ActionScript 2.0 :: Animation To Be Automatically Browsing Products
Oct 25, 2007
I am glad for my first participation in this forum. Currently, I am working on Flash8, were doing a banner animation. It has buttons created by XML binding. When you click the buttons, appropriate product picture appears and when you click on the picture page is redirected to that products page. I want that animation to be automatically browsing products. And when you click some button browsing would stop, picture would appear, if no action wait for a while and continue browsing(first picture, second picture, ...) automatically.
Is it possible to have flash animation work uninterrupted on my site (in some overlay at the border of the browser) while user browses my site pages?The only way I see is to put animation onto <frame> but the geometry of such layout is very limited.
I need to learn how feasible it is to automatically assemble Flash animations which take a background image, an animation (or a set of vector drawings that can be turned into an animation) and a sound file from a set of files. In other words, assume that I have the following set of files:
3 background images (let's assume JPG) 3 animations (no sound, no static background) 100 sound files (let's assume MP3)
So if I want to code something like: for i 1 to 3 for k 1 to 3 take animation i take background image k for j 1 to 100 take sound_file j resulting_swf = assemble (animation[i], background[i], sound_file[j]) save(resulting_swf)
Which will produce 900 Flash animations with different combinations of sound and background, what is the starting point? Are there some libraries (in Python, Perl, PHP, etc.) with good documentation and examples to develop something like that, some program that I can run from the command line?
I'm trying to automatically set up a rotating animation via the Timer Event. There's a Movie Clip called main_mc that's X position is changed with a Tween. Can the Timer Event run multiple events or is it only 1 per Timer?
Code: var auotT:Timer = new Timer(5000); autoT.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onAuto); autoT.start();
[code]...
Or do I have to create a timer event for each part?
I'm trying to simulate the coriolis effect and have managed to create a drawing application that lets the user draw on a rotating movie clip. However, I would like to now create an animation that automatically draws a line onto the movie clip which ends up being curved, but I can't figure out how to convert the x, y coordinates of the pixels on the stage to the corresponding x, y values of the movie clip. Here's what I have so far:
I am loading products from XML in Roll Over ,A movie clip appears I m trying to display Description , Price & Link in a MovieClip when I move to that movieClip , as it moves away from image(on which roll-over was trigrred ) my description movieClip gone
I would like to have it added with controls and play while the user is browsing the site. I don't want it to start playing automatically I want the user to be aware there is a song for them to listen to. I don't have any images for buttons.
I am with big problem, example I am making a "item product", that he goes to show image, the description of the product and the price of the product, the image, the description and the price, I am catching these data of my HTML.[code]As I would make thus, in my HTML I have that to put 4 images, 4 description and 4 prices it to works normal, without giving error, but if I to place 2 images, 2 description and 2 prices it show 2 products, but it still goes until the end of timeline showing nothing.how I would make if I placed only 3 or 2 products, it I would only twirl these 3 with Loop, if I placed 1 product only show 1 time without loop, it he would be without Loop and thus for ahead?
I am loading images from a mysql database. Lets say I was displaying 8 on a page, how can I tell how many pages I have and have it update when more images are added? Like on sites where they have links like
I'd like to hardcode a file to periodically check its modification date. Do you have to browse for a file first using filereference.browse to check its modification date or can you hardcode a local file (with absolute path)?
I have a client that wants a list a products to scroll across the top of the screen on his website.I am sure there is a way to do that in Flash but the extent of my experience is fade-out slideshows.Can anyone direct me to a great tutorial for scrolling text.
Right now, I've got a switch statement which is being used to create objects based on a string. There are three types of objects which extend an abstract generic object. I should really be using a factory pattern, which I'm figuring out right now. My issue is thus: flexibility of the factory pattern, but right now I'm storing the would-be products in special dictionaries dedicated to their type.
I have connected to a web service built in java and would now like to add the products to a stage. I want to show 5 products and if a user clicks <- the previous 5 and -> next 5.
Code: import mx.data.components.WebServiceConnector // Add preloader here var wsConn:WebServiceConnector = new WebServiceConnector(); wsConn.addEventListener("result", res); [Code] .....
In the res function I would like to add my movieclips but I don't know how to move on.
I have an mxml project with one button which browses for files and then uploads them. It seems that when i select a file lower then 200kb it passes ok but when the file is bigger it throws SecurityError: Error #2000: No active security context. Where is these restrictions set for size limit?
Im not sure if this is possible in AS2 but i will ask anyway! Would it be possible to have a standalone SWF which gives the user the ability to browse their computer files and then load a picture for example? I know this can be done in AIR but im restricted to AS2 only!
I have multiple movies that I loaded one at a time depending on which option is selected. I would like to load movies in the background while they are browsing one selection. Is it possible to load a movie without loading into target? So that when they select a different option it will have already been loaded in the background and would just have to be displayed in the container.
