could anyone please go more in depth on how the scrolling select item box thing in the 2advanced site works? (its on the portfolio and other sections too) its very simple yet cleanly done. i gather from the fact that it loads seperately it is in a different .swf, and that it either loads the entries from another .swf or xml file etc. so..... can anyone dissect how it works? (id like to use something similar for my site)

The address is www.2advanced.com Which scrolling thingy do you mean?

This one
 

Or this
 
 
 [ March 28, 2003, 08:27 AM: Message edited by: Rhys ]

sorry, i should have been clearer. not just the scollbar, but the entire box that contains, for example on their portfolio page, the names of the sites, the pictures and other stuff.looks like
|--------------------------------|
|link        |                   |
|link        |     pictures      |
|link        |                   |
|____________|________________<_>|
yeah?

yea its pretty easy...basically what they did is make a movie clip that has the boxes or individual buttons with the names of the websites or companies on them that is controlled by the arrows which move it up or down.  a mask hides it so it doesnt show while it scrolls from a certain point.  the rest of the stuff like the pics and what not, once you click on one of the buttons loads an external file in to an empty movie clip probably.  only reason i say this is because i tried random urls on their site to see if i was right and i was because if you load one up it shows what i'm talking about....

like the spacex one ----> http://www.2advanced.com/portfolio/spacex.swf

so from this you can tell that in the main portfolio page they have the buttons, sliding menu boxes (minus the actual content) which is loaded behind those boxes that show the pics only after you click on one of the project link buttons.

does this make sense?

-brandon
[ www.hybridart.com ]