I have basic knowledge of Flash and do not know how to link an external image to my Flash document. While flipping through a Flash resource book, my thought is that it's through Actionscript, possibly using URLLoader/URLRequest classes. But I don't understand how to do it. Also, do I use a transparent button as the placeholder for the image/actionscript?
View 2 RepliesI have a main document/fla, and ive created a game class, instantiated it in the document/fla file and it runs now i want to put a button inside that game class that can tell the root document/fla to jump to a certain frame.
View 1 RepliesI'm working on this small project to demonstrate how flash works to a few friends and I am trying to make a small avatar have some animation and upon mouse roll over grow and after removing mouse the avatar will shrink. There is also supposed to be a message displayed over the avatar and upon clicking the avatar the message changes. I have the avatar shrinking/growing thing done and its working fine and I also have the message to be displayed but I cannot seem to link the two into one actionscript file so they both appear at the same time.
Here are the codes:
i) for the avatar shrinking/growing
package { import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class U1A3_Stickman extends MovieClip {
private var _origXScale:Number;
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I've tried to simply insert the document class into the flash with the avatar shrink/grow code but it's not working.
hey there guys im doing my final major poject for college in media and were making a set of films and making a flash interface to go with them i was just wondering how can i make links in flash that either link to a an localy saved Html document or a localy saved .mov? i know how to link them to a website but not a locally saved file?
View 1 RepliesI created a Flash image gallery where you can scroll through small thumbnails and when you click on the thumb, the larger image appears inside a movieclip (instance "picture"). All the images are loaded in from an external XML file.
My XML is set up in this way:
<pic>
<image>http://www.website.com/image_large.jpg</image>
<caption>Image 1</caption>
<thumbnail>http://www.website.com/image_small.jpg</thumbnail>
<link>http://www.website.com/webpage</link>
</pic>
I want to know how to make it so that when the user click on the larger image that loads into the movielcip (instance "picture") it takes the user to another HTML page.
My Flash code is:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
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I have created a Flash animation and would like to be able to let viewers link to the pdf that explains the project. The information is currently headed to clients on CD and later on the Web in html. How should I go about this, should I sue an action script?
View 1 RepliesMy teacher gave me the task of making an interactive touch screen flash for an open day at my school, i can easily do most of the things to make this work but two things evade me.
He wants the writing in a word document linked so he can easily change what the document says without re exporting the flash.
He also wants me to be able to make the pictures from a document appear in a slideshow without adding each individual picture in a random order as a screen saver effect.
I am trying to figure out how to link a bunch of buttons to different photo albums inside a single HTML page in Dreamweaver. Here is an example of what I mean: [URL]
Unless I'm mistaken, everything in this website is contained within one HTML document.When you click on any of the various buttons in the portfolio menu, they simply load up and appear inside the same HTML document.
How on earth do you do this without clicking on any of the various buttons and having them linked to another page??
Here is the script am using to open an external html file from moviclip but it is opening in new tab. How to make it open in the same window?
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I've made a flex 3 app that is sitting on my web server. People will be able to link to this flex app on my web server on their own sites/blogs/forums and so on. Is there any way I can log where a user that clicks on it comes from? Example: the URL to the flex app is [URL] User A links the flex app at his blog at [URL] Then User B comes in to User A's blog and clicks the flex app and finally ends up at my site. Any way I can log User B's click through the flex app?
View 2 RepliesI did a tutorial with macromedia flash professional 8 and all works but the images. On my computer it only shows one image but on my website it doesn't even show one image. There should be four. I am new to flash and am having a hrd time geting it to work. I can't seem to attach the flash document. It says invalid file. I do have a link to a test page I put on my site.[URL]
View 9 RepliesI have made a menu bar and linked each separate swf file to the corresponding button. Upon testing my main movie, all the text on the main page is disappearing, the new swf file is not loading and the message 1120 error appears for all my buttons. I have checked the instance names and they match along with publish settings and folder settings. I cant understand why its not working
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I'm having a problem reading from a file to grab a color value. Because the color has both numbers and letters (eeee99) I need to know how to bring it in as a string and then parse it as a hexadecimal value or something.
View 1 RepliesHow I can load an external .txt document into a designated dynamic text box in my flash document. I've tried the two tutorials I could find on flashkit.com and neither of them worked for me. I did everything as told and still the text file didn't load. When I enter the actionscript into the editor, I'll click check syntax and I get an error!
Here's the code I have in the first frame of my actions layer:
stop();
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("updates.txt");
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
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Here's what the error is:
**Warning** Symbol=text, layer=actions,
frame=1:Line 2: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
loadText = new loadVars();
Total ActionScript Errors: 1
Reported Errors: 1
I'm trying to get my four images to link to outside URLs.
Here is my website: [URL]
And for example, I would like the "Option One" image to link to [URL]
I'm using Actionscript 3.0 and CS3.
I have a flash image rotator that is controlled by an XML file that looks like this:
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how do i add links to each of these images
How do you load external swf files into your current flash document?
I have made a menu bar with 5 buttons. I want each button to load a new swf outside the current document upon mouse click.
This is the script ive got so far.. But its not loading anything [code]...
