I have a line which is stage.stageWidth long.Now i need in enter frame to shorten this line (like an reverse preloader, but its not a preloader) so that in given time value its length becomes 0.so from stage.stageWidth to 0 in given time.
View 8 RepliesI have learned from a video tutorial (Flash CS5 in the Family 23: Banner Ad Part 1)to use the F5 key to set the length of a time line of a particular image.When using the F5 key on the MAC keyboard, it will only allow for the audio to be worked with.I've tried Apple+F5, Option+F5, Ctrl+F5 etc.What am I missing?
View 1 RepliesMy issue is that for my website I want there to be movies in between the interactive parts of it where the interfaces slide in and out. However, I can't stop a movie from playing over and over instead of playing once and going to the next frame.With 2.0 I haven't been able to find any research that helps me, probably because I don't know the correct keywords to search for.Right now I have my main time line set up with a loading bar on frames 1 & 2, that then jumps to frame 3 where I have embedded a movie (Instance named: mc_start) of the interface sliding in. Preferably after that I need it to jump to frame 4 where the actual interface is.
I can get the movie to end by going into the embedded movie's time line and simply have stop() ; at the final frame, but I can't get it to go to frame 4 on the main time line. If I having something like gotoAndPlay(4) ; on the final frame of the embedded movie's time line, it simply goes to frame 4 of the embedded time line and not frame 4 of the main time line. If there was a command to make it jump back to the main time line instead of the embedded time line, that would work perfectly.Coding on Frame 3 of the main time line to jump to Frame 4 would work if I knew the correct language to detect when the movie has ended (Movie is 191 frames long), so that afterwards it would immediately jump to Frame 4, but I haven't been able to find any resources that will teach me how to do it. Right now having gotoAndPlay(4) ; on Frame 3 of the main time line obviously makes it immediately skip the movie on Frame 3 and jump to Frame 4.
What I have is a movieclip and a button in scene 1 (which is the main timeline).There is an actionscript layer also on the main timeline. what I want to do is when I click the button, it would do a nextFrame(); in the movieclip timeline instead of the main timeline.
View 4 RepliesI want to attach some script to a button that will increase the length of a line (movieclip) by x amount each time.I have tried using this :
on (press){
this.line._xscale=this.line._xscale+5
}
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I am still working on my pulley sim. I have two wieghts hanging from a pulley. When the user drags one down, the other move up accordingly. I am trying to figure out how make the line that represents the rope grow and shrink as the weights move. I have drawn the line like this:
var lineW:MovieClip = new MovieClip();addChild(lineW);lineW.graphics.lineStyle(1);lineW.graphics.moveTo(178,127);lineW.graphics.lineTo(weight_mc.x,weight_mc.y);
But I don't know how to change the length. I tried redrawing the line in the Enter_Frame function that moves the weights but it only adds to the line without shortening it.
I was woundering is it possible to measure the length of lines that are drawn with scripts such as these? The ones where you can draw with the mouse? [URL]
View 2 RepliesI am wanting to position a large close-quote graphic relative to the end of the last line of text in a text field. Is there a way to use textWidth to find the width in pixels of just the last line of a textField?
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know a way, to return the length, preferably in pixels, of a specific line in a multiline textfield. In this case, I need to know the length of the last line.
View 1 RepliesI have an input text box and need to control the line length max char 20 for each line using AS3.
View 2 RepliesI am totally new to Flash. I want to be able to draw a line and then be able to click on it and drag to change its length.
View 2 Repliesi have a slideshow with a delay of for example 3 seconds, and a preloader which is a line with a 100px final length.i start preloading next image.now if the time until next image loads is longer than slideshow delay, i will show next image as soon as it loads.if the time until next image loads is shorter that than slideshow delay, i want to wait additional time until delay and then show the image.the problem is how do i represent smooth line width grow (being enter frame or tween) by calculating/comparing 2 values together (delay and loader percent, which goes from 0 - 100) ?if my line growth represent just a slideshow delay, then when it gets to an end, if next image still hasnt loaded, then it wont look good if line has come to an end, but i still have to wait.
View 4 RepliesIam doing a mp3 player, i want to play music while streaming. I have a probleme, i cant get time mp3 length of this song while streaming.
View 1 Repliesbasically the AI players make their call/raise/fold decisions at the speed of light and I want to slow them down for a custom length of time before they act. Ideally what I would like is a prototype that I could call with a custom time length and it would count that long before executing their actions e.g.
if(plyr1_condition1 && plyr1_condition2){
wait(5);
execute actions
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I am reading midi files in as3 (flash cs5) with the help of the helpful library that is called midas [URL]- the midi-as3 library. I am trying to figure out a simple way to calculate the whole duration of the midi file (for example - total time of 4 minutes or 6 minutes...). I assume I could calculate the last note of each track + check the tempo and figure it out, but I was wondering if: Is the duration of the midi file is written somewhere in the data that I could just pull out and use?
