I can't seem to find anything that tells me how to do this.Is there a way to grab the name of a symbol on the stage? Not the instance name but the name that it has in the library.
View 2 RepliesI am tasked with trying to do a slideshow of sorts, and I need to pull the filename of the slide from an xml file and display it, as well as display the appropriate slide notes in a text box.
the xml file they gave me is formatted as below, and with my current code (also below) I'm able to (trace) list all the file names, but I am missing how to address the filename on just one slide � say, slide 1, so I can then load it into a loader.
here's my code
Code:
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
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I have a flash menu that needs to play a different scene depending on which page it is embedded into. So I need the it to grab the URL of the html page it is on and do some simple test on it to figure out what scene it should be on. *For the record, I tried to do it without scenes but the frame jumping started doing some cracked out things
Code: (on a single empty frame in Scene 1) import flash.external.ExternalInterface; var urlPath; urlPath = ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href.toStr ing()"); getURL("javascript:alert('"+urlPath+"');"); if (urlPath == "http://www.awesome.com/Portfolio/portfolio.html"){ gotoAndPlay("Scene 3", "portfoliopage"); } else if (urlPath ==
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Somehow, my urlPath isn't getting the correct value, and therefore the if-else latter isn't functioning appropriately. I am posting the website on my test server, so the http addresses are correct, and the if-else latter functions perfectly when I just change the conditions to 'true'/'false', so neither is the problem. The problem is that the alert shows me that the value of urlPath is undefined, and so then all conditions in the latter evaluate to false.
I'm having trouble adjusting to the way functions pass in AS3. How come when I say "this" it doesn't know I'm refering to AudioTrack?
PHP Code:
var AudioTrack:Object = new Object();
AudioTrack.myVar = "Hello";
AudioTrack.onComplete = function(){
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I'm getting my head around XML E4X in Actionscript 3 and been looking at Senocular's article about filters [URL] for a better way of validating the code below?
Essentially I want to check the profile nodes exist and if theres a profile node with a matching locale attribute (passed via FlashVars), and if not it grab the text of the first node. Anyway heres the code snippet and my XML is below:
function addInfoBubble(countryName:String, countryDataXML:XML):void {
// (theres other non related code here)
if(countryDataXML.achievers.achiever[0].profile as XMLList && countryDataXML.achievers.achiever[0].profile.length() > 0){
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grabbing / formating a string.My mission is connecting to a web site - let's say domain.com/one.html - which returns the following html code:
Code:
<HTML><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"></head><body>1,1,4,20,1,128,Harry J. All Stars - The Liquidator</body></html>
What I am looking for is a actionscript function which returns the text after the 6th comma - in this case:
Harry J. All Stars - The Liquidator
The thing is: The numbers are always different, but the text I want to "grab" and "show" in mytext.text (dynamic text) is ALWAYS present after the 6th comma.
Okay, what I want is kinda hard to explain, so bear with me.If I have an array:Code:myPets = ["cat", "dog", "bird", "fish"];Now, is there any AS that can use the value of say "dog", and return the position that "dog" is in the array, I know this seems a bit stupid and dog is obviously myPets[1], but when I'm creating arrays on the fly it becomes slightly harder.
View 3 RepliesI'm used to flash grabbing an xml file that's manually edited with image file paths. Is it possible for flash or xml to automatically grab images that are in a specific folder?
View 2 RepliesI am building a flash component to be embedded on an html side - the flash will include buttons to 'share' - i.e. on facebook, twitter, etc. I want to be able to grab the URL of the page and put it into the coding on the button.
Currently the button says:
tweetbtn.onRelease = function() {
getURL("http://twitter.com/home?status=Check Out This Company at www.thiscompany.com",
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I'm not sure if you able to do this or not. But basically I want to be able to grab text off a website (not the one the SWF is hosted on).
I have several sites from which I am making small amounts of money online.. I want to make a small app that loads the URL and searches the pages for the spot where the money is listed, then add them all up to shorten me having to consistently check each. The app could refresh loads, say every 30 seconds or so. Is there a way to do that?
