I have a movieclip on its own layer, with the intention of using it as a background to all the other layers. It is simply a black square with the alpha at 60%. There must be a relatively simple way of telling this movieclip to either tile or stretch to cover the whole of any page it loads into.
View 1 RepliesI have a white stage and my background is non-solid/non-uniform. My flash project will be my whole website, therefore when a browser window is larger than my stage, the stage color (white) shows in the background. Its basically a white border on the left and right. I wish I could continue my background image to cover the whole browser window. What I want to do is: if needed (if the browser window is larger than my stage) continue my background on both sides by taking a copy of my background image, flipping it horizontally, and placing it on both sides of my background. If you can imagine it, this will give a more uniform continuation of the background. I'm guessing actionscript would be the best bet?
View 2 RepliesThe flash player has a little window that can be opened (similar to flash->settings) telling the user to update the player if the movie loaded is for a more recent version. How can you instruct the player to do this? ITV have managed it with their catchup-tv player.
Context: I am allowing users to copy flash into their PowerPoint presentations and would like to tell them to update their flash player if necessary. I am not embedding a web page in the power point so no JS can be run for checking etc (because I know this is not necessary).
I have this script on the first frame of my movieclip:
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, adjustLayout);
adjustLayout();[code]....
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As you can see, it basically just controls the position of the elements of the site (logo and gallery), and makes the background (square) stretch to fill the browser window. what's the equivalent code in AS2?
I'm moving a movie clip using actionscript (as2) instead of a motion tween (because I want to save file size) and I have this code on the first frame of the main timeline ("stone" is the movieclip instance name) and it tells the movie clip how many pixels to move in the x direction:
Code:
xTargetstone = 600;
I have this code on the movie clip itself ("stone" is the mc instance name) to handle the actual moving of the movie clip:
Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
xstone = getProperty(_root.stone, _x);
movestone = _root.xTargetstone - xstone;
setProperty(_root.stone, _x, xstone + (movestone/5));
}
The movement works fine, but the issue is that it starts out fast and then slows down over time (even though that amount of time is small). The result is that the movie clip seems to wiggle and vibrate before it stops. Is there a way for me to change the code so that it doesn't wiggle and vibrate? perhaps something with the math I'm just not totally understanding? I would like a nice consistent motion from start to finish, while being able to set the time it takes to move etc.
I am making a game and need to know how much a particular mc is covered by other mc's placed randomly on the screen. Is there a way to tell how much is left seen of the mc as it's slowly being covered by other mc's?
View 3 Repliesgot a big fixed dimension boxe that have 9 small child boxes positionned like this:
1 2 3
The big boxe is 300x300 and each small boxe are 100x100.
What I need to do is that, if I stretch boxe #1 to 150x150, boxes #2 should become 50x100 so the big boxe remain the same..... hope I'm clear enough.
So, how can I do this dynamically hasving in mind that the big boxe can contain unlimited numbers of small boxe?
I just need a startnig point to figured out how to acheive this in AS3,
I'm trying to keep my code succinct by naming my section labels the same as the buttons that navigate to them. I've also put the contents of each page in a movie clip of the same name with suffix _mc. The following code successfully traces the name of the movie clip, but how do I tell the compiler that I want to reference the movie clip whose name is held in the string, rather than the string itself.
function clickSection(evtObj:MouseEvent):void {
currentContent = currentLabel + "_mc";
trace(currentContent);
currentContent.alpha = 0;
gotoAndStop(evtObj.target.name);
mainNav_mc.gotoAndStop(evtObj.target.name);
url...Now click at "add image" and load any image.. The image will be shown on the shirt and the blue border shown around the image comes by-default or is it a movieclip? Secondly the image itself is a movieclip or external swf? And i know that movieclip has rotate and scaleX,Y properties that can work here but it seems that these properties are not used?? the script is rotating and stretching it due to container default properties.
View 1 Repliesi have a movieclip within a movieclip within a movieclip... i want to simply tell flash to play that movieclip once i click on it.. however, i get an error saying "1120: Access of undefined property tl_character" when i try to publish the file..[code]i know there might be a solution by using a custom class for "police1" but i'd like to know how i could play that movieclip using a function thats written on the main timeline..
View 2 RepliesI want to have a background movieclip of my SWF stretch to fill the browser window. I know there is a way to detect the size of the browser window in ActionScript, but I am unsure how to tell a movieclip to use those dimensions. I don't need to worry about changing the proportion of the movie clip as it is just a solid color
View 1 Replieshow to use actionscript to stretch a movieclip indefinately either horizontally or vertically? I have a swf file which I've set to resize when the browser window resizes and I want to have a background movie clip that 'stretches' or 'repeats' itself to accomodate the browser window at whatever width it is.
View 1 RepliesI'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;
[code]....
I am wokring on a movie and I want to tile a movieclip instead of a bitmap in AS3. I have figured out masking and the bitmap tiling in AS3, but am still encountering trouble finding a good solution for simply tiling an MC symbol across a set width and height in AS3.
View 7 RepliesI have a MovieClip I named mcGrid and I can't figure how to tile it as a background in my flash project. Is this even possible? If so can someone send me in the right direction.
