take a look at this site (** slight nudity**) - WARNING http://www.federicafontana.it/home.html *the site has been on FK before, so i figured it was ok to post....
go to the photos section and click a photo. i know how to do the resizing of the image etc, but how do they get the grey box to animate out and then have the loader show up? in most resizing FLA's ive seen, i tried altering one but trying to duplicate the animation on the site in the "border" - mc that is used when resizing an image. but when i do this, the size gets messed up and will not replay for anything else. i know this isnt the correct way but does anyone have an idea how that is done? or has anyone seen threads on this? i have search but everything i have found is resizing the border or image nothing including a mask or this type of animation....
My guess is they used attachMovie. I've uploaded a bit simpler version of that (it doesn't animate, just pops up, but has all the other treats like dragging & closing), but it's in MX2004 (this particular won't work in MX), so if you can't check it out, try searching for some tutorials on the subject.
hmm thanks for the FLA, its somewhat wut im looking for but i didnt need the drag or close, jsut curious on how the beginning animation is done...thanks i did try putting an animation before it and it somewhat worked but the picutre comes up before the animation stops... any idea where to fix that?
The animation itself is simple - I've attached this really extremely-ugly-took-me-30-seconds animation, just drag it to the library & check 'replace' - should work, but god it looks ugly.
It's the preloader that puzzles me - it suggests it's loaded externally (which would be a logical thing to do).
My guess is it's loaded into the attached mc.
Unfortunately I haven't the time to experiment today, but if I figure it out, I'll post it here.
Still, if you figure it before I do, please do the same.
thanks for doing that, im gonna be working all day so i'll play around with it this weekend, im assuming if u made a preloader and when u click a button, it calls the preloader and the preloader is loading the MC?? or am i confused?
No, my bad, I wasn't clear enough - I assume the whole image is placed within a separate .swf with its own preloader, and then loaded into the attached mc.
So in theory:
1. attached mc with its opening animation (one piece of the code - the one in my .fla)
2. imports the .swf at the attached mc's last frame - into the container that's placed (and possibly masked) within the attached mc (another piece of the code, placed within mc's timeline)
(half an hour later): Haha! It works (the happy dance)
I'm sending in another truck to replace that old one + one small 'home.swf' so something can be loaded into it. I've placed two pieces of code - one stop() in the truck's timeline & the loading code in the container mc's timeline.
Thanx for starting this thread, this little trick has some great possibilities.
wow sweet that works great. i tried figuring something else out. instead of loading a sep swf, i tried using an array so if i had 20images, i cant make 20swfs, i looked at another TUT for a photo gallery and i tried using the array that they used and picked it apart. here is the code, its on the first frame
Code:
stop();
// array for your pictures
picArray = new Array();
picArray = ["dave1.jpg", "dave2.jpg", "dave3.jpg", "dave4.jpg"];
// amount is nr of buttons
var amount = 4;
// loop for your buttons
for (i=1; i<=amount; i++) {
but = this["bt"+i];
but.i = i;
but.onRelease = function() {
_root.a.container.loadPic(picArray[this.i-1]);
//added this line
setButtons(this.i);
};
}
// load the first picture in the array, change 0 if you want to start with another picture
_root.a.container.loadPic(picArray[0]);
im trying to understand this and i dont think im doing to good. with this script, once the container is loaded, the first pic should load but it doesnt. I tried removing this script and then writing this code and it loads the photo, but i thought using an array would make it easier instead of re-writing btn2, btn3, etc.,
i read that post on saturday i just dont understand, if i have over 20images, i have to make a swf for each?? i thought there would be a way to use an array or something to load them dynamically??
You don't have to, I only suggested making swf's to take care of the possible quality loss, distortions... (that thread I linked & links in the final post).
Off course you can use an array - I don't think there's any other (or at least no simpler) way to tell the next/previous buttons what to do in this case.
But what I don't understand are those buttons - are you trying to generate thumbnails This tute is more suited for that:
no no, maybe i explained it the wrong way. im not doing the gallery in that tut. im trying to learn all these factors to make the gallery from the federica site. the FLA u came up with is wut i had in mind but instead of using sep swfs, i was asking if using an array is possible. i dont want next/prev buttons the only reason why i used that link/tut is b/c in the beginning AS, it used an array so i was trying to follow that code. maybe it didnt work but now im lost
I've finaly checked that code - the only way that I can see to generate those thumbnails + connect them with the gallery is the way it's explained at Kirupa/portfolio
On the other hand, if you're going to create the thumbnails by piece, I don't see a point of making an array - looks like a bit more work (though less code) than simply connecting the buttons with pics.
Still, to connect via an array (continuing on that truck example):
There's also a favor I'd like to ask - I'll be putting a site for checkup in a few days - I'd really appreciate it to hear your opinion on that.
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This tute is more suited for that:
, and that was about it. Thanx mate!
