Would it be possible to take a mc that is inside a mc like say _root.mc1.mc2 would i be able to make say a button so that in the swf when i hit that button mc2 is brought to _root and if i hit another button with _root.mc2 it would respond.
View 4 RepliesWhat I need to do is assign 5 separate dynamic text fields to 5 seperate buttons and at the same time to those same five buttons i would like to add 5 images that i would be able to change merely by swapping out the images in the file theyre in on the server.I would also like to get a nice transition between the images...ALSO i want to dynamically load the images for the buttons that will be used for switching from picture to picture(which im thinking i will be able to do after i know the how to do point the aforementioned things.)
Through tutorials I've found around the net I've been able to get most of the parts together... but i get lost because what they show you for AS2 they don't for AS3 and vice versa, at least that ive seen.so... I guess my question is... would i need to set up 5 seperate dynamic text fields on the stage and then set each one of them to one of the corresponding button. If so what AS code would i need to use to do so. And if not what would i need to do?
The other part of the question would be I know about the UILoader... would i be able to use it as my buttons and images, if so would i need 5 seperate ui loaders for both the Thumbnail buttons and the images or is there a way that would be better to do it? and once i do that would i do the transitions using frames and tweens like with AS2?
If I create a new flash AS3 file and create two blank keyframes in my actions layer I can add actions to each keyframe separately no problem. I can then easily switch between the actions frames from the menu bar on the left of the actions input panel. However if I try and do this on any of my projects i've been working on for a while when I create a new blank keyframe in the actions layer and try to add actions to it, I get sent straight back to my first actions keyframe and not a nice blank page. Can I even apply seperate actions to seperate keyframes?
View 6 RepliesThis is NOT the same as my last thread as i am after three and NOT ONE as last time. In the attached movie there are three seperate movies loading into three seperate tweens. Please note that i am happy with this movie as it is, and do not want to change anything about it except for the script itself. It refurs to three seperate clips "b.a","d.c" and "f.e". What i want is for the script to incorperate all three clips under one name of "mc" And instead of have three seperate widths, "width 1","width2" and "width3" i want the script to also incorperate all three widths and heights into just one name of "width" and one name of "height".
View 9 RepliesI must be doing something wrong it is not working. In my map1.as I have
Code:
public class Map1 extends Object3D{
//load skins for planets
[embed(source="sunmap.jpg")]
private var sunskin:BitmapFileMaterial;
private var sun:Sphere;
[Code] .....
I am using Away3D engine. I get no errors but I also just have a blank screen.
I am trying to do something pretty basic I think...I have attached a screenshot below of what the site looks like so far. What I want to do is always have the left hand side links showing on the site. I want to create a new .fla for projects and have that load on the window on the right when the projects link is clicked on. What I have done in the past is create the entire website within one .fla but that is getting too confusing. I assume some actionscript is required here which I am pretty useless with.
View 21 RepliesI have a menu and when I click I want to add a new swf on top calling from a seperate xml doc. it seems to be calling the airplanes.swf underneath the first MC.any ideas why? Is it because I am using xml to populate the swf.[code]
View 3 Repliesi already made my flash site but realized afterwards that swf file is way too big. i compressed the images in photoshop as jpgs (72 dpi) but the site still loads way too slow during the preloader. the only option that i can think of is to make the site a swf file and the work section as another swf file. how would go about creating a seperate swf from my work section (which is a movie clip)?
View 1 RepliesI was able to use LocalConnection to have 2 swfs communicating when both sitting in the same PC, or upload those on to the server and accessing those from the same PC. Is there any way to do this between two PCs, one PC running send.swf, controlling another PC running receive.swf? I checked adobe site for LocalConnection and it looks like this only works within one client PC.
View 2 RepliesI have 9 fla files. Is there anything I can do to create 1 swf out of 9 separate fla files??? I tried to cut and past the info all onto 1 timeline. Is there more than one way to do this?? I end up with multiple files with the same name in the library and it becomes a bit of a nightmare just trying to use the cut and past method.
View 4 RepliesI'm building a simple interactive video/animation in Flash. I have a sample from the company that I'm going follow and they use separate scenes for different sections of the video. I've read there are disadvantages to using Scenes but I haven't seen any advantages. In fact I haven't found much about Scenes at all. Most people seem to build their stuff in one scene, just labeling frames so they can jump to them to make scenes that way. I also have been looking up tutorials and I can't find anything about using the Scenes palette and how to connect the scenes together. Is there any reason I should use this Scenes palette and not do my whole video in one scene?
View 7 RepliesI need 20 separate timers, to be used with 10 separate objects, and need to be able to start, stop, and edit the delay time of each timer separately.
