swapDepths Blur Menu

[paddy.]

Here's a nice little menu I made as an experiment to help out a member in the Flash MX forum.

www.paddyduke.co.uk/lab/blurmenu.htm

Comments welcome.

Thanks
Paddy

[Stratification]

Pretty slick menu there. Nice work.

[beneath:the:sky]

Another awesome experiment by FG... really really good stuff dude :thumb:

[RevoGiant]

Well imma lookin, and imma likin'

[lunatic]

Wouldn't load in FF :(

but looks great in IE!! :D

[paddy.]

I'm using FF and it loads fine for me.

[lunatic]

Ah weird, it works fine for me now too. Something must have been poking my machine and kept it from loading. :thumb:

[Yeldarb]

It looks cool, but you should have it only fade with the two you are effecting (the one you are rolling off of and the one you are rolling onto) not all 3 of them.

Great work :thumb:

[exorxist]

I think it's great - just one question / suggestion. I think that when you go from section to section, as you come out and roll onto something else, the ones that were blurred jump back to normal and then blur again. Maybe they could remain blurred, and the rollover brings it out to sharp? Maybe start sharp, then all get blurry, and wait for a rollover. On rollover ->sharpen, and menu text come down?

looks good though, :beer:

* edit - The post above me was made as I was writing this post! I guess I'm not alone...... :beam:

[paddy.]

Yeldarb and Exorcist - If you download the source files you will see that my tweening and coding doesn't allow for that. But if I can find the code I used on an old site I'll see what I can do.

[cigar]

Really nice. Doing a similar kind of blurring/zooming effect for a personal site I'm working on. Looks good.

[newhopekenny]

I think it'd be nice of you could add a bit more easing into the mix. If I go from the rose to the daisy and back quickly, the animation just jumps around for the two elements not being moused over. It's a great idea, but the execution could be a bit better. (still though, the idea is what counts)

[paddy.]

I don't know how to do that. I think it's the swapDepths that's confusing everything.

[Jasninder]

looks great...post the fla :beam:

[beneath:the:sky]

looks great...post the fla :beam:

The fla's are available on the bottom of the page in the link Paddy provided.

I couldn't find the AS (swapDepths) on this file anywhere... where are they located?

[paddy.]

If you go into the individual movieclips (called F# Button) and select layer 4 there is a button (just a hit state) that has all the actions for that F# Button on it it. The swapDepths code is on there.

[beneath:the:sky]

If you go into the individual movieclips (called F# Button) and select layer 4 there is a button (just a hit state) that has all the actions for that F# Button on it it. The swapDepths code is on there.

Awesome, thanks man :thumb:

[paddy.]

No problemo. I like to help.

[icio]

you'd be better to code what you're trying to do using prototypes to fade in movieclips etc. i've looked over your project and i think i've made some improvements, if you wanna check it out its available here: http://www.cyberathlete.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/blur%20menu.fla

mx2004 only, sorry.

[paddy.]

What ARE prototypes? Your menu is exactly what I was trying to achieve with the second batch of code I tried. Very smooth and nice. Thanks CA! :thumb:

[icio]

no problem. i hope it helped :thumb:
sen has a nice tute up on kirupa about prototypes -> http://www.kirupa.com/developer/oop/AS1OOPPrototypes1.htm

[paddy.]

Thanks CA. I'll look into it.