(AS3) im trying to dynamically use the DisplacementMapFilter but when i use it the whole bitmap square gets the effect even though the displacementmap im using is a circle with transparent BG. is there a way to mask the displacementmapfilter so it effects only a specified spherical portion?
heres some code...
Code:
mapPoint = new Point(500, 300);
componentX = 4;
componentY = 4;
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After a displacementmapfilter is applied to a bitmap/bitmapdata, it can be undone by removing the filter.
Is there a way to permanently flatten the filter so the distortion is applied to the pixels in the bitmapdata permanently?
My issue is that im copying new data to my filtered bitmap and that new data is getting a distortion applied to it that is unwanted.
Few days ago I uploaded my flash face morphing application and now I'm thinking of writing an article about creature process.URL... anyone curious about how I made it?
View 5 RepliesI followed this tutorial below: active[dot]tutsplus[dot]com/tutorials/effects/create-an-impressive-magnifying-effect-with-actionscript-30/ to get a magnify lens effect which works wonderfully, unfortunately the problem I'm having is I cannot click on buttons underneath the magnify lens. Is there a work around to this that I can implement? I tried mouseEnabled = false, to no avail. I'm kind of not sure what else to do.
View 2 RepliesI have a game where i add some cartoonish ants, that when they are clicked, they need to be removed from stage. There are 4 differend kinds of ants, so im doing a Math.random for picking which one to add. (ant 1+2+3 have 50% chance to spawn and 4th 50%)
Code:
rnd_nbr = (Math.random() * 5)+1;
I have a timer doing 10 tick, and i reset the timer to make neverending. Then i have a math random and if sentences adding mc' to the stage with movement from Tweener, and event listeners for clicks. But i cant figure out how to remove them when clicked. I have done alot of failed tries right inside the click_candy_anty function. I've left them commented out.
Code:
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
var ant_index:Array = new Array(10);//index for ants
var ant_number:int;
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Essentially, I've got a MC container that's created dynamically based off an XML file (basically for every <title></title> I've got, it makes a new "card"). Now within the context of each <title></title> grouping I've got <imgs></imgs> in which I specify the path to images that are related.All of that works perfectly, save for the external jpg files actually appearing on the stage. The MC I add them to does, but the external image doesn't.My problem is- I can't add the external images until they're completely loaded (or so it appears). The thumbnail BG I use is blank. So I know for a fact that the thumbnail BG isn't occluding the loaded thumbnails.
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That's the correct syntax for this? I want to be able to dynamically write to several textfields that exist on the stage but have not been dynamically placed there.
I'm dynamically creating movieclips with dynamically created movieclips inside them and am having trouble with targeting them.Below is a simplified example of what I'm trying to achieve, in the real file there are a lot more movieclips and I'm creating and naming them with a for loop.
This one is just one Sprite created inside another sprite. I can target the top level sprite named "testname". However when i try target the nested MC it throws an error.The bottom couple of traces are just test MCs I've made to make sure i got the syntax right, on targeting nested movieclips.
PHP Code:
var holder:Sprite = new test1();holder.name = "testname";this.addChild(holder);var holder2:Sprite = new test2();holder2.name = "testname2";holder.addChild(holder2);trace(getChildByName("testname").x); //this one traces finetrace(getChildByName("testname").getChildByName("testname2").x);//this throws up an errortrace(testclip1.x);trace(testclip1.testclip2.x);
Lets say you have a bunch of similar movieclips and you want to move anyone of them dynamically. We would use:
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Something like that. However, my issue is not selecting a movieclip dynamically, but selecting another movieclip dynamically within a dynamically selected movieclip.
building an application where the user makes their own logo/picture. I have a Logo MC, with a bunch of stuff. Here is my problem: I want the user to be able to add an unlimited amount of textboxes to the logo mc, but also be able to go back and edit those text boxes' color, filters, size, text etc. I don't know exactly how to go about doing this. I have a movieclip that is like a text control:It has a textbox to specify text, a colorpicker for color, etc. When a user clicks, "Add new text", I want to add a new text control movie clip to the end of all the others, and also link it to a textbox that is added in the logo. I thought this up:
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function addNewText(){
var randomString:String = String(Math.random());
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i am trying to control 30 instances of a movie clip dynamically. the instances are as follows
ship1
ship2
ship3
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coming from php i would just set up an associative array like list array('speed'=>array(false,false,true,...),'weapon '=>array(true,false,....and so on I can not for the life of me figure out how to store this information and then use it as a variable name later.my end result should look something like this .. i just don't understand how to do this in as3 .. it seems unnecessarily convoluted.
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foreach($upgrades['speed'] as $key => $val)
{
UpgradeScreen.'speed'.$key.visible = $val);
this would dynamically call
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i know the above is incorrect.I want to create this so that it is completely dynamic and the instance names can be feed in dynamically as the array or whatever is being looped.
Is it possible to dynamically create child nodes of an xml file with flash??Im what i want to do is save a users name etc in an xml file without having to manually add nodes in.So when a user clicks a button to save their details a new
View 2 RepliesI have created a function to load up my movies what I would like to do is two things
(i) change the ldr to a movieclip
(ii) add an extra parameter to add an instance name movieclip when I call the movieclip
loadMyImage('images/headers/logo.png', 80, 20, 'myheader' );
My code is attached - I'm trying to replace the loaded pngfile with the next one to load everytime the swf loops. The codeattached is on the first frame of the timeline and it just loadsthe next png on top of the old one. Any time I try to put anunload() or a removeChild(myBitmap), nothing displays. I could havesworn that the way I'm using load() it would just replace the
View 4 RepliesIm currently making a flash website. and trying to make it as light as possible.so decided to load images dynamically.Im using UILoaders.I drag the UILoader from components into the main timeline and set the source as 1.jpg, because the image is in the same folder as the .fla file.and scale - false
Tested the movie but nothing shows up. i guess i need some coding? but i dont know where to add the codes. on the same frame? or in frame 1? i also need the image to fade-in.the end result im looking for is, as i click a button. 3 images show up at the same time, fading in.
