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Last night i found myself tracing a trace statement through a function by mistake but it lead to an interesting error! if you try to run this -
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Obviously its not much of a problem since you'd never have to use it, but im interested in why it happens anyway Anyone have any insight into this?
I downloaded an image from the web and brought it into Flash. I then created a new layer and began tracing over the image with the pen tool. When all was said and done, I went to use the paint bucket tool to fill in the sections of the paths I created. My only problem is I can't fill the image. I click and click and no color is being filled. I tried converting the selection to both movie clip and graphic symbols and I still can't fill it in.
View 6 RepliesUse the flash CS4 tool's on a bitmap image after tracing the bitmap image and applying my settings?
View 10 RepliesIn the root of my application I have 5 named "slots" (layers) that I want content to appear in. Should I be using Canvas, Group or something else for each of these slots? I don't need any kind of automatic layout inside these slots.
View 2 RepliesWe are converting a Flex application to use some REST APIs.
When adding the mx.rpc.http.HTTPService class to the code, the SWF binary output grew from 175KB to 260KB. This is an unacceptable hit.
Is there any better way to do lightweight REST calls from a Flex app? Are we better off using an external interface JS just to make the calls from there?
I'm looking to be able to run some actionscript 3 in the background to handle some audio and build a javascript front-end. I heard that you can simply compile actionscript 3 and run it using the flex framework
View 2 RepliesI would like to change the parameters of an object, or values like width and height, via javascript but I need a very lightweight method. In the end some of the thing that I want to change would be width, height and a parameters src value. So far I'm having no luck of getting it by id $('#test').attr('src','test.html') or the javascript method of getElementById().
What is the best - lightweight - method to do this?
An object being like this:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="500" data="http://www.thisembed.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
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I found that .fla files do not save in Flash CS4 when the Deco tool or Spray Brush tool is selected. Is this a bug? Or is there a workaround to this issue.
View 3 RepliesWorking with senocular Transform Tool - How to remove/disable tool for objects Im new to AS3, and i have to use it for my current project. I have used the AS2 Transform tool extensively, but needless to say, the AS3 version works entirely differently.
The way i understand it, the tool applies to and every Sprite , movieclip on stage
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I am having issues with a global array. I have an actionscript file called MyGlobal.as at the same level as my main FLA:
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I am able to trace that first element while trace is called within the function... but if I try to trace that first element outside of the function it is "undefined". Do I need to return the array at the end of the function? I tried that but I cant seem to get it working correctly.
I've been playing with prototype a bit and I've noticed that either it isn't as static as it should be or that some functions are protected from altering, or that in some cases the prototype actually extends a function. For example, I was trying to modifiy the global trace function to output the current time of a trace action, something like this :
Code:trace("lulu"); // output 12:48:17.286 lulu I DID achieve something close to it, but it seems that I haven't actually modified the global trace function, but rather it's "_root" counterpart,
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ive got a loaded xml list for an mp3 player. from playing track1, when i select track 2, it traces "track1" but then after a second click it traces "track2" and stays on that. the actually music for track2 does load on the first click though, but not the trace. anyone know why on the first click it would still trace the previous track? here is the code for that function...
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take a look at the results of these traces:
trace(imgGal); //traces "1"
trace(itemClip1._y); //traces "32"
trace(itemClip[imgGal]._y); //traces "undefined"
why does the last trace not trace "32" like the second trace? I want to insert the variable "imgGal" onto the end of the mc "itemClip", how can I do this?
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var dane:Array = new Array();
dane_xml = new XML();
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and this last trace gives me undefined while trace(temp) gives me what I want
im making a bone animating system in flash but then i want to give it a more vital animation by manipulating its z y x position how is it possible using the 3d tool?im doing everything needed but when i get to that point nothing seems to work,i dont get 3d tool options.
