I'm trying to make a vote/poll application in Flash using Actionscript 3. Is there any way to generate a specific ID that is unique to each user? The only other option I can think of is using the IP address, which is less than ideal in many cases (college campuses, shared Internet access, etc.). It needs to be the same number every time it is run on the same PC, but different for each user.
View 1 Repliesin ActionScript 3, if I loop through the children of a movie clip, it will return a DisplayObjectContainer, which is a list of DisplayObjects. However, the AS3 typeof cannot identify MovieClip as MovieClip is now an object, instead of a data type. How can I correctly identify MovieClip?I found 3 solutions online: First set the MovieClip name to a specific name, then in the iterate process, check the name of children using child.name.indexOf("specificName") > -1
Solution 2:use child.hasOwnProperty("numChildren") to identify a MovieClip
Solution 3: use 3rd party plug-in like FlashDevelop
Basically, I'm making a very simple turn based battle game using ActionScript 2.0. I'm VERY new to code, with only very limited Visual Basic knowledge, so I'll happily admit I don't really know what I'm doing. I've got a start, but I decided to rewrite the entire thing because I wouldn't be able to cycle enemies and levels easily.I've spawned the same enemy twice using _root.attachMovie, and identified them as Enemy1 and Enemy2. After spawning them, I tried to make them identify themselves with:
_root.Enemy1.identify = "Enemy1"
_root.Enemy1.identify = "Enemy1"
Using the debugger, this apparently works (within the movieclip, they have a variable called identify which correctly labels them), yet when I try to use an if statement so I can put them in their own individual positions, it simply does not work; it skims straight over. The code I have within the movie clips is:
if (identify == "Enemy1") {
function poschange() {
[code]....
The poschange functions works fine for the player characters, it's just this if statement to identify which enemy it is apparently fails. So my question is: is there any easier way for a movie clip to identify its own ID so I don't have to use this method, or is there just something wrong with my code?
How can I get to know that the device is iphone or ipad using actionscript3.0?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to retrieve mysql data using php(products.php) and return the data in xml format to ADobe flash as3; but i am getting following error.[url]...
I have WAMP installed; which works fine as i have many other php projects working here.[code]...
I have a flash movie that loads pdf files in a new browser window when a button is selected. As some of the files are quite large I need to keep the attention of the user while it is loading and to this end I thought a progress bar would be suitable. My problem however is that I do not know if it is possible to identify from flash when the document has loaded. Are there any methods in ActionScript to achieve this?
View 3 RepliesI'm a designer, not really a programmer, but I've been asked to research this and hope you ppl can help me out.
We have a series of Flash banners that will be hosted on various sites and when clicked, we want to somehow id in the URL which site it came from, so they get credit for the click.
we can't produce dozens of versions of the same movie so is there a way to do this more dynamically? like append the end of the url somehow?
I have a page with multiple flash objects which are written by a third party and thus can't be changed. They call a JS function but don't seem to pass any identifying parameters. Is there any way to determine inside the function which flash object called it?
View 2 RepliesI am using PayPal Mobile Payments Library to implement PayPal for Android using Adobe AIR.When I am creating some PayPalPayment object for user to add an item to buy, how can I get that item in the callback function?
View 1 Replies[ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0, FLASH 8.0] I'm creating a menu that on rollover eases from its resting position to a more accessible point on the page. The menu is a movieclip and within it i want to have buttons that control the timeline. The buttons however do not work as buttons when in the movie clip. is there anyway to make flash identify them as buttons within a movie clip?
View 3 RepliesI have an existing Flash app that has a layer containing a square separated into 4 quadrants. A set of icons is provided to the user and he/she is asked to drag each icon into one of the quadrants. Does Flash/AS3 provide a way to create a grid (not necessarily DataGrid) that overlays the existing image? If so, how do I setup AS3 syntax to save the quadrant in which an icon is placed?
View 1 RepliesHow to create a dynamic ArrayCollecton instance that use unque naming: ac1, ac2..ac999 whether user click a button. Without having to use hardcode variable name.
View 2 RepliesI wonder wether on a website like chatroulette for example, the streaming video is going directly from user to user or wether it is going through a server.
In other words I wonder wether it is possible to offer a webcam service on a website, so that the streaming video goes directly from user to user, without overloading the system.
We have a sort of game, generated with Flash in AS3, on our website where the reader is invited to eliminate the California Budget Deficit. It's connected to a database where we keep track of the responses and print them in chart form and post the results on the website so everyone can see the most popular budget items the readers want to cut.
See the interactive in question here:
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We've had many, many requests to have an option where the reader can get a copy of his/her choices that he/she can print out. I've thought about having a movieclip pop up that shows those choices (and that would be simple enough), but in addition to that, what I'd really like to do is have a way to download those choices to the reader's computer as a text file or maybe have a "Print" button on the movieclip showing the choices that would print just that movieclip. The database we have wouldn't really be suitable because it's set up to simply show which were chosen and which not, and the names of the submissions and choices are variables that don't really mean anything except to us when we put it all in an excel file.
Can you use a
for(x:int=0; x<100; x++)
{
var varname+x:Type = (x, something, something);
}
To create one hundred unique variables? Basically I need to make 100 variables and am wondering how you create 100 vats with out resorting to Declaring them all by hand. the problem is var whatever+x just creates a variable with whatever+x instead of creating whatever0, whatever1... to whatever99.
Using the code gives me 4 numbers but not always unique. Looking around for some tutorials drew a blank.
Code:
var m1:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*3)+3;
var m2:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*3)+3;
[code]....
Curious but is it possible to store unique stats through flash using AS2? My client wants it and I'm like, I don't know if that exists. He got spoiled with Google Analytics.
