I have two images, one of which lays on top of the other. What I'm trying to achieve is that the user watching the flash can interact by clicking down on their mouse and wipe away the top layer to reveal the bottom image.Obviously this is done through masks, but I don't know how to do it so the user can do it, and it will only wipe away the bits they go over.
View 3 RepliesI'm making this interactive map. It's made from tiles of dots, each turned on or off at run time depending on where the user has scrolled to. The tiles are 9x9 dots and I make the map from an array which is 20x40 in size. The swf then shows what is visible as you scroll over that map with a window which is smaller than a 3x2 tile space. The problem I have is that the dots which fall outside of the proposed viewing window still exist so when your mouse hovers over them, even though they're hidden, they still interact.
Here's a picture: Is there some way to mask the interaction of those dots? Each one's a movie clip. I can hide them visually but that's no good, people can still click on them then without even knowing they're there. I've tried loading the exported SWF into a movieClipLoader but that just automatically spills over like this again.
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 have a startDrag function set up on a loader and mask that when the mouse is down on the loader it drags, when not it doesn't. There is also 2 buttons that control whether mask1 or mask2 is used. What i would like however is when the mouse is down - the area of the loader outside of the mask is visible but only by about 10/20% alpha, that way the user can see where all the image is while dragging. Is this possible? Full code can be seen below and i have attached the zip with the .fla file:
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what i am doing is to make something along the lines of the "scriptable mask" tutorial Inigo was kind enough to put up.My idea is to have a large mask behind the whole of my flash site, this masks a colour image with a black & white one (nothing tricky). The image I am using is actually 5 separate images combined, and each is a pic of certain parts of the site.I also have a very basic set of buttons along the bottom... each corresponding to each section.
All I want is to set it up so that when I mouse over the buttons, the _x of the mask moves to correspond with the correct image... really very basic... or so I thought .If anything it should be easier to do than what is in Inigo's tut (where he uses the _x of the mouse to move the mask)... i just cant seem to get it to work with a nice easing effect (its easy to get the mask to simply snap to each coordinate, but I need it to smoothly move).
maybe point me towards a better way to mask. png file is way too big. I have been using the mask layer option to create my own mask around a jpg image by drawing around it on the mask layer. There has to be a fetter and faster way to do this. Is it possible to maybe have a specific color range have an alpha value of 0. Similar to green screening whereas If I put the item I want to clip on a green background flash will auto take out the green for me. and by auto I mean action script maybe. I think this can be done but im not finding it.
how are these guys clipping these images [URL] they have the movie clips set up where the black background on the 3 layers of shoes is getting masked out. When I go into the shoe movie clips I see there is a black background but it just disappears when I go back to main timeline.
ive gotten one movie clip to mask another in the actions frame but i cant seem to be able to mask the flames which are a shape with a movieclip in this as file. im not getting any errors but the mask isnt covering anything look near the bottom at s.mask=mask_mc; there are about 20 "s" shapes spawning per second if that has anything to do with it
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//this package turns an mc into a flaming button that calls a javascript function
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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I was wondering if its possible to mask multiple MC or Sprites under one mask, when using AS3.abc.mask = a;cba.mask = a;something like that
View 2 Repliesi have ade moultiple textbox at run time now i want to delete a textbox by delete key how it is possible .
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to use the delete keyword to remove nodes from an xml file and it just plain won't work.Here's a stripped down example of what I'm working with. Every node has a child named "deleteme". If its value is equal to 1 I want to remove it from the xml file. If its anything else I want to leave it be. The delete method is deffinately gettig call but it's having no effect.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<stuff>
<i>
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i have A,B,C,D moveiclip
now i want to delete a mc with delete key .if i select A then press delete key it will delete .
