Flash :: Create Convincing "flipping Over" Effect And How To Stop Movie Clips

Movie Won't Stop Once I Try To Create Links
Hi everyone - this has got to be the dumbest question ever, but I have been watching tutorials all day and I can's figure this out:

I created this simple flash animation at the top of this page: http://epitomegirl.com/MWS/olarrysirishpub.com/index.html

My goal is to have it stop (like it does now) and once it stops, have 3 of the bottles clickable so you can go to a URL when you click on them. These have already been converted into buttons with instance names.

My problems:

(1) I have a stop command at the end of this animation, but as soon as I add any other actions anywhere in the timeline the movie starts looking uncontrollably

(2) I am using Flash CS3 and I can't for the life of me navigate the overwhelming actionscript options for just making a &^%$ing button clickable.

Could someone who is a kind soul take a moment to help me out with this? I'm guessing this should take 3 minutes but I've spent 4.5 hours trying to figure it out and I am losing my mind.

Thanks in advance for your help! :)

Carrie

Stop All Movie Clips
I created a button that will stop the main timeline _root animation. However, I also have a mc2 on the _root or main timeline. (Actually there are many mc's side by side on the maint imeline) The stop() command works on the _root timeline but not on my second movie clip mc2. I know I can use _root.mc2.stop() to stop this one movie. However, I have 50 movieclips and only one stop button.

How can I stop (send a command to the timelines in all the mc's)?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

iaustin

Stop All Movie Clips?(._)(_.)
an easy action script questioneony. is there any way of stopping all movie clips in a current scene?

peace

halfcab

Stop All Movie Clips
I have the following movie with a few movie clips embeded in eachother. How do I stop this movieclip(s) from playing from the main timeline.

Attached is my movie. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Stop A Movie Clips ._x
Hi have a few movie clip sthat I decrement thier x position like such

ActionScript Code:
myMc._x --
Is there a way to stop animating the movie clip once it has reached a certain position.Like when x gets to 320 stop moving.

Thanks

Stop All Movie Clips...HELP
Hi, I've been using this code to try and stop a main movie clip and all of the movie clips inside it.

Some will be familiar with it. My problem is that this code only stops the main movie "elements" but none of the nested clips, can anyone spot a glaring mistake.

Cheers

(a ******* graphic designer!)

function stopAllClips(clip) {
clip.stop();
for (var i in clip) {
if (typeof clip[i] == "elements") {
if (clip[i] != clip) {
stopAllClips(clip[i]);
}
}
}
}
function startAllClips(clip) {
clip.play();
for (var i in clip) {
if (typeof clip[i] == "elements") {
if (clip[i] != clip) {
startAllClips(clip[i]);
}
}
}
}

on (release) {
if (!_root.stopped) {
_root.stopAllClips(_root.elements);
_root.stopped = true;
} else {
_root.startAllClips(_root.elements);
_root.stopped = false;
}
}

Stop All Movie Clips
I've inherited a banner ad that I need to make updates to. The ad loops forever. I need to make it stop after 15 seconds. The file contains several movies clips that are not on the main time line. Is there a way to stop all movie clips at once.?

Flipping Effect
I have a class in Actionscript 2 that gave me a flipping effect similar to this one.

http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/flipnavigation/clock.html

I am having a lot of trouble creating this effect in AS3.0 or even converting the old class. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Flipping Box Effect
every time i try to do this frame by frame it looks crappy , i found a source file to look at but it errors for me, does this fla work for you guys?

EX:
http://www.ffiles.com/view_listing.php?sid=129&cat=57

the effect is the initial box, it flips into a big table for content ect

Flipping Effect
I have a class in Actionscript 2 that gave me a flipping effect similar to this one.

http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcompone ... clock.html

I am having a lot of trouble creating this effect in AS3.0 or even converting the old class. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Create Duplicate Movie Clips..
What I need is this:

for the user to be able to create a copy of a movie clip (that's in my library) onto the stage when they click a button.. they need to be able to create as many of these movie clips as they want each having it's own input text field and each being dragable.

Sample code?? I found stuff for AS 2.0 but not 3.0
examples of sites that do this type of thing??
Source files?

Please help!

[F8] How To Stop Movie Clips Duplicating When Movie Loops
Hi,

I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to stop my movie clips duplicating! I have one instance of a menu item movie clip which is supposed to duplicate to create another seven menu items. This works fine although each time the movie loops the menu items duplicate again and again - does anyone have any clues as to how I can stop this?

