So I've spent an entire day trying to make my old AS2 file that loaded random swf's work with AS3 with no luck. Every time I think I've found the code to fix it, nothing works. The search here yields results for AS2, but not AS3. I'm ready to throw my laptop through the window at this point. I'm new to AS3, so bear in mind that I'm a newb. I need the ability to load random banner ads into a movie clip in my main flash swf.
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why is this code NOT loading a random image, despite tracing random number?
package {
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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im playing with the load random movie (but loading a random xml file instead) based on the wonderful tutorial from front page and was wondering whether anyone can show me the work around/upgrade to AS2 for this bit of script since im publishing to Flash 8 /AS2 and it doesnt work:
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I am now using the code for my background image which will rotate when you enter a new gallery.I can't get it to randomize.[code]I have tried adding: Math.floor(Math.random() * total); and it almost works. It seems everytime the last node is called it stops working (also at other random times, haven't found a pattern).
View 1 Repliesim making a site that need to have random videos load on the front page.i have couple of swfs on the root, and i made a .swf named random that will load on the main page (uploaded in same folder with the swfs) and hopefully it will load one of the movies at a time. No luck so far.this is the code i use
stop();
var movieArray:Array = ['1', '2', '3'];
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
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I want to load a random swf from a group of 6. Basically from the intial page i want the user to press a button and this then displays one of the 6 swfs randomly.
I have saved my swf files as numbers 1-6.swf and saved them in a folder called movies. I need to firstly generate a random number between 1 and 6 and then load this corresponding swf file.
I'm trying to make an application in which every time you hover on an image (there is only one image on the stage) a new quote is loaded into a dynamic textfield from an xml file displayed over the image.I have so far managed to load a quote from the xml and it looks good, but I don't know how to randomize the quote, now it only loads the first quote every time I hover on the image.Do I need to rethink the whole code, or just add to it?Here's the code:
stop ();
var XMLFILEURL:String = "news.xml";
var spacing:Number = 2;
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I have 4 movie clips that load randomly on my site that I built with this tutorial:
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and I was wondering if its possible to do this with XML?
i am using a slideshow template that I purchased and I wanted to get the images to load randomly, I contacted the author but he wants me to pay him extra for this and I have no money left for this project.basically, I'm looking to add a line to this as2 file that would make the images load randomly without repeating and then start over when the cycle completes. I tried putting in an array but it caused all kinds of errors.
View 8 Repliesi am trying to create a swf file that contains 3 movie clips inside of it. i want the swf file to randomly choose one of those movies and play it.
i am on a mac with flash cs4.
I want to random load a picture from XML file for a slideshow, but I am stuck...
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fscommand("allowscale", "false");
sfx = new Sound();
sfx.onSoundComplete = function () { trace("Sound Effect Complete"); }
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how would you go about doing this. (ex http://hi-res.net ).I know how to do both indvidualy but i cant make it all work together.
View 3 Repliesi know this code loads movies dynamically:
choice = Math.round(Math.random()*3);
switch (choice) {
case 0 :
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i'm trying to randomly load images via xml but my output window keeps saying "undefined".
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i have to create a flash banner that randomly loads text. This text can be in a .txt file. i read the tutorial for getting external data, but how does one change the text on refreshing the page?
View 3 Replieshow can i make this slideshow [URL] to load the jpg's in random way ?
View 2 RepliesI have succesfully gotten the "loading a random background" to work. But now I want to try a couple of other things with it.I would like to adjust the size and alpha, which it isn't happening. And I would also like to repeat the the image (which was generated randomly) 4 other times on the page.So far I have place the random image and mask within a movie, and then placed it on the main timeline.That works great, then I am sliding same image from behind the first image to create a total of 5 images on my documento get the other 4 images on the main document have repeated the movie that holds the random image code, but nothing is showing up in the other 4 instances
View 2 RepliesOn my web site, i would like to load some external FLV files, so that they play as soon as the page loads. I would probably load them into a movie clip, or just directly into the site, either way i dont mind. The catch is, can they be randomly selected from a folder external to the site at the site's route?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to load 1 of 4 swf. files randomly into a holder on a home page.
the code I'm using doesn't work.
