Flash :: Unvable To Animate (tween) Scrollbar / Button Components?

How To Animate A Pie Chart Counting Up Or Down... Shape Tween?
Basically, how do I do this? I'm semi-new, I guess, but not a newb. I'm using a shape tween and I can't get it to smoothly shrink the pie chart. I'm trying to put a little simple thing showing "time passes" on my animation, and I need a shape that starts as a sliver and ends up being a full circle.

Is there no way to animate the degrees that it draws the circle or something?

Button Down = Animate In Content - Press Another Button Animate Content Out?
Here's what I am looking for. I want to have my buttons animate my content in and out of my movie stage. I know I can do it using the timeline, but I am looking for a more efficient way of doing it.

If anyone has any advice or any fla's, I would appreciate it.

Thanks
kmaier

Please Please Help With Scrollbar Components
how do you get the scrollbar component to scroll text in a dynamic text field? text appears, but doesn't scroll...and doesn't appear when loaded from a .txt file........ help me please!!!

Scrollbar Using Components
I'm having trouble getting my scrollbar to work...I put the component scroll bar in the upper right hand corner of my input text box. I put some text in....

...and nothing...when I export my movie, the only thing there is my scrollbar.

I've attached the file. Please help. I've followed the instructions exactly (named the text box and pointed the component scroller to it).

Thank you.

Scrollbar Components
scrollbar component in flash mx 2004 pro?????? I dont see one....

Scrollbar Components HELP
Could anyone tell me how to stop the drag bar from resizing depending on how much copy is in the text box? In other words I would like the drag button to be the same size for a text box with 2 paragraphs as it is for a text box with 100 paragraphs. The way Macromedia has it it gets smaller the more copy you have.

THX!

ScrollPane/ScrollBar Components...?
Hi,

I want to creata a MC with scrollable content. I don't want to use the scrollpane or scrollbar components integrated in Flash MX cause they're kinda ugly (no offence), but I can't figure out any other way.

My Q is: Does anybody know how to change the appearance of the scrollpane/scrollbar ?

Any help would be appreciated
thanks in advance

(pls)

Editing Scrollbar Components
How do I change the appearance of the default Flash MX scrollbar?

I can find the components in the library, but have no idea how to change them. I can't even do something simple like change the colour.

Any help greatly appreciated,
Steve

Scrollbar Components That Just Don't Work?
Hello! I was wondering if I could get a bit of assistance on an issue I've been having with the Flash scrollbar component. Well, here goes.

I know I've used the scrollbar component in the past, and I know I've made it work, but for the life of me I can't make them function right now. I follow the instructions in the help file to the letter, but when I preview my file it utterly fails to display a working scrollbar. I simply get a greyed-out bar.

Here's a sample file I created. When I preview it on my machine, I don't get a working scrollie. Oh, and yes, that's AOLspeak I've tagged onto the end of the datafile so as to make it longer. Don't take it to heart. It's only a datafile.

2004 Components Where's The Scrollbar?
Hello,

I'm very familiar with Flash MX... I just started using MX 2004 Pro.

Anyway, I'm not too happy with it... I like Flash MX better for a lot of reasons, but that's another story.

My question is about the scrollbar component... where did it go? I used to enjoy adding a scrollbar to any type of text box (input/dynamic). Now I'm at a loss. I tried the text box component and the input component, but they only seem to work if you publish your movies with actionscript 2. I need to make my movies compatible with Flash Player 6.

Does anyone know if or where I could get the scrollbar component, or one similar? I checked out Macromedia Exchange and didn't see anything that looked like what I was looking for, although I could be wrong.

Thanks for your time.

Preloader Using Scrollbar Components
how do the scrollbar components load in the MCs that go in them...

im trying to throw on the preloader i use for movies and it seems to come in late... it seems after the MC that goes into the Scrollbar Component loads then, my preloader kicks in...

anyone else have problems getting intial scripts to work using Scrollbar Components..

please let me know how to fix...

thanks a million in advance,

manny

Changing Scrollbar Components
Hey all,
How can you change the buttons in the prepackaged components that ship with Flash. Thanks so much for the help

[CS3] Multiple Scrollbar Components
I have flash file that uses the combobox component and the scrollpane component. My requirements are to have a custom scrollbar for the scrollpane and a standard scrollbar for the combobox. Is this possible?

