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

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

By: hinsel

hinsel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:49:56 +0000

hello! nice tutorial - has good applications as a button for nav.
thats where i am stuck now…i have a movieclip that expands on mouseover (menuLeft) inside of which are intended to be several buttons (btnOne, btnTwo, etc) but when I click one it always opens the last buttons url, or depending on variation in code opens all the movieclips urls at once regardless of what is clicked…

i have all my actions in the main _root of the movie like thus:

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

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

any ideas???

By: kritsana

kritsana — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:21:23 +0000

hi Mike
my zoom effect on mouse over application have been used with thumbnail images but the problem is sompart of zoomed image is covered by the other thumbnail images. what can I do to make my zoomed image uncoverable. On the other hand, I want to solve this problem by do the same like this website “http://www.centerpoint.co.th/new/main.asp”. what can I do

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:34:33 +0000

Mike,
Thanks for posting this tutorial - it’s really just what I was looking for. As a newb to flash, it seems the perfect thing.

However, I’m finding that your graphics links seem to be broken. Just thought you would want to know.

~Matt

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:31:22 +0000

Hi BG,

It might be your version of Flash. I’m not sure which version AS 2.0 started (I’ll have to do a little research), but you should be able to select AS 2.0 or 1.0. Try going to Edit > Publish Settings and see if you can change it there. This tutorial is for AS 2.0, so that could be your problem. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, but I’ll try and research the version thing.

Thanks for reading,
Mike

By: BG

BG — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:39:28 +0000

Hey Mike,
I am using a very old version of flash (5) and I can’t get the zoom affect to work. I’ve followed step by step 3 times and think it has something to do with my version. Any thoughts? I don’t have the ability to select ActionScripts 2.0 at the beginning, so I am wondering if that might have something to do with it?

Thanks!
Brendan

By: MB

MB — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:55:25 +0000

Hi Mike
thanks for the great tutorial. I can make it work (after switching to Actionscript 2.0) but the part i just cant get right is the nested graphic symbol. (I created mine without the text). When I try to create a symbol nested in another…my breadcrumb doesn’t look like figure 1…it simply creates another in scene 1? I’ve tried everything, I am making sure i am in symbol editing mode before creating the new symbol, but no luck. help?!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:01:34 +0000

Hi SuziQ,

A couple other readers have shown interest in the project that Lou was working on. Lou and I worked together on that quite a bit, and so I’ve come up with quite a few ideas of writing a similar tutorial. Unfortunately, I just haven’t had the time lately to get it done… working full-time, new freelance projects, and moving into a new apartment… Things are starting to settle down a little now that summer is coming to an end, so hopefully get some new tutorials (including that one) up soon. Lou’s project came out pretty good (a few glitches that needed some work…), so it’s definitely something I plan to write a tutorial based on. However, Lou’s project was a real-world project with copyrighted imagery and information so I am unable to share the actual project with my readers, but I am anxious to write a similar tutorial, so check back soon.

Thanks for reading,
Mike

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:55:26 +0000

Hi Gowri,

Unfortunately, I haven’t had a lot of experience exporting for .exe, however I believe the .exe only compiles the Flash player assets. You would still need to include the other assets (.xml and as files) in the same folder as the .exe file. I apologize that I don’t have much free time these days to try and look into a better answer for you, but hope this helps.

- Mike