Is the home page heavy in size? Or just some static text and/or pictures. Could itn't be integrated as a movie clip in the main interface movie?
It might be better to send me your interface .fla, the slide .fla and your home .fla. No need for the others. I coud then see more easily the best way to integrate it.
I made a home page, but it was just basicly the logo and a couple of lines of text.
I'll attach my files on Monday when I'm at work so you can have a look.
You might have to take care of the other movies you're also loading (logo and/or aboves, which I don't have, but here's a new corrected kss .fla. Only thing that needs to be changed.
Thats great, thanks.
Just chaning it about a wee bit, so that the HOME page is only displayed for a few seconds, and then the bar goes down and goes straight into WHAT WE DO.
Then I can change my HOME button to SERVICES, which I need to add anyway.
Finally got the account details for my wespace, so hopefully can have something up and working by the end of the day.
Everything seemed fine on the version on my PC until I uploaded it to test it.
The only thing I changed from the version you sent me was changing the first loaded page from home.swf to whatwedo.swf so that it opens first.
On the first time I enter the page, the menu screen opens, but nothing happens at all. The bar doesn't move
I can then choose anything off the menu, and it all works fine after that. If I choose whatwedo, it has to load it... so it obviously doesn't load the first time.
If I go back into the page or refresh it, it works fine.
If I clear my cache again, then it sticks at the first bit again.
If you want to see what I mean, I have set it up to test at...
Your home page is quite fast, don't even have time to read it.
I see a flash of the size graphic you've added to the loadbar, each time I re-select a cached item. You should hide it as I have hidden the loadbar itself and the % display.
Yes loadbar is the instance name of the loadbar movie clip. It's visibility is set to false to start with (within the movie clip itself), then turned on or off through the preloader's script. You should convert that graphic into a movie clip, give it an instance name, set it to be invisible to start with, then turn it on or off wherever I've done it with the loadbar in the preloader's script.
I've been trying to do it since I read your reply, but am getting no-where.
I have added my own bit, and made my "ruler" into a MC called ruler.
I have then added the code, the same as yours below...
this.ruler._visible = false;
Can you have a look for me and tell me whats wrong please?
If you haven't embedded them, then don't. And don't necessarily change the text box sizes, just make sure their positioning is on exact pixels values. The text box can be 153.6 in width or height, but it's x & y positions should be xxx.0
As for the ruler mc, you seemed to have it done correctly. Just add the following on the frame of that movie clip:
Setting the position on exact pixels values will help to make the text clearer especially at small font sizes. If you embed them (sometimes necessary! for masking or using a non-standard font), then the text will definately be more blurry. So if you don't need to embed it, then don't, unless you want your text blurred.
To embed, you select the textfield (must be dynamic) and in the textfield's properties hit the Character tab and select Embed All. This will also increase your movie's size by 15 to 30kb for each font embedded.
Double click the ruler movie clip so that it's only frame is in editing mode, up there in the timeline window, as if you wanted to change it's color for example. Then just select that frame, open the actions window and insert this._visible = false;
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