Recent content by skeletrooper

Hi, Seemingly simple question: I'm trying to justify text in a textbox and not align left, right, or center the text. I click the "justify" button, all looks good, but when I publish, the text is left justified. I've had this problem in the past and have never figured it out. The text is...

Bill, the link you mentioned was a tutorial on a motion guide/3d circle effect. I'm looking to fill a flash shape with text. Any ideas anyone?

I have a button on a frame. I am trying to make the button appear and clickable after a set period of time (2 secs., 3 secs., whatever). Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Not a motion guide. The actual fill of a circle = the text. So instead of a default box-shaped text block, a circle one.

Is there any way to type text into a flash shape? I want to have my text contained within a circle. Do I have to import the art from illustrator or is there an easier way? Thanks.

I would like to keyframe this starfield. I created this starfield (the duplicated movie clips) in a movie clip called "MC_stars". But when I placed it on the main timeline, keyframed it, and tested the movie, only 1 star showed up (none of the other duplicates showed up). Any ideas? Here's my...

I didn't totally follow your instructions, but it helped. I created a MC, and in it I created 1/2 my content (about 1400 pix wide). I grouped that content and moved it -1300 pix to the left (so that I could still select the content). I then created the other 1/2 of my content, grouped that, and...

I'll give that a shot. Thanks Oldnewbie.

Building in on the stage.

How can one create a movieclip that's thousands of pixels wide? I have a scrollpane that needs very wide contents (in a MC). But the maximum space Flash MX gives me to edit the MC is 720x720. Any ideas? I thought it might be related to the Document size, but it does not appear to be.

Yes, I think I follow. The problem with shaping the mask is that there are 7 other cow cuts that come out of the cow (chuck, round, sirloin, etc.), and the mask accuracy needs to be almost to the pixel. Time-consuming. Can't I have the negative space be a MC, the animated slab of meat another...

Thanks Bill. I have to side with oldnewbie, however. How can it be done with hitArea? In the example you gave the rollOut area is too large - I need it to respond to the exact shape. Thanks again for all the attention you've given this problem! -Wes

Here's a mockup of my original: http://www.undertone.org/~wes/files/3DhitMask.swf http://www.undertone.org/~wes/files/3DhitMask.fla The mouseover and hit area should only be on the silouette of oneOut. Unlike your 3D clip, my hit area doesn't correspond to the animated clip (oneOut is the...

Problems again. I cannot use an invisible button because the MC that is below it on the timeline has rollOver and rollOut events that need to be driven by the mask in the invisible button! So it looks like I need to use hitArea or setMask for the movieclip, but it isn't working. What is the...

Hey! Figured it out! Check out http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/transparent_bitmaps.htm You have to import the 640x480 image (with transparency) into the library, manually select the transparent part of the image, and delete it. Then copy the "silouette" into a...