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Random Photos In Background Of Website Change When Refreshed
Ok, so i am looking for some action script to enable me to have the background images for my website to change every time that someone views or refreshes the main page. I would like it to be random, and i have a number of files (about 20) that it would alternate between. Can anyone tell me how to do this and/or give me the action script code to use. Thanks

Loading Flash Into Html Website - White Background
Hi, i have a html which loads a few small flash movies.
The problem im having is that when the html page loads it leaves white squares where the flash would load up, and doesnt look very good, can anyone tell me away around this please,

Thanks.

http://www.guidingchoices.com

Loading A Random Background At 100%
how would you go about doing this. (ex http://hi-res.net )

I know how to do both indvidualy but i cant make it all work together!

any help would be apreciated

Loading Random Background
Hi, i read and completed the tutorial on this topic:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...background.htm

what i needed is something similar, except that my background image is a motion clip and instead of having external .swf, i need all the MC's in just one flash. How do i do that?
Thank you for a quick response

x.
Victor

Loading A Random Background
Hi everyone

This is my first post here, but i've used the excellent tutorials section on many occasions with great success

I now have a question re: Loading a Random Background

This will indeed work perfectly for what i want, my question is this;
can i get the same effect using jpgs from an external source?

thankyou for looking
Sue

Loading A Random Background At 100%
how would you go about doing this. (ex http://hi-res.net )

I know how to do both indvidualy but i cant make it all work together!

any help would be apreciated

Loading Random Background Tutorial Q.
I was just reading the testing the tutorials regarding loading a random background. I have tried this and worked!

BUT!...

I tried this for my flash document but the background covers everything else.

The keyframe, in which the script for loading the random image is in, is in a layer under a layer where my title is in. But when it loads the image, it appears on top of my image.

I'm trying to make an interactive DVD and want it so that my background changes each time you load the .swf file. (If possible to make it change also whenever you come back to the home page after visiting another page in it)

How do I solve this problem?

Question About Random Loading Background
I got the tutorial to work (it's pretty simple) but I want the background to randomly load images on it's on, basically looping through all of the random bacgrkounds without the page having to be refreshed. How do I achieve this? Thanks

[F8] Loading A Random Background Image And Preloading It.
Hey guys, currently making a new site. It is a fluid layout so everything streches etc. I am loading in a different background image each time the site is loaded and I have a good code for that from here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...background.htm

But since the image needs to take up a lot of space on stage for things like 22" screens the image sizes are like 2MB. Is there anyway that I can preload the background image seperatly to the whole movie...well actually I know there is I just need to be pointed in the right direction or just given some help. I want the preloader to load the whole stage but then where the background image should be displayed a preloader is displayed until the background image has fully loaded.

Any help would be awsome!

thanks.

Loading Random Background Problems [renamed]
I am looking for someone skilled with Flash, a Wizard hopefully...

I have been trying to create a .swf that loads a Random background image (like the one on Kirupa's MX tutorial on this site) ... and my skills are just too insuficient.. I got it working but the images loads in sequence too fast and my general composition and work is kinda messy...

Is there someone here who is interested in helping out ?

The project is for our website, we are a non-commercial gaming clan, and alot of programmers, but none of us have any serious Flash experience. We are able to advertise/link back to anyone who might wanna help us out.

Contact me on email: therseus@gmail.com

Loading A Random Background Image With A Preloader
hello

I've been following the Loading a Random Image tutorial from kirupa but I can't seem to make my image*.swf's to work..in it all I have is 3 frames, where the first 2 frames are for the preloader and the 3rd one is for the image.. but all I get is the loadBar fully loaded (but with no animation, just static) and no image... does that code from the kirupa tutorial stop the *.swf to make anykind of anymation?

another question is about how to simple load a movie on enter frame with a movieclip defining the location where it should be loaded to.. shouldn't it be: location.loadMovie("movie.swf") ? simply.... no?

thanks in advance..

Help Loading A Random Background Full Screen
In the bottom layer of my main movie, Id like to put a random background image which loads on entering the frame and stretches to full screen. I would like to use a preloader for the image so Im trying to load a swf using this which I found here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...ackground2.htm

Code:
choice = Math.round(Math.random()*5);
switch (choice) {
case 0 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
case 1 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
case 2 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
case 3 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
case 4 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
case 5 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;
}
but I could not get it to stretch full screen. How do I get the externally loaded swf to stretch full screen and be able to resize via a listener from within my main movie?

