Flash :: Creating An Animation That Goes Forwards Or Backwards Depending On Var?

Playing MC Backwards & Forwards
Let's say I've got a 50 frame long movieclip in level 2 and it is basically a movie which has stop-positions every tenth frame. Then I got my main movie in level 0 with 6 buttons. Now, depending on which button I press in level 0, my movie in level 2 should start playing. In fact when level 2 is stopped at frame 1 and I press the 2nd button in level 0, level 2 should start playing forward until it is at frame 10 and stop right there. But also, when level 2 is at frame 50 and I press the second button in level 0, level 2 should play backwards until it reaches frame 10 at stop again.

So frame 1 in level 2 must be reached by pressing button 1 in level 0;
frame 10 in level 2 must be reached by pressing button 2 in level 0;
frame 20 in level 2 must be reached by pressing button 3 in level 0; and so on...

This seems kind of difficult because sometimes the movie has to stop at a certain frame another time it has to pass it, and all that with the forwards and backwards ability.

Does someone know how to control something like this?

Forwards And Backwards Control
Hi

I can easyly control a MC to go one frame forwards every time i click on a button using "next frame" as an action for the button ... but is it possible to make the MC go backwards one frame a click ?

the action "previous frame" just switches between the two last visited frames ... hope u guys can help

Waark

Looping Forwards AND Backwards
I have a 10 second clip of some video that I'd like to loop, but not in the sense that it starts over after hitting the last frame. I want it to loop backwards -- so hits the last frame of the animation and then proceeds to move backwards till it hits the first frame and then starts over. Basically a continuous clip going forwards and backwards.

I've seen some actionscript that supposedly does this but I can't get it to work -- I'm not a motion graphics guy so pardon my ignorance but I figured you chaps would know better than me.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Help With Playing MC Forwards & Backwards
I have not used Flash or worked with actionscript for almost a year so I'm a bit rusty. I am trying to get 3 movieclips to trigger corresponding MCs below them to play forwards while hittest is true but stop and play bacwards once hittest is no longer true. All 3 MCs that trigger the 2nd group of MCs have their alpha set to "0" so the viewer won't even be aware of them.

My code works fine playing the MCs forwards but my code to stop & reverse the timeline isn't working.

I appreciate any help.

My code is as follows and my file is here:

PHP Code:

_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    highlightSection(blueHotArea_mc, blueFade_mc);
    highlightSection(redButton_mc, redFade_mc);
    highlightSection(greenButton_mc, greenFade_mc);
};
function highlightSection(mc1:MovieClip, mc2:MovieClip) {
    if (mc1.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse, true)) {
        mc2.play();
        if (mc2._currentframe == mc2._totalframes) {
            mc2.stop();
        }
    } else if (mc2._currentframe>0) {
        mc2.stop();
        mc2.gotoAndStop(_currentframe-1);
    }
}

Rotating An Object Forwards And Backwards
Have created a hexagonal object and two buttons. I want to be able to press one button and have it rotate the object 60 degrees clockwise, press it again and have it rotate a further 60 degrees and so on until its rotated a full 360. I would like the other button to do the same but in reverse, turn it anticlockwise. Am new to flash and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Button Effects Forwards And Backwards
Something i've been trying to do but for some reason won't work, i've tried the tutorial for this and couldn't get it to work either, all i want to do is to have a button rollover effect, then when you rollout it does the exact same thing, but backwards. Can anyone help? thanks in advance

Jason

Forwards Backwards Kinda Problem
Hi,

I'm trying to make a menu for a university project with backwards forwards buttons in. I have made the mc with a hidden button inside it so when you rollover the animation plays one way and then when you roll out, the animation plays backwards. So far no problem.

I also made another blue mc with a button inside which moves from the left side of the screen to the right side when you click it. If you click it again it then moves back to the left side of the screen.

