program a spinning wheel in Animate CC

[seand25674806]

Hi. I'm using Animate CC and AS3 and I want to program a spinning wheel for a desktop game like Wheel of Fortune. I want it to rotate and I'm trying to create a meter to determine the strength of the spinning. The wheel is attached to this post.

[Colin Holgate]

I'm not really sure that you asked a question yet.

With a spinning wheel you may well use an enterframe function to update things. When you start spinning the wheel you would change the rotation by a lot, and over time you would rotate by less. The code might look like this (I did test it):

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onenterframe);

var spinamount: Number = 30;

function onenterframe(e: Event) {

  spinner.rotation += spinamount;

  spinamount -= .1;

  if (spinamount < .1) stopspinner();

}

function stopspinner() {

  removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onenterframe);

}

The spinner movieclip will spin quickly, and slow down over time. You could change the spinamount -= .1 part, or the var spinamount: Number = 30;; part to change the range o start speed.

[kglad]

if a user is dragging and dropping the wheel and that's what determines the strength of spin, you can use something like the following to as a spinamount to be used in colin's code:

var prevT:int

var prevY:int;

spinner.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,downF);

function downF(e:MouseEvent):void{

startF();

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,upF);

}

function upF(e:MouseEvent):void{

stopF();

stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,upF);

}

function startF():void{

this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,loopF);

}

function loopF(e:Event):void{

prevT=getTimer();

prevY=mouseY;

}

function stopF():void{

this.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,loopF);

spinamount = (mouseY-prevY)/(getTimer()-prevT);  // you'll probably need some function of this parameter to get it right

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onenterframe);  // then colin's code

}

[Syakirah5EC0]

I want to do some mobile app. Do you know how to control the wheel manually?

When we click the wheel n move it manually follow our hand/mouse movement?

[seand25674806]

Have you ever played Wheel of Fortune on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)? I've attached the "Spin strength" meter to show you what I'm talking about. I want the meter to go in and out automatically so when the user presses "enter" to stop the meter, it determines the strength of the spinning of the wheel

[kglad]

then use the timer on mousedown to start a loop that increments spin strength.