animation with progress bar

[cobo]

hi,

how to create an animation with a self running progressbar in mx 2004?

should look like:

http://www.ezgenerator.com/NewSiteTest/sherifadd.html

i´m new to mx 2004

cobo

[Stimpson]

Perhaps use the standard fmx2004 progressbar? Usage is explained in your reference :).

[cobo]

i don´t mean a preloader progressbar... i want to create a bar wich controlls the timeline... together with a play/pause button.

cobo

[Stimpson]

Oh right, I thought you mean tthe initial loader. Depends on what kind of movie it is I think. for a real movie you could use the media component, and for frames you could set something up which listens to frames playing :).

[cobo]

ok... so there is no default bar existing wich comes together with fmx2004... :(

is there fla existing somewhere? i´ve searched the forums and movies section but without succsess...

cobo

PS: I´ve visited your rockagainstsuicide site and wonder if you could tell me the name of the band who plays the song "story of my life"...? nice track... :)

[subquark]

hey cobo! :)

I think it was a group called Big Time Pop (from Portland, OR), but their site http://www.bigtimepop.com/ does not work anymore. :(

I'll be glad to give you the original MP3 I used for it, let me know (5 MB).

[cobo]

huh... mp3 would be nice... :D

could you send it by email ?

[subquark]

yep, just sent it to your "contact" on your web site.

[cobo]

thanx... :)

[Stimpson]

Hey cobo, could'nt the fmx2004 Media Components be of any use for you? I think they will do the trick. Not sure though, but perhaps they're fmx2004 pro only... :).

[cobo]

i use fmx2004 pro... :)

u mean to display my movie as a swf through the media component... i thought they only load flashvideo format... ?

cobo

[Stimpson]

Hmm.. yeah I see you're right, so that would'nt have any use for you? Haven't worked much with them unfortunately. There must be some tried solutions around for this I think. Perhaps you could make the movie progressbar inside the swf itself, so that it can react on the frames. Not really a scalable solution though, especially when dealing with multiple swf's :).

[cobo]

yeah... I think there should be a kind of prototype existing... it could be seen very often and i don´t think that people will code it over and over again... so the task is to find those... :D

hopefully my client will give me the time to do the run & search thing...

cobo

[Curly Brace]

Well, that thing become interesting for me and I've tried to make it by myself. Of course this is not prototype you're searching, simply another try to make it. There are 2 versions of the controller: the progress bar only and more complicated version vith control buttons.

You can check it here:
http://leftshift.ru/animProgBar.swf
http://leftshift.ru/animProgBar.fla

[subquark]

nice job curly brace!!! very clear code in your file, looks like this should solve the initial question very well! :)

[cobo]

huh... thanx for that curly brace... :D you´re a livesaver...

cobo

[cobo]

I Can`t Belive... It`s A Freebie... :eek:

http://www.flashloaded.com/moviecontroller.php

cobo