How can i easily break the shape into two pieces so that I can change them into movie clips?I tried using the selection tool combined with shift key to create selections but the selection tool only does squares so it's very frustrating to select a portion of my drawing precisely using it, i've given up
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I need to create a skewed rectangle and on rollover, have the right edge move outwards.. making the skewed rectangle wider.. while keeping the proportions.[code]...
Is it possible to use a dynamically drawn line as a mask? (graphics.lineTo...) . Is there a way to cast this as a movieClip? I tried adding it to the movieClip, but that did not work.
View 4 RepliesFlash CS5 is the first version I've used since 8 Pro, so I'm new to the IK tool and adding bones to clips/shapes. I'm experiencing problems when saving/loading files that have armatures in them. I have made several characters now with bones attached to their limbs, which are shapes (not symbols) each on their own layer. At first the animations seem to work fine, and I can export a test SWF with no trouble showing the animation as it should be.
However, returning to the FLA after saving and closing it produces some unusual effects. For example, the shapes will disappear from the stage/clip and the only way I've found to get them to reappear is to select them via the timeline or their (barely visible) pivot point, then deselect them, then undo these actions and for some reason they appear again! More worryingly, sometimes the armatures will take on shapes from different layers, meaning, for example, I end up having figures with two right arms, even though the limbs and their corresponding shapes/armatures are on completely different layers. I have not found a way to undo this, so I have to start some of the limbs from scratch, then make sure I've published/exported all the necessary files before I need to close! m experiencing problems when saving/loading files that have armatures in them. I have made several characters now with bones attached to their limbs, which are shapes (not symbols) each on their own layer. At first the animations seem to work fine, and I can export a test SWF with no trouble showing the animation as it should be.
However, returning to the FLA after saving and closing it produces some unusual effects. For example, the shapes will disappear from the stage/clip and the only way I
I was just conducting a little experiment, basically trying to come up with a stage resizing handler that would position everything on the stage with its x and y proportionate to its original position. That's when I discovered a very interesting thing.
Shapes that you draw using flash's drawing tools are treated completely differently than dynamically drawn shapes. Basically shapes you draw on the stage in the authoring tool would seem to have no x and y of their own, and also no matter how many different shapes you draw, to the compiler it's all one "child" object because it's all just one big shape.
To illustrate this difference, I created two separate files, but they both (seemingly) do essentially the same thing. In the first file, I drew a red circle shape dynamically with code, and set its x and y with code:
ActionScript Code:
var circle:Shape = new Shape();
var g:Graphics = circle.graphics;
g.beginFill(0xFF0000);
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In a second file, I manually drew a similar red circle shape, made it 100 pixels wide and tall, and positioned it at 100, 100 using the properties panel. This time, I took away the code that creates the circle dynamically and just kept the for loop:
ActionScript Code:
for(var i:int = 0; i < this.numChildren; i++) {
var item:DisplayObject = this.getChildAt(i) as DisplayObject;
trace(item); //[object Shape]
trace(item.x); //0
trace(item.y); //0
}
In this second example, no matter how many and what kinds of shapes you draw, there will only ever be one display child and the x and y is always 0,0.
I for one kind of wish there were more of a one-to-one correspondence between the Flash IDE and the code window. Like, if we can create Shapes and name them dynamically, why can't we create Shapes and name them at authoring time? Or why isn't this now the role of the good ol' Graphics symbol? It's kind of like Flash and Actionscript have outgrown the authoring environment.
This would seem to have the effect of further widening the gap between design and development. Just thought I'd throw all this out there and see what kind of comments I get.
Is there a way to break apart a character programatically? If there is no easy way (like cast Shape on TextField) could someone post the hard way of doing it?
View 3 RepliesI have a question about shapes (i mean the flash.display.Shape class). Is it possible to import Shapes directly from the library as Shapes and not as Sprites/MovieClips? Shapes are supposed to be faster than MovieClips/Sprites, right? So why is it only possible to import MCs/Sprites from the library? I understand that generally shapes could be created solely by actionscript, but in my case the shape comprises of many points and is curved - so it's quite infeasible.
Is there maybe some sort of plugin to generate code that would draw the desired shape from a drawn shape in CS4? And a last one: Are there any benchmarks out there for performance comparison between sprites/mcs/shapes? How much performance do i loose by using a sprite instead of a shape?
I have a 9 frames image of a character.In other language generally i used to make character animation by looping the array consisting of different frames and drawing each frame when pressing key.What i want to do is when i press left or right key, i want to draw each frame that makes character movement and update x coordinates of frames, and it will appear as character is moving.
View 4 RepliesDoes anyone know the regular expression to test if a single string character has both upper and lower case character?
eg. All A-Z and a-z.
i was wondering if any of you out there could tell me how it is possible to make a movieclip of a character and when the character is dragged about the screen by the curser, how do you make the characters arms and legs swing about in a realistic fashion.
View 2 RepliesI would like my character to move as if he was drunk I am unsure how to do that I am using the keyboard for his movement. I also have a character that moves at random I would like the drunk moving character to be able to catch this character and play a scene from within the drunk characters movie clip but I want this character to try and escape the idea is the drunk character gets points for how long he is able to hang on to this character
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to break a movieclip into pixels and then move each pixel independently, but am having a hard time wrapping my brain around the code.
