I am making a chainsaw massacre game, you can find the beginning of it here; http:[url]... I want to be able to jump up and kill the guys in the head, and also the stomach etc etc, but I don't really know how to make it this dynamic, should I have a MovieClip for each body part, or how should I do it?
View 1 RepliesI have two classes ( shown below after problem description), the InteractiveStrategy and Filters classes. The class InteractiveStrategy is the main class definition. In there I declare and instantiate two variables, updateData and filters. I also display the lists mqList and sqList. In the Filters class I have two methods, MainQuestions() and SubQuestions(mq:int). The method MainQuestions() populates a list mqList with the main-questions and SubQuestion populates list sqList with the sub-questions. This means each main-question has a set of sub-questions associated with it.
Thus whenever the main-question (via mqList) changes, the set of sub-questions must change also. My attempt at accomplishing the above is shown in the skeleton code below.The MainQuestions() method dispatches an event called 'mqChanged' while the filter.MainQuestions() listens for the event. However I have no idea of how to execute filter.SubQuestions(mainQuestion) with the newly selected mainQuestion so as to display the new set of sub-questions.
public class InteractiveStrategy{
public var updateData:UpdateData;
public var filter:ArrayFilter;
public var mainQuestion:int=0;
public function InteractiveStrategy(){
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I am looking at taking on a project that will be a considerable challenge since I come from a LAMP development environment. I am wanting to create a Flash driven community with chat and profiles. In PHP I know how I would go about handling the data as everything is put together on the server and returned to the user completely formatted, however adding a flash layer on top of it present a problem. I am not sure how to transport data from the server to a flash file without using XML. The obvious problem that I see is as more people are online, Sending updated XML files to flash could become a bandwidth hog and make for a slow UI. best method of moving result data from a PHP script to Flash without using XML or is that going to be the only viable option? My concern is load time. Also is there a good way of unloading data once it is no longer used (ie Photos).
View 4 Repliesduplicate the dynamic objects and have a little problem. It looks like this: Flash retrieves data from sql, PHP returns the result to me in the form: $name1=some text $name2=some text $name3=some text $count=3 Flash creates elements very nicely but I do not have no idea what type of code place in script (in the place marked by ?)to put text to those MC.
Script look like this:
ile = parseInt(count);
for (i=1; i<ile; i++) {
threadCanvas.attachMovie("border", "post" add i, i);
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In AS3 we have a keyword to define dynamic objects:[code]How can this be done in Python?
View 2 Repliesthis is a wierd problem I am facing in flash I need to create a dynamic global variable where the variable's name is stored in another variable. say I need to create a global variable , _global.fam , but "fam" is stored in a variable temp="fam";
now how can I declare the global variable 'fam' using the variable temp.
But the loophole here is that after creating the global variable I should be able to access the variable as
im having a hard time figuring out how to get the _x,_y,_width,_height of dynamically loaded images. What do i need to do this; is it possible?im having everything load into a container Mc.heres a piece of it
nextBtn._x = _root.container_mc._x +//dyamically loaded object._width
heres how the images are being loaded
function loadphoto(i){
var img = this.container_mc.loadMovie("img"+i +".jpg",8879);
I am looping through and creating a random number of dynamic objects. I am trying to create an click addEventListener that will trace the name property of the object being clicked. Here is my script:
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So far I have this squid-shaped MC floating and making bubble-shaped MCs which rise to the top of the stage. The bubbles get generated by following the squid's (x,y) cordinates. The whole thing looks convincing enough. The only problem is that as the memory gets full, the bubble animation degenerates, so I want to remove them once they reach the top. I figured I could use a removeChild() function tied to the same EventListner that makes them rise, but once removed it will look for the object again and throw an error. I know I'm missing something simple here, but I can't pin it down.!
Code:
var bubbleTimer:Timer=new Timer(1200);
var i:uint = 0;
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I'm creating a number of dynamic text field objects in my Actionscript, but it looks like its being rendered on the wrong layer. I've written the actionscript in the first frame of my 3rd layer (which is masked), but the objects that are rendered dont appear to be affected by the masking effect (that does work with static objects). Is there a way to define programatically which layer an object is rendered in? Something like layerNo.stage.addChild(object)?
