I am in flash 8. I am working on a simple button symbol and the actions panel is showing "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it" and the options are unavailable".
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I'm having a problem with a tutorial i have been following to create a website. I followed the whole tutoril through until i get a problem at the final steps.Here is the tutorialQuote:49. after you have typed everything you wanted on the diffrent squares now its time to make it all work. what you need to do is to click on the blue square ontop of the �home button� dont double click it just select it. afte you have it selected press (F9) this will bring up the the actionscript window type the following
on(press){
gotoAndStop(�home�);
}
[code]....
I have instances of a button and I cant seem to add any actions to them! I just get the message in the topic title. I have another flash file that has buttons with actions applied to them, but this one wont let me!
View 1 RepliesI'm creating simple buttons (as I've done numerous times in earlier versions of flash) and need to apply an action to the hit phase - however keep getting the above message in the action script window. I just installed flash CS4 a few weeks ago.
View 4 RepliesAnd I need to edit the very script I found doing text search, just the one that cannot exist by what the editor says.Script was made in the times of Macromedia Flash 8, I use current Flash (cs5) trial.
View 2 RepliesI just write text and make it graphic symbol. Then try to put AS on it. But when I click on that to pur the script (v. 3.0), it's says current selection cannot have actions applied to it.
View 2 RepliesI'm just trying to get started with very basic AS 2. I have two books, (Understanding Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2, by Alex Michael, and Animation and Effects with Flash MX 2004) All of the very basic ActionScripts I've attempted from both books result in the "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it" error message.
Here's an example from Michael's book, which is for putting an event handler in a movie clip. I'm going to write all of the instructions just so you know I'm following them: 1. Create a new movie. 2. Draw a circle on the stage. 3. Select the circle and convert it to a symbol. 4. Name the symbol circle and select movie clip as the behavior. 5. Click OK. 6. Select the circle movie clip. 7. Open the Actions panel window. 8. Type in the following[code]...
have only been animating for several months now. I am now trying to get into simple games, and I am starting with what I was told is the easiest, a Dress-Up game.This is the source of the tutorial that I am following: http:[url]....
I am following the Dress-Up game. I have created a button, dragged it into the Movie-Clip, and then went back to the scene, and selected it, right clicked, and clicked Actions."Current Selection" is selected, and it says "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it".
when I try to add this action to Scene 1, or Symbol Definitions it is a syntax error, and says extra characters as the reason.The script I am trying to use to make my Ball movable is;
on(press) {
startDrag(this,false);
}[code]....
I am just retruning to flash from cs2 and its much, much harder.I want to create one simple mute button. Does anyone havea link to how I can do this from start to end in cs4? Everything I've found ends with me getting the error message: "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it" while tutorial carries on and neeer address this as a possibility.
View 1 RepliesI recently 'upgraded' to CS4. For some strange reason I have intermittent problems where I can't assign an action to any object. I'm trying to link a simple button, but in the actions window I get a message telling me that, "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it".
View 2 RepliesI just got CS4 and was following some tutorials for what I wanted to do. I Created a button and then inside of that button I created a movie clip in the keyframe "Up." In that movieclip I created a keyframe at frame 10 and created motion tween. I went to put a stop action in frame 10 and it says the current selection can not have action applied to it. I cant write any code for the button at this stage and I am not sure why.
View 7 RepliesI'd like to do fancy things the selection indicator. How do I get the bounding box for the currently selected characters?
View 2 RepliesI am building a website for an online store in Flash 8. I needed to use a dropdown menu for selecting the size of a clothing item, so I just used the default ComboBox component. I thought it was working fine, until I came across a strange bug (with the component, or my own code) where the ComboBox was not showing the current selected item.
The dropdown's list works, and shows all the options, but if you click on one, it doesn't get displayed as the current selection in its TextBox. The weird thing is that it still works fine, and I can access the data ok. If I use myComboBox.text I can access the current selections text, even though Nothing is being displayed.
Has anyone come across this before, and has any suggestions for what I am doing wrong.
A few details: Here is the actual code I am using to load the options into the ComboBox: Code: Select allvar my_cb:ComboBox = this.pages.product.size_comboBox;
my_cb.removeAll();
var sizesList:Object = productData[categoryID][productID]["sizes"];
for(var s in sizesList){
my_cb.addItem({data:s, label:sizesList[s]});
}
my_cb.redraw();
There are a number of other things happening the same time as its adding the items to the comboBox, e.g. loading images, creating movieClips, etc. Could loading this be causing the comboBox to not function properly.
I'm trying to add an action at the end of a MovieClip (which contains another MovieClip fading in and out) to stop it and remove it from the stage, but on every frame I try I keep getting "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it". What am I doing wrong?
View 4 RepliesLets say I have 4 items on the stage item1_mc, item2_mc, etc...they're stacked vertically with a small space between them. I wish to cycle through these items with two keys, up and down respectively...how would I go about doing this?
My current idea is to create an array of these items and have each press of the key add or subtract "1" from the current selection...is this the correct method to pursue? Are there better options?
