I have a fla/swf file, with 6 buttons on it all with their own hover effects and such, however they're all on the same layer. So assigning a link to each one through actionscript is confusing as I've only done it if they were on different layers.
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For the past half-year I've been coding like this:
ActionScript Code:
_root.menu_mc.link1.onRollOver = function () {
_root.menu_mc.link1.text.htmlText = "<FONT COLOR='#000000'>" + "Cool" + "</FONT>";
_root.menu_mc.link1.text.thickness = 100;
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I know and I've seen some more efficent code such as, making loops and assigning variables.
get started by making the above code more efficient? I've attached the source file.
Don't know if the flash layer on the view stack contain only the compiled flash swf file
View 1 RepliesHow do I add links to my flash buttons? Im using Flash CS4
View 7 RepliesI have no idea how to ask this question properly. I am only designing this, not making it, so simple answers for me would be good, but also technical answers that I can pass on to the flash person.
On my home page, I am going to have 3 images that switch out, each that need to have a "learn more >" link and a 1, 2, 3, and pause buttons.My question is whether or not these image buttons/links can be placed on or embedded in the flash object. I read this is not possible and that buttons or links have to be separate from flash. Ideally if I wanted to place a "go" button on top of my flash image, that would be great.
However I have been told the only option is to make one side of this in photoshop where I have the buttons and then place that next to the flash image. My example of this would be the msn.com home page.
I have two layers, one on the bottom (the background) with some buttons on it. The second one, on top, is a movieclip of some smoke that is passing over the background... (to still see the background, I set the smoke layer to Screen - blending mode). So now I can see both layers. but of course the buttons dont work anymore because of the layer that is on top... Now, the question is, how can I disable the smoke layer to access to the buttons? There is a way to do that?
View 2 RepliesI keep hearing about using a big invisible button on the top layer of your flash movie when you want any click to take you to another website for example. But what Ive done is a little different. My very BOTTOM layer is a background gradient, which is obviously not invisible. In my actionscript I have Gradient.onRelease = function () {getURL... etc etc This seems to work on my computer. The question is, is this a bad practice? Will this fail on some versions of flash players/browsers? Is the invisible button method better? It just seems dumb to do the invisible button thing when i have a perfectly sized background gradient that seems to work.
View 4 RepliesI have two buttons in a flash movie. Each button links to aunique url. I want to use XML to dynamically define the urls foreach of the buttons. Setting up in XML is easy. I'm usingattributes. Ex showing simple xml code:
<data>
<url_1 link="url path" />
<url_2 link="url path" />
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I am in a bit of a bind here i am struggling to link my xml links to flash buttons. Here is my xml:
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I'm making a flash website, I know the basics of html and AS3, but this is my first time trying to use them together. I need only two interactions between the swf file and the server:
The .swf needs to be able to grab image files from a directory hosted on the server
The .swf file needs to be able to change the URL
I have created a webpage with a html menu and flash embedded underneath it.The problem is, the flash movie is in an index layer of -1 and the html menu needs to sit above it in index 1 for example.If the menu sits behind the flash the buttons are inactive, if the flash sits behind the html menu, its buttons are inactive.I have a div layer for the html menu and it not as high as the flash movie, but it doesn't make a difference, its seen as sitting behind and therefore the buttons don't work.
View 2 Repliesi've designed a strip of thumbnails in flash to go in a Wordpress site i'm working on, which when clicked need to open up images and videos using Lightbox 2. (Lightbox is already setup and working.) The problem is that i'm importing the links for each of the thumbnail buttons from a .txt file which works like this:
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I'm trying to assign Event Listeners to buttons in an array and increment the function referenced in those listeners by 1 so the functions have unique names, is this possible?
