I'm trying to wrap my head around writing .as files in MX 2004. As a practice file I made a MovieClip called SquareClip in the library of flash file. I made the linkage name SquareClip. My .as file called Square looks like this:
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So I am able to dispatch the event from one class and trace out that the custom event was dispatched, but where I am having trouble is listening for that event in another class.
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Originally this file I have was built using AS 2.0. The boss wants it converted over to AS 3.0.For some reason i am having a difficult time getting my head around the fact there there is no longer a _root/_parent AND what to use in it's place.
I don't mind reading up on it, I just can't find a decent article that I know is correct! I did a search and it seems like every person has a different ways of calling back one or two scenes/MovieClips.
This is the code that I am working with. Basically I am in a movie clip (resortInfo) located on the main timeline. I want to call back to the main timeline (level0) and go into the movie navigation (has an instance name of "navigation") to the frame label "images".[code]...
I'm making a simple flash game as sort of a test, and I'd like to have save files by making flash write information to an xml file. Is there anyway to generate and edit an xml file using actionscript?
View 5 RepliesIm a bit confused about the adressing of .swf-files loaded into levels of another .swf-file. The adressing seem to be absolute, ie. if a sub.swf (which is loaded into a super.swf from another location) uses some sort of adressing (for instance, loading an image), that adress must include the path from the super.swf.
Cant you change that somehow, so that sub.swf's can adress other stuff relatively to its own adress? Can you do that globally (so that relative adressing is used by every .swf)? Can you set it individually, so that adressing is relative only from the specified swf's?
What is your approach to writing documentation explaining the options and use of XML files for a project ?Do you write commented instructions directly in the XML file ?Do you create a different text file in which you write instructions ?Do you explain the use of blocks of XML or do you detail each element and it's function ?I am looking for some guidelines on how to write the documentation for large XML files that control the settings and content of projects.
View 1 RepliesWriting text to .txt files using actionscript. how? i couldn't find anything about that in the internet.for flash player.
View 3 RepliesHow do you write to external .txt files so that you can read from them like this;
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on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();[code]....
then there would be a text file called hiscore.txt and it would have
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hiScore; 28000
for example
XML is really cool, I'm amazed at how easy it is to use and what it can achieve. what the easiest method of adding data into an XML file via PHP is. I'm somewhat proficient with PHP (and MySQL), just not too much. For instance we have an XML file like so.
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<news>
<item>
<heading>This is the heading!</heading>
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So how would we go about adding item elements (of course containing headings and content) into our XML file via PHP? Are there any good libraries that do that or built in functions?
I have an external file highscores.txt, which my game opens. It finds the 3 variables in it and compares them to the score that the user got and determines if they beat it or not. If they beat the high score, I want it to re-write the variables in the file, which are "name", "seconds", and "minutes". Here is how I open the file and get the data.
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("highscore.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
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how I can write in the file using flash?
I want save a string variable to a txt file with flash player !How i can to do it?
View 1 Repliescan you write and modify XML files using server-side Actionscript? I've been going through Adobe's Server-side Actionscript reference, reading up on the File class that lets you modify files on the server, and the server-side XML class that lets you read and 'understand' XML data, but can you put them together and essentially edit XML files on the server?
View 2 Repliesa standard view and a "full screen" view...by default the standard view loads and there is a button to switch to full screen...when the standard view loads to begin with...the exhibitor list on the left works fine with the booths in the floorplan....meaning when you click an exhibitor, the corresponding booth lights up...however, when you load the second swf...which loads to _level0 using the following cose loadMovie("standard-0.48.xml", _level0); the exhibitor list does not work quite the same...when I click on an exhibitor now, the color for the whole floorplan changes, and does not change back...and if you click the standard view button, it goes back to the standard view, but again when you click an exhibitor, the color of the whole plan changes...any idea how to fix this?
View 3 RepliesI have movC_mc inside movB_mc inside movA_mc AS2 to access movC_mc from the my Actions layer in frame 1 in the root would be movA_mc.movB_mc.movC_ mc.My question is how can I target the movA_mc from the root of my .fla.[code]just can't get my head to transition from AS2 to AS3.
