What Does Everyone Think About The Wide Variety Of 3rd Party Extensions Available For
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Posted on: 10-27-2003, 11:35 AM
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Repeat Scrolling WIDE Image -- Too Wide?
Creating this effect -- tangosol.com
Have done the repeated scrolling image numerous times but never with an image so large that its goes off the 'grey workspace'.
So I attempted to do this set up all the images into a MC and put the AS onto it to constanly add 1 to .x. I just will not work completely because the MC goes out of the 'grey workspace' and starts itself over too early.
The link above has to be easily have a wider MC than mine, so how did they get this to work?
Thanks for the help.
.fla link
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My problem, which is probably very basic, is that when I open up "plot1" and insert an image it apears in both the instances "plot1" and "plot2".
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Is it possible to do this and how would I get the main.as file to recognise and know just how many Recipe classes there are in the com.food.recipes." directory?
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So many problems...
Ok, here is the movie...
my movie
Suggest you read below before you load it...
here is the code on the first (and only) frame of the main timeline of the movie...
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//loads all external movies
loadMovie ("time.swf", "chTime");
loadMovie ("RRlogo.swf", "chLogo");
loadMovie ("newspane.swf", "chNews");
loadMovie ("mainpane.swf", "chMain");
//variables for the news text
loadVariables ("news.txt", "_root.chMain");
//ontheair stuff
//defines variable of time
mydate = new date ();
hrs = mydate.getHours();
x = hrs*60
y = mydate.getMinutes();
mins = x+y
//checks what time of day it is and loads appropriate movie
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loadMovie ("/shows/show1.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=450 && mins<=479){
loadMovie ("/shows/show2.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=480 && mins<=599){
loadMovie ("/shows/show3.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=600 && mins<=659){
loadMovie ("/shows/show4.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=660 && mins<=719){
loadMovie ("/shows/show5.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=720 && mins<=749){
loadMovie ("/shows/show6.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=750 && mins<=779){
loadMovie ("/shows/show7.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=780 && mins<=869){
loadMovie ("/shows/show8.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=870 && mins<=929){
loadMovie ("/shows/show9.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=930 && mins<=1019){
loadMovie ("/shows/show10.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1020 && mins<=1049){
loadMovie ("/shows/show11.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1050 && mins<=1079){
loadMovie ("/shows/show12.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1080 && mins<=1139){
loadMovie ("/shows/show13.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1140 && mins<=1199){
loadMovie ("/shows/show14.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1200 && mins<=1259){
loadMovie ("/shows/show15.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1260 && mins<=1319){
loadMovie ("/shows/show16.swf", "chOntheair")
}
else if (mins>=1320 && mins<=1439){
loadMovie ("/shows/show17.swf", "_root.chOntheair")
}
else if (mins==1440 || mins>=0 && mins<=329){
loadMovie ("/shows/show18.swf", "chOntheair")
}
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ok, the idea is that the Main.swf checks what time it is, then displays what is currently on the air in the form of an external movie...
That seems to work my Hard Drive, as does the whole thing... But as soon as you load the movie on an external server, it doesn't work...
It does display the news.txt in the correct way, but on my system it needs a refresh to do this...
Finally, How can I convert the above code so that it will work on Flash 4 players? it didn't load any of the site when I tried it on a Flashplayer 4 system... and there is no easy way to upgrade to Flashplayer 5, as The macromedia site detects that your flashplayer is up to date....
Thanks for your help guys...
'Q
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