Using Different Skins On Scrollbar For Two Components
So I need one scrollbar to look one way (with a List) and another scrollbar to look another way (with a TileList)

How is this achieved?

AS3.0 Scrollbar And TextField Components
Curious to know if anyone has found any open source AS3 Scrollbar components that work with the TextField much in the way the V2 components of the same names worked.

Scrollbar Components And External Txt Files (MX)
Hiya folks,
the problem is as follows.

I'm loading a .txt file dynamically at runtime using loadVaribles (); So I can see the text and its all fine and dandy. Now I add a component scrollbar and nothing nada text is there, scrollbar (without scroll is there), but I've got no scrolling text.

Any help much appreciated

Scrollbar Components Breakin My Progress Bar
Hey there guys, maybe you can help me out. I have a progress bar that goes while my fla loads...but it doesnt show up untill 346k are loaded. Aparently there is 346k of data on frame one. Even though all I have on it is a progress bar. I think it is loading the scrollbar components im using on frame one. Is there a way around this? The stupid progress bar only shows itself for a second...and the movie is 3/4 loaded! I would include a FLA but it's more than the 300k limit.

HELP!!!

Changing The Scrollbar Components Color?
Hi,

I've actually checked out the "help" file on how to change the color of a scrollbar...or at least I thought I did. It went into FStyles and about eight arrow clicks later, I still didn't understand it. Changing the color of the scrollbar shouldn't be that tedious...should it? Does anyone know of a simple way of doing it?

Thanks a million,
DanH

[flmx2004] Alternative To Scrollbar Components?
I was using the flash UI scrollbar component in my website, but in adding a preloader and removing the "export in first frame" for the scrollbars so the preloader actually starts on 0%, the scrollbar doesnt work any more.

Ive read of many suggestions, preloading an externally loaded movie, putting the scrollbar component on a seperate frame offscreen between the preloader and the actual content etc...

what is the best way around this? Id hate to give up my working preloader for a stupid scrollbar...

TA
JD

Setting Speed In ScrollPane/ScrollBar Components?
I was trying to figure out if there's a way to change the speed of a scrollbar in a scrollpane component so I can make my content move faster but I can't seem to get it to work. Anyone have any ideas?

List/Scrollbar Components - Full Reskinning Possible?
What I'm trying to do is basically create a super simple scroller. It's a rectangle that can be dragged up and down and scroll along a particular field. See the file attached to see what I mean....

I need to use the scrollbar component cause this component is used by the Tree component in the Astra Yahoo developer library...

My problem is how to achieve the following:

A) Make the scrollbar thinner
B) Remove the arrows completely so that the scroller can go all the way up.

Is this possible? I've tried to even just make it thinner, but have met no success by editing the symbols.

Is there some Actionscript that can be used to reshape + completely reskin the Scrollbar?

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Tweening Or Masking Tween For Components
Hey yall happy monday to all.

I am trying to make a little menu where there would be 4 button options which would each load an image, text, data list, and button. What is a good way to tween these so that when a button on _parent is clicked would tween the new content loaded for each? I am having trouble making the tweens look good just by using the timeline. Can any recommend a cool masking tween effect tutorial out there? Thanks in advance for the advice. Cheers.

Scrollbar Tween.. HELP
Hey guys...

I'm doing a school web site and I'm having a problem. I want to use an UP and a DOWN rollover to scroll a body of text and pictures.

How would I go about doing this? I want it to go UP and DOWN smoothly like a tween.

I've attempted to do this by making a layer for the body, tweened it, and set a stop action at the very beginning. I think have actions to GOTOANDPLAY that frame while my mouse is over. everything works at first, but when you move your mouse out and back on the button, it jumps back to the beginning of the tween.

Help a student out.. Thanks in advance!

Scrollbar/motion Tween?
hi, im attempting to create a scrollbar on a curve by putting it in a motion tween and then making it move by dragging the mouse and changing the frame forward or backwards depending on the _ymouse position. If the position goes up it goes forward if the positon goes down it goes backwards...im just wondering if anyone has done this before or else if anyone would know the correct actions script to use, because im having some problems with it. Well hope someone can help.

