My students have an ongoing keyboarding contest amongst the classes. So I have their keyboarding data in a spreadsheet that gets updated daily. I want to be able to pull the top 3 scores and names to create a type of Leaderboard and load them dynamically each day to my wesbite as an update instead of having to update my site manually each day. Is there a way for me to do this with AS3?
View 1 RepliesI just finished my game and was wondering if i could make a leaderboard? It would take the user's score and save the highest scores to the Leaderboard Page. Can you do this with actionscript? How would you code this?
View 3 RepliesI'm having some issues getting my top 5 score board to work.. it's done in AS3 and is saved using a shardObject - the loading/saving aspect works 100%, but the actual scores are getting confused and overwriting each other, EG if you get the top score, it replaces both the 1. and 2.
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I have ported a Flash game over iPhone and the game is working very well. Now the hard part is we would like to integrate mochimedia leaderboard. I googled and did not find answer to my requirements. I know we can not load external swf contains Action Script in flash running on iOS. But is there any other workaround to integrate mochimedia leaderboard or if they have any swc to be dropped in the project. I just post the question to make sure if its not possible.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to develop a simple Flash game using Actionscript 2 (I know its a bit dated, but its a simple project that doesen't benefict much from AS3), and I came up with an ideia of implementing an online leaderboard that records and shows the highscore of the player.
This isn't anything too complicated, but I seem to be having problem finding resources online that explain how I should implement this. All I want is a call, probably to a PHP/MySQL database that records the player's name (which will be recorded via a input window) and its current score. It would also have to show the best all time scores, by order. I should remind you that I am working on a Actionscript 2 so Actionscript 3 solutions are probably not going to work.
I am creating a game in flash and I am trying to create a leaderboard of players names and the times that they completed the game in. This is the current code:
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What I want is that when the player clicks on the View Leaderboard button, it displays a leaderboard with the top 10 or 12 performers. Their name and time (if good enough) should be displayed at the correct position on the leaderboard.This current code enters the values into the text fields after the button is clicked, however it constantly over-rides the previous score. i need something that will make all the scores display in a list and then something to sort them into order
Basically, I have brain frog this morning, and can't sit down and figure this out by myself,Soin a nutshell100 players,and I need to list the ones with the highest score at the top, (1st, 2nd, 3rd, so on)and if 2 have the same score, just sort them by there player number...using a "for var i:Number = 0; i<100; i++)" statement, i would be the player number...Any unclarity i'll try and rewordBasically highest score's at the top, 2nd, is at the 2nd spot, 3rd, 3rd spot, so on
View 8 RepliesI'm using the update function of Adobe Media Encoder and see that an update is available. I click on download and install it. Everything works fine and I get the message that the update was installed successfully. But when I start AME again it still shows 4.0.0.374 instead of 4.1.0 - what's wrong? I never had this problem before. I also tried to download and install the update by hand. Same result.especially when I see that the contact form of Adobe's customer support portal is offline.
View 13 RepliesI'm writing this post because it seems there is a lack of support and updates regarding Adobe Flash player for the Sony PS3 and also to show that there is a demand for such an update to be made.It appears the BBC is making an effort, even though PS3 users do not have the latest Flash Player, you can still catch up on all missed BBC shows on the new official BBC iPlayer support for the PS3. See the link below.
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The current version of Flash Player for the PS3 is outdated (on the latest UK firmware v3.01 at the time of this post) and after spending an hour scouring the internet for news on a forthcoming update, with no success, I've decided to come hear and ask why that is? So why is the Sony PS3 always more than 12 months behind on these updates?
Suppose all that happens initially in a client swf is a user clicks a hyperlink in a text object of the swf, so this requests a "page" from the server. In response the server just modifies that existing swf in the client browser, by for example (?) invoking public functions of it, and possibly passing in as parameters the name of image or data files which were also downloaded in response to the URL request. The crucial part is that all that can happen initially in the SWF is a URL "page" request. Is this commonly done and if so, how.
View 1 RepliesI can't get the code to "know" which of the dynamic thumbnails has been clicked (by "know", I mean return an index value, say 0 through 7 if there are 8 projects, that I can use to access that particular project in the array of 8 projects in the rest of the code)... So if the third movieclip thumbnail were clicked, I'd like "2" to come up somehow... I've tried this code, which is kind of lame, I know, based off of the idea of each of the thumbnail movieclips' names ending in their index number:
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//"this" is the button that was pressed; would return a string ending in
//thumberMC_<number of whichever movieclip thumb was clicked>
var: testString:String = this;
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Lastly, there's a dynamic textfield I'm trying to create that never shows up for some reason. Again, you could see in the FLA (in the "createDrawer" function around line 424).
I just downloaded the Release and Debugger updates for the Mac CS5 Flash. However, the zip files only contained the Mac projector. Wouldn't I need to update the Windows EXE projectors as well? When I publish dual platform projectors I would like both to be up to date. How do I update the Windows EXE projectors on my CS5 Flash installation on my Mac?
View 1 RepliesI'm searching for a scriptable/automated way to have the latest version of Flash installed on Windows XP and Windows 7 testing machines.
