Re: FLASH: scrolling list with hilighted text-items

[Antoine Valot]

Bruno,


I know what you mean, I've had to deal with this Gen2 limitation too.


Here's a few solutions:


- I believe you CAN address the different instances by name. I think if

your list has an instance name of "mylist", then the objects are in

"mylist/contents/item1", "mylist/contents/item2", etc. 

Actually, it's not "item1", I forgot what Generator names its instances,

but there's an easy way to find out: Assign an Goto action to one of

your instances that is going to make a bug, and watch the output window

to see where the bug comes from: that's the instance name you're looking

for.


- If you're not too worried about file size, you can make an MC which

contains multiple scrolling lists, each one with one item highlighted,

and setup the action on click to go to that frame of the MC. (UGly)


- You can setup the highlight as a separate MC, with an actionscript to

track the clicked item's position. Or can you? I've thought about this,

but haven't tried implementing.


- If you have a set number of fields in your scrolling list, you can

build them individually, and make a regular, non-generator scrolling

list with them having instance names.


- Finally, whichever route you choose, you should definitely bitch and

moan to Macromedia and ask them to enhance the function.


Hope this helps.


Antoine Valot

Generator Guru in training.


bruno wrote:

> 

> Hi,

> 

> I have a sort of problem with a scrolling list I want to make.

> I want to make a list, with (text-)items all in the same colour (eg

> black), generated with Generator 2. If you click on an item in the list,

> the colour of the item has to change to a second colour (eg grey). But

> if you click on another item in the list, the colour of the clicked item

> has to change to grey AND the previous clicked item has to change again

> to its original colour (black).

> I managed allready to change the colour of an item to the second colour

> if you click on it, but not the colour of the previous clicked item. The

> problem with Generator is that you can 't really specify the preferences

> of an item in the list other then the one you click on.

> 

> Hope somebody can help me on that

> thanks allready,

> 

> Bruno.

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