View 2 RepliesIf possible I would like to tile an image or MovieClip along a line using the standard moveTo() and lineTo() methods, The lines are directional so need to show something similar to >>>>>>>>>>>>>. The lines can be at any angle, so using drawRect() with beginBitmapFill() isn't an option. Also if possible I would like to have the lines animated. Is this possible or will it require a custom class?
View 1 RepliesI'm loading an external logo (.swf) into a movieclip. The user would actually select what logo to load from a list. After loading the selected logo into the empty movieclip, the user can than apply certain changes such as changing the logo colors, the size, the rotation and the position of the logo over a certain product.What I want to do is to expand on this by allowing the user to select whether they want the logo tiled across the product
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to tile the background of a movieClip with a set of small squares, called grid. However, the script only attaches on instance of grid. I don't understand why this is. Below is my code exert:
[Code]...
I want to put a movieclip with tools at the bottom of the window in the center with tools icons, it should have fixed posiiton so that user can scroll the main window having it always on prompt. I think I need the browser window size properties to do somenthing as this. Is there a way to get them?
View 0 RepliesBoth F4V and MP4 files have "video/mp4" as their MIME type. However, I'm working on a Wordpress blog where I want uploaded F4V files to be shown using a Flash video Player, and MP4 files using the HTML5 [video] tag. Obviously, I can't tell them apart using their MIME type. Is there any other way I could do it, aside of the file extension?
View 1 RepliesI have this world map (.swf file) that I want on my home page(black background). It's up and working fine, but it flashes a white blank map for about 2 seconds when it first loads and then it goes away. It looks very ugly on a black background and gives off a sense of "cheapness". Anyway, it has got to go. I purchased the world map and they don't offer access to the original .fla file. So basically I want to know how to cover up the first few seconds of the video with black and then have the black cover disappear and let the flash file do its thing.
View 1 Repliescan you do this in actionscript i need it to cover a 800 x 600 scene and if it could have a rollover of light grey very faint
View 2 RepliesIn a game, how would I go about keeping records if a user is online or offline? I know when they logged in it could set something in the database that would indicate that they are online, however how would I know when they logout in any other method than pressing the "logout" button? Say if they just closed their browser..
View 2 Repliestell if a user is online, once they log in I set something in the database that say's they're online, when they log out change that. And set something up so they will d/c after 5-10 minutes of inactivity in case they log off any other way besides hitting "log out" However, I'm not exactly sure how I would do this, because the only way that I can think of wouldn't work, because say if they just closed their browser, then it would stop running my application, and thus stop running my check to check for inactivity..
how I can make sure if a user is already logged in accurately?
Is there a way to tell a movie clip to way a number of frames from a specific action being executed (say a button being pushed) before it starts playing?
View 2 RepliesSomething that is similar to the Cover Flow in iTunes.
I can use Adobe Flash, Flex, or pure html/javascript.
HOWEVER, I need a pointed to production ready code. I've looked at plenty of examples in both Flex and HTML that aren't ready for prime time. No demo code needed.
Here's my requirements for production ready:
1) Memory leaks are under control.
2) Works like a river with larger data sets, paging in sub-sets in some set number. The component/code needs to be able to handle 100+ items to flow through, preferable up to 500.
i know this can be done by changing wmode to "transparent or opaque". But is there any way to show the div over the flash file using wmode "gpu" ..
View 1 RepliesI want to show a full 24 hours along the datetimeaxis wherever the values fed into it happen to fall. I thought that setting the minimum and maximum of a datetime axis on the chart would have that effect.
so I have private function loadDayComplete():void{ //called when data is reloaded. also includes reassigning the dataprovider of the chart.
[Code]...
When I load up the function though it doesn't plot any points when the min and max are set. If I take out the minimum and maximum they show up fine! I double checked in debug mode that the minChartDate and maxChartDate are what they should be.. but maybe I'm misunderstanding how minimum and maximum are supposed to function... I also tried widening the min/max to include several days and still no luck. I also tried assigning the min/max when the chart data changes like so:
I have created a Carousel with CoverFlow where images are imported from Flickr. Now I would like to import images from an XML file so I replaced the relevant code with code from a past project that consisted of designing a Papervision 3D Carousel. The problem is that my CoverFlow Carousel consisted of a Cover with Bitmap images while my Papervision 3D Carousel consists of a plane that loads/saves images through BitmapFileMaterial. Flash does not seem to accept that I insert a BitmapFileMaterial into a cover.
It gives me error 1067 (translated from German to): Implicit change of a value of type org.papervision3d.materials:BitmapFileMaterial into an unrelated type flash.displayisplayObject. In my code below I commented next to the function that causes the problem.
PHP Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.display.Loader;
[Code].....
I'm having a bit of a problem with - what I assume to be - a masking issue. Apparently I can't post images. This may hinder my ability to explain the problem. Oh well, I'll try to make do with just words.
I have four "ground" sprites, each one shorter than the last, that are layered on top of each other. References to them are stored in an array groundLayers[], for easy reference. When a new [not ground] sprite is created - it's given a number which tells it which layers it is between. Herein lies the problem: how do I conceal the new sprites properly?
Without doing anything, they wind up all in front, not layered. My initial solution was to just change their indexes with setChildIndex(), but this proved to be disastrous when I tried to add mouseEvents to the objects. I tried to set the objects' masks to these objects, but that didn't seem to work. I also created separate layers which just contained the "sky" parts of each ground layer and setting the object masks to shoe sky layers, but that didn't work, either.