Hello everyone!
Been a while since I had any time over at all for designing and flash, but for the next 5 months I got all the time in the world and so I thought I’d get going right away.
I’m working on a portfolio of mine (as always :P) and I thought of the idea to use a kind of slideshow displaying different thumbnails of work that I’ve done.
The plan is to randomly show different thumbnails that are clickable and that uses a mask as a transition between each image.
I’ve looked at the tutorials on this site aswell as loads of others (spent hours trying to solve this puzzle) and none of them seem to be viable.
Here are my problems;
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Can’t use masking unless it can be done via action script (in which case I really need help since I don’t posess more knowledge than enough to get by when looking at already made scripts) or there’s some way of knowing when to trigger the “fading out” sequence.
I could solve it by setting the duration time of each image to let’s say 6 seconds and then create all the swf’s to last that long before playing the outro sequence, however that’s not the most practical solution and it won’t allow me to create a script that’s usable with no trouble for other projects. -
I’m using a pixel font, 04b08, for my dynamic textfield that outputs the name of each image and for some reason it looks like ****.
The size is way bigger than I want and no matter what I do it won’t change.
I’ve tried everything possible, CDATA doesn’t work and the guides to use CSS files doesn’t work either, since the content is being dynamically loaded.
Is there any solution at all? I searched through these forums and it seems like a lot of people have had the same or similiar issues and none of them got it solved, so I’m not holding my breath.
If not, then how can I instead of loading the description of the image, load a gif? Ghetto solution though.
A ghetto way to solve it all I guess would be to create a movieclip containing the whole thing with loads of layers (with masks and images) and somehow randomly go to different keyframes/labels.
However that’s nothing I’d consider doing unless what I want to do is absoluteley impossible using action script etc.
Hope it didn’t turn out too long for you to read!