ActionScript Code:
//ROLLOVERS FOR MENU
var btnsAry:Array = [hs1_mc, hs2_mc, hs3_mc, hs4_mc, hs5_mc, hs6_mc];
function setButtons():void {
for (var i:int=0; i<btnsAry.length; i++){
btnsAry[i].id = i;
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I have been trying to figure out this by myself for a while and needless to say, I have been completely unsuccessful. I have various a loop that creates multiple movie clips called: movie1, movie2, movie3, movie4... (you get the idea...) i want to assign roll over,roll out, press functions to all of theme.g. when you press on one movie, it highlights it.but I am trying to find a summarized way over writing each one out:
movie1.onRollOver=function(){
something happens
}
someonne once told me to use chartAt to do this, to reference different mcs, but I cant figure out how to do it.
I am trying to assign events to a bunch of buttons at once. To test out to see if my theory works i tried this code with 3 buttons on the stage named test1, test2, ect.
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I have is a movie with a button in it called button.i've duplicated the movie (manually) several times on the stage.the movies have been given instance names of movie1, movie2 etc.i've then used actionscript to assign actions to the buttons.i have the following code:
Code:
for (i = 1; i < 6; i++)
{
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I have some basic knowledge in PHP and am learning XML, and basically have decided to prepare my site for the future by switching to strict XHTML / php (plus it needs to be updated anyway). It is a hybrid site with HTML and Flash elements, and each HTML (soon to be .php) page has a single .swf as the nav bar. Is there a way to externally assign hyperlinks to the nav buttons within this .swf? I've done basic external assigns (with .txt files into dynamic text boxes), but this seems a bit trickier. Basically, I want to be able to update the .swf without opening flash, changing the links, and then publishing a new .swf.
View 6 Replieshere's the essence of what i'm doing:
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If you had a set of buttons called: bt1, bt2, bt3 etc all the way to "bt11" and you wanted to assign the same eventlistener to all of them how would you go about this? ie:
bt1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeShutters);
bt2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeShutters);
bt2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeShutters);
etc (too repetitive)
i'm pulling my hair out over this one. I have is a movie with a button in it called button. i've duplicated the movie (manually) several times on the stage. the movies have been given instance names of movie1, movie2 etc. i've then used actionscript to assign actions to the buttons. i have the following code:
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I am trying to assign events to a bunch of buttons at once. To test out to see if my theory works i tried this code with 3 buttons on the stage named test1, test2, ect.
Code:
var e=0
while(e!=4){
_level0["test"+e].onRelease = function() {
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they each trace something, but its the same thing?! tester4<<<
I am following along this tutorial: [URL]. And I get to the part where I need to add code to get my buttons to work, and I copy and paste the code and then change the frame labels to match mine, but then I get a syntax error:
"About_Project_mc, Layer 'hit area', Frame 1, Line 1
1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbrace."
Code for assigning actions for buttons trough out xml
View 2 RepliesMy app has buttons that users press to insert predefined strings into a textarea. I'm now making it load in the button values dynamically so users can define their own buttons.I'm using a buttons.txt which contains a different label on each line (button1, button2,button3 etc). I loop through the text file and add the buttons to a group. This all works, but now the hard part. How can I assign an eventlistener to these buttons so that they output text to the screen?
protected function view1_viewActivateHandler(event:ViewNavigatorEvent):void
{
var path:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath("buttons.txt");
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I have a txt file structured like this:
button1_label
button2_label
button3_label
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I have 10 Buttons on each Button is this
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the thing which differs is _root.vote (which is from 1-10) and the (s == _level0.item9.icon) which is from 1 to 10 too .. is there a way to make this easier, coz when i have to change sumthing i have stroll through all the buttons and change it ...
I'm working with this Flash file and I'm having lots of trouble trying to add links to the MC buttons.
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ok i'll try and explain this best i can, on my site i have a menu that takes up the whole of the content area.. the plan is that when the user clicks the menu button within a content page the menu would appear over the top however with a slightly transparent background so you can still see the last visible content page in the layer underneath.. i've got this to work however the buttons within the content page are still active.. is there a way i can make the menu layer 'solid' so the content below is only visible but not accessible?
View 5 RepliesI am really struggling, I have some buttons on layer 0 I then have a pop up box on layer 1 that covers the buttons. However the buttons are still active underneath.
View 9 RepliesI have 5 movie clip buttons in 5 separate layers. Is there a way to merge them all into one layer? I did that and they stop working.
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