FLASH: help re-arrange our office [ON-TOPIC... No seriously, it is]

[Christian Cook]

with the onset of new staff son to invade the office we are lookinh to

rearrange the office and add some new desks. Last time this involved losing

a day whilst we all shoved huge wooden desks around only to have the boss

say- "No, put it back again".


This time, I suggested rearranging the ofice in a scale flash move before we

all start breaking our backs... but I've hit a snag in Flash 4.


a mock up of the piece so far is at-

http://www.isluk.com/~officeplan/index.htm


the chair and l-desk are rotatable by clicking R and draggable by click

dragging D. the other bits will all be likewise. I did have a plus and minus

button on the desk as I wanted to be able to duplicate and delete desks with

a simple click and thus avoid having a huge pile of spare desks sitting at

the side of the screen from the beginning, along with a stack of chairs

etc...


the objects are movie clips containing a graphic and the buttons. The

trouble is that when I duplicate the move clip using the duplicate command,

the scripts attached to the buttons are still pointing at the old move clip

and it all goes a tad screwy (The new clip appeared and was automatically

stuck to teh cursor as soon as you touched it). Rather than having the

button say:


On (Release)

      Set Property ("/Ldesk", Rotation) = GetProperty

("/Ldesk",_rotation)+45

End On


I need to have it say something like:


On (Release)

      Set Property ("/parent", Rotation) = GetProperty

("/parent",_rotation)+45

End On


or:


On (Release)

      Set Property ("/self", Rotation) = GetProperty ("/self",_rotation)+45

End On


I would also need to be able to duplicate the names multiple times and have

it add them as oldname+01 and then oldname+02. (I would have the '+' button

duplicate the clip, and the '-' button delete self).


Is this at all possible in Flash4 or do I have to have a huge pile of

furniture at the side?


Sorry this was a long one, cheer for any pointers or suggestions.


Regards,

Christian Cook

Designer, ISL

Tel: +44 (0)1372 227400

Fax: +44 (0)1372 225120

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cccisluk [dot] com (mailto:cccisluk [dot] com)

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<http://www.isluk.com>



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