Slide menus again

[benbacardi]

I have this: www.bpcu.co.uk/slide.html

and i want it to go backwards!

currently this is the code: for the buttons:

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on (release) {
	if (content.flag != "one") {
		direction1 = 1;
		content.flag = "one";
		content.play();
	}
}

and for the actual scroll thing, on each key frame there is

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if (flag == "one") {
	stop();
}

where "one" is different for each button and keyframe, if you get me. this way, it scrolls forwards, but always goes forwards...

i tried putting actionscript on its own layer at the top of the scroll thing saying

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if (_root.direction1 == 1) {
gotoAndPlay(previous);
}

but that doesnt work. any suggestions?

[JohnMitch]

I'm very tired and honestly I don't feel like writing the code for this, but let me see if I can explain how to do this... (remember, very tired )

Ok, first of all with a slider you have to set the x location of where you want to start and stop. So, Let's say that you have 3 buttons.

Button 1 : x=0;
Button 2 : x=100;
Button 3 : x=200;

So, when you press button 3 you set the object in motion and make it stop when/where x = 200. If x = 200 then you do nothing.

Let's Say that x = 200, and you press button 2. Now you find out what x is = to. So If x < 100 Motion is positive. If x > 100 Motion is Negative. if x = 100 do nothing.

Hope this explains this well enough where you can put the code together, if not I will try and put something together for you to better explain it, or maybe someone else can explain this motion a little better than I. Remember, x is the Horizontal Location of the object.

[benbacardi]

yea, thanks John, but i know how to tell Flash which way it should go... getting it going that way is the problem! i cant get the movie to play backwards

[Webforumz Staff]

The only way to get Flash to play backwards is to use a gotoAndPlay(previous); on each frame that you want Flash to go backwards through. So as you can see this would get quite messy. Your best bet (if you want this approach) is to use a seperate movieclip to go to the previous frame over and over until you reach the frame you want to reach. This would be less messy!

JohnMitch was actually describing an alternative way to do this. Instead of having the animation keyframed, you can get Flash to move the content for you, that way it's no problem to go forwards or backwards.

This is pretty old code, but here goes:

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	seekTargX = _root._xmouse-5;
	seekTargY = _root._ymouse-_height/2;

	// move slider into position
	// along x
	dX = seekTargX-_x;
	_x += dX/4;
	// along y
	dY = seekTargY-_y;
	_y += dY/4;
	updateAfterEvent();
}

In this example, this code is placed ON the movieclip you want to move. You can change that pretty easily if you like. Instead of _x and _y you'd have movieclipname._x etc.

seekTargX and seekTargY set the x and y co-ordinates that you want the movieclip to go to.

_x +- dX/4 moves along the x co-ordinates but only by dX/4. dX is the distance between the current position and seekTargX. This has the effect of slowing you down as you get nearer. You can make this effect more or less dramatic by changing the number that dX is divided by.

As you can probably figure out, you can change seekTargX and it's sibling pretty easily externally, ( movieclipname.seekTargX ) and so affect the movement of the movieclip...

[WorkingMind]

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Here is the link:http://geovid.com/Flash_SlideVidShow/