I have four possible directions on a grid (right, left, up, down) and I've already determined how to make a Boolean array to determine which positions are possible, returning something like (true, true, false, true). What I'm trying to figure out now is how to randomly choose one of these without choosing a false one. I've tried several permutations of If and While to no avail.
This is the closest I've gotten:
var rOrient:int = Math.floor(Math.random()*orientArray.length);
var orientDecider:int = 4;
while (orientDecider >=3) {
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but the problem is, that by splicing the Falses from my Array, I can no longer match up the index number to (Right, Left, Up, Down).
I'll start by posting my code then explain what I want it to achieve.
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What I am attempting and failing to do after much trial and error is to have a random ingredient from the ingredientList array pushed into the previewIngredients array making sure the new value going in is not already in the preview ingredients array. If the same value is there I want it to keep choosing an ingredient from the list array until it finds a value thats not in the preview array then push that one in there. It feels like I'm getting close but obviously I'm either going about it the wrong way or just missing a little somthing somthing out.
I'm using the following array to storing multiple variables for similar movieclips: public var ballPlaced:Array = new Array(false, false, false); ....however, its not storing the boolean value properly in the array? I'm using the following code in the ZoneFill and ZoneEmpty to assign it a value of true or false, e.g;
I want to check if my character is hitting any of the items in an array (true) and if he isn't (false). right now the boolean is in a for loop so it returns one "true" and multiple "false" statements each time the program updates. I just want one return, true if the character is hitting a movie clip in the array, and false if he isn't.
var bomb1:Boolean = false; var bomb2:Boolean = false; var bomb3:Boolean = false;
Would it be possible to use an array like this? var bomb:Array = [false,false,false]; Or would it be better in another way? Isn't it necessary to declare the variable/array to be boolean or number if it would be that type in the index? Could I also use an array for the movieclips like bomb[0].visible = true; ? But how di I declare that array?
What's the best strategy to handle allowing others to embed your own swf on a site of their choosing?
We're finishing up work on our new video player and while the embedding is working fine within the same domain (complete with a cool backend tool that tracks & lets us turn off individual embeds by ID number assigned during embed), I'm having some trouble testing across domains.
This will work like YouTube et al; people will simply be pasting HTML code into a page on their site, but the swf and all assets (images, XML files for data, etc) will be coming from our own site.
Our team is about to start a SAAS web application geared toward small businesses. This is a completely new experience for us; we are a system/ linux/php development organization and no experience whatsoever developing client side software except for simple html/php based CRUD support applications.We are evaluating both Adobe Flex and JQuery. We can't seem to choose between the two. Our priorities are:Productivity - We have to launch the soonest possible time.Overall User Experience - Resulting apps have to look professional and user must have pleasant experience using our product. I think this not a problem with both platform, though we will probably automatically lose 10% of potential users who don't have flash installed.Skill Reuse - We will all have to learn new language(s) and RIA platform on this project and hope we can use it again on more projects. BTW, we are a software contracting organization and this is our first foray to consumer apps. We are hoping though that we can leverage the skills we gain here for our clients.
Data-centric - Lots and lots of CRUD operations.3-tier - Business logic will reside on PHP server and data will be on the MySQL. The RIA will only present the data to the user.User accessible data will be large - This is why we decided to use RIA. We can't refresh the page when user just made few alterations/additions.Security is paramount - I don't see any security implication on choosing one platform over the other but perhaps the community has some ideas? We are carefully studying this. We frequently hold competition among developers who can implement a test app faster by using a flex or jquery. We would love to hear what the community have to say though.
I am looking for easy customizable charts. For example, i need to do this chart.So...What is best technplogy, flash, silverlight(on server side asp.net WebForms), js. Is it good idea to write own chart conrols without based on exists controls?
We have hooked up a Kinect to Flash and using it to control an avatar inside Flash, then we added another player in the Kinect and control the avatar using both players. One arm and one leg each. Now the problem comes. We want to mix it up during a game we are making. So, we need a function on a timer that randomly selects an arm and a leg from each player. But we gotta be sure that we don't get both arms/legs from one player or vice versa.We thought about using the Array and using several math functions in order to get the final result, but I was hoping there was a better way?[code]
For a new application I need to make a decision on what frontend technology to use. I know this question has been asked before and I've found several studies, blogs and other references discussing Flash vs. Silverlight vs HTML5 vs JavaFX, but in my case there is a business requirement that complicates the situation.The application must run as an offline, stand-alone desktop application and as an online client-server application and perhaps in the future it needs to run on tablets as well. And to minimise maintenance we would like to have just one code-base. The server side should preferably run on Linux.
