I'm currently working on a site that is a mixture of Dreamweaver and Flash. I have some Flash movies that are in DIVs in DW. I need to have some links in those Flash movies that can control visibility of other DIVs. In other words I need a link in the Flash movie to work like DWs Show-Hide Elements feature. Is this even possible? I'm using DW CS3 but Flash MX 2004.
View 2 RepliesI have created a timeline with visibility button against each column. The timeline.swf is loaded into two empty movieclips to create a two-screen operation. Everything works fine except, I cannot for the life of me get the visibility button on the first swf to affect the visibility for the column on the second swf.
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I have been learning flash and Actionscript 3 for the past couple of weeks and i have progressed nicely with making a site. I have some images being loaded into a MovieClip which are dynamically loaded from on XML. I can set it up so clicking left/right arrows navigates through the pictures and loops or i can set it so it automatically plays without user intervention.
What i would like to do though is have the images loaded into the MC via XML but have it so that when the Actionscript analyses the XML code it creates a small circle on the stage for each image (child) and then each circle is clickable to that particular image. I know this sounds confusing so i am i just seeing if it's possible and if so how. I can easily create frames and links for the circles but i would rather it be done through AS3 if possible so that it is easily updatable.
The images are uploaded with an html form onto the server and their path names are loaded into a .txt file for my flash AS to use.The problem I am having seems to be either server lag or browser issues (catching perhaps?).I manage my content via the CMS and once returning to the flash movie it is either old content, half working or just doesn't work, period.What is interesting is that once I locate the text file and view/refresh it manually, it works 100% fine. Now, it's obviously not a very useful set up if I have to manually refresh my txt files so is there a way, (php?, Java? etc?) to refresh these files?
View 5 RepliesI'm trying for two days to make a animation and it needs AS but I'm not good at all with it. I'm a graphist ( french, sorry for the grammatical mistakes in the post ) and I just don't get I want to make an infinite panoramic controlled by mouse cursor position ( left et right ), with active zone in it.
I've made my image for that, and tried several code but nothing work.
I am having trouble getting a dynamic text box to be controlled by a checkbox. Is this even possible? Here is the Actionscript that does not work:
on(click){
if(this.selected)==true){
this.selected = true;
cyclicFeedback_txt.text = "text here";
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I have another problem that I might as well ask too. I would like to have users check the box, and not be able to see what is in the dynamic text box until they click a button called "submit".
Say i have 3 textboxes... can i have all 3 textboxes being controlled by one flash mx scroll bar component.
View 4 RepliesI'm using external XML to set flash vars. Alpha works, but not Visibility. How do I get my swf to respond to visibility?
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SESSION>
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Anyone know of a place with a sample .fla on how make a browser window shake controlled by Flash.I have tried a few tutorials from other sites and have had no luck. I am wanting to shake the window's x and y when a movie clip reaches a frame in the timeline.
View 5 RepliesI have a situation where my main SWF file loads many external SWF files. However, those external SWF files are just sitting in the public folder of the web server. Is it possible to restrict the SWF visibility to only my main SWF file (the one that loads the external SWFs). In the current state, any user who knows where to look can just type in the URL and get to the SWFs, not to mention rogue bots that don't follow robots.txt.The reason for this is very simple. Users user a username/password to log into the main Flash application and the main Flash application in turn loads the SWF files and ONLY then they are available to the user. Also, depending on who the logged in user is, some SWF files are restricted and not loaded.
View 2 RepliesI am working on a application in Flash AS3 with MDM ZINC 4 and I have to dynamically change the window property to be from a standard window in a transparent style with no border, and from there in a masked style window.
View 1 RepliesOr is it possible in Flash? web applications - call a specific client side program in player controlled?
View 2 RepliesWhen I have a movie clip on stage and assign the peoperty like:mv_mc._visible = true /falset either shows or hide the movie clip. What I have on the stage is just a Graphical Element and Visibility is just an property.
View 1 RepliesI have a panel as a sprite containing a gallery of images (only 8 images at the moment!). Each image has mouse rollOver and mouse click event listeners, which work fine initially. Problem is, when I hide the panel using visible = false, then show it again, the mouseEvents aren't firing on the gallery iimages.
Strangely, the same thing happens if instead of using visible true/false, I move the panel off stage and then back on again.
I'm loading an external SWF (pre-made by an other department of the company I work for) using flash.display.Loader. I then traverse the display list, register all objects and listen for added/removed events to handle future changes to the list.
var obj:DisplayObjectContainer = loadEvent.currentTarget.content as DisplayObjectContainer;
var count:Number = obj.numChildren;
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Is there a way I can listen for changes to the .visible property? Or any other property (that doesn't fire a built-in event) for that matter?
is there anyway when i use scroll bar component in flash... how do i make it so that i can be controlled by your mouse scroll button.. thing.... ( if its possible )
View 3 Repliesi have attached a flash file.the problems are
1) i have palced 2 flash file on my web page.if i stop the sound on this file then the sound on another flash movie placed on my web page also stops.i want both the files to be independent to each other and controlled separately
2)if i click on play it shows loading.even after it loads the file it doesnt change itz status. if i click again on play then itz status changes to play.my codes for flash.....
soundUrl = "test.mp3";
// create sound object, assign properties and events
function createSoundObject(){[code].....
