I am trying to add some actions to artwork, is for a button, fox example the output says:
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Actions, Frame=1: Line 1: Wrong number of parameters; set requires exactly 2.
set ("boxStatus"); = "0"
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
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is it best to add a bitmap in a clip / sprite container, or just add the graphic (jpeg, png etc) via
ActionScript Code:
:Bitmap = new Bitmap(speakersBmd);
?
I am close to finishing my animation and for starters one scene is lagging a lot and the artwork is visible outside of the stage dimensions. is this normal?
View 1 RepliesI've created buttons that light up when moused over. They work fine but I need them under a semi-transparent layer that has been imported and when I move them under it they stop working.
View 1 RepliesI am creating artwork in Illustrator that I want to give someone else to bring into Flash.
1. What is the best format for making static graphics? Just a graphic symbol?
2. What about for graphics that will be converted into buttons in Flash? Does it matter if they are Graphics or Movie Clips in Illustrator?
I have a series of frames one the timeline. Each frame has a graphic and a mouse click leads to the next frame. Think Myst.
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When the middle frame is returned to, clicks no longer change anything. I believe that the actions of the 'left' frame are replacing the one's in the middle frame so then it is told to gotoAndStop to itself.
I'd like to know if that is indeed what is happening and how I can make it stop.
I've got a project that heavily utilizes the new 3d artwork tools in Flash CS4. My question is has anyone done any tests to see if Flash is quicker with raster or vector graphics? My SWF really bogs down on slower machines.
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a flash project that incorporates a lot of artwork done in Illustrator CS4. I've been copy-pasting directly from Illustrator into Flash, and I add some animations as well. Final file is going to be a one single swf file which will be a part of UI for an application and .net will be the core for this. But now flash becomes unusable slow to respond for actions. My machine is a fast i7 with 6gb of RAM, so I don't think that's the issue. We are going to use this file with dual core atom processors. Does anyone have ideas for alternative importing techniques, optimizations within illustrator, anything at all that will make this more manageable?
View 1 RepliesI have produced some vector artwork in illustrator for use inside a Flash Project. When I import the artwork into Flash the importer appears to place all of the element into many nested groups and creates folders in my library. Is there a way to import the graphics from illustrator as flat shapes rather than these nested groups?
Currently I am importing into Flash and having to go into each group and cut the shapes out and paste them into an empty MovieClip which is very time consuming.
when I inserted the code some of the symbols on stage disappeared. This did not surprise me because I did not understand the code, but then when I deleted the code it did not revert back. I dismantled the frame and dragged new symbols on stage and I still could not see them when I tested the movie. Checked to see if any code was written anywhere else but could not find any. The only code I had was a gotoAndStop which I was using simply to view that specific frame. when I removed the gotoAndStop finally the images appeared. If I placed a stop on the frame I wanted to view, then it worked fine but a gotoAndStop did not work as I was left with a white screen. Finally I had to recreate everything in a new document and then the gotoAndStop worked, but I have noticed that if I drag certain components on stage then I have a similar disappearing act.
View 5 Replies1. Can i put another set of actions in frame 2 of the actions layer?i tested but it doesn't seem to work..it has 836 rows of code and it's getting annoying when tryin to search for a function..
2. I am not that familiar with classes, i usually put all the code into movieclips or in actions layer.. i am not sure if i can call a function from a actionscript class..
3.I am curios if there is any way i could specify an alternative for the if statement like in this pseudocode:
if ( apple is not clean BUT is tasty)
{
eat(apple)
}
way programmically in flash to detect the edges of imported artwork (artwork that has transparent background)? I am hoping to build something that detects the edges (or boundaries) of artwork and then place other objects around those boundaries. (so they dont touch too much or overlap).
View 4 RepliesWhat is the best way to create artwork for cross platform mobile application that is made using Adobe air. This application runs on iphone,iphone4,ipad,ipod,android,blackberry,desktop.
View 1 RepliesI am working on Adobe air for making a cross-platform project which is running on iOS, Android, Mac and windows. I have a plan to make it runnable on web as well. I am looking for the best approach for making artwork for this project as it is crossed platform. Right now I am thinking to separate backend logic from front-end i.e put layout for every platform separately.
Web ---- Desktop ----------- Mobile
-------> (Logic)
I'm trying to work with an .XML playlist. I actually need it to do a lot of things that I can't figure out how to do.. I'm sure there are tons of you out there who know exactly what to do.. [URL] I'm tried this, and it works, only I can't load album artwork using this. I also want to add a few other data fields, I would like when you click on the song title to play the audio track, but also show the Artist name, the song title, the artist record label, a link to the artists website and a short section for comments from the artist about the song. Is it possible to do something like this, using this tutorial? <song title="song" artist="artist" src="mp3s/song.mp3" /> How would I add an image to this? I want to display album artwork in the audio player.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible these days to dynamically load in vector artwork to flash?
