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This is a dumbed down version of what I use for my portfolio image swapping. I repeat, this is REALLY dumbed down, but should give you a good start on how to modify it to be way more dynamic (dynamic in this sense of the title means that you’re using XML to call the images, because that’s about the only dynamic thing about this file in this form).

Anyway, you can really go crazy with this and make it super dynamic (like I did for my site), but I’d rather have you mess around with it and see what I’m talking about. I’d go the createEmptyMovieClip route to start off, and use setMask to set the mask of the images (once you open the source you will realize why I tell you this). If I get enough requests for it, I’ll go ahead and update this to be more dynamic, but I think for the most part it’s pretty self explanatory.

You can contact me with any questions you have on the current source file that I can answer. I can attempt to help you with questions you may have on future renditions of it that you have made, but I can’t guarantee an answer as I’m normally pressed for time, or I may just not understand you :P Anyway, enjoy!

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10 Responses to “Dynamic Transitions from XML File”

  1. imbuez Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:22 am

    Hi,
    Just thought you might be intrested to know, that you can’t download the source files until you make a comment. Thanks

  2. Matt Przybylski Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 7:55 am

    I don’t think you’ve got that correct as I’ve had nobody tell me otherwise. I’m not sure why that was the case for yourself, but nobody on Kirupa said anything about it and everyone downloaded the file just fine. There is no setting in WordPress that controls this and it’s an external link anyway, so I’m not sure why you couldn’t get to it without leaving a comment. Sorry for the inconvenience. :\

  3. Leprechaun Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 7:22 pm

    Thanks a bunch :)

  4. pancho Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 10:33 am

    shido el cotorreo vato

  5. Matt Przybylski Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 1:14 pm

    what? i don’t speak spanish…

  6. Jim Says:
    March 11th, 2006 at 11:52 am

    Hi,

    This is awesome, I’ve been trying to do something like this for ages. Have you developed anything more dynamic that I can learn from ?

    Thanks!

  7. Matt Przybylski Says:
    March 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    I make everything I can dynamic. Some of the other galleries I posted are dynamic in my source files. check those out as well. Thanks for the compliments, glad you like it.

  8. sotona Says:
    December 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am

    svabodu belarusii…

    I cogitating it worked out whole, his dam said. Leena ki ukhadi saans thodi shaant huyi tab boli, ha, phalli baar pi svabodu belarusii hun….

  9. andy Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    just stopin by to say hey..want to try your source.

  10. Matt Przybylski Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    andy,
    you should visit my new site at http://evolve.reintroducing.com for much more source than there is here.

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