How can I convert the pdf to swf ? I have to display it in my page.Is it possible to convert online pdf to swf dynamically?
View 4 Repliesif it's possible to dynamically output a swf from a playing swf? For example, if a user was running a swf movie and clicked a button, a swf could be dynamically published of a particular area within the swf.
View 9 RepliesI need to be able to dynamically import an external pdf file into my flash .swf and display it within a movie clip on the timeline. --with pagination. Is this possible with Flash CS4? I have been out of the flash game for about a year now. However, a situation has arisen where I need to create a swf movie that loads an external pdf, paginates it, and displays it within a movie clip in the swf. Is this possible or will I be forced to only provide a hyperlink to the pdf?
View 6 RepliesIn my Flex application I am able to read the variables using something like /flexapp.html?name=josh with no problems. However, this is because I go into the URL and type in the variables by hand. Is there anyway in the code to dynamically append the variable part "?name=josh" ? For example, like retrieving the url and then adding that and then pointing to it?
View 2 RepliesI have created a navbar in flash with 5 different movieclips I use as buttons. Each movieclip(button) has a different instance name. Is there a way to use addeventlistener so that I dont have to do soemthing like this[code]...
View 1 RepliesI am trying to dynamically create an xml list.. however when I add in cdata tags it give me an error saying tags must be terminated, even though I'm not using those. It seems like it is trying to read the cdata tags as tags.
var addList:XMLList = new XMLList(
"" +
"" + personName + "" +
"" + personTitle + "" +
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I read somewhere you have to escape characters, but not sure exactly where.
I would like to add new row on the fly (runtime) to my AdvancedDataGrid.I can add it to the data model, but couldn't find a way to make the table render and show the new row.What i am seeking for is to create an effect of expandable item, where clicking on row will show "additional information" (like a drawer) and clicking on row expand button will reveal it's children.I saw examples of this for dataGrid (http:url...), but not for AdavancedDataGrid.Only way I found to do this is to add a new child and use openItem, but this cause the other children to be visible as well.
View 1 RepliesHow can I set a combobox value using as3?[code]...
View 1 RepliesI need to find or develop an app that will load in a pdf file from the web, allow a user to make simple annotations and save these annotations back to a webserver I'm curently using the zurb javascript annotator with the pdf rendered to a .jpg with imagemagick. Just now, I was told that they need the ability to zoom in to 3000% or more on some files. clearly rendering to a jpg would create gigantic files.
So I need to create either a java app or a flash app that will load the original pdf, allow the user to mark it up, and save either the annotated pdf, or the annotations themselves back to the webapp. This also needs to live IN the web browser, launching acrobat reader, or an air app that must be downloaded and installed are not going to work here.
Im new to actionscript , but not new to programming..Got the following problem : Im building a flash page dynamically with actionscript , from a php generated xml file which defines image/swf paths, text, position etc..All works well, except, i can't set an onPress function on the movieclips i create. Im doing something like this:
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I have a swf. With a script inside that I need to recover the URL this same swf, dynamically (via actionscrit). But I don't know a actionscript command that return the url of the swf.
View 1 RepliesI have several library MovieClips that I dynamically add to the stage via AS.I need to be able to have several default properties set on the MovieClips each time they are instantiated. For example, I have library Clips named "car" "bike" and "unicycle."I have them exported for AS.At certain points I randomly create a new instance of one of these Clips. Now, I won't know which particular one will be created until the time comes, but I need the new instance to have certain properties (such as car.wheels = 4, or bike.wheels = 2) so that I can check and/or manipulate those values later.I guess I could write some massive "if" statement that would assign all the properties at the time they are created, but that seems counterintuitive.I tried adding AS to the Clip in the library, which seems to get close. If I do that, then the dynamic instantiation has the correct properties, but the values of those properties ends up being set to 0 or a null value.[code]All that works except, if I trace v1.wheels, it ends up being 0, no matter which MovieClip type gets instantiated, and v1.type ends up being null. So the properties are there (not undefined) but not the values.How can I get it to keep the properties AND their default values when the Clip is instantiated? I don't want to have to do: if it's a car, then wheels = 4, seats = 5, etc. because my actual file has 50 or so clips with about 10 properties each, and each instance of the clip will only exist for a few seconds before being removed.
View 3 RepliesThis site has a flash slideshow with multiple people in it that scroll left and right. The people are buttons with instance names.
When the user clicks on each person, it triggers some javascript that loads the corresponding swf for each person. Currently it only works for the first guy with a specific name in there.
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This site has a flash slideshow with multiple people in it that scroll left and right. The people are buttons with instance names. When the user clicks on each person, it triggers some javascript that loads the corresponding swf for each person. Currently it only works for the first guy with a specific name in there. How do I get the instance name based on what the user clicks on to use?
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public function loadVideo_fun(videoFile) {
var my_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
my_nc.connect(null);
var my_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(my_nc);
myVideo_video.attachVideo(my_ns);
my_ns.setBufferTime(5);
my_ns.play(videoFile);
}
the flv pause in the first frame cannot play
