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[bigbird3156]

hello again.....

ok, I am making a text box that will have text change over at regular intervals, kind of like a slide show type of thingy... it will have a button to allow the user to advance but otherwise I want the text to change every 5 to 10 seconds.... obviously I can do this with a super long time line, 200 or so frames between each change, but is there a neater way of doing this to set up a time delay between frames... or can i change the frames-per-second setting on one movie inside a regular speed movie?

any ideas? (-: The Bird from Down Under
bigbird_3156@bb3.com.au

 

[oldnewbie]

How about storing a certain amount of text strings in an array, and then through a control movie clip with a continuous getDate event or even an easier getTimer event, have the dynamic text box display the array strings in a cycle of so many seconds or minutes or days or whatever?

Guess you would like an example? Or can you work this out on your own?

Regards,

 

[bigbird3156]

thanks old...

I'll give it a go, however being realistic you probably should cook up an example for me..

by the way.. how do you get your oldnewbie 'logo' thing on there???

(-: The Bird from Down Under
bigbird_3156@bb3.com.au

 

[oldnewbie]

Well I'll see if I can work something out later!

As for the signature, add it in your profile in the signature box:

[img]http://www.yourserver.com/new.gif[/img]

Regards,

 

[bigbird3156]

well, old....

I tried, but this is too big a job for me....

I have decided that it is time to get a tutorial book on learning flash action scripting... any suggestions?

in the mean time, have you had and luck with this one? I have no idea where to start!

Thanks for the ongoing help! (-: The Bird from Down Under
bigbird_3156@bb3.com.au

 

[oldnewbie]

Here's one way of doing it:
This cycles through 10 strings every 10 seconds...

http://blake.prohosting.com/~tektips/string.html

Download the package:

http://blake.prohosting.com/~tektips/string.zip

Regards,

 

[bigbird3156]

Well Old, you have done it again!!!!

thankyou.....

but how does it work... it is one thing to copy what you have done, it is another thing to understand it...

I see the strings and array & stuff but how do you control the timing... and how do I make the timing longer.... I need more than 10 seconds?

P.S. have a great australia day!! - bet you didn't know that did ya!
(-: The Bird from Down Under
bigbird_3156@bb3.com.au

 

[oldnewbie]

If you open the .fla, you should see a small circle left of the textfield box.
That's the control movie clip. Right-click it and check the onClipEvent action. That's where it's all happening!

If you change the integer in this line, after time:
if ((time+100)<=currentTime) {
To...
if ((time+300)<=currentTime) {
The delay will be of 30 seconds. Make it 600, and the delay will be of 1 minute... Etc...

Regards,

 

[bigbird3156]

Thanks old worked like a dream....


One question.... I put your string movie into a seperate movie, that was imbeded in another movie that was imbeded in yet another movie

ie. mainmovie -> 2ndmovie -> stringmovie

because of this the _root.variable calls the 'root' of mainmovie? or 2ndmovie?... it obviously did not call the 'root' of stringmovie... I then put the movie inside frames inside 2ndmovie and it worked fine....

if I have something set up like i originally did, how can i call the 'root' of stringmovie... I looked on that navigation tool that shows you the movie map (if you know what i mean... that crosshair thing on the bottom right corner of the action window) and it did not have the apropriate option, so i had no idea how to do it...

can you explain? (-: The Bird from Down Under
bigbird_3156@bb3.com.au

 

[oldnewbie]

Big,
If I understand you correctly, as long as you're only using movie clips, _root. remains the call to address the main timeline from those movie clips. Now since each .swf has it's own _root level, when using external .swfs loadded on other levels (or I guess even loaded in empty holder clips), you'd have to use _level0. instead of _root. , because otherwise you'd be addressing the external .swf's own root level.

Regards,