ActionScript 3.0 :: Improve Tile Effect Code In OOP?
Nov 9, 2009
I have two symbols in the Library...they are a shape of ball (Ball class) and a shape of a box (Box class)...I have a Tile.as class...which can create a tile effect with either the Ball class or the Box class...I can enter into the Tile class and change the tile effect to the shape I want to use...but I dont wish to do this. I would like be able to define a parameter which I can then pass in an argument for what I shape I want...to the Tile class constructor...so the class can be more flexible...But I don't know how I can do this...
ActionScript Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
public class Main extends MovieClip {
Been reading up on the flash transition object. I came up with this way of fading out one clip and fading in another and having them loop forever using the transition objects but it's very dirty coding and not very flexible.
Is there a way to clean it up so that I can add as many clips as I want without having to write more code, just by adding more movie clips to the stage?
I'm making a game where you place tiles on a grid. When placing a tile, I need to check the existance of another tile to the left, right, or above and below, otherwise the tile should not be placed.. Here is a function I thought would work, that accepts one variable (the position of the tile just as it is about to be placed) :-
private function checkSurroundingTiles(gridPosition:uint) { var t1 = gridPosition - 12; var t2 = gridPosition - 1; var t3 = gridPosition + 1; var t4 = gridPosition + 12; for(i = 0; i < gridRefArray.length; i++) { var checkTile = gridRefArray[i]; if(checkTile == t1) { return true;
how this is accomplished?[URL] In this site, if you drag the "sun" back and forth, you spin the tickets. I've done something similar in as2, with the carousel effect. What I'm really interested in is how, when you release the "sun", the tickets don't stop spinning until the one closest to the middle of the stage is directly in the middle of the stage. I've been trying to accomplish this with a some scrollable thumbnails. But when you release the arrow keys, it stops where ever it was on MOUSE_UP.
I am trying to make a matrix code effect inside a movieclip called "Code", I am using the code made by Ilyas but have so far been unsucsessful, I can get it to work in the main root of a seperate .swf but not in the root of my main movie or a movieclip inside the root. I dont know how to alter it top make it work for a movieclipIf you dont know the code I am talking about see below :
[AS] /***Author: Ilyas USAL (pom) Title: The Matrix has you...
i was wondering if its possible to make the external code for the snowflake effect in kirupa tutorials (AS3 version) run internally, i.e. without the need for the snowflake.as file
im trying to add the effect to my flash movie via loading the swf file.
There is no maintainAspectRation property for video object.Then how to improve the quality of video when even we resize the video dynamically.It has to maintain good quality.How to achieve this.
I am working on a flex application. The application occupies 100% of the browser screen, but it is slow to load. How should I improve the performance, what are the best techniques one should follow for improving the performance of a flex App. I did try some stuff though, I am not using relative layout instead i am using absolute layout and putting the buttons/images etc at exact places in a Canvas, still i feel it is slow. Can I profile the App or flex code to see where exactly the app is taking the maximum time to execute.
I'm playing around with Flash CS4 trial and tried to 'compose' a 3d Box by putting 6 MovieClips as the side elements of the box in one clip which represents the whole box. (only using the Flash Tools, no Actionscript). Within the BoxClip (after doubleclick on the BoxClip on stage), all sides look right, each side is positioned with the correct angles and coordinates. Outside the BoxClip, back on root stage, the box sides are not parallel anymore, the angles are not 90 degrees, there is no 'box' actually. So I guess, one of the problems is the 3D Center point of the objects which is absolute to one point in coordinate space. The other problem is the faulty '3D' display in Flash, that is, changing from inside to ouside a clip changes the view also. So far, the Flash GUI seems quite useless for doing some '3D'. How to improve the workflow?
The quality of sound when playing my flash file on the timeline in flash CS4 is excellent, however when I go to test movie the sounds quality becomes awful, like its being played in a tunnel on terrible speakers, my sound files are .wav files, am I missing a process I must do to ensure the quality of sound is carried through to the final published animation?
I have two FMS 3.5 streaming servers... Both have Windows Server 2003 x64 with 16 GB of RAM..I'm streaming from a common storage and my Application.xml file is like this:
I am using Helvetica Neue 43 Light and it looks great as Dynamic Text without embedding the fonts. It is nice and bright, sharp edging, etc.
I notice though, that on other computers, the Helvetica Neue font is displayed as Times. I am presuming because these other computers do not have Helvetica Neue installed on their computer system.
If I embed the fonts, it looks the same as static text or text that I have broken apart. The fonts are thicker and has blurry edges.
Is there any way of getting around this and have my Helvetica Neue looking sharp and crispy like dynamic text without embedding the fonts.
I am using the Open source PurePDF library in my Flex AIR application. The problem is performance:It takes 100% CPU usage and too long to generate a PDF.
I have done some analysis on it and find that the text writing in pdf is expensive. That's why I need to know how I can improve the performance. Are there any fonts for which pdf generation is less expensive, or is there some setting or tip that can make this process somewhat better in terms of performance? secondly in case of images the ImageElement generation is very expensive when writing that element to PDF. Is there any way to reduce the processing?