The problem I'm having is that I want to be able to combine both of these animations together. The swf can be seen at

http://www10.brinkster.com/emcoward/flash.html

When you rollover the "about" button I want it to move to the right to show the green square underneath. That bit works fine. However when you click the red "about" button I want it to detach from the green square and move to the other side of the screen and stop there. As the lower blue square does. I then want to be able to click the red button again or click another button and the red "about" button then moves back to join with the green square.

I've tried putting the blue mc inside the about mc but then when you rollover the about button it plays the whole animation and general messes up!
Does anyone have any suggestion? Or maybe a better way of doing this. I thought about attaching the blue square mc using attachmovie, but I couldn't get this to work how I wanted it to.

Thanks
Leroy

How To Scroll The Playhead Forwards And Backwards
I want to scroll a movie clips playhead forward and reverse like on macromedia.com's main page. I have some 3d elements that are rotating 360 degrees and I want to control the rotating. I have seen this done on other pages like Nikonusa.com when they display their camera.

Controlling MC Playback (forwards/backwards)
Hello all! I'm Mr. Grifter and I'm new around these parts I'm also new to AS as it applies to playback control of a movieclip so here I am.

I guess I should start explaining the concept. In my file I have a movieclip (named FloorMovie) which animates a graphic of a building (over 2000px in height). At frame 1 the building's bottom floor is centered at the registration mark. At frame 17 a keyframe is create and the building's second floor is centered at the registration mark and so on every 17 frames for each floor.

Then I drop in motion tweens in the spaces between keyframes.

In the scene, I have buttons. The concept should be clear now: hit a button and the movieclips animates forward or backward and stops at the desired floor.

I have AS in the first and only frame of the scene and it contains the following:

Code:
elevSound = new Sound();
elevSound.setVolume(25);
function stepForward(MCFrame) {
if (FloorMovie._currentframe == (MCFrame-1)) {
stopAllSounds();
elevSound.attachSound("stop_elevator");
elevSound.start(0, 1);
FloorMovie.stop();
clearInterval(step_timer);
} else {
FloorMovie.gotoAndStop(FloorMovie._currentframe+1);
}
}
function stepBackward(MCFrame) {
if (FloorMovie._currentframe == (MCFrame+1)) {
stopAllSounds();
elevSound.attachSound("stop_elevator");
elevSound.start(0, 1);
FloorMovie.stop();
clearInterval(step_timer);
} else {
FloorMovie.gotoAndStop(FloorMovie._currentframe-1);
}
}
function goToFloor(TargetMCFrame) {
elevSound.attachSound("start_elevator");
elevSound.start(0, 1);
if (FloorMovie._currentframe<TargetMCFrame) {
var step_timer = setInterval(stepForward(TargetMCFrame), 30);
}
if (FloorMovie._currentframe>TargetMCFrame) {
var step_timer = setInterval(stepBackward(TargetMCFrame), 30);
}
}
... and in each button I have code similar to:

Code:
on (release) {
goToFloor(17);
}
where the 17 is the frame at which one of the floors is centered on-stage.

The funny thing is similar code worked when I had it stuffed into each button. It stopped working once I tried consolidating the functions and simplifying everything

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Buttons That Animate Forwards & Backwards
Did a tutorial today on this site under the same name. Required making a movie clip with a transparent "hit" area in the top layer. (A graphic symbol with the opacity set to 0)

You putt this movie clip on to the stage and then write the following code:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
this.nextFrame();
} else {
this.prevFrame();
}

}

Animation works great. My problem is that I only want a very small hit area. The movie that animates as a result of the roll over covers a large portion of the screen.

The hit area then becomes the width and height of the entire movie clip. The backwards animation won't play unless the user rolls off every element contained in that movie clip.

This is a problem, because the buttons underneath this movie clip still remain active. So, if someone was to roll over them, they animate underneath the movie clip that is still open.

Basically I want the hit area to be contained to the original designated space. (The hit area created in the movie clip, as stated above.)

