How can insert sprites from the IDE? When I press f8 the only options are MovieClip, Buttons and Shapes. If I export to ActionScript I can change the class to Sprite, but I want to insert a Sprite directly from the IDE.
View 2 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 few button to let user click and the symbol will insert into the input text. i change my input box to 'symbol' but i facing the problem that i can't insert character other than symbol...
View 6 RepliesI have some problems with flash display in the browser. If i open with the browser a file .swf it appears smaller than the original version. I can see it in the correct dimensions only if I use the Full Sceen option (F11). How can I correct this problem to let the user get the original version?
View 3 RepliesIf I am to import an image and I wish to use it as a sprite or something like that; How do I remove the white areas? For example, if I was going to create a custom cursor or something like that, an I was to use this image: Image - how would I remove the white areas, so that they are transparent. I would also like to know if it is possible to set where the center of rotation in an image is?I do all my image work on Photoshop, if that is of any significance.
View 1 RepliesHow do i add the same images to 2 sprites?The below code doesnt give an error but only adds the image to 1 sprite[code]...
View 2 RepliesSo created a Sprite to which I add other Sprites which are game tiles. Each tile is 60 x 60 px big. In result I've the Sprite with about 200 childs (those tiles).When I try to startDrag() the container sprite the lag when moving it is very noticeable..
Is there a way like to join the tile Sprites so the container would have only 1 child Sprite instead of 200? Because it lags so much probably cause it needs to move (change the x and y) all those 200 tiles.. Am I correct?In this case I can't use the cacheAsBitmap property, cause user can zoom in or zoom out the map..
I'm currently building a slideshow application using the MVC pattern, as it stands the application works by going to the next picture by clicking the photo or controlling the slides with a next/prev button.
i am trying to add additional navigation so that there are thumbnails of the images loaded with XML so the user can click the image and go straight to the image clicked on.
thats easy enough i could add buttons manually with thumbnails in them but it would tedious to update the photography or artwork when it comes to increasing or reducing the number of photos.
so what i plan is that ,when the application loads it reads and counts the images Thumnails in the XML file,then the AS3 generates thumbnail icons according to the amount of images counted in the XML File, then places them on the stage in a sequence next to each on the stage. as a sequence of thumnails with can then be used to navigate around the library with more control and is easy to update simply by changing the XML file.[code]...
I have a Flash website with an online shop. The shop part uses javascript and cgi in separate html pages. I want to insert a link to a URL from these web pages back to "scene 3.0 (home)" in my main .swf file. The .swf is embedded in an index.html file so a link to the URL [URL] starts the flash movie back from the start with the intro and everything. I want it to skip the intro (scenes 1.0 and 2.0) and go directly to the "scene 3.0 (home)" scene.
View 2 RepliesI remember that in flash 8 you needed to read the cookie via php script to get it into flash. Has that changed in CS4? Is it possible to read the cookie directly from the swf now? If not how does one go about getting cookie information into flash CS4?
View 1 RepliesI write a picture on my HD with an Air command and want to show a message to the user because it takes a while to calculate and write the data. But of course the stage isn't refreshed while executing my calculations. Is there a way to directly refresh the stage?
View 4 RepliesQuick question. Does a class have to implement a interface directly to be accepted, or can it be a child of a parent class that implements it. so If I pass a child object into a method that only accepts IOBJECT, but the child class parent implements IOBJECT. will child object be accepted ?
View 1 RepliesI have a component mxml in which i have a save button, on click of the save button i need to display another component which will be in a tab navigator, for this I am using the view stack. My problem is, on click of save I need to display the second tab instead of the first tab, but defaultly the first tab will be displayed.
View 1 RepliesI need to learn ActionScript. I have no basic knowledge on ActionScript. Can I directly start learning ActionScript3 or I have to start with ActionScript1.
View 3 RepliesIn a complex XML where I dont know the leaf node names/or the level of depth they are, how could I extract all the leaf nodes inside a XMLList variable directly?
View 1 RepliesCan actionScript2.0 connect directly to any database? I know we can use ASP,or JSP as a middleware to connect to database. But without using middleware can we connect directly to database?
