pointers.

Jase

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Flash Actionscript 5 FX & Design Book For Sale
CDROM is included perfect shape, brand new. $20

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Sound Comparison / Analysis
Hi,

Guess this is not exactly the right place for this, but Im sure some of you have developed some awesome sound-skills working with flash.

I want to do a sound comparison tool, where I compare two different recordings of the same sentence.

The analysis should focus on intonation and the actual words that are being spoken (how I have no idea), and ignore speed and voicetype (so that samples from two different individuals can be compared).

Can this be done? It would be a really cool flash-component

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Sound Comparison / Analysis
Hi,

Guess this is not exactly the right place for this, but Im sure some of you have developed some awesome sound-skills working with flash.

I want to do a sound comparison tool, where I compare two different recordings of the same sentence.

The analysis should focus on intonation and the actual words that are being spoken (how I have no idea), and ignore speed and voicetype (so that samples from two different individuals can be compared).

Can this be done? It would be a really cool flash-component

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Flash Traffic Analysis
Anyone know if there are stat packages and coding methods that allow you to track website traffic on all flash websites?

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Flash Image Analysis - Possible?
Hi,

I'm just checking into the feasibility of this:

Someone uploads a jpg into a flash application. The application then scans down the image and plays samples of audio files coresponding to the intensity and colours of the image being scanned. As the scan moves down the sounds change.

Is this possible with flash?

If so, what kind of ballpark development time would be required?

Thanks for any pointers folks (I wish I new more about Flash but I ditched it about 4 years ago for server-side stuff)...

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Audio Stream Analysis
Hey guys,

So I have spent the last 2-3 hours or so trying to find any way I can accomplish this in real-time using flash, and before I resort to using something like flash amp, I am interested to know if anyone knows if there is a way to view or retrieve variables in the flash plug-in itself, through actionscript. I know that when methods are called, the variables you define in AS are passed to the methods in the plugin, and those methods have their own variables etc.. If it is at all possible to view get at those variable, and read them through AS, then theoretically it would be possible to do what flash amp does in real-time.

If anyone has any information on how I could proceed in this manner, it would be much appreciated.

Jonathan

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ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns Book -- Question On Factory Example
hi,

I'm trying to expand on the Vertical Shooter example in ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns (William B. Sanders & Chandima Cumaranatunge) by adding collision detection but am having some difficulty. Can anyone give a brief overview of how they would do it? Everything seems to be so de-coupled that I can't figure out to access objects and remove them from the stage efficiently.

thanks.

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Live Webcam Feed Analysis
Hopefully someone can answer this question for me.

I have a live webcam feed going into a video clip in a .fla file and it plays fine when I publish it. I have some code attached to it that creates an empty movie clip and displays something in there. Problem is when I leave the frame in the .swf file and then return to it, the empty file movie clip that was displaying data before no longer displays it.

When I took it out of a movie clip, the visual ouput from the code on the video wouldn't go away, even when I went to another frame or scene.

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Help Please .. Automatic Code Analysis Tool
Hi,

I have written some action script for my project and i am required to do a static code analysis on it.
I do not know any source code analyzers that support actionscript particularly like fortify and ounce labs which
support Java script but not action script.Please suggest me an tool that can do analysis for me.

Regards
Mallik.

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Spectrum Analysis Of Microphone Input
Ok big issue. I know you can compute spectrumData through the soundChannel which will only process loaded audio (ie mp3). What i need to do is process the microphone input to get spectrum data in real time. Is this possible using the flash media server? Needs to be fast enough for realtime feedback in a game. Im thinking the process would be that the server app gets the microphone data, computes the spectrum, sends back and array of data to flash. Would need to do this ever 100ms id say to be playable.

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AS 2 Super Duper Xml Slideshow Analysis
There's a xml slide show out there that lets you configure the border width, border spacing& color, plus a ton of features, loading all that from a xml file.

