Macromedia Flash Developer

saintvlad — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:34:23 GMT

Not sure where else to go for help.

jademousedesign — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:39:07 GMT

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Hi, I am working on a Flash CS4 website for my college senior project and I am having one major issue that I cannot overcome. I have several pages inside the site, the buttons work they click properly and make the sound they are coded to make. I have this codes to go to other pages and for some reason it does nothing. The button clicks however I cannot go beyond the home page.

<lj-cut text="Code"><this.stop();

btnHome.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, home);
function home(evt:Event):void {
gotoAndStop("home");
}

btnModels.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, models);
function models(evt:Event):void {
gotoAndStop("model");
}

btnParts.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, parts);
function parts(evt:Event):void {
gotoAndStop("parts");
}

The error it is giving is The class or interface 'Event' cannot be loaded. Can you tell what I am doing wrong? Let me know if you need to see anything else to determine the issue.</lj-cut>

what info swf action script can collect in browser?

qdinar — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:58:03 GMT

what info swf action script can collect in browser?
and what it can collect if javascript is turned off?

19:49 utc+4 : can swf set and get something like cookies? i heard about some vulnerability, bug or feature that that cookies are not separated by domains and may be even not separated by/for browsers.

Problems With Buttons

offbeat_intune — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:39:36 GMT

Hi, everybody!

I'm pretty new to Flash, so please excuse my idiocy. ( :
Here's my problem; I have a MC named "orange" (that is also his instance name) who I want to change color when a button is pressed. (I put the new color in frame 2 of the MC.) So I put this code in on the button:

on(release){
_root. orange. gotoAndStop (2);
}

There is no error message when I test the movie, but the button simply does nothing.
Any tutorials, advice, or help will really be appreciated. (Also, if this sort of question is not allowed or if it needs an LJ cut please tell me and I will fix it!)

Thanks in advance!

Free Open Source Flash CMS Engine

timsoulo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:24 GMT

FancyCMS is releasing its free open source flash CMS core tomorrow - 16th of March!
Flash developers are invited to download & try the software! And of course leave their feedbacks!

Links:

Flash CMS - homepage for Fancy Flash CMS;
Free Flash CMS - this is where the free core will be posted at.

photoshop or fireworks?

foutu — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:19:10 GMT

what is your preferred method for bringing a layered document (PSD or PNG) in to flash? (a link to a tutorial that you know works would be fine.)

i tried just importing a PSD and it was such a mess. jaggy edges and so on. but i don't know if that's because it's a PSD, or if it's something i did.

animatorer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Hello, everyone.
Do u belive that yhis video is made with flash?

foutu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:18:36 GMT

k, i suck at flash. i tried to make 4 different animations and then put them on one frame in the stage and use actionscript to control the movie and play those animations in sequence. that doesn't work though...

i could build the animations in the main timeline one after the other and then just put a play/pause button on it.

is there a way i can just import the little movie timelines in to the main stage timeline, rather than do all of this over again?

Need help

skillividden — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:12:06 GMT

Hi there,

I'm totally new to Flash technology, just started to learn CS4 version of tthe program. I'd like to know how to animate text as if it is being written by an invisible brush or pen (this means I want my text to appear gradually, but not using alpha). Is there any way to do that?

Thank you.

Deceptively easy question making me want to die

boukun_rashiku — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:58 GMT

I am using Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and for the life of me I cannot make a functioning start button for my video.

I have tried like every code example that I've been able to find on the internet, I have read everything involving buttons in my 'Teach Yourself Flash CS4' book at least 100 times, and have tried everything from Components to throwing my computer through the window and nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me before I have to give up my hopes and dreams forever? ;A;

Forcing getUrl to open in new window/tab

astrobenji — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:03:02 GMT

G'day everyone,
I'm working on rebuilding my portfolio site, which is entirely flash (AS 2.0). Within my portfolio, I've used </b>'loadMovie'</b> to load a .SWF of a banner I did sometime ago. The .SWF of this banner contains getUrl links to the company's website - these links open in the same window.

