I have a depth issue with two movie clips. One of the movie clips I am creating is created with the createEmptyMovieClip function. the other I've embedded onto the 1st frame manually.The one I have embedded manually will not show on top of the one I've created in code. I've tried giving minus values to the one created in code and the manual one still
View 2 RepliesI recently downloaded an example of a xml slideshow from here
However I am having the hardest time trying to put another layer with an image, like a border over the slideshow. I have scoured google for solutions however anything actionscript i throw in to try and get the added layer to have the highest depth just does'nt work.
putting a movieclip into highest depth without knowing which clip is in the highest depth
View 2 RepliesI am using a Flash AS2 template for a PayPal shopping cart on my site. As the code is now, a new shipping charge is added to the buyers total for every item added. I would like it to have only 1 shipping charge, no matter how many items are added!
Actionscript Code:
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;cartItems = new Array();itemNr = -1;itemQty = 1;cartin = false;ctrl_mc.cart_mc.onRelease = showCart;attachMovie("cart","cart_mc",15000,
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Is there a component anyone knows of that will take XML and display it has a color coded string so you can read it easily? My app runs mostly from the dynamic XML that is loads. It would be great for debugging if I could click a button in the app to show me the XML it loaded in a readable format.
View 1 RepliesI'm constructing a game for college and I've run into a problem. I've created a drag and drop game,I have 9 instances called "case_01", "case_02" etc. The user must place them into one of two boxes (called "input_01" and "process_01"). I've then created an incorrect message on frame 3 and a correct mesage on frame 5. I've placed the following code on the submit button with the correct answers:
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but this isn't working correctly. Must each if have an else? I'm a complete novice at this actionscripting
I am trying to complete my navigation bar. I have the onRollOver / Out and Release states finished, my only problem now is that onRelease is not reversable. Once I click on another button, my previously pressed button is still in its down state. All my buttons have been created dynamically with no timelines involved. He is the button code that is within a for loop:
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navBar["myBtn"+i].onRollOver = function() {
//create pointer mc over button
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So right now, I have a video player that pulls in all sorts of info (flv url, caption file url, video title, description, preview image, etc.) through an external xml file (playlist.xml). It works great, but I need to change the coding so it's not hard-coded into the FLA, rather from the embed code for the swf.
Here's the chunk of AS3 code that's involved in the original loading of the XML data as well as the html text too.
I've got a transition after clicking on a moie clip that goes like this:[code]The mcName variable is a Movieclip delared in the first frame, and set with the name of a movieClip in the onRelease of a button instance:[code]It does take the variable into the FadeFrame function, but doesn't work.It comes out in trace as undefined with the _alpha property.If I hard code the movieClip name into the setInteval it has no problem.Any reason why it doesn't want to operate on the movieClip alpha this way?
View 3 Repliesi want to add a SWF metadata tag to an ActionScript Project in Flash Builder 4, that denotes the default size and background color of the swf. i can do this in Flash Professional, but it doesn't work with ActionScript projects in FB4? can i not include this tag? i know i can set these properties in the properties panel, but i'd like to have them in my code.
View 1 RepliesI have this game where there are moving targets(I move them by code) and you need to click them and every time you click them you get 5 points and they disappear I also made a 30 second timer to and when it hits zero it goes to a frame 7 (Game Over frame).[code]
View 4 RepliesI've got a couple of TextField initialized in code (as3). They use my embedded font (aharoni), and that just works. But the fonts that i've written directly into the movieclips in flash cs3, just don't work.
When i play the swf on another computer that doesn't have aharoni, the coded TextFields are aharoni, but the textFields in the movieclips that i've written directly are Times new Roman, because that computer doesn't have Aharoni.
I've set the text font to my embedded font.
I have a list component that has hard-coded labels on it (for testing). I then rotate the list component 90-degrees and notice the text disappears(during design time).
I test the file and the labels do not show up also during runtime.
I can get the labels to show if I rotate the component back to its' original state.
My client has a simple shape that they want the user to be able to animate, i.e. it looks like a single square on the stage, but when you grab it and drag, a load of squares appear and fan out from the corner of the first. I was thinking, I can easily achieve the first part of this by attaching, say 20 movieclips of my square to the stage, but I'm not sure how to approach the back/forth draggable aspect of this.
View 1 RepliesI have a website project to finish on monday and I'm with a huge problem. I need to create textFields from AS3, load it's text from xml and use loaded CSS file in it. I've embedded the font but it doen't work, and worst, not working even with Times or Verdana fonts. I have embedded the fonts using default name, "Font 1", etc, since I read those export names must be different then system font name. Here are the code (bad one, only to show the problem), the CSS, and the capture of the swf is here:
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I was trying to code a rollover rollout dropdown menu in code. I made a movieclip in the library which imports a rectangle sprite. The rectangle sprite moves down on frame2 and back up on frame3. When I called the frame from document level it gives me following error:
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if someone can shed some light to this matter... i'm pretty new (somewhat) w/ AS let's say, i got an .swf (voets enahnced mp3-player) @ [URL] --which works perfectly at the moment. i then referrenced this .swf in [URL] --which doesn't work prolly because the .swf is calling the XML (i.e. "onlineplaylist.xml") relative to its whereabout, which is /test08. the question is, is there any way around this problem, so that if i put all .SWFs in a certain location (server/directory/what-have-you...), and referrence it from another server &/or directory (like above), it would work?
