Can I Resize A Flash Movie To User Defined Variables?
Hi Everybody,
I'm using Flash MX. I'm looking for a way to resize a flash movie from within flash, using a X and Y variable. So far I can figure out how to scale a movie to fit a screen, but not to a specific number. Anyone have any idea as to how I would go about doing this?
-Plasnid
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Posted on: 07-23-2004, 11:31 PM
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Flash Menu Buttons And User Defined Variables
Okay--maybe somebody can help me on this bugger. My brain is fried over it. I will email the fla file and a giant cookie to anyone who can help. I have two issues for a flash navigation menu that contraols a non-flash page:
1)I want to show the current page as "active" by altering the corresponding MC. I am trying to reference instance names of seprate mc's (totally seperate, not duplicates) in order to change their appearance according their state (active, as in the HTML page it is pointing to is active VS. inactive). I have 12 mcs named mc1-mc12. Each mc has a button inside. The code for the MC is:
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
skal = 0;
}
OnClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (skal ==1){
_xscale = _xscale+(150-_xscale)/3;
_yscale = _yscale+(150-_yscale)/3;
}
if (skal ==0){
_xscale = _xscale+(100-_xscale)/10;
_yscale = _yscale+(100-_yscale)/10;
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if (skal ==3){
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_yscale = 150;
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}
The code for the button in the mc is:
Code:
1 on (rollOver, dragOver){
2 skal = 1;
3 }
4 on (rollOut, dragOut){
5 if (Active ==1){
6 skal = 3;
7 }else {
8 skal = 0;
9 }
10 }
11 on(release) {
12 Active = 1;
13 GetURL("help.htm","_self");
14 }
Basically, the buttons expand and contract as you roll over them and link to a specific URL. I would like to address the problem of indicating which page on the nav menu the user is currently visiting. My idea was to insert these lines between line 13 and 14 of the button:
Code:
tellTarget(mc1){
Active = 0;
}
//repeat for each button instance name
Each button would have to be addressed so that when you click on a button, it sets the variable "Active" to 1 for the button you clicked and 0 for the rest of the buttons.
Basically, the button is supposed to freeze at _xscale = 150 until another button on the menu is pressed.
It's not working. Is there a beter way to do this? I just want the button to stick out to make it pbvious that that is the page they are looking at.
2)My bigger problem arrose when I was told to nix the frames on the website. Now when a button is clicked, it goes to a new page with the same swf file on it, but it reloads the file. Is there a way to prevent reload and allow it to maintain it's state whil the even when the page changes?
The beginings of the menu are on (The page is in SERIOUS overhaul mode, so pardon the ugliness) this link still uses frames. I have not uploaded the non frames version yet, but the problem is easy to visualize...the movie retarts when you nav to a different page:
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Thanks for any help.
PS--I tried everything to make the individual buttons stick out, I tried making the text dymanic and chaniging the color, I tried stopping th emovie, I tried, all I could think of, but nothing worked while maintaining the rollover movement. Thanks.
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