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Flash Scrolling thumbnail bar ends
Greetings,
Following an online tutorial, I have successfully created a scrolling thumbnail bar containing ten 100x100 thumbnails. By successful I mean I am able to control the right to left motion of the bar with my mouse, stop the menu bar when hover over a particular thumbnail and the bar will continue to scroll across the screen when the mouse is not hovering over it.
When I test the animation, the test window appears partially expanded and the menu bar responds as it should and the scrolling thumbnails are moving continiously from right to left. Upon expanding the test window however, the thumbnail bar continues to scroll but eventually a small brief gap appears to the left of the screen i.e. the bar ends briefly and then resumes scrolling.
Question: if the gap only appears when the test window is fully expanded out i.e. does not appear when the test initially starts in the partial expanded state, is this necessarily a problem? In other words, will the gap most likely appear when I add the thumbnail bar to a webpage? I am a novice with Flash so whoever answers please assume I know next to nothing.
Fyi, I have posted some screenshots to show what is happening.
partialexpand.JPG
fullexpand.JPG
Following an online tutorial, I have successfully created a scrolling thumbnail bar containing ten 100x100 thumbnails. By successful I mean I am able to control the right to left motion of the bar with my mouse, stop the menu bar when hover over a particular thumbnail and the bar will continue to scroll across the screen when the mouse is not hovering over it.
When I test the animation, the test window appears partially expanded and the menu bar responds as it should and the scrolling thumbnails are moving continiously from right to left. Upon expanding the test window however, the thumbnail bar continues to scroll but eventually a small brief gap appears to the left of the screen i.e. the bar ends briefly and then resumes scrolling.
Question: if the gap only appears when the test window is fully expanded out i.e. does not appear when the test initially starts in the partial expanded state, is this necessarily a problem? In other words, will the gap most likely appear when I add the thumbnail bar to a webpage? I am a novice with Flash so whoever answers please assume I know next to nothing.
Fyi, I have posted some screenshots to show what is happening.
partialexpand.JPG
fullexpand.JPG
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>>>But, if it is being delivered via a browser (either online or offline) then the *browser* determines the size of the window, and therefore the user *cannot* resize to see the *flaw*.
This will be part of a website i.e. on a web page so I suspect that, following your response above, they will not be able to see the gap -- did I get that right?
This will be part of a website i.e. on a web page so I suspect that, following your response above, they will not be able to see the gap -- did I get that right?
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Thanks for confirming for me; undoubtedly I will be posting a follow up question within the next week of how exactly to imbed this in a web page properly (assuming I can't figure out myself) so it will another opportunity to get what will probably be some easy points for you based on your level of knowledge. Thanks again!
If you deliver it as a .swf or projector (.exe) then the user has control over the size of the window (they can resize it). They could then see the 'flawed' view.
But, if it is being delivered via a browser (either online or offline) then the *browser* determines the size of the window, and therefore the user *cannot* resize to see the *flaw*.