I started out with Swish, then I moved on to Flash8. I have quickly realized that it's a lot more difficult to achieve animation. Probably due to my lack of education with actionscript 2.0 and Flash8. Are there simple shortcuts to being able to do something as simple as making a photo spin around and explode? I haven't explored Flash8 much, but it doesn't seem as easy as Swish was. Of course, Swish seems obsolete compared to more advanced flash programs.
I'm developing an AS 3.0 wrapper to add some extra stuff that has to load some old and plain frame to frame SwishMax 3 animations and then be able to stop them,
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The animation load works as expected but the movie.stop() doesn't. What is wrong?
im trying to do is have a button that shows an animation (created by a duplicateMovieClip function) with onRollOver and stops the animation with onRollOut. It works when i roll over and it stops when i roll out, but then it continues in a loop up to the point where i rolled out (instead of cutting off completely as i would like). Id be extremely grateful if you could tell me where im going wrong.
I am trying to make an animation in which different layers (=images) come into the stage, then stay in place and other layers move in and stay as well. I have done 2 of the layers so far, converted them into movie clips, tweened them etc. When I run the cursor along the timeline, I see the desired result on the stage, ie everything comes in at the right time and stays in place. However, when I export it to view the film, only the first layer comes in, moves into place and stays there, and then nothing happens, ie the second layer never comes in.
I've tried everything I can think of, moving the layers around etc, and have deleted and redone the whole thing many times in an attempt to fix this, but I simply don't know what is wrong.
When my website loads I would like some objects to come up from the bottom of the screen, no matter what size the screen is.Does anyone know how to do this?
I have an animation script for particles that was created in Flash 6. I'm trying to recreate it in my flash document that is setup as Flash 8. I couldn't get the animation to play and then I figured out that if I go back to this original Flash 6 document and change it to Flash 8, it won't play in that document either. I'm really new to Flash and scripting in general. Is there a solution that preferably involves changing the Flash 6 particles effect document so that I can recreate it in my Flash 8 document and have it animate?
How would i make a button to start an animation, and only do it once?(Also, make the button change when finished? like a cellar closed, then opened :/) (AS2)
I've got a flash animation attached which I added a layer to and follow the post at [URL] to try and make it go to a url when the layer is clicked.
You can see the animation at [URL] but when it is clicked on, instead of going to the site I specify [URL] it goes to [URL]
I'm nearly at the end of my tether here - have tried it in flash cs3 trial with a number of tutorials online,. and I also just bought Koolmoves, tried it as well but it does exactly the same this. I've set Flash 8 export and network access in publish options
Basically I want to have something pop-up, and stay up on when the mouse moves to a side of the swf, but it re-animates the pop-up motion when the mouse is moved even after it is on one side. Here is the script I wrote for it: (left_motion is the mc that has the animation.)
onMouseMove = function() { if (_xmouse <= 300) { left_motion.gotoAndPlay("up"); trace("mouse is on the left");
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So what I'm wondering is, how do I have the pop-up animation happen only when the mouse has changed from the right to the left, and vice versa (sides determined by the x position of the mouse).
Edit: I'm Using CS4. I'm new to AS, but do have background in programming language. I can read and understand. So here is my problem. I'm working on TemplateMonster #16330. So I just want to add another page to the gallery section, and 3 is the default. Basically, button "3" has two version with slightly different code.
The last I have been using Flash was around 4 years ago and I have forgotten quite a bit. I remember I used SWISH Lite to create a typing effect (as a blinking cursor is typing a line of text one by one) and later i just could take this generator animation of my text and add it to my Macromedia Flash.I have installed the new SwishMax Trial, but I really don't recognize where I have to go in order to get this text effect generator running.
i have found a website before with a good parsing of swish's math.approach to flash but i cant find it now.does anyone know how to emulate swish's math.approach in flash, or any website with an explanation?
I am am not a developer but have bought a template which I am modifying to suit my needs. I have made most of the modifications but and stuck on how to change the animation for the image gallery. When I move from one picture to the next the animation effect is something like a bubble burst. This is too flamboyant for me. I would like to change it to something more sleek but have no clue where to start.
I just started learning ActionScript 3.0/Flash CS5 a day or two ago, and I am still very early on with it, however I do have some other web development experience with PHP and some Javascript. I am learning from a book that was written for Flash CS4, but it did not seem like a whole bunch was different. I am now getting "Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at Main()"
I did several searches for the problem here, but most of the threads referencing this error are far more complex than what I am trying to do, involving multiple, long class files and the timeline. I have been unable to solve my problem after reading through various threads for hours now. Most of the fixes had to do with the timeline, however, all of my GUI is in one frame with no animation.
