Navigation With Keys And Loading SWFs?
Dec 2, 2009
I have been working on a project which has been giving me headaches. I want to be able to navigate through a presentation using the arrow keys - To do everything on the one timeline was going to be too complicated and messy so tried to create separate files but could not get the separate files loading -.My next problem is incorporating the two approaches - here is my code from my test files with my attempt added:
stop();
// create an array to hold the names of the frame labels
var labels:Array = new Array();
// take the name of each label in a MovieClip and put each
[code]....
I can either get the arrow key navigation to work or the previous movie to load but the left arrow key then doesn't navigate back. Although in saying this version doesn't work and I can't get it load again.
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Oct 31, 2009
I am trying to teach myself Flash and AS3 using the two Adobe Classroom in a Book Series so I am not sure if I am framing my question correctly. I have found lots of information regarding loading and unloading, but not about establishing communication between parent and child.I have a home page with four buttons that have nice Mouse Over effects. When I click on them, they load the external swfs nicely. When I click on the external swf, it also unloads just the way I want it to.[code]Inside the external swf, I have two back and forward buttons (it is a slide show type of thing), that are not accessible when I click on them because if I do, I just unload the content from myLoader. If I remove the unloadcontent function from my main home page FLA, the swf's buttons work great, but I can't remove the external swf. I have also experimented with having a close button appear on frame 2 of my home page's main timeline, and tried adding code for it to unload the swf, to no avail.It seems to me that I can't be the only one who has this problem. Lesson 9 of the Adobe Classroom in a Book definitely implies that this can be done, but doesn't have instruction on how to do it. Can anyone help me or point me in the direction of a good tutorial on communication between swfs?
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Jan 4, 2012
I was trying to use arrows keys for navigation. I got 12 frames to be navigated. So thought up the following code.
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stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, moveRight);
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case Keyboard.LEFT :
[Code]...
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Jun 29, 2010
im trying to make a navigation menu thats out of 5 buttons to go through them with arrow keys, right and left, figured i could do it with an array, but cant seem to work that out
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Mar 8, 2007
I am trying to create a retroish game and have a few features working but now need a menu system. Most older games use the arrows keys and enter for menu navigation. I was wondering if such a menu system has already been created as it is a simple feature that I am sure someone has made before.
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May 27, 2009
I am having problems with navigation.. I do not know how to load external swfs to each button item clicked.. And it removes child and put the new child on it.Code: Select all// Its for menu animation, the arrow starts stopped at home_mc but its like a refference;[code]
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Sep 11, 2009
I have a main fla file which loads an external swf into an empty movieclip on the main timeline which works fine but I want a button in the external swf to load another external swf into another empty movie clip on the main timeline.eg. start.swf loads UKEIAMap.swf into (empty movie clip within start.swf) MapLoader_mc then a button havant_b within UKEIAMap.swf needs to load HavantProjectSheet.swf into (empty movie clip within start.swf) ProjectSheetLoader_mc without unloading UKEIAMap.swf
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Apr 4, 2010
I don't think I'm as familiar with arrays as I need to be to complete the following project - I've read about 60 posts and no one seems to be doing exactly what I am. Here's what I need to do: From a main swf (home.swf), I need to load 7 consecutive swfs in random order, (movie01.swf, movie02.swf, etc) from an array, into level 1. I need all seven to play without repeating, then repeat them in the same order in a loop.
But I ALSO need the user to be able to navigate through the swfs by using next or previous buttons (or by selecting individually 1-7, but that may be asking too much from my limited knowledge).Here is the code I'm using to generate a random ordered array:
var fileNames :Array=new Array("movie01.swf","movie02.swf","movie03.swf");shuffle = function (targetArray) {for (i=0; i<targetArray.length; i++) {var tmp = targetArray[i];var randomNum = random(targetArray.length);targetArray[i] = targetArray[randomNum];targetArray[randomNum] = tmp;}};shuffle(fileNames )trace(fileNames )
I assume from here I can load the swfs from fileNames [0]. I'm way out of my depth so the rest is a mystery to me.
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Feb 12, 2010
I'm currently putting together a navigation that will be XML driven. The broad outline of what I'm trying to do is:XML > Custom XML parser class > Native Actionscript representation > Abstract Navigation Class > Concrete Navigation Class.The concrete Navigation class would have setter methods to allow you to skin it's appearance using display objects.
Code:
setButtonUpState(upState:DisplayObject)
This is fine if the Display object is purely Class based and draws itself programatically,
[code]......
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Aug 2, 2006
I have two remaining tasks on this file, in order to be done.