~Steve~

Scrollbar Not Following Text In Tween
Alright so I have 4 external .swfs for my site: "art.swf, gallery.swf, home.swf and contact.swf." I used a scrollbar component for all of them and it follows the text through the intro and outro animations. It looks fine, but when you preview the .swf the scroll bar is waaay on the top. If you could help that would be great. I have attached one of the .swfs. Thanks!

Motion Tween A Scrollbar?
can you motion teen a scrollbar which is associated to a dynamic text box?

when i go to "test movie" it works fine, but when i go to publish the text box moves but not the scrollbar. weird.

I Have A Ball In A Movie That I Would Like A Scrollbar To Control Using Mc Tween?
I have Ball-A that I can control its position in Flash using MC Tween x/y positions with a button. Thanks to Tann ; )

What I would like to know is, is it possible to build a scrollbar and control the ball with the scrollbar like I did with the button.

eg.
The scrollbar length in control will be equivalent to the Flash area where the ball is. Like the Flash area is 200px X 200px and the scrollbar is only 100px in length but if I move the scrollbar halfway, it will move the ball halfway. If I move it far left, it will move the ball far left. Like halfway of the scrollbar is 50px, but ha;fway of the Flash area is 100px so the ball moves there.

What script would I have to add to my scrollbar to control the ball?

How To Animate A Button ?
animating a button
Hello. This sounds (to me) so easy that i cant really belive im asking it , anyway here goes.
I have a button already on the stage that when you (release) it, several things happen.
I would like the button itself, when it is (release)d , to move to the right a little bit. So therefore, i want to animate it.
How do i convert it to a movie ? do i need to ?
when i ihave tried to convert to a movie, i cant seem to make it (stop), so on the .swf it just starts running through its different buttons states (flashing and doing all kinds of wickedness)

yes i did a search for this here and to no avail.

help please ! thanks !

Animate Button
Hi guys,

How can I create a button that when I mouse over the animation play and when I mouse out the animation fade away then it gets back to normal?

I hope you understand my question....

It would be nice if you have a Flash sample.

Thanks,

Bobby.

How To Animate A Navigation Button
Having trouble posting.. hope this isn't a double post..

Hey!

I am not exactly a newbie, more like a rusty since I have not used Flash in a while.. Have not used this list for ages...either.

Anyway, my client wants me to create a button that will do some "shaking".

I have a button that is actually a steering wheel image with a transparent background(made it in Photoshop).

This steering wheel button is for navigation purposes. What the client wants, is to "animate the steering wheels. when mouseover , they should jiggle, a 1/4 turn to the left, back to center, and then 1/4 turn to the right. this should happen fairly quickly."

I am not sure how to do this. I know how to create a regular button. but not sure how to do the animated one.

Thanks so much in advance!

Daph

Animate A Movieclip With Button
Hi i have the following code.What i want is the movie clip to move across the stage continuoisley but it moves only 10 pixels each time I press the button I want to press the button opnce and have the clip continue to move.
code:
go.onPress = function(){
myMC._x += 10;
myMC._x ++
}

I thought that would do it but I'm stumped.

Thanks

How Do I Animate A Button On RollOut?
so say I have a button, and on the Over state of the button I play an animation. However, there is no Out state on the button so how do i animate in on roll out?

How To Get A Button Within A Mc To Make That Mc Animate?
hi, i'm trying to make a button within a mc get the mc it resides in to play on rollover, then play in reverse on rollout.

so i'm using _currentframe +/- to move the frames of the mc forwards or backwards, with the onrollover/out commands on the main timeline with the last frame looping to the previous frame to keep getting the +1 frame increments for the mc.

but this isnt working, anyone know how to do this?

thanks.

How Do I Animate A OnRollout Of A Button?
Im sure this is simple, but here goes...

I have a button. when you roll over it, it rises up about 20 pixels. (very clean animation. It's actually a _mc i put in the over state of the button.

I want to create the reverse effect when you roll out of the button.

