I have been reading some posts and it said that keeping the ability edit a textfield and have it dragable is impossible.
Is this the case?
I am basically trying to build a simple version of illustrator for class... Really basic, i just want to pull a textfield around a work area.
I can't seem to get hitTest work on a textField, is that correct? Does this only work on movieclips?
View 3 RepliesI wanted to create a dragable Mc with an "attached" Textfield (which will also be dragged together with the Mc). Below my script. The logo.gif is dragable but no TextField visible (or attached). What am I doing wrong???
var imag:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
imag.loadClip("logo.gif",
this.createEmptyMovieClip("myHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth()));
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I want to add text field in a movieclip and when i double click on text field at that time only it should allow to edit. Again when i click for example an image then the textfield shouldn't be edited.
View 2 RepliesI'm actually relatively new to flash and actionscript but I could say I have fair knowledge about them. So anyway, I usually build flash websites the traditional way using timeline animation and scripting. Today I had a job interview and they said they're looking for someone who can develop any web design into a Flash CMS with a back-end office for the client to edit the content without having to edit the FLA file or any code.
Accordingly, I'd like to know where and how to start. What are the main concepts I should follow/adapt?
This is sooo anoying! I can't type anything properly! The longer a line gets, the further the blinking line thing intersects with what you typed, and punctuation obstructs the text
View 3 RepliesI have a web page generated with PHP which has a lot of divs with rollover effects. It represents a table with more than 200 cells, but is made of divs instead of a table because I've read they are more efficient (specially in IE8 which has turn out my nightmare in this project!) In the same page I want to put a ticker for user messages with horizontal text scrolling. I have tried to implement the ticker in different ways: pure Javascript or with jquery pluggins: [URL] Well, the thing is that the ticker works great when the page loads, but as soon as the user starts to move the cursor over the table (rollover effects are triggered) the ticker becomes very jerky in IE8 (Firefox works almost perfect)
After a lot of work tunning my PHP/HTML code I gave up and decided to embed a flash object for the ticker in order to relieve the browser part of the scripting and delegate it to flash. My surprise was that it had the same defect. I am not an expert in how the browser deals with flash objects but I really though it would be a solution. I've found a example which illustrate the problem. [URL] This a page with a commercial flash object. It's really much more than what I need, but if you try (with IE8) to move the cursor around the right section of the page, over the elements with rollover effects, you'll notice that the ticker becomes less smooth. Imagine that within a page with 200 divs!
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i just need to pass 1 parameter from html to flash.i have used both ways. in the movie url or in the embeded obj . html example >>>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent(
'movie', 'aidonitsa',
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No matter how much I try, nothing works.
1. Moving a loader instance to a movieclip containter returns a coercion error.
2. Moving the loaded image object to a MC container does not produce any errors, but remains as a bitmap object.
3. bitmapdata.draw() method seems to require either a bitmap or bitmapdata destination object.
I want to add a listener to the parent of a slider which is receiving the event from a non-gui class the EventDispatcherManager. So I tried to get the parent of the slider which should return the main class but it doesn't work. How to get the object (here main class) which instantiates an other (here a slider class) ?[code] now I did cast to DisplayObject and use .parent.parent since the slider is within another class sliderSprite but now I get null! So Is it impossible with Flash to get the Instance Creator?[code]
View 1 RepliesI am tired of people always stealing my swfs from the cache folder and taking the assets, sure I can encrypt my code but the assets are also very important to me. I have goggled and goggled till I can Google no more and finally found the eminem bonus site which contains a widget that works perfectly, it contains a swf that is just a container and the assets are impossible to get hold of.
View 4 RepliesI want to write a function on timeline whose arguments I want code to read from a xml file.
View 2 RepliesWhen you duplicate a movieclip or generate one through AS hittest will allways return true. I tried to make a selection script, by putting the code below into the frame. It makes a rectangle to select charclip movieclips (duplicated and numbered, therefor the for loop) to select them, like when you select icons on a desktop. Unfortunately, it will select all charclips wether theyre inside the rectangle or not. I tried to confirm this behaviour by making a simple hittest script like the one discribed on the kirupa actionscript tutorial, with a moviecript and a duplicated one. The moviescript was detected when it actually hit it, the duplicated one was detected all the time. How do I circumvent this? Should I ducplicate in an existing movieclip or something?
