RE: FLASH: Newbie Question:Actionscript vrs. Many Layers

[Anji Mayfield]

Waldo,


Thank you, thank you THANK YOU!  It is so nice of you to help me out this

way.  I know all you Flashers have lots to do and it's great that you would

take the time to help a newbie like me.


This is a great list and you guys are the *best*!


Thanks again,

Anji


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Dear Anji,


I liked your question and also read Ken Sherwood's answer. But I thought

that it would be possible to do with actions script.

So I tried it. I would like to share this technique with you, but I don't

have he time to really explain it. So I've made something like a "plug and

play" version of it. The flash file is full with comments, so i hope you can

find out very easy how it works. If not, just mail me once again, cause this

is my first "tutorial".


Here you can find it: http://members.xoom.com/wesp/countdown.swf , a link to

the fla is included (http://members.xoom.com/wesp/countdown.fla )in the

movie.


Did you like it?

Now it sometimes looks as if the reseize process doens't work fine, but

remember that when the number switches between a 2 digit to a 1 digit it

becomes smaller --> it looks like being resiezed, but it isn't. If you want

to I can make it always a x digit number (by placing zero's before the

number). But I'm not a designer, so perhaps you know better how to solve

this "visual" problem.


Waldo







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 Anji Mayfield

Verzonden: woensdag 26 januari 2000 21:33

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Onderwerp: FLASH: Newbie Question:Actionscript vrs. Many Layers



Hi all,


I really enjoy this group a lot and I've noticed that many of my

difficulties with learning Flash are solved here before I ever get a chance

to post a question.  Right now I have a project that I'm working on and I

need some advice.


Here's the scoop:

I need to make a movie of numbers counting down and getting smaller in font

size at the same time.  From 325 to 100!  I can make a lot of symbols and

change them out every couple of frames but this would make the movie really

long.  I assume that there is a way to do this with Actionscript but I am at

a loss of how to do it....any suggestions?


Thanks in advance!

Anji



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