I've been trying to teach myself flash for a couple of weeks and am totally lost. I have had experience with programming in the past, so I understand logic, etc, but I really am not grasping this forced time based system.What I need to do seems pretty simple. I have a jpg of a washing machine front panel. I need to be able to put some transparent "buttons" over it, and have some areas "light up" when the buttons are pressed. So far I understand that I have to work in a chronological setup, with key frames for each state of interaction, and use buttons with some kind of gotoframe action script. what I can't do:
1. get the background jpg to stick to the stage. it apparently has to be either a symbol or a layer?
2. make transparent buttons. in flash catalyst I can just set the opacity to 0, but I'm not sure how to do this in flash pro.
I guess those are the pressing issues. I had tried to import the jpg as a psd background, but then I had to put the button on a separate layer, and it was always either behind the background, or I had to have it's action refer only to the timeline of it's own layer and not the background.
Not sure that I understand how the Reader engine for AS 3.0 handles "load" requests. Following is a problem that I try to solve for a customer: there a three - 3 - swf files, each contains a short video of 10 sec's in full hd, stage is 1920x1080 px, let's call them a,b and c
The request is the following: start with swf a and let it run, loop, and during that time offer the possibility to select or swf b or swf c to run in stead of a when swf b runs, loops, offer the possibility to select or swf a or swf c to run in stead of b idem for swf c or with words: each of the swf's offer the possibility to invoke one of the 2 other swf's.
I tried various code snippits, and when running a it starts b but a contineous to run, so it seems ihe engine does not pass control to b. Maybe I have to put everything in 1 swf? But that is not what the customers want, he wants the 3 swf's.
I have an html button:
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This would load flash content:
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I want to use the jquery dialog to open this content. Everything passed in seems to be perfect (according to the GET response from firebug) but I still get a jquery error. missing ; before statement jquery.js line 612
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If I paste this url into my browser the flash app starts in the browser as expected but not with the jquery dialog obviously. Must be something wrong with my jquery code?
i'm trying to use for the first time papervision.I'm able to add a cube to the scene. now i wanna add interaction at the cube. i try with
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InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS
but it doesn't do anything.another thing that i've not understand is that if delete this instruction:
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renderer.renderScene(scene, camera, viewport);
i don't see anything.This is the code:
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import org.papervision3d.view.Viewport3D;
import org.papervision3d.cameras.*;
import org.papervision3d.scenes.Scene3D;
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I want two duplicated clips to do a hittest on each other. Anasteroid and a laser. I can use this. on one of the objects but howdo I pick up the name of the other object - it could be anything from
View 3 RepliesThe following are two screenshots of something I'd like to create:
Notice how each 'blank' is a drop-down menu. If a user selects the correct one the text in the drop-down becomes green and a box appears at the bottom that tells them they got it right. As soon as they go to select a new one the box disappears and re-appears with a message saying either they got the next one right or wrong. If they get it wrong it turns red. There is no backend data that needs to be processed; it's just the interaction I want to create.
how I might go about doing this in Flash/ActionScript?
I know how to create the interface itself I believe with the drop-down component but I have no idea how to program this.
how to open a new SWF(about.swf)(i used the addChild method) when clicking on a button. In the 1st original SWF(home.swf) i let a song begin to play via AS3. This piece of code consists of a play and stop button, which works according to if the song is playing or not. It automatically starts playing when the home.swf opens.
now here comes my problem...I need my play and stop buttons in about.swf to be able to control the song in home.swf when the addChild method was used.
Here is the code that loads the music:
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
var music:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("SoundTrack.mp3"));
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To break it all down....in home.swf i load about.swf with buttons play_btn and stop_btn. These two buttons need to work with the song loaded in home.swf
I have a product that I am showing call-outs on. Little dots that when rolled over trigers an animation and displays information about the feature. This in itself is no problem, I have seven of these set up as buttons that work when rolled over. However, the people I am setting this up for would like the animations to be on auto play when the user is not interacting with the flash piece within a greater page. I thought I could just build a movie clip with all of the animations compiled and let them run on a layer and then when a users curser came into view of the flash piece it would stop the movie and allow for the user to manually rollover the features.
