In many projects, you might have a need to disable a button or two.  In some projects, you might need to disable all buttons at once.  This process can be tedious if using the most common methods, but we’ll show you how to do it quickly and easily in this short tutorial. One practical example of this might be in something like an image “lightbox” – where you have an image opening on top of your movie and don’t want the buttons beneath it to be clickable.

This first example shows a standard image gallery.  Click on any of the thumbnails to open the larger image.  You can move your mouse around the movie and see that the cursor changes as you mouseover the buttons.  These are all still active and clickable while the image is open. (more…)

Turning a text object (or any object, for that matter) into a pile of rubble is quite simple in SWiSH Max.  This quick tutorial will show you how to break an object into tiny pieces – without the usual guilt and expense!

You can download the source file for the example above, here: exploding-text

You will need SWiSH Max3 or SWiSH miniMax3 build date 2009.11.30 or later to open the SWI file.

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Have you ever wanted to display a 360 degree view of your main product or objet d’art on your website?  You may be surprised at how easy it is to achieve this with SWiSH Max3 and a few simple tools. Drag the scrollbar on this movie to rotate the chicken.

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SWiSH Max3 users that have used the New Project… feature will realize that Max3 is supplied with number of example projects that can be easily customized using the wizard interface. The projects, galleries, sites and banners available under the New Project dialog are all examples of Max3 Wizards. This tutorial gives an example of how to create a simple wizard to alter the text, shape color and background color of an object. 

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Vista users will be aware of the sidebar and the gadgets that it can contain. Although the sidebar has been dismissed by many as a hog of screen real estate, I personally think it is quite useful. I suspect that most SWiSH’ers are not aware of how easy it is to make great looking sidebar gadgets using SWiSH Max2 or SWiSH miniMax2.

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The Graph and Math Utilities components supplied with SWiSH Max2 can be combined with a small amount of “scripting glue” to produce a useful graphing application. This blog post discusses how, and provides example files.

Click to download the source code for this demo (.swi)

Press the Redraw Axis button to rescale or clear the graph. Enter the function in the area at the bottom of the page. Then press the Plot Graph button. The function should be of the form: y=f(x) e.g. y=10*sin(5*x). (also note the reference notes at the bottom).

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