Right now I have a MC on the stage with an image in it. I'm able to go through each pixel, copy them one at a time then add a tween like this:
Code:
function copyPixels() {
var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(300, 400, 1, 1);
var bytes:ByteArray = bmd1.getPixels(rect);
var bmd3:BitmapData = new BitmapData(1,1, true, 0xFF000000);
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But that doesn't really give the effect I want. I want the whole image visible then have one pixel at a time fly off. How do I do this? Do I copy the entire image to a ByteArray then address each element in the array?
I've setup a dynamic Text Field, embedded uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation and these special characters: Then I assign text to the Text Field like this:
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I've got a for loop running in a function. I want to break out of the entire function if a condition is met in the for loop, and obviously carry on within the function if not. I've read a little about using labels, but I'm new to actionscript and most of it's going completely over my head. Here's my code.
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i'm trying to put a line break in my xml attribute but the usual doesn't seem to work. Can anyone solve this? Cheers
<BUTTON NAME='BUTTON 1
TEST' DESCRIPTION='' MCCOLOR='0x000066' THEFILE='one.jpg'/>
How can I break line in the XML in a specific part?
I want this
DE R$ 999,99 POR 666,66
To be this.
DE R$ 999,99
POR 666,66
XML:
<price>DE R$ 999,99 POR R$ 666,66</price>
AS:
price_txt.Text = priceID;
I can not put a line break in xml.
Is it possible to break (Ctrl + B) a created textfield with AS, and have the letter instances named somehow? I need this to write a text animation.
View 11 Repliesi've read some other threads about this but i can't seem to get them to work with my script..i'm trying to fill my stage with squares to make a visual grid, using setInterval so it shows them animating across row by row. so far i have this:
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however i've tried adding in code to make it break onto the next row after duplicating 50 but can't seem to get it to work no matter what i do..
How can I break line in the XML in a specific part?[code]...
View 4 Repliesi've attached my flash file. I don't get why the path is not drawn if the movieclip is set ask mask. I would like to slowly reveal the text.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to take a string and break it into two parts. It's a url to a video on a RTMP server.So I've got to take this:
[URL] person17/1031617_person_generic_700kbps (note the removal of the ".flv" which is necessary as well).Right now I'm doing this, which seems overly complicated:
Code:
videoURL="rtmpe://emediadev.mysite.com/ffw/person17/1031617_person_generic_700kbps.flv";
videoURL=videoURL.substr(0,videoURL.length-4); //remove ".flv"
var urlArray:Array=videoURL.split("/");
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i'm using this code i got on-line, the text is being outputted through a dynamic text box, which is multi line enabled and html. Yet I just can't seem to get a single line break, i can get a double by doing a normal line break in notepad. But i need a single. And <br> doesn't seem to work.
Quote:
myLoadVars_lv = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars_lv.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
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and my text file is
Quote:
variable1= 1) Blackpool 02 Academy, 14/4/10, 19:30, 4.50 <br> Liverpool 02 academy, 25/08/11, 13:00, 5.00
I make a XML connector component parse a XML document.In a node, there is a "<br />" (return to line in HTML)
<book>
<page>
Here some text and a <br /> here ! the code s broken up here
</page>
</book>
My XML connector considere the <br /> as the beginning or the end of a node !...How to avoid this <br /> or other any HTML element when parsing some XML ?
I have content with line break. When I break the text matter it shows following error. Is there any technique so that I could use line break content matter.
Syntax error:A string literal must be terminated before the line break.
Code :
output:TextField:TextField=new TextField();
addChild(output);
outputText.text("Number of characters including
line breaks and spaces so far: ");
I have the following function but despite using the break statement, it doesn't seem to be stopping after it finds a match in the array:
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EDIT2: Ok Both problems solved since I just found out how to randomize the array It took me three days to solve these problems lol At the third day I posted here but I got with the solutions by myself EDIT: lol ok Silly me.. I've just found out how to do that... Just adding a n in the answer texts solves this issue... I feel silly now =P ... However, I got another doubt, since I need to randomize the questions... Let's say I'd need 20 questions in total (with its respective answers). From those, I only need 10 to show... Ok, no problem here. The thing is, from those 20 possible questions, I need any 10 to appear randomly. I still can't found out how to randomize the items inside an array.
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Here is a snippet of code that will be useful for breaking text apart into individual textFields for each line.
Code:
//create a textField to break apart
var breakTF:TextField = new TextField();
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Why would we use a break in the last condition? Wouldn't it already get out of the condition at the last one possible? For example:
ActionScript Code:
var n:int = 3;
switch (n) {
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I've seen numerous examples using a break in the last condition in several languages (namely AS, JS and PHP among the ones I remember) and always thought why, but couldn't find an answer. I don't see any difference between using it and not using it, although I might be missing something.
Using [URL] How do I create line breaks with the XML file? E.g.: I may have paragraphs or want to layout the text with gaps inbetween and the text startin on a new line of the Dynamic Text box.. I'm not sure if this is easy or not as I'm new to the XML side of Flash.
View 1 Repliesbrowsing [URL]... I would like to implement a version of this 3-D rotating menu with several changes. I would like to change the orientation to vertical and once one of the numbered instances has been triggered I would like the instance to revert to its inactive state. I am a novice to actionscript but in this case I find the code even more confusing. I cannot see an instance on the stage that would trigger the events and the math functions of actionscript is still very much a dark art to me.
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