I'm trying to do mouse trails in Flash MX, but having some problems. Tutorials are a little unclear. Do you first place your image or text on the main timeline and then actionscript or do you create a movie button, script that and drag onto stage?
View 5 RepliesI stumbled upon a tutorial from a few years back. It basically set up a rolling text mouse trail.I altered it so I could start the mouse trail with a button, but have yet to figure out how to stop it.
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on (release){
Text = "It's a mouse trail!";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
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In the tutorial it mentions the 'for loop' in the code. Does this mean I can not stop it once it starts? I hope not. I'd really like to give the user an option for turning off the mouse trail if they find it obtrusive.
Can someone tell me if there is a way to get the action script used for the mouse trail, and the changing pictures effect on this web site? It is the only mouse action script that I have seen to work well in just about any web browser to date. [URL]
View 2 RepliesI have an AS 3 class that extends UIComponent. In that class I dynamically add several sprites, that are also AS 3 classes that
extend from Sprite.So, in my UIComponent extended class, I added these listeners:
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,mouseDownHandler);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,onMouseMoveHandler);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,mouseUpHandler);
I added trace messages inside each of these event handler functions. The problem is that, whenever I try to dispatch these events starting from one of the children sprites from the UIComponent (let's say I click one of the sprites and the mouseDown event starts) the sequence works perfect. However when I try to do the same in the "blank" area of the UIComponent (which is just a
graphics.beginFill(0xffffff);
graphics.drawRect(0,0,this.width,this.height);
.graphics.endFill();) nothing happens. The events are never
"listen" by the UIComponent.
Actually if I run the app and click on the white area, the trace messages are ok, it triggers the mouseDown event, but only one time. I a click again, nothing happens.I tried adding another sprite, to have this one holding all the other sprites, and tried to add the listeners to it...same effect. I can't get that UIComponent to listen and react, only it's children sprites...
What I'm trying to implement at the end is a multiple drag selection of the children items of the UIComponent, but I have to be able to start the drag selection from any point in the screen.
Ive just recently begun using bitmapData for various things, and I decided to create game around it. So Ive been working on this project for weeks now and for some reason i cannot fix this. Ok, so when I use the applyFilter(); Method it cuts my FPS IN HALF!
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Anyway, I'm an animator and I've zero knowledge about AS. =( So, I want to ask, if you can explain following things: How can I change the glow and/or trail color? How can I tween this manually? Am I allowed to post request here actually? =P
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I have some htmlText in a textField inside a MovieClip on the timeline. The MovieClip has a little (CS3) timeline motion tween on it - it grows and shrinks once. The htmlText is populated beforehand via ActionScript and the entire SWF sits inside a preloader "shell" that handles loading it and adding it to the displayList.
When the text expands - it looks fine. When it shrinks, the HTML bullets (UL and LI items) leave "trails" behind - and thus create a "streak". The funny thing is, if later on I move the playhead forward using gotoAndPlay(), the streaks disappear, even though it's not moving to a new keyframe for that MovieClip. So it's clearly a screen refresh issue.
I tried turning runtime bitmap caching on, and the bullets did not display whatsoever.
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I have a simple AS class:
package Bubbles
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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Stage only has that green rectangle on it. If I remove it nothing changes. If I change line thickness to 6 trails does not appear, at 7 and higher they appear. You can check SWF here: [URL]. How do I make it work correctly?
Update: If I change that rectangle shape to something star-like with sharp angles, trails appear even on lower thickness values (trails appear when thickness == 3 or more).
i have an object on a motion path and want it to leave a solid trail of itself when it moves (no fade and stage isn't cleared)
View 8 RepliesIm motion tweening letters in from different angles to form the company's name for a website intro, but some of the letters leave a trail behind them...
View 2 RepliesI bought a flash file the other day which i plan to modify and use for an intro to a project i am working on. Currently there is one instance of a Star which follows a path and emits "sparkles" while tracing the path. I would like to add two more stars/ paths.
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I am having this issue with Flash CS5:After making an animation, I export movie as Quicktime. When I view this movie it?well I am not sure what it is doing. The animation leaves trails of color when an object moves across the screen, leaving behind little bits of color too. Is it lagging? This does not happen when I export a SWF, but it does happen when I export a Quicktime movie.I export using Quicktime, so I can then import it into iMovie, to add titles, and sound and others things, or perhaps I just want to add a little Flash movie to my iMovie project.
View 0 RepliesI created a FLASH header for a website. My client wants me to remove a small line of text from it, but I no longer have the original .fla file. The text is over a simple gradient background, and I could probably just cover the text with a color rectangle.
View 5 RepliesI encrypted my swf by SWF Encrypt and I lost my fla.... :/Now I can't decompile this swf because it is encrypted.is It any possibilty to recover this .fla ? program, method ?
