Making a color changer in Flash?

If anyone can help me. I'm trying to do something similar to
this color selector.
http://www.chevrolet.com/silverado/colors/
Using simple code I can make the colors change, I just don't
know how they made the "wipe" or any other transition for that
matter when changing color.
any ideas?

"Mr_Interweb" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have no idea what's up with that loader. I tried it out
on 6 different
> computers today on windows and mac. It was working this
afternoon. The only
> thing I can find is that my loader is getting cached in
IE when I cleared out
> the cache things worked fine. If things are still fishy
after a cache clear or
> trying in out in Firefox, try skipping the preloader:
>
>
http://ultimatewindowtinting.com/tinting-tool/tinter.swf
>
> The app will scale weird in the browser without the
loader, but you can at
> least see it.
>
> By the way, thank you for telling me about the errors
you found with that
> loader. It is the most bizarre issue I have ever seen.
That's very interesting how you got that color selector to
work. good one!
I took a look at the code in your preloader. One thing that
is not right is that you are looping back to frame 2 where the
onEnterFrame is created. That means that you are creating
another onEnterFrame with every loop, (or wrecking the original
one).
I found that if I put your file tinter.swf in my cache, then
the preloader ended and the main file ran. If tinter.swf wasn't in
the
cache then the preloader just gets stuck.
Seems like the loadMovieNum is failing.
Anyway, instead of that you might want to do something like
this to make sure that you don't initialize onEnterFrame more than
one
time..
if(!initialized)
initialized = true; // block this init code next time
loadMovieNum("tinter.swf", 2);
this.onEnterFrame = function () // add 'this' here
... etc
tralfaz

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> thumbnail
> pics and when a customer clicks on the thumbnail I want
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> flash
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> making
> sence here.
>
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