I wonder how?
1. How do you send all those variables from xml to Flash?
2. How do you change the flash movie's dimensions and color? Or are changes occuring in a nested mc?

here's the xml file

Code:
<slideshow displayTime="5" transitionSpeed=".7" transitionType="Fade" motionType="None" motionEasing="easeInOut" randomize="false" slideshowWidth="435" slideshowHeight="300" slideshowX="center" slideshowY="0" bgColor="333333" bgOpacity="100" useHtml="true" showHideCaption="true" captionBg="000000" captionBgOpacity="40" captionTextSize="11" captionTextColor="FFFFFF" captionBold="false" captionPadding="7" showNav="true" autoHideNav="true" navHiddenOpacity="15" navX="center" navY="center" btnColor="FFCC00" btnHoverColor="ffffff" btnShadowOpacity="70" btnGradientOpacity="20" btnScale="120" btnSpace="10" navBgColor="333333" navBgAlpha="95" navCornerRadius="20" navBorderWidth="2" navBorderColor="FFFFFF" navBorderAlpha="100" navPadding="10" tooltipSize="8" tooltipColor="000000" tooltipBold="true" tooltipFill="FFFFFF" tooltipStrokeColor="000000" tooltipFillAlpha="80" tooltipStroke="0" tooltipStrokeAlpha="0" tooltipCornerRadius="8" loaderWidth="200" loaderHeight="1" loaderColor="FF0000" loaderOpacity="100" attachCaptionToImage="false" cropImages="false" slideshowMargin="0" showMusicButton="true" music="demos/slideshow_plus/music.mp3" musicVolume="100" musicMuted="true" musicLoop="true" watermark="demos/slideshow_plus/logo.swf" watermarkX="right" watermarkY="bottom" watermarkOpacity="100" watermarkLink="http://www.flashnifties.com" watermarkLinkTarget="_blank" captionsY="absbottom">
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Bells.jpg" link="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Bells.jpg" target="_blank" caption="%3Cfont size='18' color='#FFCC00'%3E %3Cb%3ECaption Text %3C/b%3E %3C/font%3E %3Cbr%3E %3Cfont size='12' color='#FFFFFF'%3E This can be %3Cu%3E%3Cb%3EHTML TEXT%3C/b%3E%3C/u%3E , or you can style the captions globally.%3C/font%3E " tooltip="Click to view image"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Camomille.jpg" caption="If no tooltip is set, it will not display"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Pink Rose.jpg" tooltip="If no caption is defined, it will not display"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Exotic.jpg" link="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Exotic.jpg" target="_blank" caption="If you do not include html tags in your caption, it will take on the default style defined in xml" tooltip="Click image to view"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Purple Cabbage.jpg" caption="Create unique transitions by customizing the speed and fluidity of the motion."/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Purple haze.jpg" caption="You can position the prev/pause/next controls anywhere in in the slideshow or choose to hide it alltogether and let the viewers use the keys for control"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Red Spider.jpg" caption="Try using the back and next arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate throught the slideshow. Use the space bar to pause/play."/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Red Tulips.jpg" tooltip="%3Cfont size='9' %3E %3Cb%3ETip:%3C/b%3E try using your left and right arrow keys on your keyboard %3C/font%3E "/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Tulips.jpg" tooltip="%3Cfont size='9' %3E %3Cb%3EHtml %3Ci%3EText%3C/i%3E %3C/b%3E is allowed in tooltip "/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/White and Yellow.jpg" caption="If you don't specify a link, the image will not be clickable. You can still create links in your html using the 'a' tag. You just have to make sure that showHideCaption is set to false"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/White.jpg" caption="You can set the captions to auto-hide or stay on all the time"/>
<image img="demos/slideshow_plus/Flowers/Yellow Tulip.jpg" tooltip="click the %22MORE DEMOS%22 link below"/>
</slideshow>

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Audio Spectrum Analysis Display
Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating a spectrum display for an sound object?

