How do you do that swipe that the Boreal Mountainlink does?

programming flash
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The Boreal mountain link projector has a wipeish effect when you go to another tab. I’m quessing that button tells the wipe to go which is on the main animation, then the content animation to switch. Is there a command to make flash wait a couple of seconds or until a event has happened else ware before it does something else? It looks that the current contents dissapear halfway through the wipe, then the new ones load after it is blank. Go Boreal > The Mountain > MountainLink to find it.
Thanks,
-Alex K

2

Well… I can’t see the effect you’re talking about, but I can tell you that Flash has MANY methods for holding up one thing until another completes.

In this case, they’ve probebly done one of two things.

a) They may have set up a loop which uses getTimer(); to hold anything for a number of miliseconds of your choosing.

or

b) They could have a loadMovie(); or a getUrl(); method somewhere half way through the swipe which tells the player what to do next.

3

It is just a mask animation.

4

So is there a swipe for each page that is to be loaded, with a action half way through to tell the other on to go goodbye and then load the next at the end.

AKA:
Click snow report button - tells go to snow report swipe
half way through swipe content.unloadMovie ();
at the end content.loadMovie (snow report.swf);

Or is it that there is one swipe that is run with variables?

AKA
Click snow report button - tells swipe to go and variable something or other = snow report.swf
half way through swipe content.unloadMovie ();
then at the end content.loadMovie (variable something or other);

Or is it something different? Because if it changed right away with a mask you would see the change through the mask but you don’t.
Thanks,
-Alex K

5

Or is it that there is one swipe that is run with variables?

AKA
Click snow report button - tells swipe to go and variable something or other = snow report.swf
half way through swipe content.unloadMovie ();
then at the end content.loadMovie (variable something or other);

Or is it something different? Because if it changed right away with a mask you would see the change through the mask but you don’t.

Yep that is it.

And in the beginning of your loaded movie is where you have the animation that plays to display the content :slight_smile:

6

Cool. Thanks, now all I have to do is find a good swipe to use for my site.
-Alex K