When i use the command
menus.setDepth (2)
I get another instance of the same movie appearing over top of the original on the specified depth of 2. Both are visible.Is this the way its supposed to work or is there a way to get rid of the old instance on its original depth?
Why does the MovieClip class have no setDepth method? Why should we use swapDepth when a setDepth method is the easier way to set a movieclip's depth? Is it because setting of depth should be done by another class like DepthManager?
View 4 RepliesMaybe the title is not self explanatory but in most iphone games eg you click the correct example and you see a +100 points mc appear and rise and alpha out. I did this with a png done in photoshop BUT not all goes well - it doesn't work.
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It seens perfct but I can't see it work. The funny thing is that the custom currentBubble - with a dot after you see the code hints but a dot after pb100 - you see no code hints. Well not normal.
Does creating a new instance of an Object that uses an identical name to an older instance, delete the previous instance? Or should the original instance be deleted first? The code uses a ridiculous amount of XML vars. Isn't it less memory intensive to parse the XML and save the properties to an Object, and then delete the XML Object, rather than keep the XML Object around and reference it's child nodes directly? Is it better form to break up a huge XML file (>600lines/3200vars) into smaller chunks?
View 1 RepliesI have a library object (SomethingMC) which extends a custom class (Something). Something, in turn, extends MovieClip.If adding SomethingMC to the stage within Flash CS3 IDE, is it possible for it's super class (Something) to assign an instance name from a class constant (Something.THE_CONSTANT)?
package
{
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The above does not work. It throws Error #2078: The name property of a Timeline-placed object cannot be modified. if the instance is assigned a name in the IDE, and it just doesn't work if no name is assigned in the IDE.
I have a BUNCH of bumpers of four types bounceUp, bounceDown, bounceLeft, bounceRight. during a collision which you hit determines the bounce so they always do the same thing so here's my question.....can i just name every bounceUp instance the same thing and then just add that one instance name to the list the collision detector checks?
i just dont wanna go through and name a hundred each of bounceUp s and bounceDown s individually as the potential for screaming increases proportionally.......
I placed a movie clip instance inside a button, and I want this movie clip to play when the button is released. I'm using this code on the frame containing the button:
function playMovie(event:MouseEvent)
{
this.theButton.theMC.gotoAndPlay(3);
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Does anyone know if it is possinle to scroll a graphic or a movie instance as well as a text instance in flash. I want to scroll text and images as well. Actually text with imges embedded in it.
View 3 RepliesI am wrapping my brain around OOP in AS2. I am making two posts on two different subjects. My question here is: when should I use local instance variables, and when should I attach new properties to the instance object? (Feel free to correct my terminology.) Let's say I have a class for a scrolling background, which scrolls when I mouse over its edge. I want to put these values somewhere:
1) How wide is the border in which a mouseOver makes it scroll? This is basically a semi-constant I set it up once and keep it the same, unless the user changes it in an options menu to make the border wider or narrower. Call this scrollBorderWidth.
2) How fast is the background scrolling now? I want to track this so I can smoothly change the scroll speed over several frames. This is often changed. Call this scrollSpeed.
It seems I have two ways I can store and access these values and darned if I know which is better practice. METHOD A: Make them local variables in the class, so the scrolling background instance has them as local vars. I set them up thusly:
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I am creating a card game and want to record all the movements of cards after login and choosing the seat.
this that how could i record all appears in swf??
I made a photo gallery website. Now I built a simple preloader in the first frame. When getBytesTotal=getBytesLoaded, then gotoAndPlay(2). There are NO library items exported in first frame (but there are items exported for Actionscript), BUT the preloader only appears when already 60% is loaded!Anyone any ideas what the MC does load before entering the first frame?
View 7 RepliesI added a simple preloader to my website in the 1st frame. When all is loaded, the movie continues to the 2nd frame. I had a few library items exported as actionscript and exported in first frame. I unchecked ALL export in first frame checkboxes. BUT (although my movie now misses a few MCs), my preloader still only appears when already over 60% of the movie is loaded. What is still being loaded before the movie enters 1st frame?
View 4 RepliesI have a general / somewhat newbie question. Is it better practice to call a function from another class like so:
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Does one way free up more memory or enhance performance?
I've concluded that I have to use several Loaders. At first I was thinking "oh well I just use sixteen loaders", but do I have to? Maybe I should create only eigth of them? Then I found this tutorial. If I'm correct I just have to create eight Loaders, then addChild to correct img1/img2?
View 1 RepliesSo I created an animation with a preloader and a button. Whenever I view the animation in CS4, I get some null object reference errors- however, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why.
I decided to open the document in CS5.5 on my school computer- the animation worked perfectly! No errors anywhere. I exported the .swf file and opened it again on my laptop with CS4.
I have a project of slideshow of images, it this with some defects, example, I have 10 pulled images being, but in the first time that I bring up to date one f5 in the HTML or Ctrl+enter in the flash, it alone he shows to 9 images it to me does not show the second image, and he finishes it is blank, does not appear nothing, but if I to leave it twirling, in the second time it shows the second image but he finishes it continues blank, acontence always, exactly if in param of the HTML I to only place 3 images, happens the same thing, follows the action.
imagem = new Array (_root.i1, _root.i2, _root.i3, _root.i4, _root.i5, _root.i6, _root.i7, _root.i8, _root.i9, _root.i10);
var QtdImagens = 0;
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I have a base class I've used on 6 different MC's. Then when I use these MC's my function runs an if statement to check which one to add.
if(id=design) var obj = new design();
if(id=team) var obj = new team();
I want to make it a bit more dynamic and use the id:String to evaluate which new instance to create.