View 1 RepliesIm trying to make a flash music player, and im having trouble displaying the length of the track and the time played. Here is the actionscript used, all it does is give me undefined/undefined. Im using flash mx 2004 pro.
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I'm using this script to go between sections with a fade out before loading the next section...
Code:
stop();
menuButton1.onRelease = function() {-code]..... which works great, playing the "out" fade-out before loading the next section, but if for example the fade-out takes 8secs, if someone presses one of the other buttons before its got to the end, it plays from the "out" label again. So if someone gets inpatient and just starts clicking away they will just keep looping the fade-out and nothing will load.
Is there a way to disable the buttons after pressing for long enough for the fade-out, but then become active again?
I have a time line of 1441 frames my frameRate is 24 fps so it takes 1 minute exactly to complete the timeline animation I want to Display the Remaining time as file starts I need formula to place in ENTER_FRAME event which displays the time left
View 2 RepliesI have a time line of 1441 framesmy frameRate is 24 fpsso it takes 1 minute exactly to complete the timeline animationI want to Display the Remaining time as file startsI need formula to place in ENTER_FRAME event which displays the time left
View 1 Repliesmake an xml driven player with a couple of tuts of the net.Here is the code:
Code:
var xmlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("content.xml");
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlRequest);
var imgData:XML;
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It displays both images and movieclips.How can I make it that it when a movieclip is loaded it waits for it to finish and then switches (rather than the 2 sec swap I have right now).
I have a repeater that populates a component, called 'project'. The project components are given an ID of 'wholeProject'. In all of my functions up until now, I was able to determine how many project components were made by doing the following:
wholeProject.length;
I used this in for loops, for each loops, and for changing the item settings within a project, i.e. something like this:
wholeProject[i].studentName = "Billy Bob";
However, I'm creating a new function that does not seem to like this wholeProject.length reference. I'm using it within the same level as all the others (i.e. the parent level). So far, my function is simply this:
public function getStudentYears():void
{
Alert.show(String(wholeProject.length));
}
when the application loads, the alert message simply does not appear. If I change the alert to something like this:
Alert.show("This is just a test.");
it works just fine. But for some reason, the wholeProject.length doesn't work in this function whereas it does in all my other ones.
i want to duplicate a line 4 times, and move each line on Yaxis, with a delay of 1sec each time. I know i must use setinterval+duplicateMovieClip, but i've got pbs :-( actually, i've got my AS code on my line :
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I have an mp3 playing. What I would like is to have a movieclip that is located in the library appear, complete it's animation then get removed. The movie clip must complete this proccess 4 times, randomly during the length of the song but never at the same time and not in the last 5 seconds of the song. BTW I can't do this manually by just firing it off a random amount of times because this code will be used with lots of different mp3's, so I need to use the dynamic data I get by retrieving the song length.
I have the code working to retrieve the length of the song, and I have a variable that stores the length minus 5 seconds from the end, so I bascially have the length of time I wish to work with. My problem is making the movie clips appear 4 times randomly throughout that length of time. The code is below (what I have so far), the movieclip is stored in the library as circle_mc.
The timer I'm using at the beginning of the code (to retrieve the length of the song) is set to run after 2 seconds this is because there is a delay in the music starting and if it did it instantly the number retrieved obviously would be 0, so I delay it by 2 secs till I know the song is playing. At the moment I'm just trying to get it to fire twice, at the moment it fires once or not at all
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how I can express the following in actionscript?
if this = this & this = this or this
how to configure OUTLOOK express to my flash menu/button.graphic/mc
View 2 RepliesLet's say I have array foo and a positive integer y, where foo.length > y.I want to remove elements from foo so that foo.length becomes y (or very close to it).Also, I need to preserve the first and last element of foo. The indices of the removed elements must be spaced apart as equally as possible. Foo can be sliced, or it can be used to create a new array.
Example: if foo = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,1,2,3,4,5] and y = 6, then trimmedfoo could be [a,c,e,g,2,4,5] or maybe [a,c,e,2,4,5], but not [a,c,e,g,2,4] because the last element of foo is missing.
how to do this
function foo(x:*, ...args):* {
}
function bar(x:*, ...args):* {[code].....
how to expand args ? when I call bar(1,2,3), I wish it call foo(1,2,3), but it call foo(1,[2,3])
Is there any way to determine if a (anonymous) function has defined the ...(rest) parameter in ActionScript 3? I know there's the function.length property, but it only counts the explicitly defined arguments.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to get the length of arrays within an array, here is my example (MX 2004):
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I get an output of of 3. the number of variables within the first array, this is not what I had expedted.
I've created a movieclip spawner class and animator class which animate movieclips along a set of x,y points.I've used Greensock's TweenMax to accomplish the animation and I have set the speed to be 1 second between each point. The issue is that when the distance between two points is small it looks too slow.
What I would like to do is somehow calculate the distance between the two points and output a speed in the range of 0 to 1 seconds so that the speed is to be correct for the shorter distances as well as the longer distances.