Comments on: Flash Tutorial: Quick and Easy Zoom Effect on Mouse Over

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:17:14 +0000

Due to overwhelming response to this tutorial, comments for this post are closed. If you are having problems, please refer to other users comments above, as the issue may already have been addressed.

Thanks for reading,
Mike

By: wc

wc — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:16:24 +0000

Great tutorial.

I’m struggling to make the swapDepth work. I finally got the objects to layer correctly, after I added the first line to the code for each of my objects (see below) that would bring each item back to the base level.

What is happening now is that the zoomed items remain on the stage (in their unzoomed states), even after I switch to another movie clip (the zoom function is one image in a gallery).

this.swapDepths(1);
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(zoom == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
zoom = false;
play();
this.swapDepths(2);
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
zoom = true;
}

By: marco

marco — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:13:04 +0000

hi mike. thanks for this great tutorials. so…i have a question.
if you have a look at: http://cdr.webhat.it in the index page….there is a gallery almost like you have done. you can see it in “prodotti” section. how can i obtain that effect? thanks a lot.

By: Appie

Appie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:16:10 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much, also for everyone else who has published a comment or question! My banner turns out great, still working on it though

Regards, Appie

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:50:07 +0000

hello, I’m very new to Flash but learning as I go… I finished my project and I have made ads flow in and out for our website…. now want to add links to some of those ads and it would be nice too for it to stop when the user puts his cursor over it…. can someone help me? I’m not good with action script writing….

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:45:15 +0000

Mike

it is possible to change the “zoom” code to others which suite the CS3 without changing the publish setting? as im try to perform an action with code that only suite for CS3, i cant change the publish setting to CS2.

thank you

By: bernadette

bernadette — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:39:04 +0000

Hey Mike,
I was also very happy to have found your tutorial and I’m amazed by the effort and time you put in to help people like me (flash-beginners …very much so..)..
I scanned the questions that have been asked already but nobody seemed to have my problem….
when I want to choose insert>timeline>motion tween….it’s just not available to choose…basically…..I tried choosing the classic tween but then it just moves the picture and showing it bigger at the end instead of zooming like it does in your example …I did however choose motion tween without the timeline….then I get a lightblue but nothing happens….no arrow appearing…
any thoughts on that?
Hope you still receive and answer questions….
Thanks a lot in advance!!! Bernadette

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:19:09 +0000

Hi Mike
I’m a bit late to the party here, but I only recently found your excellent tutorial. I’m fairly new to web design, but have recently completed some exams and have found a few clients for my services.
I just have one small problem with the zoom technique: Is it possible to have multiple instances of the zoom within the same movie clip?
I am trying to build a page which shows thumbnail images of other sites I have built, and I want each one to zoom up on rollover (or on cllick would be better!). The problem is that when I rollover any image, they all zoom up together!
I have so far set up two layers in Flash 8, both the same length of 15 frames, and a third layer containing your actionscript code. The Zoom function works exactly as it should (except that it judders when the mouse hovers over the image border!); however, my problem is that I can’t get only one image to zoom up, its all or nothing!
Any thoughts?

Thanks
Sarah
x

By: eddcase

eddcase — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:52:22 +0000

Great tute thanks Mike. Just one point, and I think it’s an issue that’s given rise to several “it’s not working” comments is that in the tute you don’t say that in the actions layer frame 15 should be made a keyframe before you add the stop() action. You could change the tute to something like:

In the movie clip, right click on frame 15 of the “actions” layer, and select ‘insert keyframe’ then add the following code to that frame in the Actions Panel:

stop();

I know you cover this in a post and it’s shown in the source file but if it’s not mentioned in the tute, beginners will get confused!
All the best Mike and thanks for a great tutorial.
Ed

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:31:31 +0000

Hi Hinsel,

Not sure if I understand it correctly, but I think the code ou would need to use would be this:

_root.menuLeft.btnOne.onRelease function = ()
{
getURL (”http://www.google.com”);
}

_root.menuLeft.btnTwo.onRelease function = ()
{
getURL (”http://www.yahoo.com”);
}

Hopefully that helps. Thanks for reading!

- Mike