I'll attach the source file so you can take a look.

Thanks in advance

Joanna

How To Stop All Movie Clips Inside A Movie Clip
Is there a way to do stop/pause all the movie clips inside a Big movie clip?

I wanna control the movie clips as well with a slider. Yes i can control the Big movie clip yet i couldn't control those movie clips lie inside that Big movie clip.

Anybody can help ?

Flipping, Registration Points, Dynamic Clips
Say you have a movie-clip you dynamically added to the stage, either with createEmptyMovieClip or attachMovie. The registration point, by default, is in the top-left.

A common way to flip it horizontally it is to negate the x-scale, or you can apply a transformed Matrix to it.

In either case, the result is the same: the movie "flips" over the vertical axis (left edge). To get it to look like where it was before, you shift it over.

But that breaks the co-ordinates! What was previously an _x value of, say, 20, is now something like 142 (depending on the width of the object).

My question is: is there any way to flip a movie-clip in-place without changing its co-ordinates? That is, to make it flip, and look like it's in the exact same place, without the _x and _y values.

I've tried _xscale and Matrix transformations; I'm also 95% sure you can't move the registration point on dynamically-attached movie-clips (to make it flip about the center), is that correct?

RE: Stop All Movie Clips With One Click
Hi - can anyboby ease my pain by advising on how to halt all movie clips and sub-movie clips with one action - basically to stop everything in one click??
Any solutions welcome.
Cheers.

Button To Stop 2 Movie Clips
i want to know how to make a button that stops 2 movie clips when clicked. anyone know?
thanks

Stop Sound In Movie Clips
I have multiple movie clips with different sounds in each movie.

My movie clips are placed across the main timeline of my movie.

I have a "Next" and "Back" button on the main timeline that jumps me from frame to frame where each movie clip is placed. Everything works great.....but my sounds from the movie clips are running together.

How do I stop all sounds in a movie clip from the main timeline when I click either the "Next" or "Back" button.

I have a background sound on the main timeline and I do not want to stop this sound.......so the StopAllSounds function is not working for me. I just want to stop the sounds in the Movie Clip when I click the "Next" button.

Any ideas?

Thank you!
Jackie

Stop Random Movie Clips?
hey
i have created a littl game where random movie clips appear in random places, when they are clicked on, they dissapear.
the only thing is that i cant seem to stop the entire scene after a while so that it will go onto the next scene, instead the random mc's keep appearing throughout all the scenes...

how can i stop the scene after a certain time???
i attached a demo file to show what i mean.
please help!

[F5] Stop All Movie Clips From Working
i am using flash mx with actionscript 1.

Hi I have another problem with my flash game,

Basically once the game is finished the user gets taken to a new screen where it says “times up” and displays their score,

There is a pig movie clip that falls and a bucket movie clip that the user controls.
We have used the hit test to add the score whenever a pig hits the bucket.

But since the scripts are still running the score is still being added even after the game is finished.

So basically we need to stop all the movie clips from working (and make them disappear/go away/delete?) on that final frame so that the score stops adding up and it will just display the final score.

all the scripts we have searched for just seem to be about stopping movie clips with buttons.

Any help is appreciated,

thanks

Maz

How Can I Stop 'click-through' On Movie Clips?
Ok I have a problem which I hope has a simple answer but I would be happy with a complex one too.

Basically I have a movie with buttons in it - very usual kinda setup. But I also have some draggable movie clips that pop up over the top of the main movie and what really bugs me is that even if these movie clips are positioned over the buttons in the main movie, the buttons still can be clicked through the movie clips.

So is there a way to stop the buttons on the main movie being clickable, but only if the movie clips are covering them?

Thanks,

Jon

Movie Clips Stop Rotating
I have a rotating image (swf files) array on Apple Site that is displaying properly, but dies after an indeterminate amount of time. I have no idea why the bitmaps aren't being cached so that the files would continue to appear. There is no logical explanation for the script to just stop displaying, there is no limiting variable to stop the display. code is:

import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
stop();
var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
filename = ["Curealty_MC", "fetch2_MC", "homepossible_MC", "treasure_MC", "sterling_MC"];
path = "

Wondering About Movie Clips, And Stop()
Movie clips will loop no matter what, unless there's a stop() action in the script. So....

