basicly im making a flash game i have a city scrolling from left to right and theirs a car that looks like its moving but its actually the background now i want a "Stop" sign image to pop up randomly each go, basicly the game is a reactor test so i dont want the user to beable to count how many seconds before it pops up cause that will be cheating im guessing its something to do with
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I just started learning ActionScript 3.0/Flash CS5 a day or two ago, and I am still very early on with it, however I do have some other web development experience with PHP and some Javascript. I am learning from a book that was written for Flash CS4, but it did not seem like a whole bunch was different. I am now getting "Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at Main()"
I did several searches for the problem here, but most of the threads referencing this error are far more complex than what I am trying to do, involving multiple, long class files and the timeline. I have been unable to solve my problem after reading through various threads for hours now. Most of the fixes had to do with the timeline, however, all of my GUI is in one frame with no animation.
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Its been many years since I've used flash and I was just wondering what the easiest way to do collision detection was now. I know that there was some hit test bounding box stuff present earlier but I don't know the capabilities of flash cs4 and the advances that have been made. Google searches have yielded things like complex pixel-perfect collision detection but not a lot seems to have been written about CS4 yet.
View 3 RepliesIs there an easy way to set a number in a function call?In C you'd just pass the pointer, but since AS3.0 has no pointers, I'm not sure what to do.I suppose I could create a class that wraps the Number to an Object, forcing AS to use the pointer, but that seems a bit clunky.
View 4 RepliesI started out with Swish, then I moved on to Flash8. I have quickly realized that it's a lot more difficult to achieve animation. Probably due to my lack of education with actionscript 2.0 and Flash8. Are there simple shortcuts to being able to do something as simple as making a photo spin around and explode? I haven't explored Flash8 much, but it doesn't seem as easy as Swish was. Of course, Swish seems obsolete compared to more advanced flash programs.
View 2 RepliesWhat's the easiest way to move one item from one spot to another, within the same array?Say I have an array consisting of four movieclips array = [rock, scissors, paper, bomb].Now i want to move the paper from its position as nr 3 (or array[2], and put it in the first positon array[0]. [code]but that just gave me a bunch of unwanted errors then i tried just the unshift(scissors), but now the array contains two instances of the scissors. What to do? Is there really no array.takeOutAndPutBackInFront(scissors)-ish method?
View 4 RepliesI want to make a game using physics in Flash, so I stumbled upon Box2D, but i find that hard to use [the basics are simple, but when i see the scripts,so i was wondering if there are easy to use flash physics engines?
View 6 RepliesI've recently created a game in which the logic and programming all runs perfectly, however the graphics are lackluster. I'm currently having a hard time managing the depth of movieclips on the screen.Basically the game is tile based and each frame of the movieclip holds a different type of tile. All the tiles are 50x50 with the exception of one type of tile which is 60x60 and therein needs to overlap the tiles around it which are 50x50.In AS2 I could of set the depth manually, however I'm told (as is this is my first time dealing with depth in AS3) that I cannot do this anymore. Is there any suggestions on how I can make sure that a tile of one type is automatically set beneath tiles of another type - I've thought about simply coding a function to check this but it somehow seems inefficient (considering larger maps will have a lot of tiles, meaning hundreds of movieclips attached to the stage, each movieclip with multiple frames).
View 2 Repliesis there an easy way to set the buttonMode to true to all my buttons in my application?
I thought to create a custom component which extends the s:Button and set there buttonMode to true but I wonder if there is an easier way like with CSS.
I try to save some variable in a game with local Shared Object, that basically should go like this: after every completed level it sets the variable to that number of level (if not higher already); then i have a MC that reacts to that variable (set its frame number to the number in the variable) so you can select already completet levels.
Now i thought, this would be easier, and tried [not allowed link to some tech note from Adobe on local SO], but didn't worked so far.
I am trying to figure out a way to calculate time diffrence between now and a set time
var settime:Number = 2:35am
and
now would be getDate();
I tried something rediculus, but it is not working when i input a date below the 24h , is there a class out there that can simply this stuff or is there something on the internet that could tell me the diffrence between to diffrent time.
My Attempt
var date:Date = new Date();
//Timer set at what time would i like to call the functionvar lastcallH:Number = 22;var lastcallM:Number = 50;var lastcallS:Number = 0;[code].....
I cant get the flash to work on my website. I have also tried using countless versions of the 'AC_RunActiveContent.js' wrapper with this, but it just ends up as a white block, whereas if I just use the following code I get a black block. So I am certain that the path is correct because if I change the src path, it becomes a white block.
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="[URL]"WIDTH="796" HEIGHT="300" id="banner">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="banner.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<EMBED src="/myfolder/banner.swf" quality=high WIDTH="796" HEIGHT="300"NAME="banner" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"PLUGINSPAGE="[URL]"></EMBED></OBJECT>
I am working on a Results page for my game as well as upgrade page and looking for an easy way to do many textfields. I have a format for my text that takes care of font, colour, and size, but looking for an easy way to do the width and height of textfields to increase all at the same time.I have been informed about a "with" keyword that may work but do not understand how to implement this within my program and essentially want to shorten my results class if possible.
