New examples for download

[Charles Moir]

If you do a Get Clipart in the clipart gallery, the Flash example folder has a few more examples. Some have explanations.

Oops I see the bird example uses a pixel font that you probably won't have installed (but is available for free - see the July Xara Outsider newsletter about pixel fonts; http://www.xara.com/news/july06/). These are designed for Flash and work very well in Flash (since Flash's normal small font rendering is pretty poor).

[Egg Bramhill]

I notice that the River Thames animation has buttons, which are great for stop/continue sequences, Charles. Are these going to be an option in the final release?

[Soquili]

I am also curious about the sample animations. Am I missing something when viewing the frames in Xtreme Pro? In the River Thames animation I don't see a frame with the text.

I have new eye glasses, I hope I'm not needing newer lens so soon

[Odat]

I am also curious about the sample animations. Am I missing something when viewing the frames in Xtreme Pro? In the River Thames animation I don't see a frame with the text.

I have new eye glasses, I hope I'm not needing newer lens so soon

There's text on the fourth frame, but it's hidden inside of a clipview.

I notice that the name of the fourth frame includes the text "goto frame 3", and that the little image that says "Replay" has a URL of "Frame 1" assigned to it. I think someone at Xara is playing around with adding some more complex flash features here.

[Egg Bramhill]

Ah Odat,

I never even thought of looking at the Frame Gallery. Having done so I'm not really any wiser except that it might be possible in future versions to add a Stop command. I still can't see how the Run command is executed (nor the Goto Frame 3 text)

[gnurf]

Egg, in the "Cloudy Sky" example and take a look at the web address of the two button. You see that the URL is the name of frame where to you want to go and the target frame is set to "_frame". When the frame name contains the "command" ;stop it will stop, and ;goto <frame name> will jump to <frame name> as in "River Thames". In the latter example the Reply button is inside the clip view so you have to ctrl+click on the button to activate it and you'll see it points to the URL "Frame 1" and the target frame is "_frame".

See my example...

[Soquili]

Thanks Odat. I didn't think to look for a clipview.

Paul I see the commands as you described, but I don't see anyway in the Xtreme Pro Beta to enter those commands.

Are these examples an indication that the ability to put commands in an exported swf file will be in the release version?

[gnurf]

You enter the commands by putting it in the frame name! You can any time add a command by renaming the frame name, ie. change "Frame 1" to "Frame 1 ;stop" in the Animation Frame gallery. And to add a button, right-click on the object that should work as a button and select "Web Address", enter the frame name in the URL field, and write "_frame" in the field for the target frame, and select Add.

[Egg Bramhill]

gnuf,

I've never used the web address feature before. Thank you for pointing this out. I'll have to have a playaround now. Excellent cartoons, and now we can Zoom.

EDIT: Thanks for the further explanation. We were cross posting.

[Soquili]

Thanks Paul. I never would have thought to use the frame names that way.