View 2 RepliesIm having a small problem with a 2d array Ive been coding for sometime now previous to actionscript Ive programmed in Java and Ive always accessed 2d array elements in the following way
Myarray[column][row]
Column before Row
X before Y
Width before Height
Im working on a project where I want to pre declare array elements something I haven't had the need to do before and Im using the following syntax to achieve this
var myarray:Array = [[0,1,0],
[1,1,1],
[0,0,0]];
Im writing it this way so that its clear how the information will be seen on screen as the 1's in the array will be converted to images the 0' denote a absence of an image.The problem Ive got is in order to access these elements I have to write Myarray[row][column] And I would much prefer to access it column first Myarray[column][row] as its what im used to and its too head banging to change over.Is there anyway to declare the array how i am doing now ie
c c c
var myarray:Array = [ r [0,1,0],
r [1,1,1],
r [0,0,0]];
And then twist the array something like this (note! not code syntax just a visual representation)
c c c
[0 [1 [0 r
1 1 1 r
0] 0] 0] r
Is there a method in as3 to achieve this or does anybody know of any short simple code to do it with
I don't really know how to describe this problem but I'm going to give it a try. I am working in Flash cs3 using as3. I have a project with 5 scenes and button nav to jump between them. When I test the project scene 1-4 play fine however when I get to scene 5 the playback head doesn't move, it just stays parked on frame 1 (button nav works, animation does not). When I re-arrange the stacking order of my scenes the same problem will occur in a different scene that had previously played fine. This issue only occurs when i test the whole movie - if I test any scene by itself it plays fine. I am not getting any AS errors which adds to the frustration
View 7 RepliesAs I use play(); in a button-script to send the timeline head forward in my mc animation, which is the simplest way to tell another button to send the head backwards?
View 5 RepliesThere's a lot of talk of how the new Event Flow makes for easier communication between classes.This sounds swell,but nowhere is it properly explained. Every example I find concerns dispatching events within the same class or looped through a customEvent, but I need a way to tap into this Event Flow for backward communication.I have a mainGUI document class that distributes my application subclasses.How do I set up a listener within mainGUI that gathers certain events from any of its children or grand-children? And how can I use this line to post object properties?
View 1 RepliesI'm using Flash MX (2002) and I need to get my variable values saved to a server each time my test subjects run and finish my swf/fla (PHP scripts and a .txt file on the server are being worked on, but that's a different nightmare!). I'm pretty sure I should use LoadVars, NOT SharedObject for this data capture right?. The data must not be overwritten each time over the course of a few months of data collection.
The 3 variables are: username (name of the user), counter (this keeps track of which version the user chooses from the start menu), numcorrect (keeps track of the number of times the <right> arrow key is pressed).
I don't know where to put in the LoadVars obj (in the AS code of "finaldisplay" frame?) AND I don't know how to build/format the LoadVars object to capture the data in the 3 variables I listed above.
find out where the play head is?
I'm trying to do something like this
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if(_root.movie.currentPlayHeadPosition == 1) doSomething();
Its been a long time since I last did any flash, can anyone jog my memory on how to get the current frame?
I want "rain drops" to fall randomly and then when they hit the bottom most pixel of my stage to run another movie clip called "splash" so it looks like it is raining and the "drops" could fall and "splash" at the bottom of the stage.
View 9 Replieshow will be actionScript for waiting the play head in a frame for 5 second ?
View 5 RepliesI am using flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0 i have a movie clip on stage that i have close when the user hits a button how to i also tell the maine time line to go to a frame when this button in the Movie clip is pressed?
View 2 RepliesBy far the weirdest thing I've ever seen. On some machines (!) IE (!!) attempts to load an SWF file via HEAD request instead of GET. This happens only when the page is running in Facebook IFRAME application - when running solo works fine. Naturally, on FF and Chrome everything works just fine. The SWF is embedded using jSWFObject. There's no visible common feature to the machines which experience this problem - laptops, desktops, XP, Vista, 7.
View 1 RepliesI would like to construct a RegExp/Actionscript3 statement/routine that will do the following:
1. Locate the link containing the favicon. Note that there can be many <link>s in the <head> so I am looking for the one that specifically includes the : <link rel="shortcut icon" ...favicon.ico">,
2. Most favicons are in the ".ico" format, but I have seen favicons that are .png and .gif formats. The next step is to save the .ico in a .png format
Been creating a scroll bar for images. the issue is i cant seem to get sensible stop parameters for the ends of the scroll and scroll bar button. my formulae just wont tie in with the positions at extreme left and right of content/button movement.
The number of images scrolled in the scroller is set by a txt file and is currently at 16, but this is to be changeable. that bit is not an issue, just the scroll parameters. Oh and the Images are in an "images" folder - surprisingly!
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I make a flash movie. I want to create a progress bar with custom play head that when we drag it, the swf file will adjust appropriate position, similar to the progress bar in comman media players. My main swf file has about 2000 frames
View 2 RepliesI am trying to create a character whose head will follow the mouse. I have made a character whose eyes are following the mouse, but I would like the head to turn with the mouse as well - like the cyber pets here.
View 3 Repliesvar mySound:Sound = new Sound();
mySound.loadSound("http://192.168.0.121/work/vivek_php/fatima/myFavSong.mp3");
mySound.setVolume(20);
trace(mySound.id3);
mySound.start();
trace(mySound.position);
I'm trying to make this script work in which two things should happen onRlease of a movie clip. The "transition" plays but frame 18 doesn't..even though the path is right. I even tried frame label even that doesn't work.I must be doing something wrong, maybe you can detect from this script. The script is on the clip itself.[code]
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