ActionScript 2.0 :: Preloading Movieclips With Linkage Names?
Dec 17, 2006
I have a flash movie with a lot of linked movieclips in my library (mc's with linkage names). I have a preloader in the beginning of the flash movie. However, the preloader doesn't show until (I guess) all those linked movieclips are downloaded first. Then the preloader starts showing, starting at something like 40% . How can I include the linked movieclips in my preloading, such that the preloader shows straight away, from 0% ?
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Aug 17, 2005
i know flash has problems with preloading files that use linkage... i know it has something to do with 'export in first frame'. because when you have that checked you can preload it because its on the same frame as the preloader... but if i dont have it checked it isnt exported and when i click a button i cant hear anything... how to work around this? how must i preload / link my embedded sound files?
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Oct 19, 2009
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Nov 25, 2002
here is a more detailed version of my previous post. I have multiple buttons with random sounds being played on release through linkage of those sounds. Some buttons have 3 sounds, some have 2, which are played randomly. I know there are scripts for volume of each individual sounds, but that won't help here, I have many sounds that need to be controlled by volume buttons. I had 2 ideas: either tell me I can do them or tell me I'm stupid.
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Sep 29, 2002
I have two swf's. One main movie and one sound movie. The sound movie exports the sounds,
providing linkage which I want to use in an actionscript in the main movie. How do I call upon the sounds from the second movie? The reason why I have two files is that Flash doesn't allow me to choose in which frame the sounds will be exported, it's the first frame or who-knows-when. Would it be a good solution to load the sound swf into the main movie, placing it during the preload of this, and export the sounds with linkage names from this and (later) call upon them from the main movie? Is it possible at all? If it is, how do I do it?
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May 17, 2010
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Jan 4, 2004
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Jun 4, 2009
I'm creating an isometric game in AS3, Flash CS4.I created a file named Units.as which contains the following:
Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;[code]....
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package
{
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import flash.display.Sprite;
var myArray:Array = new Array;
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Oct 16, 2009
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Nov 18, 2010
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Apr 20, 2010
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Mar 4, 2009
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Dec 14, 2011
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getting angles, of two movieclips that are on my stage. With instance names: circle1,circle2. I read that I should use the function Math.atan2 to get the angle, in radians, then I convert it to degrees, but it doesn't make sense, the angles aren't correct.. Here I paste the code I use (its AS not PHP don't know how to add the AS tags):
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Nov 12, 2004
I have an actionscript that controls the movieclips _alpha through instance names. The problem is: I habe a lot of movieClips and I will use the same action in all of them. The same action, just changing the instance name.
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Right check this:
/////////////////////////////////////
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///////////////FUSE//////////////////
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import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
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Mar 3, 2008
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PHP Code:
var regions:Array=new Array("britain.eastAnglia","britain.eastMidlands","britain.ireland");
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May 28, 2011
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var xPos:int = 120;
var yPos:int = 60;
for (var i:Number = 1; i<=5; i++) {
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