im making a Flash Project using adobe flash cs3 using action script 2, my problem is when i go to test moive flash closes straight away, when i click on certain scences flash again closes, i can't delete the scences because when i press shift + f2 and go to click on that scence flash again closes
View 3 Replieswhenever I set my sound to stream and continue to make a movie with multiple scenes. The audio and video get disgustingly out of sync sometimes even off by 30 seconds. I just started an animation its only 10 seconds long with two scenes and the AV is already off by about 5 seconds. Ive worked around this by avoiding scenes altogether but i really don't want to have another 5000 frame scene. I discovered this problem in Flash MX and Im quite annoyed that it still has't been fixed 3 years later!
View 1 RepliesI need to scroll a sprite horizontally, that I attach movieclips to at run time. Once all the clips are attached, the width of Sprite is larger than Flash max width. It ends up being something like 18000 px wide.
Is there a smart way to simply update the clip's labels and create the ilusion of scrolling all the content? I wish the content was not so wide but it has to be.
I would love to get some information from some of the old pros on here as to best practices using flash for large scale environmental displays:
1. Flash supports High Definition correct? I did a google search, and see that it does - but unsure whether I need a plug-in or it's just a setting? My question is more along the lines of - can the flash animation be highDef, or only the videos it displays?
2. I am working on a very large (like 40ft tall) environmental graphic, and curious .how you deal with images at that size? I remember vaugely, that they don't need to be 300dpi, but do i still need to maintain a certain resolution?
I'm having an issue sending a huge (~4MB) block of data from flash, to my java servlet, currently I'm transferring the data using URLVariables, however it seems there's a limit to this (because it seems to work, with smaller data blocks), how do I suppress this limit, or in any other way, get my data to my servlet.My flash code so far:
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
variables.name = name_string; //Plenty of these small attributes
variables.data = data_string; //And the huge BLOB
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I have a list component filled with text of varying length.
I currently have this
But I'm trying to get this
And is it possible to manually wrap the row height depending on the size of the text inside the row?
What is the reason for the enormass bloating of FLA file size, when many edits and saves are made to a FLA file, yet assets are not being added to the library? What is the best technique to keep FLA files smaller in size? (with the problem described below. I am not talking about published SWF files or asset management)Over many edits and many saves of my FLA files, they become 30 times the size on disk from where they start out. Example 750k can get as high as 34mb. In the past "save and compact" used to fill the role of reducing FLA file sizes but now that feature is gone.When I save as a CS4 file then back to CS5 the file becomes much smaller after it has become bloated, BUT I take a risk every time I do this that the file will become corrupted (I've had corruptions happen).I have read that files which were created in CS5 and are never in the format of CS4 don't have this problem, but I find that theory unlikely since I have tried to follow this rule to no success.
I have also read that every FLA file tracks its "history" of assets. So adding and removing assets to the library will sometimes cause bloating because old assets that are removed from the library remain in the FLA file. This seems bogus because there is no purpose to this, but could be an indication of a bug in Adobe Flash Professional CS5, and CS5.5.Personal details: the files I am editing contain personally created flash components, images, audio, many symbols (20+) but no embedded video.For me personally, this bloating is a problem because I'm dealing with hundreds of flash FLA files that should be about 1-4mb in size but are instead much larger. The overall effect is that I end up with gigabytes of files instead of hundreds of mbs.
Simply put, I am making a flash midi player. I am using ENTER_FRAME for my timings. I set the framerate to 100 to ensure that the timing of each note in milliseconds is accurate. When I test the movie with CTRL + ENTER it works fine. When I publish it and open it in a browser (tested both IE and Chrome), it suddenly plays back a lot slower. I don't think it's a performance issue, since the code is very simple. If this slowdown is consistent then I can perhaps work with it so that the playback speed will be correct. Do browsers make the framerate slower or do they implement a framerate cap of some sort? What is going on?
View 2 RepliesI am working with a project that has many scenes. Each scene has a movie clip attached to it. The first scene is simple...just a couple of buttons and that is it. My worry is that when I add all of the videos that correspond with each button and publish the SWF will be a huge file. THE QUESTION: Does flash load ALL scenes of a movie or does it load the first scene and then load the other scenes when the user needs to view them?
My ultimate goal is to just have the first scene load and then when the user clicks on the buttons contained within that scene that only upon release does the corresponding scene load. Maybe I am doing this completely wrong and should look at doing it another way.
I got these four errors when I tried to create a button on the stage that would delete the text I inputted in the inputtext(ti). Based on the scripts I have and the errors, what should I write to create the delete button?
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I am implementing a flex auto-suggest combobox - as the user types in each character: Consider the string 'Stackoverflow' and user input = 'st'
1) the data provider is filtered to show all items starting with 'st'
2) text is set to auto-suggest string such that the un-typed part is highlighted.
