I have a preloader bar and percentage in my first frame.Once it has loaded, it goes to frame two.Frame two contains a "play" button that sends it to frame three, where the actual movie begins.I managed to script the preloader without a hitch.However, when I added the button script to the second frame, errors appeared in the preloader script.[code]
View 3 RepliesI am having a problem with a scrollbar I created when I use an external preloader. The scrollbar is defined in an external class and works just fine when I compile that SWF and also when I view it. When I load the main SWF through the preloader, I lose any functionality on the scrollbar. Its like the preloader SWF strips the scrollbar class definition from the main SWF. Is this possible? Does anyone know what's going on here?
View 2 RepliesI have a small movie with a stop() on the last frame to prevent the movie from looping. On the last 10 frames or so a button appears that when clicked, goes to an external web site. The button will work until the timeline hits the last frame with the stop(), and at that point no longer works. The user is left sitting at the last frame of the movie, trying to click a button to visit another website and nothing happens.I have the button's actionscript in a separate layer starting from the same frame as the button (named buttonMBP) appears in the timeline:
Code:
buttonMBP.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, urlJump);
function urlJump(event:MouseEvent):void{
if(event.target == buttonMBP){[code]...
If I add trace commands to the function, I can see them work as I click the button when the last 10 frames are playing, but once the last frame appears with the stop(), everything goes into a dead stop. I guess the stop() stops everything and not just the timeline? I'm fairly inexperienced with AS3 (trying to learn).Is there a better way to have an active link appear on the last frame of a movie? I went with using a button because the standard text-tool doesn't support a mousehover (or not one that I could see) that would indicate that the text was an active url.
I've got a Next button with a rollover that works fine. However, when the user reaches the end of the page, the button needs to flash to let the user know they need to click it.
I set this up the way I would have in AS2, with an up state in frame 1, rollover state in frame 2 and frame 3-10 has the animation for the flashing state. In AS3, as soon as I put the animation in, the rollover no longer works and I think it's tied to my animation layer since it works if I remove that layer. I tried putting the layer under my normal button layer, thinking it's not recognizing the animation as part of the button. I tried using classic tweens and the new tweens and nothing seems to work...
I attached the file. You can see that the rollovers work, if you click the pause button, it triggers the flashing animation and then, I get the following error if I try rolling over:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at buttonRO_fla::MainTimeline/BtnIn()
and tracing the target name no longer shows the button name (as it does before you do the flash)...
I'm building a complex movie using MX2004 and ActionScript 2. Problem: I can't get text tabbing to work, no matter how closely I control the situation using tabIndex, tabEnabled and tabChildren.
While working to simplify a reproduction case, I've ended up with a movie that works, just having four Input Text TextFields hand-added to the timeline, no code involved. But, when I drag a Button from the Components window to the library, tabbing breaks. This is without even placing the Button on the timeline. Remove the Button from the library and it works again. Needless to say my project uses Buttons, and I'd rather not have to re-implement them.
Let me say it again. In a generic, timeline-based movie with no ActionScript included, tabbing works between Input Text fields. But the mere act of adding a Button instance to the library, without the Button ever appearing in the timeline, breaks tabbing. I'm flummoxed: why would something being present in the library, without any appearance in the time line (nor any Actionscript to add it), have anything to do with the movie's functionality? True, adding the Button increases the size of the published .swf from 177 bytes to 27kB, but why would it break things when I'm not even using it?
I've attached the broken movie. Open it and test it: tabbing won't work. Delete the Button from the library, test again: tabbing will work.
Attachments:
HardwiredTabbing.fla.zip (45.4 K)
i just created a basic form in flash nothing too fancy it works perfectly well but when your inputting data and hit tab to go to the next one it randomly picks a box to jump to if you press tab again it jumps out of the flash movie and goes into some random symbol has this ever happened to any of you guys?