When I've created a 1 frame movie clip, I always place a stop action in that frame, because I've just assumed that flash doesn't care that it only has one frame, and keeps looping it. I know it does no harm, but I figure reducing loops is never a bad thing.

But I've noticed in Open Source files, other movie clips that only have one frame, the author didn't add a stop command.

Does Flash not loop movie clips with 1 frame (if it has 2 or more it will), or do other people just not consider it?

Page Flipping Effect
Hi,

I'm trying to display a sample report that has 3 pages. Instead of just clicking on next and getting the next page, I thought it would be fun to make it seem like the pages were flipped (either to the left, or upwards) as you would in a normal way handling a report that is bound on the left or stapled in the top left corner.
However, being new to Flash, I can't seem to make the masking work to create anything close to what I want.
Anybody tried this before and could be of assistance?
Thanks!

Paper Flipping Effect
Hi there

Does anyone has any idea how to do the paper flipping effect in flash.

I need it urgently. Tks

Flipping Pages Effect
I can't not figure out how to do this:

http://www.swedezine.net/agettogether/

It is a flipping pages effect. Does anyone have an idea to help me.
Thx.

Page Flipping Effect?
Hello,

Does anyone know how to do this page flipping effect in Flash? for an example, please go here:

http://www.animo-fashion.de/winter05.shtml

another example seen here...

http://www.vishaka.de/

I am totally stumped as to how they were able to do this~it's a neat effect though, that's for sure. Reply or tips will be much appreciated~

Thank You~

Flipping Tile Effect
Hi Guys,

I have created an effect which kinda looks like a tile flipping over. My site is made up of a 100x100 of tiles which will all flip over once on mouseover. I have completed the flipping function as below:

Code:
function flipForward(targetClip) {
// write name of clip to array
i = _root.flippedArray.length;
_root.flippedArray[i] = targetClip;
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
targetClip._alpha = 30;

// start flipping business
var scale_Tween1 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeIn, 100, 50, 8, false);
var move_Tween1 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeIn, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos+25), 8, false);
scale_Tween1.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
var scale_Tween2 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeIn, 50, 2, 3, false);
var move_Tween2 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeIn, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos+24), 3, false);
scale_Tween2.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
targetClip._alpha = 100;
var scale_Tween3 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeOut, 2, 50, 3, false);
var move_Tween3 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeOut, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos-24), 3, false);
scale_Tween3.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
var scale_Tween4 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeOut, 50, 100, 8, false);
var move_Tween4 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeOut, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos-25), 8, false);
scale_Tween4.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
};
};
};
};
}

But now I need a simple function which checks to see if the current tile has already flipped (and not let it flip again), and also to check if the flipping transisition is playing (and not let it start again).
I thought the best way to do this would be to write the name of the movie clip to an Array, and then check that array before the flip function happens?
This is what I tried for the checking function, but it doesnt work!

Code:
function checkIt(targetClip) {
for (j=0; j<_root.flippedArray.length; j++) {
if (targetClip == _root.flippedArray[j]) {
trace("// found it");
break;
}
}
flipForward(targetClip);
}

Any suggestions guys???

Flipping Page Effect
Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a simple flipping page effect tutorial. Anyone in here knows any please? Any help would be appreciated.

Paper Flipping Effect
as seen here

http://www.templates247.com/previews/546/t546.html

it seems to be done frame by frame I think, but what program would I use to generate those actions or do I simply have to manipulate each image change in photoshop?

I want to do the flipping effect to a movie clip, is it possible to manipulate a mc this way through AS3?

Flipping Tile Effect
Hi Guys,

I have created an effect which kinda looks like a tile flipping over. My site is made up of a 100x100 of tiles which will all flip over once on mouseover. I have completed the flipping function as below:

Code:
function flipForward(targetClip) {
// write name of clip to array
i = _root.flippedArray.length;
_root.flippedArray[i] = targetClip;
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
targetClip._alpha = 30;

// start flipping business
var scale_Tween1 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeIn, 100, 50, 8, false);
var move_Tween1 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeIn, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos+25), 8, false);
scale_Tween1.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
var scale_Tween2 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeIn, 50, 2, 3, false);
var move_Tween2 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeIn, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos+24), 3, false);
scale_Tween2.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
targetClip._alpha = 100;
var scale_Tween3 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeOut, 2, 50, 3, false);
var move_Tween3 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeOut, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos-24), 3, false);
scale_Tween3.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
var scale_Tween4 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_width", Regular.easeOut, 50, 100, 8, false);
var move_Tween4 = new mx.transitions.Tween(targetClip, "_x", Regular.easeOut, _root.floatingXPos, (_root.floatingXPos-25), 8, false);
scale_Tween4.onMotionFinished = function() {
_root.floatingXPos = targetClip._x;
};
};
};
};
}
But now I need a simple function which checks to see if the current tile has already flipped (and not let it flip again), and also to check if the flipping transisition is playing (and not let it start again).
I thought the best way to do this would be to write the name of the movie clip to an Array, and then check that array before the flip function happens?
This is what I tried for the checking function, but it doesnt work!

