ActionScript 3.0 :: Different Page On The Website Exists At A Different Position On The Timeline?
Aug 6, 2009
This must have been done before and be really easy but I am a newbie so just keep coming up with compiler errors. I have built a website in flash cs4 using as3. I have set up the time line so that each different page on the website exists at a different position on the timeline. Sections have been labeled so that I can jump to that section upon button click.
What happens is when the link to the page/section is clicked the timeline jumps to that section and plays an animation that animates the page onto the stage then stops.("in animation") When you click another link the page should animate off of the stage ("out animation")and the next one animates in.
(I have set the time line up so that after each "in" animation there is a stop and after each "out" animation there is a stop.) This is where i'm having the problem.
I have set up event listeners for the button clicks But i can only get them to either play the "out" animation then that stops, using this code:
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What i would like to know is how to add the two together so that when a button is clicked the information about what was clicked is added to a variable. The function plays the out animation then when that is complete checks the variable where the page clicked information is then jumps to that section on the timeline and plays it's "in" animation
I'm trying to:Jump from frame 1 to a frame later in the main timeline Reference an object that exists on the stage in that frame, but not in frame 1
Like so:
ActionScript Code: function endGame():void { gotoAndPlay("gameOver"); scoreField.visible = false; }
A movieclip with the instance name 'scorefield' exists in the "gameOver" frame, yet for some reason, I just get a "Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference." This code is all within a function. By the time the reference to scoreField is executed, the timeline is at the right frame.
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I have created a simple flash swf which I have added to all the pages of my website. For some reason when I load one particular page a blank screen appears. When I delete the swf the page appears.
just wondering if it is possible to be able to remeber the timelines position:example:
- the user is say on frame 5 or whatever frame the user is up to (its a quiz senario); - the user then clicks a link which takes them to frame 15 - when the user clicks on the back button this will take them back to the page which they were viewing whatever that may be for each user.
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How can i define the area where the website will appear and essentially insert an iframe?
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mark_red_btn._visible=false; if (_root._currentframe == "red") { mark_red_btn._visible = true; };
Unfortunately, it is not working. The mc 'mark_red_btn' stays invisible even when the main timeline is on the frame labeled 'red.'
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I made an intro animation for a website. Packaged it up into a movie clip, selected "Export for ActionScript", dragged it into my timeline, and gave it an instance name (myIntro_mc).
This is not an exported swf... it only exists in my library as a symbol (and what ever folder of classes it goes to when you export for action script).
The intro plays some animation, has a button to continue to the site, plays some more animation and then stops.
The movie clip is in its own layer and has 4 frames of the main timeline.
If I don't tell the main timeline to stop in frame 1, the intro never shows up... playback goes directly to frame 5 (which is the home page).
If I put a stop(); in the first frame the intro plays and stops and the main timeline never resumes.
I can't sort out how to tell the movie clip to play the parent timeline when it reaches the end... nor can I figure out how to wait in the main timeline for the intro to finish playing before resuming the main timeline.
I've been gnawing at this an embarrassing amount of time and have tried all sorts of bad code in both the main timeline and in the child movie clip.
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so I'm having an issue with my website design and as I'm relatively new to flash I can't seem to fix it on my own. I know what I'm supposed to do, technically, but not sure how to actually implement it.Below is a picture of my timeline:What my problem is that the buttons for navigating my pages (bio, news, projects, links, etc.) are nested inside of my Navigation MC (on the Navigation layer) and so they appear in the timeline (at frame 20) before my content does (frame 70). Because of this, the buttons can't be aimed at the content because their code is run before the content even exists.
I'm guessing that what I need to do is to instantiate my content at a point in the timeline before the navigation/buttons occur... but as the content is the last part of my loading animation, I'm not sure how to do that.I read something about adding the MC's but keeping them invisible, then making them visible again at teh appropriate time, but I don't know how to do that or if it would somehow mess with my animation (everything fades in one item after the other, with the content being the last part).
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