Is there an easy way to determine whether a swf is being tested in the IDE?
Have a number of params that change whether I'm working in development or production .. it's getting tiresome changing them .. i'ld be nice if I could do it programatically ..
i have a 15 frame movie in flash cs4i have a bg layer comprised on inanimate movie clips (so that I can apply drop shadows to the objects)i have 4 layers of animated movie clips that have imbedded bone animations. when i say imbedded i mean that when i double click on them, i can access the bone animation. (i did this so that I can hold the bone animated object in a movie clip that i can apply a drop shadow)i have a hotspot layer that is a transparent rectangle so that when the user moves the mouse over this area, the timeline should play and animations startnow here is the actionscript:Frame 1:
stop();
hotspot.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,animate_family);
function animate_family(e:MouseEvent):void{
[code].....
here's what i have. A main file into which i load someother swf's with this action:
master_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadClip);
function loadClip(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
[code].....
I have created a motion tween in CS4 that works perfectly when scrubbing with the playhead. However, when testing, the motion tween fails yet the rest of the animation plays perfectly.
View 11 Replies(Slightly different from the person's post below.)I have been using FLV-encoded short movie (1mb - 10mb) files with good success, but now I have encoded and uploaded a new movie (encoded with Adobe Media Encoder), and, when tested here on my computer, all works fine, I get the movie and the controller skin. However, I've uploaded the files to their proper locations, and when I go to the URL, the movie file will not load/play on the web page! All of my other previous movies (this is the same site/directory, no changes there) load and play fine. This new movie seems cursed. I tried encoding several versions, each slightly different.
View 7 RepliesI have a situtation trying to get a motion tween to work. It woeks in the time framw when I hit play but when I go to test it does not work.
View 7 RepliesI am a really novice actionscripter and have no idea if or how the following can be accomplished:I have coded a drag/drop function so that when a Christmas ornament is dragged and dropped on a Christmas tree, a window opens up for Url...The non-profit site I'm doing the movie for has one of those special PayPal hosted buttons so that when you click on the PayPal Donate button provided for the site, it opens up a special Paypal window for donations to that site.Is there a way I can code the drop function to access that special window? [code] Click Donate and enter the amount of your donation in the space provided. If you have a Paypal account - log into it to complete the donation. If you want to use a credit card, fill out the form completely and click to review.
View 1 RepliesIve have a pre-loader that works fine when testing locally. But when uploaded the pre-loader reverses in all tested browsers apart from firefox (see attached image). I cant think why it would reverse like this especially after the document has been published. Its as if from somewhere the swf is getting negative values when loading the external file? How would that be possible. Local testing with traces show no such negative values..... :
View 4 RepliesOk so here is the problem:
Using MacOSX 10.4 Tiger
Flash Professional 8
Firefox, IE, Safari
I created a flash movie. All of the pictures fade in and out perfect. There is a button on each of the pictures and these buttons take you to the picture�s respective page. When I test the movie the buttons work fine. When I export the movie as (.swf) and try it again the buttons work. I am hosting it on a GoDaddy domain that has been purchased and am referencing it on another site that I own. When I embed it onto my website, the movie plays fine but the buttons are not functional. Here are the things that I have tried to rectify the problem:
- Tried exporting and publishing to Flash Player 7 and 6 DID NOT WORK
- Instead of:
on (release) {
getURL(http:// . . ._self)
}
I created a new layer and gave the button an instance name and used it as an action layer:
MyButton.onRelease = function() {
getURL(www . . . ., _self)
}
DID NOT WORK
I have uploaded two videos to the website I work on. Both play perfectly in all browsers when I pull up the pages on my C drive, but just show up as a blank page on the website.[URL]
View 4 RepliesAs far as I can tell the AS 3 is to the T. But when I test it in dreamweaver some of the pdf's and all of the websites will not open. It says to make sure the path or file name is correct... but the names are perfectly fine.it may be a security sandbox issue, but I don't know how to check that let alone fix it.Here are some of the code samples.
menventures.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, menventuresurl)
function menventuresurl (event:Event):void {var menventures:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.menventures.com/");navigateToURL(menventures, "_self");trace("The menventures button was clicked");}[code].....
