The second incarnation of this famous Flash applet let's you scroll through a number of images. But this version is different since the images scroll at a distance and they will stop at the center so that the image zooms in.
The Background color
The background color will affect the side fading effect.
Make sure you have the same background color as your homepage
color. This achieves the best effect
Selecting Images and URLs
Make sure you have the same number of Images as you have
URLs, when specifying images. Don't use images that are
too big. Note that these images will be included into the
SWF file, and it may swell to enormous proportions. Try
modifying the compression setting to decrease the SWF file
size. If you don't want to use an URL for an image, then
leave that line empty.
Hand cursor
The hand cursor will be displayed for images containing
links (without blank URL's) if you enable it. For the other
images, the normal system arrow will be used.
Dead Center
This value, in pixels, will set an area in the middle of
the screen in which the images will not move in response
to the mouse movements. It also determines where the image
will begin to zoom in. Once the center of an image coincides
with a point within the bounds of the dead center, it will
zoom in. A small value is recommended, but don’t make
it too small as the center of the image may not fall within
it.
Initial and Mouse Scroller speed
By having a large number here, the scroller will increase
the speed of the initial animation. It should be set to
values between 0-300. Put 0 if you don't want to let the
images move until the user navigates on the applet. The
mouse scroller speed is for the navigation speed, values
between 1-300 are recommended.
Disable Mouse
This enables or disables mouse scrolling. If this option
is off, the user will be able to scroll through the images,
and control the speed and direction of the scrolling. If
this is on, the images will scroll at constant speed from
right to left, if the mode is horizontal; from bottom to
top, if the mode is vertical. Also, if this is on, zooming
is automatically enabled.
Enable Zoom
This defines the zooming behavior if mouse scrolling is
enabled. If this option is on, mouse scrolling may be interrupted
as an image zooms in/out. If it is off, the images will
not zoom in when the user is scrolling. They will only zoom
in/out when the mouse pointer is outside the boundaries
of the applet. Note that boundaries are detected only when
the applet is loaded from a larger one.
Zoom Time
This is the amount of time it takes for an image to zoom
in or zoom out. A value of 0 will not produce any zooming
effect.
Zoom Delay
This is the amount of time the image is displayed after
zooming in and before zooming out of an image. Put 0 if
you want the zoom in and zoom out effects to be continuous.
Picture Percentage
This is the percentage of the applet that is occupied by
the scrolling images. It defines the height of the images
if the scrolling mode is horizontal and the width of the
images if the mode is vertical. By default, the images occupy
50 percent of the applet. If you input a negative value,
it will be converted to positive value. If you input anything
greater than 100 percent, the default value will be used.
Vertical or Horizontal mode
The scroller supports movement of images vertically or horizontally.
Side fading settings
The side fade width will set the width of the side fade
effect, this must be larger than 10. You can disable this
by unchecking the "use side fading" checkbox.
Highlightning Images
If the highlight feature is checked, then the image that
is selected will be highlighted.
Limitations
Due to a limitation in Flash Player 5.0, you are limited
to a maximum of 200 images in the Flash applet. More than
that, and the applet will not work.
Other settings
There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation:
The Flash Applet Size Parameters
Entering Text Or Files
Working With Text Fields
URL Links and Frame Targets
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Time Delays and Pauses
Working With Color Buttons
Compression Ratios for images
Working with Check Boxes
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