However- I'd like to be able to somehow force these links to open in a new window / tab. The issue is I don't have the source (.FLA) file for this banner anymore, so I can't simply change the target of these links.

I've managed to trick it into working by placing another button over the loader that loads the banner .SWF, however this then prevents some nice animation in the banner that functions on button rollOver.

Anyone got any suggestion on how I can force the links within this .SWF to open in a new window / tab? Keep in mind I don't have the source file any longer.
Thanks in advance everyone.

I don't even know what this effect is called..

drunkontea — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:36:33 GMT

...but can anyone point me to a tutorial that can teach me this fade in/fade out effect: Example.

Right now I've got an animation that "fades in" on hover on a button, but I'm not sure how to make it "fade out" when I mouse out.

Moock's MVC Clock - Calling Controller From A Movie Clip

yo_sarrian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:26:06 GMT

Hi, all... I'm trying to implement a version of Colin Moock's MVC Clock from his Essential Actionscript 2.0 book, and I'm running into a problem.

Here's Moock's source code. (yeah... I'm still using AS2!)

I'm trying to substitute his buttons with Movie Clips, but I'm not sure how to add the Listener "click" event to the Movie Clip (he currently does it with default button controls).

His code does this to create the button and add the listener:
stopBtn = tools_mc.createClassObject(Button, "stop", 1);
stopBtn.label = "Stop";
stopBtn.enabled = false;
stopBtn.move(startBtn.width + 5, startBtn.y);
stopBtn.addEventListener("click", getController());

I'm trying to attach a movie from the library and have it achieve the same effect:
swatch_mc = target.attachMovie("mySwatch", "swatch_mc", depth);
swatch_mc.id = id;
swatch_mc._x = x;
swatch_mc._y = y;
swatch_mc.onRollOver = function() {
getController();
}

But nothing happens when I roll over it.

Any help?!?

Inventory?

becoming — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:44:21 GMT

Hello ^^

I'm new to this community as I'm new to Flash.
I'm using Macromedia Flash Pro 8 and chose to make a game for my first project (<< ambitious).
It's a kind of "make your own adventure game" (or what people call it), so people will face a different fate for a character based on the choices they make (it's no rpg where you can walk around, though).

Now, everything went fine up to the point where I wanted to do a shop/inventory for the character.
When clicked on an item it shall show it in a box at the top while at the same time the player buys this item. The buying progress works fine, but the items won't show up in the inventory.

>> This is what it looks like now <<

The items bought shall be placed in the boxes at the top.

I tried several tutorials but they were all focused on a RPG in which your character actually walks over the items. T_T

I hope someone is able to help me or can at least provide a tutorial that may help.

Pretty please?

quick question about loading screen

tarosama — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:02:42 GMT

Hi guys. I'm brand new to flash and I'm having trouble getting my loading screen to work. Could someone direct me to tutorial on how to loop the loading screen a few times before it plays the movie (There's nothing in the movie itself yet so I'm assuming it just loads in a heartbeat and tries to play the Main Movie)?

preloader and popups

drunkontea — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:41 GMT

Hello, does anyone know of any online tutorials for actionscript 3.0 for

1) Preloaders

and/or

2) Popups to external links (not just external linking to another browser)

Thanks! Also, I've checked lynda.com already.

substitution of instances

m0ngrel — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:15:37 GMT

I have a movie clip with say one graphic doing a bunch of stuff. Is there an easy way to swap this graphic in all the keyframes for another graphic?

jennjen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:09:43 GMT

I used this tutorial and customized it a bit. However, now I have to stop it from auto playing and I can not figure out how to do that.
Can someone help me out?

removeChild is not killing audio

quad_damage — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:35:52 GMT

OK, this should be an easy one. I have a video inside a container movie clip. Said movie clip is called with "addChild". There is a button that closes the video/mc via "removeChild". However, the audio from the video can still be heard. How does one kill audio along with removing of a child?

Thanks!

EDIT - I have added "SoundMixer.stopAll();" to the removeChild function. While this works, I have a feeling there is a more proper way to do this?

help me?

pinky_fairy10 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:34:17 GMT

hi hi. :D i'm new to the community so please spare me if i did something wrong.

i just would like to ask everyone if you could give me any ideas on how am i going to do the pon and zi love story. i'm kinda running out of ideas and i need to make it using onion skin and possible with background music. :D i hope you could help me.

thanks in advance.