View 1 RepliesI'd like to use a conditional loop to generate objects dinamically and i'd like to know if it is possible to do this in Flash.I try to explain better what i want to do; i have to let users to choose a number of balls to display on the stage, something like this:var balls; //it contains the numbers picked by the userif ( balls == 0) display nothing on the stage;if ( balls != 0){for (n < balls){plot a ball on the stage
View 6 RepliesI have 2 dynamic objects and I want to build one to contain all the properties:[code]and I need to obtain a third object that looks like that {prop1: val1, prop2:val2, prop3:val3a, prop4:val4};Basically I need a way to iterate through the object properties and to add new properties to the third object. I have to mention I'm quite new to AS3/Flash/Flex.
View 3 RepliesI am grabbing userdata and saving it as a shared object (such as the name of the user) I am also displaying dynamic text later in the swf files - I would like to be able to replace (something like 'USERNAME' in the dynamic xml doc as it is being loaded) with the user.data.name = name; info instead - while keeping all the other text the same as from the xml?
View 1 RepliesI've searched a lot, but still cannot find answer to my problem. I have a dynamic gallery that needs some animation on each item. I tried using AnimatorFactory, but because items are dynamically created it doesn't work. I tried using dictionaries, arrays, but nothing helps. I keep on getting the following error: Code: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property p_380020857260 not found on packages.lord.Group and there is no default value. Here is a snippet of my code regarding this:
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I have 4 objects in the library. I use a switch case statement to randomly generate them to the stage;[code]When the user clicks "taskMC", I want to assign behaviors according to which object. If I trace "taskMC" I get the name (object A_Graphic, object B_Graphic etc.)but I can't assign actions to them that way. How do I get object A_Graphic to do one thing, object B_Graphic another thing...?
View 2 Repliesi'm currently using a dictionary to associate a boolean to my (non-dynamic) sprites, but i would like to know if there is a smarter way of doing this? i could just use MovieClips to assign my properties instead of Sprites since MovieClips are dynamic, but i will not be using any of the MovieClip properties or functions so it comes down to a best practice issue. basically i want to create a state boolean property on my sprites - they are either on or off so my boolean variable is called isOn.
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i want to mask objects with dynamic transparent PNG files in Flash Action Script 3.0
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create a new "BitmapData" object via a variable name. The following code is an example of what I am trying to do, but of course it doesn't work.
Code:
import flash.display.*;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("bmp1", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var BitmapNAME = "bmpData1"
var BitmapNAME:BitmapData = new BitmapData(200, 200, false, 0xaa3344);
bmp1.attachBitmap(bmpData1, 2, "auto", true);
i have two different library objects which i add to stage and have them moving around. I have no problems getting the number of all the objects on stage into one dynamic text box, but i want to have the number of each of the two different objects shown in their separate text box. When i try this code, all i get in the dynamic text-boxes, are the name of the objects.
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Stage;
import flash.events.Event;
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I was wondering if it is possible to capture whenever properties are set/accessed/created on dynamic objects?Basically, among others, I want to create a little quick system which acts as an Array and allows you to set the same value of all items inside of it.For example:
Code:
var dynamicObjArray:DynamicObjectArray = new DynamicObjectArray();
dynamicObjArray.push(mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4, mc5, mc6);
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In my current project I'm building a waterfall. Each drop in the waterfall is generated from the waterfall.as class and added to the stage via addchild. Now I have a mask that I want all of those drops to use however I can't seem to get this to work. I've tried placing the mask on the timeline and I couldn't seem to access the mask from the waterfall.as file. I've also given the mask it's own class and added it dynamically to no avail.
View 7 RepliesI was wondering if it is possible to capture whenever properties are set/accessed/created on dynamic objects?Basically, among others, I want to create a little quick system which acts as an Array and allows you to set the same value of all items inside of it.[code]There are several workarounds, (including checking the current value each frame) but I want to know if there is any way of detecting changed properties at all.