ActionScript Code:
public function loadChapter(id:String):void {
var obj = new instance_of( id )();
}
I'm just wondering if it's possible to have a page of text that is 'invisible' (for want of a better word) and when you move your mouse over the page, the text appears in a circle (of whatever radius) around the mouse point.The text would be clearest and darkest at the mouse point, and fade out towards the outer circle, and 'appear' smoothly as the mouse is dragged around the white page.
View 3 Repliesi know this is a basic procedure but im having problems with loadMovie. Heres my code
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder_mc", "holder",0);
holder_mc._x = (Stage.width)/2;
holder_mc._y = (Stage.height)/2;
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Im geussing its a problem with nesting movieclips with code and the solution is to do with something im un aware of because of my lack of experience,
Any work-arounds to what appears to be a bogus error message?Multiple buttons to control a movie and one (defined with the exact same process/steps as the others) results in the 1120 error.[code]No syntax error, but test run results in 1120 error on the P_button event.Instances are established for both and the names are spelled correctly. Is there some undocumented feature about what characters can't be used in instances and button/movie definitions?
View 2 Repliesi have a button load_swf that does that:
swf_path="sample.swf"
load_swf.onRelease = function() {
loadListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number,
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Im really stumped here the test site is at[URL]..where when you go to services, then the second button in the dropdown when you click on it loads an empty movie clip, but then for the "services" dropdown its behind the empty clip now and I cannot access anything else within that dropdown.
I have everything on my index in layers with the navigation bar section on layer 3 then the picture with the bird on layer 2. The navigation bar(layer 3) is a set of dropdowns which are movie clips, "services, logistics, etc" with buttons within each for the dropdown selections. I have the actionscript for each dropdown on the 20th fram of the movie clip(it goes from frame 1 to frame 20 on rollover of each movie clip). The script then is this on frame 20
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This works....
Code: Select allvar imgLd:Loader = new Loader();
imgLd.load(new URLRequest("multiply.jpg"));
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but when I try do define a width, nothing appears
Code: Select allvar imgLd:Loader = new Loader();
imgLd.load(new URLRequest("multiply.jpg"));
imgLd.blendMode = "multiply";
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I'm building a portfolio section of our website where we have several sections for example: TVC, DigiFX, Audio, etc.I have one xml file controlling that part which works a treat. The script reads the xml and places (depending on how many nodes are in the xml) x number of tv screens in a carousel style layout where the user can select a category. Now this is where things go pearshaped... When a user selects a 'TV' a variable is set to tell which category was selected and loads the appropate xml for that section.
I have a few traces which gives me this output:
SelectedTV = _level0.TV0
Current XML playlist= portfolio/TVC_playlist.xml
videos Array =
videos Array 0 = undefined
flvTitle 0 = undefined
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...and I have 7 <video url="" flvtitle="" desc="" client=""/>
P.S. This was done with CS3 but using AS2, since i first started the project with F8 and don't have the time at the moment to convert it to AS3.
these are dynamic textfields, and everything is tweened from alpha 0 to 1 at inital loadand this screenshot is taken like one second before second one; look at the first picture, the text is all nice and crisp:now look at the second one, when it tweens to alpha 1, it looks like there is a "second pass" of text over the inital one it looks like it doubled itself:
View 2 Repliesi want that a MC appears randomly on the stage but with the time...like 1 second, and then after 1 second, it randomly appears somewhere else on the stage (800x600).
View 6 RepliesI am wondering how to make the MC "bonus" appear at random times onto the stage and stay until the MC has stopped playing or it has been clicked on.
I.e
- after 5 seconds, "bonus" appears on stage.
- the 20 frames inside the MC play and then it disappears.
I've noticed if I use initialize="myfunction()". Once "myfunction" has ran it will never be ran again if i use initialize. I need to reset a form basically. Or anything else I can use instead of initialize that will run the function every time.
View 1 RepliesI have a complex workflow movie that is almost entirely loaded with dynamic text populated by XML files. The problem is that when I view the movie the dynamic text doesn't always appear on some frames. If I click back out of the frame and then click back into it the dynamic text appears.
To simply what I am talking about:Frame 1 has a button on it that opens frame 2.The button on frame 1 is clicked and frame 2 opens however no text is displayed.The 'back' button on frame 2 is clicked returning the movie to frame 1The button on frame 1 is clicked and frame 2 opens again, but this time all the text displays as it should.The coder bangs his head on the table and exclaims 'WTF?'
I have a complex workflow movie that is almost entirely loaded with dynamic text populated by XML files. The problem is that when I view the movie the dynamic text doesn't always appear on some frames. If I click back out of the frame and then click back into it the dynamic text appears.
To simply what I am talking about:Frame 1 has a button on it that opens frame 2.The button on frame 1 is clicked and frame 2 opens however no text is displayed.The 'back' button on frame 2 is clicked returning the movie to frame 1The button on frame 1 is clicked and frame 2 opens again, but this time all the text displays as it should.The coder bangs his head on the table and exclaims 'WTF?'