I've an empty movie clip on the stage and an external swf is loaded to that movieclip. How can I check the external movie's frames are completely loaded or not from the base movie. Is it possible by targetting the empty movieclip?
View 1 RepliesI have a swf that connects to Flash Media Server. What I am looking to do, is display the connection status via a green (connected) or red (not connected) icon. I need it to check frequently and update the icon according to the connection status.
I have the following code but it does not work. I have a connect/disconnect button which starts/stops my connection to FMS. That works, but when I unplug my internet connection (thereby making it impossible to be connected to FMS), it still says it is.
Code:
function checkConn()
{
if (nc.connected)
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I have a typical web application that communicates in the following way: SWF file makes service calls to Java services (Remote object, over BlazeDS on Tomcat), which in turn communicates to database.
How do I implement a status check service (hosted on another domain) that will check if the ENTIRE app is up and running? Ideally, I'd make checker SWF that would load App SWF and called its function that would return something from the database (a naive service would count rows in table and hash it with MD5), but security constrains won't let me call loaded SWF's function.
Checking the java services only is not enough, as I am not checking the status of the SWF.
In a setup like this is it possible to check the cumulative status of all onLoadInit?
for(var i:Number = 0; i < limit; i++) {
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip) {
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Initially I was thinking that I could pass an array of Boolean's, but I'm not really sure where to add that checkpoint, because a flash frame doesn't keep looping. Would I have to add it to an onEnterFrame()?
how to check a network connection status with flash?
If XMLSocket.connect returns a value of true, the initial stage of the connection process is successful; later, the XMLSocket.onConnect method is invoked to determine whether the final connection succeeded or failed. If XMLSocket.connect returns false, a connection could not be established.
Example
The following example uses XMLSocket.connect to connect to the host where the movie resides, and uses trace to display the return value indicating the success or failure of the connection.
function myOnConnect(success) {
if (success) {
trace ("Connection succeeded!")
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I�m making an image gallery. I want to load the large jpeg images externally. I wanted thumbnails at the bottom to fade up as the images load up, then when they are ready to be displayed, they are actually fully loaded and ready to be displayed and don�t take any more than a couple of frames to become visable, but this is eluding me.
I'm currently using Flash 10.0, and the mx.controls.loader from the flash components to load the images into, which works fine other than getting to it before the images are loaded. An Actionscript 2.0 that creates a loop over a few frames until the external image is loaded then moves on should enable me to get it done, but no luck so far.
I thought this would work:
if (this.getBytesLoaded()>=this.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay("the label name on the next frame");
} else {
gotoAndPlay("the label name on the previous frame");
}
but it continues on the timeline even when the external image is not fully loaded yet.
I am trying to make a buttons alpha value change if my movieclip is loaded. i've tried adding things to the buttons but couldn't get this to work, so I added this to the first frame of my movie but it doesn't work.[code]
View 9 RepliesI am loading a large XML file (about 3MB). Is there a way to display the status like a "Percentage Loaded" kind of thing? What about a preloader swf? It just takes awhile for anything to happen. I am using AS2 but am slowly migrating this to AS3.
View 4 RepliesI've created a progress bar with a little knob that works as a scrubber. I can't seem to figure out how to make a way to notify how much of the video is loaded (similar to youtube). I assume that I do something with ProgressEvent, but I'm not quite sure how to handle it.
Here's a code snippet
Code:
ncConnection = new NetConnection();
ncConnection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
ncConnection.connect(null);
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Does someone have a working fla to illustrate how to load an external movie and zoom and pan to specific location of this movie (with easing)? With actionscript, not necessarily with a control for the user. I am looking for it for some time and unfortunately my programming abilities are not yet sufficient to find it out from scratch (but I am working on it).
View 2 RepliesI'm loading a number of MP3 files into my Flash (the number changes dynamically). I would like to be able to say, in total, how much longer all the files will take to load.
I can do this for each individual sound.Mp3.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, test_function);
But each sound is loaded by an instance of my sound loader class, how can I pass the ProgressEvent up to the parent object, and then have it calculate the total time to load?
I am making rest calls with a urlload.load(urlRquest).
also
urlRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
urlRequest.contentType = "application/xml";
When I make the calls within the Flash IDE, I get HTTPStatusEvent.status = 400 (or whatever) when an error occurs. And the IOErrorEvent.data contains xml (or sometimes a string).
However, when I run the swf in a browser (Firefox Mac or PC), the HTTPStatusEvent.status = 0, and the IOErrorEvent.data is empty. (Interestingly in Safari Mac, I do get the 400 status, but still no data.)
I tried the following code and it works great.