I never realized that fl.getDocumentDOM().selection doesn't retain the selection order... <sniff>. I was hoping to build relationships based on the order. I guess I took if for granted that tools like Maya and Max store the selection buffer in order of what was selected. I'm trying to avoid: Select Object, <Press 'Parent' Button>, Select Parent, <Press 'Parent' Button>
View 2 Repliesi am attaching a number of _mc (my_mc) with a for loop. Inside each my_mc is an input textfield (my_txt)I want to click on my_mc.my_txt and select the textfield .the following code allow this and i can enter text from the keyboard however I want to add text from a _mc keybooard on screen (here called myBtn_mc).As soon as I click on myBtn_mc of course I lose focus ... i have tried to use a variable (select) to keep scope&focus
View 6 RepliesI have a series of frames one the timeline. Each frame has a graphic and a mouse click leads to the next frame. Think Myst.
[Code]...
When the middle frame is returned to, clicks no longer change anything. I believe that the actions of the 'left' frame are replacing the one's in the middle frame so then it is told to gotoAndStop to itself.
I'd like to know if that is indeed what is happening and how I can make it stop.
1. Can i put another set of actions in frame 2 of the actions layer?i tested but it doesn't seem to work..it has 836 rows of code and it's getting annoying when tryin to search for a function..
2. I am not that familiar with classes, i usually put all the code into movieclips or in actions layer.. i am not sure if i can call a function from a actionscript class..
3.I am curios if there is any way i could specify an alternative for the if statement like in this pseudocode:
if ( apple is not clean BUT is tasty)
{
eat(apple)
}
I have a short TEXT that I turned into a symbol, it is a MovieClip on the stage. I applied a preset motion of blur fly in to it and it does fly in but does not blur. I tried to use the motion editor to increase a blur to 255 but even when I add it on the initial keyframe, there is NO blur.
View 10 RepliesI'm not quite sure why the external CSS is not being applied to the text field. Does my cssLoaded function need to be triggered elsewhereFirst, the CSS:
Code:
p {
font-family: Arial;
[code]....
my CSS is not getting applied why?
Code:
var myLV_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var cssStyles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();
cssStyles.load("styles/cssStyles.css");
[code]....
Now the text is succefully being loaded into the dynamic text field and also in the trace statement i get "success loading css" so it looks like the css is loading as well...Also the font Verdana has been embedded in the movie(so shudnt be a problem in that respect)..and the button render as html is pressed!!So why is the class not being applied to the word "Education"?
i've been trying to get to grips with OOP and have so far managed to comprehend the basics of classes, methods, properties, the constructor function and property inheritance, helped by a number of examples and tutorials from the web and Moock's Actioncript - The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly). however, i've reached a sticking point when i try to apply these principles to actual movieClips. i want to attach movies from the library and control their properties using OOP, but i cannot work out how to apply the custom properties i've created to them. for example, i have a constructor Ball, with a property move, and i want to create movie clips ball1, ball2, ball3... which have properties such as radius and speed.
View 3 Replies[code]Now the text is succefully being loaded into the dynamic text field and also in the trace statement i get "success loading css" so it looks like the css is loading as well..Also the font Verdana has been embedded in the movie(so shudnt be a problem in that respect)..and the button render as html is pressed.So why is the class not being applied to the word "Education"?
View 2 RepliesI've got an AS3 loader making a Get URLRequest on the local machine (not browser based). The URL being reported back has this:[url]explain why [[DYNAMIC]]/3 is being appended to the URL at runtime? No encryption has been applied to the swf file. What does [[DYNAMIC]] mean?
View 5 RepliesHow do I change the CSS rules for a TextField that already has style associated with it ?
This TextField is inside a RichTextEditor.
Here's the code I'm trying:
_rSts: StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
_rSts.parseCSS('font {font-family:Verdana; font-size:12;}');
_rTextField.styleSheet = _rSts;
but when I assign the new StyleSheet to the TextField it throws an exception stating that I cannot assign a style to an element already containing a style.
I have a mc that contains dynamic text field... My mc is animated in the main timeline..Now I load text from xml and then asign to textbox and I apply stylesheet to it.But when stylesheet is applied my mc that contains that text cant be animated..
View 2 RepliesI am trying to print a movieclip that has a colorMatrixFilter applied to it, but when I print, it comes out without the filter applied.
View 3 RepliesI have narrowed my issue to this. If you create a sprite add a square and a startDrag on press to that sprite. then add that sprite as a child to a container sprite. Create a button on the same level as the container sprite and add a mouse click listener that causes container sprite to rotate using rotationY or X. Now run it, first you will notice you can drag the square no prob. Once you hit the button and rotate your container using rotationY or X the drag does not work. Other properties such as x, y , alpha can still be set but startDrag or stopDrag. I think this is a bug as I have found several people reporting on this but not solution.
View 2 RepliesHow do I clear a filter after having applied it to an object. In particular, I'm bluring an object while animating it but want to clear the blur once it's hit the destination mark.[code]
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