i took this from a fla sample
menuXml = new XML();
menuXml.ignoreWhite = true;
menuXml.onLoad = function(success) {
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this part gives a y position to the loaded element but, this is a standard distance between all the elements i need that the _y position will be according / next to the last element, not always with the same distance any clue?
How would you defer loading of other graphics on the page until after the images in a Flash gallery's images.xml file are finished loading?Is there any way to detect for this, or would I only be able to check if the flash swf object is finished loading? I'm pretty sure the swf object would be loaded/ready as with document.getElementById('flashobject').onload = function(){}; before the corresponding images have loaded though, instead of after.
View 1 RepliesI'm having a bit of a problem loading in xml into my flash document. Current my file loads in thumbnails and if you click on those thumbnails the full size version of that loads on the screen - you save it - and it writes to the database. If you come back to this application - I want it to load the photos that you saved to the stage last onto the stage again. There are 5 photos that should be loaded - but for some reason only the first one is loading. The xml looks like this:
Code:
<items>
<item id="2" type="body" src="body/body/body_2.png" />
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I'm working on a site which is loading different swf to a main file. For that i have a script which is calling my six swf from six button. I'm also having a basic sliding animation in actionscript when I change page.
Everything works find but now for this project i want to place 3 element which are going to stay on top of the swf. This is the tricky part for me as i'm a novice to AS3. I searched for few days and i find maybe 2 ways to do this.
the first one would be to upload the external swf to an empty movie clip which would be place under the other elements. So i try to use an addChild(); on the button action but it just duplicate the swf (one on top same as before and one into the movieclip) and the animation is not working within the movieclip.
after i try to place the swf to load on the lowest level with a movieClip(root) but i don't know where to place it within the script to make it work correctly.
This is the script i'm using:
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
//Assign CLICK listeners for each menu button
btn1.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);
btn2.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);
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I am looking to create flash movies that include video and that have dynamic text in them.Basically the concept is we send out an email with a link in it that has an ID in a query string value. Once the page loads It hits our database and pulls out the name of the person tied to the ID in the querystring, then the page would need to pass this information on to the flash movie and update a symbol with the text. Does this sound crazy or is it possible? We also want to export it to html5 so it works on all devices and browsers
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone know of a way to layer dynamic elements in AS3? Is there a z-index (or something like it) in AS3?I'm dynamically loading pictures via XML with AS3 and would like to overlay a graphic over a portion of the dynamic images.
View 1 RepliesgetChildByName("name") works great if my object has been added to the stage or some MC. But what can I do if I have an object created dynamically that I want to reference later in the code but haven't added to the stage? Here's an example:
for (var a = 0; a < 10; a++) {
var testObject = addChild(new BlankMC());
testObject.name = "myTest_" + a;
}
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This returns my BlankMC instance, but ONLY because it was added to the stage. If I don't use "addChild", then I get "null" because my instance is not a child of the stage (or anything else as far as I know). Is getChildByName the ONLY function for referencing a dynamic element?
Would anyone be kind enough to help me with some Actionscript code (2.0) that will automatically remove from dynamically imported html text. Basically an html page is updated by a client using a CMS system (CushyCMS) but it inserts.When the page reloads into the flash site the cause the text to break.So I would like something that either removes the or changes it to a single space that won't cause the line to break.
View 7 RepliesI have an array (named arrayFull), and I want my dynamic text box (named messageText) to display one random element from the array, changing once per second.The code I have makes it display all elements of the array at once in random order, changing once per second.How do I make it display just one element from the array at any given time?This is the code:
var arrayFull:Array = new Array(1,2,3,4,5);
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
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On one page of my website, the user has a large selection of videos they can choose from.They select one, clicking the link.This opens a new page (with the player built in?) and plays the video.Can I retrieve the data from a query string (the video filename selected from the previous page) and then place it in the action script using PHP (echo) so that I don't have to have separate applications for each video? or do I have to have separate SWF/applications for wach video?
View 5 RepliesI am trying to load an array of web_thumbs into an array of thumb "holders" I've got the holders loading in a grid but then the way I have it, all of the web_thumbs load into each of the holders instead of one web_thumb per holder - I've tried it every which way and this is as close as I can get it without help... Can someone tell me what i need to do to have one web_thumb load into each thumb holder? This is what i have in place:
var dataLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
dataLoader.load(new URLRequest("web_thumbs.xml"));
dataLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onDataLoaded);[code]..........
I have a list of countries that are in an xml document. I was wondering if here was a way to randomly load ten of these and place them on the stage in random places. I want to get the effect of this intro: [URL]. (not the one with the black background)
View 8 RepliesI have been working with flash remoting in actionscript 3.0 and there is no result set class. I'm fairly new to AS3, but I am very fluent with AS2, and so far the migration has been easy.I would like to create a result set class myself, but I am stuck on one part, pushing the dynamic number of elements onto the array, let me show you what I mean:
{ // start result function
var totalCount:Number = rs.serverInfo.totalCount; // # of records returned
var queryString:String = rs.serverInfo.intialData; // query string, each value separated
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I'm trying to figure out how to generate an array whose elements are each arrays to make a quick loading database of sorts.the main array could essentially be something like "employees" while each employee would have demographic data like age, salary, gender, etc.In some cases the information on some employees would be greater than others, and options created by "push" would imply the number of elements within each employee array would be variable until generated.[code]But I get the feeling this type of array as it is currently described doesn't lend itself well to adding new elements in the way I've described.My goal is once an employee's information has been entered and saved, I can call up their info by array number like aEmployee[2], and if employee 2's name is Bob, then Bob's name would appear in the text field, along with all the other fields related to Bob's array, such as being male, 42 years old, and living in Witchita Kansas.Would I modify a multidimensional array, or do I want an array within an array, and is there a way to add "arrays" as elements?