How?

here is a link to see what I mean....

www.zunskigraphics.com/KARIZMA/index.html Click on Home

please help, this has been a stump for me since i started working with flash.

thanks
ZG

How Do I Animate Button On Mouseover
Hi all,

Newcomer to the forum (but a big user of the tutorials for a while now), and self taught in flash 5, meaning I know enough to build a site in flash, but there are random gaps in my knowledge...

What I'm trying to do is this: I'm building a site where the main page is an illustrated office area, and I'm trying to figure out how to create buttons that when you mouse over them, they play a brief animation (some will animate the actual object moused over, and some will play a brief animation within the illsutration) - as an example... when a monitor is moused over, it will "power up" and play a little intro on the screen, or when the phone is moused over, it will ring and the receiver will lift off the base and shiver, and a head will poke into the office door.

It seems I can either create an animation (which has no mouseover option) or a button, which has limitations... is there a way to script it so that a button will still direct to the next scene on release while playing a brief animation when moused over?

I'm having some problems going about how exactly to lay this out - ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

Button Animate After Click
Hi, i am fairly new to actionscripting, ive used it before but only using the simple basic stuff like for simple buttons , but now i have a movie clip button problem.
i dont know if this has been talked about before, i tried searching but all that came up were rollover and rollout stuff, which i dont need anymore.

I am trying to make a movie clip button to animate after a user has clicked on it. I already have the rollover and rollout animations with the actionscript on the actions layer, not the actual mc button. however, i cant figure out how to make it animate after a user clicks on it and moves the mouse away. it will animate after its clicked and the mouse is over the mc button, but as soon as i move the mouse away it stops.
the mc button has all the animations using labels, onrollover goes to 'over', onpress goes to 'down', onrollout goes to 'out', and onrelease goes to 'anim', but like i said only when the mouse is over da button.
*sigh* while i was googling i saw something, but dont remember where, about using onclipevent. the help file is very confusing about how to use this and more searching about this leads to loading movies or something.

please help

Help Making Button Animate
Hey,

I decided to learn a bit more by attempting stuff, so I uploaded my background and a button for my website, but I want to make the button animated like when you roll over it it makes a noise and it does a cool animation, etc etc. Heres a screenshot of my flash project:

Can anyone guide me through how I would do this so I know from now on and can advance in making my website :)

Thanks alot ;)

MC As Button Won't Animate After I Add OnPress = Function
I've searched and experimented high and low, but cannot find a solution!

I have a movieclip acting as a button. The idea is to have an external .swf load onto the stage once the movieclip is clicked.

The external swf loads fine, just as expected. However, once I assign the instance name to the movieclip/button and add actionscript to frame one (seen below), the movieclip/button loses all of its animation, defeating the purpose.

Here's the script for frame one:
------------------
gallery.onPress = function() {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 1);
loadMovie("gallery.swf", "container");
holder._x = 50;
holder._y = 40;
};

------------------

Thanks for any input! One of my guesses is that the "onPress" is turning my movieclip/button into a "button" and losing its animation, but I know of no solutions.

How Do I Animate A Button That Returns To Form?
Ive animated a button that grows larger on rollover, but now I want it to decrease back again on release.

Any help would be great...

How Do You Animate A Button On A Motion Path
I need to make an animated button that follows a motion path around the page area on a continuous loop but at present it will not work to go to my next scene.

The idea is that viewer will enter the page and see a group of names that he has to click on as they move around on the page and this brings up the photo of the person but I cannot get the button to work, any ideas greatly appreciated.

I have tried putting a movie clip in the buttons first frame but no joy its seems to not allow the button to work even if i put....

on (release) {
tellTarget ("/movie1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);

}
}

Animate A Button On A Motion Guide
Is this possible I've looked on all the tutorials and cannot seem to find an example...

The scene is a little more complex so you will have to view my .fla file, see link below.

I need to make an animated button that follows a motion path around the page area on a continuous loop but at present it will not work to go to my next scene.

The idea is that viewer will enter the page and see a group of names that he has to click on as they move around on the page and this brings up the photo of the person but I cannot get the button to work, any ideas greatly appreciated.

