Why does this get smaller???

[Estrata]

I used a tutorial to make a rotating menu, but I omitted the scaling effect it used. Yet somehow, despite there being almost no code, the menu is slowly getting smaller. I can't figure out what is going on!


http://www.laura-anderton.com/files/timeline.swf

http://www.laura-anderton.com/files/timeline.fla

Thank you for any help!

[webdreamer]

Flash 4! Really?
Most likely cause of the shrinking( it's not shrinking!) is the due to the mc not sitting on absolute center. So it is moving off _x and _y.

[Rob.Shelley]

Dunno, seems to be shrinking in a pretty concentric way. Somewhere in the code there's something that's messing with the x/y scale or the width and height, simple as that but I can't open the file so I dunno

Cheers,
Rob

[Estrata]

Look at that, it was because it was publishing for Flash 4. I changed it to 8 and it was happy. Weird.

[Estrata]

Okay, I lied, it was because it wasn't perfectly on center vertically - I just happened to move it a bit before publishing it again. I wouldn't make a very good diagnostician.

Anyway, thank you for the help. Now I have another question - what code would I use to make it only rotate when the mouse was over the wheel?

Thank you for any help. One day I need to learn Flash properly.

[Nig 13]

You can achieve that by checking if the mouse coordinates are touching the wheel. Change your code to this:

if(_root.nav.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){
    xPos = getProperty("../dragControl", _y);
    xPos = xPos-(225);
    setProperty("../nav", _rotation, getProperty("../nav", _rotation)+(xPos/100));
}

[Estrata]

Awesome! Thank so much.

Okay, I'm going to really push my luck here and ask one more question. This one may not be possible without a lot of code, I don't know....

Is there any way, once someone presses one of the dates, for the wheel to rotate so that date is at the center - so for instance, it currently starts with 1754 at the center, so if someone pressed 1916 the wheel would rotate down so that was in the center. I hope that makes sense. No idea if that's possible....