I am new to flash. I am experiencing random (at least to me) errors (#1009) while navigating through my tested file. I can't reproduce them everytime. It only happens sometimes. Usually they occur after I have clicked back and forth between different pages (frames). Sometimes the error shows up once, and the file moves on as if nothing bad has happened. Sometimes the error continuosly displays, which really slows down the test.
One example of such:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at About28_fla::MainTimeline/clickResumeFromAbout()
The general structure of my file is this: I have pages laid out on separate frames with movieclips embedded within each other on the frames. Navigational movieclip buttons remain on essentially every frame. Three of them are: 'About', 'Contact', and 'Resume'. I wrote Listeners for each frame that go from that frame to any of the others. For example, to get from my 'Resume' frame from the 'About' frame, I wrote a Listener called 'clickResumeFromAbout', which is what the above error refers to.
The code in context:
mResumeGlow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickResumeFromAbout);
function clickResumeFromAbout(e:MouseEvent):void {
mBoxAbout.gotoAndPlay(mBoxAbout.totalFrames-mBoxAbout.currentFrame);
mBoxAbout.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterResume);
function enterResume(event:Event):void {
if (mBoxAbout.currentFrame == 150){
mBoxAbout.stop();
mBoxAbout.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterResume);
gotoAndStop("Resume");
}}}
However, the error above occurs when I click 'Resume' from 'Contact' (not from 'About' as the error states). It only occurs after I've been flipping between frames for a bit (I'm assuming I've clicked 'About' at some point).
All I want to do is send the FlashVars to the Flash movie where it picks it up and goes to play the frame specified in AdFrame.
This is an odd one because it works perfectly when I preview it locally in IE. However, it does not work in IE when I move it out and tested remotely (tried it on two servers). It does not work in Firefox remotely or locally. I have the lates version of the js and I authored in Flash 9.[code]...
i've been trying to make a scrollbar and everything works fine, until i have to connect it with the text. theres an image and a title that i want to scroll with the (static) text so i created a movie clip (instance name cafe_txt), and when i wrote the script and tested the movie, i come up with the 1120 error that cafe_txt is not defined.So i changed the clip(thinking that the problem was the scrollbar had to be in the same instance as the text) so that the scrollbar was inside, and i come up with error 1067(1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type flash.display:MovieClip to an unrelated type flash.text:TextField.)
I've tried changing names, double checking that instance names are correct,moving things, changing the text so that its dynamic not static(if the scrollbar is connected to just the dynamic text it works,it just doesnt scroll the full length of the text) here's the code in my stage:
scrollbar_mc.textField = cafe_txt
and my code from the scrollbar.as file:
package com.lynda.ui{ import flash.display.*; import flash.events.*; [code].....
[I apologise if this isn't really an in depth question, but I wanted to solve this once and for all]I was trying to get look into quadtrees, but already ran into trouble getting collision detection without any optimization working properly. Did a search and found a pretty neat example:Only some collisions are detected between particular objects. When the objects are not moving it seems to work alot better for some reason. really can't figure out whats the problem, the code is essentially the same as the sample. I did not blindy copy pasted it, I understands whats happening except Here is what I did:Main class
package
{
import com.martino.objects.Square;
[code]....
I have a swf that loads in other swf files and interacts with the loaded swfs, everything works great when I hit ctrl-enter to test movie from from flash, but if I go out and doubleclick the generated swf on the harddrive at first it appears to work correctly, but some of my class methods do not function properly, or throw errors claiming there are null object references. If I compile to an exe file instead of swf it works fine as well.I am nearly 100% positive this is not a code related issue, as I said the only time I run into the problem is when I doubleclick the generated swf to run it.
View 4 Repliesif I want to play/test only 30 frames of 100, is it possible to hear the audio that just pertains to those 30 frames? Or is this only possible, IF the audio segment STARTS WITHIN those 30 frames?
