Gallery w/ controller

[Rick]

I have attached a fla.
Its an animation. When you rollover the mc itself the stop button will appear. The space on the right side is empty so you can see the rollover/rolloff effect.

3 things
The cursor I would like to be a pointer, except when on the controller.
The stop button flickers? Can I stop that.
How do I program the stop to stop the animation.

Thanks.
I have been doing trial and error most of the day on different things. Thats why I have posted a few times today. I appreciate the help.

[Sgaspar11]

Getting rid of the pointer:

http://smartwebby.com/Flash/custom_cursor.asp

I'll look at the other parts and repost your file.

[Rick]

I want the pointer to be a pointer instead of a hand.
If you rollover the mc its currently a handcursor. I want it to be a pointer.

Then turn into a hand when it rolls over the controller.

Thank you for the post.

[Sgaspar11]

The link above is how you can turn it back into a pointer.

Basically to get the button to stop flickering...

Create another layer and name it actions, move the stop(); comment to that actions layer on frame one...

Then, move everything else to frame 1 as well on it's respective layer. It only needs to be 1 frame long since the movieclip is embedded inside it.

See attached.

[Rick]

mx2004...will it work?


(Will 8 work with the file I currently have built? or is there some reprogramming involved.)

[Sgaspar11]

Read the link above. As for getting the slideshow to "stop" at certain points with the way you have it laid out, it'll take some work. I need to hope into a meeting, it'll take a bit before I am back. Check out Kirupa.com and search for slideshow tutorials.

[Rick]

In the example
http://smartwebby.com/Flash/custom_cursor.asp

You should notice that the custom cursor does not match up location-wise
with the real cursor as you drag around the MC.
Is there a way to fix that, so when a viewer goes to rollover the MC the two cursors match up?(so when you drag off the bottom of the MC the two cursors should meet up, but they dont.)

To hopefully help with this scenario, I am trying to duplicate this effect:
http://www.daviddaltoninc.com/index2.html
Skip intro.
Select interior design on right side. Then select a thumbnail on lower left when they load. This will bring up an animation/slideshow. When you drag onto slideshow the controller appears on top of the slideshow. They have a pointer cursor when it drags accross the slideshow. Is that a custom cursor, or did they use the
useHandCursor = false; method?

I appreciate your patience. The alternative is a static controller that appears when the slideshow appears.

thanks.

[Sgaspar11]

They just used: useHandCursor = false; method on the movieclip, and embedded within that movie clip are your start and stop buttons.

[Rick]

Sgaspar,

I tried the timeline structure you suggested. But the controller appears with the slideshow on load. I want the controller to wait til a mouseover.

on (rollOver) {
_root.gotoAndStop(2);

}
on (rollOut) {
_root.gotoAndStop(1);
}
The controller is in frame 2 of layer 2. So when the rollover hits, it sends the timeline to frame 2. The rollout goes back to frame 1.
I still get the flickering button.
I have tried different ways of adding the useHandCursor = false; line. Based on the script you see above, where would i put it. MC instance name, or this. go in front of it?

thanks again.

[Sgaspar11]

The reason it is flickering is because when you roll over the small button(flash thinks you are doing the (rollOut) ont he movie clip becauase you are mousing over another object...so it is shooting it back to frame 1, then 2, then 1 then 2, etc.

I'll need to think about your structure because it isn't the best way to do it currently, unfortunately I am slammed at work...

I'll take a look at it this weekend.

[Rick]

sgaspar,
I appreciate your assistance with this effort.
I am stuck on this I have continued with trial and error.
I will soon probably choose to have a controller that loads with the slideshow, unless you have the opportunity to try once more.
thanks.