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when I test the movie I get an error message that it can't find the movie. As an example, the code is adding a 1 to the name of the swf. image11.swf
I was wondering if somebody could point me in the right direction to be able to load in a random sound clip (from a set of 5 or more mp3s) when the user rolls over a button. I can't seem to find a way to do this.
View 14 RepliesI would like to know how to make more value than one .This script display one value from Quotes.txt ,is anyone know how make this to show three value from Quotes.txt
View 2 Repliesso i have 3 mc's in my library each with linkage "icon1", icon2", icon3". what i'm trying to do is load one of them randomly in to the stage.
here's the code i have so far:
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//creating an array that holds the mcs
var iconsarray:Array = new Array("mc1","mc2","mc3");
//creating a random number to use for loading the mc
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I found a thread from 2005 that had some pretty simple instructions for loading lines of text from an XML document into a dynamic text field. It seemed pretty simple, bur for some reason I was having a couple problems. Here's a link to the thread:
To save running around, here's the code:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
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how would you go about doing this.I know how to do both indvidualy but i cant make it all work together!
View 3 Replieshow to randomly load from a selection of movie clips. My problem is, I have two clips that load on top of each other. Ones a blurred image, the other is a clear, and when you move a mask over the image, it goes from blurry to clear. Right?
But I want a different image to load everytime. Problem is that I need both the random blurry and clear pictures to be the same! No point moving your mouse over a blurred picture of a mountain only to find a clear river underneath, right?
i'm trying to randomly load images via xml but my output window keeps saying "undefined".
Code:
function loadXML(loaded){
if(loaded){
xmlNODE = this.firstChild;
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I have 48 movieclips in my library with Linkage IDs of pic1, pic2, pic3, and so on, up to pic48, each with a width and height of 200px. I want these to load randomly any time the swf is run in 8 rows of 6 right next to each other, without any duplicates.
View 1 RepliesI have a .fla with 5 pics on my timeline and using tween function to roll them from bottom to top, what I need to get those images random from o folder or something.
pics= ["images/pic1.jpg",
"images/pic2.jpg",
"images/pic3.jpg",
"images/pic4.jpg", "images/pic5.jpg"];
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Alright. I have been over every inch of the web to find something that works, and nothing seems to. So let me see if I can't explain this as best I can.
I have a simple flash movie with six images in the timeline. One image shows up for a few seconds, then fades into another image. These images are NOT embedded in a movie clip, they are just in the main timeline.
The frames where these images start are at 2, 110, 220, 330, 440 and 550.
When someone first browses to the website, I want the movie to start at one of those frame numbers and then continue to loop through the rest. So if the movie randomly begins at 330, it will then proceed normally to 440, 550 and restart at 2 and continue.
Obviously the code will go into frame 1, but every code I try, the movie will always start at 2 when the person first goes to the site. If the person selects another link on the website, and then goes BACK to the homepage, THEN the movie will pick one of those numbers, but not on the first visit.
Any idea why this is happening? I can only think because the movie hasn't loaded every frame yet.
I've recently inherited a project which needs to load random images from a dir on the server.
the previous developer has this code on every swf (there are over 40):
pic_arr = ["images/randoms/1", "images/randoms/2","images/randoms/3", "images/randoms/4", "images/randoms/5", .....
ranNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*pic_arr.length);
pic_hold.loadMovie(pic_arr[ranNum]+".jpg");
unloadMovieNum(1);
I need to update this as the number of random images is set to increase to about 1000 and I don't fancy hand coding the above to include "images/randoms/999" , "images/randoms/1000" !!! Where I can keep a single .as file on the server which handles this and then a line of code in each swf which imports it? The site is built in php with a Flash fornt end so easy to use php to count the contents of the "images/randoms" dir and pass that number as a flashVar.
