I have an application that calls external SWF files through the UILoader component. I do this so I can keep the file size smaller in the beginning and only load objects as the user needs. (if there is a better way to do this,Here is my problem. One of the objects plays music. In it's simplest form something like this:
var sound:Sound;
sound = new Sound( );
sound.load(new URLRequest("fightsong.mp3"));
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I have videos on my Video.swf and mp3player on my music.swf now when i click on the video_btn, the Video.swf lods, but even when i click on another btn, the video is still playing on background. Same thing for my music.swf
How do i remove the video.swf and music.swf when the user clicks on a different button to load a different swf.
videos_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goVideos);
music_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goMusic);
graphics_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goGraphics);
contact_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goContact);
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I have been able to unload the SWF (emptyMC.removeChildAt(0) ), or so I thought, but if there is sound playing in the loaded SWF it continues to play after the loader with the old SWF is unloaded. I know there is the unloadAndStop() method but I don't know how to incorporate it into my current code.Here is what I have so far. And mind you, eventually there will be 20 pages in the site, let me know:
ActionScript Code:
btnMENU.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,loadHome);
btnAPPT.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadAbtDoctor);
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I'm working on a project in which I'm loading an external AS2 swf file onto the main stage.
To load the movie I'm using this code:
Code:
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(filename);
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
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Thing is, when I use removeChild on the movieclip, I can still hear the sound of the swf file, which means, it wasn't really unloaded when I removed the movieclip containing it.
How can I completely unload the swf?
In have an application that uses buttons t0 load different text files. The problem is when I load the second text file I still get variables from the first one showing. To clarify things, suppose I load a file that displays variables 1 through 5 randomly when I click one button, then I click a second button in order to load a file that displays 6 through 10. The problem is that I still get some variables from 1-5 when I want to get only 6-10. Is the first file kept in memory or something? How do I unload or clear the temp/memory where the content of the first file is held.
View 1 RepliesI looked at some other posts about "unloading the UILoader" and didn't look like anyone had found the ultimate answer. I came up with my own solution which is usin the following (where sectionLoader is the instance name of UILoader): Actionscript Code:sectionLoader.source = null;have no idea if this is the correct way to do this but it seems to work great!I'd love feedback on it and advice on a better way if there is one.AND I have another unresolved issue which is that I want to have the external swf fade out when it unloads. Is that possible? Would I use a Tween class and if so apply it to the UILoader, or to the swf itself, or...?Here is the code I have, including the button (nav_btn) that loads the UILoader with the external swf, plus adds a "close button" via addChild. Then the function is added to the close button to unload the UILoader (by making the source = null):
Actionscript Code:
//add load functions to nav button...nav_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSection);function loadSection(evt:MouseEvent):void { sectionLoader.source =
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add a couple of music files to a CD presentation using actionscript. I know how to load one track but how do I unload a tack when it's finished and load another after that? Here is the code I have so far:
myMusic = new Sound(myMusic_Mc);
myMusic.loadSound("Doin It.mp3");
myMusic.start(0,5);
I want a site to have background music, but when I attach the music to the file it makes it quite large ...3 meg and the site is slow to load. Is there any way of having the music separate from the flash file and still have start stop music buttons?
View 2 RepliesI'm working on an animation where I have my "dog" fighting the evil vacuum cleaner. I got most of it to work the way I want it to.
1) I have movie clips entitled pepper_mc (where my dog is supposed to be walking), swirl (where a swirly-type symbol is supposed to spin over the dead vacuum's head), and vacuum_mc (where the evil vacuum is supposed to have a swinging arm (called vacuumarm_mc) that I created using the bone tool). When I add them to the stage and test them, the animations within the movie clips don't happen.
2) I have background music that I'd like to stop playing at the end of the animation, but I'm not sure how to do that. (using the stop(); actionscript doesn't help).Where am I going wrong? I'm using Flash Pro CS5.
Here's the file --> Pepper and the Vacuum of DOOM!
When the movies performs the getURL action, I want the music to continue playing, but the getURL function seems to stop the music at frame 152 (where the getURL action is placed), when I wanted the music to continue to frame 257 (the end of the movie). I hope I've explained this clearly
View 3 RepliesI am trying to create a music animator. It will have bars that move up and down do the beat of the music. This is like windows media player where the music animations play. I want it to be verticle bars, where some are in sync with like the base and others are in sync with the tempo. Does anyone know of a tutorial for this? I am trying to emplement it within my website so that whatever music I am playing will auto control the bars and sync.
View 5 RepliesI downloaded a flash template and have modified it to suit our company but there is something that I can't do. When the file loads in the browser, music immediately plays and loops until you click a button to stop the music. On our video page, we have video
that we need to play that has sound in it. How do I get the background music to stop when my video plays without having to go up and stop the music manually. The videos are loaded via an external XML document and there are no buttons in the FLA file to link code to. the website is [URL]
I am streaming music from my site using flash, but after the 3rd music is done, it just stops. Do i have to flush something or create a new music object for each 3 songs?
