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jflint
February 1st, 2006, 11:20 AM
New to the forum, and haven't really done a lot of heavy Flash scripting since Flash 5.

We have a client that we are doing an interactive timeline for. The control of it will be very similar to the Classic Motown timeline with a slider at the bottom and an area at the top where you can jump directly to certain years.

Anyone have any resources on working up sliders/navigation schemes like this? I have the slider working using the tutorial from this site (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/menudragger2.htm), but when i try to add the "click and jump" actions, it doesn't operate properly.

Here is the tutorial i was using to add the "click and jump" actions:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/slidingmenu.htm

Thanks for any help! I can provide FLAs if I need to, but it is basically using the same code from the tutorial linked above.

DarkSUn
February 1st, 2006, 11:34 PM
Well i have not looked at the links you provided, but for this type of idea i would simply have for instance as an example the different years (2001, 2002, etc) on the same frame but of course at different times in the timeline. Then for your slider or button you can just tell it to go to that point in the timeline. But of course you will want to give each frame of the timeline each it's own label. Then you can tell the button or slider GotoAndPlay(framelabel) as an example. This is how i would go about anyhow.
Mind you i have not looked at the links you provided so i can be wrong.

pensamente
February 2nd, 2006, 06:17 AM
http://flashtothecore.praystation.com/

press it no.21 the last but not the least
hope it helps