I'm having some trouble with a movie clip button. Basically I have a button that when you click it it sends you to another frame on the root timeline. This all works fine, however I want the button to stay in it's transformed state whilst you are in the specific root timeline frame, therefore signifying where you are on the site. Here's the code I have used -
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I'm pretty new to flash and action script, and I'm trying to create a complex button. But when I test the scene, it won't stop it keeps looping. I checked for errors and its come up with syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbrace.[code]...
View 0 RepliesHow I can get the complex button, when pressed to goto a certain frame of the main timeline and not the complex button timeline. Right now I have it set when press and release gotoandplay(2)... but it plays the button timeline and not the main timeline:
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}}
this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}this.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
I have buttons that need to perform multiple functions: On rollover, they send their link to the browser's status bar. On roll out they clear the status bar. On press they send tracking code to the html. And on release they send getURL with the link. I've put in some variables so that I don't need to copy the links over and over, but I'd really like to streamline button functions so that I don't need to make a whole new set of onRollover onRollout onPress onRelease functions for each and every link. how to simplify button functions so that they can work for any button.
Code:
//IMPORT THE JAVASCRIPT EXTERNAL
import flash.external.*;
//THE FUNCTION THAT WILL CALL THE JAVASCRIPT FUNCTION IN THE HEAD OF THE HTML DOC
function jsStatus(link) {
// The name of a JavaScript function to call
//IN QUOTES, IN THIS CASE callStatusBar
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I'm following the complex button tutorial (http:ur....), though I'm trying to alter it a bit so that I can have an animating movie inside the movieclip, but be able to use another movieclip (or button or whatever) to define the size of the first, since the first is so big just about any movement on the stage triggers its movement.
View 5 Replies1. Im wanting the button movieclip to play a certain part of a different movie when on the roll over state...
2. Im also wanting the button to play an external swf in a container mc: http:[url]....can this done using the button mc.
I have used code in the "Complex Button RollOut/RollOver Effects" tutorial for a menu in my media, but after trying and trying I can't make the button stop on last size when I click it, and the then make it play again when click it a second time.
View 2 RepliesOn the main timeline I have a movie clip ("Sound Full") on it. The movie clip is being used as a complex rollover button for "revealing" a full sound interface. When the mouse rolls over, the word "Sound" fades out and the panel appears. When rolled off, of course it goes in reverse. I've seen it done in many places...including www.iso50.com.
Anyway, on the timeline for "Sound Full", I have three layers being used for the following...
1) Actions
2) An instance of a graphic symbol ("Sound Text")
3) An instance of a movie clip symbol ("Sound Player)
The Actions are a few lines of code to rewind or play based on whether or not the mouse is over the area or not (as learned directly from [url] And for the instances, I just used motion tweens to have "Sound Text" fading out as "Sound Player" fades in. It's like 5 frames in all. Very quick effect.
The timeline for "Sound Player" is only one frame. Each piece of the player has its own layer (play button, stop button, etc.) and the top layer (also reserved for Actions) has a single line of actionscript where I have written:
[code]...
The problem is that when I test the whole movie...the rollover effects works beautifully, but the buttons in the interface aren't clickable or working at all. I discovered that if I simply tested "Sound Player" by itself...it works perfectly, except there's obviously no rollover effect since "Sound Player" is nested inside of the movie "Sound Full" which is what does the effect.
Does this make sense? Hopefully it does. Anyway, so my question is...
1) Am I missing a basic fundamental rule of Flash in order to make it run smoothly?
2) Is the "tweening" of "Sound Player" possibly messing it up? (Remember, I noticed that when the include line for the external actionscript file was in the same frame as the indiv. player buttons it worked fine.
3) Do you need to see the .fla file to help me out?
