Comments on: Creating Liquid GUIs with Flash - Part 3 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/ Flash Guru Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: myUsrName http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-28702 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:30:07 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-28702 Hy everibody! I'm looking for a way to set a minimum size for a stage(like 880 x 600, so everitihing fits in, whitout covering eachodther, if grater, then just strech..). Is that posible anyway? Conditionals don't do nothing, or if they do, they do it anyway, no mater that the conditon is true or false(so far, as I tried, whit not the best methods , i'm a designer). Or should i try to do it in a nother language? HTML, PHP? I can't find anything realted to this question. Hard to belive that nobady is interested. Maybe it's easy :) Hy everibody!

I’m looking for a way to set a minimum size for a stage(like 880 x 600, so everitihing fits in, whitout covering eachodther, if grater, then just strech..). Is that posible anyway? Conditionals don’t do nothing, or if they do, they do it anyway, no mater that the conditon is true or false(so far, as I tried, whit not the best methods , i’m a designer).

Or should i try to do it in a nother language? HTML, PHP?

I can’t find anything realted to this question. Hard to belive that nobady is interested. Maybe it’s easy :)

]]> by: Trupti http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-27684 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:48:14 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-27684 Thanks for the wonderfull tutorial. I am using it to create a flash website. But I have one problem. In place of images in the middle part I am attaching flipbook components to the clip image_mc. When the page is laoded it displays everything correctly, but when I resize it the book_mc reduces to very smalll size. I have tried attching a normal movieclip and it works fine. Is it the problem with the flipbook component?? Can you help?? Trupti Thanks for the wonderfull tutorial.
I am using it to create a flash website.
But I have one problem.
In place of images in the middle part I am attaching flipbook components to the clip image_mc.
When the page is laoded it displays everything correctly, but when I resize it the book_mc reduces to very smalll size.
I have tried attching a normal movieclip and it works fine.
Is it the problem with the flipbook component??
Can you help??

Trupti

]]> by: James O'Reilly http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-26970 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:07:02 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-26970 All you need to do is set your dynamic textfield to allow multiline wrapping and change the width of the textfield as the browser's width changes. Flash will automatically re-wrap the text. All you need to do is set your dynamic textfield to allow multiline wrapping and change the width of the textfield as the browser’s width changes. Flash will automatically re-wrap the text.

]]> by: scribblejam http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-26967 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:17:32 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-26967 Your info on the liquid layout is great. Do you have or know of anything that mentions how to have the wrapping of text adjust depending on your browser width/ text column width? Basically i have a headline and about 3 lines of text, The headline will always be on one line but the lines of text could be anything from 1 - 3 lines (there is a minimum width after which nothing should happen to the swf) Your info on the liquid layout is great. Do you have or know of anything that mentions how to have the wrapping of text adjust depending on your browser width/ text column width?

Basically i have a headline and about 3 lines of text, The headline will always be on one line but the lines of text could be anything from 1 - 3 lines (there is a minimum width after which nothing should happen to the swf)

]]> by: tomy http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20987 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:31:49 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20987 Very nice and thanks for your tutorial. I think its one of the only tutorial's` on the web that explained this matter in a very good way. It’s a bit hard to work with liquid` if you want to combine them with timeline. For example if you take an object and set it out of the stage (if you want to slide in from out to stage in to stage using the timeline) then you need to set the new object on the liquid again. Very nice one. P.S Just let you know even in Israel we read good stuff (: Very nice and thanks for your tutorial.
I think its one of the only tutorial’s` on the web that explained this matter in a very good way.
It’s a bit hard to work with liquid` if you want to combine them with timeline.
For example if you take an object and set it out of the stage (if you want to slide in from out to stage in to stage using the timeline) then you need to set the new object on the liquid again.
Very nice one.
P.S
Just let you know even in Israel we read good stuff (:

]]> by: roMan http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20761 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:39:26 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20761 I'd like to create a website (only in flash) which will be show as much the background as the brower's size. The content (text and photos) won't be scaled. Something like this: http://www.sevenedge.be/ (btw. the best flash site of the week). Could you help me, please ? I’d like to create a website (only in flash) which will be show as much the background as the brower’s size. The content (text and photos) won’t be scaled. Something like this: http://www.sevenedge.be/ (btw. the best flash site of the week).
Could you help me, please ?

