I'm loading 10 jpg images into _root.content.section_4.mc_anim, each is placed into its own movieClip.
Code:
_root.content.section_4.mc_anim["gall_img_"+img_view_index]
These movieclips are hidden and then have the images from an array loaded into them.
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I am creating a photo gallery using xml and a thumbnail bar at the side. I want each picture to fit into a square without distorting the image, so I will need to use masks. Currently I am using the loadClip metohd for loading pictures then I am attempting to use onLoadInit to dynamically set the masks. It is hard to show the problem on here so I have here's the link..[URL]...
It seems that you can't place "i" values in the onLoadInit part which I tired previously, atm I can only get one to work as you will be able to see.
I'm creating a playlist for a music player, and I've got the song names displaying correctly in my songTitle holder MC, but there's limited space for the song names to be shown in, and I'm going to eventually have it inside a scrolling movieclip. Problem is, the text inside the textfields disappear when I try to add a mask to the movieclip they're being loaded into. I've tried adding all combos of embedFonts, antialias, and blendModes I ran into, to no avail.how to mask dynamically created textfields with a non-dynamic (Flash IDE-made) mask.
Code:
for (var i:int = 1; i <= _size; i++) {
var pl_artist:TextField = new TextField;
//all embedFont = true and antiAlias commands no workie
}
I've been having some trouble with this code:
Code:
onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.stop();
dO = 3.6;
r = 75;
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I've created a movieclip with a donut graphic.Set the actionscript to the clip. Created a 2nd frame in the timeline with a photo.Nothing happens.
I'm loading images into an otherwise empty MovieClip called container_mc using UILoaders and spacing them horizontally. I also have the image names as TextFields below the images all within the container. I'm masking the container clip using the following syntax:
container_mc.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mask_mc.cacheAsBitmap = true;
container_mc.mask = mask_mc;
This USUALLY works, but for some reason when I load over 20 images into the container -- the mask no longer works. At first it appears as though it's working but then the text disappears and when I mouse over the images to scroll them horizontally, the mask (which is magenta) appears and disappears -- flickering strangely. Should I be caching? I was under the impression I had to for the dynamic text to show up. Maybe it's the where I placed the code (load-order)?
I can't get this code to work. Is this complete?
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Code:
onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.stop();
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Ok so I'm trying to make a navigation system that is loaded from an XML file and has sub menus. Trying to do it ALL in AS. I don't have any symbols in my library except for the embedded font. Now, sometimes I need to mask something, is it possible to use a dynamically created mc to mask another dynamically created mc dynamically oh, did I forget to say dynamically?? Ok so let's use this as an example, two boxes. One orange, one purple.
Code:
mask = createEmptyMovieClip('orange', 1);
mask.moveTo(50,22);
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I draw a shape with the AS3's drawing API, then I draw another shape that intersects the previous shape, both the shapes have fill in them, but the intersecting area does not have any fill. I am not able to manage the "direction" that the shape is drawn in. what I need is for flash to just fill everything up to the outer borders of all the shapes, how would i achieve this? I found this forum thread that has almost the exact same problem that i have, but it is not resolved. [URL]
View 4 RepliesI have a 8x 10 array of mcs on stage each which contains a small image. So, there are 8 parent clips (columns) each containing 6 child clips containing the thumbnail images. If the movie clip arrays are created dynamcally (therefore loaded into the top layer) how can I mask them? I'd like to be able to mask 1 vertical (parent) column at a time (so only 1 of the 8 columns (6 images) is visible.
View 14 RepliesAnd my problem isn't the mask but the dynamic text is not loading from the XML file anymore.I think this is because in the tutorial the first thing you do is make the dynamic text field a movie clip. As soon as I do that the text data doesn't load from the external XML file. The code that previously worked was:_root.prompt = this.firstChild.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue; prompt_txt.text = _root.prompt;But now I made the dynamic text field prompt_txt a movie clip named prompt_mc and it doesn't load. So I realize now that prompt_txt lives inside prompt_mc but how do I get the text data from the XML file there???
