Hide Old and Reveal New Script

Posted by Helmut Granda | Filed under ActionScript, Programming

I was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy update. So we fired flash and the above is the visual and the code below...

ActionScript:
    var xmlLoader:XML = new XML();
    var firstItem:String;
    var secondItem:String;

    xmlLoader.ignoreWhite = true;
    xmlLoader.onLoad = function ( success )

    {
       
       var base    = xmlLoader.firstChild;
       firstItem    = base.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild
       secondItem    = base.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.firstChild
       firstItem    = "images/" + firstItem.toString();
       secondItem    = "images/" + secondItem.toString();
       setImages();

    }

    xmlLoader.load("xml/revealer.xml");

    Mouse.addListener(this);

    onMouseMove = function()

    {

       mask1_mc._x = _root._xmouse;

    }

    function setImages()

    {

       var mcl1:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
       mcl1.addListener(this);
       mcl1.loadClip(firstItem, image1_mc);
       
       var mcl2:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
       mcl2.addListener(this);
       mcl2.loadClip(secondItem, image2_mc);

    }

    mask1_mc._x = 212;

Permalink | September 21st, 2007

2 Responses to “Hide Old and Reveal New Script”

  1. Gadgets » Hide Old and Reveal New Script Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    <p>[...] Helmut wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerptI was talking the other day with a friend about a small challenge, having 2 images on stage with 2 ideas. 1- have the experience being user driven (in this case the mouse reveals one image while hiding the other) 2- Use XML for easy … [...]</p>

  2. anthony Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    i’ve been searching 4 ever and i finally found this script im new to flash do u have a downloadable fla that i could to build on. id gladly share my results. i just need to something to start with. im trying to build an on line art website
    thank you

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