How to in Flash MX?

[Jan]

Hey all!

I was just wondering how to do a menu like this in Flash MX. I mean, not exactly like that, but like when the mouse moves over a link, the image slides to another. All help would be greatly appreaciated!


~Jan

[ionsurge]

I have seen it around somewhere... let me dig it up for you.


(I can do it but it takes a while, and I really am not feeling up to writing that up at the moment... :P)

[ionsurge]

I have been looking around for a while now... with not much luck, but I know that it is somewhere in one of these two websites:

FlashKit : http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...ty/Navigation/

or

Ultrashock.com : http://www.ultrashock.com/flas/Navigation___Interface/


I'll carry on my search, feel free to look through those sites, they have quite a lot of tutorials, opensource flash files free for download/use.

[bpaulsen2000]

This application is incredibly simple to do in Swish. About an
hour's work for finished, professional quality movie.

Samples and tutorials at http://www.designsxchange.com

Just look up any of the image scrollers in tutorials and
download free source form the FX section.

Swish 2.0 can be downloaded for 15 day trial at
http://www.swishzone.com The product generates .swf
files and they can be imported into Flash.

Hope this helps.

[Jan]

Your help is really appreciated! I have found some tutorials that might help, but any of you find any better, please post it here Thanks again!


~Jan

[bradyj]

ionsurge -- is there a Macintosh equivalent to Swish... I'm in the 1% of the world here, and just wondering...

[bpaulsen2000]

pretty sure it runs on the Mac.

[bradyj]

Didn't say on their site, but I emailed the sales to get back to me. Thanks bpaulsen2000

[mouse]

I don't recall the actionscript and it'd be Flash 5 anyway, but it's just a question of using getproperty() and setproperty() I did a few of these when I worked with flash, easy and doing it should teach you a bit if you've not dabbled with AS before.



btw, there used to be a tutorial on this, quite a simple and understandable one, on Were-here.com, but that place is gone

[ionsurge]

Originally posted by bradyj
ionsurge -- is there a Macintosh equivalent to Swish... I'm in the 1% of the world here, and just wondering...

I have looked through the site, and there do not seem to be anywhere saying the requirements for Swish v2 whatsoever.

It may work on a Mac, no idea if it will. Download the trial version and check if it does.

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?a...&tab=downloads

[bpaulsen2000]

It generates a standard .swf file, compatible with Flash
Players 4 through 6. It also supports a wide variety of
input file formats and will accept objects created in other
.swf generating programs, such as 3D animations.

You can download a 15 day free trial. To give you an idea of
what the product can do, I'm including a movie I made during
my trial period 2 years ago (Note: I am not an artist and have
a hard time drawing stick figures, by hand).

Trial Sample

Also, since this was drawn with vector graphics, the file size
including sound is only 47 K.

[bradyj]

ionsurge I gave it a shot, but it does not work on a Mac. The sales department said they would not be going to this platform... and they said that Swishlite will work in Virtual PC, but the full Swish would not.

I can make an emulator, but it's not worth it. I'll stick with my Flash MX.

[ionsurge]

It is a foolish concept that they will not make Swish cross os compatible, InstallShield Developer 8 does it with the compiled program, why they choose not to do so is completely baffling, especially seeing as they are a pretty big company due to the success of Swish v2.

[mouse]

Could be a licensing thing, they may need to purchase another license from Macromedia to produce for a different platform.

[bpaulsen2000]

There is a new release coming out with action scripting and
a bunch of other stuff.