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Mouse Tracker
hi everybody, i am new here and this is my first post.

i am a web developer and new to flash. i am developing a nagivation system for a client with 6 circular button positioned irregularly. the effect i want is, as soon as i mouseover each button, it shoud enlarge upto 150% adn others should shrink proportionately.when i mouseover another button, it should enlarge and others including the first mouseovered one should shrink..i am not good in actionscripting, so pls anyone could help? apart from that, the entire button group should require a sensitivity area, so that once the mouse is out of that region, all button should be the 100%. any help would be highly appreciated.

Frame Tracker?
say i type

on (press) {
gotoandplay (50);
}

after it plays frame 50, how can i make it so that it goes back to the frame i was in before it went to frame 50?

thanks for your responses

for fun visit www.free-flash-games.cjb.net

Mouse Tracker
I need to create a "mouse tracker"... a small box graphic that follows the mouse horizontally between 2 set points. And only when the mouse rolls over the menu items. Ive searched for tutorials, but i only find mouse trackers that encompass the entire screen, not set between 2 horizonatal points. Thanks for any and all help. http://www.rickcornett.com

Number Tracker...
Hi at the moment ive got random images coming out of a folder, the trouble is some images end up appearing more than others, does anyone know how i could keep track of what random images/numbers have been shown, so that an image isnt repeated until all the images have been shown, if anyone has got any help, it would be much appreciated
thank Lee

Web Stats - Tracker?
I need to create a web stats and tracker for a new site. This will be all flash so I need it to know which sections of the site are being accessed. I thought of writing to a text file with varibles but the only way I know to do that would be access the txt file when you come to a section and add one but if people are accessing the site at the same time then it wont work correctly. Anyone have any ideas what is a good way to do this.

Graph Tracker
I just came across a Graph tracker for Stocks on Yahoo finance in which we could drag the line grph to any timeline. It's ben made in Flash. Does anyone has any clue how it can be done. Also is there any tutorial available on it on Flash Kit.

Click Tracker
I have an example of a click tracker..... this is only part of what I need to acomplish. Attached is a zip file with two fla files and a txt file. The click tracker is heading towards what i am trying to acomplish, but not quite what I need to acomplish. The example-1
fla is a lout of what I want to do minus the actionscript. The txt file eplains what I want to do.

I am a designer with very little scripting knowledge anything help at all would be good help. and if anyone knows of any good books that may help me please let me know.

Route Tracker
Hi guys,

here's a challenga for y'all....

Create an object that follows an underlying image. This image must be random, gif, jpeg, whatever. If the image is totally black or totally white, then the image will not influence the movement but. The movement will then be random. If the image contains a line or anything that closely resembles it, then the goal of the object is to follow this line as closely as possible.

Any of you guys have an idea on how to accomplish this?
I can move objects, random or not, but I wouldn't know how to make it follow a line. Can flash detect changes in color of an image?
e.g.:

ActionScript Code:
xPos = my_object._x;//x coordinate of the objectyPos = my_object._y;//y coordinate of the objectmy_color = getColor(xPos, yPos);//get the color of the pixel at these coordinates//remember this is just example code, not actual functional code.

I'd love to hear some of your brainstorms.....

Will

Navigation Tracker
Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone can help me out on making a "tracker" for my navigation. Like if someone at my site clicks on "Portfolio" and then accidently clicks on it again, I don't want the transition to happen again. If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Progress Tracker
i have a flash an elearning movie that i created from the presentation template, each new "slide" contains a text box with text inside it. the user moves from page to page using controls. i want to create a progress tracker that will be displayed at the side of the movie and will show the user which slides they have read. this can either be automatic or the user can check a box to say they have finished that slide. i am new to flash and would really appreciate any suggestions as to how this can be done.
thanks
cathie

Flash Mouse Tracker
Hi all,

Thanks for your interest in my post.

I was just wandering if anybody can give me a detailed tutorial on Flash 5 mouse trackers please.

Here is the link to the specific mouse tracker that I want to do (it's in HTML, but as I say, I want to do it in Flash!):

http://www.alanvandermerwe.com/indexmain.htm

It's at the top of the main frames.