How do I do that?
-Nicole

Scrolling Movieclips Backwards And Forwards
Hi, I'm trying to make a movieclip that is essentially a bunch of pictures lined up next to each other, and only a portion of that movieclip is seen at any given time (via mask). I have arrows on either end that, onRollOver, I want to tell the movieclip to move either forward or backwards.

The problem I am having is that I can imagine there being to solutions to this problem. One is by having in the timeline of the movieclip the motion of the pictures from one end to the other end, and when the mouse rolls over the forward arrow, it tells the movieclip to play. The only problem is that if I want the back arrow to make the clip move the other direction, I would have to play the timeline in reverse, which I don't think is possible.

The other possible way to do this would be to change the _x value of the mc when the mouse is over the arrow. But the onRollOver call only goes once, so that if I made a function and told it to move the mc._x over 5 pixels onRollOver, it would perform that action only once when the mouse rolls over the arrow, but would not continue to scroll the mc.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Max

Animate Forwards Then Backwards Loop?
Hi, I'm really struggling with this and I'd appreciate it if anyone would care to look.

All I want is for the frames in my animation to animate forward then backwards then forwards etc etc in an infinate loop.

I understand that animating backwards is less than easy , but can be done with actionscript. I've read a lot of help files on this but I'm still struggling.

I've uploaded my animation as is (including duff actionscript - my earlier attempt) and I'd really appreciate it if anyone can help and take a look.

Forgot to name the instance of my controller movieclip.

Controlled Scrolls: Certain Points : Forwards,backwards
Is there anyone who knows how sites, such as Barneys.com,designed by Kioken, can get the images
(movie clips) in the background to shift(left to right) and make it play, reverse direction smoothly? Any advice or scripts would help.

If the question is confusing, try going to the site:
barneys.com and you'll see what I am trying to ask. Look for the screen going from left to right smoothly.

Thanks.

Timeline Goes Forwards And Backwards But Easing Only On Previous Not On Next?
This file is driving me crazy...I got the timeline to go backwards and forwards with

function Movement() {
if (_root._currentframe > _root.mytarget){
prevFrame();
}else if (_root._currentframe < _root.mytarget){
nextFrame();
}else{
stop();
}
}
this.onEnterFrame= Movement;

and then on the MC at each stopping point

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
_x += (637.4 - _x)*0.06;
_y += (-252.1 - _y)*0.06;
}

It will ease on the 'previous' button but it skips the animation entirely on the 'next' button...just goes direct to the target...

Is there someone that could help me out??? I would really appreciate it!

Timeline Control Scrolling Backwards And Forwards
have a look at this:
http://www.wilenkin.com/transformers...6_content.html

I'm building a flash animation and I want to have 'play' , 'stop' and 'a scroll so I can jump to any point of the movie' like on a winamp bar, real player or windows media player

Have ONE Button Play Movie Backwards And Forwards
Right now I have a set of buttons that when you press them, will load an swf into a blank movie clip on the stage called "mtClip".

I want the clip to play as normal when a button is first pressed, then when another button is pressed the move clip will play backwards and then unload.

So far I have this code on the buttons which works, but I really want to see the animation go backwards not just be unloaded.

on(release){

_root.mtClip.unloadMovie();
_root.mtClip.loadMovie("test.swf");
}

I've plowed through dozens of tutorials but nothing covers this issue exactly.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[F8] GotoAndPlay Certain Frame In Timeline: Backwards And Forwards
I had the idea of a circular menu, and when the user clicks on a menu item, that one rotates to the top, and becomes highlighted (hopefully with easing). I've searched around here for reversing timelines, etc. but can only find ones that go to the next set frame.

How do I get it to skip past the menu items in between? For example if #1 is at the top and I click on #4, I want it to skip past #2 and #3.

I hope this makes some sort of sense to you guys 'n' gals. Many many thanks in advance for any answers or nudges in the right direction.