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what is the easy to learn platform platform to create a colorful display and link it to hard coded some pages
View 1 RepliesIm playing around with the last.fm api... Specifically the "getLovedtracks" call.... [URL] This is a weird one that I have never come across... The above call requires a username to return a track listing so if I hard code the username into my class like this.... var username:string = "aidanmack" No problems the call works... if I make that username equal to a dynamic text box string that has "aidanamck" typed into it..
so something like... var username:string = mystage.textbox.text
the last.fm api wont except this... I get user does not exist But if I check the call with the charles proxy Flash is defo sending the username "aidanmack" So I wonder if its to do with have how last.fms api interprets the string?
We bought this Flash template to save time:to make this siteI knew a template would limit us (especially since I only know HTML/a little CSS), but of course, we need a few tweeks. To save time (and if anyone is interested), I have uploaded the source files so you can see the structure here:The flash file is set up like this:Fla file for all the image souces & layoutIndex.html File has some sort of fancy javascriptText.html file is the editable file where non-flash-knowing dingbats like me can just edit the text and POOF! Magic!I know I have bastardized them from the original and some stuff is probably wonky.The biggest problem is that the "thumbnails" that you click on at the starpage are auto-generated, cropping the top left 100x100 square. I don't know why this is the case, and honestly, I think it looks awful.
Is there any way to manually set the thumbnail images, so they are cropped artistically rather than randomly? I asked the template tech support and they told me to "make my images 100x100". I did that for the first blue logo, and it looks like CRAP! Sure, I have the icon I would like, but when someone goes to browse the gallery, they get a 100x100 icon displaying instead of a lovely fullscreen pic.
write down the formulas that flash MX uses when you use the functions tan/sin/cos...I am trying to get a good grasp on these things and it
View 12 RepliesI am wondering how is it possible to Save or Export a drawing which is done by code produced wihthin the swf??For example we have some lines where the user could draw on a board and after finishing his artwork he could export it as a bitmap or even better as an eps or swf
View 12 RepliesIt's just a pure curiosity of mine . I'm using flash to create movie clip objects and never thought about creating them programatically. But today I came across this articlevertheless, there's no official explanation of the process.What if I have e.g. 5 images, and I wanna turn them into a short piece of animation. How can I do it using pure actionscript 3?
View 5 RepliesI have a candlestick chart that is working great when the numbers being dealt with are large but when the numbers are small the vertical axis starts at the very top of my data and ends at the very bottom. For example if my max number in my XML is 12 and my min is 11 the charts top is 12 and the charts bottom is 11 with 11.2, 11.4, 11.6, 11.8 in between. How can I force the chart to do 22 to 1 on the vertical axis ({maxgraph+10} and {mingraph-10}).
View 1 RepliesI have a menu that is built using its own AS3 class, when a link in this menu is clicked it fires a function according to some variables passed in from an external XML file.
The menu is made up of four subsections and I want the user to be able to jump to the parent of that subsection from a button that is completely separate from that menu.
What I'd theoretically like to do is trick the parent button into thinking it's been clicked when the user clicks one the buttons in this other menu.
Is this even possible? I'm tearing my hair out trying to think of a work-around, but I have to admit that it comes to passing variables, never mind passing them between classes!
I need help into handling an animation imported in FLV format which I have a 3D object rotating 360 degree in about 100 frames.I would like to control the rotation myself maybe using a drag scroll system in order to back and forth between frames manually
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to manually set the timer count? Atm i've got a timer that ticks for 30 seconds displaying an image every 10 seconds and I want to make a button that goes directly to the second image when it's clicked.
View 7 RepliesIs it possible to manually add an array of files to a FileReferenceList to upload/download? Rather than selecting from browser()? I need to download a number of images from my server, run some scripts with switchboard, then upload them back to the server, all automated.Is this possible using FileReferenceList or would I need to build some sort of ftp app with sockets?
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to manually trigger a ColorPickerEvent?
View 1 RepliesI just started working with flash CS3 and know the basics of actionscript (3.0).I learned a lot by reading most of "Foundation flash CS3 for designers"by Tom Green.I found the following tutorial to create a nice image gallery I want to use for my online portfolio :http:[url]....The problem is that I'm using as3.0 for my website in Flash.I can read the code and understand what it does,but I'm still not able to manually convert it to as3.0.I'm going to try coverting it myself. It will be a good lesson for me to get a better understanding of the scripting process. The only thing I'm afraid of is there will be really a lot of changes (I really don't know) I know already a few changes:
_root -> this
_x (and _y, _alpha etc.) -> remove underscores
Code: Select allthis.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
will become:[code].........