4) Bottomline...can you help me out?
how to open a new window when you click on the button, I am looking to jump to a frame label in the same movie, I tried adding the goto function in place of the get url but it wont work. This button is on the main timeline in scene 1 and I need it to go to a frame thats labeled port on its release.
here is a link to the tutorial you currently have: [URL]
I know a lot of people had asked questions about this Complex Button RollOver/RollOut Effects.url...This tutorial is very helpful, but i am having trouble with linking the button to my movie clip container.In the tutorial the code is this:[code]I am trying to combine with this tutorial:url...But i want the button onRelease to load a swf into my mc_container, but when i click the button it doesn't load my movies. does anyone know the code i need for this button to load external swf's into my conatiner, through this complex button?[code]
View 2 RepliesWhile browsing the site I found the link of as2 script. [URL]
But unable to replicate the script in as3.
I was following the tutorial for the RollOver/RollOut effects button...and I came into a snag. Everything worked great...with exception for a little bit that I wanted to change.
I wanted the rollover/rollout effect but have multiple buttons with different links. In this tutorial, you can only go to one URL. I was interested in using the rollover/rollout feature as part of a dropdown menu in flash. [URL].Is there any way to take the following line of code and play with the instance names?
this.onRelease = function(){ getURL("http://www.kirupa.com","_blank"); }
[FMX04]complex rollover button and transition scripton RollOver/RollOut Effects� with the �Transitions Between External SWFs� tutorial. For some reason I can�t seem to get the buttons to function properly. I keep getting a mouse over error I�m sure it�s something really small that I�m overlooking.
//all this code is inside the complex button so you can stick as many as you want
//on the stage and all will work.. they all will have this code in it..
stop(); // stop the movie clip from playing (stop button from growing, we want that when the mouse rolls over only
[code]....
I've been working on the XML Thumbnail gallery tutorial posted up and I wanted to know if it's possible to make a complex rollover effect on an xml button? For example I would like to make this character { rotated 180 degrees above the button as a person highlights the button. How would I go about that.
View 5 RepliesI need to do a little swf for a webpage that show a map the idea was to create on mouseover a Roll In and with a mouseout a Roll Out.
so i downloaded the template from kirupa, Complex Button RollOver/RollOut Effect
i personalized to my needs and it works fine
at the end of the roll in the zoom in should stop and i have three buttons who send me to other three sites
when i put the button on the stage this will not work.. probably is the code of the complexbutton who blocks the other buttonfunction....
im getting mad trying some possibilitys but nothing will work
an example of who i need to do the swf is on the site [URL]
i post the code of the complexbutton
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
[Code].....
I want to create a class, or classes, that will allow my designers, working in Flash Pro CS5, to call a Movie Clip from their library to be used as a button on the stage. In a perfect world they would do this with one line of code, setting the dynamic label text, the X and Y position, and setting the URL for the onClick function such as below: [code]How do I direct it to what MC I want in the Library? I am guessing it would be another parameter of the method call, but how would that work? I would like them to be able to use the code on any MC design they create.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to work with this xml in AS3. [URL]. But I am getting a url error. I was wondering how to read this in, or what might be causing me to get this error:
ActionScript Code:
Error opening URL '[URL]'
Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. [URL]&List={76269379-92F6-4418-8605-0A5414F91AA9}&View={9F672220-5766-409C-9C90-D746C4B85223}
at SharepointXML_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
The xml shows up when you go here, but it won't read in.
making a flash game that has a lot of rather complex illustrator graphics. In the game you walk down a street, so all the graphics has to be moved every frame. In some levels where there are a lot of objects in the street the game starts to lag. after importing it to flash and making a mc of it, break it apart to save flash from drawing all the shapes that aren visible anyway?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a turret that points towards the cursor, but lags when the cursor is moved. I can get this to work, however I am running into problems when the cursor crosses from quadrant 4 to 3 (and vice versa). The problem is that the function I am using to control the turret's rotation rotates the turret around the opposite direction almost 360 degrees to get to the new position, instead of moving the few degrees it needs to.
View 3 RepliesI would like an animation to play (of the words being scribbled out) and when you mouseout, it goes back to normal. On page click, I wanted the link to change colour so that you would know which page you were on.I have created a frame by frame animation of the words being scribbled out, but I don't know what to do with the animation!How do I insert it into my html? Do I need to use actionscript in flash?
