November in the Xara Xone - Free tutorials, Featured Artists and more

**John Rayner** · 05 November 2004, 07:13 PM

"John the minute hand works for this "old fool" sat and watched it happen to see if it did." - Albacore

This old fool only watch one revolution of the second hand, and it did not move. the minute hand moves on every 2 cycles of the second hand. Watched it for five minutes to make sure.

Next Egg will have us watching grass grow... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 November 2004, 09:07 PM

Gary
Thanks for the link. I find it interesting in this digital age that analogue, regardless of how bizare is often more intuitive... even if the anolgue is digital !!!

John
You win a henweigh! There is an error in my action script code whereby the minute finger only advances once every 2 rotations of the second hand. But as this was only an exercise I can't be assed to hunt it down.

Albacore / Ed
Thanks for the comments.

One of the limitations I have found either with Flash OR Xara's swf export to Flash is the way scaling line widths works. The very small azimuth scaling around the watch is a prime example of this. I give an example here
Egg

**John Rayner** · 06 November 2004, 08:35 AM

cool My Very Own henweigh. I always wanted my very own henweigh!

**HayTay** · 13 July 2009, 01:32 AM

I've got to say, this tutorial ROCKS! Definitely an oldie, but goody, and not one for the faint of heart or the easily distracted. Once again, thank you Gary.

After a new thread for this watch surfaced and a couple of unrelated Google searches brought this up I figured Fate must have wanted me to give it a go. So, here it is in all its glory...

With an added touch or two (of course

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Harry

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**Soquili** · 13 July 2009, 01:06 PM

Well done Harry!

**gwpriester** · 13 July 2009, 02:11 PM

Kudos, Harry.

And thanks for adding the disclaimer at the bottom.

**amoore** · 13 July 2009, 03:03 PM

Very well done, Harry!

**Burpee** · 13 July 2009, 04:03 PM

Most excellent HayTay!

**zaphodeist** · 13 July 2009, 06:01 PM

Nice one Harry!

**HayTay** · 14 July 2009, 01:06 AM

Bill, Gary, Allison, Frances and John: I thank you for your enthusiastic support. All but 98+ percent of the credit goes to Gary for this, and all of his, excellent tutorial(s), though. He's the one that did all of the hard work.

Gary, give yourself a well deserved pat on the back and take a bow. You deserve it! I still find it amazing that, after all of the tutorials and workbooks of yours that I've done (over 33 and still counting), I'm still learning something new or a new way of doing something from each one. BTW, in case anyone wants to run off to start counting, I have yet to post all of the tutorials I've completed.