.I've downloaded a template, which I'm modifying to get working the way I want. You can see how far I've got by going to URL... My question is regarding the 'About' page, where on the right hand side you'll see a pull down menu, with two images on it. The first (says Myrtletown Films) loads and links correctly - The second doesn't link correctly.I'm almost certain its a coding linking issue - As if I were to load the same movieclip as the first one (only telling it to load image2, it loads fine - but then wont link to a separate location).Ok, its starting to get confusing; so here's the FLA. When you open the FLA don't go looking around for bits and pieces. Everything you need will be in the 'action_ content' movie clip. You will find both instances of the images (which are labelled 'Previous_Work_Item_1a' etc)[code]The first image is linked to page '6', the second image (which is failing to load) is linked to page '7'. What's confusing is that Previous_Work_Item2a/b/c are just duplicates of Previous_Work_Item_1a/b/c
View 8 RepliesI have captured a very old version of flash which was designed using Macromedia Flash and now extracted by ******* and try to hyper-linking but these wont work. I noticed that the option that i can is ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 and code snippets works with Actionscript. I have little experience with layers as i know Photoshop and i just copy all of Layers and paste in new Flash with Actionscript and now can use the Code Snippets but they still dont work and i dont know. These images are set as buttons open up Action and add code there but they dont work. I dont know what to do next. Here's a flash that i just want to simply link all the images expect the moon and Spaceman.
View 6 RepliesThe accordion i created works by recreating a single movie clip as the frame/holder for each and every 'tab' the accordion has.Now I want to have seperate links for each 'tab'. which means, at the 1st tab for example, if you click anywhere on the content area, it will take u to page #a.If you go to the 2nd tab, click, it will take u to page #b.
the current flash file has holders in it in order to let it load the xml data. such as the tab titles, content etc. they are also reproduced in AS hence there is only one instance of each in the FLA.I have created an area which is TO BE the "clickable" area on each page. But i do not know what else to do from here...
Website.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,website);
function website(e:MouseEvent):void
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This is what I have so far.It should go to "mysite.com",however when you click the button,it doesn't do anything.I get no syntax errors,
I want my movie to go to a specific location on the basis of whether or not a variable is attached to the swf reference. Kind of trying to control it from the outside...so I've written this in my embed code:
movie.swf?reset=1
and then this AS on the first frame of my movie:
if (reset=1) {
gotoAndStop(3);
}
i am working on a flash website with actionscript 3.0. i am using a scroll pane to view a external swf file that has buttons that move forwards and backwards through the swf. my problem is that when the naviagtion buttons are clicked the page changes but is at the bottom of the scrollpane. i want the verticalPostion = 0 so it starts at the top of the next page but don't know how to do this. this is the code for my
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Is there a way to link a button in a swf to a java script. I'm trying to use the "lightbox" java script so that when a user clicks on an image in the swf, a larger image appears on top of the page. Here is what the link looks like in html:
View 3 Replieshow i can achieve deep linking with the external swf import technique? Im using the "Transitions Between External SWF's" tut from Kirupa but am not able to post a link here since im new. I have created a website that has this functionality between sections and would like to apply the deep linking to it.
View 9 RepliesI googled it and found that in 2006 someone was trying to do the same exact thing I am and suceeded, but didn't give much detail for a beginner like me to figure out. . I am using xml to call different swf files. What i want to do is create a link in my fla file. Or my xml to call a different swf file into the same page. Pretty much like the main menus do, but I want to create a link to it inside of the text. For instance I have an swf file called members. You click on members on the left it directs you to the members swf file switch on the right. Now that swf page is reading from my xml. At the end of everyone's brief profiles i want to put a link that says more info and it directs to a different swf that has a more indepth profile of that person, but loading in the same window as all my other swf pages of course. The person that did it before said he used actionscript to do this.
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to build a flash image banner which references an xml document for its content. The banner will automatically rotate through the images based on a set time interval. The user will also have the option to use a next/forward button and a direct slide (image w/caption, header & url) section button. There will always be 5 slides. There will be 7 buttons: a forward button - which shall rotate to the next slide, backwards button - which shall rotate to the previous slide, slide one button, slide two button, slide three button, slide four button and slide five button - these will take the user directly to that slide. I don't really care about Transitions.
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Is it possible after embedding a flash exe in to PowerPoint document that we can make flash buttons tell the ppt document to go to a certain slide.
View 2 RepliesI have solved my remote linking from an external html, to specific swf frame problem. But now, as usual another problem has reared its ugly head. I have a button(s) with a spotlight animation effect in the "over state". It works fine on the "home" page, smooth and clean, but when you link to a frame in the timeline, once in that frame the spotlight effect stills shows up when mouseover, but becomes erratic and very jittery.[URL].. Once there, if you click on about, events, or news, and load any of those pages/frames, you should see the spotlight flicker on mouseover on all buttons
View 6 RepliesOkay so I am building a website in Flash for the first time and I am having some trouble with the code. I have a twitter icon that has an instance name of twitter_home and I need it to link to a twitter page [URL]... The code I pasted below opens up firefox, but does not go to any page. If firefox is already open on my computer...it does nothing.
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