Chapter 6

movie clips

shop.fla

the bookshop, using movie clip objects.

 

slider-objects.fla

a slider, using movie clip objects and event listeners. This is slightly more elaborate than the version described in the book -- a second listener object is used to control the highlighting of the labels. The implementation is clumsy, but illustrates the point, I hope. You need the movie temp.swf as well if you want to test this one.

 

smart-slider1.fla

the library of this movie contains a smart clip for a slider, using the standard name/value dialogue to set the clip parameters

 

smart-slider2.fla

as smart-slider1, but using a form as the UI to the smart clip. If you want to use this, you must also download the UI movie sliderUI1.swf, and put it in the same directory as smart-slider2.fla. If this does not work, use the Define Clip Parameters dialogue to link the UI to this file's absolute location on your machine. You will need to make the Clip Parameters panel bigger to see what you are doing.

 

 

smart-slider3.fla

as smart-slider2.fla and its supporters, but using the bootstrapped UI sliderUI2.swf, which you will also need to download.

 

sliderUI2.fla

the source movie for the UI used by smart-slider3.

All the slider movies use a font called Sand. You should have this font if you are using Flash under MacOS8.5 or later. On Windows or earlier versions of MacOS you may have to substitute some other font to use this movie.

sliderUI1.fla

the source movie for the UI used by smart-slider2.