I don't mean to be fussy, but if anybody writes a tutorial for me, can they please write it in step-by-step instructions please as I'm only a beginner to Flash.

Thank you very much everybody.

Take care,

Mark

Site Tracker For Flash?
Can you put a site tracker with flash? If you can I get a few links to some? Thanks

How Can I Make A Scrollbar Tracker?
Hi there,

Thanks for the interest in my post.

I have a dynamic text field in my Flash movie and two custom buttons which make the text scroll up or down.

Does anyone know how I can make a custom scrollbar that the user can drag up or down like on an HTML page scrollbar. Is this possible or is it fairly straight forward?

Many thanks for any help given.

Take care,

Mark

Realtime Global Tracker
Looking to dynamically plot lat/long coordinate points from a remote moving GPS onto a 3D (or flat image) globe. Anyone know of any fast methods for this?

Mouse Tracker Behavior Is Different In MC
I created a movie that houses a MC and some invisible buttons that jump to frames to play an animation.

Problem is that the MC (once converted) behaves differently that it would if placed directly on the stage. The "target" is supposed to follow the mouse but when placed in a MC, it seems to be anchored to the middle of the stage and "aims" toward the mouse. Any ideas why?

See attached file.

Problems With Scrollbar Tracker - Please Help
Hi,

Thank you for reading my topic.

I am loading a text file using a movie clip with a dynamic textbox, scroll buttons and tracker inside. The text box and scroll buttons all work fine.

The scrollbar tracker scrolls the text but as soon as you drag it to scroll the .txt, it moves to a new start point. It's difficult to describe so I've uploaded the swf here . My fla can be downloaded from here.

Here is the code I have on the mc:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("test.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
numLines = 7;
origHeight = scrollbar._height;
origX = scrollbar._x;
needInit = false;
function initScrollbar() {
var totalLines = numLines+daTextBox.maxscroll-1;
scrollbar._yscale = 100*(numLines)/totalLines;
deltaHeight = origHeight-scrollbar._height;
lineHeight = deltaHeight/(daTextBox.maxScroll-1);
}
function updateScrollBarPos() {
scrollbar._y = lineHeight*(daTextBox.scroll-1);
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (needInit) {
if (daTextBox.maxscroll>1) {
initScrollbar();
needInit = false;
}
}
if (frameCounter%speedFactor == 0) {
if (scrolling == "up" && daTextBox.scroll>1) {
daTextBox.scroll--;
updateScrollBarPos();
} else if (scrolling == "down" && daTextBox.scroll<daTextBox.maxscroll) {
daTextBox.scroll++;
updateScrollBarPos();
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (up.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "up";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
up.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (down.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "down";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
down.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (scrollbar.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrollbar.startDrag(0, origX, deltaHeight, origX);
scrolling = "scrollbar";
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
scrolling = 0;
up.gotoAndStop(1);
down.gotoAndStop(1);
stopDrag();
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
if (scrolling == "scrollbar") {
daTextBox.scroll = Math.round((scrollbar._y)/lineHeight+1);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (data) {
needInit = true;
I'd really appreciate anyones thoughts on why this is or could be happening please.

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you.

Mark

Using Google Urchin Tracker
hello i need some help on where to insert this Google urchin tracker into my flash action script button to be able to track it with my server software metrics, does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing......? some of the code they give u as an example can be viewed below and at this link..

thanks ajdesign

http://www.google.com/support/analyt...y?answer=27243

Google Analytics lets you track any browser based event, including Flash and JavaScript events. To track an event, call the urchinTracker() JavaScript function with an argument specifying a name for the event. For example, calling:

javascript:urchinTracker('/homepage/flashbuttons/button1');

will cause each occurrence of that Flash event to be logged as though it were a pageview of /homepage/flashbuttons/button1. The argument must begin with a forward slash. The event names may be organized into any directory style structure you wish, and actual pages with these filenames need not exist.