These machines serve testing purposes, however, because of the number of different machines we have, it is unwieldy to update them all by hand.
How can the installation of Flash be automated?
i have a dynamically attached movie clip with a dynamic, html enabled text link. This all works fine.. what i want to know is how do i have the link update the content div (a separate div than the one the flash window is in) with a new php script?
View 2 RepliesI have Adobe Web Premium CS4, whenever the updater runs it fails to install any flash updates, no matter how many time sI try it always fails,
View 2 RepliesI'm a CS4 developer, working in Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, etc. I love Adobe products, but I am getting pretty weary of Flash Player updates coming every other day, sometimes every day. I work on several computers, both at work and at home, so the inconvenience of having to stop and go through the update process is multiplied. I know it's not usually a time-consuming process, but still, why so frequent?
It might not be so bad if not for all the other self-updating applications on my systems, not the least of which are the various Windows updates. It's just a little obnoxious.
I am using uploadify in a project and I threw a console.log statement in my onProgress callback... It seems to only be executed when starting the upload, and when completing the upload. Even with a very large file upload, that is the behavior I get.The progress bar is based off of Flash sending data, not off of the server-side reporting back what it's received.[code]and then a big long pause while the file is uploading... Then onAllComplete gets hit.I am wondering if this is somehow related to me running my app in development mode on localhost, and if it were hosted on a real server if the result would be different.. But I have no way of knowing that.
View 1 RepliesI have a PHP process that does a bunch of stuff and I want to send feedback to the Flash client that calls it, as the request is being processed. However, since I'm listening for the COMPLETED event, I don't get the feedback until the PHP completes execution (at which time all the buffered messages arrive at once).
View 3 RepliesIs there a way to disable a Date object from responding to a change in the system time of the host computer? currently if i have:
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We have a couple of tutorials at Untold Entertainment to help you marry Twitter with Flash. Here's how to get Twitter updates into Flash:
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And here's how to cache the data using Flash cookies to get aroudn Twitter's 100 pings-per-hour policy:
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Share and enjoy.If there are any topics you'd like us to cover, drop me a line using "info" at our domain name.
I have a countdown clock that needs to be automatically updated once it reaches 00:00:00:00 (dynamic textfields: days, hours, minutes, seconds).
The days, hours, mins, secs are pulling from an XML file.
Trouble I'm having is figuring out the best way to pull one XML node at a time and then updating the information once it reaches zero.
Should I be using the Timer class to update these textfields or can I cycle through each node at a time.
Basically, I'm just sort of lost in how this would normally be accomplished and need a nudge.
We have a couple of tutorials at Untold Entertainment to help you marry Twitter with Flash.
Here's how to get Twitter updates into Flash:
[URL]
And here's how to cache the data using Flash cookies to get aroudn Twitter's 100 pings-per-hour policy:
[URL]
We love writing tutorials! If there are any topics you'd like us to cover, drop me a line using "info" at our domain name.
Does anyone know where there is a good tutorial on how to place twitter updates onto a flash website?
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to get two different apps to communicate through a file. I would like app 1 to append some text to a file, and app 2 to notice, and read the new bytes (not the whole file). There is an event, ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, that is supposed to fire when new data is available on a FileStream, but it only fires when I first open the file. Basically, I would like to leave the FileStream open, listening like a socket on the end of that file for changes.
View 3 RepliesI'm wondering if there is a better way to approach this than my current solution...
I have a list of items, I then retrieve another list of items. I need to compare the two lists and come up with a list of items that are existing (for update), a list that are not existing in the new list (for removal) and a list of items that are not existing in the old list (for adding).
Here is what I'm doing now - basically creating a lookup object for testing if an item exists.
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I have an ArrayCollection we'll call "Items". It is essentially a flat collection of hierarchical data (each item has Parent and Children properties). I want an AdvancedDataGrid to display the data in hierarchical form, so essentially I could just do this and it would display fine:
// Note: RootItems would be an ArrayCollection that is updated so only the
// top level items are within (item.Parent == null).
var hd:HierarchicalData = new HierarchicalData(model.RootItems);
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I use Flash Professional CS5.5 with Gaia FrameWork in my project. movieclips in the project have extended classes and the problem is that when I give new functionality to my classes they doesn't work in an build project. for example function s cann't be found, trace doesn't work and so on. All the old functionality works. When I change class name then it works fine. but then it happens again. I made new project and coped all the content, but still it happens. I event rainstalled flash but nothing works.
View 1 RepliesI am thinking of an AIR app that I can use as an RSS feed widget like stuff. In which I can post news and updates etc..using FMS.
View 4 RepliesI have a desktop flash application (.exe). Is there a way to automatically update the client's software to the last version?
View 3 RepliesI have created a simple method to retrieve XML output from an HTTPService and populate a database from it, but due to the async nature of Flex, the functions go through while its still retrieving data - hence causing the function to return a null value. find code below;
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<s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:dao="database.*"
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But it can go through the database population before it can retrieve the result from HTTPService hence producing a null result.