Here's a basic menu idea I had:

Playing Movie Clip Both Forwards And Backwards.
heyas, im really new to as3 and am trying to create a picture gallery for my website. i;ve searched high and low as well as tried a lot of things on my own and can't get this to work. what i want it to do is this: i have 7 pictures that have 5 frames of movement (tweened) each, when you click the right button it goes right when you click the left button it goes left stopping at each picture and waiting for the next mouse click. the problem is that i havent found a way to do this in as2 as the solutions i've found ignore the stop(); actions in the time line as well as any other frame actions. (the ones i've seen use nextFrame, prevFrame).

i got pretty close to making it work in as3. I had

Code:
function rightarrow (event:MouseEvent):void {
MC_SceneSelect.play();
}
which does exactly what i want it to on the forward. it was extremely close after duplicating the frames, offsetting them, reversing them, and
using if else conditionals, variables that i had to enter on the frame and some other ugly things like adding and subtracting from the returned variables, but since im going to be using this site-wide i would rather it be portable and a tiny bit more elegant.

other solutions i've tried are a for loop and while loop where the nextFrame runs 5 times, but the animation does not show up in the finished product, instead the loop runs without showing the process, and only displays the end result. I was wondering if this needed something to refresh the view after each iteration of the while loop? below is the function i had:

Code:
function rightarrow (event:MouseEvent):void {
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
MC_SceneSelect.nextFrame();}
}
I was also curious about passing the currentFrame from a movie clip to the main level function. for example, my MC_SceneSelect.currentFrame returns the frame of the stage timeline, not the current frame of the movie clip. i was wondering if there was something else i needed to do to get that to register correctly.

my last idea was making the frame pass the stop action to the original next frame/prev frame solution, maybe through an eventhandler of some sort but im kind of lost here, so that the next frame function recognizes the frame actions such as stop(); or gotoAndPlay(); etc.

i know theres a ton of questions in this post, so thanks ahead of time for taking the time to post anythgin helpful, it would be greatly appreciated.

GotoAndPlay Certain Frame In Timeline: Backwards And Forwards
I had the idea of a circular menu, and when the user clicks on a menu item, that one rotates to the top, and becomes highlighted (hopefully with easing). I've searched around here for reversing timelines, etc. but can only find ones that go to the next set frame.

How do I get it to skip past the menu items in between? For example if #1 is at the top and I click on #4, I want it to skip past #2 and #3.

I hope this makes some sort of sense to you guys 'n' gals. Many many thanks in advance for any answers or nudges in the right direction.

Here's a basic menu idea I had:

Playing A Movie Forwards And Backwards With Mouse Drag
Hi,

I would like to play a movie forward when the mouse is dragged right and left when the mouse is dragged left.

nothing original i know but i can't get it to work (Flash MX)

Strange Problem - Moving Backwards And Forwards (framewise) Within Scene...
So I have a strange problem - basically, I've got a scene set up where you can move left or right over an image via buttons - you click the "Scroll Right" button, and it pans across to the right side, and vice versa for "Scroll Left". "Scroll Right" works fine - it pans across to the right side, stops, and then the "Scroll Left" button pops up. Click that, and it moves back across to the left side, stops, the "Scroll Right" button appears, and then it flashes back to the main scene - leaving the image's scene entirely.

I have ActionScript set up so that upon clicking the "Scroll Left" button and it hitting the left side, it should gotoAndStop at the prior frame, so that basically it creates a loop between the two sides, using essentially something like 30 or so frames for all of the animations. However, like I said, this doesn't seem to work, it seems to as soon as the animation to scroll left is over go back to the main scene... anyone got ANY ideas?