I was wondering if anyone has attempted in profiting off of using Flash to make useful applications? I started the website [URL] which the products are both made in flash (one of the members here coded it for me). I am just interested in seeing if anyone else has tried selling flash as software? If your wondering I have sold about $450 worth of the basketball/football one and just started the first aid one
In a kind of image browser where navigation is done through keyboard's arrow keys, I get the case where the user keeps the finger pressed on the arrow key. There, the list scroll faster and the screenshot doesn't have time to draw that the next item is already called.
I can see that in that case the CPU goes from an usual 1% when browsing "gently"..to about 20% when leaving the arrow key pressed and raging through the list of images.
I was thinking to:
1) Force the scroll rate to max out at 10 items per second
or
2) Only show pictures if key downs are > 10fps
or
3) Find a function that would wait for the last image to be drawn before continuing in the list.
So, to summarize:
- how to skip drawing pictures if the list is browsed to fast...or
- how to force the script to wait for the current image to be drawn before passing to the next item...or
Here is the script part containing the PNG loader, I've the feeling that this is the place where such a "limiter" should take place:
Trying to make a code that displays a number of products/images. Problem is pretty simple... when I put in a new picture, it ends on top of and covers the last. Do I use an image array to fix this? And how?
Also, if I want to position my array/gallery somewhere else on stage, where/how do I adjust the x y values?
my .fla file:
Code: var myPicture:Picture = new Picture("bilde1.jpg", 100, 100); addChild(myPicture);
i'm trying to create an online brochure that users design with products/images they've selected. users will be able to drag a thumbnail to a pre-designed area, then swap them around to their liking. currently i'm in the beginning stages and just learning the power of actionscript.
i've attached two sample .fla files i've been working with. the first sample i have two thumbnails drag to a target and enlarge to a defined size. the second sample i used a tutorial from flashkit --- drag drop swap. it works but the as is not up-to-date. i'm trying to incorporate the two ideas together but get bizarre effects. most of the examples i find are close but no cigar.
The app I want to build is an interactive map for a site I'm designing. In a nut shell, students looking to enter an exchange program should be able to use the map-image (as in, an actual 'map of the world') to preview possible destinations (I've attached an image of the two basic states to clarify).
After an introductory animation, I want a mouse-over to trigger a function that populates the map-image with a series of buttons. I need the buttons to be distributed according to information in an XML file (ie. x/y coords, some information text, and an animation to load upon being clicked). I want each button to call a mouse-over function that loads info data from an XML field and place it in a dynamic text field at the top. Then, I want each button, when clicked, to call a function that animates replacing the map-image with an image of the corresponding travel destination. Finally, I want a button on each image that will clear that image from the stage and call the function that populates the map so the process can start again.
I'm working out of a couple of books on AS3, but I'm a little hazy on how I ought to be constructing this thing. So here's the first place I've run aground: After the intro animation, I want the user to mouse-over the stage and have a second animation play (clearing away the introductory text), and I want the conclusion of the clearing animation to immediately call the map-populate function; but I don't want a mouse-over to have any effect until the introductory animation is finished. Is there an event dispatched automatically at the end of an animation? What is the event listener class?
I'm not sure if I should be storing each of these animations in an independent .fla file or if I should create them on all one timeline and have the program redirect to specific frames.
I'm trying to write a web application that searches google and then downloads the result sites and parses them.The search has to be done on the client side. Without implementing a server side proxy.Can this be done using javascript/sliverlight/flash?
I am working on a project where the user can add items to a "board". What I need is to generate a list at the side of the "board" with the names of the products selected (there could be multiple inctances of the same product used). When I drag a product to the trash, I also need it to disappear from the list as well.
I have a movieclip that shows an animation onRollOver and an animation on RollOut but onRelease the animation enlarge itselfs but now when I'll roll out when the animation isn't open (so i didn't release) the animation plays the animation for the minimizing of the animation. Here's my code (I know its a bit amateuristic but I'm not a programmer )
ok lets say you create a button that when held down play an animation of 20 frames if realsed it goes to frame one and stops if held down it plays out this animation. for the topic lets say you have a fire animation and you want the fire to apear and if the user hold its down the animation reaches the end of the time line and loops back and plays the last 5 frames of the animation and as soon as it is let go it goes to and stops at frame one. Well i know how to make a button that when held down plays out an animation. And i know how to say when released goes to and stops at frame one. What i dont know how to do is to loop the fire at the last 5 or 6 frames so the user can hold it down all day long and play out that animation.
Ok when you press link one it olads great! when i press link 2, it plays the closing animation, but not the entire animation, thats the problem.My closing animation is a red square going from one end to another ( for the hell of it).But you see content number two will load b4 the red square gets all the way across!!
Now I have 2 movieclip. Mc1 & mc2. I planned to to make mc2 do certain animation and user must input the key within the progress animation of the mc2 in order prevent something happen