Another example would be to make a text box in flash that displays the headline of an article on CNN.com
I did the like with loading XML from other pages, but what I want to do just involves grabbing any said text from a site.
I have 36 buttons on my stage that are named [thumbBut0, thumbBut1, thumbBut2,..., thumbBut35]. Each button is a thumbnail image. I want to have it so that when the user clicks on a given thumbnail, the full-sized image corresponding to the thumbnail gets loaded and viewed...yada, yada, yada... So, if the user clicks on thumbBut25, the 25th image gets viewed...
My question: is there some cool way that I could avoid writing 36 different (although they would be similar) "_level0.thumbButXX.onRelease = function()..." type things for each of the 36 buttons. In other words, when the user clicks the instance "thumbBut25" something grabs the "25" part out of the instance name, converts it to an integer, and passes it on to a function that loads up the image that corresponds to "25"?
I need to trace out the variable currentClip from the following code that is in an external swf. The parent swf calls the external swf empty_mc via loadclip.
[AS]
function setNextClip():Void
{
currentClip = clipArray[iterator];
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I'm trying to create a website that will grab content from a MYSQL database, and display it inside of a dynamic text field in Flash. There are several buttons on the page, and I want each button to grab different information depending on id #. So far, I've done a few tutorials both here and elsewhere, and I've finally figured out how to get the Flash to connect to the database, but I'm not sure how to get info based on the id. My current database only has two columns: id & home_body with one row. I want to add more rows to this soon so I'll have something like this:
id | home_body
1 | info <-button 1 grabs this
2 | info <-button 2 grabs this
Here's my code thus far:
AS3:
// this code gets the home page data from the database for display
var homePageText:String;
// Assign a variable name for our URLVariables object
var home_variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
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[URL]..and I wanted to duplicate the effect and turn it into something.. I don't know, something. I just want to get it to work!
It's been a while since I did AS3 programming, so excuse me for being a bit rusty. I loaded a .mov as a FLVPlayback exported it as movie.swf and in the main.fla I made an URLRequest for the .swf. I then did all the silly math things that strobes it, and it all works out when I have an image, but with the movie.swf I just can't get it to work.
With the image it's just a matter of copying the bitmap and repositioning it. But how do I capture a still of the playing .swf?
I am a little bit lost within all the CopyPixels and BitmatData's and I just can't get it to work.
To make it short:
- I want to load a movie (a .mov in this case)
- I want in every frame to capture the frame of the playing movie and duplicate it/reposition it
I simply don't understand why now at the end of my project, the last 5 frames are giving me such trouble. I have five scenes. The first scene plays fine. Second scene plays fine until just the end, then it grabs audio from the third, fourth and fifth scenes and starts playing them. Here is the site: [URL] (it is a site for children in Swedish) if you click the 3rd button to the right (3 Delan) you will notice that the sound starts truncating and then starts grabbing and placing into scenes before the next scene.
View 1 RepliesAfter 2 nights of *almost* getting it I realized that Flash's RegExp doesn't support lookbehinds. Here are the 3 scenarios:
1) [URL]
2) <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>
3) <br><br>http://example.com<br><br>
Basically what I want to happen is to ignore scenario #2. I know the solution, but I can't seem to nail it. All that needs to happen is to select the http (and everything after that) as long as it's not preceded by a "> or =", but since I don't know a way for RegExp to look backwards, I'm sort of at a loss. Here's hoping that someone has run into this issue before
Is it possible to get the color being used in a dynamic textbox through actionscript? I am formatting the textbox with css and I want another element in my movieclip to match whatever color the text is in that textbox dynamically. Ive tried everything I can think of.
View 4 RepliesI have a project in Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3.
I have a movieclip symbol (referred herein as "background" with scripts on various keyframes inside of that symbol. I need to hide or show another symbol (referred herein as "object") sharing a stage with "background".