View 1 RepliesAs the title says, I would like to know if Flash 8 or any version of flash can access sockets.For instance like winsock does. Using an IP and a port to send packets? I've seen it can connect to databases, but I haven't seen anything with it working with sockets, for instance a P2P chat using only an IP and a port to send an receive messages.
View 1 RepliesI want know if it is possible - in any way - open FLA files (from versions 6 to 8) into an third IDE, edit this file, converting, for example, texts and animations, automating codes wich converts static texts into dynamics, accessing database etc and export a brand new SWF movie.I have a costumer that told me about a "miterious" programm wich can do all this things like edit/export - direct from his FLA files - a new SWF or EXE media. And save another FLA file with all those modifications. In other words: is it possible I make my own Flash IDE?
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to put javascript directly into flash??? And if so, how?
View 14 RepliesLets say I have a picture that I want to load directly in to a movieclip.
Movieclip name = picture
Image name = image.jpg
I tried something like this
loadMovie("image.jpg", picture);
but didnt work
Can actionScript2.0 connect directly to any database? I know we can use ASP,or JSP as a middleware to connect to database. But without using middleware can we connect directly to database?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to do some scripting in flash. I have some sprites and need them to playing one by one in the main, one in each frame. Then when they are complete let the movie move on to the next frame. how can I do this?
View 1 RepliesI'm making a picture gallery. I have a thumbnail container, which contains a mask and a dynamically generated mc called "thumbnail_mc". Thumbnail_mc contains all the sprites of the thumbnails.When I click on a thumbnail, the thumbnail get's a glow filter added to it. Now, I want to remove all filters on all the other sprites before I apply that filter to the Sprite.
This is what I'm trying to do:
Code:
thumbnail_mc.children.filters = [];
How do I do that?
i um want to make a sprite flash movie but i cant afford flash cs4 or 8 so i only have mx heh.. >_> i guess im good at animation but im not as good as alvin earth worm or rpg fan but i want to be good as them is there any way to blur like they do in flash mx? it can be easy or hard i'll work as hard as i can to get it right
View 3 RepliesI'm creating visual effects using TweenLite, which currently only manages the tweens for me, can I also attach a sprite at a specific time? (using "delay")
Basically I want to use TweenLite to attach/remove sprites apart from just tweening existing objects.
I have a function that adds a player to a sprite containerwhen that player is clicked a hit test is done on the tiles surrounding that player that it can move to and put into an array.all that works fine.my problem is after I add more than one player to the stage I can only move the latest addition when I use MapInfo.player.x = (hexagon_width * .25) + hexagon_x_position-90;I thought if I used getChildByName I might get around making a custom event.but I get an Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. when I use the code below
trace(MapInfo.getPlayer);// =MapInfo.player.name
var targetisplayObject = MapInfo.player.getChildByName(MapInfo.getPlayer);
target.x = (hexagon_width * .25) + hexagon_x_position-90;
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I just started learning AS3 I was just trying out something.To read values from xml and make a drop down menu. I reached only this far
Actionscript Code:
import flash.display.Sprite;import flash.text.TextField;import flash.events.MouseEvent;var i:Number = 0;var sp:Sprite = new Sprite();var sptxt:TextField = new
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What I am basically trying to do is Like,the yellow boxes are dynamically made,with Actionscript Code: new Sprite(); inside that red and blue are also made with new sprite(); with instance names yellow1(red1,blue10),yellow2(red2,blue2) etc... How can I refer to yellow1.red1?Like,these are dynamically made,and i dont know the limit,like say it adds on with each click,It will make Actionscript Code: 'yellow'+i and red+i etc... How can I refer to the ith sprite when the user clicks?Suppose the user clicks yellow5,I want a reusable code that will refer to yellow5.red5
View 1 RepliesI am having a problem. I created a UILoader and that UILoader loads an image. but when you click on a part of the image it will have to trigger another event.I tried to put a sprite or button in front but it won't work.
View 2 RepliesI'm having two problems. First off I'm trying to remove container0 on roll out, but I can't remove it from the outView function because it doesn't recognize it.
Second these functions load another image on top of the thumb0 and it disappears right away. I don't know why and I'm trying to stop it from loading 2 instances
var container0:Sprite;
var loader0:Loader;
var boolean0:Boolean = false;
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