Here's the FLA and SWF files (the problem is in the "Self Promo" scene - from the main screen, the second from the right image on the bottom):
http://www.kyleconrad.com/temp/main.fla
http://www.kyleconrad.com/temp/mainfull.swf

Thanks for any help you guys can offer -

[CS3] Control A Looping Frame By Frame Backwards And Forwards
Hello Everyone,

This problem has been driving me nuts for days. Basically I want to do this:
http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette/colors/

control an animation backwards and forwards. I have this action script controling the buttons however It only loops when I go backwards, it gets stuck on the final frame going forwards, does anyone know how I can make it loop both ways:

Thank you so much!

back_btn.onPress = function () {
onEnterFrame = function () {
prevFrame();
}
}

back_btn.onRelease = function () {
delete onEnterFrame;
stop ();
}

if (frame = 1) gotoAndPlay(6);

forward_btn.onPress = function () {
onEnterFrame = function () {
nextFrame()
}
}

forward_btn.onRelease = function () {
delete onEnterFrame;
stop ();
}

Forwards/Backwards "script"?
Hi Folks,
Can anyone tell me the (probably easy) answer to this question,I need to make backwards and forwards buttons for a "slideshow" inside a movieclip that scroll the pictures. The movieclip will be 10 frames long with different pics on each frame and an initial stop action on the first frame. If the user ever goes higher than frame 10 I want it to go back to frame 1 and if they go lower than frame 1 I want it to go to frame 10.
I DONT want to "cheat" and put different actions on the buttons on frame1 and 10, I want to put the SAME actions on the buttons all the way through
but have tried a few things and can't quite get it, I guess it's going to be an "if frame >than 10..go to 1" type thing, if there's any Actionscript whizz's out there please could you spare me a moment as It probably won't take you two minutes to figure it out, thankyou in advance.

Animation Moving Depending On Mouse Position
is there a way to make an animation move in a move clip depending on how close the mouse is?

so for example...
for every 10 pixels the mouse moves towards the centre of the mc the animation within it moves forward 1 frame and likewise for ever 10 pixels away it moves back 1 frame ?

sorry if this is obvious and in tutorials somewhere - i just cant find it

Play Specific Animation Depending On The Date
I was wondering if nayone knows how to have an animation play depending on the day of the month it is. I am working on an advent calander for a client and it would be nice if an animation would play depending on the day of the month.

any help much apreciated.
-kool

Displaying Animation When Movie Paused Depending On Frame
i am trying to display an animation when mouse is clicked (please see attached) anyone got any ideas basically if the use clicks mouse and gets 2 for 1 offer i want it to display a 2 for 1 animation

regards,

nick

Creating Navigation Buttons That Take You Backwards
I'm fairly new to Flash 5, though I've done some work with Macromedia Director a few years back. I'm creating a tutorial for science students that involves short animations inbetween still scenes with text on them. There are forward and backward buttons on these still scenes. These still scense have a frame action in them that stops them.

I would like to script the back buttons to say something like "Go to the last scene that has a frame script in it" Is that possible? (i.e. rather than having the button say "go back to frame such-and-such" and having to program each and every back button in this way)

Button Animation - Backwards
I intend to create a button with a rollOver animation and the same animation played backwards on rollOut.
If the mouse is rolled out before the rollOver animation has finished, the rollOut animation should start exactly where the rollOver animation has stopped (just backwards of course).

I placed an empty button (only hit-area is defined). The grafics and animation of the button or held by a MC with the instance-name "buttonFader1".

To accomplish this, I added following script to the button:
_______________________________________________
on (rollOver, dragOver) {
buttonFader1.play();
}

on (rollOut, dragOut) {
do {
buttonFader1.prevFrame();
} while (buttonFader1._currentframe>1);
}
_______________________________________________

What happens now is:
The rollOver animation works perfectly and stops on rollOut. The rollOut animation though is skipped. Instead the MC seems to jump to frame 1.

Can anyone tell me where I made the mistake?
I'm pretty much sure this has to work with just a little change in the code.

