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dyren
April 6th, 2005, 01:04 AM
so this is the result of 15+ hours of endless tweakin' on my school timeline..

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wozniakj/timeline.zip (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Ewozniakj/timeline.zip)

INSTRUCTIONS!
1. before you open the file 'timeline.swf' make sure that both files 'timeline.swf' and 'dates.xml' are in the same folder. (desktop is OK too.)

2. open 'timeline.swf' (skip to step 7 if it will not open.)

3. notice what you have in front of you on the 'stage'.
there is a horozontal timeline with dates lined up along it.
there are two gradients, one at the top and one at the bottom (those are buttons by the way)
there is a title block in the lower right hand corner (fancy eh? :-D)

3. to get started, click on the first (or any) date.
in this case, the first in the one farthest to the left.

4. ah HA! notice the smooooth animation? very dynamic and very nice.

5. now that you are zoomed in, you may either:
a) click on another date to zoom to it.
b) click on the UPPER or LOWER gradient to move the timeline up or down, respectively
c) click OUTSIDE of the timeline to zoom out partially (once partially zoomed out, you may click OUTSIDE again to zoom all the way out to where you started. or click on a date to zoom back in.)

6. that's it and happy navigation!.

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7. if the file will not open, try this:
a) right click on the file.
b) click on 'open with'
c) select internet explorer from the list

8. if this works, go back to step 3 and continue.




okay so let me know what you all think and tomorrow i'll be finding out what my teacher thinks D:

j_polo9
April 6th, 2005, 03:12 AM
lol that is a large post you have there and seems like a lot of work (8 steps with sub steps...) to view your swf...

n4c
April 6th, 2005, 03:55 AM
Let me check file and will reply in 2 hrs time...

n4c

G
April 6th, 2005, 05:23 AM
dam don't have time at moment but i'll look at it tongiht :)

SlowRoasted
April 6th, 2005, 11:18 AM
im not messing with that dude sorry

dyren
April 6th, 2005, 05:13 PM
? there are actually only 2 steps to navigation.. the rest were for my teacher who is.... less educated about opening .swf's

it's as simple as putting the swf and xml in the same folder and opening the swf...


i dont know what you guys are saying about how this is all difficult and complicated.. dont let a long post stop you from checking this out. i think it's pretty neat and took me a long time to tweak.

bwh2
April 7th, 2005, 02:49 AM
i dont know what you guys are saying about how this is all difficult and complicated.. dont let a long post stop you from checking this out. i think it's pretty neat and took me a long time to tweak.
simply put, it's just inconvenient to open a zip file and read lengthy instructions. look at the number of responses other zip file posts in S&C get relative to web-posted files. this should come as no surprise to you.