1. When I mouse over the main top nav, I need the boxes to have some easement added to them so that they don't just shooot straight up. I also need them to stay up when clicked until I select another button. They kind of do this now, but they tend to get stuck in the up position until I mouse over the other buttons again.
2. This file loads a remote, XML based, gallery that looks very much like the one offered in this sites tutorials. Since the tutorial already has the variable i, which keeps track of how many total objects are being viewed on this application, is there any way to have that also include i number of boxes between my previous and next buttons which can also act as navigation for the gallery?
Here are the swf's:
Main nav with fun boxes: SWF_porfolio.fla
XML Gallery Nav wanting fun boxes: SWF_identitiy.fla
and for fun
Identity XML file: images.xml
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May 12, 2002
I want to load multiple swfs into one swf via a MAIN Navigation swf.
Right now I have 5 sections in Main Navigation swf.
I want each different section to open in the same external swf.
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Aug 2, 2006
Flash - 8 : Above is an example of what I would like to do/have done. I've gotten as far as loading the "loaded.swf" into the "start.swf" but my problem is I'd love to use that little loading action I made earlier without copying and pasting into the new movie the same actions for a different link. So, how do I load "loaded2.swf" into "loaded.swf" via the link in "loaded.swf"?
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Aug 13, 2009
I found a tutorial that showed how to create a navigation system that would load external SWFs. I am trying to create an image gallery in essentially the same manner but instead of loading SWFs, I want to load external bitmap images.However, when I replace the SWFs with images, I keep getting an error message:
Code:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::Bitmap@3e91d2e1 to flash.display.MovieClip.at image_Loader_fla::menu_1/isLoaded()
So obviously, it is trying to convert the bitmaps to movieclips. Due to my newbiness with AS3, I'm not really sure what I need to do with my existing code to fix this issue.I've provided a sample of the gallery if anyone wouldn't mind taking a look.
P.S. In the sample I provided, you will notice that on mouse-over, an external will load. The only one that won't work is the first one (Home) as it is trying to load an external PNG.
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Nov 13, 2009
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Apr 27, 2011
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May 16, 2003
How do I get the AWSD keys to work as smoothly as the arrow keys. I can put the arrow keys inside an enterFrame
[AS]onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
//move the tank
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
[Code]....
If I put the AWD keys inside an enterFrame they run until I push another button
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Aug 13, 2010
I am loading multiple .swfs into multiple .swfs, but the .swf are never being properly unloaded. I thought they were unloading until I started monitoring my Page File Usage and seeing it increase everytime I loaded another external swf.
In using this function to load my content, what would be the proper way/function to unload the content?
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Apr 14, 2006
I want to make a navigation bar that loads image buttons randomly. Ex: (you can see the non-random version at the bottom of the page onI have 5 slots. I want to randomly load an external swf into an empty button in each of the slots. I do not want the same button to load in more than one slot. I'm thinking I need to use arrays? (which I don't know too much about.) Can anyone point me to a useful tutorial?
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Feb 27, 2012
I made navigation like this:
Code:
var myMenyArray=[najave,onama,asesoar,kontakt,ponuda,klub,arhiva];
var loader:Loader;
for each (var btn in myMenyArray) {
[Code].....
So Contact button should load text in <contact> </contact> when its pressed and so on.
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Jun 29, 2009
I am trying to load 2 arrays. The first array is a dynamic navigation menu (linkName). The second array is the corresponding title that is loaded in a dynamic textfield. For example if link1 is clicked I want the dynamic textfield to display title1 from the array if link2 is click display title2 and so on. As of right now the dynamic navigation loads fine I just cant seem to figure out a good way to do this without writing a bunch of if statements. I would like it if the programming assumed the that the length of the title array is always going to be the same length as the link array and it finds the corresponding index.
var linkName:Array=["link1","link2","link3","link4"];
var pageTitles:Array=["title1","title2","title3","title4"];
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addChild(menuHolder);
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[Code] .....
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Jun 17, 2009
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Dec 30, 2008
I have attached two pictures. Basically I am making a website. The main navigation loads in external swf's through a container movie. For this I have used this tutorial : [URL]. What I want to do is- when you rollover the navigation bar, be it the text or the coloured block- I want it to scroll down and reveal the 'sub navigation'. (pic2) It's like a drop down menu but kind of the other way around. Then, when you either rolloff of the navigation bar or click on a menu button, it slides back up to its original state. (Pic1). I have played around and only managed a sloppy version which doesn't work very well, especially when you resize. I think a simple answer to this is if I could get my buttons to work inside a movie clip. I had tried this but then the swfs wouldn't load properly.
