I'm trying to learn how to use xml, and I really like this tutorial http:[url]..My question is how would I write my action script to allow the text (First Name, Last Name, GPA) to open up a link? I wrote this into the xml file & I don't know if it is right. Original Code:
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<student first="James" last="Johnson" gpa="3.3" </>
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I am using the Carousel application as designed in the 3 part tutorial. My question that i can't find an answer to online is how to add a URL link in the description text that shows when an icon is clicked.
View 3 Repliescan anyone help direct me towards a tutorial for creating a new class? if anyone knows c++ it would be the equivalent for typedefs.
View 2 RepliesI have completed the Carousel part 3 tutorial and everything is working perfectly. However, I want to add a link to an external url in each of the detailed descriptions. How would I add this to the xml file?
View 2 RepliesI've been doing the course on the flv player and found a tutorial somewhere here about attaching mc and thumbnails with a scrollbar. Now, I can't seem to fine it.Is there creating extended elements to the online tutorial like, adding thumbnails and a scrollbar for the thumbs?
View 10 RepliesI'm a bit of a newbie to this so I decided to follow this URL...The problem is that the dragons don't stop so I tried adding a time limit like this:[code]Frame 6 is my game over screen and the removeMovieClip works for the knight and the arrows but not for the dragons. They still carry on.
View 2 RepliesI've found several good tutorials in AS2.0 on creating a scrolling thumbnail menu bar for adding to a photo gallery, but nothing in AS3.0. Anyone have a tutorial or code they'd like to share?
View 2 RepliesCould you please lead me to some tutorials on similiar feature that is displayed on this website.URL...a big bilboard type of thing,which shows a large image coming in from the right...but also smaller images on the right hand side that are moving up.
View 9 RepliesI was looking threw your tutorials and I found >>this one<< I've modified a little it and now I have this:
Code:
function init() {
for (var i:Number = 0; i<4; i++) {
this.attachMovie("blueCircle", "blue"+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mc:MovieClip = this["blue"+i];
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It works ok, but I want to do a game from it-polimorphic graphs (I'm not sure if I wrote it correctly)[URL]I want to do something like that in flash.how to check for lines collisions (if one line is on other)
I've found great tutorial about creating XML menu. Originally in the background of button was dynamicaly created shape. AS was adding filter to the shape on MOUSE_OVER state. I created movie clip and wanted to use gotoAndPlay() action to go to one of frames in movie clip on MOUSE_OVER state and MOUSE_OUT. Here's the problem. I've tried few solutions but I failed :/ Always was something wrong, often nothing was working.
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I have played around with it and made it "rollover" instead of "release".However, i don't really like the random colors selected.Can i choose a certain color series (yellow for instance; light yellow, dark yellow).Or make it turn into a specific number of colors on the same square; it can randomly select from a series of colors i have listed?
View 1 RepliesI sent an email to pom regarding a tutorial that he wrote, but the email was bounced and he hasn't replied to my PM. I have followed both of pom's tutorials that involve experiments with perspective in Flash, but I have encountered a problem while attempting to duplicate a movie clip symbol in the second tutorial ([URL]). I have a single instance of the "ball" movie clip symbol appearing at random positions. However, I cannot seem to successfully duplicate the symbol instance at random positions using the loop that pom provided:
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I have built a catalog in flash that was orginally built in InDesign and exported but it has some small content that is hard to read for the elderly users viewing it and I would like to add a zoom feature or some type of magnifying glass.
View 1 Replies<mx:DataGrid visible="false" id="dgPosts" width="365" click="" dataProvider="{sendReq.lastResult.loginsuccess.name}" x="140.5" y="169">
<mx:columns>
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When i click on a particular dataItem, the corresponding website must open. I have tried dgPosts.selectedItem.name but its not working.
I am looking for a tutorial called Senocular's 3D car race tutorial
View 1 Repliesoriginal: I really just need to figure out how to center the pictures. here is what I did I have modified the tutorial that I finished to have a bigger stage for bigger pictures. Everything is working properly but the pictures are displayed on the left side, I want to have them centered in the stage for the images, after clicking on the thumbnails, plus my images are different sizes as well. ranging from 200x410 to 744x410 but all are the same height of 410. i will post up what I am talking about at the end. I believe it is something within either the action script or the xml coding that allows the position of the image to be differently? please help here is what i am talking about[URL] Continued: Here is my coding in action script:
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So I've gone through a few different websites looking for a way to make a symbol a link, and I keep running into the same problem. I am using action script 3.For example, I got this code from this page:[url]....[code]......
