I want to be able to detect when a certain key is pressed. Not the preset ones like spacebar, enter, delete, left, right, etc... I want to make it so that when the letter "a" is pressed, then such and such happens, and if the letter "m" is pressed, another thing happens.
View 3 RepliesIn AS2 I did this:
ActionScript Code:
ContactVerDoor.onRelease = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) if (Key.isDown(Key.SHIFT)) {
//Do something
}
}
I now need to code it in AS3.Can I still check if a key is down without listening for the keypress events? I understand how to code the Mouseclick in AS3.
How do you detect when to keys are pressed together. For example, if I press W and E together, I want something to happen. How do I do that?
View 5 RepliesIm unclear why this code is not working? What am i doing wrong?
ActionScript Code:
import flash.ui.Keyboard;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
[code].....
I need to find a way to detect if the middlemouse button(Mouse 3) is pressed, I have tried to use ASnatives and it worked well..but once you fire up the flash stage in a fullscreen mode the ASnative seams to stop working or any other way of detecting the mousebutton?
View 0 RepliesIs it possible to detect when a user is clicking while simultaneously pressing a button on the keyboard? For instance, if a user presses "a" on the keyboard and then clicks on a specific movie clip, I'd like to trigger an animation.
View 3 RepliesI have it like this so far:
ActionScript Code:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, KeyPressed);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, KeyReleased);
public function KeyPressed(event:KeyboardEvent):void
[Code]....
and so far it works good, except when I press shift. If I'm holding the left or right arrow key and then I press shift, the object stops moving and doesn't do anything. However, if I release the arrow key and THEN press and hold shift, it works perfectly. How can I make it so that I can press shift while I'm holding the arrow key and still have it work?
I have a function on root:
_root.fadeBox_mc.onEnterFrame = function (){
if (fade){
this.nextFrame();[code]....
This causes a mc to fade in and out on rollover/rollout. But what I wanna make is a box that fades in when pressed on the button and fade out when pressed for the second time. But if I say
on (press){
_root.fade = true;
}
the mc fades in, but I cant do another on (press) to fade out. Is this too confusing?
I am struggling a bit with keys on the keyboards controlling a movieclip to happen.Ive got a person moving when pressing right and left, and a movieclip with three frames: First frame is a movieclip with the person standing still, looking bored. The second frame is the person moving right, and the third frame is the person moving left.This is the code that Ive inserted into the persons actions on scene1:
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {_x += speed;this.gotoAndStop(2);_xscale = +scale;}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {_x -= speed;this.gotoAndStop(3);_xscale = -scale;}
this code works alright accept that when the keys are not pressed it doesnt stand still, the legs are still moving, so I tried to include this code aswell:
if (!Key.isDown(KEY.RIGHT)) [code]....this makes the person standing still when not pressed but not moving the legs when turning right and left.
I'm trying to find a way to add to the front and back of a word in a string based on the letters it starts with.
For example if I had a string "I think http://www.facebook.com/ is better than http://twitter.com" it would look for the instance of "http://" and give me "I think <b>http://www.facebook.com/</b> is better than <b>http://twitter.com</b>"
This is the thread to discuss all things relating to the Fading Out Letters in Text tutorial.
View 1 RepliesI am having problem with the text tool on flash version 8 the problem is that I am seen some blur letters when I preview my swf on explorer using dreamweaver version 8. I trying to find out what could cause the blurring the properties of the text is arial size 10 and verdana size 10. For example the period on the small i in some words look different.
View 3 RepliesGood technigue for finding out if a string has any letters?I'm not looking for a specific letter, I just want to search a string and find out if it has any letters.
View 2 RepliesI'm starting using the CS4 version of flash, and in my codes, every word is "missing" the last letter. It's not really missing, we just can't see it, or see only half of it. Did it ever happen to you? If so, how can I fix this?
View 4 RepliesThe game is already working, only missing a function to random the letters
function make_game()
{
var word_mc = createEmptyMovieClip("word_mc",1);
var words_array:Array = dica_node.split("<br>");//getting the XML values
[Code]....
So I have a string "SmartUserWantsToLive" I want to generate from it or any such string with capital letters strings like "Smart User Wants To Live".
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to embed only a few letters from a font instead of embedding the whole thing?
View 2 RepliesI know how to catch usual lowercase letters. I'm using KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN and compare the code to the ASCII table to find out which key was pressed. Now, I also want to be able to find out if there is, for example SHIFT+A pressed, and I have no idea how to implement this. I mean, in my program SHIFT and A are absolutely different keys which have nothing to do with each other, and they both will call KeyboardEvents when pressed. In Georgian alphabet some letters are typed by combination of SHIFT and English letters, for example W on Georgian keyboard means წ, when SIFT+W means áƒ. Absolutely different letters, as you can see. And I want to be able to catch both, coz I'm currently developing Georgian-language game.
View 2 RepliesI need to append 4 letters to my variable name when referencing it to get either spanish or english XML data. I am trying to reuse my functions without writing an if statement.
like so:
//two options for
var spa_my_videos:XMLList;
var eng_my_videos:XMLList;
[Code].....
I want to convert text to audio and I was told that there is a way to assign a sound to every letter and then I would just have to concatenate the sounds to form words
View 4 Replieshow to get loadVar to read special characters like � and � when using it to read from a textfile??
View 5 RepliesFor a rather complex search function I need to get the first letter of each word entered into an input field. At first glance this may not seem like a big problem if every word is neatly seperated by a space.
Although people can enter whatever they want into the field I only want to work with the words that start with a-z or A-Z.
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how I can determine if a character in the string falls into this selection. One of the possibilities is to use charCodeAt(), but that's rather rough. I can walk through the string using indexOf() but I may have trouble finding the next word if characters other than a space come into play.
[Code]...
There have been many posts about how to draw letters dynamically. This is an example of drawing the font outlines dynamically. Not the same as "writing" them, but an interesting technique [URL].
View 3 RepliesHow to specify in this validation script that letters are not allowed?[code]box is a text field.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to create a function in FMX that validates a field for numbers and letters only, i.e. no special characters. I know how to check for number strings and so on but trying to check for letters in a string?
I used to have a PHP function that did this for my password field (below) and I would like to do something similar in Flash[code]....
I have this text String in an Array. It'll be sent to a TextField, but first I'd like to change the color of one of the letters. Like this:
some_array = ["This i<font color='#000000'>s</font> an example"];
But I'd like to do it with actionscript, so I can enter a number and one of the letters changes color. In this example the number is 7, since 's' is the 7th letter.
Is there a way to take all the letters out of a string and then use it as a integer?If that is not possible, is there a way to take the first three letters off a string variable? i.e. make myVariable='pic1' into myVariable = '1' Yes? no?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to make a simple encryption tool and I was wondering how I could use code to replace text, with something totally different!
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make 4 movie clips/cycling letters for the lowercase alphabet. 3 random letters and one to stop on an indicated letter, i.e. "a" . I'm trying to make a letter recognition game for a class project, the aim is to have 3 random letters as well as the letter that was in an earlier screen pointed out.
View 1 RepliesI have several textfields, and on each one I�d like to have a random letter to appear. No ciclying, just to appear.
Id tought about putting a letter on each frame of a movie clip and making the frame random, but maybe the letters beeing danamic could make the swf lighter.