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can i say something? make arm in movieClip, three frames: normal, in center and in the end of song (just normally sliding). then youve got to take your fps, and mp3 lenght in secs, and make the simple algorithm:
arm MC fps = MP3 lenght in secs / 3 (frames in movie clip)
so that should give you arm scrolling through whole song. But i dont know is it possible...
Bob I know I posted a volume knob thing a while back. I'll dig it up and put on the exchange.. I know we could do the arm too. just adjust the rotation as a percentage of the song position.
Knob example is upload awaiting approval.
http://www.bretlanius.com/flash/player%20arm.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by bobgodwin
Also submitted to the koolexchange
add a preloader 2 that it keeps skipping bits of the song out =P
No don't think I will since a preloader won't work there. I would have to make custom audio loader and it's not nessesary for the example. If this was going to be a full player I would handle the loading of the mp3 differently but it is just an example of HOW to rotate the arm based on songs position.
ok
Thanks for everyone's help with the individual functions I was trying to encorporate in my site.
And thanks to Necromanthus's cool little applications I used (guestbook, player). Which is really cool.
Always been my dream to have a flash site since I first saw one.
MOTION!
cheers.
Saw my entry right away.
Well, that's encouraging. :)
Thanks for the entries guys.
I edited Laurie's email address that had the default text value before it.
"your@email"
It kind of appended that to the Laurie's email address.
I put that in there (A default value) because there's some kind of check in there that if there's no email - the message won't post. Though no warning letting the user know that.
So, the user will be going nuts wondering what's going on, why isn't it posting?
:) So I just fed a default value in that field "your@email" so those who dont' want to leave their email address can actually post. The user's supposed to highlight and delete it, then put in their email address (if they choose to). I think the highlight color (black) which I can't figure out how to change the color- is clashing with the dark text field background (so the user can't tell if they're highlighting the text or not).
Fantastic little application though. No way in heck I could have made up something like that.
HALLELUJAH! I fixed that problem (where the guestbook entry wasn't showing up after posting them).
It did work in my mozilla browser - so figured it had to be an IE thing.
Went into..
Tools/Internet Option/Settings/
and for "Check for newer version of stored pages" and checked
"Every visit to the page"
It was set to a default of "Automatically"
That did it! AWESOME!
but its only on your computer... addto your meta section to prevent caching.Code:<meta name="pragma" content="no-chache" />
<meta name="Cache-Control" content="no-chache, must-revalidate" />
<meta name="Expires" content="Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT" />
Yes that's right, good point. I used to have those meta tags along with about 200 other ones :) but probably pruned them down to 3. That may be the problem I'm having.
chache? :)
Got a almost working version with a working arm now:Record PlayerQuote:
Originally Posted by blanius
It's seems like the mp3 needs to load to get the duration value right. Now. the scripting for the arm is all a file tht loads the record & mp3. Is there a way to set the duration there, as in min: Sec: ? Other than that it's pretty kool.
Well if you know the duration of a song you could hard code the duration. In the script duration is in 1000's of a sec. so just convert the min, sec to secs then multiply by 1000.
Alternativley maybe you could use the id3 tags to get duration. This assumes that the id3 tag TLEN is set and correct.
I'm not sure what to edit in your script, and can't seen to get it to work using some other methods either. I tried to add duration to the this part:Quote:
Originally Posted by blanius
_root.arm._rotation=20
rMin=20
rMax=40
rRange=rMax-rMin
I tried "rDuration=32000" and "rt=32000" for a 32 second mp3. That didn't work. I removed the "updateInfo=function" part, thinking I may not need it, to no avail. I also tried "var myRotation:Rotation = new Rotation (_root.arm).run(90,32000);" but that didn't work. Where do I put the duration?
where it's getting song duration now. soung.duration just replace that with the variable.
I tried that, but it still jumps around at the start, seems to still want to get song length or something. It works fine off-line though.Quote:
Originally Posted by blanius
I guess it has to do with the speed at which the setInterval is set, maybe slow it down a little, could be that we're checking too quick.
I changed "5" in "setInterval(updateInfo,5)" from "0" to "3200", for some reason, "0" being the best. It still jumps around until the song is more or less fully loaded. I'm probably missing something. Maybe I need to isolate the rotation from the .mp3 some how.Quote:
Originally Posted by blanius
Like Bob said, it's in the eye of the beholder. I personally thought your site was hideous, but that's my opinion. Bob's sites - well, some I liked, some i didn't. I design sites for a living - you do what pleases the client, not neccessarily what pleases the designer. Plain and simple. If your client isn't happy, it doesn't matter how flashy you can make the site, you lose the cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by xzerox_xzerox
It's good to see these sites!
Time for me to stop messing about and learn Koolmoves and Flash properly.
http://es.geocities.com/wwwilliam2003/Quote:
Originally Posted by bobgodwin
este sitio esta creado totalmente con este programa
[URL=http://es.geocities.com/wwwilliam2003/[/URL]
My last two creations in KoolMoves. are not very spectacular but it is that they are more economic.
One site
Second Site
Hombre ! un español, bienvenido, si nesesitas ayuda aqui estoy..... en CórdobaQuote:
Originally Posted by wwwilliam2003
Spanish! , welcome, if you need helps here I am ..... in Cordoba.
Great sites byweb. Both prove that even on a budget it's possible to create something very nice with KM.Quote:
Originally Posted by byweb
:cap:
Ok, I'll join in.. I made this recently... KM is genius!
http://www.mwtechnicians.co.uk/default2.aspx
Steve
Byweb sites: I like them. I may include one of them in the gallery of our new web site.
The enter button is in the bottom right corner. If the user's monitor doesn't display the entire width without scrolling (like mine), the button is hidden and the user doesn't know what to do.
Steve, I like your site too. The "sliding" rectangles in the menu are chosen very well considering the nature of the business. Great job!Quote:
Originally Posted by thesween
:cap:
Thanks nightcap!! Appreciate the praise. It was all the clients idea, I just made what he described, it's a great idea.
Thanks again