I created an input text box, and depending on what the user enters, it will create a file with that same name. However, for some reason, it's deleting the last character of the filename when it creates the file. For example, if you type "House" in the input text box, then the file that it will create will say "Hous.txt"What is causing this and how can it be fixed?
View 7 RepliesI'll cut to the chase, here's my code:
Code:
function loadThumbs(){
for (var i = 1; i <= totalImages; i++){
[code].....
I deleted a project in flashbuilder and it seems to have deleted everything. how can i get this back?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the reason for the enormass bloating of FLA file size, when many edits and saves are made to a FLA file, yet assets are not being added to the library? What is the best technique to keep FLA files smaller in size? (with the problem described below. I am not talking about published SWF files or asset management)Over many edits and many saves of my FLA files, they become 30 times the size on disk from where they start out. Example 750k can get as high as 34mb. In the past "save and compact" used to fill the role of reducing FLA file sizes but now that feature is gone.When I save as a CS4 file then back to CS5 the file becomes much smaller after it has become bloated, BUT I take a risk every time I do this that the file will become corrupted (I've had corruptions happen).I have read that files which were created in CS5 and are never in the format of CS4 don't have this problem, but I find that theory unlikely since I have tried to follow this rule to no success.
I have also read that every FLA file tracks its "history" of assets. So adding and removing assets to the library will sometimes cause bloating because old assets that are removed from the library remain in the FLA file. This seems bogus because there is no purpose to this, but could be an indication of a bug in Adobe Flash Professional CS5, and CS5.5.Personal details: the files I am editing contain personally created flash components, images, audio, many symbols (20+) but no embedded video.For me personally, this bloating is a problem because I'm dealing with hundreds of flash FLA files that should be about 1-4mb in size but are instead much larger. The overall effect is that I end up with gigabytes of files instead of hundreds of mbs.
I have a movie player that works fine when i hard-code the url value in the video function, but when i try to pass that url/file path from an external file, the video doesn't load. I suspect that there is something i'm doing wrong with the quotes. What am i doing wrong?
[Code]...
I get the error "Access of undefined property menu_bar" when menu_bar is an instance name directly on the main timeline. I'm not sure how I would call it in the other class. It also isn't exported for actionscript is that the problem?
I have it imported to my document class as:
var mouseClicks:MouseClicks = new MouseClicks();
addChild(mouseClicks);
Then the class looks like this:
Code:
package{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
[Code]....
I've calling file names from an XML document, for example: <file>thisGraphicab.swf</file> Then when I call the graphic, the graphic with the matching file name does not exist, but similar named files do exist. For example: thisGraphicab does not exist but thisGraphicbb does exist. Flash will load the thisGraphicbb.swf file in place of the file actually called.
Is there a way to remedy this? I want flash to fail when the file requested does not exist. When you type the name graphics/thisGraphicab.swf into the browser address bar, the file name is changed by the browser to be thisGraphicbb.swf, and it displays, but here again I need it to fail when something like this happens. I know this seems odd, but there's more to it in the end. Anyway, this is what I need to take care of now.
If it's possible for Flash to read an XML file and look for element names rather than using myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild; etc? So say I have the following:
Code:
<music><song>Song 1</song>
</music><food>
<curry>Tikka</curry>
</food>
Rather than using "firstChild.nextSibling" etc to navigate itself to the Food element, is there a way to just have something like "find the food element in the XML and return its childNodes"? It makes more sense to me this way because then it doesn't matter how you structure your XML file. And if you change the XML structure later on.. you don't then have to update the Flash as well. My reason for this is i'm using Expression Engine CMS and want to pull the data from that into Flash.
How can I read the click tags names used by a flash file?
View 1 RepliesIf I have a swf file, is it possible to retrieve object names and types (some kind of reflection) somehow?
View 1 RepliesI want to know "is it possible to get the files names into an array from a specific path".
The flow go like this..
When i open the swf file --> browse the specific folder -> read the file names into an array --> show the file names.