View 8 RepliesIs it generally to position elements relative to other elements or in absolute values?
View 2 Repliesdoes anyone know how to shift all the array elements by one or more without deleting the array itself?
Something like rotating the array:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6
When i create a menu, the dropdowns go behind the flash element. But in some sites, like Digg, it is shown above. z-index is of no use
View 2 RepliesI can't get the code to "know" which of the dynamic thumbnails has been clicked (by "know", I mean return an index value, say 0 through 7 if there are 8 projects, that I can use to access that particular project in the array of 8 projects in the rest of the code)... So if the third movieclip thumbnail were clicked, I'd like "2" to come up somehow... I've tried this code, which is kind of lame, I know, based off of the idea of each of the thumbnail movieclips' names ending in their index number:
Code:
//"this" is the button that was pressed; would return a string ending in
//thumberMC_<number of whichever movieclip thumb was clicked>
var: testString:String = this;
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Lastly, there's a dynamic textfield I'm trying to create that never shows up for some reason. Again, you could see in the FLA (in the "createDrawer" function around line 424).
I made a .as Class where some graphical elements are spawned into the stage. However, the Flash (.fla) have some internal graphics that are supposed to be over the graphical elements spawned from the custom class.I tried to make another layer over the layer where the as3 Class is being called, but unfortunately it doesn't do anything, the graphic from the .as still appearing over the internal .fla graphics.
View 2 RepliesI have an XML file on a site that I need to call from a flash movie. The XML file is packaged into a parameter, its actual url is generated dynamically and cant be called directly so instead of calling it like
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(http://www.someurl.com/xmlfeed.xml);
Im trying to call the parameter instead of the direct feed. Do I need to use a GET type method or something like that?
I tried defining a new String and then put in, instead of a direct URL, this variable string that I tried calling through flashvars but that didnt seem to help.
When loading a file on PC, the location looks like this:
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Is there a good work-around for this? Something short of adding a variable for the slash character that changes when a different OS is found? Also, I load XML that has links in it, so changing the links on the fly after they're loaded would be great.
I have an XML file on a site that I need to call from a flash movie. The XML file is packaged into a parameter, its actual url is generated dynamically and cant be called directly so instead of calling it like
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(http://www.someurl.com/xmlfeed.xml);
Im trying to call the parameter instead of the direct feed. Do I need to use a GET type method or something like that?
Was wondering if someone could steer me into the right direction or shed a bit of light on my problem.At the moment i am using the following code to display text from an external XML file.[code]The "site_eng.xml" means that it loads in the english version of the XML file.The problem is that i need to make it dynamic so that it can look at a different XML file in a different map - this is because i need to direct it to 6 different language XML files.Would it be possible to change the code so that it looks at an URL that ends with /movietexts ?[code]
View 11 RepliesI'm relatively new to Actionscript, in fact, I just figured out today how to load text from an external source. I have another issue that I'm not sure how to handle. I have buttons for my main nav, a main text box, and a mini text box (both text boxes are loaded dynamically from external files). I want to have the mini text box load new external text files in the main text box. For instance, I have a button for music, which loads a list of songs in the mini text box. I want to be able to click on the name of one of the songs and have it load the lyrics in the main text box. I'm sure it's simple, I'm just new.
View 3 RepliesI have another issue that I'm not sure how to handle. I have buttons for my main nav, a main text box, and a mini text box (both text boxes are loaded dynamically from external files). I want to have the mini text box load new external text files in the main text box. For instance, I have a button for music, which loads a list of songs in the mini text box. I want to be able to click on the name of one of the songs and have it load the lyrics in the main text box.
View 3 RepliesI've made a website in Flash, it's the 1st time I've made a site with dynamic loading text.The text loads, that is fine, however, when I update the .txt file, the webpage does not update until I delete my internet history. This obviously no use as I can't expect returning visitors to delete their cache every time they visit.
View 4 RepliesI am working on a project where I am reading (trying to!) from an xml file. I have 5 separate dynamic text fields that I am filling with the individual digits from a string. I am not an expert but really think my code should work. Below is the actionscript and the xml I am using.
import fl.controls.*;
var digit01_xml:XML;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("testRBS.xml");
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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Loading takes too long time. Maybe there are some workarounds to make it load at least a bit faster. There is a way of creating static XML - it means splitting existing database records in one, and new records - to dynamic XML (so it's not requesting all Mysql rows in every single page request), but I'm not sure if it's going to make it load fasterWhen loading XML some browsers stop at apprx. 70% and does nothing. (can't figure this one out)
View 6 Repliesi need as2 code for dynamic loading of swf files wen button is pressed ..
View 1 RepliesI've done some digging and can't find an answer to this that I understand. I'm sure it's something simple and stupid that I'm just overlooking.
for (var i:uint=1; i<=5; ++i) {
this["thumb"+i]:Loader = new Loader(); this["thumbURL"+i]:URLRequest = new URLRequest("thumbnail_"+i+".swf");
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