My question is; would having 23 timers going on simultaneously slow the program down, and is there a quick or easy way to mass-create and mass-edit timers (arrays? for/next loops? I'm pretty new to ActionScript...)
i have two seperate movie clips on two seperate layers on the front page of my template. (loaded dynamically) the layers are on top of one another.
the two movie clips work fine one their own on the template, but when i put them both on the template and I press their respective buttons the TOP movieclip's buttons control the BOTTOM movie clips actions. it's crazy. i've tried to move them around but then it's just the reversed - the bottom buttons control the top movieclip.
i have this set of script imbedded at the timeline, now the code is working very well...but i want to put it in a seperate actionscript file, i attemp to many times but failed..
View 7 RepliesSo I'm making a game, i'm making a window class and want the children of that window to only be active within the window, in html I know you make a new frame, is there anything similar in as3? Or do I have to delete any mc that breaches the dimensions of the window?
View 2 RepliesI don't know how to separate actionscript(.as) file from .swf
View 1 Repliesi no i will use the bitMap draw function and push each 1 into a array in order. but im unsure on how to separate 1 image into seprate 1s. can any1 just give me a quick knolage burst. as soon as im told how to ill be fine coding it just getting my head araound the math(not my strongest subject, bad i no).
View 3 RepliesI'm now writing a simple socket application for my own learning purposes. It will be a really simple BlackJack application.I was thinking for ways to manage 52 different cards in my app. I could make those 52 cards, as 52 images and then, maybe load them into movieclips at runtime. Or, I could take one big image with all of the cards on it, and create a masked movieclip, and then, shift and slide the image's position, so that the correct graphic of the card shows.y question is: which way is faster? Will flash be better with handling 52 small images, lets say 20x40 (in reality, i will only load like 6 of them in the display list, since black jack almost never deals with huge amount of cards). Or would it be faster, if I had a big image with all the cards (~160x160 maybe) and just reused that with different masking, calculated on runtime?
View 1 RepliesOne thing bothers me when I visited one site. I noticed that the sound is in a separate swf, how did they do that? [URL]
View 2 Repliestake a string like "5050 XO slider" and separate it into "5050" and "XO slider" for the XML Parser?
View 3 RepliesI'm working with BitmapData.getColorBoundsRect and it works so far fine for me. But what if I want to find more rectangles with the same color? For example: I got a BitmapData with 3 red rectangles. If I use getColorBoundsRect I get the whole area including the 3 rectangles. Is there a way to separate each rectangle?
View 5 Replies//I've got this working
var sending_lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
this.mcLeftBox.onRollOver = function() {
[code].....
I'm trying to use 2 separate timers in a flash solution (CS4, AS3). The second timer won't fire. I need 2 constant events. one could drive the other
I'm displaying a different image every x seconds. I'm fading the old image out and then fading the new image in. Unfortunately, I've not been able to get these events to work in tandem. fade in and out times are both 2 secs & need to be sequential.
I've written a code so i can load several images onto my stage with a grid. I wanted it like this so it would be easy to change, add etc because the customer only have to change the xml image path or add and put the picture into the folder. Well this is my code:
Code:
public function albumarts(){
myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("albumarts.xml"));
[code].....
I need to load separate SWF files depending on different flash buttons being pressed. The problem is I see a flicker inbetween SWF's being played. I think the flicker is where it goes back one frame - but I do not know how to solve this.
The first bike should scroll along to the left then stop, buttons should then appear that allow you to load the external/separate SWF files.
I am building a gallery that displays images. There is a gallery movie that controls which image is displayed. It is on level 2.
The images are on loaded in movieclips onto level 3. What I am trying to do is create back and forward buttons that load with the images.
What I'm trying to do is get the button that loads with the images (on level 3) to send a command to the movie clip on level 2 top move forward twelve frames.
I've tried using currentFrame to get the clip to move forward, but it I can't get it to work properly. Here's what I have (this is all AS2 in CS4):
(this is on the button on level 3)
on(release) {
_level2.clip.gotoAndPlay(currentFrame + 12);
}
What seems to be happening is the currentFrame is being defined as the frame on level3 that the button is on. Flash takes that frame number, adds 12 to it and then moves the clip on level 2 forward that many frames. So if my button on level3 is on frame 2, the clip on level2 gets moved 14 frames.
What I need to happen is for the currentFrame to refer to the current frame on level2, not the current frame on level3.
i've been reading and searching all the related articles but still in the dard...i've 2 movies m1 and m2 - in m1 there are thumbnails and in m2 i need to open the zoomed view of appropriate thumbnail - both the movies are on same page but in different cells of a table.
View 2 RepliesSo I'm making a flash slideshow of baby pictures for my wedding, and I made 3 separate files, however I would like them all to play one after the other without any interruptionsIs there a way to link them or should I just try to rebuild the 2nd and 3rd files into the 1st
View 1 Repliesim trying to find info about giving sections of my flash websites different urls.[URL]How do i code it so that a url can take me to a section of a flash website?
View 3 RepliesIf it is possible to link two separate flash files. I am trying to get one flash file to play another file.
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