Thanks.
-CK

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Analysis Of A Web Page - Is There A Tutorial Of Makeing Such An Effect?
Take a look at this one


http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=r...ullscreen=true

very fancy..
Do anyone know of a tutorial for makeing such a thing?

Or. do you know what you call it, so i can seach the net for it?

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[Flint] Particle System Spectrum Analysis
Has anyone had any experience with Flint particle system? I'm basically trying to get it to output each particle in a certain point (x,y coord) and then getting it to move a certain way.

Another possible way is to use lineTo to draw a line, take a bitmap of that and then draw particles based on that...but that might be really slow.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Cost Analysis & Budget Proposal For Project

hi...  

does anyone have a template or a sample budget proposal for a project that they submitted to a potnetial employer?...  i need to make one and i'd like to use a professional template.

thanks in advance..

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Dynamically Drawn Gradient Or Spectrum Analysis
is there any way to do it in flash by loading an external mp3?
thanks

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HelpHow To Make A Design Page For T-shirt Design Website
Hello..I would like to make a design page that user can design his Tshirt online. It should have the functions like, adding pictures and text on the Tshirt, and the user can modify the font of the text and the position of the picture. After design, the whole information should be sent to the database for producer usage. Therefore, could any one have some good suggestion or source code for these purpose or any good links.

There is a similar function link. http://www.99dogs.com/custom2.html It is the whole process of the design and contains flash. So could any expert help me to achieve these functions in my design page. It is urgent and very important for me. Many thanks in advance!

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Flash Design Methods, (what Is The Best Way To Design The Overall Site?)
Hey guys, i am new to flash and so far I have seen a couple ways that you can develop sites. one is to have a main timeline and load swfs into it. and the other is to put everything on the main timeline. I was searching for an article that would give me the advantages and disadvantages of both. anyone know about this?

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Web Design Help...
Hi,

A friend of mine has asked me to set up a simple website for him using Flash. I haven't done any design work in over a year and so my memory is a bit rusty. I've searched through the tutorials looking for some answers, but nothing quite fit. So, can anyone here suggest a good canvas size for setting up the movie. I changed my default to 800x600 some time ago and it doesn't quite look right. What size would you recommend and what publish settings should I use for ensuring a good fit on different monitors, browser sizes, etc.

Also, my friend is really keen on maintaining the functionality of the "Back" and "Forward" buttons on the browser toolbar. About the only way that I can think of doing this would be to publish each page as a separate Flash movie, but this seems like quite an awkward, and slow, way of doing things. Any suggestions?

Thanks very much for your help!

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Design
Hello everyone.

So,I'd like to make a flash site but the only problem is I am not really good in design ... The question is : Could someone make a cool design interface for me ?

- Tommy Gunn -

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Web Design
I was wondering if anybody could help me find online tutorials for web designing tips. I want to know how to make animated instances and how to make hidden animating menus with links on them that are also roll-overs. Thanks if you can help, I really appreciate it.

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IE Bar Design
can anybody tell if it is possible to chance the color and layout of the IE bar (blue bar top of the window)
Can i do it in flash (ationscript) or do i need java ....

can somebody give me a direction?
thankz
>envoy

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For XML Design
I am new for the XML.... so can someone help on this?

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=366580
Cheers

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Web Design
wHICH WEB DESIGN SOFTWARE OTHER THAN FLASH MX WOULD U RECOMMEND THAT CAN IMPORT AN EXPORT FILES WITH FLASH MX?

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Web Design
I bundled up a program in flash so that I can use it for my personal favorites and programs i use on my computer.

What I would like to do is incorporate internet explorer so that it executes this flash program. I am having trouble getting IE to resize to its dimensions so that it fits snuggly in place and a person is unable to resize the window. Also i would like to remove the standard buttons IE has.. as well as removeing the title bar as well if at all possible.

I have attached a sample of the image:

Thanks!

