Re: FLASH: rollover oddity

[Charlene Reese]

On  1/12/99, Byron Canfield wrote:

>Charlene,

(but charlene wrote the ---> comments)


>I think I see what's going on with this one. Did you really mean to have

>all the scene changes set to occur "on rollover",

--->yes.  I want the viewer to get the explaination of what they will find

if they click on the link before they actually click on it so that they

will know if they want to click on it or not.


 rather than "on release"

>(after clicking)? That's not usually the way it's done, though I can see,

>now, how this might be used to good effect. Unfortunately, in this case,

>it's merely confusing (note how confused you've had all of us on the list

><G>).

--->sorry about that.


>So what's happening is that your movie is changing scenes, willy-nilly, as

>the user simply passes the cursor over the page.

--->I want the movie to change scenes and interact with the user as they

explore the home page -

however, the willy-nilly part is what I'd like to eliminate.  Do you know

of a way to make the rollover happen only after the mouse has stopped for a

full second or two?


>You might also want to consider not using frame numbers, but rather, using

>distinct labels for the target frames in your scenes, like "ww1" for the

>first frame in scene "ww".

--->since I am only using frame 1 in every scene would I really need to

create a label?

Its not like I would get it mixed up if I deleted some frames.  What would

the advantage be?


>I also noticed that you have an action in the end keyframe of each scene,

>but the keyframe is on a layer with other elements. As a result, you've

>created a whole other keyframe at the end of that layer, in each scene,

>with exactly the same contents as the first keyframe of that layer. That

>increases the size of your SWF and is not necessary, unless you're planning

>something else that is not evident here. I would suggest you make a layer

>specifically for actions, called "actions." I routinely also set up a layer

>specifically for labels.

--->ok, did that, seems much clearer, better organized


>In those scenes where you are not applying actions to instances of buttons,

>you can make the movie a little more responsive by setting that particular

>instance to "graphic", and, if you want, choose which of the three button

>keyframes to display (up, over, or down).

--->did that too, and now OOPS the rollovers don't work at all and the hit

frame flashed until I discovered to change the"loop" to "single frame"

But watching the flashing hit areas when I moused out showed me that what

happens when I mouse out is that the scene leaves the "stop" action and

plays the same scene again and then stops at the last frame where I have

the stop action.

I tried adding a "go to" ... "mouse out" but it doesn't work.  How do I do

that?


>I also noticed that all but two of your buttons have no alternate images

>(no keyframes even) for the over and down states. The "purp" one has all

>four keyframes, and the down state has an alternate treatment of the text,

>but the over state is the same as the up state. The down state is usually

>only seen for a split second prior to release of the mouse button following

>a click. Usually, the over state is provided an alternate image, as this is

>more readily seen.

--->I was just playing around with those.  Since there are currently no

other pages to go to (haven't received additional content from client yet)

I figured I'd change it later after I figure out this rollover scene thingy.


>

>There may still be more to find, but I'm getting too sleepy to concentrate

>on it now. |o

--->I'm sure there is.  But I really appreciate the effort.  I'm learning a

lot and am hoping I've almost got it.


-charlene


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Charlene Reese - S r T e U e D s I e O

Digital Graphic Design for Print, Multimedia and the Web

creesestudio [dot] net

   http://www.reesestudio.net

949.766.7822




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