Code:
function checkIt(targetClip) {
for (j=0; j<_root.flippedArray.length; j++) {
if (targetClip == _root.flippedArray[j]) {
trace("// found it");
break;
}
}
flipForward(targetClip);
}

Any suggestions guys???

Flipping Effect In Flash
Hi,
I have seen this effect a number of times but I dont know if its done in flash or adobe aftereffect. The effect is a flipping effect that makes its looks like you are flipping a paper or something like that or folding a cardboard. Here are some links so people can understand what im talking about. If any one knows how to do this effect in flash, help me out or direct me to a tutorial.

Click on the menu and see how the section showes up
http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...ates%2F&i=9756

roll over the menu and see the menu section flips
http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...ates%2F&i=9701

this is a bit different but see how the section are introduced
http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...tes%2F&i=10103

Page Flipping Effect
Hi

Is there anyone who knows how to make a effect like page flip? Or is it possibly that someone has a moviclip for this?

Lis

How To Do A Card Flipping Effect...
Hi all,

just wondering if anyone can direct me to any tutorials or samples or movies that teach or have a card flipping (open) effect. I'm building an interactive eCard and hope to create a realistic flipping effect. Many Thanks...

Cheers!
VINZ

Flipping Page Effect
Hi, I'm working on a project which need a page flip effect, couldn't find tutorial here, please help me out, a rushing project......really appreciate your help!

I Want To Create A Start/Stop Button For A Flash Movie
So I have this flash movie, that someone else made, and I don't have access to a flash program...I have access to Swish2, but I've tried importing the program to swish, but it won't work...is there any way that I would be able to make some kind of code in HTML or Javascript that would link to the movie? Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is kind of a rush rush thing...

oh, and here's the link to the site, I know the start-stop buttons on there now don't work...but it was something I tried of many things...if anyone could help me it would be so great and I would be forever in your debit.

http://www.oldorchardinn.ns.ca/et_home.htm

**Andi

Create Play And Stop Buttons For Movie And Sound
Hey,
sorry if this has already been asked, I couldnt find it.
I have a movie I made and I want to give the user some control by creating play and stop buttons.
I made the buttons, however when i stop the movie it cuts the sound as well (which i want), BUT when i then push the play button, the movie plays but the sound stays off.

Is there a way to make the sound and movie play with a play button?

thanx in advance

Create Multiple Empty Movie Clips
Ok so basically I have a button that will create a empty movie clip and attach some things into that clip When the button is first clicked. My problem is that when the button is clicked a second time. The clip will reload itself and I need it to duplicate. So if I hit the button 5 times, there would be 5 items on the stage.

Here is what I'm doing.

Code:
hold1.onPress = function(){
trace("your hit me");
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("conHolder",1);
//conHolder.hitArea = conHolder.content;
//_root.attachMovie(conButs,conBut,3)
_root.conHolder.attachMovie("conButs", "conButs", _root.getNextHighestDepth()+1);
_root.conHolder._x = 100;
_root.conHolder._y = 100;
_root.conHolder.startDrag();
//_root.conHolder._x += (_root._xmouse-10-this._x);
//_root.conHolder._y += (_root._ymouse-10-this._y);
_root.conHolder.conButs.hold.loadMovie("icons/couch2Seat.swf",1);
}

Thanks for all and any help.

Create TextField In Nested Movie Clips
Hi I am new to AS programming, just had this problem on creating textField in
nested movie clips:

var Scene1:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("Scene1", 1);
var txt1:TextField = Scene1.createTextField("txt1", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100);
txt1.text = "First text field." ;

var Scene2:MovieClip = Scene1.createEmptyMovieClip("Scene2", 2);
var txt2:TextField = Scene2.createTextfield("txt2", 1, 200, 200, 100, 100);
txt2.text="Second text field.";
trace(text2);

while running in the Flash Player, txt1 is displayed, but txt2 is traced as "not defined".
could anyone help to explain? Thanks a lot!

