ActionScript 3.0 :: Stage / Timeline Versus SWF Movie File
Feb 10, 2012
I started using Flash (for school) and I was doing an animation. It was going well until something happened. I'm not sure what, but the stage/timeline and SWF movie file were showing the same thing.....but now the SWF file doesn't display anything. I have text and image layers in my project and it shows when I play it (by hitting enter).....but when I preview it.. nothing shows. Did I accidentally change a setting...
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I have a question on Flash structure "best practices". I am wondering which is the best way to go about designing a full website in Flash.I have seen the tutorials provided by Kirupa and others, but nothing answers the question I have. My question is this: How do I combine what I can do in actionscript and use the Flash timeline also? Or should I even try to combine both?
Ideally, I know we should use actionscript to design Flash pages, using CreateEmptyMovieClip, etc. That way the pages are truly dynamic using external images and xml files, and the entire Flash movie is only 4-5 keyframes. However, I cannot accomplish all the tasks in actionscript.I can do many things using Actionscript, write functions, tweens, filters, etc. But obviously I cannot do everything. Many things I want to do are easier using the Flash timeline. For example, a navigation bar which slides in from the outside once the entire page loads. I know the AS to make the nav bar slide in and out, but I cannot use AS to draw the nav bar in the way I want it (two layers of buttons with a line in the middle).
What is the best way to go about designing a site in this manner? Should I use the first few keyframes for the things I can do in AS, such as loading global variables, loading external data, etc. Then use regular Flash animation tools (keyframes & timelines) for the rest?
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I am trying to find out why when I place trace(parent); in the timeline of my child swf I get [object Loader]but if i place trace(parent); in the constructor of the child swf's document lcass I get null.Why is this and how would I access the parent swf from the child document class if it shows as null?
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Jan 16, 2011
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So, can I access layers on this MainTimeline to get all Movie Clips on this layer ? So I can do a simple operation "A_1_2.buttonMode = true;" to all my MC's (in an array for example) without writing every line (lot of MC's on layer and lot of lines).
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Jul 28, 2011
Is there a performance and/or memory usage difference between these two scenarios?
Scenario 1: N visual elements all added to stage;
N-1 have visible = false, 1 has visible = true;
Scenario 2: N visual elements, only 1 added to the stage at any time.
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Aug 2, 2011
The following piece of code works in the timeline:
var ball:Sprite = new Sprite;
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Is the stage accessed differently with the getBounds method in an external file than in the timeline?
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Sep 23, 2010
I'm trying to catch a variable content (set on the main timeline) from a movie clip added to the stage. I need to set a condition with that variable, so here's my line :
Code: Select allif (MovieClip(root).screenMode == ("full"))
But it's not working, I'm also trying to trace the variable with that command :
Code: Select alltrace(MovieClip(root)[screenMode]);
But this doesn't work too.
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Mar 11, 2010
I have a movie where on the main timeline stage I have placed a movie clip (Clip1) and a dynamic text field. I have a .txt document that contains a variable that will always be a number (Var1).
Currently, the dynamic text field reads Var1 and displays that number. This is great, but I want Var1 to be used in 2 places:
How can I get Clip1 to also read Var1 and, based on the number that is Var1, play a certain frame of Clip1?
I'd like it to go like this: If Var1 is <1000 then play frame1, If Var1 is =1000 and <2000 then play frame2, If Var1 is =2000 and <3000 then play frame3, and so on...
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Jun 9, 2009
In Flash, if I Test Movie in normal mode (Ctr + Enter) I get no complaints about accessing URLs. The SWF's sandbox is "localTrusted". However when I debug Test Movie (Ctr + Shift + Enter), the sandbox is different. I then get complaints about accessing URLs; Security Sandbox Violation "...Untrusted local SWFs may not contact the Internet..." if localWithFile, and "...denied due to lack of policy file permissions..." if localWithNetwork.
Is this a "feature"? If so, I'd like to be able to turn it off. It would be nice if there was simply a warning, and not actual failure. To fix it, I could trust the file using global trust settings, but that seems silly just for debugging.
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Jan 27, 2011
I have a multiuser flex application. The application includes voice chat from a streaming server as well as various other dynamic interactions.I was wondering if it is possible to capture the Experience in the context of a particular user and write it out to a video file for offline playback / sharing / etc... Something similar to Recording a stream from a Camera object, but only the Stage is the input device... I can't think of any way to do this, so I'm putting it out there for the smart people.
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Feb 15, 2012
i've got some movie clips on the stage on the first frame of an fla file. The mcies have event listeners to navigate to differnet frames on the timeline. Some of the frames to which we navigate have FLVPlayback components while others dont. i'm using some code for soundchannel in this fla, to create an array and load differnt music at a btn click, so that when we go to a certain frame we get some music. This works, no overlapping music.