View 2 RepliesI want to create a line tool exactly like flash line tool. But the code that I am using shows the line when we release the mouse button. How can I show the lines while it is drawing
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("drawing_mc",this.getNextHighestDepth());
drawing_mc.lineStyle(1,100);
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i'm trying to create a function where when i pass a variable to it it displays both the var and the value...like:
sex = "yes please";
checker = function(var){
trace([var] +"=" + var);
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I am interested in making an animation that would be the equivalent to watching somebody write with a pen. The line tip would start moving and the path that that tip traces would stay on the screen.
View 1 RepliesI have a document class and a subclass. In the subclass I have a trace. I've done this dozens of times before.I've checked everything and I'm stumped. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not running a trace.
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I am creating some MovieClips like so:
var AClip:A = new A();
var A2Clip:A2 = new A2();
var A3Clip:A3 = new A3();
I then put the above into an array and am trying to trace out thier "name".
for(var i:int=0;i<theArray.length;i++){
trace(theArray[i].name);
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What I want to accomplish is the trace is tracing out what I "initialized" them to
AClip
A2Clip
A3Clip
Is there anyway to reference the name of the current open fla and return it as a string?
View 9 RepliesI feel a little silly for posting this because it seems like an easy answer and I'm probably overlooking a careless mistake.But I'm trying to push some XML values into an array by looping through them and then trace them out to see the answer and it's not working.[code]
View 5 RepliesI have a mc with a set of images with fadein fadeout animation. there are two sets namely SetA and SetB with there respective buttons buttonA and ButtonB. Now the mc has two labels corresponding the buttons, when the label is A it should reduce the alpha for ButtonA to 35and vice versa. But the main problem is while tracing the timeline the currentframe remains 1 and does not go any further, so it plays the animation but does not reach the labelB for ButtonB. Is there any way we can trace the timeline keyframes in the mc? Here is the sample code.
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I am working with a set of external XML data, and putting it into arrays. I have set up images and text on a page using XML data, which, when clicked on, will populate a popup window with XML data from the same index. For some reason, when I trace the index of the array, it comes up as -1.
stop();
itemNameTops1_txt.text = nme_array[0];
itemPriceTops1_txt.text = price_array[0];
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Why does this not work? Is there somthing about tracing multiple pieces of information in the same trace statement in AS3?
I have a masked movieclip which contains nothing but static text inserted from the IDE (not programatically).
In the IDE it states this movieclips height to be 332.25, however when I trace the movieclips _height property it returns 327.3.
This is causing my scrollbar code to mess up as it is not scrolling down far enough. It is also not a one off thing, every block of text I make in the IDE exhibits this behaviour.
I am having a problem parsing xml data, I know how to get it into as3, and that is working pretty well after following a brilliant tutorial on kirupa:[URL] But I am having a problem tracing the data that I want. Seemingly it is connecting to the database and is working in that sense but when I try to trace data I am getting a couple problems. The first is that I need to somehow specify a value of a single item to get the rest of the data. Here is the xml:
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ActionScript Code:
var goBackward:Boolean=false;// this variable will determine which way to go in bar.
function rotateBar(toPoint) {
if (toPoint != bar._currentframe) {// checks that the frame number submitted does not equal the current frame in bar (otherwise does nothing)
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Note 1: This FOR statement say that i = the frame number required, that i is greater that the frame number required, and that for each iteration of the FOR statement, i decreases by one. then the nextline says for Bar to go to the previous frame. when the frame number in Bar is equal to the number we gave it for i, the loop stops.Note 2: This FOR statement is the opposite. it says, for every time the current frame in bar is measured, proceed one frame in bar at a time, until it does equal the frame number supplied.When the buttons are pressed it rotates to the correct position, but it doesn't play the frames in between.
Is it possible to trace the number of sub-variables for an object. I make a new Object ("certain Object1").and I create a bunch of sub values for it:[code]Is there any way to trace how many subvars are assigned to certainObject1?(3 in this case)
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