Create Movie Clips To Display Text
I am trying to create movie clips that will display text. I have loaded text into an array from XML. I know that I have sucessfully created the clips and loaded the XML because I tested that with a trace function. I have used a for loop and createEmptyMovieClip to create the MCs. Once this is done, how do I get the clips to show in my swf?

Create And Position Movie Clips From An XML File
Hi, been a long time admirer of the work on kirupa.com and learnt alot from you guys.. Thanks for all the times I've found an answer for something that's been driving me mad on here!! Anyways have managed to come up with a problem that I can't seem to find an answer to at the moment..

I want to make a map that will display dots on it that when you rollover them displays info about that location.. Have done that no problem using dynamic text boxes.. thing is I want to use an XML file to populate the map so that you can add new dots to the XML file with X and Y positions and info and flash can read that XML file and mark them out on the map with the info on rollover..

So any ideas on how I use actionscript to create and position dots from an XML file which I can add to??

Thanks in advance for any ideas!!

Nibs

Do Movie Clips Create Problems When Nested?
I'm having a serious problem all of a sudden with movie clips not playing that had previously played for weeks and have not been modified (I have been working on other parts).

These clips have some animation in them, then they are placed into a scene. They are nothing spectacular, fairly simple animation.

Since they are nested, could this be causing the problem?

I seemed to notice this when I added a 4th scene to the movie. Could the size of the flash file be an issue? Or number of scenes? Right now the size of the flash file is 540k, the swf is only 48k though.

I tried pulling out one of the scenes and running it alone, and it still seems to have the same problem... a clip that animated doesn't do it. When I go into the clip itself, it runs fine. But in the movie where it is placed...it doesn't.

Is file corruption a possibility? I'm really grasping at straws here, all of a sudden stuff is not working and I have to deliver it today.

Create Multiple Empty Movie Clips
Ok so basically I have a button that will create a empty movie clip and attach some things into that clip When the button is first clicked. My problem is that when the button is clicked a second time. The clip will reload itself and I need it to duplicate. So if I hit the button 5 times, there would be 5 items on the stage.

Here is what I'm doing.

Code:
hold1.onPress = function(){
trace("your hit me");
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("conHolder",1);
//conHolder.hitArea = conHolder.content;
//_root.attachMovie(conButs,conBut,3)
_root.conHolder.attachMovie("conButs", "conButs", _root.getNextHighestDepth()+1);
//_root.conHolder._x = 100;
//_root.conHolder._y = 100;
_root.conHolder.startDrag();
_root.conHolder._x += (_root._xmouse-10-this._x);
_root.conHolder._y += (_root._ymouse-10-this._y);
_root.conHolder.conButs.hold.loadMovie("icons/couch2Seat.swf",1);
}
Thanks for any help.

Using AS3 & XML To Create Multiple Clickable Movie Clips
So, I want to create a series of "minis" on my page dynamically with AS3, using information from an XML doc. So far, so good, I've been able to do that. But, I want each mini to load a different larger image when clicked upon. Can't quite get there. I'm using a "for" loop to loop through the XML document and create a new instance of a mc called "mini_mc" for each item in the XML doc and then using a different image in each one and then moving each new one over to create a long line of minis.

What I can't figure out is how to give each of those instances of the "mini_mc" a particular name or label so I can create a function to load in the larger image based on which one is clicked upon.

Here's the AS3 code I have so far below. Again, this works fine to load all the minis, populate them with images and line them up. But how can I give each one a unique name or label so I'll know which one is being clicked upon? Are they currently all just "mini_mc" or is there a unique "handle" I can use to get at each one? Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

for(var i = 0; i < myXML.photo.length(); i++) {
var mini_mc:mcMini = new mcMini();
stage.addChildAt(mini_mc, i);
var displayMini:URLRequest = new URLRequest("celebrity/celebritymini" + myXML.photo.image[i]);
var miniLoader:Loader = new Loader();
miniLoader.load(displayMini);
mini_mc.addChild(miniLoader);
mini_mc.x = 198 + (i*52) ;
mini_mc.y = 687;
}

} catch (e:TypeError){
//Could not convert the data, probably because it is not formated correctly
trace("Could not parse the XML");
trace(e.message);
}
}