I have been working for some time trying to remake Paint in flash. Question is: how to simulate a pencil drawing, my idea so far is to draw lines one after another.
View 6 Repliesi've tried to simulate a pencil tool, for drawing above a imagem, but the drawing is below the picture. How fix it?
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When I select the pencil tool and draw a path it doesn't show it until I release the mouse button!
why?
When I am drawing with a pencil, the line looks like the shape I want to draw, but when I stop drawing, the shape reshapes to another shape whick looks like circles and rectangles = it does not look like the shape I wanted to draw. What is the problem?
View 1 Repliesbit of a noob at flash, so I've been having a bit of a difficulty in using the pencil/brush tool in drawing an animation. I set a keyframe, and paint a yellow stroke. Then i continue onto the next key. I then go back to the first keyframe, and want to paint a black stroke over part of the yellow stroke i made earlier.
after selecting this first frame (making the layer active), I go to change the stroke color of the brush to black but find that it now changes my yellow stroke (which I want to keep yellow) to black. I see that in selecting the frame, by default whatever strokes were made on this frame are also selected (which I don't want). So I'd like to know how do I avoid altering my previous stroke and still put a different colored stroke overlapping it on the same frame?
also is it possible to append a brush/pencil stroke to an old brush/pencil stroke?
I have downloaded the trial version of Adobe Executive Suite CS5. In the Flash Professional CS5 program I am trying to do a drawing with the pencil tool. In the old version of Flash that I have (4.0) if I draw two lines that overlap, I can delete the line past the point where they cross. In this version I can't do that.It treats each line I draw as a separate item and won't combine them. I notice the properties panel says I am in Object mode which would be the reason. However I can't get it to go to merge mode, which is supposed to be the default.Is this because it's the trial version and not all features work in that version? My email address is[url].... and I can be phoned at 541 782-5904 (Oregon).
View 2 RepliesWith several flashes I'm trying to create, I find that I need to know how to depict a line being drawn or a plant/vine growing (same concept right). Obviously frame-by-frame animation can be used, but that's quite tedious. There must be some other, more productive way to pull it off. Example of the vine: [URL] I've tried shape tweens with shape hints but it didn't render very well at all.
View 6 RepliesI've seen it before, and I'm unable to properly label what it is..But what I'm looking for is the method to make an imaginary pencil draw on my flash..So if it were a circle (not connecting at the end, just off of meeting) I could use a mask to make it display in any direction but how do I mask the circle going clockwise?
View 0 RepliesI have two SWFs, one is a 960x30px, the other is a 960x300px. I can get it to load the 960x300 from the 960x30, but I can't get it to load by sliding down underneath it, keeping it 960x300. I have written external JavaScript to move the content underneath down. It needs to be in Actionscripting 2.0 There is one correct example on my web site for Penn State with the girl. [URL]..
View 1 RepliesI would like to know what my visitors will see when they visit my site without flash installed. Obviously I could uninstall flash to find this out, but I was just wondering whether there's some gimmicky add-on out there that can simulate 'no Flash'. Would be handy...
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to simulate streaming mp3s with local mp3s in flash?
View 2 RepliesI've searched this and cannot find it. I've tried different plugins and different browsers (Firefox, Opera, and Chrome). I've tried most of the no flash plugins for each of those as well as disabling Flash plugins/addons in the settings. I also renamed the .so file in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/ i found by searching the system. when i renamed it, makes Firefox and Chrome ask to install Flash, but still:alert(navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-shockwave-flash'].type);returns:application/x-shockwave-flash'm not sure what else to try without uninstalling Flash, but that will be a total pain in the ass for this. I also REALLY don't want to use SWFObject just to see if Flash is at all installed which I can do simply with:
View 1 RepliesI have a quick question... is there a way to simulate a flashvar while testing an application in the Flash IDE? I know I can export it and test it on a web browser with a container passing the flashvar, but it's so much easier to just do CTRL+Enter :P
Specifically, what I'm doing here is the following: My movie has a lot of things hardcoded... I want it to load the hardcoded parts only if there's a flashvar called "debug" and set to "true". As you may have guessed, I DO NOT want that flashvar to be known to my providers, but I do want to set it on the IDE so everytime I test the code, it enters my debug mode (and so I don't have to change even a bit of code to publish it later)This would be my code:
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I am currently making a website on my Mac with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. I had an idea to make an iPhone and press a button next to it so that it would change the application page/home screen page displayed on the iPhone. I have NO idea how to go about doing this. I was told this can be done in Flash using Actionscript 3.0 but I do not know anything about AS3.