Level Above

kyran — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:19:57 GMT

I'm looking to arrange a symbol to the front using AS2. I've read this can be done with this.arrange("front"). My problem is my AS2 is in symbol in the symbol so I need to call it similar to levelbefore.arrange("front").

Can any one tell me the right code for referring to the level above?

button within nested movie clip not functioning

quad_damage — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:30:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

Really need some help. I love Flash, but this is just killing me!

I'm putting together a website using an external AS3 file document class called "Master". The site is laid out inside a main movie clip container called "mainContainer". Inside, a "mainNav" movie clip contains 3 buttons that point the time line to frame labels. These frames contain additional movie clips for each page of the site. I have the 3 buttons in mainNav working fine. The issue I'm running into is getting an additional button called "testBTN" nested within one of the page MCs called "methods" to work. I'm getting the "TypeError: Error #1009..." output (yes, I've double checked that my instances are named). Perhaps there is something about scope I'm not understanding? A strange and possibly related issue I had earlier was with the three main buttons. They fade in half way through the mainNav clip, but I couldn't get them to function until I placed an invisible (alpha 0) copy of each at frame 1 of that clip. mainNav also exists on frame 1 of the mainContainer, whereas methods/testBTN is down the line. I have a feeling this has something to do with it, but I'm hoping there is a way to address it...

Anyway, my code is after the jump. The suspect lines are bold.

package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

public class Master extends MovieClip {
public function Master() {

//button event listeners
mainContainer.mainNav.BTNmain.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMainClick, false, 0, true);
mainContainer.mainNav.BTNmethods.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMethodsClick, false, 0, true);
mainContainer.mainNav.BTNservices.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onServicesClick, false, 0, true);

mainContainer.methods.testBTN.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onTestClick, false, 0, true);

}

//navigate by frame label rather than frame number
private function onMainClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
mainContainer.gotoAndStop("main");
}
private function onMethodsClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
mainContainer.gotoAndStop("methods");
}
private function onServicesClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
mainContainer.gotoAndStop("services");
}

public function onTestClick(evt:MouseEvent):void {
mainContainer.gotoAndStop("main");
}

}
}

AS3 main timeline control from external swf

quad_damage — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:40:37 GMT

Can anyone kindly explain to me how I control the main time line from a button inside an externally loaded swf? It's driving me a bit crazy...

I have a container movie clip within the main swf that loads an external "menu1.swf" via:

var ld:Loader = new Loader()
ld.load(new URLRequest("menu1.swf"))
addChild(ld)

Everything looks good, but I need the buttons in menu1.swf to control the main time line back in the master swf. This is AS3. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

mouse y-position scrolling?

quad_damage — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:13:56 GMT

Hi everyone. I'm new here and hoping to get some help. I'd like to create a simple, vertical scrolling list of links that is only has about 6-8 lines visible at one time. I've been searching for tutorials, but all I find are scrollbar links. I'd like my list to scroll up and down based on the mouse y position in the list region. The best working example I can find is how they do their secondary navigation here:
http://www.radarstudios.com

I need to do this in AS3 and I'm assuming it has something to do with creating the list in a fully extended movie clip, mask the region I want visible, etc. Anyone ever see a tutorial on this kind of nav?

Thanks!

streaming sound

prophetessamy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:47:21 GMT

Hello!

I am new to this community and relatively new to Macromedia Flash. I have what I hope is a simple question. I am creating an instructional movie, and what I do was record a separate mp3 voice file, and then I put it on a layer in my flash movie. When I play my movie while in flash, everything syncs up according to where I put key frames to introduce things to fit with what my voice file says. However, when I do a test movie, or when I export the movie, everything drags a little behind where it should be in the soundtrack. The drag is consistent and does not get worse or better throughout the movie.

I tried changing my sound layer from event to streaming, and now it syncs just fine but it sounds crappy (all echo-y and low quality). Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you so much!!