View 4 RepliesI cannot get dynamic text fields to display when using a mask. Here is what I have done: Created a new Font object in Flash - Linkage: Export for Actionscript , class: Euro
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what I am doing is making an XML menu for a website. Each button has a background and and over-state background. The backgrounds are 9 sliced scaled movie clips, well the over-state background is set up to mask an animation movie clip that is larger than any button will be. The mask is 9 slice scaled and is always the same size as the regular background. These backgrounds are x-scaled in a function in the Button.as. The title passed in through the XML determines the width. All of this so far works perfectly.
Now a navigation movie clip processes and adds all of the button movie clips based on the amount of nodes in the XML, this also sets the X and Y coordinates as well as sets a "spacer" between the buttons. Here is my problem, every time the function runs to create a new button, it sets the x value at:
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This is great if I don't use the mask though. What happens since the movie clip I am masking in the over-state background is wider than the buttons are is that there is wayyy to large of a gap. When each button is added, actionscript sees the width of the button with everything in it, masked or not. So I've tried a for-loop in the button creating function to increment a number variable from 0 - the max number of buttons in the XML. I then want to set the x value to:
Code: Select allbutton.x = (button.background.width * i);
This is the background of the button that has the correct width that actionscript should be using. By multiplying it by the i variable, it should move the x right with every button. Unfortunately it's not working.
it is masking some dynamic content that is brought in through an external swf. there is a dynamic text field and also a picture loader. whenever either one of these changes, the mask gets all distorted with holes/lighter areas in it.
View 1 RepliesIn my current project I'm building a waterfall. Each drop in the waterfall is generated from the waterfall.as class and added to the stage via addchild. Now I have a mask that I want all of those drops to use however I can't seem to get this to work. I've tried placing the mask on the timeline and I couldn't seem to access the mask from the waterfall.as file. I've also given the mask it's own class and added it dynamically to no avail.
View 7 Repliesmaking an XML menu for a website. Each button has a background and and over-state background. The backgrounds are 9 sliced scaled movie clips, well the over-state background is set up to mask an animation movie clip that is larger than any button will be. The mask is 9 slice scaled and is always the same size as the regular background. These backgrounds are x-scaled in a function in the Button.as. The title passed in through the XML determines the width. All of this so far works perfectly.
Now a navigation movie clip processes and adds all of the button movie clips based on the amount of nodes in the XML, this also sets the X and Y coordinates as well as sets a "spacer" between the buttons. Here is my problem, every time the function runs to create a new button, it sets the x value at:
Code:
button.x = this.width;
This is great if I don't use the mask though. What happens since the movie clip I am masking in the over-state background is wider than the buttons are is that there is wayyy to large of a gap. When each button is added, actionscript sees the width of the button with everything in it, masked or not. So I've tried a for-loop in the button creating function to increment a number variable from 0 - the max number of buttons in the XML. I then want to set the x value to:
Code:
button.x = (button.background.width * i);
This is the background of the button that has the correct width that actionscript should be using. By multiplying it by the i variable, it should move the x right with every button. Unfortunately it's not working.
when adding a mask to a parent sprite with a dynamic text field, the text loses anti-aliasing. how can i maintain the text's anti-alias while still applying a mask to its parent, and subsequently to itself.the font is embedded, and the text field will be animated so it must also be masked along with its parent.
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.Shape;
import flash.text.*;
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im trying to do a dinamic link for my dinamic thumbs gallery. But i dont know how to propagate it. here is my function for my show next button PHP Code:
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I want to use semi-transparent mask on external swf for smooth transition. I'm using
clip.cacheAsBitmap = true;
mask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
clip.setMask(mask);[code].....
it doesn't work... what am I doing wrong?
Can you export a semi transparent .swf? I need to send a .swf file with 70 percent opacity that will eventually be an overlay over a video.
View 1 Repliesusing action script how to draw a semi circle...i need to add tha semicircle in another circle the circle looks like this ![alt text][1] how to draw a semi circle inside that circle
View 1 RepliesI've been developing in AS2 for a few years now, and I'm learning AS3 at the moment. I ran into a problem about setting alpha on a PNG image.