So for instance, the combobox text may contain st'ackoverflow', where 'ackoverflow' is highlighted using setSelectedIndex()When I hit back-space or delete, and check the 'this.text' value, I expect that the last un-highlighted character ('t' in the above case) gets deleted and the data provider is filtered to show all items starting with 's'. However the text property contains 'st', as before
I'm freaking a bit here. I've committed to building this branded, simple quiz for a client, and I've got the basic functionality running now in an un-designed shell UI. The app is just a landing state, a string of 15 questions built dynamically using a single state, and a result state. Minimal Actionscript controls these rather sparse three layouts, and my 'release' exported .swf file is 308 KBytes. That's a bigger .swf than this giant, giant scrapbook application I was just working on strictly in Actionscript. And I haven't even added the design assets (including animations) to the project yet! I'd hate to see what size this file will be once the graphics assets are added.
Is this simply a drawback of using Flex? Is there some way to slim down the library of classes that are exported into the .swf or something? The amount of code I've written in this thing is ridiculously small, so I'm now wondering if simply using the Flex framework adds this much dead weight to the .swf file?
I need to load a very big image on AS3 (currently sized at 8192x8192). I am aware that it does not fit any of the limits imposed by Flash regarding drawing to screen or creating a BitmapData of that size. I just want to load the image so I can copyPixels() some parts of it here and there.The thing is, I'm loading the .jpg file of that size with no problems. The size is recognized correctly from my Loader object. I load it like this:[code]But I am greeted with the #2015 "Invalid BitmapData" error usually reserved for BitmapDatas that are too big. The error also happens if I try to do a copyPixels(), which is what I need to do.Is there any workaround I can use so I can get data from an image this big on AS3?
View 1 RepliesI've started learning Flash two weeks ago and I have the challenge of creating an interactive political map with about 4000 cities. Some cities will have more than 600 lines defining their limits which will make this project very demanding on processing.People will be able to zoom in/out, select cities and see information about them.As a starting point, I've begun working with 500 cities. I've imported a vectorial drawing of these cities and converted each one of them to symbols using flash javascript, resulting of course in 500 symbols. I don't know if it was a good way of starting this project but worked for me. Then my problems begun.
First I tried to use the mouse roll over and roll out events to change the (fill) color of cities but the city limits (stroke) changed also.Second I want to add some properties to the cities such as city code, name, etc. but I wasn't able to do that using class inheritance. Would I have to create a different City class for every symbol I would like to extend? This approach looks like a lot of headache and redundant work.
I would like to show the top-left corner in my browser and allow user to use automatic browser scrollbars to navigate it.When I publish my swf file, this is well done in Safari, but not in Firefox.Which are the exact publish settings to make it ? I've tried several settings options, but I can't get what I want on Firefox.
View 1 RepliesI have an interactive story divided into scenes. At the end of each scene a button appears. This occurs on a frame on the timeline.
There are two different buttons that might appear based on whether a prior scene has been viewed or not.
For example, there are Scene_1 and Scene_2. At the end of Scene_2 one of two buttons will appear. The buttons will be either "Go see Scene_1" or "Return to Main Menu".
If the user has already seen Scene_1, Flash will know that and automatically go to the frame in Scene_2 that contains the button "Return to Main Menu".
Conversely, if the user has not seen Scene_1, Flash will know and automatically go to the frame in Scene_2 that contains the button "Go see Scene_1".
I imagine there would be an action frame at the end of Scene_2 that will contain the as2 code to enable this action.
Perhaps something like, but probably not at all like the following:
if ("Scene_1", last frame == true){gotoAndPlay("frame#");}else{gotoAndPlay("frame#");}
I'm running the same flash file ([URL]) on my desktop and my laptop. The dekstop's specs are:
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Using firefox and Flash Player 10.0.2.54 The weird thing is, the laptop runs much better than the desktop. The actual calculations (update) take about 1.1ms on the laptop, and more like 3.15ms on the desktop. Even the render time on the desktop seems to be longer. When I publish, I need to make sure that EVERYONE can play the game as it's meant to be played. So I need to know if I should be benchmarking off my desktop or my laptop. I'm guessing something is messed up on the desktop, as it really doesn't make sense atm.
I have a web app that prints reports, most are just one page, or two, so I just create a component that shows the data and print it.
But I have this one report that can have thousands of lines, with a custom format, Flash will slow down with this.
Is it posible to print it without showing the actual data on screen? or is there a component to print reports with custom format?
How can I run huge array in my computer.
Ex: array[0]....................................array[1000000000000]
Any theory to do that?