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Web Design
any web designers based in toronto looking to design a website $500...
no flash involved...scripting html and javascript

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Please Tell Me How To Design
hello viewers,
this is santosh from india. i need some help in flash that is i want to create one calculator in flash i have html version calculator please see that calculator the calculator link is http://aboutforex.com/pivot.html please tell me how to design that calculator in flash and in that calculator i will give high, low and close values then i click on calculate then it will displays Pivot Point and R1 and R2 and S1 and S2 please tell me how to design and in this calculator i will use pivot formula that formula is as follows:

Pivot point = (H + L + C)/3
S1= (2 * Pivot) – H
R1 = (2 * Pivot) – L
S2 = Pivot – (H – L)
R2 = Pivot + (H – L)

if anybody design this calculator and send to me in fla mode please help me sir.

regards,
k.n.v.santosh

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About To Design . . .
Im about to design some websites in flash. One being my portfolio, and the other being a website for a band.

I have never designed a website other than in class assignments. And I had used dreamweaver. However I want my sites to look nice and animated.

My question here is, are there anythings I need to keep in mind while designing these sites?

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Help With Web Design...
Hi this is my first post..

I am fairly new to flash, and I am trying to make a website...

The website has been put together in frontpage, and contains link buttons made in flash, and then an inline frame, which I want the links to control

Im sorry if thats confusing above, Its hard to word....

So basically I need the flash movie to control links in an inline frame on the same page.... I tried adding the following, to a buttons 'actions'

"on (release) {

//Goto Webpage Behavior
getURL("home.htm", "I1");
//End Behavior"

with : home.htm being the page
and I1 being the name of the inline frame

This found the page, but opened it in a new window

Please Please help me Im very desperate for this to work....

Thanks In advance, James

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My Design
Hello Dears, please visit this site its my design and i like read our comment plz


www.madaenalnour.com

thx

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Nav Design
hey guys, ive made myself the menu with slidebar that is featured in the tutorials but i have a few questions.

Once my buttons have been made how do i make it so on rollover they turn a different shade or colour, im novice in AS so would it involoe Onrollover?

Secondly, my object i have made for my slider doesnt seem to glide to middle of each button that ive made? can anyone shed some light on this?

i would appreciate any help

thanks

Kipper

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Design Help
Can someone tell me how do they this?

http://www.illusionnewmedia.com/

Notice how "Reviews" text window opens up in the middle of the page. I am trying to create something like this.

Please...Please....help!

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Design Help
I'm like the only person without an awesome flash/php/photoshop website. What's the holdup? I cant create a design! And why not? No imagination? I don't know. Maybe someone can give me some ideas. I might want to do a website similar to Neostream.

I'm not very good at drawing, although I'm working on my creativity.

I've been hitting myself over the head with a trout.

Any ideas, anyone. Something that you did to think up your design?

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Web Design Name
im in the process of starting to design the flash site for my web design company but im struggling for a name any ideas ive thought of pretty crappy ones up to know for instance mirage web design and typhoon web design after my current site typhoon extensions

all ideas wanted

-Tom

p.s needs to be catchy yet professional

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Design
I am building my flash site which will be called pro design and i need a navigation bar kinda thing but i want it cool anyone know where i will find cool pictures which i could use as a nav bar i would like to make sumthing like http://www.highctr.com but without making the hed like thing in flash I am open to other ideas as well its a professional site but i want it less pro and more fun

-Tom

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Nav Design
hey guys, ive made myself the menu with slidebar that is featured in the tutorials but i have a few questions.

Once my buttons have been made how do i make it so on rollover they turn a different shade or colour, im novice in AS so would it involoe Onrollover?

Secondly, my object i have made for my slider doesnt seem to glide to middle of each button that ive made? can anyone shed some light on this?

i would appreciate any help

thanks

Kipper

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Design Help
Yeah, well I lack skill to make a cool news posting thingie to my website.
It's currently working with a simple kirupa.com's external file loading
tutorial as a base.

But the look in the textfield is not right... say what would you do and
how.

Currently it looks like this:
http://www21.brinkster.com/hellstick/hs.htm

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