[Pro] Flash cursor interaction into Freeway

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Hi chaps, I’m going to try and learn how to create some cursor interaction on a site but am not sure how I then incorporate it into my Fway project … this page has something like it where the cursor moves the torches beam around: http://www.snorkel.net/ … many thanks to anyone who can shed some light … oooops - Regards Roger

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Well, note that this only works when your mouse is over the flash
movie, so I doubt it’s actually integrated with the page.

There are lots of ways to track a mouse cursor in real time within
JavaScript, but to do this sort of free rotation would take either a
Canvas element (WebKit browsers only, others through SVG or some hacky
thing for IE) or Flash. And I have no idea how that part would be done.

Walter

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:28 AM, Roger Burton wrote:

Hi chaps, I’m going to try and learn how to create some cursor
interaction on a site but am not sure how I then incorporate it into
my Fway project … this page has something like it where the cursor
moves the torches beam around: http://www.snorkel.net/ … many
thanks to anyone who can shed some light … oooops - Regards Roger

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There are lots of ways to track a mouse cursor in real time within
JavaScript, but to do this sort of free rotation would take either a
Canvas element

This used to be possible using relatively simple JavaScript. In fact,
I wrote a tutorial about doing this (‘cursor trailer text’) in
Freeway for MacUser some years ago. But the script hasn’t worked for
some years now; it is stone dead in today’s browsers.

k

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Thanks chaps, that’s interesting - I’ll dig a little deeper - Regards Roger

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