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to create a movieclip from the library dynamically on a certain event and then being able to target one specific movieclip by name after they've been created. I'm having problems being able to target and have tried a tone of different approaches, I think I'm close but I'm getting the error '#1006: getChildByName is not a function.'
Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
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I have created a Flash file which will act as our company's standard presentation / portfolio of all previous projects. I've pretty much got it running the way I want, but I've just tried it on a few different computers and realised that the fonts aren't embedded. I've used our corporate font so it needs to look right. Having read the following documentation [URL] I now understand how to embed fonts for one dynamic text object at a time. However, I have a lot of different dynamic text objects in the file and I would dearly love to embed them all in one step! The same embedding options can be applied to just about all objects, as they're all the same size and font.
View 15 RepliesI have added some backgrounds on stage and then on top of that adding another background and all these are movieclips.
At some time i have to remove the backgrounds and then it should be added but here problem am facing is the background become coming front.
so is there any function like send to back or bring to frond based on the movie clip names.
I'm attempting to create a graphical representation of the microphone activity in flash for a conference.
I got a movieclip called eqNotch that's just a rectangle and its linkage name is EqNotch.I also have a movieclip where I am writing my as3 on the first frame, its called dynamicBar and linkage name is DynamicBar.
I've successfully written the code for the dynamicBar to create one column of eqNotches and the number of rows is dependent on mic activity.[code]...
I'm doing this object oriented game and I create a bunch of 'boxes' via a for loop
Code:
Select allfor (var z=0; z < numOfBoxes; z++){
var box:Object = new Object();
box.mc = new Box();
box.mc.name = "box"+z
box.mc.x = Math.round((Math.random()*(530-box.mc.width)) + 20);
for (var i=0; i<boxXArray.length; i++){
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I get my random amount of boxes scattered over my stage (I haven't put in any checks to see if they are touching). How do I 'name' these boxes so I can reference them later? Say I want to move the .x of boxA in another function? Is there a simple way to call them box+z instead of just all as box? (Then I can run them through a loop later to talk to them).
I've been trying to teach myself flash for a couple of weeks and am totally lost. I have had experience with programming in the past, so I understand logic, etc, but I really am not grasping this forced time based system.What I need to do seems pretty simple. I have a jpg of a washing machine front panel. I need to be able to put some transparent "buttons" over it, and have some areas "light up" when the buttons are pressed. So far I understand that I have to work in a chronological setup, with key frames for each state of interaction, and use buttons with some kind of gotoframe action script. what I can't do:
1. get the background jpg to stick to the stage. it apparently has to be either a symbol or a layer?
2. make transparent buttons. in flash catalyst I can just set the opacity to 0, but I'm not sure how to do this in flash pro.
I guess those are the pressing issues. I had tried to import the jpg as a psd background, but then I had to put the button on a separate layer, and it was always either behind the background, or I had to have it's action refer only to the timeline of it's own layer and not the background.
Not sure that I understand how the Reader engine for AS 3.0 handles "load" requests. Following is a problem that I try to solve for a customer: there a three - 3 - swf files, each contains a short video of 10 sec's in full hd, stage is 1920x1080 px, let's call them a,b and c
The request is the following: start with swf a and let it run, loop, and during that time offer the possibility to select or swf b or swf c to run in stead of a when swf b runs, loops, offer the possibility to select or swf a or swf c to run in stead of b idem for swf c or with words: each of the swf's offer the possibility to invoke one of the 2 other swf's.
I tried various code snippits, and when running a it starts b but a contineous to run, so it seems ihe engine does not pass control to b. Maybe I have to put everything in 1 swf? But that is not what the customers want, he wants the 3 swf's.
I have an html button:
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This would load flash content:
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I want to use the jquery dialog to open this content. Everything passed in seems to be perfect (according to the GET response from firebug) but I still get a jquery error. missing ; before statement jquery.js line 612
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If I paste this url into my browser the flash app starts in the browser as expected but not with the jquery dialog obviously. Must be something wrong with my jquery code?