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Old Nov 24th, 2003, 10:05
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Going loopy...

As flash avatars seem to be the fashion this month I am going to have ponder and do one for myself. I have next to zero flash experience, so this could be interesting.

One thing that I would like to do is loop a background, like a starfield. How is this achieved, to give a seamless join?

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Old Nov 24th, 2003, 10:15
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Please dont do a starfield.. thats mine!!! lol.. There are many ways to approach this. If you don't know any action script than the easiest way to go about it is to Take your background image and make it into a movie clip. You can then take that movie clip and tween it until it is a loop. Place that on the bottom layer and place your content on the layers above it. Thats all there is to it. Ohh.. but to give a seemless join.. Make your last frame of the tween just a few pixels shy of the start of the tween, that way it will appear seamless.

If you would like me to send you a .fla as an example, I would be more than happy too.
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Old Nov 24th, 2003, 10:27
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Cheers Kulegamr, an example would go down well.

FYI: Not going to do a starfield, I used that as an example.

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Old Nov 24th, 2003, 12:36
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u2, your website doesnt work mate, the error i get is:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e57'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]String or binary data would be truncated.

/includes/asp/loghit.asp, line 78

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Old Nov 24th, 2003, 12:46
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What browser are you using? I noticed a problem with it last night on NS, but could not be ar$ed to fix it.

Just checked it (13:40GMT) with myIE, works okay.

Cheers for informing me

[edit] Looked into it a bit more and know the problem. Will fix it later tonight, it's only a 30 second thing.

[re-edit] Fixed!

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Old Nov 25th, 2003, 09:17
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still broken mate....
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Old Nov 25th, 2003, 09:32
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Works fine for me... I'm on Opera
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Old Nov 25th, 2003, 15:29
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="geneva, verdana, arial" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Smokie

still broken mate....
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Grrr...

What browser are you using?

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Old Nov 25th, 2003, 16:41
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U2, it works for me in MYIE, IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera....
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="geneva, verdana, arial" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Smokie


Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e57'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]String or binary data would be truncated.

/includes/asp/loghit.asp, line 78

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

That kind of error doesn't look browser related to me. It is a server side error to do with SQL and looks as though it is something to do with hit tracking.
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Old Nov 26th, 2003, 08:25
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XP Pro, IE6

It still doesnt work for me. Are you storing my user agent in your database? mine is quite long and might be whats causing the problem:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {DFF09D7E-10A1-4C98-9949-97E7D6648834}; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

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Old Nov 26th, 2003, 08:28
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Devman ur spot on!

I have written a page logger, which logs general stuff from the visitor such as what url they came from, browser, country, etc, usual log stuff.

Unfortunately I have not allowed enough space in one of the fields in the SQL table, so it errors, and As you can see there is no error correction (Oops!).

I now have plans to finish the logger, and add error correction (with logging) so I can see where the problems are.

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