I'm using actionscript 2, I've got a preloader working, but now I'm struggling to make an alpha animation play immediately after the preloader. My attempts have ended up with the animation playing during the preloader.
View 2 RepliesIm making a preloader for a game, which is meant to do this: [URL] But for some reason as soon as i add a progress bar to it, The animation freezes when it appears.
It should look like this:[URL]
It does this: [URL]
Ive tried multiple methods to attempt to fix it, but have failed.
If you require the .fla, i can only compile it with cs5, so older versions wont be supported.
So i want to make a form which people can use to get price quotes immediately. There will be about 15 fields. I have 'some' clue as to how this 'might' be done. The 'if' statement could be used. But that sounds like a lot of combinations and a lot of scripting. I would also like them to be able to send the form to my email if they want.
Now i know how to script the basic forms.. eg. contact forms.. etc. with php and all. So once they've selected specific info from the fields, i'm sure i can have it sent into my inbox. But I don't get how to do the main thing (the price quote display - according to the information selected). Will it have to be XML based? Something to do with a database? Or what?
Ctr+return wont play my animation. Instead it just stays on the first frame. It used to play but all of a sudden it just stopped.
View 4 RepliesIn my file, I have an introduction playing over and over. When someone hits the "K" button, I need the file to immediately go to and play a frame labeled "waterdepth". What am I missing below? I keep getting an error saying that "keyboard event cannot be loaded."
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I am trying to get the solutions from last month but no better luck. I have created interactive 500 animations in flash using CS3 and action script 2.0. Now I want to play these on iPad.
View 3 RepliesHere is what I would like to do: I have some buttons, then 2 movie clips named container and container2. When I click on a button, an external SWF is loaded into container. I have it working so that when another button is clicked, it plays the exit animation of the current SWF, then loads the new one. Here is the code that I used for that: on a button:
Code:
on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = "who";
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What I would like to do, is have a button in who.swf, that will load another external swf into container2, while leaving who.swf in place. Then, when one of the main buttons is clicked, I would like it to play the exit animation of the swf that is currently in container2, then play the exit animation of the swf that is currently in container, then load the new swf into container.
I recently got back into animating and I need some help with my latest project. I have a number of different animations that I would like to be played on the inside of a tv, however I would like for these animations to play at certain times. For example, at 9:00 pm (real time) the tv displays the animation of the character sleeping. I'm not sure how to do this, and I'm not sure if I need an internal clock.
View 6 RepliesI'm using netstream to show a video in .flv.Over this video I need to show a couple of short animations, and when they play, I need to paus the long video so it doesn't plays in advance in the background.I've got this script to pause the movie:
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btnPlay.onRelease = function () {
ns.pause();
}
But how do I apply it so that when the timeline hits a certain frame, it calls it. I mean, the user can't really know when to stop to see the animations, so it has to be done at a specific time.
Code:
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
ns.pause();
}
Would do it.
Would it be better to make long(5+ minutes) animations all in one file on the same timeline, or to make sections and assemble them later?
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone knows how something similar can be done: [URL] surface I mean the video clips, which zoom when you mouse over them, then when you click they will go forward, blurring the background. Then on close, everything will go back t the home screen. And all the time the movies inside will play.
View 2 Replieshow to make text acting as a preloader so that its color changes as preloader percentage. i dont mean how to apply the math, i mean how to mask it or whatever action to achieve that effect?
like for example imagine the red is constantly growing to the right letter by letter (actually pixel by pixel:
I want to make a preloader for flash mx 2004 that when it finish becomes to decrement another time. I would like to do it to modify the flash preloader component.
View 2 RepliesI want to get adobe flash to make animations at home, but im not sure what version to get or where to get it. I don't need the best version and i dont want to spend that much. Thank
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to make state transitions/animations of a fl.control states - button for example ?All I can do now is change the skin design and that's it, I can't animate between states like I can with Flash Builder skins. So is there a way to do that, any technique or I have to create a button component from scratch?
View 3 RepliesI've only used flash for 5 months now. As you expect, i'm a super novice. I've been trying to follow the books, tutorials i fould on web and was able to make some nice animations,buttons and stuff. But i'm not a programmer, i never been one and i just don't think i got the brains for it. I just know a little bit. Like i said, it's only been 5 months so i only know how to change other's script to suit mine, i can't create any complicated from top of my head. My question is...do I HAVE TO be an expert to make websites with Flash? After all, i'm only learning Flash so I can make interactive websites. I'm not looking forward to making games or drawing boards or anything. Just websites. How much knowledge of Actionscript(or XML) would I need to make a flash only website?
View 4 Repliesi've been trying to make a presentation which is build out of several animations located on the main timeline.I wanted to use frame labels to navigate back and forth in the timeline, so I created back/next buttons and used switch/case code on them based on the frame labels.each animation has a label and a stop(); command at the end of it, right before the next animation.the code for the next button looks like this:
next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, click_handler);
function click_handler(event_object:MouseEvent)
{
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problem is at some point it stops working. i've added the "default: play();" code to try and fix it but it only goes so far.
I want to do is a simple transition that allows to me start some function (at the external swf!) to dismount the LOADED content. I'd like to change the external contents with intros and "outros" located on their own timelines.. It's a simple logic, but I dont know how to manage that.. Everytime I try some simple, it never happens.
