Flash :: The Problem That Keeps Growing...

Help With A Growing Button
Yes I posted this in the noob section also, I hope this is not a violation of the board rules and if so, mods please forgive me as I am new. Just gently let me know and I will learn.

Anyhow, I have this button that I am trying to create. The problem I have is that on the over state I have a MC that plays and makes the button larger, the hitbox stays the original size. Because of this, when ever I come off of the small hit area the button shrinks back down. What I would like to happen is for the buttons active area grow with the size of the button. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. I am attaching the .fla of the button. (48k)

Stop The Mc Growing
I got some help with this code which I placed onto a square mc. It roates the square and scales it up but how do I stop it from scaling up too much? I know it has something to do with an if statement but im not to certain on them.code: // create an onEnter
this.onEnterFrame = function()
{
this._rotation += 5; // rotate the mc
this._xscale += 5; // increase its size
this._yscale = this._xscale; // increase its size
};
};
// when you rollOut
square_mc.onRollOut = function()
{
this.onEnterFrame = function()
{
// if it has reached original size
if (this._xscale <= 100) {
this._rotation = 0; // reset rotation
this._yscale = this._xscale = 100; // reset size
delete this.onEnterFrame; // delete the method
// while it doesn't reach original size
} else {
this._rotation -= 5; // rotate the mc
this._xscale -= 5; // decrease size
this._yscale = this._xscale; // decrease size
}
};
};

Growing Plant
How do i make a mask that will make it look like the plant is growing......

I have seen on a few sites this effect that seems to be a growing plant....like the stalk comes up and then branches are unvieled and then leaves....

anyone know what im talking about??

Growing Panes
Came across this great looking site from Fuji Film recently. There's some very clever, but subtle, scripting obviously involved, particularly the FROM FUJIFILM page which shuffles info panes with wild abandon. Any ideas as to how they may have achieved this?

www.forests-forever.com

Growing Button
i have a button movieclip that i made with an mc and an invisible button, etc... anyway, when you mouse over, the mc "grows" upwards about 20px. How can i make the button grow with it? like so you can still mouseover the part of the mc that has grown but have it stay there...

am i too confusing? help is appreciated, thanks

Growing Vine
hi there!
i was wondering if anyone's got a .fla file of the effect of a growing vine? an example would be:

http://www.zefrank.com/flowers/garden.html

thanks for the help! really appreciate it!

Growing Numbers HELP
i need to animate a number.
lets say it starts @ 14,256,325
and then just keeps growing.
example:

14,256,326
14,256,327
14,256,328

can anyone help?

Growing Boxes
can anyone tell me how to make these growing boxes - just the 4 boxes.

See this site

[mx] Growing Boobs
hello!!

will someone help me how to make this image grow her boobs to extreme size..

um.. im verry new to flash and am trying to learn more 'bout it by studying the fla files i see around here but sometimes its a bit confusing..

please help me..
thank you!!

Growing Vines?
Hey Im making a website and I want to have vines sort of grow out from the side. Heres a picture of what the vines look like http://www.spaodesigns.com/www/Innerlight/Sterling.jpg (there at the bottom left). How can I achieve that effect?

[F8] Growing Effect
Hi everyone was wondering if someone could explain how I can use Flash to give a growing effect on screen, example like a branch is growing and leaves are growing on it?

Kyle

Growing Flash Ad?
Hey Guys New to the forums so far been VERY helpfull, Except i have one question which hasen't been answered seemingly.

I am currently wokring on a project thats starts with a small window with a portion of a map on it once clicked the window is supposed to enlarge over the htlm on the document , What i want is to have the small 250 x 230 map enlarge and grow over the html on the page to display the full sized map of apporximately 450 x 500.

How would i go about doing this ? can the canvas size be animated somehow?. Or should i be loading an externalmove?,or simply useing a goto and play frame label? Or am i on the wrong track all together?

A Growing Flower Or Three
I want to learn how to program a growing flower; any resources please!
Thanks

Growing A Line
Hi, I'm relatively new to Flash and am seeking info on how to make a curvy line grow regularly in an animation. I have created the final line in Illustrator and imported it into Flash. Is there a way to reveal it, bit by bit, so it appears to be growing regularly, like a vine? Thanks for any info or tutorials you can point me to! BW

Growing Circle
i thought this would be easy but it;s not..

i am doing a spotlight mask and a whole bunch of tween so it looks like a spot light moving around the site. It will then stop in the middle of the site and grow in size eventually revealing what's underneath.

how would i make the circle grow slowly till eventually grows off the page?!

Growing Vine
Hi , I 've been trying to create a growing vine much like this one: http://members.inode.at/554689/fruit.swf. ..can anyone help?
Thanks

Growing Effect
http://www.liquideye-designs.com/main/index.html

i've seen this effect on alot of sites and i would like to know how it's accomplished.....where an animation basically draws itself onto the stage....and when another link is pressed it retracts everything it did ......

