I am truly new to FLASH, but really need to have my church's banner done in a
hurry. The banner pretty much immitates the behavior of this site's banner
(flashing a serives of pictures):
http://www.lakewood.cc/site/PageServer

If anyone knows a place where I can find a tutorial for this, please let me
know. Or if you can guide me, I would appreciate it very much.

To get this functionality, do I even need FLASH? Can be accomplished with
something else that doesn't require such a big learning curve?

Thanks for any advice.

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Yes you do

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Not really. Every program will require some learning curve. This banner in particular is
pretty simple and probably you could find some pre-build components online but they will
rectangular and you won't be able to control their size or shape. Which forces you to follow
someone else concept and built your site around it.
Better get flash, install it and once you have it, even the demo for now, message back.
We can help you with that stuff.


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<urami>
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Thank you for you quick response.

I have the trial version installed, and am planning to go through some online
tutorials later tomorrow. Is there a specific area/concept that I should focus
on to get this task off the ground?

AneliseL

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You very new to flash so it all might be confusing, especially how to work the
timeline, what are "instances", differences between buttons and movie clips etc...
I suggest open the help files and change the search option to Tutorials & Samples.

Look for Creating Graphics: Create a Timeline Animation

Using Motion tween will be easiest for you, it does not require any action script
knowledge and it will take few minutes to make banner as yours.

Best if you can provide your banner materials, drop it to your server and give us
the URL. Will be easier to assist you if we have the same stuff on our end and
know exactly what is that you deal with.





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<urami>
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Once again, thanks for your reponse.

I was playing around with the provided tutorials, and I need to change a
simple behavior, and don't know how.
In the Cafe-Townsend's banner, the user would have to click on the next button
(next_btn instance in the code below) for the next menu stuff to change. I
want to change this behavior, where the menu would stay on for a predetermined
amount of time, and then the next one would come on. How can I modify the code
below to get this effect?

Thanks.

/*The following four sections contain the data
/*for each menu item.

/* 0 */
var image0title:String = "Summer salad";
var image0desc:String = "Butter lettuce with apples, blood orange segments,
gorgonzola, and raspberry vinaigrette.";
var image0uri:String = "images/image0.png";

/* 1 */
var image1title:String = "Turkey and Sun-dried Tomato Sandwich";
var image1desc:String = "Fresh roasted turkey with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic
aioli, and havarti.";
var image1uri:String = "images/image1.png";

/* 2 */
var image2title:String = "Seared Salmon";
var image2desc:String = "Filet of wild salmon with caramelized onions, new
potatoes, and caper and tomato salsa.";
var image2uri:String = "images/image2.jpg";

/* 3 */
var image3title:String = "New York Cheesecake";
var image3desc:String = "Creamy traditional cheesecake served with chocolate
sauce and strawberries.";
var image3uri:String = "images/image3.jpg";

var currImage:Number = 0;
var totalImages:Number = 2;

menu_mc.title_txt.text = this["image"+currImage+"title"];
menu_mc.description_txt.text = this["image"+currImage+"desc"];

for (var i:Number = 0; i<totalImages; i++) {

slideShow_mc.slides_mc["holder"+i].loadMovie(this["image"+(i)+"uri"],slideShow_m
c.slides_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
}


slideShow_mc.slides_mc["holder2"].loadMovie(this["image0uri"],slideShow_mc.slide
s_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

// function for the Next button
function nextMenuItem(eventObj:Object) {
slideShow_mc.gotoAndPlay("slide"+(currImage));
if ((currImage+1)>=totalImages) {
currImage = 0;
} else {
currImage++;
}
menu_mc.title_txt.text = this._parent["image"+currImage+"title"];
menu_mc.description_txt.text = this._parent["image"+currImage+"desc"];
}

// add the event listener for the button
next_btn.addEventListener("click", nextMenuItem);