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tbfa - 30 Jul 2008 04:17 GMT

Hey Everyone?

A (somewhat) Newbie to Flash (I'm a Live Motion castaway...) and I need help
with an assignment: I have a music studio client who wants an old piece of
tech gear to serve as a nav bar on the site we're building for him. The old
gear has a 'dial' and I'd like it to move to the label for the appropriate link
as the mouse rolls over; but then, when the user gets to that page, it would
be a bomb if the 'dial' also stayed pointed to that label as a 'u are here'
type of marker........I'm clueless...can anyone point me......? is it
possible.......?

thanks a lot

todd

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Noelbaland - 30 Jul 2008 06:05 GMT

Hello,

Basically you'd use Photoshop to cut out the dial and bring that image and the
background image into Flash. You convert the dial into a movieclip and
position it over the original. Then you can either use the timeline or
Actionscript to rotate the dial in the direction of the button that calls it.

I've created 2 rudimentary examples that demonstrate how the above work. One
is a http://www.5degrees.co.nz/tests/DialMenuExample_2.html version that has
minimal Actionscript. The other is
http://www.5degrees.co.nz/tests/DialMenuExample.html controlled. I think
you'll get how the script works and how it relates to the buttons and timeline.
It's quite simple.

You can download both examples
http://www.5degrees.co.nz/tests/DialMenuExamples.zip.

Hope they help

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tbfa - 30 Jul 2008 06:26 GMT

Noelbaland....
Yes! That's it prezactly.........can't thank you enough........yudda man! I'll download 'em and see if I can do 'em justice.....thanks a lot!

todd

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