View 2 RepliesI've created a preloader.swf that (when loaded) loads an external swf. I would also like to add a skip intro btn, but when I do, the preloader seems to loop over and over (blinking - I know, high tech). This is the preloader code. I have it in the first frame of the preloader.swf:
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I have a preloader working fine but having problems integrating a "skip" button (so users can skip opening animation)Each of the code blocks ("//skip it" and "//Preloader" work ok without each other but when I combine them I get;"Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at xyz.fla::MainTimeline/updatePreloader()"I think when the skip buttin is pressed the prelodader code continues to be active???I guess IF skip button is pressed I need to gotoAndPlay (149) and also stop the preloader code but I cannot successfully combine the 2 code blocksHere is the code.
// skip It
orSkip_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, skipped);
function skipped (evtObj:MouseEvent):void{ trace ("skipped");
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I've created a preloader.swf that (when loaded) loads an external swf. I would also like to add a skip intro btn, but when I do, the preloader seems to loop over and over (blinking - I know, high tech).
This is the preloader code. I have it in the first frame of the preloader.swf:
stop();
var myRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("flash/index.swf");var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(myRequest);
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using this as my actionscript for preloader:
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Scene 1, Layer 'Actions', Frame 3, Line 2 1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRelease through a reference with static type fl.controls:Button. id like to get my website working. what im i doin wrong? id like to use the latest actionscript.
I'm putting together a portfolio site in the external method of using a document class structure.
Of the classes I have involved thus far include:
:: Master.as
and a
:: Intro.as
The Master class loads the Intro class (and others as well). The Intro class has the button event to trigger the Preloader. However, I want the button to trigger the Preloader as a separate class. Meaning, I don't want to build the entire function set inside the Intro class. I'm trying to build everything around the Master class and not go of in a tangent based around one event.
The problem I'm having is passing variable instance information in the Intro class to an external class whether it's a Preloader or otherwise.
I see tutorials for Preloaders, but how do people incorporate them into a pre-existing class structure? That is, in a modular fashion so I could re-use the Preloader class somewhere else? What's a common structure philosophy that's used to pass info?
I just tested out my site in Firefox and IE. Everything works the way I want it to in Firefox but in IE I'm having trouble. When I click on a button my preloader shows up but doesn't stop to load the content, it plays straight through and then my movie pops up. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I've never encountered this problem before.
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Web Design, Illustration, Resume and Downloads are all I have working so far.
I used to work on AS2 to make my animations, buttons and portfolios, but now I needed to use AS3 to make some forms interact with some PHP script. TextInputs and Buttons on COMPONENTS are working and interacting normally with PHP. My PreLoader is working great too. But what should the easiest is not working: MY SIMPLE BUTTONS! It used to be so easy in AS1 and 2, but now on AS3 it's not working. I am putting all my action and codes in a ACTIONS FRAME in the top of my animation, but it is not working! I have my Preloader on my frame 1 working, calling my animation on frame 2. The code is here (it's working):
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I wrote this AS for my preloader which schould be able to load a movie clip after pressing a specif button in the main sceene:
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1) The problem is that to be able to target a movieclip I will need to give it a instance name. Where can i find this function in MX ?
2) I cannot understant how I schoul put a loadBar being a small movieclip on the main timeline, I think( the same timeline the container clip is at ) or maybe not ? well I am bit confused now..
Well I have done already a sceene preloader for my site and it works perfectly and i did not experience any problems as Im having now with this new kind of preloader.
I am passing a text from javascript to flash. and spliting the text based on "<br>"
Here is my code
Javascript
<script> function printLabel(){ var label = document.getElementById("label1").innerHTML; thisMovie("main").sendText(label);
}
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When I use this code:
HTML Code:
<p><span class="boldgold">Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!</span><br/>
Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles. </p>
it is normally formatted like this:
Quote:
Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles.However, in Flash, when I load the external text and use CSS to format it, I get an extra line break:
Quote:
Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles.The way around it is to let the text after the break tag follow that break tag:
HTML Code:
<p><span class="boldgold">Flash Player now supports Cascading Style Sheets!</span><br/>Macromedia Inc. announced today a new version of Flash Player that supports Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) text styles. </p>
Isn't there a way (as2 code?) to have flash format the text just like a browser would if it were a normal html page?
I want to have some line breaks in my XML. I have a the code for ignore white spaces which is eliminating my line breaks. i have tried <br> which doesnot work.
View 1 RepliesI've got a list I need to place in an XML file, and I need it to display as a list when it's brought into Flash. However, and do not work.