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("sfield",10000000);
_root.onMouseDown = function(){
x=_xmouse;
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I have an application where I try to load an external SWF. So, we have:
My application: The Stage's dimensions are 768x1280. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT.
External SWF: It's another application where its stage is: 800x600. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT.
The problem is that the external SWF does not modify its size although I apply "scaleX, scaleY", change its width and so on. I also tried to insert it into a Canvas container (as "How to resize an external SWF to fit into a container?" ) but it didn't solve my problem.
The interesting piece of code is when the external SWF is loaded by my application:
private function onLoadedApp( evt:Event ):void{
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.EXACT_FIT;
trace("Loading Application..");
var loaderInfo:LoaderInfo = evt.target as LoaderInfo;
loaderInfo.removeEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, onLoadedApp);
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I also tried to do it through SWFLoader, but the external.swf's content doesn't change its original size although I add the "scaleContent" parameter.
Visual results I got:
The external SWF is loaded on the suitable position and it "seems" to have 320x240 dim. But its width is a bit cropped, since if I stretch the Flash Player I achieve to see the rest of the external swf's stage. Besides, the external SWF never is resized although I shrink/stretch the Flash Player. It always remains fixed (if I trace its dimensions, I always get 800x600, although I visually see 320x240)- If I increase the stage's width of the main application, this little clip disappear.
I know the original Stage's dimensions are 800, and this is greater than the original stage of my application (768), but I think, when I do the resizing, external SWF's Stage have to be fitted in the container. It is fitted, but a part of the external SWF is not seen. It's like Flash Player remembered that the external SWF Stage's width were greater than my application's one...
I'm considering taking on a new project for myself - nothing particularly major - but I've a few questions that I'm certain anyone with some serious experience with Flash might be able to answer for me or perhaps (hopefully) guide me in the right direction for alternatives.
So I have an idea for a horizontal menu that I want to design using Flash (I've only experience with AS3 - odd as that is? - so that'll be how it'll be designed). As I'm coming to understand it's difficult/impossible to have the embedded flash interact with other portions of the HTML, so for every time that a menu item is clicked, is the only way to go about moving to that page just having the entire page effected - ie each page (home, port, etc) has to also include the embedded flash as well, or can I just have it affect some subwindow or section of the page, instead?
I have an application where I try to load an external SWF. So, we have:My application: The Stage's dimensions are 768x1280. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT. External SWF: It's another application where its stage is: 800x600. ScaleMode = EXACT_FIT.The problem is that the external SWF does not modify its size although I apply "scaleX, scaleY", change its width and so on.I also tried to insert it into a Canvas container (as "How to resize an external SWF to fit into a container?" ) but it didn't solve my problem.The interesting piece of code is when the external SWF is loaded by my application:
private function onLoadedApp( evt:Event ):void{
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.EXACT_FIT;
trace("Loading Application..");
[code].....
How would you go about initializing a Vector. with say the values 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Logic would say you could do newVector = new Vector. ( [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] );
You could also try something like this...
var tmp = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
newVector = new Vector.();
newVector = newVector.concat(tmp);
But then you get a type error converting Array to Vector.
I'm stumped, am I missing something stupid or does the vector class really not play well with numeric types? You can try making them decimal numbers just to be sure they get cast as number and not int.
How I can make a dragable thing like this? [url]...
View 5 RepliesI'm new in actionscript 3, and I'm trying to make a dragable map. a Map that the user can drag, something like google earth with zoom in. But I can't find the way to make the margins work.
View 4 RepliesHere, I have draggalble box but I need to drag in limitation. just say position of x and y is greater than 30 and less than 130 . But have no idea to do limitation.
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.Shape;
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I have a mc which you can drag. The user can drag the mc and drop it to a place and then press a check-button to see if the place is the right one. After the user has pressed the check-button I don't want the mc to be dragable any more. How can I do this?