Its been many years since I've used flash and I was just wondering what the easiest way to do collision detection was now. I know that there was some hit test bounding box stuff present earlier but I don't know the capabilities of flash cs4 and the advances that have been made. Google searches have yielded things like complex pixel-perfect collision detection but not a lot seems to have been written about CS4 yet.
Is there an easy way to set a number in a function call?In C you'd just pass the pointer, but since AS3.0 has no pointers, I'm not sure what to do.I suppose I could create a class that wraps the Number to an Object, forcing AS to use the pointer, but that seems a bit clunky.
What's the easiest way to move one item from one spot to another, within the same array?Say I have an array consisting of four movieclips array = [rock, scissors, paper, bomb].Now i want to move the paper from its position as nr 3 (or array[2], and put it in the first positon array[0]. [code]but that just gave me a bunch of unwanted errors then i tried just the unshift(scissors), but now the array contains two instances of the scissors. What to do? Is there really no array.takeOutAndPutBackInFront(scissors)-ish method?
I want to make a game using physics in Flash, so I stumbled upon Box2D, but i find that hard to use [the basics are simple, but when i see the scripts,so i was wondering if there are easy to use flash physics engines?
I've recently created a game in which the logic and programming all runs perfectly, however the graphics are lackluster. I'm currently having a hard time managing the depth of movieclips on the screen.Basically the game is tile based and each frame of the movieclip holds a different type of tile. All the tiles are 50x50 with the exception of one type of tile which is 60x60 and therein needs to overlap the tiles around it which are 50x50.In AS2 I could of set the depth manually, however I'm told (as is this is my first time dealing with depth in AS3) that I cannot do this anymore. Is there any suggestions on how I can make sure that a tile of one type is automatically set beneath tiles of another type - I've thought about simply coding a function to check this but it somehow seems inefficient (considering larger maps will have a lot of tiles, meaning hundreds of movieclips attached to the stage, each movieclip with multiple frames).
is there an easy way to set the buttonMode to true to all my buttons in my application? I thought to create a custom component which extends the s:Button and set there buttonMode to true but I wonder if there is an easier way like with CSS.
I try to save some variable in a game with local Shared Object, that basically should go like this: after every completed level it sets the variable to that number of level (if not higher already); then i have a MC that reacts to that variable (set its frame number to the number in the variable) so you can select already completet levels.
Now i thought, this would be easier, and tried [not allowed link to some tech note from Adobe on local SO], but didn't worked so far.
I am trying to figure out a way to calculate time diffrence between now and a set time
var settime:Number = 2:35am
and
now would be getDate();
I tried something rediculus, but it is not working when i input a date below the 24h , is there a class out there that can simply this stuff or is there something on the internet that could tell me the diffrence between to diffrent time.
My Attempt
var date:Date = new Date();
//Timer set at what time would i like to call the functionvar lastcallH:Number = 22;var lastcallM:Number = 50;var lastcallS:Number = 0;[code].....
I cant get the flash to work on my website. I have also tried using countless versions of the 'AC_RunActiveContent.js' wrapper with this, but it just ends up as a white block, whereas if I just use the following code I get a black block. So I am certain that the path is correct because if I change the src path, it becomes a white block.
I am working on a Results page for my game as well as upgrade page and looking for an easy way to do many textfields. I have a format for my text that takes care of font, colour, and size, but looking for an easy way to do the width and height of textfields to increase all at the same time.I have been informed about a "with" keyword that may work but do not understand how to implement this within my program and essentially want to shorten my results class if possible.
How do I do a scale movement using the easy effect? I study a lot of examples, using speed/5, but... didn't work. I just saw a site that tells what do I want to do: [URL]
I feel dumb for asking this....but what is the best way to make an object rotate (counter-clockwise in this case) indefinitely? ENTER_FRAME listener that offsets the angle by a certain number of degrees per frame? more economical way?
I'm getting info from an XML file for an image viewer, and I'd like to make 10 little previews. I've got all solved, even this, but I'd like to know why this code does not work
for (i=0; i<inc; i++) loadPvw.call("a"+i, wpPvw-i); it gets into the function but seems that doesn't gets the path right i know I can do this
