I have an emptyMovieClip and a button on my stage. I'd like to control the alpha of the button depending on whether a movieclip is loaded into the emptyMovieClip or not. I'm just a beginner at Flash and have little programming experience.
if a movie is loaded in the emptyMovieClip, button alpha = 100%
else button alpha = 0%
There's a site I'm working on I have the alpha on the navigation buttons set to 0.2 the text appears with full alpha as I want I have a nice Old English font I want to use but when I embed the font it takes on the alpha settings of the background.I set the alpha for the text field to 1 but the text remains at 0.2.n how to set the alpha of a container without affecting the embedded text in it or to set the alpha on the embedded text independently?
View 3 RepliesI recently bought an mp3-player coded in Flash and it works great, except for the fact that I do not want it to appear constantly on the timeline.
The mp3-player is generated throught code, so I was wondering if there is a way to control the alpha of a variable named mp3playerContainer and set it to 0? I have navigation points on frame 25 and 55 where I want this mp3player to not be visible. Could it be an idea to use "currentFrame", so that if currentFrame equals 25 or 55, then alpha of the variable mp3playercontainer will be set to 0?
I have created a website on the time line. There is actionscipt contolling which frame to play via a button. Within this button is a movieclip with a fade in using alpha on its own timeline with a stop(); at the end.The problem is I only want it to play when you first see it from moving to that page from the main timeline. Currently if i move over the button it plays the movie again which i dont want to happen. I do however want to retain the over states etc for the button.
View 2 RepliesI've been playing around with the presentation screens and slide in Flash, from browsing the web there seems to be very little if any information of how to control MC's within different parts of a presentation i.e. removing them or changing alpha. I've loaded an MC and now I'm am trying to remove it from the stage been experiment on the same slide and I just cant seem to get control of it.
I was using
_root.slide1.intromc._alpha = 0;
But this doesn't work for. How I can get access to MCs in a slide if its possible !!!!
Below is the code for dynamic image gallery from XML.
We have an alpha effect to the image animation when the image is loading. The affect is working fine (fade in).
But, when the next image is loading, we want fade out alpha affect to the current image before the next image loads.
delay = 6000;
//-----------------------
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
[Code].....
i was making asimple menu .
ActionScript Code:
var currentLink:MovieClip = a_mc;
//buttons mode[code]...........
when i click on the button the alpha of this button will be 0.5 , when i click on another button the alpha of the previous button is still 0.5 , and so if i clicked on all buttons the alpha of all buttons will be 0.5,,,i didn't want that , i want when i click on the button , alpha return to 1 for the previous button .
So I have a movie clip that will be composed of a few photos (one on each frame). And under that movie clip on the stage I will have arrow buttons. When a user clicks on the arrow button I would like the next frame) to show up. How can I point my actionscript3 to the movie clip to control the timeline in the MC file?
View 4 Repliesi have a movie clip of scissors cutting. 2 instances of it on stage, "scissorsRL" and "scissorsLR". i have the following code attached to the left scissors:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x = _x + 10;
if (this._x>=920) {
stop();
}
}
and similar code on the right.what i am trying to do is to get the 2 scissors instances to "start over" when the start over button is released. but, if you look at the attachment, you see what it is doing (the scissors are not animating, just increasing or decreasing _x values - i don't understand why.
the code i have on the start over button is this:
on (release) {
setProperty("scissorsRL", _x, "100");
setProperty("scissorsLR", _x, "700");
}
I want to make a button to change the alpha of an instance but I dont know how to make it.
Thats what I want: When I click the button, then the movie clip appears (alpha 100)When I click the button again, then the movie clip disappears (alpha 0)
I am making a website/online gallery. I have all my buttons assigning a frame number or value eg. [code]...
and then have all different movie clips loading depending on the the 'frameno'
My problem is that i want the button alpha to change when you are on that page. So i am assuming it would be something along the lines of.[code]...
I have button the dissappears when i click it, but instead of disapearing straight away, i want it to fade out first. Whats the script for this?
View 2 RepliesI am loading a MC in frmae 3 of the main timeline. In the MC, there's a button which I would like when pressed to run the main movie at frame 2. Below is the code.[code]I cannot get the gotoAndPLay bit to work. I;ve tried sooo many combinations (parent, _parent, this._parent etc etc) but to no avail.
View 7 RepliesI have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
View 1 RepliesI have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
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The links on the site above have a nice alpha tween effect. It looks like the rollover fades out the alpha so that the links appear brighter. When you rollout the alpha reduces.
What would be the best/most logical way to do this? I presume you create some AS that contols the alpha tween and keep this on the timeline as a function. Then for each button you call the function.
I'm trying to set the rtBtn to 100% alpha after the tableButton has been pressed by the user. Currently rtBtn is living on the stage and set to 25% alpha. I've gotten all the other parts of this code to work, except the color transform. I imagine I'm declaring it improperly.... any suggestions? Originally I was trying to apply a tint, but that seemed to be only AS 3.0?..[code]
View 2 RepliesI have a game and the user clicks on a button (a_btn), they are brought to frame 2 and they have to answer a question. If they get the question correct the alpha transparency of the a_btn is set to zero.
What I would like to be able to do is see if a number of buttons have zero alpha transparency then the user gets a complete message. This is what I have so far:
ActionScript Code:
if (c_btn.alpha=0 && h_btn.alpha=0){
infoComplete.text = "WELL DONE, GAME COMPLETE";
}
i really can't belive i'm asking this, but i've been about an hour trying to look after a solution for this but I couldnt find nothing. i'm trying to change a movieclip's alpha when the swf loads and when I press an existing button. the problem is that that movieclip is inside a button and as3 has a problem with it.
this is what i am trying to do in the first frame of the first scene.