From earlier projects we have experience with Java and Flex for the client-server configuration, but I haven't found out if it is possible to package this into a stand-alone application. Java and JavaFX would be an alternative, but JavaFX still seems to be immature and lacking development tools. If we go for Silverlight we would more or less have to switch to C# or C++ for the backend, or use something like JNBridge, which would make the stand-alone installation more complicated. And HTML5 would be the choice for the future, but less suited for a complex application and we might run into browser-dependencies.So I haven't found the ideal solution yet and could use some help. Perhaps we need to limit the one code-base requirement only for the server/backend side and accept different front-ends for different usages.
On my stage are 8 movieclip, respectively called squid1 to squid8. I'm trying to make actionscript designate one of these 'actors' at random once in a while, and make it pop up/do something. Dont know what exactly yet. Here's what I'm working on...
Code: function chooseActor() { var pickNumber = (Math.floor((Math.random()*8))); var result:Object = new Object();
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Now chooseActor funtion does what I intend it to do, i.e. generate a variable consisting of the word 'squid' combined with a number. I expected I could simply use this variable as the name of a movieclip and then just unleash all sorts of wackiness on it. But it doesnt work.
So I have a movie with 20 frames...on each frame...there is a question...so I want the user to access that pool of questions...when it pops up...it will randomly choose a Frame to go to...Now...how do I go about...when that Frame is chosen...take it out of the pool of the random questions...so it doesn't land on that frame again...I'm thinking with variables maybe...but I actually don't know how to even begin to write the code for that.
I have a line of code like this: var myObj:[SomeClass] = new [SomeClass](); I want to choose which class this object will belong to randomly at runtime. Is there a way to do this in Actionscript 3?
I writing a small action game in actionscript and I'm adding some mulitplayer features. I am currently using xml sockets and a small java socket server I wrote.
But I am now pondering, would my game have connection problems when people try to use ? wouldn't they need to open the port I used in their firewall and configure port forwarding in their routers ?
I did a small test over port 8080 and some remote computers running my swf connection test, they got connected but the connection was lost right away... is that a "cross domain" issue (I didn't learn the subject yet) or should I check the firewall and etc on the remote computers ?
Also, I am pretty early in the process - should I consider switching to RTMP to avoid connectivity issues ? Do commercial sites with multilayer flash action games use sockets for the connection ? Does electroserver/pulse/etc.. use sockets under the hood or RTMP ?
but there is no any change whichever easing i choose... I think there is some issue with refferencing objects, as from XML there comes String and in the TweenLite constructor i pass a string when i think some specific object is required.
I am importing a movie with Code: loadMovie("test.swf","content") were content is a little pink box with instance name content. Now my question is , how do I choose which frame the imported movie is on. I want to be able to go to a certain frame in it and stop preferably with no code in the imported movie if its possible.
I m choosing random numbers. I want to be able to choose any number from 1 to 10. Let's say for example, 4 is chosen. I then want to be able to choose any number from 1 to 10, aprart from 4. Let's say 6 is chosen. I then want to be able to choose any number from 1 to 10, apart from 4 and 6. And etc, until all of the numbers are chosen. I was hoping someone could recommend the best way to code the above.
I'm interested in understanding the ActionScript 2 code that will allow a random decision on the next marker to jump to. I have five markers on a time line and want the movie to stop after playing a sequence of elements, then randomly choose the next marker to jump to and play, this would continue forever.The goal is to communicate a few concepts without starting from the same concept every time in a linear manner.
I am working on a project where i need to support multiple players and platforms to play videos. Major Platforms will be: Windows PC,Mac PC,Apple Devices and Android. This is the precedence i will be following. First it will check browser support for Silverlight 3 or later then Flash then HTML5. If not any one of them is supported user will be asked to installed Silverlight. I wanted to know which pattern and strategy i should use in order to support this functionality. Currently i have investigated about some javascript api that can do this detection on client side easily and load the player appropriately.. but as many of browser could be without javascript support so this method will fails to play videos. Is there any way I can do this detection on server side and inject proper Player HTML on client end?
I am wondering if Flash / AIR can find all these mobile devices front facing camera and use RTMP to stream the video captured? I would like to create a video conferencing app for these devices. Of course none of them support testing this in the simulators and I don't have the funds to purchase or access all of them that I would like to test. I have seen some posts where they have done this for android but not sure about support for finding a list of cameras, choosing one and streaming from iphone 4 and playbook.
How to do math calculations in AS2? I only need + and -. Aswell, how to choose a random number inbetween 2 and 6 and put in a variable form. After this, I need to do a calculation like: Code: "currenthealth" - "random"
