I wanted to know what is the best way to bring original hand drawn art to use for animations. Should I use Photoshop or Illustrator or would it be best to draw directly to Flash. Also is it better to bring images over to Flash from Illustrator or from Photoshop?
View 1 RepliesIs there any way to make a clicked movie clip go to front, and then when released, go back to it's original position?
I've been reading about swapDepths and a few functions that allow to bring to front the MC, but nothing to return them to their original positions between the layers.
Can this be done? Or is it any way to make it look as it?
I am creating a component that will be a large plus or a large minus. I don't want to use a bitmap because even I can draw this using the Graphics class, but the component must be clickable (the Shape class is not). It will be part of an item renderer, so I want it to be as light-weight as possible. UIComponent does not seem to sent CLICK messages.
View 3 RepliesI want to make an animation of hand drawn line by motion tween. That is when test movie, a line is slowly drawn from left to right. How do I do that ?
View 1 Repliesbring my correct uiloader/swf to the front/into focus when the relevant list item is triggered? This is my code at the moment
Code: Select allimport fl.containers.UILoader;
import fl.controls.List;
var list1:List = new List();[code]........
anywhoo i have minimal actionscript training tho i know a bit... im trying to make an Item system were i make an object like a key or a helmet... and if i collide with it it disapears. and i get the item, then somewhere put _root.playerMC.standing.gotoAndPlay ("item"); .. maybe in the item i dunno..
so basically i set my characters up like playerMC then in that animation i have a body head arms and legs.. and in those i have different items equipped on each body part on each frame how should i set this up!!!.. i cant call those items deep in the animation the farthest i can go is like Playermc.gotoandplay ("walk") when i try to do like.. playermc.walking.head.gotoandplay ("item") it doesnt work..
I have 10 mc's. They are all placed in a row on top of each other (like a deck of cards layed out). On rollover I want the rolled over mc to get to the highest depth and stay there until another mc I rollover another mc that gets the new highest depth.
View 2 RepliesI have created a site that calls in text from an external .txt file. The text file is a flat file that is updateable using PHP. What I need is for the Flash site to reflect the current contents of the text file each time it's updated through the PHP interface. I'm using the standard:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function() {
text_txt.text = this.blog;
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I did get it to 'kind of work' at one point, but the output text would flash 'undefined', then show the contents of my text file, then go blank then start that loop over again. Not acceptable.
I have 3 movieclips in separate layers. inside each they have buttons.I want the mc i hover to move to the front. right now they overlap.see attached. the green cricle appears behind the other 2.
View 2 RepliesIf you go to the Portfolio page im trying to design 3 links that open up a mini section.. if you notice, each link stl has the other links overlaping the clip, because all links are on the same level..I have tried a couple of scripts that say they bring the clip to the front on rollover but have found nothing that works..
View 6 RepliesI have flash file, there is text, who loads from xml file and movie clip. i need, this movie clip, with all content bring to front, because, now it is behind text, but I don`t know how to do that..
View 4 RepliesI can not fined in the docs the best way to Bring an object to the top when the mouse is over the target.
View 3 RepliesI've tried several codes and none work or i'm just not doing it right i guess.See my SWF.The circles are movieclips with butttons inside. When you rollover the mc, the button extends. All the mc are in main scence in separate layers. I need to bring the mc i hover to the front.
View 8 RepliesCan you show me an example of a very easy implementation in AS2 (action script 2.0) to bring a var from a php file. I have a php script who return a value into the var $result when it is executed, how can i use this var on flash?
View 1 RepliesI have made some images into animated buttons that enlarge on rollover, bring each layer to the front on rollover, I am working in CS3 with actionscript 2
View 2 Repliesi've attached my flash file. I don't get why the path is not drawn if the movieclip is set ask mask. I would like to slowly reveal the text.
View 2 RepliesI have a menu set up so that when you rollover a button it brings an image to the top that corresponds with that button. This is currently set up by using swap depths. The problem is that I want the layer to fade to the top instead of just popping to the top. I turned the layers into MCs and put fades inside the MCs and that works with the code to bring the layer to the top and fade in. But when it does come to the top and fade in, it's deleting whatever layer was previously on top rather then fading overtop of it, so when the new layer comes to the top, you can see the very bottom layer is it fades in...
Code:
doubleHung.onRollOver = function(){
doubleHungWindowsMC.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighes tDepth());
doubleHungWindowsMC.play();
}
I have two .fla files. I would like to bring one of them into the other as a scene. I copy and paste frames into the new scene..... but there are a bunch of .wav files that don't come over with it. What is the proper way of merging two .fla files?