For example, if you wish to organize flash events by page, by type of event, you might organize a hierarchy along these lines:

/homepage/flashbuttons/button1
/homepage/clips/clip1

Important: if your pages include a call to urchinTracker(), utmLinker(), utmSetTrans(), or utmLinkPost(), your Analytics tracking code must be placed in your HTML code above any of these calls. In these cases the tracking code can be placed anywhere between the opening <body> tag and the JavaScript call.

Flash Code Examples

on (release) {
// Track with no action
getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/folder/file');");
}

on (release) {
//Track with action
getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/folder/file');");
_root.gotoAndPlay(3);
myVar = "Flash Track Test"
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/folder/file');");

AS3 Frame Rate Tracker
Does anyone know of some source code for an AS3 frame rate tracker?

This one is what I want but for AS2:

http://www.flashsourcecode.com/source/track_frame_rate/

thanks in advance

//

Problems With Scrollbar Tracker - Please Help
Hi,

Thank you for reading my topic.

I am loading a text file using a movie clip with a dynamic textbox, scroll buttons and tracker inside. The text box and scroll buttons all work fine.

The scrollbar tracker scrolls the text but as soon as you drag it to scroll the .txt, it moves to a new start point. It's difficult to describe so I've uploaded the swf here. My fla can be downloaded from here.

The code I have on the movie clip is attached.

I'd really appreciate anyones thoughts on why this is or could be happening please.

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you.

Mark

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("test.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
numLines = 7;
origHeight = scrollbar._height;
origX = scrollbar._x;
needInit = false;
function initScrollbar() {
var totalLines = numLines+daTextBox.maxscroll-1;
scrollbar._yscale = 100*(numLines)/totalLines;
deltaHeight = origHeight-scrollbar._height;
lineHeight = deltaHeight/(daTextBox.maxScroll-1);
}
function updateScrollBarPos() {
scrollbar._y = lineHeight*(daTextBox.scroll-1);
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (needInit) {
if (daTextBox.maxscroll>1) {
initScrollbar();
needInit = false;
}
}
if (frameCounter%speedFactor == 0) {
if (scrolling == "up" && daTextBox.scroll>1) {
daTextBox.scroll--;
updateScrollBarPos();
} else if (scrolling == "down" && daTextBox.scroll<daTextBox.maxscroll) {
daTextBox.scroll++;
updateScrollBarPos();
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (up.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "up";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
up.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (down.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "down";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
down.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (scrollbar.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrollbar.startDrag(0, origX, deltaHeight, origX);
scrolling = "scrollbar";
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
scrolling = 0;
up.gotoAndStop(1);
down.gotoAndStop(1);
stopDrag();
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
if (scrolling == "scrollbar") {
daTextBox.scroll = Math.round((scrollbar._y)/lineHeight+1);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (data) {
needInit = true;

Flash Link Tracker
Hi everyone,
Is there any software or code out there that I can implement on a Flash website to track each link a visitor clicks on. So far I have only found software that tracks the exit page and not the actual link that was clicked. Since there is only one page with 35 links, I need to track the 35 links, not the exit page. Does anyone know of software that can do this?

Thanks

Problem With Tracker For Dynamic Text Box. Please Help
Hi all,

I have a dynamic text field which has an up and down button and a tracker so it scrolls. It works perfectly but...

The problem is, is that the swf that my scroll stuff is in is loaded dynamically into my main movie (main.swf) via a placeHolder movie clip with an instance name of 'profile' in this case.

When I test main.swf so I can view the dynamically loaded swf that has my scroll stuff in it, everything works except the tracker which, whenever I press the up or down button moves to a random location in it's movie and then stays there. The text box scrolls perfectly but I can't get the tracker to A). move with the text as I scroll it with the buttons B). stop moving to this random location that it does and C). make itself draggable so when I drag it, it scrolls the text.

