RSS Folders Problem Fixed Opera
June 8, 2007
Now if your like me you like everything to be nice and organised. I am an Opera browser user and unfortunately in Opera you cannot sort your RSS feeds into folders. This is a feature that really should be added in future versions. You can add filters to your feeds but they just don’t work as well as they should do.
So I thought of this quick fix, basically I just add ‘Category Name -’ to the front of the feed and Opera automatically sorts out all of the feeds into alphabetical order. Sure its a mega basic idea but it might help someone else out there.
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Timeline Control
April 17, 2007
Assumed Knowledge: Basic creation of symbols and general Flash interface
Concepts Covered: Controlling the movement in the Flash timeline through buttons
Open up Flash and make 2 buttons, one which is labeled Play and the other one Pause. On a new layer create some sort of animation that lasts for at least 10 frames. Extend the bottom layers length in the timeline so that it is the same as the animation.
Add the following code to the Play button:
on (release){
play();
}
And add this code to the Pause button.
on (release){
stop();
}
Let?’s look at some of the code. on (release) means that once the button is released. The { finishes the statement what follows it on the next line tells the program what will happen once the button is released. play() makes the program play the animation in the timeline and stop() stops the animation in the timeline. The ; ends the command. The final { closes off the code.
Now when you test your movie you can click Pause to Pause the animation and Play to continue it.
How would you make the program stop at the beginning therefore prompting the user to press Play to begin? Simple. Place
Stop();
in the first frame. This will stop the program automatically.
You don?’t need to use release to make the button do the code. You can use other conditions such as press.
This type of timeline control is probably the most important Flash code that you?’ll ever use. So make sure that you know how to use it. It also works well in animation pieces with a simple user interface.
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Motion Guides in Flash MX
Concepts covered: Tweening with motion guidesEver wanted to amake a tween go in the direction that you want and not in a straight direction? I feel your pain. This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to tween movieclips in and direction that you want through motion guides.
To start first choose a picture of your choice and then convert it into a movieclip. Right click on the layer of the movieclip and select Add motion guide.
On the motion guide layer draw a line with the line tool or the pen tool if you want to be creative. Make sure that the line is all connected . On the movieclip layer right click several frames down the timeline(I chose 20 frames) and create a keyframe, then create a motion tween between the frames of the movieclip layer. Make sure that the guide layer lasts for the same time as the movieclip layer and has no keyframe at the end just a frame. With the movieclip move it over the end of one side of your line and it should snap to the end. Go to the end of your movielcip?’s motion tween and move the movieclip over to the other side of the line. View your animation by pressing Cntrl + Enter and see how it moves where you want it. See how you can?’t see the line of the motion guide in the movie? You can change that line anyway that you want to.
That is how you use motion guides to tween a movieclip into any direction that you want.
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