I'm trying to do some restructing of a flash codebase, and I was wondering if anyone could clarify something for me as I'm unsure whether what I'm trying to do goes against a fundamental priciple of flash development or I'm being confused by the Flash CS4 user interface(I've got a java development background, so some of the interaction between fla files and the like is somewhat difficult at times to get my head around). I've done several searches but can't seem to find any similar problems, apologies if any exist.
Basically, I want to restructure my codebase and move my fla files around by putting them at a different location in the directory structure.
Existing structure:
basecompany namecomponent name
where fla files are stored in base, and code is stored in company namecomponent name, and code in said location is in the company name.component name package.
What I want to do is move my fla files from base to component name for each individual project. The actual location of the code is unchanged, but the fla files no longer compile, giving me a 5001 error - package name does not reflect location. I'm assuming that this is because the relative location is different - as far as the fla file is concerned, the code it is referencing is located at component name, not company namecomponent name. Is it possible to make the CS4 publisher understand that the fla file is not at the root of the package structure, and if so how?
i need to read the jpg folder which read the files inside the folder then send the file names into flash so that i can load the respective .jpg file when the user clicks a button for it...i've got the scripting done for the php part where the script reads the folder and echo out the file names...now the question is... how do i get these file names in flash? i know using the loadVars object... but i want these file names to be loaded into an array if flash... cos the buttons that direct to the jpg files are dynamic... i'm thinking of using a 2-dimensional array.. one column to store a number reference and the other column to store the jpg file name...
View 2 Repliesi'm building a photography website... i need to read the jpg folder which read the files inside the folder then send the file names into flash so that i can load the respective .jpg file when the user clicks a button for it... i've got the scripting done for the php part where the script reads the folder and echo out the file names... now the question is... how do i get these file names in flash? i know using the loadVars object... but i want these file names to be loaded into an array if flash... cos the buttons that direct to the jpg files are dynamic... i'm thinking of using a 2-dimensional array.. one column to store a number reference and the other column to store the jpg file name... do i create an array in php and send it into flash(dunno whether issit possible) OR send the "&fName=$fName&...&" string and then split it into the 2D array in flash...?
View 2 RepliesWe've got an Illustrator file with something over 1,000 layers. We're trying to import this into Flash and keep the layer names intact, such that they become the names of the movie clips that are imported for each layer and can be used programmatically. (It is a diagram and arrows, boxes, etc all have callout names that will eventually allow them to link to a database.)As near as I can tell, the Import dialog will NOT pass this info across between the two parts of the dialog.
View 1 RepliesI'm making a post-apocalyptic series and I'm drawing all my backgrounds/characters in photoshop and importing them into flash. The problem I'm encountering is that the file size is WAAAAAAAAY too big whenever I import the character drawing straight from photoshop. Is there some trick to making characters look like they're drawn in photoshop or some trick to greatly lowering the file size? Three items on screen at once with no animation and my file size is over 1 meg.
View 1 RepliesI am calling in text to a dynamic textbox via loadVars from a text file. Certain characters such as the + character do not display.Is there anything i can put in the text file to make these display?[code]...
View 2 RepliesI tried to do that;a txt file which created by PHP , includes :[code]I load the values image1,image2,image3 but I can't show the images please help me ? how it can be possible,LoadMovie(image1) does not work,how it can be possible ?
View 4 RepliesI am near the point of breakdown trying to figure this out it's beyond my capabilities and maybe even brain power. I have a list of file names and I want to sort them as any logical human would.[code]I realised i could just name the files 01, 02, 03 but really I don't want to have to do this as it supposed to be an automated system.
View 2 RepliesI created a dynamic TextField on stage as instance name is "tf". I have converted this TextField as a class, the name is "MyText" in their linkage options panel. And i have also create New as file in the same folder name is "MyText". So how to declare the TextField instance name in as file.
View 2 RepliesI have a flex application that reads from external XML file(URL loader) and displays graph. My xml file is dynamically generated using PHP and the filename=currentloggedin user name(i.e. username.xml).How should I load the xml into SWC? Will Flashvars work? I have a HTML page that has PHP code to get username and the same file embes the swc. How to pass the PHP varibale to my SWC?