]]> by: marco http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20491 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:36:36 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20491 I'm so sorry...sincerly I don't understood...I'm only a art director :( Can you explain me please? Thanks so much for your answer. have a nice day, M I’m so sorry…sincerly I don’t understood…I’m only a art director :(
Can you explain me please? Thanks so much for your answer.

have a nice day,
M

]]> by: James O'Reilly http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20487 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:35:41 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20487 Just call your onResize () function manually from within your document class' constructor. You can pass it a null parameter. Just call your onResize () function manually from within your document class’ constructor. You can pass it a null parameter.

]]> by: marco http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20486 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:24:04 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-20486 Hi, Help please: I haev a big big problem. The resize works only if I push "resize size of IE or Firefox"...don't works the first time than I open the webpage!!! How can I to open automatic resize? Please please please http://www.openspaces.it/raima/Mediadent/ M Hi, Help please: I haev a big big problem.
The resize works only if I push “resize size of IE or Firefox”…don’t works the first time than I open the webpage!!!
How can I to open automatic resize? Please please please

http://www.openspaces.it/raima/Mediadent/

M

]]> by: Thomas http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-11043 Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:07:41 +0000 http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-3/#comment-11043 Hi James, Thanks for your tutorial. I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something. I've been creating a GUI toolset for use in a few AS3 flash apps I'm building - similar to a very simplified version of .Net's forms or Java's swing. So I basically want to create liquid panels with things like flow controls and resizable tabbed controls, etc. That part has proved to be relatively straightforward, but I'm having trouble with something simple. Basically the simplest GUI elements have formatting similar to CSS with things like 'margin' and 'padding' etc. So I can space panels accordingly. But I'm having trouble meausuring or setting the correct dimensions of child containers when I subtract margins, etc. from the intended height and width of the child. It's not my calculations, it happens when I set absoulte values too. I'm not sure this is clear? What I'm really just wondering, is there something in Flash that you know of that 'aproximates' where a vector is actually drawn or where a clip is placed? When I move a panel around, it doesn't seem to "sit" or "snap" exactly to the pixel coordinate I specify. Is this a known issue? And is it something that can be easily resolved? The other and perhaps related issue is related to width and height measurements not actually being drawn equally dependant on where the start position is. For example drawing a 600x600 square region begining from 0,0 seems to draw it 600x600 exactly. But when I offset this and change the height to say 599 it seems to draw closer to 598 pixels. The variation is actually quite a lot more than that in some cases. Am I crazy? It's doing my head in. I know there are issues with bitmaps and text and other objects not displaying proply if not places on a "whole" pixel. Do you know of any similar issues with Sprite/MovieClip placement or the drawing toolset? Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Thomas. Hi James,

Thanks for your tutorial. I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something.

I’ve been creating a GUI toolset for use in a few AS3 flash apps I’m building - similar to a very simplified version of .Net’s forms or Java’s swing. So I basically want to create liquid panels with things like flow controls and resizable tabbed controls, etc. That part has proved to be relatively straightforward, but I’m having trouble with something simple.

Basically the simplest GUI elements have formatting similar to CSS with things like ‘margin’ and ‘padding’ etc. So I can space panels accordingly. But I’m having trouble meausuring or setting the correct dimensions of child containers when I subtract margins, etc. from the intended height and width of the child. It’s not my calculations, it happens when I set absoulte values too.

I’m not sure this is clear? What I’m really just wondering, is there something in Flash that you know of that ‘aproximates’ where a vector is actually drawn or where a clip is placed? When I move a panel around, it doesn’t seem to “sit” or “snap” exactly to the pixel coordinate I specify. Is this a known issue? And is it something that can be easily resolved?

The other and perhaps related issue is related to width and height measurements not actually being drawn equally dependant on where the start position is. For example drawing a 600×600 square region begining from 0,0 seems to draw it 600×600 exactly. But when I offset this and change the height to say 599 it seems to draw closer to 598 pixels. The variation is actually quite a lot more than that in some cases.

Am I crazy? It’s doing my head in. I know there are issues with bitmaps and text and other objects not displaying proply if not places on a “whole” pixel. Do you know of any similar issues with Sprite/MovieClip placement or the drawing toolset?

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Thomas.

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