View 4 RepliesOkay I've gone through a good hundred posts on this site and some others but I can't seem to find what I want (Or I just simply don't understand the code.)First thing first. I have no idea how to code what so ever. I just copy and paste stuff into other stuff and hope it works.Objective; Birdseye view perspectiveOkay so I have this background layer, in that background layer is a "Table top spinner" which I've set as a movie clip. What i'm trying to achieve is when you click the movie clip it will trigger a simple animation (spinner on it's side into spinner upright) You are then able to drag the spinner in a set space on the stage (Table) Whilst you are dragging it the spinner will rotate (I've tried animating a rotation but it just looks clunky) and when you release the drag the spinner will start to slow down and come to a stop triggering another animation which will revert it back to it's side
View 0 RepliesI'm currently working on a flash puzzle game and I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to keep my puzzle pieces from being able to be drug out of frame?
View 1 RepliesSo im opening it up to the commuity as a programming challenge!!For something which i assumed would be very simple, writting a robust and solid multi turn spinner handle for flash in as3 has become the bane of my life.Feel free to download my attempts so far (attached), which cover the basics of a single rotation, and make it look like im further ahead than i actually am.The difficulty lies with the very specific things I personally need the spinner to do,and the fact its SO HARD to explain..Its actually used to control a piece of animation that is 72 frames long.I need the first "lap" of rotation to send the playhead to frames in the 1-36 range and the second rotation to send it to frames 37-72. So two full spins would take it to the final frame, one full spin would go half way to frame 36.
Problem is the rotator handle needs to be locked at the initial position, so a user can't drag it backwards to start with but can drag it backwards once theyve moved forwards. (think of turning on a hot water tap, many turns in one direction until it stops fully on, then the same turns back again to reach the original start position of fully off)I also need the rotator to be able to be used in anti clockwise and clockwise modes.The ideal is to be able to set the total number of animation frames to be controlled and the number of rotations required to reach the final frame, then have the spinner work everything else out for me.
im trying to create a dragable mask in actionscript 3 but can only find tutorials for actionscript 2. Is there anything i could do to make it compatable with actionscript 3.0? codes below
onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.createEmptyMovieClip('square',0);
function drawSquare()
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I am basically trying to create a menu which can be dragged across the stage. I have created a main movieclip which acts as the holder. This is the movieclip that gets dragged around.Within that movieclip there are 6 buttons. I am using the MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN and MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP eventlisteners to control the dragging however it is not working correctly.When i compile to SWF it is fine. I click down the mouse button on the movieclip and It will start dragging however if i let go of the button it registers a click. Obviously i don't want it to do that but i'm not sure why it is registering a click as i thought that i was just releasing the button...
The second problem is if i move the mouse cursor off of the movieclip but i still have the mouse button pressed it will continue dragging the movieclip about, even if i then let go of the button.... The elements i have are:main holder movie clip whose dimension is 1800x280 and it is called : container_mcwithin this movie clip i have 6 buttons whose dimensions are each 300x270 and the names of the buttons are:
linkbtn1
linkbtn2
linkbtn3
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I have a bunch of objects that are dragable. You click and hold the mouse button to drag them around, then release the mouse button to put them back down. The problem is that when an object is dragged so that another object is between it and the mouse cursor, and the mouse button is released, the object gets stuck to the cursor. Clicking and releasing the mouse button is the only way to drop the object. Is there any way to fix this? Or, better yet, is there a way to make it so an object is immediatelly moved in front of every other object when it's clicked on?
View 3 RepliesIs there anyway to drag and re-size a textinput field?i am trying to build an editor for a friend similar to signazon dot com...
View 3 RepliesI just want to create a scrollbar for some text, but instead of the up and down arrows im trying to create a single dragable bar. This actualy looked kinda simple, but now i just cant seem to get this right... I know i have to move the text up or down the same percentage i move the bar up or down, and the drag motion is combining mouse_down and mouse_move, the thing i cant seem to get right is the "how much up or down" part. Im trying to simply drag the bar up and down, without worrying about the text, but i just cant make it follow the mouse when i drag cause i cant find a way to tell that the mouse has gone "x" up or "x" down...
View 6 Replies[URL] on this page, on clicking the porfolio button the page berings up a page wich has a horizontal dragable scroll bar, any have seen or have similar script
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