View 0 RepliesI am working on a project where I have on the stage 8 movie clips, and when hovered, they are to shake. I have made this into a class, and placed the code as an external .as file.
Each movie clip is named shaker_mc - shaker_mc7
I have also gone in and changed all of the button movie clips base classes to ShakeButton.
Right now I am getting a couple of errors, and I believe all i need to do is pass the buttons names to the class in the external .as file, but I am not sure how to do that? I had everything working without the external script, but I did not want to have to create the effect for each button.
The erros are:
1120: Access of undefined property shaker_mc.
Here is my code for the ShakeButton.as file
ActionScript Code:
package{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
[Code]......
I have an XML file that gives me a date like this "yyyy-mm-dd",I loaded the XML file in Flash and created an array that contains all dates. My problem is that I want to convert in flash the containing dates of the array to day names for example "monday" "tuesday"..etc.
View 3 RepliesI've done some googling for the past hour, but I can't seem to find what I need.Maybe I'm overlooking something.I want a very simple, basic thing. But I have no clue how to do this.I have an external XML file which holds a list of names.I want these names to be pushed/added to an array so I can access it based on it's position in the array. (A for loop is used to read a different XML file and the child[i] is named after the same array spot, childName[i]
View 10 RepliesI have a 9 frames image of a character.In other language generally i used to make character animation by looping the array consisting of different frames and drawing each frame when pressing key.What i want to do is when i press left or right key, i want to draw each frame that makes character movement and update x coordinates of frames, and it will appear as character is moving.
View 4 RepliesI started a thread about a reference to a symbol House, in the output window, which was: House_1. A lot of people said some useful things about that. All day I've been thinking about it, and I came to the conclusion that I don't understand things, at a very basic level.
Consider:I make a movieclip which I give the Symbol name Drawer. (I don't export it for AcitonScript.)On the stage I manually place two instances of this Symbol. The first one I give the Instance Name drawer (in the properties panel). The second one I leave nameless.Now if I trace the names of both these clips, by
trace(this.getChildAt(0).name);
trace(this.getChildAt(1).name);
the output window gives me
drawer
instance2
Now I know that the so-called "instance name" which I gave in the Properties Panel (drawer) is, in reality, a variable name which Flash gives my first instance behind the scenes. And instance2 is a name that Flash gives my second instance. What exactly the nature of that name is, I do not know.My point is: both names (drawer and instance2) are the .name property of these movieclips. Otherwise I could not have traced them through asking for the .name property, in the above. Yet only the first of these two can be manipulated:
drawer.x can be set;
instance2.x can (as we know) not be set.
But...why? What is the real difference between these two kinds of names? How can they both be the .name property of their underlying movieclip, yet be of such a different nature? What IS the nature of the instance2 name? If it's a String, how come the .name property of one movieclip can be a variable name, while the .name property of another (but identical) movieclip is a String?
I've searched every bit of web page on the net I could find. But it looks as if nobody addresses this issue. We all just work with it - but it makes no bloody sense. A name property = a name property, you'd think. Whether Flash set it or I set it should not make a difference. The x property of a clip, for example, does not change in nature according to who set it - me or Flash.So, again, just to emphasize the problem: how can a property (the name property) of a movieclip change in NATURE depending on who set it? After it's been set, shouldn't the name property of a clip be of exactly the same nature as the name property of another clip?
I should like to understand the cause different behaviour of the metod "drawPath" in this situations:
[code]...
If move comments on other metod ".drawPath(" two color will available.
For some reason my flash program closes on me. The strange thing is, it is only 2 MB. I have a good amount of shapehits in it as well. Would that cause it to crash?
View 1 RepliesI've got a function 'fullReset' which resets the stage and places several movieclips (which are balls) back to a starting area. Within this function is a call to the 'unlockBallfunction within the Ball class (see bottom of code below).
ActionScript Code:
private function fullReset(event:Event):void
trace("RESET BUTTON HIT");
[code].....
Code:
var remoteListArray:Array = new Array();
var listArray:Array = new Array('a0','b1','c2','d3','e4')
[code].....