I found a way to reduce the ImageElement generation processing by resizing the image using flex and by then passing the small image's bitmap data to the image element. It works fine, and i have reduced the time of execution to a good extent. is there any way to tell PDF to work in chunks or divide the work in such a way that it may take more time to complete but won't block the GUI while the PDF is being generated?
I would like to know if anybody could help me to learn more on improving SEO for flash websites as it is not as good as for html websites (if i am not mistaken).I have heard something about xml that can be used to improve your SEO for all your flash websites.
I have a code, that draws a horizontal line, then it turns into a slope, and at the end of the slope it draws a circle. Here's a code:
Code: var xspeed:Number = 1; // defines increments for x of slope var yspeed:Number = 2; // defines increments for y of slope var hspeed:Number = 5; // horizontal line increments
[code]....
Create document 800x700 and put this code into main timeline. Now test movie As you can see, everything works great. But there is a problem. The circle is being drawn at 0 degree angle. But I want the circle to match the angle of the slope, so it looks like the slope and the circle are both at the same angle.
I have a program that is decently complicated in one area and the rest is simple. The complicated stuff is data crunching, pretty much. Would I get an increased performance by doing the data crunching in a second app and just having it send the couple bits of info I want from it to my other app that would be the front end of the program? Or is this a dumb idea? I know air doesn't by default multi thread, so I was just trying to think of a "work around."
I am working on my first Adobe Flex application, and have a code section that appears to be running very slowly (but it does function properly!). CC_Output is a text control, all the other controls are checkboxes (CC, CC_Duration, etc.)[code]
I am a bit new to using blitting for graphics. But I have worked up a few demos myself, and I have been reading a lot of information on the methods used. One common theme I have been seeing though is that all of them brute force rendering; drawing the farthest back object first and stepping through all other objects. even drawing objects that are going to be completely overlapped. The reason all of them say this is that any kind of testing to see what should be drawn actually takes more time than just drawing everything with no checks. Is there any kind of way to detect what should be drawn, that will run faster than just drawing everything?
Am currently working on a tool created by a colleague of mine and would like to improve performance. Basically, it's a tool for drawing on screen and uses a combination of Sprites and the Graphics class to draw a line segment every time the mouse is moved when the mouse button is down. Here is the drawing bit:
// on MouseMove protected function drawLine(e:MouseEvent):void { if (currentTool.thickness > 0){ //pen var line:Sprite = new Sprite(); line.graphics.lineStyle(currentTool.thickness, currentColour); [Code] .....
As you can see, it checks if the line 'thickness' property and draws if it is and erases if it isn't. I did think of using a technique similar to blotting here where it'd draw to a bitmap but I'm not sure this'd give the performance boost I want or if, indeed, there would be any way to have an eraser function. The drawing itself works nicely - this isn't the problem, it's the performance of the subsequent 'drawn' sprites.
Background: I am using SQLite database in my flex application. Size of the database is 4 MB and have 5 tables which are
table 1 have 2500 records table 2 have 8700 records table 3 have 3000 records table 4 have 5000 records table 5 have 2000 records.
Problem: Whenever I run a select query on any table, it takes around (approx 50 seconds) to fetch data from database tables. This has made the application quite slow and unresponsive while it fetches the data from the table.
How can i improve the performance of the SQLite database so that the time taken to fetch the data from the tables is reduced?
I've put text in TextField, set Z coordinate to enable 3D, and placed object close to the screen plane. Text quality is very bad. Is there any way to force Flash draw proper vector text? Fonts are embedded, so it's not a problem.
I've been building a project that is essentially a mashup style editor. You pick from a series of clips, arrange them in order, and then can play them back. Originally it was a series of FLVs that would play one right after another, one stops, next one starts, but this wasn't seamless. So I switched to embedded FLVs inside of SWF files.
Locally this performed better, the videos were more seamless, no gaps where the video disappears because the FLV isn't ready to play, but online it brings the flash movie to a crawl. In total I have 56 video files, either FLV or SWF. There are 4 "tracks" that play simultaneously. Each track is made up of multiple clips. I'm preloading the videos so they are ready for playback when the time comes. The videos are alpha transparent.
The quality of sound when playing my flash file on the timeline in flash CS4 is excellent, however when I go to test movie the sounds quality becomes awful, like its being played in a tunnel on terrible speakers, my sound files are .wav files, am I missing a process I must do to ensure the quality of sound is carried through to the final published animation?
I understand Core Animation is Objective-C specific, and I am NOT familiar with developing AIR applications, but I was wondering if there was some how a way to trigger Core Animation through developing an AIR application? Don't AIR apps become native to the platform they're developed on?I just want to find a way to improve video playback through flash apps.
I am wanting this to improve the initial download speed of the page. I have already added a Poster Frame to video's, however it still seems to be loading the video file and just autoplaying. Is there a way to NOT load the video file until the person hits play? This is the AS3 script I used...
import fl.video.VideoEvent; myPoster.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie); function showPosterFrame(event:Event):void { myPoster.visible = true;} function hidePosterFrame(event:Event):void { myPoster.visible = false;} function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void { myVideo.play();}