I have a _mc made visible by, instruct_mc._visible = true;Once the _mc is visible I would like to have a button 'within instruct_mc' that will make, 'instruct_mc._visible = false; again' is this possible? If so what would the AS2 command have to be because the button dose nothing until I take it out of ' instruct_mc
View 4 RepliesI have a project in Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3.
I have a movieclip symbol (referred herein as "background" with scripts on various keyframes inside of that symbol. I need to hide or show another symbol (referred herein as "object") sharing a stage with "background".
To put it another way, I need "object" to be hidden when "background" reaches a certain internal keyframe. However, as "object" and "background" are both children of the same stage, how do I do this?
i was wondering if theres a way to link the amount and direction of an objects rotation to the mouse position. I want it so if you move the mouse far to the left the object spins fast anticlockwise but if you move it to the center it stops.
View 2 RepliesI'm fairly new at flash development but here goes: is it possible to use xml to drive the layout of a flash website in CS3? Perhaps using ActionScript 2 or 3? In particular, I'm looking to be able to for e.g. create a news ticker where changing the XML allows you to 1) change the text and appearance, 2) framerate can be controlled, 3) interpolations between key frames can be specified (e.g. linear interpolation)
View 1 RepliesI have one MC with the following AS:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (rewind == true) {
prevFrame();
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but no such luck with the second MC. Even if I apply the same AS code to the second MC, it still won't work.
I know that the functionality of the addChildToStage and deleteChildFromStage functions works fine because I have tested it here:URL...the nav adds a new instance of "player" to the stage and the big red button deletes "player".I want to start the movie with a mc_CopyBlank on stage and then have the nav issue play(); command to the movie clip held in "player" then have the current frame of that clip trigger the addChildToStage and DeleteChildFromStage functions that I've written here.[code]
View 3 RepliesIs there a way to create an automatic slideshow gallery that is controlled by the thumb position on a scrollbar?
I'm a FLash AS3 noob and I'd like to place an article or story inside a scrollpanel. At certain points of the story, I'd like the thumb (on the scrollbar) to trigger an event that transitions to a new image inside the slideshow gallery.
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how to stop an _xmouse, _ymouse action? I built a carousel with some movieclips controlled by a _xmouse action but I would like to stop their movement when the mouse is over them, and also activated it again when the mouse rolls out.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to get to grips with actionScript (a beginner) and have created a SWF that calls in a FLV file. From the SWF I control the FLV wit a Play, Pause and Mute button. This works great. BUT now the client wants just a compiled SWF file only. So from this I take it they just want a single SWF file that acts like a video player but in truth is a Flash movie with a timeline effectively embedding the original FLV.
I have tried writing my own code and scouring sites and tutorials but to no avail. What I have done so far is to import my FLV to a Movie symbol in the library. I have put a stop() command on the actionscript for that symbol. I have created three buttons, which at present do nothing. I placed the symbol on the main timeline and exported and it basically plays the video with no control. Now I hit a wall. What I want seems simple in thought but is baffling me in practice.
Now I have the Movie symbol (video) playing I want some control again via the three buttons mentioned earlier. I really want the movie to auto play when loaded and the play button to resume the playhead if the movie is paused. As you will see from the code although I have set up a variable for the mute button I have no idea what I should code to do that or indeed if it is possible. I am on my umpteenth itteration trying to get code to work but I really need help. I don't even know if what I am asking is possible.
Code: Select allfunction onMetaData(data:Object):void
{
play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);
pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, pauseMovie);
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I have several buttons I need to turn on and off (visibility and alpha) but the function I have written that determines if a given button should be turned off works based on a few variables. I need to be able to control which button is turning on and off with these variables.
I have tried this ("btn" + i)._visible or alpha but does not work. how I can accomplish this?
I am looking for a very easy way to make a video player which just controled by the scrubbar. I have tried the Componet Seek Bar but that doesn't enable the viewer to scrub the bar. I am wanting to use the Scrubbar Player to view 3d models. At Zbrush they have a Scrubbar player [URL] once there click on one of the pics to view scrubbar turntable viewer. Would love to be able to show my models in this fashion.
View 2 RepliesI have created this spinning diamond flash with a dynamic frame rate controlled by the mouse cursor. it spins from the right to the left if the cursor is at the left side of the diamond and vice verse, and also the further away the cursor is from the middle of the diamond, the faster it spins.
it works perfectly awesome in Firefox and by itself, but when it's in IE, the cursor loses control of frame rate, so it spins at the highest frame rate regardless where the cursor is at. I used nextFrame(), prevFrame() to do the winding and rewinding job, and frame rate gets changed in ENTER_FRAME. I've heard some say that IE ignores frame rate per frame? is it true? if so, how do I fix it?
1) I wan't to do a fullscreen videoplayer that listens to the keyboard and that plays a videoclip on demand. I will not use menues or onscreen buttons.
It should work almost like a Video DJ application or a audio sampleplayer but for video. So; when I press any one of maybe ten keys the corresponding videoclip should be played.
I intend to run this locally using Flash player hence not on a browser or on internet so I'm not really limited by bandwidth. I'm on CS4 Flash Professional.
2) Is there a IDE, a runtime development enviroment, for Flash aimed for AS? Despite working on a daily basis with digital media for many years incl. coding in php, javascipt, asp.net, etc I still have a tough time understanding Flash and AS3.
3) A part from traditional keyboard input is there a way for Flash and/or Flashplayer to listen to an non-standard USB input, say a touchpad, joystick etc?