I have tried putting a movie clip in the buttons first frame but no joy its seems to not allow the button to work even if i put....

on (release) {
tellTarget ("/movie1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);

}
}

I have put a link below to the .fla and .swf file for a look if you can help please. It's just a test at the moment so excuse the bad design.

I just cant get my head round it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosstamon/anime/anime.htm

If you could code one instance and email it to me that would be amazing and get me out of a hole pile of elephant dung if you get my jist, or you could make me learn the hard way and explain it in a reply and if I can do it and it works I will be you learned disciple forever.

rosstamon@ntlworld.com :{

Can't Animate Background Of Button Class
I've made a class that creates a simple button with a label and background. When I rollover the button the background should tween to a color and that's where it's going wrong. It's probably something simple I'm missing but I can't find it.
The text label does tween correctly, but the background doesn't do anything. It also doesn't give any errors when I test it.

ActionScript Code:
package classes
{
import flash.display.Shape;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.TextFormat;

import gs.TweenFilterLite;
import gs.easing.Circ;

public class NavButton extends Sprite
{
private var _text:String;
private var _background:Sprite;
private var _label:Sprite;

public function NavButton(textLabel:String)
{
_text = textLabel;
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
}
private function init(e:Event):void
{
buttonMode = true;
mouseChildren = false;
addLabel();
drawBackground();
addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onOver);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onOut);
}
private function onOver(e:MouseEvent):void
{
TweenFilterLite.to(_background, 0.2, {tint: 0xfff59b, ease: Circ.easeOut});
TweenFilterLite.to(_label, 0.2, {tint: 0x333333, ease: Circ.easeOut});
}
private function onOut(e:MouseEvent):void
{
TweenFilterLite.to(_background, 0.3, {tint: null, ease: Circ.easeOut});
TweenFilterLite.to(_label, 0.3, {tint: null, ease: Circ.easeOut});
}
private function addLabel():void
{
_label = new Sprite();
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.selectable = false;
tf.x = 5;
tf.y = 2;

var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat("Arial", 16, 0xffffff, true);
tf.defaultTextFormat = format;
tf.text = _text;

_label.addChild(tf);
addChild(_label);
}
private function drawBackground():void
{
_background = new Sprite();
var w:Number = _label.width + 10;
var h:Number = 24;
_background.graphics.beginFill(0x333333);
_background.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, w, h);
_background.graphics.endFill();
addChildAt(_background, 0);
}
}
}

Why Does My Button Animate Without Explictly Invoking It ?
I created a user interface with buttons on it that load external swfs.

There are 3 buttons that will load external .swfs but I haven't set that
part of it up yet. I'm stuck on the 1st button.

You can view the .swf at
http://www.jassante.com/charts/starbucks/sbux.html

To view the actual fla file, merely change the "html" to ".fla" minus
the quotes.

I have 2 statements on my actions layer on frame one of the main timeline.

The 1st statement loads an external .swf so that the user
sees a chart as soon as the page loads.

The 2nd statement is a reference to the 1st button who's
instance name is "monthly_mc".

monthly_mc.onRelease = function(){

This is where I invoke the animation of the button (monthly_mc), but since
it's not working right, I took out those statements.
Funny thing is, it's still animating when you mouse over the button
even though there's no code sending the monthly_mc's play
head to a frame label that changes the look of the button (_down). :shock:

}

Can anyone tell me why this is happening ?
Initially, I couldn't seem to click on the button without it changing
states first. I was using onRelease to goto the down state
which uses darker colors on the button's background and stroke.
I also found that I couldn't make the button stay in the down state
after clicking the mouse. It would goto down state when cliking
the mouse, but then revert back to the upstate even though
the statement was a gotoAndStop("_down"). :?:
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Animate A Menu Button Momentarily
Hey everyone,

I am relatively new to flash 8, but am ok at it, having learned on mx a while back.

basically my question concerns the following situation:

I have a flash webpage menu, with certain buttons (news, shows, etc.). basically what i am trying to do, is when a button is pressed, not only open a page in a new frame (which i have successfully done), but do a little animation (for example, the button will have flames erupt around it momentarily) as well. the latter is what i'm having trouble with.

if anyone has any ideas or solutions, they'd be much appreciated. thanks for your time.

-keith