Playing An Animation Backwards
is it possible to make flash play frames backwards with the use of a command?
ie. frame 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Thanks for your help

Making Animation Backwards
I wonder if in MX can you switch animation around to play something backwards? Or wouldyou manually have to rearrange the key frames?

How Can I Make My Animation Run Backwards?
I am using Flash MX 2004 and I have made an animation that has buttons that make it play and stop and I have a rewind button that will go back to a specific frame and play from there but what I would like to have happen is when the rewind button is pressed to have the animation actually play backwards until the button is released and then it continues playing from whatever frame it reached.
Is there a way to do that?

Play Animation Backwards
Hullo Flash MX geeeeeks,
I've just come out of a rabbit hole to fetch some scripts. A beginner in actionscript, so please could you help me with my problem.

Let's dig into the problem.
B'fore writing down my problems please check this site
Orange . coz I wanna achieve the same kinda effect for my site. As the user rollovers on the text button a different image takes place of the old one. I know how to do this with (gotoAndPlay) code to move foward. But my problem is how to play the animation backward. I know it can be done using actionscript and it would be easier using the script instead of moving the animation back and forth.

Please help. Your input is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Backwards Animation Problem
Hello, I`m trying to use this code to make my animation go backwards. The problem is that I need to stop it before reach the beggining of the timeline. The Stop code doesn`t work backwards. Can Someone help me please.

Thanks

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
prevFrame();
}

Backwards Animation Problem
Hello Again, I having a problem with an animation. I can´t make my animation go backwards in the timeline, or make it stop when it goes in reverse.

Can´t anybody help me please.

Script To Play Animation Backwards
Hello all,
One quick question. How do you script for an animation you want to play again but you want it to run backwards?
Thanks,
StevieG>>>

Help With Mouse-over Animation Move Backwards
I am having a problem. I made a mouse over animation where some text morphs to some other text. The problem that I have is I want to make the text stop at the end of the animation and when I remove the mouse, it will go back to the original message. I am open to any suggestions. Thanks!

HairoPerez@hotmail.com

Movie Clip Complete Animation Upon Rollout, Not Play Backwards
I have been trying for several days now to get a movie clip I'm working on to continue animation if the mouse is moved off of the clip before it finishes. I worked through the tutorial to get the clip to play backwards instead of simply jerking to the first frame, and although this is somewhat helpful, what I really need is for the movie clip to continue its full animation once, like I have seen on some menus (for example, when you move the mouse down a nav bar and the buttons leave a 'trail' after the mouse as each one completes its animation). Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Page Selector Help Needed To Make Tween Animation Run Backwards
Hello

I am new to flash cs3 and this is the first animation i have made using as2..basically i have a page selector for my site it has two buttons next and prev at the moment what happens is when you press the next button an animation is started swaps image to number 2 then plays another animation and stops at the first stop tag found then you press it again and the same happens but the number is swapped out the 3 and so on... when you reach the end i have added code that makes it loop round to the start or finish.. now what i want to be able to do is press the prev button and make the animation play in reverse meaning that people can flick through the the page numbers select the page number they want and then press a third button to select that page. this page is then needed to open in an iframe contained in the page. so that the page selector stays were it is.

i have the animations working and the looping but just can figure out how to reverse the playback from were the playhead is to the prev stop point in the animation...I also cant get my select button to open the pages in an iframe

any help would be fantastic

here is the code i have for the buttons so far.. i took out the select button as it was not working but please tell me how???

stop();
//next button
next_btn.onPress=function(){
if(selectormovie._currentframe==selectormovie._tot alframes){
selectormovie.gotoAndStop(1)
}else{
_root.selectormovie.play(1);

}
}

//last button
last_btn.onPress=function(){
if(selectormoviet._currentframe==1){
selectormovie.gotoAndStop(selectormovie._totalfram es)
}else{
_root.selectormovie.play();

