[code]I want to add some additional XML Names. As "Contact" above is listed. I chose the || (LOGICAL or). [code]My goal is to keep "Contact" as one of the exceptions, where the 3 buttons are removed. But I want to add others... Like "Press" "Showreel" "Background" and "Internship".
View 1 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 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 am working on a site and am using a lot of different scrollpane components that use outside .swf movies as its content. What I would like to do is create a progress bar for each section that uses this scenario so my users know it is doing something.
View 1 RepliesHere's the thing.I am making my first game, a click and drag (dress up if you want to ) game...It is finished and working..But since it serves as an educational aid in history group, it would be great if I could somehow add some kind of pop-up window with text describing every item in game..For example "14th century bascinet developed from the steel cap bla bla bla...".And if that is not possible is there some other way all this info about these items (there is about 24 items in game) could be fitted in this kind of application
View 4 RepliesI'm using code from the tutorial: "Preloading in ActionScript 3" found on this site...I used the exact code, and changed only the swf it's loading in.My swf is pretty simple....just some buttons that contain loaders themselves.Somehow, when i simulate download....it seems to skip the preloader, and immediately load the swf...slowly and choppy. I don't get any errors or anything.[code]...
View 1 Repliesim sure other ppl have been faced with this dilemma. say that you are attaching an event listener to an object which obviously if revoked, will call a function. now how do you send additional params with listeners?so you get something like:
Code:
public function eventHandler(e:Event, additionalParam:*){}
i have a solution for this and that is to attach it to the caller so it could be accessed with e.target.variable but i dont know if this is the way to go.
I watched a tutorial for a link that loads an image into a container with the code
var img1Request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("images/c1.jpg");
var img1Loader:Loader = new Loader();
load1_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickF);
function clickF(event:MouseEvent):void {
img1Loader.load(img1Request);
img1Loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadNowF);
function loadnowF(event:Event):void {
[Code]...
is there a way to load additional images into the same container to make a picture gallery?I tried adding additional lines duplicating the "var img1Request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("images/c1.jpg");" by changing everything from 1 to 2 and so on but still errors, and i'm clueless Also another question, several tutorials tell to add actions to movie clips but i keep getting the "current selection cannot have actions applied to it"
I've always wrote all my code into the .fla and now I'm trying to use classes more. I have my file loading the document class. Then the document class imports two additional classes. In my constructor of the document class I am creating a new instance of both additional classes. Here is my doc class:
[Code]...
Now inside of the other two classes I should be able to just use main_class.myFunc(); Correct? Why isn't is working? How can I interact classes? If I create a new instance to the class I want to access then I get a stack over flow error. Inside remoting class in the constructor my code; main_class = new CheckoutMain(); main_class.myFunc();
adding additional name-value pairs to my existing object in Flex;
I have an object1 of Object Type and I declare a new object2 = object1 plus some extra name-value pairs, is there a way to attach new name-value pairs to an existing object?
I have a problem with multiple listeners. Basically I have a box which displays some text and when I hit the space key additional text from the box appears. But the problem is the space key also starts the game.
I want the space key to first display the additional text then hitting the space key starts the game.
So, any ideas how I can use the space key twice without disrupting the first key press?
I've been attempting to load an external .swf within a parent .swf. The problem is that the external .swf requires additional variables to pull it's content from a database. This code of course works just fine if the .swf doesn't contain any additional variables or if it's requesting an image.
Is it possible to do this using the GET method, or is there an alternate method while using Loader()?
parent.php as3:
ActionScript Code:
var loadit = new Loader();
addChild(loadit);
loadit.load(new URLRequest("gallery.swf?xmlUrl=http://localhost/gallery/api/rest/get_gallery/1/json"));
The external .swf is obviously gallery.swf while the variable that is necessary for it to function is [URL]
I need to upload a file from my Flex interface to a folder located on the server.
I use the following [code]...
Problem: I need to pass an additional argument to my upload.php script (actually a String - the name of the folder I want it to be uploaded). Is there a way to do this?
I have a question about eventDispatching. Now, I know how to dispatch them, and I've also grasped a minimum of custom events, enough to create one from template at least. So, say I would like to dispatch an event with some additional data, I could create a custom event class and let the event take the data objects as a parameter. But I find it a bit cumbersome to do this every time I want to dispatch data, since it results in new custom event classes. The other method I know of to get the data is to simply use the currentTarget property of the event. So if I have a getId() method for instance, I could call e.currentTarget.getId(). Now, while this works, I wonder, is it considered bad practice, and if it is, whats the right way to do it?
View 4 RepliesI have a menu which is created from an XML file. I'm using LoaderMax to grab the data and do the magic:
[code]...
Trying to code one button to preform different functions upon each additional click.
First click: you get a tree full size Second click of this same button: you get an additional tree 50 size in a new location Third click of this same button: you get another tree 25% of the size of the first tree and in a new location.
The way it works now is the 2 smaller trees come up when the movie runs and the third appears on the button click.
Here is the code: (CS4 on a MAC) .fla attached.