This is the code I'm using:

Code:
myLV = new LoadVars();
myLV.load("profile.txt");
myLV.onLoad = function() {
myText.htmlText = this.myText;
_root.profile.top = sliderMC._y;
_root.profile.bottom = sliderMC._y+trackMC._height-sliderMC._height;
};
upBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, -1);
};
upBtn.onRelease = upBtn.onReleaseOutside=downBtn.onRelease=downBtn.onReleaseOutside=function () {
clearInterval(scrollI);
};
downBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, 1);
};
_root.profile.sliderMC.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag(0, this._x, top, this._x, bottom);
scrollI = setInterval(scrollF, 80);
};
_root.profile.sliderMC.onRelease = sliderMC.onReleaseOutside=function () {
this.stopDrag();
clearInterval(sliderI);
};
function scrollF() {
var a = (myText.maxscroll-1)/(bottom-top);
myText.scroll = Math.round((sliderMC._y-top)*a+1);
}
function setSlider() {
var a = (bottom-top)/(myText.maxscroll-1);
sliderMC._y = a*(myText.scroll-1)+top;
}
function scrollBtnF(dir) {
myText.scroll += dir;
setSlider();
}
Can someone please tell me where I've gone wrong on this as it used to work perfectly before I made some changes to the code (just the _root.profile..etc. bits) and before it was viewed in main.swf.

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.

All the best,

Mark

Problem With Tracker For Dynamic Text Box. Please Help
Hi all,

I've built a site in Flash MX and it's nearly done but there seems to be some coding problems.

If you can check it out at http://www.spindriftmedia.com/test/a...ash/index2.htm you should be able to see the problem. If you click on a button on the main nav, and then when the section comes up (which is a placeHolder mc which has a dynamically loaded swf in it), either close it or select another section, it starts jumping back and forth between two frames of the main swf's preloader. However, when all the dynamically loaded swf's are loaded and stored so they are reading from the cache, this problem doesn't happen and you can skip between the sections ok. It will still happen though when you close a tab.

I don't understand it, when I test the site in Flash, it all works as it should and rarely messes up but when I upload the site, it goes tits up!

I assume this is a coding error. Below are the only bits of code I can think of that could be causing the problem:

I'm using the below syntax to load the text files which are in the dynamicly loaded swf's:

Code:
myLV=new LoadVars();
myLV.load("mytext.txt");
preloadI=setInterval(preloadF,100);
function preloadF(){
loaded=myLV.getBytesLoaded();
total=myLV.getBytesTotal();
if(loaded>0&&loaded>=total){
clearInterval(preloadI);
gotoAndStop(5);
} else {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

...and the below syntax is to make the scrollbars work which are also in the external swf's:

Code:
myLV = new LoadVars();
myLV.load("mytext.txt");
myLV.onLoad = function() {
myText.htmlText = this.myText;
top = sliderMC._y;
bottom = sliderMC._y+trackMC._height-sliderMC._height;
};
upBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, -1);
};
upBtn.onRelease = upBtn.onReleaseOutside=downBtn.onRelease=downBtn.onReleaseOutside=function

() {
clearInterval(scrollI);
};
downBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, 1);
};
sliderMC.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag(0, this._x, top, this._x, bottom);
scrollI = setInterval(scrollF, 80);
};
sliderMC.onRelease = sliderMC.onReleaseOutside=function () {
this.stopDrag();
clearInterval(sliderI);
};
function scrollF() {
var a = (myText.maxscroll-1)/(bottom-top);
myText.scroll = Math.round((sliderMC._y-top)*a+1);
}
function setSlider() {
var a = (bottom-top)/(myText.maxscroll-1);
sliderMC._y = a*(myText.scroll-1)+top;
}
function scrollBtnF(dir) {
myText.scroll += dir;
setSlider();
}

The only other thing that may be causing the problem is that I do have a couple of objects in the placeHolder itself (like the section backgrounds and a hotspot so you can drag each section) but wouldn't have thought that would create the problem, would it?

If anyone has any suggestions as to why you think this might be happening or if you've encountered something similar happening to you, please let me know as the site is due to be launched at the end of the week!!!

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.

Take care,

Mark

Scrollbar Tracker Behaving Oddly
Hi,

Thank you for reading my topic.

I am loading a text file using a movie clip with a dynamic textbox, scroll buttons and tracker inside. The text box and scroll buttons all work fine.