View 6 RepliesI'm making some elearning courses and we are trying to combine semi-automation with the ability to place artwork and content on the timeline. Basically we have a series of small tasks -- read this, click this button, see the result, and so on. We have a "highlight" area component that indicates the area a user is to click. Currently that component dispatches and event from the instance when it is clicked and the main timeline is listening for the event and then moves them ahead to the next task when they have clicked properly.
So the following code:
myClickAreaInstance.addEventListener("clicked",handleClick)
And the handleClick function and removing the listener all has to be handled on the timeline. And for a given task there might be an intro animation and the click area component might not come in until the end. So where to put that code and how to automate it becomes tricky. So I first dug up AsBroadcaster and could use it sort of like Mouse or Key classes.
AsBroadcaster.initialize(ClickArea)
ClickArea.addListener(this);
function clicked(obj){
//handle click broadcast
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Would it be better to us AsBroadcaster or EventDispatcher?
I've been thinking about flash and html5 and though each of them can draw circles, rectangles, curves, and do things with images, doesn't it really come down to the artwork? Game play aside (I know ugly games can be fun), all the talk about which looks best canvas or flash or something else, kind of moot? Don't the great games, graphically speaking, have great artwork and modeling so that as long as the engine can handle it, the programming anything other than events associated with those models and artwork doesn't matter? I'm watching my kid play Frontiersville on Facebook and I'm thinking, I could program those events but it's the artwork that's grabbing people and good gameplay keeps them. In the end does the platform really matter for games?
View 2 RepliesI have drawn a pecked line route, sitting on its own layer, using flash tools, over a base map. I have then gone Insert>Symbol>movie and I now need to get a copy of this route into the movie's white area. I expected perhaps when right clicking on the layer, an option called copy to movie and an ability to select the movie name.
View 2 Replies I got this early version of a sliding menu. See file "scrolling.fla". Its got four images that slides into place when you click on the small colored buttons. The thing is I want the movie to quit/shut down when I press the red button, AFTER the red image has moved back in place.The code for the red button is:
on (press) {
_root.xnew = _root.mask2._x+(-2-1)*458.5/2;
}
I added the following:
on (rollOut) {
_root.unloadMovie();
}
It works in a sense but I dont want to use "on (rollOut)", because you might shut down the slideshow involuntary moving the cursor on your way to the other buttons. So the question is, yet again, how to quit the movie after the red image is back in place?
i have a scrollbar that controls the action within a movieclip called "future". The code for this works just fine when it's placed in root, but when i put this in a movieclip by its own, a can't get it to snap and control anymore.I would like to but this code and movieclip and put in in a clip called "scroll". The for it to control the same thing as it does now ,_parent.future.gotoAndStop("a"); etc.[code]
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create a history of the actions, perhaps stored in an array, I make in flash so that I can have a button that allows the user to go back to a previous action
View 3 RepliesI'm using flash 8, I'm tired of having one monitor share the timeline, stage, actions and properties window. I'd like to detach my actions window and place it on my other monitor. Is this possible?
View 2 Repliesis it possible to add multiple actions to the same button.e.g.on stage theres only one button, on first click it should make mc1 visible , on second click it should make mc2 visible and so on.
View 3 RepliesDon't ask me how, but I've made my Actions Frame way too long and I can't drag it up high enough to size it correctly. Consequently, I'm not seeing the end of my code without adding a whole bunch of empty space.
View 3 RepliesI am unable to view the Actions Panel window in a document I've already done a lot of work in. It worked previously - I created an Actions Layer and was able to add action script, however, when I try to open it back up to edit the action script I wrote, neither the F9 shortcut nor the Windows>Actions pulls up the Actions Panel. In fact, when I try either method, nothing happens.
View 3 RepliesWhen creating a website in Flash, I have made the buttons but I am unable to add an action to the buttons. A message appears to say 'current selection cannot have actions applied to it'. I have followed the tutorial to the letter without any success - what am i missing?
View 1 RepliesAfter working fine for about a month, all of a sudden I can't type anything in the Actions box. I can select and enter code snippets, but if I try to edit the code, it disappears. If I start a new Flash file (doesn't matter which Actionscript version, 2.0 or 3.0), the cursor briefly flashes, and then disappears and I can't enter any code in the new file. I can create and edit .as files -- it's only the Actions box for .fla files that's problematic.
View 1 Replieshow can I make an action cause things to happen outside of a symbol?Suppose I have a button inside a movieclip. The frame that the movieclip is on has a stop(); action applied to it. I want to make it so that when the button is clicked, the frame which the movieclip is on gets "Un-stopped" how to do this?
View 1 RepliesI have a program that loads external SWFs, I usually create an SWF within adobe after effects and load that (That works properly). I created an SWF that combines 2 SWFs from after effects with a screen blend mode using adobe flash. It works fine when playing the SWF in flash player but if I try loading it, it does not show up.[code]...
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