Thanks!
Rich

Loading Random Fullscreen Background Image
so, i finally got the fullscreen / scaling background to work. AND i can add .swf's and other mc's over top of it without any problem. however, i want to be able to have the background image randomly generated. i know how to do that on its own, but i can't get it to work with this script. any advice?

here's my fullscreen / scaling bg script.

Quote:

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
_global.imgConstantWidth = bgImage._width;
_global.imgConstantHeight = bgImage._height;

setImage = function(mc){

var originalWidth = 1280;
var originalHeight = 850;
var widthGutter = (Stage.width - originalWidth)/2;
var heightGutter = (Stage.height - originalHeight)/2;

mc._x = -widthGutter;
mc._y = -heightGutter;

if (mc._width > Stage.width){
mc._x -= (mc._width-Stage.width)/2;
}

if (mc._height > Stage.height){
mc._y -= (mc._height-Stage.height)/2;
}

}

resizeImage = function(mc){

var scaleByWidth;

if (Stage.width/Stage.height > _global.imgConstantWidth/_global.imgConstantHeight){
scaleByWidth = true;
}else{
scaleByWidth = false;
}

if (scaleByWidth){
mc._height = Stage.width * _global.imgConstantHeight / _global.imgConstantWidth;
mc._width = Stage.width;
} else {
mc._width = Stage.height * _global.imgConstantWidth / _global.imgConstantHeight;
mc._height = Stage.height;
}

}

setImage(bgImage);
resizeImage(bgImage);

sizeListener = new Object();
sizeListener.onResize = function() {
setImage(bgImage);
resizeImage(bgImage);
};

Stage.addListener(sizeListener);

AS 2 Loading Random Background FULLSCREEN Images
Hi there,
I have been looking at this tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...background.htm

but I need the background images to be FULLSCREEN. Can someone help me out? Is there a way to do this that someone can point me to ? I have a client squirming, and my head is on the block.

I am using as2, flash cs3.

Thanks in advance, Angie.

Random Background With Random Text File
I am trying to create a resizable flash file that will act as a background for my html/css website. Within the flash I want to have a script that randomly loads a jpg file from a specific folder on my server as well as a correlating txt file for that background. Here is an example of what I mean.

Say there is a movieclip named "background" and then a dynamic text area named "info" in the lower left-hand corner of the flash movie. I want a script to randomly load a jpg file (say 234.jpg) from a folder named "backgrounds" on the server. I also want it to load the correlating text file into the dynamic text area (234.txt) from a folder named "info". How would I do this and what would the script be?

NOTE: the names of the jpg and txt files would be 1.jpg, 1.txt, 2.jpg, 2.txt, etc.

Thank you for any help you can give!

-- K

--background For Website--
hi all.
i want to make a background in photoshop for my website, and i want the swf file to go on an exact place. I also want the picture to take up the whole screen from left to right (not necesarrily up and down) no matter the resolution. I have no idea where to start.

_____________.................._______________
.....................\__________/

.........................swf file

......................__________
_____________/.................\________________

Something like that, but the two ends will fit to the left and right of the screen. (the dots keep the stuff centeredd)

Any help will be, well uhhh, helpfull. And greatly appreciated

Flash Background In A Website
im trying to make the background for my site a swf file but i dont know how... is this possible? or do gifs and other image files work?
Also, if it is possible how do u make it so the background scrolls?
kinda like the gif on this website www.geocities.com/bofia29 (scroll up and down)

Fade Website Background
Hey all,

I have a flash website where I would like the entire browser window to fade to black when viewing various thumbnails. It seems that Flash's background color setting will bleed through the entire browser, but when I try to add a graphic to create the background fade it only goes so far as the flash stage.

The stage size is 780 pixels wide - do I need to create some sort of dynamic stage that scales to whatever the web browser size is? Otherwise, if the web browser goes bigger then 780 pixels the stage boundary is obvious.

In other words, am I able to control the padding between the stage and web browser if bigger than 780 pixels?

Thanks for any help!

Haus

Slide Show In Background Of Website...
Alright everyone, i have a question for you more experienced people out there. I have a website and i am trying to make it so that every thirty seconds an EXTERNAL jpg, or swf that has the jpg in it, will load in the background of my website with an alpha value of 30. I got the timer working, i got the code to load a jpg, or an swf, and i even have a target movie clip to load it to...now the problem is the alpha tinting. How do i go about this part?