The scrollbar tracker scrolls the text but as soon as you drag it to scroll the .txt, it moves to a new start point. It's difficult to describe so I've uploaded the swf here. My fla can be downloaded from here.

Here is the code I have on the mc:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("test.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
numLines = 7;
origHeight = scrollbar._height;
origX = scrollbar._x;
needInit = false;
function initScrollbar() {
var totalLines = numLines+daTextBox.maxscroll-1;
scrollbar._yscale = 100*(numLines)/totalLines;
deltaHeight = origHeight-scrollbar._height;
lineHeight = deltaHeight/(daTextBox.maxScroll-1);
}
function updateScrollBarPos() {
scrollbar._y = lineHeight*(daTextBox.scroll-1);
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (needInit) {
if (daTextBox.maxscroll>1) {
initScrollbar();
needInit = false;
}
}
if (frameCounter%speedFactor == 0) {
if (scrolling == "up" && daTextBox.scroll>1) {
daTextBox.scroll--;
updateScrollBarPos();
} else if (scrolling == "down" && daTextBox.scroll<daTextBox.maxscroll) {
daTextBox.scroll++;
updateScrollBarPos();
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (up.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "up";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
up.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (down.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "down";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
down.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (scrollbar.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrollbar.startDrag(0, origX, deltaHeight, origX);
scrolling = "scrollbar";
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
scrolling = 0;
up.gotoAndStop(1);
down.gotoAndStop(1);
stopDrag();
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
if (scrolling == "scrollbar") {
daTextBox.scroll = Math.round((scrollbar._y)/lineHeight+1);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (data) {
needInit = true;
}
I'd really appreciate anyones thoughts on why this is or could be happening please.

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you.

Mark

Scrollbar Tracker Behaving Oddly
Hi,

Thank you for reading my topic.

I am loading a text file using a movie clip with a dynamic textbox, scroll buttons and tracker inside. The text box and scroll buttons all work fine.

The scrollbar tracker scrolls the text but as soon as you drag it to scroll the .txt, it moves to a new start point. It's difficult to describe so I've uploaded the swf here. My fla can be downloaded from here.

Here is the code I have on the mc:

ActionScript Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
this.loadVariables("test.txt");
scrolling = 0;
frameCounter = 1;
speedFactor = 3;
numLines = 7;
origHeight = scrollbar._height;
origX = scrollbar._x;
needInit = false;
function initScrollbar() {
var totalLines = numLines+daTextBox.maxscroll-1;
scrollbar._yscale = 100*(numLines)/totalLines;
deltaHeight = origHeight-scrollbar._height;
lineHeight = deltaHeight/(daTextBox.maxScroll-1);
}
function updateScrollBarPos() {
scrollbar._y = lineHeight*(daTextBox.scroll-1);
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (needInit) {
if (daTextBox.maxscroll>1) {
initScrollbar();
needInit = false;
}
}
if (frameCounter%speedFactor == 0) {
if (scrolling == "up" && daTextBox.scroll>1) {
daTextBox.scroll--;
updateScrollBarPos();
} else if (scrolling == "down" && daTextBox.scroll<daTextBox.maxscroll) {
daTextBox.scroll++;
updateScrollBarPos();
}
frameCounter = 0;
}
frameCounter++;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
if (up.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "up";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
up.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (down.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrolling = "down";
frameCounter = speedFactor;
down.gotoAndStop(2);
}
if (scrollbar.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
scrollbar.startDrag(0, origX, deltaHeight, origX);
scrolling = "scrollbar";
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
scrolling = 0;
up.gotoAndStop(1);
down.gotoAndStop(1);
stopDrag();
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
if (scrolling == "scrollbar") {
daTextBox.scroll = Math.round((scrollbar._y)/lineHeight+1);
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
onClipEvent (data) {
needInit = true;
}

I'd really appreciate anyones thoughts on why this is or could be happening please.

Thank you very much and hope to hear from you.