I have a movieclip that holds a semi-transparent PNG image which comes straight from the library. Now I want to edit the alpha property of the movieclip. In AS2 it all works fine but when I set the alpha property in AS3 all semi-transparent pixels in the PNG image will fill with black first; then the alpha setting is applied.
Do I need to save my PNG's in particular way or do I need to edit settings in Flash to display correctly?
when you iterate through an array using for / each, assuming the elements in the array are primitive types, the looping var takes on the type and value of each item, but is not a reference to the item.
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var arr:Object = {a:1,b:2,c:3};
for each (var a:int in arr) {
a++;
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This differs from the behavior of PHP5, for example, where even though most objects are passed by reference automatically, objects within foreach loops are treated as copies unless specifically passed as &references like
PHP Code:
foreach ($arr as $key=>&$b) {}
Is there any way to get AS3 to do the decent thing and give you a choice whether subarrays are passed as references or not, without resorting to making ByteArray copies of your objects for every iteration of a loop?
I am trying to find out if it is possible to a) create a semi transparent box in flash, b) motion tween that box into place, c) subsequently use it to run forms and PHP scripts (connect to a MySQL instance, ect). I know that an exact answer to c) will be long and complex, so a simple (general) yes or no will suffice... but if someone could point me in more detailed direction with a) and b), If you need to see the actual project I'm working on, or if I need to clarify my questions,
View 1 RepliesI am quite experienced in Photshop and other elements however I am an absolute novice when it comes to flash.
What I am trying to create is an effect for a logo in which the motif in a semi circle shape which i want to appear in a wipe fashion starting left to right so that in wipe across and the shape appears in full at the end.
The shape in a rainbow....this would also have the company name below the logo which would be visible from start to finish. I have attached the picture of the logo. I would like the gold pot to also appear in the swipe of the rainbow.
I'm trying to make a simplegame in which you have to avoid a bunch of angry looking circles as they move across the screen. What should happen is that they all spawn outside of the stage and move across it then when they reach the other side they appear from somewhere else outside the stage So far I have managed to only make them come from one side of the screen by using this script on the enemy
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I've tried using a switch() function with a random number to choose which side the enemy comes from but that didn't work it just skipped to default
Once I have a semitransparent object (with alpha not equal to 1) and put a glow filter on it, the glowing area is visible not only near edges of an object, but also under the object. It changes the whole look of an object, while it (probably by my logic) only should have changed the look of edges.
how to glow (or drop shadow) only edges of an object?
I have a string that looks something like this: 00110; book1,book2,book3,: 6 What I need to do it spilt it up into sperate values by the semi colon. so in the end it would be like
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I have a bunch of different Movieclips from about 10 different classes moving about the stage. What would be the fastest/most efficient way to detect collisions between two of them? They can overlap each other a bit before the collision is detected, so I thought the easiest way would be to draw a couple rectangles that take up a majority of the object for each class and use hitTestObject to see if any of the invisible rectangles of one instance are colliding with the invisible rectangles of another. Is this a good method? I figured that since a bit of overlapping is okay and actually preferred, that two or three rectangles can easily take up all the room I need for each object.
View 2 RepliesI try to animate a Movieclip (box or circle) thru a half ellipse path. Circle or ellipse path will be random.
View 1 RepliesI'd like to add a couple of different MC's to the particle stream. I'd like to do that by referencing different items in the library.So I have 12 different particles in the library exported with classes named from Bubble0 to Bubble10 now as I run through my for loop I'd like it to use a different particle each time. first time I tried:
ActionScript Code:
var bubbleArray:Array = new Array();
bubbleArray.push(Bubble0,Bubble1,Bubble2,Bubble3,Bubble4,Bubble5,Bubble6,Bubble7,Bubble8,Bubble9,Bubble10,Bubble11)
for (var j:uint = 0; j < NUMBER_OF_BUBBLES; j++) {
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Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 871086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbracket.Is what I'm trying to do possible without some clunky switch statement?
P.S. I tried searching the forum for an answer but the terms are so common I couldn't find what I'm looking for.