View 1 Repliesi have 7 buttons inside an MC in a row next each other, when the mouse rollover each of it zooms 20%. Now the problem starts when the button you're hoving over is zoomed, the button next to it cuts into the image. in the order they where inserted I want the button you're zooming over to always display as the top layer - bring to front -.
i read of a code:
btn.swapDepths(1);
to change the depth of the movie clip
and:
trace(btn.getDepth());
to get the initial depth of the button putting it at a higher or lower depth than the other buttons will either place the button behind or in front of the other buttons ...play around with depths untill you figure it out.
I've a movieclip that contains two buttons. Buttons have a border appearing on roll over.The problem is that the border (which are fairly large highlights for both buttons) overlaps one of the button.What I want to do it that when one of the button is rolled over its index is set to a higher number than the other button and then back to normal upon roll out.
View 1 Replieshave a thing where i have a million drageable objects and to make it easy i made each one of them a movieclip with this on
on (press) {
startDrag ("");
}
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I have a wipe transition of a photo, and underneath that, another photo. So that when the MC is run, what the viewer sees is the underlying scene photo progressively (but quickly) being wiped over by the gradual revelation of a another pict. Now I want to programmatically move the underlying ("wiped over") layer to the top. The underlying scene photo occupies the lower layer. I've tried turning the wipe collection of mask and photo for one layer into one symbol, and the other pict scene into another symbol. But for the life of me I don't understand how the code for each goes into the layer tree. Or whether scoping out the symbols as I've postulated is even the right way to proceed.
The board doesn't allow for the ability to post the (f-) file, so there's no way I can ask if anyone can show me how to weave the code into the Timeline area. Also I'd like to direct the program to bring the lower layer to the top under certain conditions. There are no examples anywhere for how to programmatically do this for CS4. There was a CS3 way to do like this (this is a mouse rollover sample):
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What code would you use so that when a button on the main menu of a site is clicked, it plays the end of the current movie before bringing up the next?
I have a site where each page is contained in a movie, and each movie has 3 parts.
1. Intro
2. Pause where content is kept on page
3. Outro
When a button is picked to go to a new page, I would like the outro to play before loading the next movie. Is there a way to do this?
What's the best way to bring in an image with transparency in Flash CS4?I have a logo in Photoshop that looks great on a black background. But when I bring it in as a GIF or PNG in Flash, the edges get really jagged.Is there a preferred way to import this so the edges are smooth?
View 2 Repliesi've been receiving a ton of help here and love it but Im having a really bad time fixing this one part of an infographic im making. i need to do the following in a flash cs4/as2.0 file:
1.) make all boxes draggable on the stage
2.) on click/hover bring layer to the front.
var city_arr:Array = new Array(THIS CONTAINS A LIST OF ALL MY CITIES I AM USING AS MY NAMING CONVENTION);
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I have a movieclip (jobImage) which I'm loading an image (Image1, a subnode of Job1) into using XML. But I want to be able to click on any one of a series of buttons which will have that image replaced by a new image (eg. Button2 will load Image2, another subnode of Job1, Button3 will load Image3, etc.).So I have the selected button pass a number back to a variable called "_root.imageTarget". If Button2 was pressed, this would happen: _root. imageTarget = "2";This variable is then combined with the word "Image" to form a new variable (newImage)[code]
View 7 RepliesHow can I implement this? I tried to use: (this.numChildren - 1)But it doesn't work. I want to use this code because I have 8 boxes, each are 100px X 100px. You hover each box and they flip over but the "backside" of these cards are larger in both length and width than the front. When they flip over they overlap the neighbouring card. I'm looking for some sort of script so that I can tell each card to align itself above the other cards on the stage.
View 20 RepliesI have created a image gallery. There's a image scroller, when clicking an image it show large image on the same layer. I insert the image to this layer like this: addImage("image url", x, y, this). addImage is my own function witch works fine. In the begin of code I create movieclip (var controls:MovieClip;). When I'm inserting images to that, I want to bring the movieclip to front. Because that large image is added after the controls, it will be on the top.
View 6 RepliesI'm working on a project that has 2 invisible buttons created on the stage.
Other items are placed on the stage with actionscript 3.
I am unable to bring the buttons to the front or top.
I have tried:
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I do Flash web banners, and use the following code to create a button for the link that publications set up on their end:
var myBtn:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("myBtn",this.getNextHighestDepth());
var lineThickness:Number = 2;
var lineColor:Number = 0x00A1E4;
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