View 6 RepliesI have 'Sound On' and 'Sound Off' buttons on mutiple scenes and I am playing the music loop in my flash movie by loading an external swf. When I move to the next scene the sound reloads which I do not want. How do I use an if-statement that checks whether or not the music.swf, that needs to be loaded is found and when it is found, go to a frame?
View 1 RepliesWhat is technical difference between buffering and loading ? Say, i have a video, which is showing loader bar in progress. Then what's happening exactly ? Buffering or Loading ?
View 1 RepliesUsing Macromedia Flash Professional 8.
I have a website banner made in Flash. I have added a music file to it and Play and Stop buttons. I also have a Replay button to replay the banner animation once it stops.
I have put the music on a separate frame so that it will not play automatically when the banner loads. I have made the Play button direct to the frame the music is located at so that when clicked, it will go to that frame and play the music file.
The problem I am currently having is that if I click the Play button more than once, it will play the music file again on top of the current play-through.
So if I click Play, the music will play. Then if I click it again, the music will play again, but on top of the first instance of the music, so two instances of it will now be playing and it sounds horrible.
I would like to make it so that if you click Play when the music is playing, it will not play the music again until the music has stopped.
Whats the best way to destroy a movie clip? Right now I just do (AS3):
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,enterFrame);
MovieClip(parent).removeChild(this);
But the object still exists in memory even though it is not executing script. Is there any way to completely get rid of it?
I used the search best of tutorial URL... to build a similar system. The thing is that my xml has much more content and now the search only presents partial results instead of all. I suspect that this has something to do with lack of time to preform a complete search to the xml file to get all the results and display them in flash.
View 3 RepliesI have this gradient backgroun where it goes from 0-100-0 of alpha.When I rollover a button, I add in the bg, and when i rollout of the bg, i remove it.The problem now is when I rollover the button the 2nd time,it seems like the bg added already have a previous added gradient bg, and it added a new 1 on top.so each time I rollover the button the alpha of the gradient will go higher
exp:
1st time rollover:0-100-0
2nd time rollover:10-100-10
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I'm building a dynamic scoreboard for a client currently. The first application will be a golf leaderboard. It needs to be updateable by the client (I'll write a form that fills in the xml file from the users input)I need to have a xml file that defines..-number of columns/rows-titles-content in each boxand then the flash that takes that and generates a table from it.Is there any tutorials or source files floating around that do this? There's plenty that talk about in-game scoreboards, but we need to have all the data input from an external file.
View 1 RepliesJPG images saved in Photoshop in highest quality gets blurry when loading them dynamically through uiloader in Flash. Why, how can I maintain highest quality?
View 1 RepliesI am looking to code a tooltip for a UILoader. The text for the tooltip will come from a parsed RSS feed.I see several examples of how to do this in AS2, but it seems that it was left out of AS3.Is there a component that will achieve this?
View 13 Repliesthis might be a very simple thing to do, buuuut... I've got two UILoaders on my stage, when you click various buttons it makes various pics appear in them, I want to put a button on my main stage that would clear the images out of the UILoaders when it was clicked, and would just leave them blank. Is this possible?
View 1 RepliesWhen I use the UIloader it loads my first swf no problem but when i use the list item to load another swf it loads it in at a massive size. I thought it wasnt loading until I increased the stage. The swf is at a normall 550 x 400 so not sure why its made it 5 times bigger
View 3 Repliescan i use a dataprovider with a uiloader. if so is there a special trick? because i can't get it to work
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to load a bunch of symbols with UILoaders into a TileList. The code executes without error but the image that I was loading into the UILoader doesn't show up. I'm looping through an array and creating a new object (the one with the UILoader), setting the UILoader source and then adding it to the TileList.
View 1 RepliesI need to stop playing SWF that is loading to UILoader, the swf file starts to play when its loaded on 75%, I need it to start playing when being 100% loaded and I can't get this work Here is my code:
ActionScript Code:
import fl.containers.UILoader;
progBar.visible = false;
loadVid.stop();
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can add an EventListener to an UILoader so that i can click on it?
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to add one more layer of polish on a UILoader. Upon clicking, the UILoader loads an image with a little animation, that's great. However, before the new image loads, the other image simply disappears instantly.
What I can't figure out is how to fade that image out BEFORE the next image loads - creating a more seamless transition. Here's the code so far:
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i am using actionscript 3 and tweenlite. I am trying to achieve this effect - once the button is pressed uiloader loads .swf file, here i need fade in effect.here is the code that i did.
contacts_btm.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,con tactsClick);
functioncontactsClick(e:MouseEvent):void{
TweenLite.to(section_loader.source = "contacts.swf", 1.5, {alpha:1});
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