RE: FLASH: Basic questions

[Zetalink Technology]

---( level-1 text from Chad Kraeft. T = 06.06.00|15:19 -0600  )---


>give the user a control (zoom in/out) that sets the scale for your mc. have

>it loop to check for specified values:

>if scale > 100

>	setproperty(mc1,_visible)=False

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=False

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=True

>else if scale >75

>	setproperty(mc1,_visible)=False

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=True

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=True

>else if scale >50

>	setproperty(mc1,_visible)=True

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=True

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=False

>else

>	setproperty(mc1,_visible)=True

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=False

>	setproperty(mc2,_visible)=False

>

>[tweak where needed]


That is very good, and I expected that this is one way to do it.


But if has no effect when the user chooses to employ the player 

pop-up zoom controls. I don't know if these can be disabled. It would 

be nicer to have the appearance and disappearance always operate the 

same way: consistency saves the user from frustration and confusion.


Thanks,


Ray


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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Ray

>Weisling

>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:04 AM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Basic questions

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>

>##### level-1 quote by Michael Greenberg  (on) 05.06.00 (at) 23:34 -0600

>

> >Hi Ray,

> >Fancy seeing you here. Another Freehand addict here... I love it:):)

>

>Hi Mike, haven't seen too much from you on FH-L, but I know, totally

>absorbed with this baby. "Paper, ink, what's that?" you say?

>

> >

> >1- Be more specific here are you talking just like scaling up by setting a

> >property.

> >

> >2- Not sure about this one but I would love to know an answer from someone

> >who does.

>

>The two are interrelated. You can make the scale occur in the file,

>or let the user zoom when browsing. If the control are within the

>file, layers with large text could be turned off when zooming in, but

>can it be done when the user is zooming with the player controls?

>

>If not, one way would be to have text blocks have a conditional

>attribute, that they simply would not be rendered if they would be

>outside of a certain size limit. It would keep ultra tiny and ultra

>large text from rendering at certain zoom levels.

>

>I haven't seen anything like this anywhere. The first -- having the

>player zoom level accessible to the script (in a conditional

>expression) could control frame movement or scrne switching. The

>second would be automatic, since a setting would be made for the text

>when input. Actually all objects could have this show/hide attribute

>-- I bring in text from FH as objects (converted to paths), or at

>least where text is flowed onto a curve (winding streets and rivers),

>since Flash can't do this (yet).

>

>I hope my explanation is clear enough.

>

>As for what I am going to do with Flash, time will tell. For now it

>is 100% driven by my customer, but we are moving into it slowly. We

>expect to have hundreds of small maps, maybe more, on their website

>by December. Some are to be GIF, some Flash.

>

>Ray



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