how do you debug external files if they have functions that can only be executed when inside the main movie? I hope this makes sense...so the thing is that a movie just exported shows you the values of the traced items (undefined, numbers,..whatever). When that same movie is published and viewed in the flash player within the main movie, the traced items don't show in the output window.
View 3 RepliesDebugging script in external AS file ?
View 2 RepliesI'm building a networked client app with Flash Builder, and would like to be able to set environmental variables or #define's such as server's hostname and port. For debugging purposes I want to connect the client with different servers (and for other devs too). In C/C++ I'd define TEST_PORT=8888 or something in the IDE or build environment, that way I wouldn't need to commit a settings file along with the client. But not sure what's the standard for Flash Builder.
View 1 Replies... I've had my preloader successes already, but something still doesn't work for the external movies... I'm loading the main movie - which contains several chapters, loaded as external swf's - with the following preloader on the first frame, rest content from second frame on:
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I have always the argument with my colleagues which authoring strategy to use. I always attached to the idea of authoring several swf files, and have them all loaded to the main swf when needed. And than attach Preloader to each swf that I load.
Others think that it should be only one swf with one preloader. And have all the navigation to use scenes or goto actions.
So the advantage of using my strategy is that users will not wait too long for one movie when its being loaded. And its more convenient to work on several fla with each have its own layers, symbols, etc
I am having some troubles to remove the movieClip from the current Loader (from the main FLA) at the external movies...
Check out how the external movie loads..
Code:
// -- FUN��O NAVIGATE -- //
function navigate(event:MouseEvent):void{
if(event.target.name == "fotos" ){
carregaFotos();
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I have the external swf with some Tween Classes instaled and codified.. But I don't know what to do to CLOSE the external swf loaded at "meuCarregador" and it back to the BEGINNING OF THE ANIMATION on MAIN FLA.
i want to load an external swf movie into the main swf movie. now ive been using the loadmovie script and it works fine but the loaded movie comes up in the top left of my site so my ? is, how can i specify the location of where my loaded movie ends up
View 3 RepliesI got some movies loading in a container, but the movies stay open, I want to be able to "close" the container, or hide it when I click on other navigation buttons that are included in my main timeline.
View 3 Replieshow can i make a preloader in my main movie that preloads external movies
View 1 RepliesI read the tuts on dynamic loading etc (the one about external stuff like mp3s, jpgs, swfs; and the one with the transitions). I'm messing around with it in MX and all works fine, except the problem I have is I cant check it locally! the bandwidth simulator and profiler doesnt seem to work with loading external content, the movie appears immediately.
So I tried loading the swf from the web (i.e. URL = file://[URL]) that gave errors "opening file" (the movie is there though). my only solution so far is to keep uploading my movie everytime I wanna check it!!! which is CRAP! I dont have a network at home, so cant really use those bandwidth simulators I saw on the sticky. basically I juz wanna load an external movie, and see how the parent movie handles it (i.e. progress is kept track of correctly, loaded notifications work etc.) how can I check all this locally?
I got this tutorial about external movie loading. It works but it seems that their is a little problem with it. How do you keep the button from loading an external movie once it's loaded already?
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Let's BUTTON-1 loaded MOVIE-1, now when you click on BUTTON-1 again it will load the movie even if it's loaded. How do you do it like only when another button is clicked will it load the movie for that button.
I have a movie (movie1.swf) which loads "movie2.swf" onto level 2. What is the scripting to make it go right to a specific frame in "movie2.swf"? What if I wanted it to go to a specific scene in "movie2.swf" right away upon load?
View 5 RepliesIs it possable to load an external swf file, that is a rotating movie into another file and still control it??example:I have a rotating object which I want to pause and play. I have loaded the rotating object into a window using the loadMovie command. I now want to be able to use the play and stop buttons to control therotation.Because the movie has been loaded into the window from a different location it does not have a path to target the play and the stop command to also tried adding the play and stop buttons on the rotating object movie swf file. They load and are pressable, but dont do anything?
View 1 RepliesI have three (3) buttons in my main movie. And I just realized that everytime I press the "about me" button, it keep loading, reloading, the same movie. Its kinda lame! So I searched for VARIABLES and thought I could work my way around it.What I did was, on the first frame of my movie, I declared 3 variables; namely:
PHP Code:
var portfolio = false;
var aboutme = false;
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I have made a flash player that loads in two external flash movies this is all now workign fine with a little extra help, however the problem i have now is that when the movies load in they both show in different places, for example the external movie called new_products loads perfectly in places, for example one of the movies loads into place where i want it to but the second loads in to position starting at the top left.When i add x, y for the loader it affects them both, but they still originate from differnt start positions.[code] URL...
View 5 RepliesI have 3 external movies that I would like to play in this order.
first time someone visits the site they get 1.swf
second time they visit the ste they get 2.swf
third time they visit the site they get 3.swf
and everytime after that they get the same pattern 1, 2, 3.
I have a doubt about access functions between an MAIN fla and his external Movie.
All I need is to return a variable to the MAIN.fla function as TRUE.[code]...
I'm quite new to flash and got stuck on a problem involving: loading external movie clips and file paths.I have 5 swf files and want to access them from one main navigation screen.[code]It fails after a few click because the file paths get duplicated..[code]Can any of you Flash gurus point me in the right direction?