Mark

Designing A Dynamic Tracker, Need Advice...
Hello Everyone,

I am in process of designing a BMI tracker which would allow users to track their BMI for 52 weeks. I am designing it in FLASH but would like to capture the entered data by the user to a database (MS ACCESS or SQL). I will probably add more features which would also dynamically driven via DB. My questions are:

1. I am assuming I will be using ASP.NET with SQL or ACCESS, would it be easier to have DB spit out XML and then I populate that data in FLASH?

2. Since this tool will be online, having a database spit out XML for each request can probably bog down the server performance (I can be wrong here). Should I not use XML?

3. Are there any off the shelf tracker tools available which can customized?

4. What other technologies can I use to achieve this tool using Flash?

Thanks a lot for all your help.

Flash MX Game Hi -score Tracker
Hey all, I was looking for a little enlightenment -
I have made a game in Flash MX, and it is a time based game, the object being to complete obstacles in the shortest amount of time - Does anyone know how I can create a separate web page that can be accessed through a "register" button on the Flash game, and have your hi-score posted on that page, including a screen name, from best at top to worst at the bottom?
Source code, websites or any other resources is greatly greatly appreciated!

thanks
---->FP

Flash MX Game Hi Score Tracker
Hey all, I was looking for a little enlightenment -
I have made a game in Flash MX, and it is a time based game, the object being to complete obstacles in the shortest amount of time - Does anyone know how I can create a separate web page that can be accessed through a "register" button on the Flash game, and have your hi-score posted on that page, including a screen name, from best at top to worst at the bottom?
Source code, websites or any other resources is greatly greatly appreciated!

thanks
FP

Fixed Size Scrollbar Compnent Tracker?
mx 2004. player 7.

the scrollbar component tracker(the little thing you grab with your mouse) expands in height inversely to the ammount of text it is scrolling. i.e. the more text you have, the smaller it gets.

is there any way to disable this... so that the tracker is always the same size no matter how much text there is?

thx.

Problem With Tracker For Scrolling Dynamic Text Box. Please Help
Hi all,

Thank you for reading my post...

I'm having some problems with scrolling a dynamic text field.

When I use _root in my code (see below), everything works fine but I have to use _parent as the swf that the scroll stuff is in is to be loaded dynamically from my main move.

When I use _parent, the buttons work ok but the scroll tracker moves to a random location on the stage and stays there and won't move - and also it won't scroll the text like it should.

Below is the code I'm using in the main timeline:

Code:
myLV = new LoadVars();
myLV.load("profile.txt");
myLV.onLoad = function() {
myText.htmlText = this.myText;
_parent.top = sliderMC._y;
_parent.bottom = sliderMC._y+trackMC._height-sliderMC._height;
};
upBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, -1);
};
upBtn.onRelease = upBtn.onReleaseOutside=downBtn.onRelease=downBtn.onReleaseOutside=function

() {
clearInterval(scrollI);
};
downBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, 1);
};
sliderMC.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag(0, this._x, top, this._x, bottom);
scrollI = setInterval(scrollF, 80);
};
sliderMC.onRelease = sliderMC.onReleaseOutside=function () {
this.stopDrag();
clearInterval(sliderI);
};
function scrollF() {
var a = (myText.maxscroll-1)/(bottom-top);
myText.scroll = Math.round((sliderMC._y-top)*a+1);
}
function setSlider() {
var a = (bottom-top)/(myText.maxscroll-1);
sliderMC._y = a*(myText.scroll-1)+top;
}
function scrollBtnF(dir) {
myText.scroll += dir;
setSlider();
}
I've uploaded my .fla to www.spindriftmedia.com/scroll2.zip and would be most grateful if someone could have a look at my file to see if they can see the problem for me please.

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.

All the best,

Mark

Question About Dynamic Text (making A News Tracker)
The idea:

I want to create a news tracker at the bottom of a page. It has to be done in flash. It will show some news item headers which it will read in from a PHP generated file. Once you click on the tracker you would be redirected to a newspage (perhaps displaying that particular item) The text has to scroll from the right to the left. If item 1 is completely viewable, item 2 has to slide in right behind it.. Here is an example picture of the idea..

