# Eh... dangling wire-ish effect

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 5, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464 "2006-04-05T11:06:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![eilsoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/1 "2006-04-05T11:06:51Z")

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Nothing special, just thought I’d share it anyhoo 🙂

Drag the ends around

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### Author: ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/2 "2006-04-05T11:24:51Z")

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nice physics there eilsoe:)

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### Author: ![bootiteq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@bootiteq](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bootiteq)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/3 "2006-04-05T12:36:52Z")

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I like that!

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### Author: ![gvozden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/gvozden/32/1084_2.png) [@gvozden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gvozden)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/4 "2006-04-05T12:37:06Z")

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maybe not too much coding but idea is great  
I really like it 😉

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### Author: ![eilsoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/5 "2006-04-05T12:42:47Z")

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Yeah it’s really simple, just thought someone might get a kick outta it 🙂

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### Author: ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/6 "2006-04-05T12:53:42Z")

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AHAH! Reminds me of Reason. You know, when you hit [TAB] to see the back of the rack, and you re-patch the cables to your devices?

Nice 😉

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### Author: ![tristessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tristessa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tristessa)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/7 "2006-04-05T12:55:53Z")

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> [@ya3](#):
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> AHAH! Reminds me of Reason. You know, when you hit [TAB] to see the back of the rack, and you re-patch the cables to your devices?
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> Nice 😉

word up, reason owns

:red:

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### Author: ![rmo518](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rmo518](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rmo518)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/8 "2006-04-05T13:58:19Z")

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I like it. A while back I was trying to make a dangling wire dynamically - it didn’t behave properly so I gave up and animated it by hand, but this is great. And the new Flash filters let you give the line some dimension too.

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### Author: ![prototype](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@prototype](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prototype)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/9 "2006-04-05T14:24:02Z")

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Strangely familiar.

Check this out:  
[http://www.ericd.net/2006/02/elastic-cord-source-release.inc](http://www.ericd.net/2006/02/elastic-cord-source-release.inc)

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### Author: ![eilsoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@eilsoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eilsoe)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/10 "2006-04-05T17:41:42Z")

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did I ever call this a revolution in flash?

lots of people have done this before…

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### Author: ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/11 "2006-04-05T18:09:32Z")

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doesn’t seem to work in FF ☹

I can see some cool applications with this 🙂

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### Author: ![JoshuaJonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/joshuajonah/32/1775_2.png) [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/12 "2006-04-05T18:12:37Z")

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Eilsoe, you are by-far the king of noodles…🙂

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### Author: ![gvozden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/gvozden/32/1084_2.png) [@gvozden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gvozden)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/13 "2006-04-05T18:28:28Z")

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I like when people do simple [COLOR=“Red”].fla[/COLOR] files to show how some things are done  
wrapping it in cool user interface just showes what can be done, which is not bed most of the time but it distracts from solution

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### Author: ![rawnewdlz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@rawnewdlz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rawnewdlz)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/14 "2006-04-05T18:39:46Z")

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neat. (works 4 me in FF)

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### Author: ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/15 "2006-04-05T19:18:49Z")

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looks good E, I also like the other example…would make a cool interface

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### Author: ![prototype](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@prototype](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prototype)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/16 "2006-04-05T21:06:33Z")

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> did I ever call this a revolution in flash?  
> lots of people have done this before…

No intent to discredit you. Sorry if you took it that way.

I saw your example and it reminded of the eric d.'s example. I just wanted to share some other source code. Thanks for sharing yours! Great stuff! 🙂

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### Author: ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/17 "2006-04-06T00:09:29Z")

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It’d be cool if you could add new points along the line, and be able to move any of the created points and have it still obey gravity, of course.

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### Author: ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/18 "2006-04-06T05:22:19Z")

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what version of flash is that? i cant get it to open im using MX 2004 version 7.2…is it flash 8?

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### Author: ![J11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@J11](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/J11)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/19 "2006-04-06T05:27:24Z")

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this will not work in lower versions. bcoz filters r used

🙂

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### Author: ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/eh-dangling-wire-ish-effect/184464/20 "2006-04-06T05:48:22Z")

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can someone post a version that will work in mx2004? w/out filters? or are they 100% vital?

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