[Code]...
i'll ask it differently this time. I just want the button to fade out on rollover. at the same time, i would like text (that is loaded externally in a text field called "caption") to fade in also on rollover. i've tried sooooo many things - scavenging this board and others.
View 6 RepliesI'm creating a portfolio which has tiny square buttons (one for each image) and arrows buttons to navigate through the portfolio. Everything is working just great, but I need the square buttons, when pushed, to change alpha or turn to dk grey instead of lt grey, and remain this way until the next image is shown. They should act as indicators as to where you are in the portfolio. The code I'm using is as follows:
picture._x=24;
picture._y=31;
function loadXML(loaded) {
[Code]....
I'm making an interface with quite a few dynamically generated instances of the Button component. I'm trying to animate the buttons' alpha. The graphical elements in the buttons change alpha as expected, but the text label does not. I thought this issue would be fixed simply by using setStyle() to specify an embedded font, but even with an embedded font I cannot alter the alpha.
View 1 RepliesBasically what I'm trying to do is have one button move two objects, each at different speeds. My first object is called "bg" the second is called "test." I have two buttons, "left" and "right" and when they are clicked on, only the "test" object moves. Here's the code I'm using:
function onRollOver():Void {
if (bg._x<gLEFT) {
bg._x = gLEFT;
[code]...
I am wanting to create a button that, when pressed, will make an image move along the X axis. However, I want several other buttons to move that object along the X-axis to other locations regardless of where it is currently.
I want the object to move from one spot to a second spot, stop, and then move from that new location to either its previous spot or a new spot.
Basically having multiple buttons controlling where 1 or more image goes. I have seen banners that will scroll horizontally when you click different Menu buttons. The banner slides along the X-axis and stops to reveal the name of the new page on the banner (i.e. Home, About Us, Contact Us, etc.). When another menu button is pressed, the banner slides again to reveal the new title page name (ie. Home, etc).
I'm working on a picture of cell phone, which I want users to be able to click on the number pad and have the numbers appear on the screen. Seems simple enough but I'm having trouble making the numbers appear in order just like phones in real life do. For instance, the screen starts with four *'s until "1" is clicked, then when the next number is clicked(let's say 3) I want the screen to display "13**" and so on.What I have is a movieclip with 11 frames (* and numbers 0 to 9), and 4 copies of them are each named p1,p2,p3,p4. They would be on the cell phone "screen" and display numbers clicked by the user. Then I have buttons acting as number pad with actionscript as follows:
ActionScript Code:
//for button "1"
on (release) {
[code].....
I made an empty movie clip and named it "container" and then I made a button.. Here's the code for the button in main movie..
on (release){
container.loadMovie("movie1.swf");
movie1.play();
}
Then I put stop(); on the first frame of the swf to be loaded. What I want is to play movie1 by pressing the button in the main movie..
How to use a video's alpha channel to define its hitspace for a button.
View 11 RepliesI'm creating pages with text supported by wav files for training. on the bottom of the page is a progress bar. I want to make a button that when clicked will permenantly
raise the alpha of a movie clip (on a different layer) to 100%. (it is currently set to 0) within the movie clip (hazpop) is a button that will turn the alpha to zero (click to close window) so in theory (not as2) it should be: on mousedown alpha.hazpop=100 I've been combing the forums for days and no-one is talking about alpha.
I attempted to build a Flex 4 skin for a Spark button, typical practice. I adjusted the colors and other styles to my liking, including using dot selectors to specify alternate colors and such during different states. However, these are all ignored when the button is disabled. Regardless of what I do, in the disabled state, my button always has the wrong color and is alpha'd to 0.5 (even if I specifically state that alpha.disabled="1"). All the other skin states work as expected. This is my custom skin. If it were working correctly, it would appear to have no shadow or highlight, and would be a gradient grey color. Instead, it appears as a 50% alpha version of the up state (shiny green).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:SparkButtonSkin xmlns:fx="[URL]"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:fb="[URL]"
minWidth="21" minHeight="21" alpha.disabled="1">
[Code] .....
This is the code used to create and then disable the button:
_action1Button = new Action1Button();
view.actionGroup.addElement(_action1Button);
_action1Button.enabled = false;
The error was that _action1Button is not the actual button, rather, it's the container of the button. Doh! Switching it to _action1Button.actionButton.enabled = false; fixed the issue.
I am playing around with AS3 and what I'm trying to do is pretty simple. I have a little test FLA: http:[url]......There is a button that when you scroll over it the alpha goes up to .90 and when you mouse off it it goes back down to .50 alpha.This is all controled by Tween in AS3. The 3 problems that I'm having are:
1) How to define a variable that that is a number that has a blank value like with a string its:
Code:
var test:String = "";
Right? But I have no idea how do do the same thing with a number var.
2) Next thing that I'm confused about it there a way to get a smooth mouse alpha tween on the button. Like as it currenlty is when you mouse over it goes from .50 to .90% alpha. See this isn't all that bad but if you mouse over the button again real fast before the tween goes back to .50 it looks like it get lighter really fast and then gets darker.
3) Finally when you click the replay button the button alpha jumps down to .50 no matter what. You have to actully mouse off and then mouse back on for it to go back up to .90 like it should be when your mouse is hovering on the button.