Website Background In Flash For # Screenres.
Hi,

I have a problem figuring out how to get the following done:

I have drawn a very large illustration of a landscape and I want to use it as a background (wallpaper) for my Flash website. The thing is that I want every browser (with its unique user dependend screen resolution) to display only that part of the illustration that fits within the browser (=non-scalable background). I guess I have to design a Flash site for the largest possible screen resolution and write some HTML code that removes the scroll bars (since I don't want the user to be able to scroll around). Any suggestions how to get this done? The "active" content of the site has been set up within 800*600 pixels, LEFT/TOP centred.

thanx,
Alfonzo

Flash Intro To Background Of Website
Ok I have built a flash intro that I am pretty happy with. My question is how do I make this intro turn into my websites back ground? http://www.truball.com/test.swf That is it so far I am going to fine tune it and make it look a lot better but I needed the template. So how would I go about building my website in dreamweaver now that its complete. After the intro plays can my site show up in the black? Or am I out of luck?

Changing Size Of Background Throughout Website?
Im building a website and I was wondering if there is a way you can change the background size for each page that you make. Do you have to create a whole new file or can you do it within the same file? How would i go about doing something like this?

Here is an example of what im talking about...

http://www.stevespizza.com/

The first page is around 800x600 and the rest of the pages are around 800x1500.
This is what im looking to try to do.

Thank you.

[MX04] Flash As Background Of Website?
Hey everyone:

Does anyone know if it's possible to use a .SWF as the background of a website?

Any example code would be appreciated.

I think it can be done, but not sure how to make it work.

Thanks,

SP

Change Website Background With Actionscript
I'm creating a full flash website and I'd like to be able to change the site's background color within flash. The swf itself is only 1000 pixels wide and 600 pixels high. The design is a horizontal band across the middle of the site that will be continued on the right in a div with css. (once the flash movie runs out after 1000 pixels)

I'd intended to set the flash movie's background color to transparent and just let the html container's background color show through but I'd like to change the background color of the site depending on what section you're browsing in the flash movie.

Is there any way to use actionscript to "talk" to the html site? It's style sheet? or javascript? something that would allow me to change the site's background color from within the flash movie?

Thanks for any help.

AS 2 Flash Movie As Website Background
I am relatively inexperienced with Flash. I know just enough to get myself into trouble as you will see here...
I am creating a website with the bulk of the material in flash. All was going well until the client asked for a twinkling effect on the static textured background (created in PS). I was able to find a file on the web and apply that code to a flash file to create this effect. I layered this in Dreamweaver in div layer 1, the main web content (combo of html & flash) on div layer 2.
The problem is that it slows down all my animation in the main content. Plus I previewed it on a MAC and the quick flash intro I created crawls at agonizingly slow speed!!!
Does anyone know a better, "lighter" way to do what I need to do? here is the link to my site , in progress...
http://bokx109.com/working/intro.htm

This is the AS2 code in frame 1 on "blink1000.swf" (in div layer1):

var numStars:Number = 250;
for (i=1; i<=numStars; i++) {
_root.attachMovie("star", "star"+i, i, {_x:Math.random()*Stage.width, _y:Math.random()*Stage.height, _alpha:Math.random()*100});
_root["star"+i].rotSpeed = Math.round(Math.random()*8+2);
_root["star"+i].tranSpeed = Math.round(Math.random()*10+5);
_root["star"+i].tranDir = Math.floor(Math.random()*2);
trace(_root["star"+i].rotSpeed);
_root["star"+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.tranDir == 0) {
this._alpha += this.tranSpeed;
if (this._alpha>100) {
this.tranDir = 1;
}
} else {
this._alpha -= this.tranSpeed;
if (this._alpha<40) {
this.tranDir = 0;
}
}
this._rotation += this.rotSpeed;
};
}

I know I'm missing something. Any guidance from you more learned folks would be very much appreciated!

Controlling Website Through Transparent Flash Background...
Hi my name is Baz, I'm building a website for a mates pub, he wanted a sample menu adding, which I've done, and it works perfectly well in IE7. It can be seen here:

http://www.thewhitehorsechurton.com/pages/menu.php

The physical size of the flash movie is quite large, it doesn't look it at first glance, but when I turned the page on the menu, if the page moved outside of the boundaries of the flash movie, it would obviously not show the part that went outside the invisible boundary. So I have to make the physical size much larger, and give it a transparent background. The movie goes over the top of the websites menu system, which I thought might be a problem, but was pleasantly suprised when I checked it in IE7 it worked fine...however in FF and in Opera, it doesn't want to work, and has the effect of disabling my websites menu system. Any ideas how I can fix that?

