Re: FLASH: How would you do this?

[David Doggett]

Thanks, I will take your advice and let you know how I make out.



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From: Nathan Dicken <

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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:23 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: How would you do this?



> Hey Dave,

>

> Here's an idea...  In _level0, you can set a variable for the start frame

> ("startFrame") of the series of frames.  To figure out how many frames you

> have in _level0, you can put a label one frame after the final frame of

> your series.  Have the playhead jump to this frame (which should be

blank),

> and at that frame, set a variable (such as "frameCount") to the value of

> ((_currentFrame - 1) - startFrame) and then send the playhead back to the

> value of startFrame after that value is figured out.  This will give you

> the frame count of your series.  Also, this will need to be done before

the

> slider is available to use in _level1.  Esentially, adding or taking away

> frames from your series would just involve moving this label.

>

> >From _level1, you can access _level0:frameCount (or whatever the name may

> be) and set a ratio between the frameCount and the distance that your

> slider can travel.  When the slider button is pressed, use a controller mc

> to continuously monitor the distance from the slider's current position to

> the slider's minimum position (i.e. far left).  Multiply this by the ratio

> to get a value to add to _level0:startFrame and send _level0 to that

frame.

>

> Hope that helps,

> Nathan

>

> -------------------------

> Nathan Dicken

> Boxerjam Inc.

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nathandboxerjam [dot] com

> www.boxerjam.com

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>

>

> >Hello all,

> >

> >I have a problem that has me stumped!

> >

> >I have two movies, _level0 an d_level1

> >

> >_level0 is a movie that contains a series of photos that makes up a short

> >movie.

> >_level1 is the controls for the movie on _level0

> >

> >My problem is that I have a slider bar in the controls that will allow

the

> >user to move the slider bar to flip through the frames on _level0 (such

as

> >that of Windows Media Player.

> >

> >I need to figure out how to make the slider bar work so that it doesn't

> >matter how many frames are on _level0, the slider bar will calculate and

> >make the sliding flip the frames correctly.

> >

> >Anyone done anything similar?

> >

> >Help is greatly appreciated.

> >

> >Thanks,

> >

> >Dave

>

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