View 2 RepliesI'm developing Greasemonkey scripts for a website. I do not control the Flash file.
Question: Is it possible to simulate a mouse click on a button/movie clip in a Flash object embedded in a web page? Googling only shows ways to simulate a mouse click on a DOM element, and ways that require the ActionScript to be changed to implement a JavaScript interface. Or is this simply impossible?
I am trying to show the first image of my image gallery when it is loaded. How would I go about simulating a mouse click event that will pass an event value to a function?
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Our sales people accepted flash banners without a click tag and then scream in anger when our ads server (openx) didn't count correctly the clicks. I'm looking if exists some way of "simulate" a click tag, I don't know exactly how, maybe with some JavaScript.
View 2 Repliesive constantly problems when developing flash applications that work based on flash variables provided in the embed code of a website. it is very annoying and time consuming to re upload swf�s to a web server after every change to see if it works in browsers. is there a way to simulate embed info...like there is simulation for download.
View 6 RepliesI was thinking about this today, when i was using my new Makita I got for Christmas.How can I simulate a drill in flash?
View 6 Repliesi want to simulate cellphone environment in flash
View 1 RepliesWhy i couldn't see the preloader when i do simulate download (i.e. control+enter) after publishing ? Do my PC have any prob? or flash?
View 1 RepliesThe reason I don't like the brush tool is because the brush line is not consistent in its thickness. For example, if I draw a curve with the brush tool, some of the line will be thicker than other parts of the line. The pencil tool has the same thickness all around, but unfortunately it is very thin.
View 1 Repliesis there a way to use the pencil tool (if u forgot what it exactly did, check the included image below) through actionscript, i searched the API for quite some time but couldn't it.
View 5 RepliesI need to do the windows moving effect from the following Ubuntu Window Effects video in Flash. Basically the window is transformed while you drag it. I want to have a movieclip and when I drag it to transform the same way the Ubuntu windows transform. I believe that there is something to do with matrix transformations.
View 3 RepliesI have recently started making (and am still making) the transition from ActionScript 2 to 3. I have used the _global variable in an AS2 project as I needed a variable to be accessible from within ANY swf loaded into my main movie. This worked like a treat.
However, along came AS3 and whipped that from right under my feet. After much Googling, a few people suggested making use of a simple class with a simple variable that can be publicly set and retrieved. I made a simple class, imported it and manipulated the value, and all went well, however the instance of the class I create in my main loader movie is still not accessible from within a second SWF that gets loaded into my movie. If I re-instantiate the class in the SWF that is being dynamically loaded, the value reverts to the default value in the class code, not the new value set in my parent (first) movie.
Here is my class code, stored in an external .as file, is there any way I can simulate the ostype variable being a global variable?
package{
public class ostype {
public var ismac:Boolean = false;
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it's used as a simple identifier as to what operating system this flash app is being used on (mac or windows) and as a result let's me server content - such as saving files - in a different manner.
How to develop a flash file that can simulate a sms (text message) input like how you will write a message with your mobile phone. For example pressing the num '1' once, will give u 'a', twice will give u 'b', and trice will give u 'c' etc. I have an onscreen number pad, so user click the button '1' will give u 'a', twice will give u 'b' and etc. Problem is how can I detect the mouse to be how many click before they chunk out a alphabet. Also not forgetting some key like '7' need to test for 4 hit (P,Q,R,S).
View 2 Repliesdevelop a flash file that can simulate a sms (text message) input like how you will write a message with your mobile phone. For example pressing the num 1 once, will give u a, twice will give u b, and trice will give u c etc.
I have an onscreen number pad, so user click the button 1 will give u a, twice will give u b and etc
Problem is how can I detect the mouse to be how many click before they chunk out a alphabet. Also not forgetting some key like 7 need to test for 4 hit (P,Q,R,S).
Why is it that when I draw with the pencil tool, my lines get auto-reshaped? This is nice but it's not nice when I try to draw a stickfigure and it turns out completely wrong. Sometimes when I draw a circle with the pencil tool it becomes a square. But then again I don't use a drawing pad. I use a mouse.
Somebody told me: "Because Flash is really a vector drawing tool, not a bitmap drawing tool. It is *interpreting* your marks as pieces of a curve. That said I think there may be a setting to remove this smooth - in effect using more line parts for you drawing."
I'd like to use the mouse to sketch a basic curve which will then be 'auto-smoothed' when the mouse is released. This is exactly how the Flash pencil tool already behaves.
My question is: Is it possible to access this functionality with actionscript without having to reinvent the wheel?
Right now I only have this code, but I'm not using BitmapData.draw(). How can I write my code using BitmapData.draw()?[code]
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