It makes the symbol (logolink) a link (changed the mouse cursor to a pointer), but it kills my animations and errors out saying (all on line 4...the function callLink line): "expecting leftparen before colon", "expecting identifier before leftbrace", and "expecting rightparen before leftbrace".I tried a few things like adding an unused parameter, and a couple other things (trying to satisfy the above errors), but then I get "call to possibly undefined method addEventListener through a reference with static type Class"
Flash loads a string from an XML file into a dynamic text box. Is there a way I can mark up a URL in XML so Flash will display it as a clickable link?
View 12 RepliesI have to make a a hyperlink from selected area over an external loaded swfI load the swf inside of scrollpane, but how can I let the user to create this area as big as he wants and how can I get its position after?
View 2 RepliesI have created a small movie in Flash (.fla file) to sit within a website, but I would like to be able to click on to it at any point and for it to link to a website. What would be the best way in which to do this?
View 3 RepliesIm trying to create a button which will have a link to download a pdf to the users desktop - Im a new user, so I have picked up this code:
on(release){
getURL("LODGE INVITE PAGE 2.pdf", "_blank");
}
which doesn't work! I just put this in on assuming that flash would pick up the pdf on my desktop but it cannot open the pdf when you click on the link.
im trying to create a button that will (once clicked) go to another .fla file .. can it be done ? searched everywhere can just find out how to create buttons that direct to a URL which i already knw how to do..
full sketch is ive created a flash video intro and at the bottom a button appears "enter" once clicked i need it to go to the main .fla file .
I absolutely love the carousel however in the item description I would like to have html links. I have tried the following:
FLASH:
theText.html = true; <<< i added this to the main AS code
import mx.utils.Delegate; ETC.....
XML:
<icon image="icon1.png" tooltip="LimeWire" content="LimeWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. Limewire was the first file sharing program Java installed
<a href="[URL]">orchard</a>."/>
I also just added the standard html link into the xml. However all that loads is the background content, the main carousel refuses to load.
I'm doing a site that needs to download an mp3 sample clip from the serverwhen a text link is clicked. The whole site is in Flash and am using MX. Tried the getURL > didn't work. Saw a tutorial here but that oneplays the mp3 file right away. I want the user to be able to save the fileto their hard disk and play it from there.
View 2 Repliesi understand that you have to have a .zip file usually to force a browser to download the file using the getURL command to the URL of the .zip file. But when i have a link in a pop-up page, it just gives me a error 404 page
so far the AS looks like this
on (press){
getURL(www.troyblank.com/download/beeswax.zip);
}
I'm doing a site that needs to download an mp3 sample clip from the server when a text link is clicked. The whole site is in Flash and am using MX. Tried the getURL > didn't work. Saw a tutorial here but that one plays the mp3 file right away. I want the user to be able to save the file to their hard disk and play it from there.
View 4 RepliesWhy creating a text link to a .as hosted on my site creates a 404 error? If I change it to .txt it works fine but I'd really like the user to be able to open the file directly into Flash.
View 3 RepliesI have a movie that is going to be playing in our onLine Learning Site. I want to include a link to download a few documents, and I just don't know how to do that.I do Not KNOW what the complete HTTP url will be, just the directory path by that I mean, I know the files will be in "VideoFilesHighRes1.MOV" but I don't have access to the complete URL. This isnt a problem when it comes to loading other Flash objects (IE sounds, different clips etc) For some reason I didn't think the "getURL" request was valid in AS 3.0.....
View 1 Repliesi have a created full flash site and i m ready to upload it on a my server But i want to add a download link to a pdf file in my Site can i just do it by simply adding the following A.S. to the button
download_btn.onRelease = function() {
getURL("myFile.pdf", "_blank");
}
i would be keeping the myfile.pdf in my website folder itself!
a code for creating a simple link between files on my computer using flash cs4? Im trying to link sperate swf files within the folder. Im trying to make a cd and i have 5 sperate swf files that need to link to each other and back to the home page which is also a seperate swf file.
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