I am dynamically loading an image into a movieclip using a preloader but cannot successfully calculate the percent loaded since I cannot get the getBytesTotal() method to work. I understand why it is not printing the percentage but what I do not understand is how getBytesTotal is behaving. Here is a segment of my output. l means loaded and t means total.
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l = 0
t = -1
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I have a clock image that has a space for the day (eg: M, Tu, etc)a space for the month (spelled out) and a space for the date. It refers to a page I'm working on in Flash CS4. I'd like it to show the correct date in a specific type style. How do I program that?
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The RD is just a number, but it was a malicious transfer up to 10GB of data, or very large data.
I get the error "A script in the movie caused Flash Player 10 to run slowly."I'm doing a preload of an external swf via as2 which is around 7mb. Then the message "A script in the movie caused Flash Player 10 to run slowly" pops up around ever 15 seconds or so. However, this does happen with smaller files. Any suggestions? Many visitors may think the game is broken and leave the page.[code]I would also be happy if this problem is solved instead. Around 70%, some times 20% the sound of external swf plays. How can I define it so that sound does not play. I was suggested by some to insert an empty first frame, but I don't have source of all the games. so that is not a solution.
View 3 RepliesI'm doing my portfolio in FlashMX using Actionscript. Everything in that sites has a preloader.
Anyway, in the actual portfolio section I use variables form a .txt to load each work (that way I can add in a more easy way new content). The .txt contains location of images, text shown, titel, and some other variables. Each .txt is aprox. 350bytes.
The problem is that if the variables aren't loaded fast enough the content of each work is shown wrong.
Is there a way to calculate getBytesTotal() for variables ?
I want to use a non-standard font on the web in a various combinations of font-color and font-size without having to assign individual configs for each. So far sIFR seems to pick up font-size no problem. but not font color, so I am working on a work around.
The problem I am running into: sIFR is breaking text to the next line without a linebreak <BR> being present.
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For the sake of the project I am working on, it looks like setting the standard to block level elements only with font-sizes of 18px and above will be the route taken to keep from holding it up further, but I still have personal interest and would like to pursue understanding sIFR and the line breaking further.
I am new to Stack Overflow and am concerned this may be an 'extended discussion' which the FAQ says is beyond the scope of this site.
I currently have my preloader set to getBytesloaded getBytesTotal (etc.), before it plays the 1st frame of the entire Flash file, but I only want the preloader to load the first (let's say) 500 frames, then play them accordingly.
View 2 RepliesI am using Flash CS3 with ActionScript 2 and am having a problem getting getBytesLoaded and getBytesTotal to work properly. Probably I am taking the reading in the wrong spot, but I can't figure out where I should be doing it. The code will read an xml file which contains pictures and url links to where I want each picture to go, and then loads and shows a picture for 3 seconds, then goes on to the next one. I am trying to show the preloader bar "LOADING" by adjusting the _xscale as a percentage of BytesLoaded/BytesTotal. The code should work, but my getBytesLoaded and getBytesTotal is either showing 0% or 100% and nothing in between. Here is my code and I have left some of my trace statements in the code below as well. The problem occurs in the this.onEnterFrame = function() which is about half way thru the code:
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What's the purpose of the getBytesTotal() method of the Sound object since it returns the same value as the getBytesLoaded() method? Note that I mean streaming mode here.
View 7 RepliesWhy do my preloaders never work? I'm looking to develop a system which reads mp3 files from xml and loads them all with loadSound during preloading phase, the idea is to add all the totalBytes into one var so I can display one percentage for preloading all the files. However, no matter what I try Sound instances getBytesTotal() methods always return undefined when swf is run from host, even though I can hear sounds playing when they load. Of course in test movie everything works fine. In this method of my PreloadManager class I wait for sounds to load:
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public static function waitForSounds() {
PreloadManager.timeline.debug.text += "
waitForSounds()" ;
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I'm using this code to load a .jpg into a movieclip with the instance name picholderCode:_root.picholder.loadMovie("pic.jpg");How do I get getBytesTotal() or getBytesLoaded() to work with this picture? I've tried to get the total and loaded this way:
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_root.picholder.getBytesLoaded()
But it doesn't seem to work
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The XML file of the image list is created from DB and images are fed to flash through script which creates images on the fly with PHPs GD library. Images are shown and browsing through pictures works.The thing not working is the preloader. the loaded bytes are never equal to total bytes so the preloader never gets shown.
When I trace the getBytesTotal inside enterFrame I get two different numbers. First two frames the total bytes equal to 4 then on the other frames function returns the right size value of the file.This issue persist only when I feed the FLASH with GD images. If I pass the normal image file, the preloader works great.
I'm assuming the issue is when GD creates the image the fileSize is uknown. I tried getting the file size of GD created file by caching the created file, checking the filesize and passing it through headers but the preloader still won't work and getBytesTotal still returns 4 before giving the right size...
i am using a movieclip who has two nested movieclips, the problem i am dealing is that when i try to get the width or height of the parent movieclip it always showing the values of the small nested movieclip, when i draw the movieclip it draw perfect but when i read this values shows that error, what can i do?
View 2 Repliesi have a project I am working on which requires many conversions. I am currently doing it manually and it's starting to make me crazy. I was told this could be done in Flash, which would be great, but I have little skill with Flash, and I'm not really sure where to start. What I need to do is:
1. Convert unorthodox units of measure to conventional units (mm/cm and inches/feet). These "unorthodox" units of measure are based on conventional units, so it's just a matter of saying a "widget" = 9.5mm (or) 0.3740063645"... etc. (just a simple example). There are 3 different unorthodox units in total, each with its own value.