View 1 RepliesThis is what I am trying to do. I have a "n" number of dynamicly loaded movieclips (ships).ach ship has a unique movement throught points that I also load from an xml file.For example "Ship A" will go to x:100 y:120 then to x:200 y:300 and so on. Ship B has a diffrent set of points that will travel. I know how to make this work for one movieclip(ship). I was wondering if I can use the same "movement" class for all of them? What values should I pass to the class exept the movement array of each ship
View 4 RepliesFor one of my projects I need users to be able to communicate with each other in an audio mode. The thing I'm concerned about is the scalability of the project if it even gets big in terms of bandwidth consumption.
What are the alternatives to passing the audio through my server to the users?Is it possible to create a link between two users so they can exchange their stream of data (audio in this case) so that it doesn't pass through me, while still being able to control the time they've been connected to each other and some other information?
As for now it's just an idea I have in mind but I don't really know what to look into. I think it will probably need to be some plugin dependant solution so that's why I tagged the question like that.
I'm not looking for a concrete solution, just a little push in the right direction from someone who has been through something similar.
I have an asset file (FLA) that will be updated a lot by other team members during the project. I would like to have an JSFL script that moves all selected movieclips in the timeline to a new layer (named using the movieclips library name).[code]...
View 1 Repliesgenerating a unique number of some sort, in Flash that varies from computer to computer, sort of like an IP Address.And is there a way of doing it all within Flash, no php!!. This file is using .asp on the server side, but I'd rather stay away from that (though reply if you know how to do it that way), plus I'm curious if there is a way to do it in AS2.
View 1 RepliesCan you word wrap text to a shape in flash cs5 using as3 ?
View 1 RepliesI need to make each item in my XML unique so that flash can apply a different function to each item in the component. Can you give the items an instance name in XML?
Code:
import com.digicrafts.events.*;
//Timer Set Time
var jumpTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 1);
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I'm using flash CS4. I am trying to make a piano. It will be the header of a web page when the mouse rolls over a key the appropriate note plays- ideally the key would appear to be pressed as well. I have a jpg of a piano keyboard imported as a graphic. On a new layer I have made a button whos over state has a blank keyframe. I have imported that button to the stage and given the instance a name. I have attached a sound to the over keyframe (middle C).
I have dropped a second instance of the button onto the stage and given it a unique name. When I attach the next sound (D pitch) to the over state it changes the original middle C. How can I get each instance of a button to play a unique sound? I have tried using a new layer for each button but that didnt work. Do I have to make a brand new button for each note? I have reduced my design to include only 16 notes (I originally wanted 32 but I thought that may take too long to download)---
i've searched for several hours, and didn't find an answer for my problem. i'm trying to place comboboxes in a datagrid filled with DYNAMIC data. (the number and the content of these comboboxes always change. i don't know in advance how many columns there are, where i need to use comboboxes. so every single combobox gets a unique dataprovider, which comes from an external source, WHEN the program runs.)
-i found MANY threads discussing this problem, but solving via crappy mxml files, filling the comboboxes inside the sourcecode by hand. i want to point out, that isn't good for me.
-i found a better solution, in which they used some sort of custom itemrenderer to get the data from the internet. (kind of a country chooser thing) but sadly that wasn't good enough, because the number and name of the countries in the world are static more or less, they don't change. so their renderer class didn't depend on any parameters from the main algorithm.
but in my program i calculate the data in my own actionscript objects, then fill an arraylist with that. so at the beginning i load the desired data from the net, and when i get the response of the urlrequest, AFTER that i start to populate the datagrid/combobox.
i can fill any datagrid or combobox without trouble, but to put that combobox inside a datagrid cell seems to be impossible.it drives me crazy. i managed to do this in several languages before, c#, java, even php+html, but in flex it looks way too complicated then it should be.
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Is there a unique device ID that I can use in Flash Builder/AS3 to differentiate between devices in a Flex mobile project? I am trying to circumvent having to code a login/registration system.
View 1 RepliesHere's what I want to do: when a player wins a game (coded in flash/actionscript), they are given a personalized secret key, which they can email to me in exchange for a prize. I can then validate the key on my end using a private algorithm. I need to design it so that it is practically impossible for hackers to generate a valid prize key without winning the game.
I assume that any SWF file is basically vulnerable to decompilation, but I don't know exactly how vulnerable they are. Perhaps any algorithm for generating a valid key will be accessible to hackers? I have at my disposal all the methods in actionscript 3, as well as a PHP/MySQL server, and I control the server where the game will be hosted.
Therefore, my concepts is I have webcam. My webcam is able to catch a image. Whereby, the flash will calculate the overall of the color. And it will resize and place it to the nearest color of the main background color.
View 2 RepliesI'm retrieving variables from a DB via PHP via the URLRequest, and the formatting is set to variables (URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES) and matches the structure "myVarName=myValue&myOtherVarName=myOtherValue&... ".
My question is; is there a way, within Flash, to identify the variables and their values, without having to know their names?, are there methods within the loader class that allow this?, such as the variables count etc?
(I can access the variable "copyrightTxt." via the syntax: loader.data.copyrightTxt because I know its name, but I'd like something like
loader.data.variableSent[45].name = "copyrightTxt"
and
loader.data.variableSent[45].value = "@ 2009"
and
loader.data.variableCount = 98
I have the following:
function ShowSlide(event:TweenEvent) {
m= getChildByName("tag"+slideIndex+"_mc");
m.visible = false;
if (slideIndex < 4) {
slideIndex++;
[Code] ....
And I want to do for "tagInitW" the same thing I do for "m" being given that I already have "created tag1InitW", "tag1InitH", "tag2InitW", "tag2InitH..." So is there anyway I can dynamically target a variable? This was easy in AS2, but because of the strict dataType the vars have in AS3, I can't do it like I was doing it in AS2.