/* AS3
Copyright 2008 __MyCompanyName__.
*/
package
[Code]....
trying to add additional load movie scripts to the following code:[code]Basically, I want each person's mp3 to load into another MC along with the randomly selected home .swf.script: root. audioplayerclip.loadmovie("mp3_okai.swf")and then the two others as well.How would I insert this to make the code work?I tried pasting in this code after each "case", but only the home .swf's would load- not the mp3.I guess my syntax is incorrect.
View 4 Repliesi have a scrollbar in which i want to add additional text field. i can add bitmaps, but when i put new textfield, it doesn't display, even if i convert it to movie or graphic.
View 3 RepliesI have four NetStream objects that receive cuepoints from different videos. I'd like to define one function for them all instead of using four inline functions and I'm stuck with syntaxHere's the code:
Code:
ns1.onCuePoint = callCuePoint;
ns2.onCuePoint = callCuePoint;
[code].....
Using flash professional CS5.5 - creating an Air for Android app. It appears you can't deploy any additional files, other than the swf file, In Air debug launcher (mobile) the additional files deploy.But as soon as you deploy it for real on an android machine it fails to install the extra files. (it's a small sqllite file).I have looked in the final APK file using zip and they are there in the assets folder.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to extend ButtonBarButton to include an additional label that shows the number of updates for the respective box in a viewstack (which is the tabbar's dataProvider).
I can get the additional label (named indicatorLabel) to read an initial value from data, but I can't get it to update automatically like the actual "label" attribute. My understanding was that you could bind to the data object, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
[Code]...
hboxvar.addEventListener("mouseDown",dosomething(3 43));
hboxvar.addEventListener("mouseDown",dosomething(1 23));
hboxvar.addEventListener("mouseDown",dosomething(1 2342));
public function dosomething( somenumber:Number ):void {
//do something here
}
I try to do above function but I need to pass variable from hboxvar but not from inside function suggested by macromedia.
any one frustated with this way of passing multiple parameter which depends on what to pass in flex 2 using addEventListener ?
[URL]
Passing additional parameters to function listeners You can pass additional parameters to function listeners depending on how you add the listeners. If you add a listener with the addEventListener() method, you cannot pass any additional parameters to the listener function, and that listener function can only declare a single argument, the Event object (or one of its subclasses).
I have already created a custom mouse event which seems to work fine. It is simply a mouse event which passes an additional sound object. The problem is I am passing this event to another class which checks for collision of a movie clip with another and if true it adds the sound to an array. What I think is happening is a type conversion problem between my customEvent and the MouseEvent. [code]...
View 3 RepliesI have a series of identical buttons. I want each one to delete a certain item from an array.But the function that deletes the item from an Array is obviously also the MouseEvent function that the listener looks at, which to my knowledge can only take one parameter.
View 5 RepliesI just start reading Advanced Game Design with Flash and downloaded it's source files. Where I use Flash CS5.
The goal is to create a StatusBox that is a class in an other place then the project files are.[code]...
I'm running in to a problem where I've added additional pages (20+ pages in total) and everything after page 16 is transparent.
//pageflip version 2.02 (200405031400)
//
//(for the latest version, always check at http:url....)
//
//this code is written by Macc 2004.05.03[code].....
I have a Color class where all the data is stored in a single uint named "_value". However, the constructor for Color looks like this:
public function Color(r:uint = 0, g:uint = 0, b:uint = 0):void
{ _value = (makeChar(r) << 16 | makeChar(g) << 8 | makeChar(b)); }
If I want to create a clone() method, I have to first convert the "_value" variable to an RGB object, then, the constructor automatically converts the object back into a hexadecimal value. Blatent waste of efficiency! However, I would rather have the constructor be user friendly and allow them to type in each color value instead of one hex value (they can use the Color.fromHex() if they really want to, but it does the same as the clone() method and converts back and forth).
Is there any way to instantiate a class without going through the one single constructor function? Any way to set up a private constructor in addition to the public one? Most Visual Studio languages allowed you to have multiple constructors, and the chosen constructor is determined by the passed in arguments. This was really convenient, but sadly, AS3 only allows one constructor, right?
Is there a way to eliminate additional spaces in text variables? Example: The forum already eliminate the spaces. Imagine that "_" is space on the following sentences:
text = "__________KirupaForum______is_the__best____Flash_ tutorial____site_of_the___World_______"
Eliminating spaces...
text = "KirupaForum_is_the_best_Flash_tutorial_site_of_th e_World".
I am making a full flash site in which one container clip on the main timeline loads all the pages. I want to place a tween on this container so that once the content loads it animates as it enters. Code below.
Code:
import gs.TweenLite;
import gs.easing.*
[code].....
I run a FMS 3.5 Server and I want to add additional FMS Servers and load balance the traffic. The plan is to use a script for the developer version of FMS that forwards two incoming FME streams to the different servers, so each FMS Server has all streams. Is there a script for this? In addition there is a need for a script that somehow redirects the users to the server with the lowest users/bandwidth in use.
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