ActionScript 2.0 :: The Loaded Images Remain Locked?
May 30, 2010
It's about a website where a Photo Gallery exists. It all works fine until I press the Gallery button and then try to go elsewhere. The photos not only they remain on the page (the text and other images load normally on the current page, but under the gallery photos), but if I press the Gallery button again after pressing another button, it keeps loading those images over the previous ones. The code:
OK I have been racking my brain to get this resolved and unfortunately there isn't a lot of info on the web. Scenario: We are in a shared environment. Central file server (Mac OS X server) over gigabit enet. We open flash files over the network and then we "try" to publish the files back to the same server in which the .fla is stored. (I have read John at Adobe's comments on the practice but this DID work).
So we access the flash file at /Volumes/ServerName/JobFolder/~Flash/ and we "attempt to" publish the .swf to /Volumes/ServerName/JobFolder/htmlfolder/flash .... this was working previously in flash 6-7 but in 8-cs3 it has stopped working and we are kicking ourselves to get some answers. When we try to publish we get the following error: "Error creating Flash movie file. Be sure the destination is not locked or on a locked drive. Also, check that the file name is not too long."
I'm considering making a Flex/AS3 based web application but worrying about some employers (i.e. potential customers) that don't have access to Flash plug in version 9 and up. Why? Maybe their corporate standard for browser is old; maybe they lock down employees computers which prevents users to download and install the plug-in or an alternate browser; maybe Flash's ubiquity goes away in the next 3 years given Adobe's recent announcements; etc.Anyway, my question is, would it be possible to insert a USB Flash drive into the client computer in question and run a Browser having flash (e.g. chrome) on the USB drive (assuming such a browser has already been installed on the USB drive), to access the web application with full functionality? I'm just trying to think of workarounds if my customer doesn't have flash plug-in and can't download to install it.
My problem is that I want to scale my symbol in ONE specific direction. Up, down, left OR right. Flash automaticaly scales a symbol equaly to both sides, changes the x/y values of the opposite edge from the symbol, but I don`t want this.
I mean, I want to scale my symbols just like shapes. If I scale to the right, the left side stays on the same X/Y values.
I can`t do this on flash IDE nor in actionscript. I would like to know if there are any solution to both cases
I want this because in my movie clip I have a mask (a symbol made from a square) and I need it to scale upwards. But doing this by code makes it enlarge downwards equally screwing up my animation.
I've got a reporting system that uses Flex Visualization charts for the GUI. The first row of a report is the header and the second is a summary row that sums all the data in that column for the data rows. The summary row is locked so that when you scroll down it stays at the top. In Flex 2.X I was able to change the background color of this locked summary row by overriding drawRowBackground and setting the color for the row with index 0. I upgraded to Flex 3.4 and now this no longer works. It appears to iterate over lockedRows separate from other rows, so drawRowBackground is called with a row index of 0 twice and the first data row ends up getting colored.
How are you supposed to change the background color of lockedRows in 3.4, or am I misusing this component and there is another way to achieve my goal here?
edit: mods I think maybe I misunderstood the name of this forum and this post actually belongs under ActionScript 3.
I have developed to applications in flex. The one application constantly retrieves data from the internet, while the other can be opened and closed when you want, both apps use the same database. The problem is that at random I get an Error #3119: Database file is currently locked. Is it not possible to have two stable connections in a Adobe AIR environment?
I want to recreate the same effect (this has been done) but with a little twist, and I do not know how to code the mask with Action Script.What I want to achieve is this:
1. Lock my mask on the Y axis;
2. When I mouse over it, the mask would move up and down;
3. The mouse cursor would disapear while being in the mask.
My flash file is almost complete. I just need the code to move the mask.
I trained on flashMX back in the day and haven't done anything since so now I've got CS5 it's a bit like being at school again! I have a circular dial sat in the middle of the screen with an arrow placed on it's edge. How do I get the dial to rotate so it always faces the mouse pointer?
I have 12 movieclip buttons which each contain a question. When you click on one, the answer appears. I need the answer to remain on the screen. On that same frame, there's a button for "more information".When that is selected, it goes to another frame within the mc, and more info appears. However, it is covered up by the other 11 buttons from the main screen
I am trying to create a series of buttons that when finally "clicked" will simply stay on or in their "hit" state. This is not for a web page at all, but for an interactive SWF. Now, I've come to the conclusion that I can't do this with a button graphic so I've created a four state button movie clip with the aid of some online tutorials. Unfortunately all the tutorials end with a URL reference and I simply want the button to function like a button until it's clicked... and then freeze there until the SWF is run again.[code]
First,I have a menu screen for my game, but for some reason the buttons remain during the game (not visible), I think I need to use swapDepths but I'm not sure. Second, I need to make a restart button from the Game Over screen but I'm not sure of the coding I need to use,would using something like this work?
Is it fine to display the output of Array.toString() to the user, or is there a possibility that the string format could change in future versions of ActionScript 3 or other compilers?