View 2 RepliesI'm building an event calendar as part of a website .The calendar is divided into two sections, "calendar" on the right with the actual calendar displayed, and "calendarContent" on the left, where information about the evnts is supposed to show up. The different frames in "calendarContent" are all labeled. Within "calendar" I have different movieclips for each month, and inside each month I put the buttons that open the event descriptions in "calendarContent."
Now, for some reason it's not working. The function I'm trying is the following:
MovieClip(root).pages.calendarContent.gotoAndStop("artsundays");where "pages" is the name of the parent movieclip that "calendar" and "calendarContent" are both inside, and "artsundays" is the label for the frame in "calendarContent" I want to go to. The function is placed within one of the month movieclips. I get the following error:TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.I've also tried usng MovieClip(parent) instead of MovieClip(root).pages (since "pages" is the parent), as well as a few other variations, but the problem remained.
I've this application, where two children are playing catch. One throws and the other catches. While I can show a ball object moving between two stationary objects, how do I show the objects "releasing" and "catching" the ball, in a way that is close to lifelike?[URL]...
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to understand if it is possible to generate complex PDF files with Flex. By complex I mean add images, styled text (font-family, weight, columns) layout elements with large degree of control and so on. I was looking at AlivePDF library but cannot understand if it can handle more complicated PDF generation than plain text.
View 1 Replies...for example, I'm trying to import a sun shaped PNG... I want the suns rays to act as the masking object... so I can see what's beneath it through the rays. Think of taking the paint brush, making a circle and then the rays are just again a paintbrush stroke.When I set up the mask however, though it's a transparent png, it ignores the actual shape & turns into a rectangle.
View 6 RepliesIf I have a button inside a movieclip inside another movieclip and so on, how do I remove a child of the stage or a child of a child of the stage from somewhere several layers up from that? I am having trouble understanding stage and movieclip heirarchy I guess.If that's not clear, here's another example of what I don't get.
a_mc contains b_mc which contains c_mc which contains d_mc which contains e_mc. If I have a button inside e_mc called f_mc, how do I remove c_mc from that button?
When you open the website and load the contaner with all mc,there is two situations:
1) Load perfectly and my container 3D effect is not so CPU Intensive and works smooth
2) My container with all _MC is very slow and eatin the CPU. The 3D effect is totally screwed up. The container is scaling it self all the time on the x-as and y-as.
Open the a new browser and set it to max view (not fullscreen) then open the domein URL...I use Tweener addTween() for the 3D effect... off course if i turn it off its all fine.. But i like this 3D effect so much.
Data=["M", "XYZ", "1/1/00"]
Attributes=["sex", "name", "date"]
Search=["sex", "name", "date"]
var orignal="{sex}<b>{name}</b>{date}"
I am getting a string from XML file in the above format which i am storing in original varible. But at the time of showing the output, I want values of the variables ( {sex} ..those are in culy braces) to be displayed which are their in array Data....like for sex value is M ..for name it is xyz...etc...and the values should be displayed in a format defined in the strring....so how do i create a new string which would look like this...newstring="M<b>xyz</b>1/1/00"
I have 7 main navigation items, some of them have pop-out menus to the right with subnavigation. Current Example I'm trying to get it to behave like this:- You roll over Nav item 1, and Nav1's subnavigation shows to the right- You are able to still click on Nav item 1 or it's subnavigation and each will bring up content- When you roll off the area (nav1's area + subnav1's area), the submenu goes awayAs you can see, I've got Nav1's rollOver and rollOut working, but now I need to place a button area over "Musical Arts Center" (Nav1) so I can have an onRelease for that item
View 1 RepliesThere are two stationary balls-ball A and ball B. There is another ball- ball C, which has to move from ballA to ballB.The problem is that when the I "run" the movie, ball C is automatically placed at the position of ballB. That is, I do not see ball C moving from the position of ball A to the position of ball B.I have used a line-drawing algorithm to move ball C. Also, the entire stuff is written in Actionscript. PS:this._x++ and this._y++ will not work because ballC has to travel the exact path between the two balls
View 4 RepliesI need to check if two (rather complex) arrays are exactly the same. I know that I can simply loop through everything & set a flag in case something is not the same, but I was wondering if there would be some easier way than this using a pre-built method?
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