I'm working on a project right now, where I need to simulate a "scratch-effect" with Flash, however, the setMask method just doesn't seem to work for me. examine my code and tell me what the *beep* I'm doing wrong?
SWF-file: scratchtest.swf (click)
Source-file: scratchtest.fla (rightclick and save)
The following code doesn't work on a mac but works fine on a pc. Anyone know how revise it so it works on both platforms?
stop();
startDrag("/coin", true);
MovieClip.prototype.startScratch = function(width){
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I'm trying to simulate the effect of a slinky spring in actionscript, and I've come up against an interesting anomaly.The code is fairly basic, and takes advantage of a certain degree of latency in the running of the code. The code basically asks all the movie clips to the right of clip that is being dragged, to keep a certain amount of pixels apart from its neighbour. You would think that this would mean the clips would be kept in rigid alignment, but instead you get a great rippling effect.
My problem is that this only seems to work in one direction despite my code being identical (but reversed)for each different case - left and right.If you take a look at the fla you'll see what I mean. Try dragging line No. 0 around versus dragging line No. 19.
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Specifically, what I'm doing here is the following: My movie has a lot of things hardcoded... I want it to load the hardcoded parts only if there's a flashvar called "debug" and set to "true". As you may have guessed, I DO NOT want that flashvar to be known to my providers, but I do want to set it on the IDE so everytime I test the code, it enters my debug mode (and so I don't have to change even a bit of code to publish it later)This would be my code:
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I am currently making a website on my Mac with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. I had an idea to make an iPhone and press a button next to it so that it would change the application page/home screen page displayed on the iPhone. I have NO idea how to go about doing this. I was told this can be done in Flash using Actionscript 3.0 but I do not know anything about AS3.
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Our sales people accepted flash banners without a click tag and then scream in anger when our ads server (openx) didn't count correctly the clicks. I'm looking if exists some way of "simulate" a click tag, I don't know exactly how, maybe with some JavaScript.
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I don't like the way this scrollpane looks. How to change the color, shapes, etc. Can I do this through altering the code, or do I need to start from scratch?
I need help building a site entirely on Flash from scratch. I am a beginner at the software, I know what most tools do, I know how to create basic tweens and stuff, but well, all in all, I'm a beginner. I know absolutely nothing on Action Script (be it 2 or 3), and I want very much to learn Flash now. To do so, I want to put online a portfolio site for me. I already know Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects quite well, so I think now's the time to give it a shoot. On to business:
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2. I heard that if you don't use ActionScript to animate things, the site gets mega heavy. Is that true? What should I use ActionScript for when building this website?
3. Is it possible to organize the loading priorities? As in, the order in which things load, so that the site gets a bit more dynamic allocating the user's connection?
4. Are there global standards for Flash-based websites?
For now, I guess this is it. I'm starting this project today, so I'm still not quite sure what other doubts may pop up.
Is it possible to make a Tilecomponent from scratch only wiith AS3 ?I want to make a xml driven dynamic video playlist with thumbs and text description but without a premade flash componenent.The thing I can't understand is how-to to manage the "cellrenderer" from scratch
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View 3 RepliesI have recently started making (and am still making) the transition from ActionScript 2 to 3. I have used the _global variable in an AS2 project as I needed a variable to be accessible from within ANY swf loaded into my main movie. This worked like a treat.
However, along came AS3 and whipped that from right under my feet. After much Googling, a few people suggested making use of a simple class with a simple variable that can be publicly set and retrieved. I made a simple class, imported it and manipulated the value, and all went well, however the instance of the class I create in my main loader movie is still not accessible from within a second SWF that gets loaded into my movie. If I re-instantiate the class in the SWF that is being dynamically loaded, the value reverts to the default value in the class code, not the new value set in my parent (first) movie.
Here is my class code, stored in an external .as file, is there any way I can simulate the ostype variable being a global variable?
package{
public class ostype {
public var ismac:Boolean = false;
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it's used as a simple identifier as to what operating system this flash app is being used on (mac or windows) and as a result let's me server content - such as saving files - in a different manner.
How to develop a flash file that can simulate a sms (text message) input like how you will write a message with your mobile phone. For example pressing the num '1' once, will give u 'a', twice will give u 'b', and trice will give u 'c' etc. I have an onscreen number pad, so user click the button '1' will give u 'a', twice will give u 'b' and etc. Problem is how can I detect the mouse to be how many click before they chunk out a alphabet. Also not forgetting some key like '7' need to test for 4 hit (P,Q,R,S).
View 2 Repliesdevelop a flash file that can simulate a sms (text message) input like how you will write a message with your mobile phone. For example pressing the num 1 once, will give u a, twice will give u b, and trice will give u c etc.
I have an onscreen number pad, so user click the button 1 will give u a, twice will give u b and etc
Problem is how can I detect the mouse to be how many click before they chunk out a alphabet. Also not forgetting some key like 7 need to test for 4 hit (P,Q,R,S).
I was wondering what would be the most optimal way of coding something that work this way: There's 10 buttons, you click button 5 (for example) which causes button 5 to gotoAndStop(2) while at the same time it tells all the buttons which aren't button 5 to gotoAndStop(1)
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anyways, what i want, is to make the coin only show up when the coin is like... over a "scratchable" box..