View 2 RepliesI have created a Flash file with 4 "Fill in the Blank" questions (from the Learning Interactions continued within Flash CS3) at the end. I'm then using the swf file in two different ways. One way simply loads the swf file onto a 'stand-alone' page on my website and it works perfectly.The other way I want to use it is integrated into a more complicated website where I have a Flash File into which various swf files are loaded when needed. In this version the "Control Button" doesn't change to "Check Answer" and "Reset" as it should and the whole question doesn't work. The working version is at url..Select "4 For You to Try" to go directly to Quiz Questions.The non-working version is at url...Go to "Extras" in Menu and select Naming Alkane Isomers, then "4 For You to Try" again.
View 7 RepliesI am looking at taking on a project that will be a considerable challenge since I come from a LAMP development environment. I am wanting to create a Flash driven community with chat and profiles. In PHP I know how I would go about handling the data as everything is put together on the server and returned to the user completely formatted, however adding a flash layer on top of it present a problem. I am not sure how to transport data from the server to a flash file without using XML. The obvious problem that I see is as more people are online, Sending updated XML files to flash could become a bandwidth hog and make for a slow UI. best method of moving result data from a PHP script to Flash without using XML or is that going to be the only viable option? My concern is load time. Also is there a good way of unloading data once it is no longer used (ie Photos).
View 4 RepliesI created a rotating cube using the below code and add bitmaps as sides of the cube. I was wondering if it's possibly to assign movie clips as sides of the cube so I can have some interaction with them.
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I have a video embedded in Flash as an FLV. I'm able to get the video to play through the way I want, but when the video plays through and ends, I want to have two options/"buttons" display that allow the user to either replay the video a la youtube, or link to another web page.
I know it must a very basic question but I can't seem to find any answers. I've included a screen capture of the end of the video.
Normally for a string to object is converted as follows.var obj:object=getChildByName("string");And we can give properties to it like obj.x=100;But in the case of a series of stings
[objet Stage].[object MainTimeline].[object TextField]
it wil not works.Actually i need to give properties to a target path which is a string what i do?? Here is the code to get path to a movieclip:
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im using the code below to draw a circle.
How can i modify it so that it draws a circle when the mouse is still. In other words, it draws when teres no mouse interaction, clicks, movments.
ActionScript Code:
_drawboard.addEventListener(MouseEvent.RIGHT_CLICK, _handleMouseEvent);
_drawboard.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, _handleMouseEvent);
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how can i order a movieclip to do something at another class file?
ActionScript Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
import test2;
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I have a swf file with some images inside. What I want is to update the information displayed in my webpage without refreshing the whole page.In the simplest way explained I know how to do this using a simple link using jquery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#refresh").click(function() {
$("#Container").load("test.asp");
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However, what I exactly want is the same effect by clicking on the images that move around in my swf file:
// Depending on the image you click on the swf file, the page should display different info in the same div
target_mc.onRelease = function() {
if (ruta.indexOf("AP") != -1){
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I have a swf file with some images inside. What I want is to update the information displayed in my webpage without refreshing the whole page. In the simplest way explained I know how to do this using a simple link using jquery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#refresh").click(function() {
$("#Container").load("test.asp");
return false;
});
});
However, what I exactly want is the same effect by clicking on the images that move around in my swf file:
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What I've found out till now is that this is ActionScript 2.0 and not 3.0. I suppose I'm getting closer to the solution with this ;). I'm fairly new in all this stuff.
i have my loaded .swf buttons loading 'movie1' and 'movie2'. both 'movie1' and 'movie2' have a tween in frames 1-5, which is a box that slides open and is stopped. in frames 6-10 the box slides backwards in the opposite and dissapears. i would like it if 'movie1' is open and the user clicks the button for 'movie2', 'movie1' plays 6-10 and then loades 'movie2' and vice versa. i just don't a script for this function.
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