The issue, that when we navigate to a frame with an flv that has an audio track, the the music that's playing on a different frame just wont stop. And another issue, when we navigate from the flv frame by clicking the mc that listens for the sound channel, the flv audio track wont stop playing and we get cuckaphonia.
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Oct 31, 2009
I've selected the check box export for Action Script in the symbols library. Here is my current code:
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how to put together these two pieces of code (using copy & paste) with my existing code? I am thinking the stage should be empty. And all I should have are items in my library. Than in the folder where the SWF lives is a file saved as .AS
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Sep 3, 2007
this is what i'm using to load a swf file into a movie clip on stage. (mainAnimationHolder)
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Apr 10, 2011
Flash CS4 had been working regularly on my Macbook Pro (Intel - Tiger) for a while, and then suddenly,I opened a file and all the movie clips went from being visible "stills" to invisible and represented only by an "o". I have tried settings, preferences, even uninstall/reinstall, but somehow my settings or something got messed up and I can't view movie clips on the stage.
I have tried a variety of different .fla files and none allow movie clips to be visible on the stage.The files were created in CS4.This is true for movie clips that have 1 frame to many frames.When I Publish or Test Movie, the clip is visible and normal, but it is impossible to edit the file without being able to see the movie clips.I know that the issue is with my installation of Flash/settings being messed up, not with the file(s) because when opened on other computers (CS4 and CS5), movie clips are visible on the stage, as they should be.Example below: In Flash CS4, the stage just has "o"s where I used to be able to see my movie clip, but in the Test Movie, everything is there. To be clear, I could see the movie clips in this exact file, and then the next time I opened it I could no longer see them.
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Jun 10, 2009
why the timeline inside these movie clips and the timeline on the main scene have to correspond to work. [URL]
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Feb 2, 2010
I cannot seem to find anything of what I need from google.(Well, I can find the reverse method to what i need ) Basically I wish to access a variable declared in the Root Timeline from my Movie clips timeline.
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Nov 17, 2009
I'm trying to get my flash movie so that it pauses when the mouse is over the movie and continues when the mouse is not over the movie during certain segments of frames in my movie clip. So basically I need some code that executes this: if the mouse is over the stage between frame 25 and 45 pause the movie until the mouse leaves the stage or the next or back buttons are selected.
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Oct 9, 2009
I have a file comprised of 1 scene and two movie clips. The clips are instanced into the Main Timeline and occupy Frames 1 and 2 respectively.MovieClip1 is an animation that has navigation buttons that appear at the end of the clip. I'm trying to get mouse click navigation to make Frame 2 on the Main Timeline active.
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btExplore.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ExploreClick);
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this takes the animation to Frame 2 of the Movie Clip Timeline not Frame 2 the Main Timeline.
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Sep 23, 2009
I have imported a flv to as "import video" and placed it on the stage. I have added other layers each on frame one. I want to drop stills out as others enter but I cannot run the video on the timeline to determine at what frame I want something to change. I could of course time it out at 15 fps but is there not a friendlier way to pick a point where one object exits and another enters? The video is a flvplayback instance. I have not made it a movieclip or named it.
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I want them all to be able to play at once. So for example you push button 1 and the alien plays, but half way through you could click button 2 and the alien clip would keep playing, but also the helicopter clip would begin to play as well.Here is the code I have so far:
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May 14, 2011
- I have A.fla.
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for instance, lets say there is a button X in A.fla, and there is a button Y in B.fla, B.swf is loaded into A.fla, and I want the button Y to erase button X when clicked.
general question: accessing elements in a stage, through a SWF file loaded into that stage.
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Jul 28, 2010
I have 4 movies that need to be loaded in sequence. The first movie loads the second one, the second one loads the third, then the third one loads the fourth. What I can't figure out is how to make sure there's only one movie loaded at any time. I've tried removeChildAt(0) and other methods. What's the best way to load a movie to the stage and wipe out what was on the stage?
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Oct 8, 2009
I have drawn a pecked line route, sitting on its own layer, using flash tools, over a base map. I have then gone Insert>Symbol>movie and I now need to get a copy of this route into the movie's white area. I expected perhaps when right clicking on the layer, an option called copy to movie and an ability to select the movie name.
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Mar 31, 2011
I'm drawing with Flash's brush tool and the marks I make are appearing not just where I draw them, but also in the timeline or elsewhere on the stage. It goes away if I minimize and restore, but this is a big time-waster.
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I did some searching and it looks like elements that are on the timeline are added at the lowest possible depth first and in increasing order. I want to attach a movie clip, but I want it to be behind elements that are on the timeline. How can I do that if timeline elements are already as low as they can go?
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May 29, 2009
Is it possible to write a script, on the stage, that initiates a function, on the stage,when this movie clip reaches frame 8? Or do I need to write the code within the movieclip?
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i copy movie to another file but the same movie doesnt work at other file.copy seems to be copied but it doesnt work.
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