In yellow it says nieuws which is dutch for "news"
In the black part there are 3 news items following eachother from right to left (first item = "hier komt het eerste nieuwsitem" second item = "vervolgens komt hier het tweede item" third item = "en ook het derde item komt hier achteraan zo automatisch")

Now, my question is.. how to do this?

I was thinking of making a movie clip with text in it and letting that movie clip slide from the right to the left. In this movie clip I would put a text box which would get the first variable from the PHP generated file. Then if there is a second news item, flash would duplicate the movie clip, making that new movie clip show the second news item etc. just untill all the news items are shown, and then the first item should be shown again sliding in behind the last item.

But the problem is, how do I know when the second movie clip has to start sliding? I will never be able to know when the first movie clip is out of sight since I can't ask how long the text is in pixels? or can I? Or is there some other way to solve this problem..?

Problems With Tracker When Scrolling Dynamic Text Field. Please Help
Hi all,

Thank you for reading my post...

I'm having some problems with scrolling a dynamic text field.

When I use _root in my code (see below), everything works fine but I have to use _parent as the swf that the scroll stuff is in is to be loaded dynamically from my main move.

When I use _parent, the buttons work ok but the scroll tracker moves to a random location on the stage and stays there and won't move - and also it won't scroll the text like it should.

Below is the code I'm using in the main timeline:

Code:
myLV = new LoadVars();
myLV.load("profile.txt");
myLV.onLoad = function() {
myText.htmlText = this.myText;
_parent.top = sliderMC._y;
_parent.bottom = sliderMC._y+trackMC._height-sliderMC._height;
};
upBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, -1);
};
upBtn.onRelease = upBtn.onReleaseOutside=downBtn.onRelease=downBtn.onReleaseOutside=function

() {
clearInterval(scrollI);
};
downBtn.onPress = function() {
scrollI = setInterval(scrollBtnF, 80, 1);
};
sliderMC.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag(0, this._x, top, this._x, bottom);
scrollI = setInterval(scrollF, 80);
};
sliderMC.onRelease = sliderMC.onReleaseOutside=function () {
this.stopDrag();
clearInterval(sliderI);
};
function scrollF() {
var a = (myText.maxscroll-1)/(bottom-top);
myText.scroll = Math.round((sliderMC._y-top)*a+1);
}
function setSlider() {
var a = (bottom-top)/(myText.maxscroll-1);
sliderMC._y = a*(myText.scroll-1)+top;
}
function scrollBtnF(dir) {
myText.scroll += dir;
setSlider();
}
I've uploaded my .fla to www.spindriftmedia.com/scroll2.zip and would be most grateful if someone could have a look at my file to see if they can see the problem please.

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from you.

All the best,

Mark

Volume And Seek Bar Tracker Triangles Remain On Screen
Hi,

I have FLVPlayback Players on several keyframes each with their own custom UI components. I find that when I play videos in the FLVPlayback players and I click a button that takes you back to a previous frame not displaying a FLV PLayback player, the volume and seek bar tracker triangles remain on the screen. Why is this? How can I prevent this?

Thanks

Create, Delete, Create Event Handlers
Hi,

At the moment I create an onEnterFrame function to ease a movie clip into view. I then delete it. I want to be able to recreate a similar onEnterFrame function later to swoosh the movie clip out of view. At the moment weird things happen when I try and do the second onEnterFrame. Am I doing something illegal here?
I know I could put this all in the original onEnterFrame, but I don't wanna be wasting processor time doing an if statement every frame to work out if it's time to swoosh out the movieclip. Or should I not worry because that's negligible cpu time?

Tom

Create A
Any help with this would be very, very appreciated.

I'm looking to create a flash animation that would allow the user to "scratch off" a section of the animation, revealing things underneath. I've yet to figure out a way to allow user input to change the alpha value or visibility of a part of a clip, so I figure the only way to allow the user to scratch something off is to have each pixel be its own clip (with its own alhpa value and visibility).

You can see the obvious problem here; running a duplicateMovieClip command 600 times takes forever and tends to crash Flash.

I've seen this done in Director, but I figure that's just one of those Director features that Flash lacks.

Any help at all -- plans of attack, etc. -- would be much help.

Thanks,
Dan