Another problem is that at the bottom of every page on the site I have added a footer, yet on this page the footer just won't show up for some reason.

My other problem which is not flash related but thought I may aswell say it on the off chance someone knows...my websites menu system works fine in all browsers, except in Opera, it's placed slightly too far to the right and slightly lower than on all other browsers making it look odd, any ideas would be greatfully received!

Thanks in advance for your help guys

P.S.: I know there are spelling mistakes on the front page and the pages aren't too easy to read, I'll sort that out later, just want to get it running right first.

Stretch Background In Liquid Layout Website
Hi!

There are lots of cool Flash website on the internet which fill the browser with their background, but don't scale their contents. I love this and I am working on a website using the technique. I want my site to be very similar to this one. I can set my website so the contents don't scale, but I want a large picture of clouds to be in the background, but I cannot believe I have to create a huge image to accommodate large resolutions. Is there a stretch technique involved?? How would I accommodate a 'tall' or 'really wide' browser window when the image is presumable 4:3 or 16:10 ratio?

I hope this makes sense! Thanks!

Website With Gradient Full Screen Background...
Hi
I'm sorry that I have to bother you for this, but I've been trying to search over and over the right topic and I can't seem to find one.

I have a website already done... but I'd like it to be over a full screen gradient background.

Do you guys have any idea how to do that?

I found a lot of tutorials and exemple on how to repeat a symbol picture to make a seamless background just like the one Lee Brimelow made on gotoandlearn.com, but I can't find one on how to make that gradient full screen background.

I hope someone can help me on that.

Kind Regards

Dr Troy

Random Background
i have built a script to load a differenct background picture in random order. the script follows: -
SelectionBGArray = new Array();
SelectionBGArray[0] = "3";
SelectionBGArray[1] = "4";
SelectionBGTotal = SelectionBGArray.Length;
randomBG = SelectionBGArray[random(SelectionBGTotal)];
gotoAndStop (randomBG);

i have different background pictures on frame 3 and 4. the random function returns either 3 or 4 and thus gotoAndStop (3 or 4). i'm not very happy with this and it is very buggy. does anyone know better ways to do this? i would like to put all of the background pictures in one frame and manipulate the x and y coordinates as the .swf file loads. but i think setproperty method only works with on (release) event.

Random Background-mc's?
On my stage I have four buttons, and a background-mc too.

Let's say I want to have three background mc's, and want to random these mc's, so that they change every time I enter the site.

Is there a really easy way to do this? I'm using F4 and Mac.

Thanks ;D

coala

Random Background
I'm trying to design a custom tetris game for a local cricket club that I play for. I want to have a cricket background behind the main game. I want the background picture to change everytime the player starts a new game. How do I tell flash to load a new pic at the start of a new game????

Lee

Random Background
I'm new here so...Hello!

I only really know the basics of Flash, I don't have much knowledge of Action Scripting but I'm keen to learn! So here goes with the first of many (probably very dumb) questions;

If I were to create say 5 different background graphics or images how would I go about being able to have one of them randomly load to the background of my flash page when somebody enters the site?

Hopefully it's nothing too difficult!

Thanks in advance,
Sarah.

Random Background
My client wants to use an image as the background but wants 3 different backgrounds that will be selected randomly at the time of loading. She is trying to avoid having the same background every time. Is this possible?

Random Background
hello.. i was just wondering the correct coding to use to create a randomized background.. im trying to find tutorials.. but no luck.. where the movie clip for the background is in one movie clip.. but i really didnt want it that the site would just be going through the same actual animation.. i wanted to change colour randomly from the ones i set.. and animate.. instead of just running the movie clip.. or making about 200 frames.. where once it gets to one from it stops.. then calls another.

thats actually the question im more so wanting to.. with actionscripting the code to make it count maybe a min or 2.. then go to a randomized frame label. hopefully this is possible. i havent actually touched flash for a while.. been pushed into using visual basic by my boss.. so ya.. if anyone can help.. im using flash mx 2004

Random Background
Fox,
i am very new to flash n need some urgent help,
working on a project where i need 2 things,

1. randomly changing background everytime i open that flash file
2. how to call an swf or a flash file in another flash file n play the animation with the background of the file in which i am calling the other fla.

e.g.
i want "movie X" to be played inside the "movie Y" with the background of the "movie y" and all the components too.

please help, a little urgent
thanks

Random Background
Im looking for a way of loading a random image from xml and resize it to 1280x960 . All the examples i have are for loading multiple thumbnails .