}
}

at the moment the last_btn just does the same as the next_btn

Creating An Animation
I would like to make path in the shape of a curved line, 1 or 2 pixels wide, and similar to the shape of an '8', and create a glowing dot to follow this path. Would this be accomplished 100% in Flash or would I create the '8' path in Fireworks and import this into Flash? I'm currently using Macromedia MX

Creating An Animation
Hello. I'm working on creating an animation. I'm using Adobe Flash CS3. Basically, what I have done is created a character in Photoshop. There are two images of that character, but when alternated back and forth, will give the illusion that the character is running. I've started off pretty simple, but what I need is a way to combine the two images (both are .png and I've imported them into Adobe Flash as symbols), so that the character will look as if he is running when I insert him into the main animation that I'm doing. I hope this makes sense and I appreciate any help that can be offered.

Creating A .gif From A .swf Animation
I've been trying to export a .gif from Flash. The .swf has several video files playing inside the timeline (not flvs) .. and I just want to make a .gif out of that.

It's exporting, but the .gif runs REALLY slow. So I tried exporting a jpg sequence and then importing that sequence into the timeline, then exporting THAT as a .gif, and it's still really slow.

The .swf file plays at 29fps (the same as the video clips) .. and I'd like to make the .gif as close to that as possible.

I even tried ImageReady, but it's still way too slow.

Any ideas?

Creating Animation On Mouseover
I'm trying to insert an animation for a mouseover effect on a button. Can this be done?

Thanks

Creating The Foundations Of Animation
Hi there,

Given that objects from the library are used to create animation, I would like to know how to create realistic-looking objects to use in the library, and therefore, in animation, especially since I am not a trained illustrator.

For example, if I wanted to create a realistic looking transparent "tube" in Flash, how could one do this, giving consideration to:

1) reflections
2) alpha
3) overall realism of the object

I imagine that the majority of websites out there, try to make use of effects rather than create graphics from scratch, such as differing alpha values on text, to make it a button, rather than creating a button itself. What I am saying is that I want to go beyond the basics of "creating shapes and basic drawing" in Flash, and make use of graphics as a foundation for those animations.

Any help is very much appreciated,

Thanks,

A.M.

Creating Praystation-like Dot Animation
I'm trying to generate a similar effect with a 7000+ homes for sale
recordset, based on the longitude and latitude.

I've figured out how to display the dots, but I can't figure out how to make them animate on one at a time. What I'm trying to do is accomplish a dot animation similar to the one on Praystation.

So I basically need to have the recordset be loaded, and instead of being parsed all at once, parse one record, duplicate the dot and then go onto the next.

Any ideas?

Need Some Help Creating A Cloud Animation
Hey, i want to create a cloud animation for my site to use as the Title image. i have seen and animation on this site that is good http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...954/index.php, however i dont know how to edit it to suit what i want, i have looked on their site for a tutorial but they havent put one up yet, so i was wondering if anyone knows how to create this effect or edit the existing fla file to suit(btw is that allowed?)

I have seen another one that i like HERE

Creating 2 Forms In One Animation
Hello,

I'm pretty new to flash and I'm trying to set up forms - which seems to be pretty hard.

I have 2 different forms in one animation. 1 for login and 1 for newsletter subscription.
I am ot worried about login for now, but I have to get the newsletter subscription working.

I have created a textfield named "email".
I also need to set two hidden fields - "flavor" and "list"
I also have a button.

I have attached this script to the submit button:
Quote:

on(release){
Set Variable: "flavor" = "subscribe";
Set Variable: "list" = "quarterly";
submit = "submit";
getURL ("http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mailer/mail.cgi", "", "POST");
}

When I run the animation I get the following errors:
Quote:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 63, frame=1:Line 2: Syntax error.
Set Variable: "flavor" = "subscribe";

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 63, frame=1:Line 3: Syntax error.
Set Variable: "list" = "quarterly";

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2

I just can't figure out how to set this all up.
Any help is appreciated!

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