View 2 RepliesWhy is that whenever I cut a frame, clear the frames in a timeline, paste it in new frame then test the clip, the whole thing starts to act funny?I just don't understand why that happens - it's supposed to run smoothly though it's on a new frame, right? Is there a way to maintain the movie clip when tested though some frames were cut then pasted on a new frame?
View 3 RepliesI have made a simple website in Flash which I would now like to put online. I have published the movie as an HTML file and tested it - it works offline. I then used my FTP program to transfer the html document to my web space and tested it. I saw the 'Press SPACEBAR or ENTER to activate and use this control' message but, even when I clicked, the screen remained blank.
View 3 RepliesI am using Flash CS4. To illustrate, I created a new flash file and added a short tick sound to the library. I set the properties of the sound to export to Actionscript and named the class "overSound". I added a Movieclip object to the stage to represent a button and gave it an instance name of "overButton". On frame 1 of the main timeline I added the following code:
[Code]...
I am new to flash. I am experiencing random (at least to me) errors (#1009) while navigating through my tested file. I can't reproduce them everytime. It only happens sometimes. Usually they occur after I have clicked back and forth between different pages (frames). Sometimes the error shows up once, and the file moves on as if nothing bad has happened. Sometimes the error continuosly displays, which really slows down the test. One example of such: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at About28_fla::MainTimeline/clickResumeFromAbout()
View 7 RepliesI have no understanding of even the most basic concepts, put it that way. Anyway, so I have 2 test boxes, one that is static and one that is dynamic. I made the dynamic one first, and on the same frame, I put the AS: var random:Number = 100; What I do know is that flash now recognizes that whatever dynamic text box with the variable label of "random" is a number. The output should also be a #, and when you test out the movie, a 100 should be in the dynamic text box that you just created, even though you don't see this on the stage before testing. So I tested it out, and sure enough, a "100" shows up. Next, I put another text box that is static, and I typed "test" in it. (Without quotes) The two text boxes should have no relation, but when I tested out the movie again, only the "test" static text box words show up, and the 100 in the previously created text box is gone. I've tried moving the text boxes to different places and changing variables and such, but nothing works, as far as I know.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to create an ad for a website. When someone clicks on the ad, it is supposed to redirect them to a website, and register the click with google analytics.I have done this with the following script:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
movieClip_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
[code].....
I want to update a row in mysql when a user uses an application with flash. And when they exit that application, I want to change the row to reflect that the user has left. Is there a way to do this easily? Currently, I'm thinking of writing a connection manager with sockets.
View 1 Repliesi am trying to make a photo gallery so when people click on a thumbnail it expands to full screen, my problem is i have lots of pictures and i want to determine which one has been clicked. i thought i would use the e.target in a simple if statement like this:
[Code].....
in this picture one and two are both on the stage with instance names of picture and picture2.
I am creating 6 rectangles through a loop like this:
var target:Array = new Array();
for (var i:Number = 1; i < 7; i++){
target
= new Sprite();
target.graphics.lineStyle(0,0,1);
[Code]...
We generate a LOT of swfs where I work. We've got a group of people managing putting the swfs into our asset management system. These people do NOT have flash or anything adobe. However, they need to be able to determine the AS setting on the swfs. Is there a tool (preferably cheap or even free) that can be used to determine the Actionscript level of a swf?
View 11 RepliesI need to know how to tell when I've reached the end of video. I seem to recall there's a command new to flash 10 that will let you know without having to track the total bytes used or time elapsed or anything complicated like that.
View 4 RepliesI'm loading texts from an external file and horizontally scroll the texts accross the screen with the following tween:
slideXTween = new Tween(txtField, "x", None.easeNone, txtField.x, -txtField.x*3, 70, true);
How do I find out when the tween is done and start loading another external text file or show a static/dynamic movie clip on the screen?
Is there any way via Actionscript that I can have a swf determine what URL it's hosted under? For instance, if I put my swf on this site, I want it to behave one way and on another behave completely differently. Make sense?
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