Hey guys... I really like the "wiping" flash content area where it says "IN THE NEWS" below the search bar on www.comcast.net . Anyone know how I can do this with Flash 8? I am really interested in learning how this is done so I can emulate it on my own site. Thanks for any advice and help. Much oblige. Take care.

just take a layer and tween it from right to left across the stage. Have one go infront over the video and one behind the main layer. Then be sure to make the text transparent so it takes the color of the "wiping" layer.

I also think this can be done with masks, but I am not very up on flash, I prefer to stay away from it.

As a matter of fact, I have seen a very very similar effect done with AJAX, which is 10x better than flash!

A simple tween will do, it is nothing special.

question is how do you do it without using flash? have they used javascript? if so how do you do it?

They learned Java and use it as much as they can. Effects as such are the common things in Java. This site is about 90% in Java.

Regards,
Peter.

Hey guys... I really like the "wiping" flash content area where it says "IN THE NEWS" below the search bar on www.comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/) . Anyone know how I can do this with Flash 8? I am really interested in learning how this is done so I can emulate it on my own site. Thanks for any advice and help. Much oblige. Take care.
That particular site is flash and it looks like they have used a simple (normally already included) ready to go image viewer script and modified it, to me it looks as though they 'move and place' the next image over the top of the previous on a timed setting like 20/30 secs as you see with the picture on the right changes almost instantly rather then wiping in.?
its not easy to teach someone how to use flash script in a forum but there are some great resouces on the net which will help you learn and understand how to use flash 8...

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Macromedia_Flash/All/

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/

;)

This particular site is Java-based site. And Flash content is organically integrated into common framework. Just check page source and show us where is "your images".