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I'm trying to make a preloader for a little flash project that involves re-assembling a load of rectangles to make up a pattern.Idea is that instead of the usual load bar i wanted to make use of this pattern that is relevant to the project and have it rebuild it self with these rectangles flying in from the side. So far I have got the tweening sorted using the tween class and staggered the 42 (yes took a little while, probably an easier way so let me know on that also) rectangles using 'setTimeout' so it releases each 100milliseconds after the one one before it. This probably the wrong way to do it but i wanted to check how it looked and this was the one way i knew how to do it.
I want to make it so that these rectangles fly in a complete the pattern once the loading has finished, but on a fast connection I don't want it to rush the animation but for a slow connection I obviously want it to adjust the release time and maybe even the travel speed to compensate.
I had an idea of maybe working out the percentage loaded divided by 42 and then run an if statement to see if that percentage for that segment had been reached before 100millseconds had passed, if 100 had passed then release the rectangle, if not then hold the rectangle until 100 m/s had passed. Not sure if that is the best way to do but that's why I'm looking for some suggestions from more experienced developers.
Code:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.Regular;
// declare variables
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In the following code I set my preloader to play an swf. If I test the preloader inside or outside the flash author environment it plays the swf. If I change the swf to a new file name and resave the flash file with a new name it won't play the new swf. I am using FlashMX 2004 Prof.
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/* First thing to do is set the stage size of this movie at the same size as your "to be loaded" movie, and re-position the display elements to your liking. Also set the same framerate as your movie. Then replace "YOUR.swf" in 2 of the lines below, with the name of your movie. Last, make sure your present movie is cleared of any preloader.*/
// Hides displayed elements
this.reelmc._visible = false;
this.loadbar._visible = false;
percent_display = "";
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I built a pretty simple Flash movie for a client and put a preloader on frame 1. The preloader works fine then the movie plays. What is happening is if you go to another page on the site and then go back to the home page all you see is the preloader bar fully loaded but the movie doesn't play. You have to refresh the page for the swf to play again. It is doing it to me in Firefox but not IE 8 and it is doing it in IE8 on my clients computer...
Here is the code.
stop();
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
function onProgress(e:ProgressEvent):void{ var loaded:Number = e.target.bytesLoaded; var total:Number = e.target.bytesTotal; var pct:Number = loaded/total; loader_mc.scaleX = pct; loaded_txt.text="Loading..." + (Math.round(pct * 100)) + "%";}function onComplete(e:Event):void { gotoAndPlay(2);}
Here is a screen cap of what is happening. After you go back to the homepage all you see is the rpeloader bar fully loaded without the load text.
Using CS4 Actionscript 2.0
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Check out what happens after percentage loaded. It just goes to Frame 1 of next scene but doesn't play it.... although if you right click and click PLAY it will indeed play it.. How to get it to start upon 100% loaded?? I SHOULD NOTE that the scene that won't play has an embedded FLV in timeline
I've been reading a Flash book, and it tries to explain how you can use Action script to create a preloader that will play a movie clips frames based on the amount of bytes loaded. I can't seem to get it to work.
Here is the code:
stop();
myInterval = setInterval(preloader,10);
function preloader() {
if (getBytesLoaded()>=getBytesTotal()) {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
} myMovieClip.gotoAndStop(Math.round(_framesloaded/_totalframes*(myMovieClip._totalframes)));
}
This is on the first frame of my movie. I've also have a stop action on the first frame of my movie clip. I've attached the FLA for dissection....ts?
i need a preloader to preload and external jpg. which i have pretty much working. however i need the following animation in the movie to wait until the jpg is loaed to play and i need the animation to play on top of the loaded .jpg
View 3 RepliesI am looking for a preloader that will play a movie clip as it loads ie. as the preloader loads frames the relevant MC progresses until when the preloader hits 100% the MC finishes.
View 2 RepliesI have two scenes setup where the first scene has a preloader that works great - here is the catchy part though - my first scene (where the code is) is 140 frames long and the second scene is over 400 frames - once all of the frames have been loaded from the second scene the first scene JUMPS to and plays frame 1 of the second scene, reguardless of where the playhead is in the first scene - what I want it to do is once the second scene has been loaded I want the first scene to play all the way to the end (frame 140, scene 1) of the first scene and THEN going on to the second scene (frame 1, scene 2)giving my sound and animation a smooth transition over.
View 10 Repliesanywhoo 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..
this is how i attached the sound in the main swf, im using AS2
Code:
var x:Sound = new Sound();
x.attachSound("soundtracky");
x.stop();
x.start(0, 0);
I used the loader and the progress bar components.
The loader loads the main swf fine but the music doesnt play like this.
if I preview the main swf the music plays but with the loader it doesnt.
my first attempt worked with the preloader but by inserting the mp3 straight in the timeline.. I cant use it like this because I also need a mute button and I didnt find a solution.
I have a simple jukebox section on site and need a preloader, to let the user know that something actually is happening when they click on play, and wait for mp3 to load. What is best way to create preloader based on the code I am using (which is as simple as can be!) here is the code:
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I have added the following code to my website and the swf file plays fine on my firefox browser... not in IE and not on anyone else's browser.
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<DIV style="position: absolute; top:0px; left:825px; width:320px; height:200px"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://healthyalibaba.com/flashobject.js"></script> <div id="flashcontent" style="width: 320px; height: 180px"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var fo = new FlashObject("http://healthyalibaba.com/images
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