RE: Sliders?

[Judy Miller]

On Friday, July 03, 1998 10:58 PM, David Gary [SMTP:

dgarystudiosnetwide [dot] net

] 

wrote:


> I think the technique was primarily for Flash. Correct me if Im wrong.


Yes, I would like to create this in Flash only, as for the time being, it is 

the one I am working on learning.


> 1.make a symbol, (bar for the slider).  draw a line to look like the slider

> slit.

> on a second layer cut and paste the button up, middle and down on the slider

> slit.

> you can use the same buttons for as many increments as neccessary for the

> slider

> and colors.


Ah yes, I had thought about doing this. I was however hoping, that I could 

actually grab the slider and slide it along the path rather than having to 

click as a button. That however was nothing more than wishful thinking 

obviously.


apply actions to each button to control a "tweened" transparency

> of color to animated on the top layer. each color can be its own movie clip

> which

> controlled by the button and the instance name.


Yup, I got that far. Each colour has a seperate clip with 100 frames tweening 

from 0 to 100%. Without a slider, I need more than one button for each colour 

to define whether the button is going to go up or down the opacity scale.


I think that what I am going to try to do is create a default forward and back 

set of buttons and depending on which coloured button I click on will determine 

the front and back buttons. 1am, hmmmm I think I will tackle that one tomorrow 

when the troops go out to play.


> then go into the buttons "properties" and delete the first frame.


???? Okay, I think I am lost now.


>

> If you rather keep it simple create several different buttons with the

> same slider bar symbol in each "over" state and the different transparencies

> in the "hit" state. keeping the slider bar hidden in all buttons except one.


Here is the URL for the interface I made for this. Please remember this is my 

first ;-)

http://fallriver.ns.ca/flashtest

The large buttons on the right hand side will choose between different options 

such as help, general colour theory, adding tints, toning colour, changing 

background colour  etc... The 12 buttons showing in the middle are the sliders 

for the 12 colour families. This frame's contents will differ dependant on the 

options that will be picked from the menu on the right.


Let me know what you think. I really appreciate all the help. If you have any 

better ideas, I am definitely not too proud to accept them. I figured the best 

way to learn this was by diving in with both feet.


Thanks for all the help. I had a feeling I should have kept my mouth shut on 

the other subject.



Judy Miller

Fall River Decorative Arts

http://fallriver.ns.ca |

judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca (mailto:judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca)

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