1.how is that effect done?
2.when the effect is retracting is that done manually or is it script that tells it to go backwards?? (i dont know so maybe thats why the question seems a lil weird)....

Growing Effect
I want to do a grow effect on this tree:
http://bohner.asdf.pl/tree.png
The effect that Im looking for is similiar to that on tokyoplastic.com or frogz.de (?), Im not sure if the address is correct but, it had a black and blue intro, then in the main there was a frog sitting on some kind of plant that was animated like it was growing.

Im guessing that it could be made by masking but, the effect would come out different than theirs.

Thx for all of your help.

Growing Animation
here is the link:
http://www.interone.de/cms/de/

anybody can explain how did they do !

or where I can find a tutorials like this.

thanks.

Growing Lines, How?
hi, i'm driving crazy with this, i just want to do a simple line grow from a point.
i tried with free transform, but it scales it from the middle of the line(so i have to move it back to its position, but that's difficult), i want it to grow from a extreme of the line (i don´t know if i make myself clear)
i tried also with a mask, but that means creating another layer and another element, and i have many lines, that would be too much work.
it seems so simple!!!!
how can i make a line grow from a point(the easy way)????
help please!!!!

Growing MovieClip
Hi,

I am using a movieclip to get display on mouse over on a button. How can I make this movie clip grow when mouse reaches over the button? by Action Script?

(e.g. MovieClip size is 200x300. When mouse reaches over the button, moviclip appears in size say 20x30 and grows to 200x300) giving dynamic effect.

Regards
limmil

Growing Scrollbars Help
So I'm using the brilliant custom scrollbar tutorial on Kirupa, and I'm struggling on adapting it when the content's height changes. Basically whenever the scrollbar's height changes I use the function

scrolling();

and that works fine, everything updates. However if you've already scrolled down halfway through the page and the content's height changes, everything will screw up.

Take a look

Obviously I can just reset the content's height every time I add a new box, I've tried it but it's not what I want. I don't know how to put the scroll face in the correct position.

Any help?

Thanks

Flash Is Growing...
seems like Flash is really growing - it's now on MSN, AOL, and Overture home pages. Who would have thought it

What's next Flash on Zeldman.com!

A Growing Vine?
I have MX2004, and need to create a vine that grows....
just need it to grow vertically, 1 or 2 strands and
stop at about 6in.

Should I use a mask to uncover the vine, or is there a way
to make it look like it's growing?

Thanks! =)
Cal

Masking/growing?
i sometimes see these beuatifull curly border graphics . I wonder how to animate them like they are growing.

example of graphic : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5876268/

don't have an example of the growing ani, but i'm sure every one hase seen them.

Anyone know how it's done?

thanks.

Growing Lines
I am trying to make a line that starts with a length of 0 and grows to 975. I tried making two keyframes then making a motion tween. It didnt grow gradually. I tried a shape tween, that didnt work either. So i tried making it into a movie, but that didnt work either. How would i make the line get longer over a length of 60 frames

Growing Ornaments
Hi again everyone,

Just a quick question: I know there is a way to do something like that in Flash, but can someone give me some starting advices? I know how to use masks in Flash 8, but I can't figure out how should I use it do that kind of things...

Thanks for your help!

Growing Pains.
Last edited by Rehm : 2003-02-05 at 04:17.

"Sweat" & Sour Pickle...
Part 1. of My Epic Saga.

Al this is, basically is getting the number in the variable txt box to affect the movieClip, so that the frame number of the movieclip is the same as whatever the number in the var.txt box is or becomes.

The consept is simple enough but if your not well versed in AS...it's a pickle. (I'm gnawing at that pickle right now.)

P.S. If anyone out there has any thoughts or ideas on this please let me know. Thanks.

Sphere Growing Problem...
Hi people!

I got an actionscripting problem:

(a) I have a button, with a movie clip in it (on the over part).

(b)The movie clip consists of a sphere growing (motion tween).

What I want is the sphere to grow larger depending on how near the mouse is to the sphere. i.e. the nearer the mouse is to the sphere, the more it will grow.

Hope you can help me out on this. I tried experimenting with the _xscale and _yscale properties, but got no luck. Hopefully you will have more luck than me . Thank you for your time.