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Nov 23, 2009
Using Flash 9.0 on Mac. Have externally loaded images as slideshow in swfs embedded in dreamweaver. The swfs load time after time in Firefox PC and Safari PC but only on the first try in IE7. Have not been able to test IE8 yet. [code]...
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Feb 1, 2012
I have a SWF that contains 3 spaces for banners on a 'My Account' page. Initially they all showed the same banners to all customers but now we segment customers and that means each banner can have numerous variations. This has caused the SWF to be massive (over half a meg) for something we aim to have 80-100 Kb.
I believe the solution is to have the current 'main' SWF be a place-holder that decides what segment the customer is in for each banner then pull another SWF file from the server - so only the banner being displayed is the one being downloaded.I cannot find AS to download externally hosted SWFs...
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Apr 9, 2009
The three buttons on the stage all load remote SWFs into the same location ... Each succesive button that is pressed is supposed to load a movie that takes the place of the one that is currently thereThe problem is, each button click merely loads it's movie underneath the existing one ... so they just keep stacking up on top of one another. I need a way for the code to check if a movie is loaded, and if so, unload that one first before it loads the current one I though an "if" statement could check to see if the "swfLoader" instance is fully loaded, and then if it is, it would know to remove child I know there must be a more efficient way to see if anything is on the stage
stop();
unit13_3br2ba.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getUnitSWF);unit21_2bdStudy2ba.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
[code]....
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Feb 23, 2008
1) I made a german and an english swf-file, each of them containing the entire website. These two you catch from the main index-file, which is only a txt showing "german" and "english". When you click one of them, you load one of these two swfs.It takes some time, because the swfs contains a lot of heavy images which are glued to the swf. Ill get back to that loading swfs later...
2) inside each of these two swfs I made some PHPfunctions. One is a guestbook, the other is a form, where you send personal info (4 boxes, single-line) + a message in multiline to my email through PHP.When I publish the swfs individually and one at the time WITHOUT the main index (english/german) which loads the swfs it works almost fine. The input txt boxes appear on the screen, and you can type in the boxes. When I recieve this email through PHP, it up a bit. There is no space between " message" and "apartment of choice", its all one long line. Apart from that, it works...
However, when I load the swfs using the "main index file" with the german/english choice, the input boxes doesnt even SHOW on the screen. Only the txt telling you where to write what. The txt-curser shows, though, and you are aware, you should write something here, but you write using WHITE txt. When you click "send" in the GuestBook, the email looks good, the message is there, but writing the message on the website, you dont see what you write, because it white!
QUESTION:How do I load external swf-files ( not only images, but entire files, that itself is told to load other swfs) into a main, so that the PHP inside these swfs are working properly? If I am to write some script inside the indexs ASRunActiveContent, where do I write it?
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Apr 18, 2010
I have a site that has one main file and then another five sub swfs that get loaded in when you click on various buttons. I would like to load these sub swfs behind the scenes, even before they click to open them. Is there a way to load them into some mc without adding it to the stage, but making it so that when they do click to actually load that swf in, it will already be cached? I'd prefer not to do a traditional preloader for each and every sub section. I'd rather just load in all the sub swfs, have them cached and ready to go so that when they do click on a section, it will be good to go.
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Nov 21, 2010
I have a conundrum in that I have 5 SWF files, I have various buttons in these SWF files linking to one another. Now all I want to do is have these buttons open up the relevant SWF file (and therefore completely replace the current SWF).I have been using a Loader class so far, but have just realised that this simply loads the new SWF into the original one! (Because I am dense), and everytime a button is clicked its loading the SWF on top of the original (slowing down my program quite a lot, as you can imagine!)
Is there no simple way of just linking these SWFs together without loading them on top of another? (I looked up unloadAndStop, but I can't get it to work in my SWFs! I have also read containers being mentioned, but I would rather stay clear of that as well if I can!)
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Dec 11, 2010
I have a problem. We have a website www.onlinerealgames.com which hosts the game developed by our company. Recently we wanted to change the template. We are testing the new template in a subdomain of ours which is www.onlinerealgames.in . Everything is fine except that the swfs in the server are not loading. Instead they are showing Movie Not Loaded. If I directly access the swf with the URL it showing the download option window.
We are having seperate database for both sites. Both have same swfs. If we change the source from .in to .com then the swfs are loading properly (in the src property of embed tag)
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Feb 1, 2010
I'm trying to load external SWFs in a for loop, and I have this problem that is really eating me: In the event handler I need to know the filename of the SWF that was loaded, but I can't obtain this.
function loadManySWFs(arrayOfFileNames:Array)
{
for(var i=0; i<arrayOfFileNames; i++)
{
[code]....
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