Well I was loading a xml file (using CDATA) into my flash app. I'm still using AS2 and everyting works perfectly with linebreaks and everything. The only thing I can't understand is why a linebreak is so huge? When I load the XML-file into PHP to edit, it looks good. But when I save it and load it again into flash one linebreak is like two linebreaks.
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I imported 26 .mp3 files into my library, and linked their classes via AS3 to 26 instances of buttons.
My file size went from about 2MB before I imported them to about 1.6 GB after I imported them. Each of the files is only about 2-3 MB.
I am making an rpg type game and the map is as big as flash will allow a movie clip. Around 6000 width or something.
To simulate movement, the player is stationary in the center of the screen and moves the map beneath them.
The problem: On computers with slower CPU's it lags very badly.
Is there a way to cache the map or somehow have it so it is less processor intensive?
I am having a movie with 8 scenes and being in Thailand where the internet is slow I would like it to preload before it opens because now, after it opens a lot off the stuff ain't there yet like buttons and animations that are built into different scenes.
View 2 RepliesI upgraded to Flash CS4 and found out i dont like actionscript 3. i have an older flash site I opened in CS4 and all the actionscripts work on the scenes. I began a new flash file and created scenes with the actionscript 2, but it wont let me enter the script in the actionscript window. Here is an example of what i am using to navigate with buttons. Can someone chime in and show me a simple method to navigate thru the scenes with actionscript 3 or how to continue to use actionscript 2.
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When I run my flash app in the default player it runs at 60 fps (the code is ~2ms a frame), but when I run it in firefox, the rendering phase is incredibly slow (~50ms).This is a relatively new symptom. I have not increased the amount of data to be rendered, but I have modified the type of data from MovieClips cached as Bitmaps, to straight Bitmap data... if that's relevant.[code]
View 3 RepliesIs there a way of setting a swf so that it doesnt go huge when viewed on larger monitors? I want my site to scale in size, but when i viewed it on a 27" monitor it just looked way too big really (text looks silly big), even scaling it down can then be too small on regular monitors, is there a happy medium ?
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to show image files (jpg, png, gif) that can be larger than the available display area. I've embedded an Image inside a cCanvas (to get scrolling), but the large images are not completely displayed.
Very large images (e.g. 2480 x 3507) have the top or the top and bottom of the image clipped withing the scrolling Image.
What is the largest graphic one can display using the mx.controls.Image ?
When properly loading and stopping .swfs imported via the loader class the .swf is loaded into the memory. When i have close to 25 vids beeing played and each of them is about 5mb, it goes without saying that it takes alot of memory. When playing a video, selecting a new video, then going back to the old one, it loads 3 videoes intoo the memory because i use 1 single loader variable.. how you can prevent the memory leak?
View 9 RepliesI'm on the brink of finishing the first iteration of my first game ever o/ and of course the last item I need to complete is the hardest. I am making a simple word game, and all details aside, the task at hand is a conditional block to determine whether the word the user has entered is real, and in order to do this I need to somehow compare it to a dictionary list.
1 hour of research has quickly opened up an entire universe of data structures, open source xml documents, people willing to take my money for spell checkers, and of course RegExp which I have no experience using (but am willing, and wanting, to learn!). One of the main problems Google is giving me is the addition of the Dictionary class in AS3, which "lets you create a dynamic collection of properties, which uses strict equality (===) for key comparison on non-primitive object keys..." So finding previous literal dictionary uses is tough.
I soon found taking a dictionary txt file (118619 lines) and converting it line by line into an array takes 3 minutes on my beast of a laptop gaming rig (Asus W90), and while I knew this was a bad idea, it was a nice learning experience (to give me a gauge of processing abilities).
I am wondering whether using XML is an appropriate alternative, or if there is a way to externally access a dictionary somewhere online. Looking at the XMLList Class available I see text() and toString() methods; yet I still see heavy iterations in accessing the dictionary.
Which brings up the next point: easiest way to find a String match. I understand that comparing each word one by one would be tedious for the program, so maybe splitting up the list by letter (or maybe string length, looking at the file), or first and last letter.
i need to upload a ridiculously huge text file into Flash MX 2004 and turn it into an array. The loading part is not a problem: the issue is splitting the array.
The original string is approximately 531,000 characters long and needs to be turned into a multi-dimensional array of 3500 elements split into another 20 elements (array[3500][20]). Unfortunately when I try to make the initial split into 3500 elements (which I would later need to split again into 20 using a for loop) the Flash takes a ridiculous amount of time to load.Most of the time Flash just crashes: I tried splitting the string into just 50 elements and it took me around 7 seconds. My computer usually has no problems with basic tasks like these.
So, what should I do? Is there a way to change memory allocation to Flash? Should I split the string? Should I create multiple text files, load them into separate loadVars objects and split those? Or am I just trying to do something too big for Flash?