View 2 RepliesI want to be able to load a movies, wait till it finishes, unload that movie and then load a new movie. Kinda like a slideshow using external movies. My problem is understanding how to determine when a loaded movie has reached its last frame. I currently have this action on at the end of every movie, but it pops or gives a white flash in between movies which is not so smooth.
movie1: loadMovieNum("/media/flash/one.swf",0);
movie2: loadMovieNum("/media/flash/two.swf",0);
movie3: loadMovieNum("/media/flash/three.swf",0);
I have a Main Movie with four buttons {about us, services, portfolio, contact}. When you click on Portfolio the Portfolio movie is loaded into the main movie to an instance called "load". This Portfolio movie has four buttons in it the first one being "print", now when I click on this link it loads another movie with the "print slideshow" in it.
In this slideshow there are thumbnail images which when pressed opens up another movie showing a bigger image which works fine. But what I would like to do instead of having separate movies for each thumbnail is to have just the one and load in the picture and any copy into a target depending on which one is pressed. I have tried doing this with this script, but it doesn't work (I've only tried loading the pic up to now)
on (press) {
loadMovie("print/view_file.swf", _root.view);
setProperty(_root.view, _x, "445");
setProperty(_root.view, _y, "25");
That part works OK, but it is replacing the slideshow movie. I've deleted the next part of the script and it no longer replaces the slideshow, so I think that is where my problem is, but I'm still not sure why
loadMovie("print/mdc-large.jpg", _root.view.pic);
setProperty(_root.view.pic, _x, "445");
setProperty(_root.view.pic, _y, "25");
}
This part isn't loading the pic at all. I know I've made it a bit difficult for myself by doing it all in separate movies, but I only want to load what is necessary depending on where people are browsing.
i want to make a flash site but i've run into a few issues, i've made an empty movie clip called 'empty'
and a button under it with the code
on (release) {
_root.empty.loadMovie("example.swf");
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I have problem with subject. I got "undefined" message by trace() in 2 cases as well. I don't understand due to "this.createEmptyMovieClip" gives the newly created empty movieclip as well.
As the code shown below.
class CMedia extends MovieClip{
public var oOwnMovie:MovieClip;
public function CMedia()
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Very annoying when i can not initialize a public member variable in this simple case. public var oOwnMovie:MovieClip = new MovieClip; throws error
and I could not initialize it by "createEmptyMovieClip"
how can i load external movies by classes?
I'm made a simple preloader that works fine for my main movie. Now I need it to work when loading external movies.Below is the code I'm using (AS 2.0) for the preloader.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
loading = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25;
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I have three (3) buttons in my main movie. And I just realized that everytime I press the "about me" button, it keep loading, reloading, the same movie. Its kinda lame! So I searched for VARIABLES and thought I could work my way around it.
What I did was, on the first frame of my movie, I declared 3 variables; namely:
PHP Code:
var portfolio = false;
var aboutme = false;
var contact = false;
[Code]....
But I think I missed something along the lines because evertime I click on ABOUT ME, I still get the movie to load. My point here is that once I have CLICKED one button and the designated movie for that button is loaded, I can not reload it again 'cause it's already there.
What am I missing? I hope someone can push me at the right direction here Here is the FLASH MOVIE I am trying to developing. [URL]
I am new here and i am desperate to have my problem solved please. I have an html page with 2 swf movies that should be playing at the same time (one shows logo of a company and the other shows at the same time the company's products). the problem is althought they are synchronized when played on my pc, when loading via internet they doen't play at same time because one is much bigger than the other and takes more time to load and play. so i thought of making a dummy swf movie that loads both swf movies and make them play at same time.
View 1 RepliesDo you have any tips, or a link to a good tutorial? I'm a bit of a newbie...
View 4 RepliesI made some banners with Five3d that I am trying to load as external SWF's into another movie. I setup the classes, etc... however when I test the movie it always says "Call to a possibly undefined method... etc, etc" -- (which is making reference to the Five3d external AS file I used for my banners)...
I am new and still learning about Five3d, is there something else required to load Five3d projects as external movies?
I have an interface that needs to load in external activity pages - there's quite a few of these. I've been trying to create an external class to take care of movie loads, but it has a bad memory leak. I've been reading about using unload() and unloadAndStop() but haven't gotten these to work (there are no noticeable differences in system memory usage or performance). Everything grinds to a halt once I've used up about 13+ Mb of memory.
The document class has lots of code (of course) so I'm just showing the code that relates here:
Code:
package {
public class Interface extends MovieClip {
static public var _ui:MovieClip;
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I have a flash application running on some local machines. There are 3 movies the flash loads and plays. Each time a movie is played, it makes the amount of RAM the swf is using increase. This is being ran in a museum and users step through the 3 movies over and over and over, causing the swf to use gigabytes of RAM and eventually locking up the flash player.
Here's where I create the movie playback component.
ActionScript Code:
var flvPlayer:FLVPlayback = new FLVPlayback();
addChild(flvPlayer);
The 3 movies are on 3 different frames in the timeline, for each frame I have this code that loads each movie.
ActionScript Code:
flvPlayer.source = "resources/LADEE_overview.f4v";
flvPlayer.play();
flvPlayer.addEventListener(MetadataEvent.CUE_POINT, cuepointfound);
I use the cuepoints to display some text on screen. I also call a function that does flvPlayer.stop(); each time the user navigates away from a movie frame. So is the RAM usage growing because of the flvPlayer.source = "whatever" being triggered each time the movie is called up?
I have several external loaded with related buttons. However, I want the loaded flv removed when other buttons click. I s there any way to do it?
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