View 2 RepliesHow do I do a scale movement using the easy effect? I study a lot of examples, using speed/5, but... didn't work. I just saw a site that tells what do I want to do: [URL]
View 2 RepliesI feel dumb for asking this....but what is the best way to make an object rotate (counter-clockwise in this case) indefinitely? ENTER_FRAME listener that offsets the angle by a certain number of degrees per frame? more economical way?
View 3 RepliesI'm getting info from an XML file for an image viewer, and I'd like to make 10 little previews. I've got all solved, even this, but I'd like to know why this code does not work
for (i=0; i<inc; i++) loadPvw.call("a"+i, wpPvw-i);
it gets into the function but seems that doesn't gets the path right
i know I can do this
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I am new to AS3, in AS2 it was really easy to select a dynamic attachmovie method.I'm trying to attach a dynamic bitmap dynamically. In my library I have a load of bitmaps with class export names, img1, img2, img3 etc..[code]But I want to select it dynamically, is there a way of doing this?[code]
View 2 RepliesI come to you once again after hours of frustration. I have two swf's that are displaying a pop-up window of sorts. The first is easy (and it works): the user clicks a button and the appropriate pop-up opens with a "close window" button. When the user clicks that "close" button, the pop-up closes revealing the original view again. The code on the main timeline for this one is:
my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, openWindowEvent4)
function openWindowEvent4(event:MouseEvent):void{
my_mc.play();
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[URL]I need some easy tuts on this, there are a few on here but which are good tuts?I know some items are fluid, and centered, but how do i do full browser scalable images with menu on top or below?
View 8 RepliesSee the file. How di I do this tween-easy effect using action script?
View 5 RepliesI have a MC, and made it behave like a button:
b2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mOver);
b2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mOut);
b2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mUp);
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I have a Cube which I want to rotate using mouse motion. So if I move my mouse to the left it rotates as if rotationX was increased. When I move right rotationX is increased. Moving Up and Down alters rotationY.
This looks fine as long as you modify only one dimension (either rotationX or rotationY). But if I have already changed rotationX and then try to modify rotationY the results are weird. If rotationX is 180 rotationY effects are reversed. It basically is quite unpredictable and certainly not suitable for user.
I have tried to look around (failed), read about quaternions (couldn't understand), tried some out of blue and very complex trigonometric calculations (made a fool out of myself) and so I am stuck now. I've found this SO question Best way to translate mouse drag motion into 3d rotation of an object but it doesn't help me a bit, I can't understand any of the answers, really.
I am in the process of creating a Historical Timeline which is easy to update and change.This is what I have come up with so far:
ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
this.attachMovie("1900_mc", "window", 1);
window._x = 25;
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currently I am using the following code which requires me to create Linkages with the buttons. Is there a better way of doing this? also is there anyway to add a effect for example fade in and fade out.
I think it will be extremely easy for most of you, as I am a noob to as3My code is as follows
Code:
buttons_mc.vespabutton1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,vespabutton1Click);
function vespabutton1Click(e:MouseEvent):void {
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I have a small big (well I hope it's small, that I can't see where I am goign wrong).
I have a check box and when the user selects that and then clicks a ok button then it should load some new XML into a textfield. The problem is it doesn't seem to want to get past the actual function. I know with the trace statement that it knows it's selected and the OK button has been clicked but it just won't go to the loadXML function. Can anyone see something I'm not?
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Ok, the WD who designed my site put a flash header at the top w/ my testimonials. Now I have another WD fixing stuff on my DW template & there seems to be a problem for me in Fire Fox. Whenever I go onto certain pages, the flash catches & doesn't load smoothly with the rest of the page or some times not at all. See page... [URL] (or any page in that test folder)
I'm about to launch the site & he says there is nothing wrong, but this didn't happen b4 & the last thing I want is for my beautiful site to show white space at the top LOL He had deleted the flash cards (is that what they are called?) saying the testimonials are in the flash file, but I still have them on my HD just in case. Can someone tell me what the problem is & how to fix it. This is my first time using flash & I want it to be a positive experience for all.
is it possible to have the snow moving from right to left?someone had designed something completly sideways as they were rotating there monitor 90 degrees instead of buying a video card that would do it for them.
View 3 RepliesHere's my problem in a nutshell. I have a database (mysql), then i get data from an external php file that connects to the database. I use URLReqest and URLLoader to access the php file.
My question is, when i change data in my database, the change reflects in the php file. But when i access the php file from Flash, it doesn't refresh. I have to make a new php file, then access this new file to get the updated data.
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Now I have another WD fixing stuff on my DW template & there seems to be a problem for me in Fire Fox.Whenever I go onto certain pages, the flash catches & doesn't load smoothly with the rest of the page or some times not at all. See page... I'm about to launch the site & he says there is nothing wrong, but this didn't happen b4 & the last thing I want is for my beautiful site to show white space at the top LOLHe had deleted the flash cards (is that what they are called?) saying the testimonials are in the flash file, but I still have them on my HD just in case.Can someone tell me what the problem is & how to fix it. This is my first time using flash & I want it to be a positive experience for all.
View 2 RepliesI'm starting a blog with a hosted wordpress instance and i would like to be able to stream music using a flash player on some posts.The problem is that every player i find uses a simple param to get the file url which makes it very easy for someone to find that url and just download the file.I know that it's probably impossible to prevent this all together, but i at least don't want it to be obvious.
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