Growing Library Of Bclips :)
hi there ..

im working on a little library of bclips, adding to them slowly by slowly. (for a an exaplanation of the behaviour clips concept, check out phil scott's session notes on http://www.ultrashock.com - under tutorials > behaviour clips > session notes).

so far:
1. an 'oscillating size' bclip that sizes an MC with random speed, to random sizes within configurable settings;
2. an 'oscillating spin' bclip .. similar deal;
3. a 'tint wave' bclip that cycles through the colours of an MC using rob penner's getTint() function that extends the Color prototype (based on getTransform()), and a sin wave that makes the colours pulse (ive used this on my sig);
4. a 'switcher' bclip that transforms any MC into a button with on, off and disabled states, and can be set to switch any other behaviour on any other MC on or off;
5. a 'function button' bclip similar to the switcher, but performs a defined function (and params) on some other MC;
6. a 'menu' bclip that works with:
7. an 'item' bclip, to create a simple menu system from any MC, so long as it contains a text field called strLabel (to differentiate between menu items) .. plus optional imported graphic (through linkage) for each item ..

that may not make much sense! but check out ..

http://www.cornhusker.net/~skyenpam/x3ro_bclips.swf

for an example of the bclips in action. and feel free to grab the source (and play to your heart's content) at:

http://www.cornhusker.net/~skyenpam/x3ro_bclips.swf

and post any suggestions, criticisms, code improvements/optimisation (i know theres room for a lot!) right here in this thread.

have fun,

tommy X3Ro >
[fresh 4 2k2]

Growing Shape Using Actionscript?
hi there,

i have an MC called box (instance name box1) that is 10 * 10 and at coordinates 0, 0.

how do i make the box progressively larger until it gets, say, 10 by 400. i dont want to tween it. i would like to do it with actionscipt so it looks smooth.

does anyone know a tutorial on this?

thx in advance,

michael

A Slowly Growing Mask , Help Please.
Can anyone help me on this.

I have a square box (called main) and inside this box I have a small square mask (called mask). The code below makes the mask expand to the size of main on the click of my mouse

this.onMouseDown = function(){
_root.mask._height = _root.main._height;
_root.mask._width = _root.main._width;

}

But
I want it to GRADUALLY grow to the size of main so that u can see it grow. Someone mentioned something about setInterval but I dont know how to use it with this.

Someone please help

Growing Movie Clip
I was looking for a simple way to make mcs grow as you got closer to them with the mouse.
?

Growing Along A Motion Path
Hi,
I don't know if it can be done but I'd love to be able to use a motion path to reveal writing. But I want to motion path to do the work. I don't want to paint a mask frame by frame.
Is it possible? Am I dreaming?

Can a shape be stretched overtime and conform to a motion path?
I want to leave a trail. Sorta like blowing up one of those really long baloons that the clowns use to make animals.

I've done it by painting the mask frame by frame (one letter stroke for each frame) but it takes too long to download.

If I could scale something along a motion path by say, inceasing it a certain percent per frame, using say action script, would that make it smaller, or will it still be a bit map and not vector based and still be too big.

I've not seen any tutorials yet for this in my searches so I may be barking up a non-existant tree.

If anyone does know how to do this I would be eternally grateful for the how-2 :-)

thanks
diannah

**Growing Curved Line**
I'm trying to create a growing curved line. For example, a car's tail lights cruising down a road leaving a tracer behind. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

peace and balance. . .

How To Create Growing Lines?
I am trying to create some lines that grow into a box. Basically, there will be a point at the top of the box where a line will start going out from both the left and right. Then each line grows and turns twice to meet in the middle of the base of the box. I drew a line and converted it into a symbol to get the tweening to work, but when I try to scale the lines to make them longer, they also get noticeably thicker. What is the best way to avoid that, or is there an easier way to do this in general?

Growing And Shrinking Button
i have a button that consists of a black backgound and a soft white "glow" on it. what i want is this: when you mouse over the "glow" it flares up and gets bigger and when you move off of it, it shrinks back down to its normal size. i've accomplished to first part (making it grow when you mouse over), but if you leave the pointer on it, it just loops. i want it to stay big and then shrink down when you move off. if anyone out there knows what i'm talking about and how to accoplish it i would greatly appreciate your help!!!!

num451

Growing Things In Flash
I want to simulate a tree growing rapidly in flash, i.e. starting out at the trunk and the branches "branching out". I know this can be done but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on the best way to do this. Is masking my best option?

Thanks. Rob

Problems With Growing Line
Hello. I am having problems with what would seem to be a simple task... I am trying to have a thin horizontal line expand horizontally across the screen. FOr some reason it always grows thicker as it expands. Whats up with this? ANy help?

Thanks.

Growing Shape With Inertia
Could anyone show me how to expand a small circle into a big circle using an inertia/easing formula?

Thanks ahead of time. Earth.

Growing/shrinking Button With Mc
This seems so simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this...

in Flash 5...

I want to have a circle that is a button, so that when you rollover it it expands over 5 frames and when you roll off it, it shrinks back to the original size, again over 5 frames. And, I want it that if you roll off, before it's fully grown it'll start shrinking back from that point (not go all the way to full and not just skip back to small size). An example of what I'm talking about is at http://www.kabbalah.com/kabbalah/ - the register button at the top left.

Does anyone have an example of how to build that kind of button/mc?