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("main.swf", 1);
main.enabled = false;
}
How would I go about resetting the the button's status after another movie is loaded? Do I have to manually code for each movie loaded or is there an easier way using loops perhaps?
I have just finished reading a few chapters of an AC3 tutorial book, and have tried a bit of code. Im trying to code something that loads movies, external swf files in to my main movie in a specific order. But after playing about a bit I realize that I cant even seem to load one movie, much less several in a specific order. how do I load an external swf movie with AC3?
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I am building a flash website and on one of the pages you can play a shoot'em up game that I made using flash.
I am doing this by dragging the swf file into the flash website.This works but when the games is activated it does not work propably anymore in the new flash website..
I can't figure out why. The swf works fine on its own in a webpage and has been sitting on a website of mind for years with no probs.
I have the following problem: I have a small swf with 2 frames that brings weather data from [URL]. There's this script in frame 1:
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Movie A: plain flash with loadMovie("movieB.swf", _root.myTarget);
Movie B: Complex flash with lots of actionscript.
The problem is that Movie B's actionscript uses a lot of "_root" which means when Movie B is loaded into a Movie Clip in Movie A all the "_root." actions won't work.
Is there a way of writing a relative path? so that Movie B works if it's opened directly, or if it's loaded inside of Movie A?
My Preloader movie is constructed with external Preloader.as class as follows :
Code:
package com {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
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Problem : Every time I run Preloader.swf I got this error message :
Code:
Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference
I am trying to load an external swf into a movie clip.Within my index.swf file I have a button that when released loads another swf into a movie clip within the index.swf. I have done this before and have no idea why it is not working. When I publish the movie I get no error reports.Here is the script:
on (release) {
_parent._parent._parent.contents.loadMovie("apache .swf");
}
All swf files are within the same folder on the server as well.
Loading external swf using AS 3.0[code]....
View 2 RepliesI want to learn how to load an external movie into flash AS2. I tried to find for 1 week.But could not find right documents.Simply , have buttons and some other swf files. I want to call them my mainpage screen.However, want to have ability of determining their position.Before this writing , could load, but its positions were different . it right bottom of the page .
View 6 RepliesI'm working in a project that load several swf's into a main movie. I use this code and works fine:
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I have a main movie (let's call it Movie 1) with a menu in it. Through that menu you can load several external movies into a container (lets call them Movie 2 and Movie 3).What i want to do is this:When i load Movie 2 into the container in Movie 1 at some point of the timeline of Movie 2 there is an actionscript that tells to load Movie 3 in the container of Movie 1.
View 1 RepliesIs there any possibility to load external movie clip (from swf) into mc? I know as2 has loadMovie command, but as3 doesn't support it (am I right?).
If it is possible how can I access loaded object? Like any other instance?
I have an external swf load when one rolls over a movieclip. That works fine. But I also want the external clip that loaded to go away after they roll off of that. This is what I have for code:
ActionScript Code:
movieClip.onRollOver = function(){
emptyClip.loadMovie("external.swf");
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It looks like I can't just address the instance of the emptyClip for this. What do I address to create an onRollOut command?
I have an xml photo gallery which i'd like to embed in one of the tabs of my sites. I've tried to do this by loading the external .swf file into a movie clip which i called empty_mc, using the following code
ActionScript Code:
var empty_mc:Loader = new Loader();
addChild(empty_mc);
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("main.swf");
empty_mc.load(url);
When I load the .swf on its own, the photo gallery works fine, yet when I try to load the swf via the movieclip, it gives the following error message:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference at main()
(All of the relevant files are in the same folder)
I've got this from a kirupa-tutorial:
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What do I have to change so it doesn't load the whole movie but only the scene it's in, I don't want to load everything at the same time... And if I load a external swf in my movie does the loadBar load this or do I have to put this script in the external swf file.
I am loading external *.swfs into a blank movie clip that sits in the main timeline of the master movie using the following code: _root.loadMovie("module1.swf","container");
When the new movie loads, it seems to replace the entire master movie with the new *.swf. I want it to simply sit on top of the master...this is probably pretty obvious, but I appear to be missing something.
I didn't work with flash some time, but now I am making site for my furniture shop and I have stuck.Because web site is quite big with many pictures, I had to insert "loading external movies" function, and I have used this function[cod]e...
View 4 RepliesI am trying to get the text to display on this buttonn which is actualy a movie clip I want the text to load from a text file so each button has a varible name button1 button2I have this on the first frameloadVariablesNum("text.txt", 0);and then in the text file I havebutton1=Ops&button2=Toolsif i put a text box over the button it will display fine but the button looses its function near the text box as i have put the text box in a layer above the button
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