I have a simple movie that just runs to the end and stops. When it stops, I want an object to appear and remain visible while the movie is sitting there in its stopped state. Trivial. My current model of the Flash stage is that if you drop an object onto the stage, it's there for the whole movie and it's up to you to move or hide it to get what you want. (That is, you can't add an object to the last frame of the movie, at least without bringing ActionScript into play.)
So, as far as I can tell, the only way get what I want is to add the object to the stage, make it into a button, and use alpha control to hide the object/button until the last frame of the movie, when the alpha goes from 0 to 100. This works, but I'm filled with the feeling of "this has to be overkill". I'd have the same feeling if I started the movie with the object off-stage and moved it on-stage in the last frame. Is there a more reasonable / lighter weight way to do this?
I have a flash quiz that I created. The file is an external swf loaded on top of another flash swf. The quiz is all radial buttons and drop down menus. Once the user choose which answer they feel is correct they click submit. Before they click submit they have an option to close the window. What i want to happen is if they close that window and return I want those selected answers to remain or even if they submitted before; i would like for those answers to remain.
I am trying to create a drag and drop tutorial by building a chemistry set.
The object of the tutorial is to drag and drop the appropriate instruments onto the target to build the kit.
I have the chemistry stand which had been designated as the target and five instruments which the user can drag and drop though only one will connect to the stand and send the user to the next frame. The instruments that are not correct snap back to their original position.
This process continues over 6 seperate frames.
The whole drag and drop process works fine, the only issue is that when the user picks up the wrong instrument and it snaps back to original position, and the user then picks up the correct instrument and send the user to the next frame, the wrong instrument (only the one that was picked up) is behind all the other new objects.
How do I get the wrong object that was picked up in the previous frame to not be in the new frame?
I have also included the actionscript for both the correct and and incorrect instrument.
I got a project containing 4 movieclips to be duplicated by random and placed on a certain position on stage.all movieclips are placed on top of on another.the problem is: already placed movieclips don't remain on stage - they get replaced by the next movieclip duplicated in.How can I make the already placed clips stay on the stage?
I've built my first flash application and it's very close to being finished. I have a problem with two buttons that are on the are on the left and right of the stage. When the browser is enlarged these buttons don't remain on the edge of the browser. Not sure if I explained that very well so here is a link to the application [URL] if you make you browser wider you will see my problem.
I got a project containing 4 movieclips to be duplicated by random and placed on a certain position on stage.
all movieclips are placed on top of on another. the problem is: already placed movieclips don't remain on stage - they get replaced by the next movieclip duplicated in.
How can I make the already placed clips stay on the stage?
I'm creating a simple shooter game and I've replaced the mouse cursor with a custom one. It works good but my monsters appear above the cursor. How do I make the cursor always remain on the top most level/layer?
I have 2 images, a base and a top. I want the top to rotate to face an object but the base to remain constant. I can get close but when the top rotates it is rotating around the corner of the rectangle it is placed inside of rather than the center. Here's the AS code for the object.....but the important elements are bolded.
public class Turret extends MovieClip{ private var _root:MovieClip; [Embed(source='mortarbase.png')] private var mortarBase:Class; private var mbase:Bitmap = new mortarBase(); [Code] .....
I have a flash panorama that has hotspot links to pop-up windows that contain more information about the object. Right now if you are in fullscreen mode and click a hotspot you are automatically kicked out of fullscreen mode and the pop-up then opens. Is it possible to have the pop-up open and have focus while in the background the panorama is still in fullscreen mode?
Before I get started, I would like to point out that I'm just getting started in flash, so this may very well fit better under the newbies forum. The goal: I'm trying to put together a countdown timer, which can count down from preset amount of time to zero, then trigger an announcement event, as well as an event at 30 seconds, 1, 2, and 3 minutes left. Later on I hope to add in a setup for this to turn into a Debate timer with start/stop/next speech button, but for now, I just need to figure out the timer bit.
I'm trying to create a simple quiz with a few questions, the code I have below doesn't seem to work. It comes up with my final score as -15 all the time, its not even checking to see if the answer is correct, as soon as I load the movie the Output comes out as -5 -10 -15.
quizBut.onRelease = function() { totalOutput_txt.text = "Your final score is: "+score+"/30."; }; score = 0; if (_root.answer1 == "flush") { [Code] .....
Am using the XML Photo Gallery tutorial (with grid thumbnails) - it was a slight modification by a Kirupa user here:
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I have a problem though. I have several sections that you visit from the main page, and one of these is the photo gallery. However, when I visit this page and then goto any other section of the site, the thumbnails remain visible.Thumbs still visible when going to other sections:My guess is that the actionscript needs to say somewhere - hide or get rid off thumbnails when moving out of the gallery?
I have an object that gets attached to the stage everytime I click (like a side shooting game). What I want is the object to have a speed in a specific direction. I got it to work by the code-
Code: if (total_bolt_no>0) { var bolt_name="bolt"+total_bolt_no; var bolt_n:Sprite=this.getChildByName(bolt_name) as heroweapon;
[Code].....
The problem that arises is that when I spawn another object the previous one becomes still. I tried using the for loop but everytime I click the angle also changes, thus changing the speed of all attached objects.