2. To complicate things the unorthodox units are affected by "classes". (Here is another basic example)... say there are four classes of widget,
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I'm having trouble tracing the value of a movieclip name [code]...
View 1 RepliesWhenever i try to display anything returned by LoadVars.getBytesLoaded or Load....Total, it gives me NaN.
View 14 RepliesI've created some dynamic movieclips. When I click and hold on one of them, I'd like a different library linked MC to appear, and the new MC to be draggable.
I can make the new MC appear, and I can make it draggable. However, I'm a little lost when it comes to telling Flash to forget about the old clip, and make the new one the 'live' one.
In other words - after a click-hold, I want the new movieclip to be movable without the user having to mouse up and then click again.
I have a movie clip (mc_moviegroup) which is made of a group of many dynamic text fields. I want to loop through the dynamic text field children of mc_moviegroup and pull out their text values in a string. Does a movie clip have a property which gives the number of it's children movieclips?
View 2 RepliesWhen you do, you'll see that the movieclip should obviously be at position (0, 0) on the stage. However it appears at (25, 5)! if I leave in the original "this.x = xx;", then it appears at (50, 5). If I also leave in "this.y=yy;" then it appears at (50, 10).
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how to send variable values inside a movieclip, to the main scope (main timeline)?
View 4 RepliesSo. I have this relatively simple code
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when I run it, there's this wierd random star just in the middle of the screen. I tried tracing all stars with _x values of 0, 200, undefined; _xscale values of 0, 100, undefined. There was nothing. I don't know why it's there. I don't even know if it has code in it. =/ Does anyone know what it is? Btw, I know it looks like crap ... sorta more like a glue gun than stars ... I have a better looking version, I just used this to try to disect the problem.
I would love if someone could take a look at the code below. When you do, you'll see that the movieclip should obviously be at position (0, 0) on the stage. However it appears at (25, 5)! if I leave in the original "this.x = xx;", then it appears at (50, 5). If I also leave in "this.y=yy;" then it appears at (50, 10).
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I want to know if I have variables inside amovie clip that get some values after user contact and I want to use this values in other frames in the main timeline.
View 2 RepliesI am currently trying to create a piece of code that will retrieve values from a 2D array and use them as x and y values to position instances of a MovieClip called mcMain. The code for the array will look something like this...
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var lvlMain:Array = new Array();
lvlMain.push(new Array());
var xAxis:Array = new Array([150,400,200,300,100]);
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how to create a piece of code that would retrieve the x and y coordinates listed in the arrays and use them to create instances of mcMain. So going from the code above it would create the first instance at x=150 and y=100, second instance........fifth instance at x=100 and y=500.
im trying this every which way.creating global variables etc.I have a movie clip with a text area (lets call it txttest)there is text inside it which i want to send from this movieclip on the main frame to a text area (lets call that one txttestB) on the main frame. Whatever i try i get undefined in the text area on the main frame.I have tried this...
_global.selectedcompany = txttest.text;
_root.txttestB.text = _global.selectedcompany;
I've gotten these sliders to work but can't get the output values to add up. For instance, depending on the values for slider 1, 2 and 3, I need the total to show up in a separate text box. I keep getting a NaN message in the text box.Here's the code I have so far:
//item 1
sliderOne.width = 600;
sliderOne.value = 0;[code].....
Basically there's an object in a movieclip. I want to find the location of that object in relation to the movieclip, not of the object's symbol. So when i look at the x and y of it, it wont show 0, it will show the x and y location in the movieclip it's in.
View 2 RepliesI need to save email-id in my login form through the cookies. if I use shared object I am able to save but my requirement is need to save in cookies. How can I save? I got sample code from net. Attaching that code `package com {
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
/**
* The Cookie class provides a simple way to create or access
* cookies in the embedding HTML document of the application.
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I need to be able to compare the number of whole days between two dates in ActionScript, is this possible? I'd like to test if one date is 7 days or less after today, and if so is it one day or less (if it's before today this also counts).The workaround I have in place is using the .time part of the date field:
// Get the diffence between the current date and the due date
var dateDiff:Date = new Date();
dateDiff.setTime (dueDate.time - currentDate.time);[code].....
As I say - this is only a workaround, I'd like a permanent solution to allow me to check the number of whole days between 2 dates. Is this possible?
Is there anyway where I can pass the Array values (not the array collection values) to the Bar charts or column charts using flex 3.5...
here is the thing i want:::
I have array values like this,,
array1 = [23, 49, 40, 239, 20, 80, 39,49,120, 24, 31,41];
and i want to show these values on the Yaxis and months on Xaxis....
I have two Qns,
1) how can I pass this array to Bar chart or column chart.
2) how do I need to show months on Xaxis. beacuse I'm asking this regarding, I have kept a filters that even if we want to see some months or a particular months or perticalar span of months... there on Xaxis it need to change the months dynamically depending on the filters..... (for ex, on Xaxis the values should be (Jan, Apr, Jun,Oct) if i select the 3 months period filter....)
I have written a logic to collect the values of those particular months into an array, but not understading how to pass this array to Bar chart,, beacuse there I don't know what Xfield and Yfield to be given....