Flash® 8 - Blurred Scroller by Guy Watson
In Flash® 8 you can use filters on almost any displayable surface even dynamic textfields. In this example, Guy Watson provides a blurred scrolling textfield, plus a handy scrollbar component he wrote 2 years ago.
This example used flash.geom.Rectangle and flash.filters.BlurFilter to blur the visible area when the scrollbar is moved. During scroll execution, the BlurFilter is varies the blurY property depending on the distance from scroll completion. As the text nears its destination, the blurY gets less and less until it reached 0 or no blur.
This example is available with full source and documentation within Flash® by Example.
More to come.
Ted :)
3 Comments:
Wow, that gave me a headache fast. This should be used about as often as the blink tag.
You can easily remove the blur filter, then you have yourself an easing scrollbar for large amounts of text.
hey guy - i love it...then again...I loved the blink tag...
Works great except I'm running into one stumbling block - I call this video clip dynamically into another movie - and the text does not show up until you begin scrolling. Very odd.
You can view it here:
http://kaptivate.com/mijanou/
and click "a little about me" from the menu at the left to see what I'm talking about. Below is the actionscript I use to call the movie clip. If you could tell me how to patch this glitch I'd be extremely grateful!
on(release){
_root.photos.loadMovie("about.swf");
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