Topic: As seen here ...

Hi guys ...

I was wondering if anyone was able to tell me the way to code the progression bar ( is that the way its called ) that follows the progression of the animation. I was wondering too how to code the stop and play buttons.
http://www.bbhighway.com/Talk/Coaching_Box/Clinics/Shuffle/shuffle.asp

Anyone has a clue ?

¨...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.¨

alright got it ....

but now i got a play button that switches to pause when clicked. but the problem is, when the animation is done, the button stays on pause instead of switching back to play. how can i make it work ??? i thought of some things but it seems i cant figure out how to tanslate my thoughts in actionscript !!!

any idea ?

¨...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.¨

Actionscript?

The only peice of multimedia on the page you linked to is Director/Shockwave not flash. And that progress bar is built into the shockwave plugin...

Beyond that, I have absolutly no idea what you're talking about.

I'm not a mind reader so you'll have to explain what you want to achieve in detail (and what Multimedia authoring program you're using like 'Macromedia Flash'), maybe post some clear examples of what you want along with what you have done so far.

i think the example posted above is clear enough of what im looking to do ....

i simply want to make it in macromedia flash, which is something i cant seem to figure out.

i want a progress bar that move while the clip is playing. somehow like int quicktime or mediaplayer

¨...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.¨

Well, no. That wasn't clear enough. Flash and Director/Shockwave are two different beasts, so doing things in each is a different matter. You didn't specify what program you want to do it in, you didn't say what you wanted ot script in (ie: flash or director)...you haven't specified any previous experience in actionscripting...you basically presented us with a proprietory plugin from macromedia and said 'how do I do this'...how do you do what? Do you want ot script a plugin or a shockwave file? Do you want a flash animation...

If you want helpful answers then help us a bit first by specifying exactly what it is you want to know and where you want to do it, as well as any previous experience you may have had that means we know wether or not we have to go really deeply into how it owrks or if we can give you the programming basics and you can work out the rest from there.

Hmmm. That's sort of a cool thingie. I think some of the confusion in this thread so far is that it's relatively common to have a loading progress bar - something that indicates how much of a movie has been loaded, and how much remains. What you are talking about is something completely different.

In Flash, the _currentframe property is what you want to explore.

To simplify things, let's say your animation has a duration of 100 frames, and the scroll track is 100 pixels long. With ActionScript you can set the horizontal (_x) position of the scroll "thumb" based on the _currentframe of the animation, and you can set the _currentframe of the animation based on the _x position of the scroll thumb.

It would take a bit of work to correlate the two if the relationship isn't as neat as the example above (100:100), but that's how I would begin.

Is that any help?

Oh - and I confess I'm not at all clear on what is/isn't happening with the play/pause button. You will need to spell out for us what you have going with that, as there are numerous possible approaches.


[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 09-01-2003).]

thanks steve for caring ... you're giving me something to work with. i apreciate

the play and pause button is quite ok now ... i havent got what i wanted but something close ... so its ok

ant btw Skaarjj, just ...Well, no. That wasn't clear enough... was ok. you didnt have to write a chapter

thanks

¨...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.¨

Another tricky thing will be to get it to stop playing normally when you use the thumb to advance through the frames, but resume playing normally when you over ride the thumb by pressing the "play" button. Will your movie start and stop in various places the way your example does?

Well with some poeple you do have to write a chapter to get the point across...I didn't know if you were one of those people or not.

bigyou: check out this component from flashloaded

free, too!

thanks steve ... exactly what i was talking about ... but after some thoughts, i will leave it as it is now ...

but thanks a lot ill keep this in b ank in case of !!!

¨...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.¨