View 1 RepliesI've got a dynamic textfield clip which is placed twice on the stage. It also includes a button. Funny thing is, the first trace works (tracing its _y value: 0 for clip 1 and 200 for duplicate clip 2). When I press the down button of both clips however it traces undefined though it's the same line. How does onPress mess up the targetting of both clips? [code]
View 6 RepliesI created an image in Photoshop that included a gradient layer fading from transparency to a foreground color (in this case, black). I saved this image as a PNG file and imported the file onto my Flash stage. The gradient appears on the image as expected when viewing the stage in the Flash editor, however, when I test the movie, the gradient no longer appears.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to edit a flash file that was done in MX. I only have CS5. When i open the file, save and export there is a slight problem. Once published and uploaded, a dynamic text box which is meant to load text from the CMS appears blank. Is there something which can be lost in translation when saving from MX to CS5?
View 1 RepliesMy problem is that my old computer *exploded* last week and i was making a project for my dad so I lost my (.fla) file. But, I have an animation of that same project in (.swf) on my USB Key because I've exported it just before my computer crash just to watch what It was looking like. So my question is, is it possible to open my (.swf) in Flash Pro and get all my snippet code back and all my frame back and everything else (like if it was my (.fla) project?)
View 3 RepliesWhen I start debugging a Flex project, I have a error because some xml aren't find, so i copy manualy all the files from the project (/src) to (/bin-debug).This happen to some xml files no every single file.
View 1 Replieshow to parse my xml to get it this way. The part im having issues with is in red.
ans[0][0] = Jimmy Carter
ans[0][1] = Thomas Jefferson
ans[0][2] = Barack Obama
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I'v attached a listener to a movieclip on stage but I can access any "global" varaiables which are out side the listeners function.I lose the scope or something what can i do about it? here is some code.
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player.controlbar.muteButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mute0,false,0,true);
public function mute0(e:MouseEvent):void {
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I have a flash file which I want to loop, and have used this action on the last frame:
on(load) {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
Seems to work, but I need to convert the file to FLV and am losing the loop when I do this.
My primary movie clip is 1200 frames long and on the last frame I have a small action: gotoAndPlay(190) so that it will loop back to that spot upon reaching the end, It works very nicely. UNTIL, that is, I place the primary movie in a frame within a preloader. When placed in the preloader, the primary clip doesn't loop back to frame 190 anymore; the actionscript is lost.
I wanted a preloader so the area on the website dedicated to this flash file wouldn't appear blank as it loads. I found a tutorial online and followed it;
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I need to add 2 JPG images to the front of a video and then reupload it as YouTube video. I downloaded the video from YouTube as both a FLV and a MP4 file. Is Flash the best program to add the graphics? If so, how do I get it back to FLV or MPG format? Do I need to get the orginal file from my distributor?
View 1 RepliesI have a MainClass on a FLA file that defines both public, private, statics or not, properties and methods.I also have a package named 'components' that stocks Sprite sub-classes for my movie exportable clips. In one of them, I use the "this.root" property to access my main class instance elements at runtime.When I access public method references, same thing, I can trace them and have a true reponse to the question : [myPublicMethod is Function] ? BUT, when I want to execute the public methods, like MainClass (this.root). myPublicMethod(), the compiler boldly throws this at me :Error 1195: Attempted access of inaccessible method myPublicMethod through a reference with static type MainClass.
View 1 RepliesI have a website which has a swf as a horizontal menu. When the website is opened as[URL] the functionality of the swf does not work i.e. the links contained within the buttons aren't executed on click. However, if you enter the address as h[URL] the links work exactly as they should. I have contacted my host for clues but because I don't know exactly what I am asking for, the help offered is of a 'have your cleared your cookies' variety.
View 11 RepliesI have created a video with a control bar in Flash 8. When I run the .swf file by itself (in Flash player or IE) the control bar is there but when I add it to my web page the control bar is missing.
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I'm working on an application that stores conferences with their start and end date. Up until now, I was developing in Belgium and my server is in France, so everything is in the same timezone, no problem. But today, I'm in San Francisco, my server is in France and I noticed I have a bug.I'm setting dates from a Flex client (ActionScript automatically adapts date display according to client local timezone, which is GMT-8 for me today. My server runs on Hibernate and MySQL in France (GMT+1). So when I look at my database using phpMyAdmin, I see a date set to "2010-06-07 00:00:01" but in my Flex client it displays "2010-06-06 15:00:01".
Ultimately, what I want is that the dates are displayed in the local timezone of the event, which is the date I set it to. So when I'm in Belgium and I set the start date of an event to be "2010-06-07 00:00:01" I want to retrieve it that way.But I'm lost as to what layer adapts what. Is timezone stored in DATETIME MySQL columns (I can't see it in MySQL)? Does Hibernate to anything to it when it transfers it to java.lang.Date that has Timezone information?
I know the title may be funny for you but I am actually facing it. My page has a checkbox and textbox. I have a flash control (not developed by and so I don't have it's code) and a button inside that control. When the button is clicked inside flash control it causes redirection(or may be postback) to the same page but the values typed the user in textbox and checkbox are no longer available. They are lost! How can I handle this stuff? I am pulling my hair apart. I don't even the source code of that control
View 3 Replieshow to parse my xml to get it this way. The part im having issues with is in red.
ans[0][0] = Jimmy Carter
ans[0][1] = Thomas Jefferson
ans[0][2] = Barack Obama
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