View 9 RepliesI'm using bulkLoader to load an mp3 and an flv using their simple-example.as
It works fine if I make the SimpleExampleMain the file's class, loads sound and video and plays them both when they're finished. However, if I DON'T make it the class and just use:
Code:
var se:SimpleExampleMain=new SimpleExampleMain();
it loads both, plays the audio fine, but doesn't show the video?? It says that it's loaded, but it doesn't show anything. NOTHING is different except it's not the file Class...
Here's the SimpleExampleMain.as:
Code:
package{
import br.com.stimuli.loading.BulkLoader;
import br.com.stimuli.loading.BulkProgressEvent;
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how to make text acting as a preloader so that its color changes as preloader percentage. i dont mean how to apply the math, i mean how to mask it or whatever action to achieve that effect?
like for example imagine the red is constantly growing to the right letter by letter (actually pixel by pixel:
I'm new to flash and AS3, and have just figured out how toload an external XML document into a textField, which is thenstyled via an external CSS document. The styling works fine,colours change, font size changes etc... But! And here's myproblem, when the xml data is loaded into the textfield, where Ihave nested styles, it creates a line break.I have created a textField on the stage with an instance nameof: eventsContentTextFieldWhich is set to dynamic, scrolling (with a UIScrollBarcomponent), html and multiline.
View 6 RepliesI have changed the "src=filname.swf" in the <embed> tag as well as the "name=filename" part of the <embed> tag however to no avail. The video still no longer plays after I rename the file. It was built in ActionScript3 I think.
View 1 RepliesThis is the MXML I have
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None of them create a new line in flex they are both rendered to the screen. How can I create a new line with a php string?
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but if I do name.text=data.string; it doesnt even though data.string has the exact same value;
A client is having me convert an HTML5 video web application that I've already built into an AIR app.
The end users are going to need this to work with no internet access, so I MUST include a LOT of video files with the installer. This works fine on my machine, but my client can't install it because the .air file is too large and they don't have enough RAM. We'll need this installed on a number of laptops that aren't super powerful.
My SDK is up to date and we're using AIR 3.1. Has anyone else run into a similar situation? Is there any workaround? For instance could I either include both the installer and the .air in a zipped folder, then have the installer move the video files to the appropriate location, or use AS to have the installer download the files (they will have internet access when installing).
I'm attaching the fla file for view and playing pleasure, I seem to be running into an issue where I have a myriad of KEY_UP and KEY_DOWN events that work beautifully the first time through the swf. When I hit either of the "Play again?" buttons, which are coded back to the first frame with a gotoAndPlay(1) function, the swf plays again but all the keyboard events don't work. The third time through the if/else function that decides whether or not your little spaceship crashes or not doesn't work.
View 1 RepliesFor some reason or another, after a </strong> or </em> tag, flash inserts a line break after it.
So it is like this:
This is some BOLD
text and this is some italic
text.
When it should look like this: This is some BOLD text and this is some italic text.
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Alright, so I have a Label (not a TextArea) that I want to contain the text: "Example<br>Stuff" I set the labels htmlText to this text, but for some reason the <br> is ignored. I tried researching information about this problem and people said to use the multiline property on the text object. However, this property is only for TextAreas, and not for Labels. Is there any way to have multiple lines with htmlText?
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I have one swf which calls xml having Unicode characters in text box. But it breaks characters from single word at the end of line when displayed.
why it dosent recognise the word just like english text? is there a wayout?
I dont want to insert line breaks in xml.
I'm not sure if its a specific cs5 problem, but my dynamic text boxes started breaking for seemingly no reason. I will tell it to display the contents of a variable, something like:
var myString:String = "15234m";
TextField.text = myString;
And on screen it will display something like "m" or "1"
Ive pulled up old flash files, that were working, and as soon as I save them out as cs5, all my dynamic text fields stop working correctly.
I just started working on a preloader screen that includes a preloader mask over a logo and a percentage dynamic text. I can get either or to work but not both at the same time. I notice that if I remove stop(); I can get the percentage to work but not the preloader image. With the stop(); embedded the image preloader works but the percentage doesn't.
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