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scottiedoo

08-07-2003, 12:34 AM

Hello, I been working on my personal site for a few days and I started to notice a lot of problems and confusion on how to build a site with room to add stuff.

My problem is what exactly do others do such as do they load in external movies for the different sections of their sites? How do you scroll a movie in flash that is a certain size and location?

Overall I am looking at all the fine sites out there that have various sections and I am curious what do they do as far as structure goes. I know they dont' make one huge flash movie.

Anyone that knows hot to build a flash site with just few sections from the main sections that can load in pictures and keep unnessary loading time and allow it to be expandable by means of adding more images to a sectionl

Make sense?
Thanks,
Scott

here is an example where I am at right now with it:
http://www.depthofthought.com/dot.html

bumskee

08-07-2003, 05:39 AM

hey,
well it;s quite simple...first you create a main movie..
so depending on what ur needs are, create ur main section with navs and stuff. and then you create other movies, if you keep all the movies to the same dimensions you won't have to worry too much about aligning and so on. use guides and stuff.

so when someone clicks on it. you simply load another movie on top of it. and make one preloader movie and reuse it for each loading of the movie.. depends on how good u are with ur scripting i guess.

just looked at where u are..
looks like u are on the right track and looking good too..
just make project.swf, and load it on top..
so when someone clicks on the link it loads project.swf on top of _root level.

hope this is what u had in mind, or were u after actually scripting?? www.actionscripts.org has good resources.

cheers,

scottiedoo

08-07-2003, 07:03 AM

I sort of understand now.

I got it all figured out.. but I have still one larger issue is scrolling...

I looked at dozens of scroll tutorials (most are simple text ones) but I need a script that can help me scroll both text and images in one swf file.

The space for the content is too small for any larger section to put up a good some of content.

Does anyone know where or how I can do this. I need a script/tutorial that will take a loaded swf file and scroll it vertically but I need it in a confined space. I try masks but some reason my text disappears when I do?

I tried the scrollable areal thing but that does the same thing with my text? Maybe I am doing that wrong but I am kinda stuck to keep trying and not working out.

Can someone help me?

kariefury

08-17-2003, 03:53 AM

I'm trying to figure out the same thing right now to. :p

subroza

08-17-2003, 08:40 AM

If you're using MX you can use the scroll pane component otherwise check for a scroll box on flashkit.com. If your text doesn't show up it's because you can't display fonts that aren't embedded behind a mask so don't use device fonts.

kariefury

08-20-2003, 06:49 AM

could you insert the swf file into the txt file through HTML? just a stab in the dark.

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