To put it another way, I need "object" to be hidden when "background" reaches a certain internal keyframe. However, as "object" and "background" are both children of the same stage, how do I do this?
what i want to do is, when certain button is clicked, replace a certain symbol(button) by another symbol(movieclip) stored in the library. i try things like loadmovie("","") to replace the symbol from a external jpg, but some how it does not align even both images are exact dimension. can i replace an image straight from the library?
View 1 RepliesI animated eyes blinking inside of a movie clip symbol and placed the symbol on a face outside of the symbol.The eyes are stuck on the first frame. I am using CS5. What do I do?
View 5 RepliesHow do i get the hitTest() function to test if a certain symbol is hitting another symbol, but, only if drawn parts of the symbol are touching, not thier outer bounds.
View 2 RepliesBasically there's an object in a movieclip. I want to find the location of that object in relation to the movieclip, not of the object's symbol. So when i look at the x and y of it, it wont show 0, it will show the x and y location in the movieclip it's in.
View 2 RepliesI'm, trying to create a duplicate symbol and then be able to drag the symbol around the screen.I have an image - once converted to a button and on the stage as paddock_btn. The other converted to paddock_mc in the library, with a linkage identifier of "paddock".I want to be able to click the button, and create a duplicate, which can be dragged and placed on the screen.Unfortunately, I don't get any output errors here.
Code:
//create a function to duplicate paddock
function dupe_paddock():Void {
i = i + 1;
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I have a scrollout menu for my flash movie, but each of the buttons have to be movies symbols. I try to attach:
on (release) {
gotoand stop(4)
}
But I get the error that this script only works for buttons. Anyone able to lend some assist? I suck at actionscript.
So i've done SOME work with flash and AS3, right now i'm working on a website for my boss, he bought some template online which has stuff laid out and animated and everything already, now I just have to integrate our content.My issue is this, I've got 2 symbols on the screen, one of which contains alot of buttons that list our services as company, the second symbol contains the content (or descriptions) of those services, which on are separate keyframes.What I'm trying to accomplish is that when you hit the button in "symbol A", it affects the "symbol B" and goes to the corresponding keyframe.For example when I click "button 2" in "symbol A", "symbol B" goes to keyframe 2.Now if they were in the same symbol it would be something like
on(release){
goToAndStop(2);
}
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So, normally the mouse pointer is the arrow. When it's over something with an on(press) event or some such, it turns into a "pointing finger."
Is there any way to force it to change to some other icon? Specifically, I have a draggable movieclip that I'd like to control with a "grabbing hand" pointer, but Flash insists on making it a "pointing finger," which I feel is a little confusing to users. Is this possible at all?
I am following this tutorial, [URL] and everything works until i actually try to place a graphic symbol into another symbol. I am trying to make a character walk across the stage. Flash tells me I cannot place a symbol within itself. Why not and how can i!!
View 1 RepliesI'm making something for my site where you can design your own character. I am trying to set it so when you select a hair style, it'll change the hair style on the person(I already know how to change the color and stuff). How do I do that?? I thought I could do it so it would switch the movie clip with the design of the button you press to get it to change the hair
View 11 RepliesLibrary symbol "Card" is linked to class "Card" which extends "MovieClip". Library symbol "Card" contains a card background image.Library symbol "Ace" is linked to class "Ace", which extends class "Card". Library symbol "Ace" contains a TextField with a big letter "A".So we have Ace extends Card which extends MovieClip. Ace therefore extends MovieClip, but does not DIRECTLY extend MovieClip.When I drop an instance of Ace on the stage and compile the clip, all that shows up is the big letter A. However, I expected the background image from Card to be included, since Ace extends Card, and the Card symbol contains the background.It seems like Flash ignores symbol content unless it belongs to the top-level class being instantiated.I think it's LAME that one symbol can't extend another. The IDE could easily draw Card as a non-editable background while I'm editing Ace which extends it, and it should instantiate Card's content and then Ace's content when an Ace is instantiated.
View 3 RepliesHow do you view and edit a button symbol's instance name after you have made the button symbol?
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