My xml is below , can anyone show me an example .

Quote:

<item type="Wallpaper">
<img><![CDATA[Wallpaper/name.jpg]]></img>
</item>

Random Background
For mostely all of you it's will appair as a stupid question but am searching for a soultion since couple houer whitout figure it

My problem is am trying at to load into my swf a random background each time a visitor come into the site. i read couple tutorial and put some idea from them tougeder.

I called my diferent background (in propriety panel) ''background1'' to ''background6'' and they are occurence of symbole 84 to symbole 89

so here my code

ActionScript Code:
// random background donne une valeur aleatoire entre Background1,2,3,4,5 Nom d'occurence ActBg1,2,3,4,5

K = Math.ceil(Math.random()*5);
attachMovie("Background"+K, "ActBg"+K, 1);

// displayit

"Background"+K = visible.root_;

am not sure of evrething in this code and am realy sorry to bother you whit that basic stuff Any kind of help would be appreciate thx

Random Background
Hi there
I was wondering how I can add a random background to my flash site. This script should generate a random background everytime someone views my site...

Exactly like this site: http://www.exopolis.com/site/
Visit it 2-3 times to see how it does it.

SWF Random Background
Hi,

Got a little problem that I hope all you talented Flash pros could help me with.

I’m creating a Flash site with a random, allow scale, swf background. On top of that background I want my navigation menu, this should not scale with the background.

I used the KIRUPA tutorial to create the random background and it works fine, the problem is that the top navigation menu doesn’t stay the same size….it scales with the background. Think I have to use Fscommand() somehow?

If you go to www.puma.com, you can see exactly what I’m looking for.

Here is the Kirupa tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loadingrandombackground.htm

Thanks!

Random Background
when i make this flash can find my images but can't open them:

Random Background From XML
hey guys, its been a while since ive been on here. but i need some help.

i am making a full screen flash site and need a random pic as the background but it loaded from an xml file so the client can control it.

i know you guys know how to do this im not looking for new code!!

thanks in advance this place is awesome

Random Background From XML
hey guys, maybe i posted this in the wrong place earlier.

i need help bad, in a bind and need a background of a full window flash movie to be a random image with data loaded from an xml file.

any code or tips you have will be greatly appreciated i need help!!

Random Background Help
I followed this tutorial.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...background.htm
It is a step by step guide on how to load a random background image. It loads a .swf into a movieclip on your main timeline. I did everything right, but the thing is, is that I am trying to load the image into a movieclip thats inside of another movieclip. For example it says to load the image into the movie "location." I need to load it into "background" then "location."

The gist of the code says.
choice = Math.round(Math.random()*5);
switch (choice) {
case 0 :
location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;

now if i need to put it into another movieclip dont i do this?

choice = Math.round(Math.random()*5);
switch (choice) {
case 0 :
_root.background.location.loadMovie("image0.swf");
break;

Well I tried that and a bunch of other options, but it didn't work. Someone please help me. Even another link to some better tutorial will help. Anything. Thanks.

Jonathan

Same Random Color Trough The Website
Hi,

Is there somebody who would like to help me with the following...
I try to explain it step by step...
In a FLASHproject I'm using 2 colors, color 1:basic blue and color 2: red.
When you've visited the site you still have the 2 colors, but the red (color2) has changed to ex.orange. I'm using an Random Color ActionScript for color2.
What I would like to do is that all the other Movieclips (entire or parts of them), graphics, buttons, that I will use will change also with the Random Color 2.
There has to be a link from a new graphic, button, MC to he first MC (who has the basicAS) to get the same randomcolor.

So shortly briefed, MC1 has andomcolor.
New MC2 has to get the same colordefinition as MC1 has.
New button01 has also the same randomcolordefinition as MC1
ex. orange...
After refresh
MC1 is green
New MC2 & New button01 has also to be the same green....

I'm a new flash-user for ±6 months now and I can't manage it !!
Can somebody help me please with an Actionscript or...?

1000 x thanks !!!!!

Flasherik