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Action Scripting
Having trouble finding out what where the command "end on" in the action panel of a flash 5 tutorial called PopUp Menu I'm trying to recreate. I've checked the macromedia site under action scripting dictionary but can't find out where this expression is or can it be mannually inserted somehow...the tutorial was almost a success but I failed to locate this "end on" command...please advise! Many thanks

Action Scripting Help
Does anyone know where to go to get a really good tutorial on, basically, what all the various action scripts do?

Any help would be appreciated!

Action Scripting
I have been doing little action scripting and found some real effects from flash typer and the scripts as well but i can not find how to put text in the second line to be effected by the script which command will help me to do so the action scripts are as follows

text = "Test effect for flashkit.com";
i = 1;
max = length(text);
kerning = "10";
size = "10";
setProperty ("char", _visible, "0");

duplicateMovieClip ("char", "char" add i, i);
set ("/char" add i add "/letter:char", substring(text, i, 1));
setProperty ("/char" add i, _x, 100+Number(i*kerning));
setProperty ("/char" add i, _xscale, 10*size);
setProperty ("/char" add i, _yscale, 10*size);
i = Number(i)+1;

if (Number(i)>Number(max)) {
stop ();
} else {
gotoAndPlay (3);
}

Action Scripting
Hi out there. I'm very new to Flash scripting and am in the process of developing a multiple choice survey in Flash. The selected answers are then sent to an ASP file. Up to this point, I have everything working fine.

Then, I used Dreamweaver and embedded the swf into an html file. Now the info collected in Flash isn't making it to the asp database. Any ideas why this is happening?

Again, I'm very new to this, so if some of the "lingo" is a bit off, sorry!

Thank you

Help Someone For Action Scripting
pls help me to get a solution for mouseover!!
hi there, is there anyone who can help me to find a solution based on
inserting a action script program in a mouseover movieclip' button
then showing up a animated navigational buttons, like the way the
flash designers did in http://www.mcdonalds.co.kr

If you pls. dont hesitate to write me....Thank you very much..!

pls. email me at this site.....nardsdesign@site.com.ph

Action Scripting
I am using Flash Version 6.0 and I was wondering where I could go to learn Action Scripting. If it is like a programming language like C just lemme know also. I just need a little help because I am new and the only thing I made was a working clock. *Sucky Eh?*

Action Scripting
I was working on a game and needed to turn a number into a countdown. I need ideas on how to do this.

Ps. Using flash MX, you'll get your name in the game credits!!!

Action Scripting
Ok....I made a movie clip and it had a button in it....and i wanted the button to go to a specific place...so i did the on release....gotoandstop.....so forth....but then when i preview it....it doesn't go where i want. I have the movie clip on one of my scenes...and the place i want it to go is on the same scene...what am i doing wrong....and is it the action scripting?

Action Scripting
how do u make a proper moving button w/ many keyframes and still keep its actions bc when i added the keyframes the object actions didnt work 1/2 the time! does ne1 know of a good actionscript 4 this?

HELP IN ACTION SCRIPTING
HI everyone
i m using flash 5 how can i link from document to document wz movie inside the documents how the process goes

tanx

thunderbird16000@aol.com

Action Scripting
Hello, I am not that new to flash mx, but i want to make an air hocky type game where you play as one person and the computer plays as another and you bounce the puck around until it goes in the opposing goal. I need an action script.

Where can i learn action scripting?

New To Action Scripting
I'm trying to get a simple button to get url but i can't get the "on"mouse event? its not active( a lighter grey) I v'e changed to a movie clip but no joy, i'm sure its somthing simple ,but i'm going round in circles, i'm using mx
Any help would be great
thanks
Brownie

MX & Action Scripting
I just invested in Flash MX and I want to teach myself Action Scripting. Someone gave me Phillip Kerman's book on Action Scripting but it's for Flash 5. Is this okay to start learning on or should I buy an MX book?

Help With Action Scripting Please
ok bascially what i am trying to do is have a movieclip with a bunch of buttons in it... and it's gonna be partially covered... so then what i want to happen is when i move my mouse over a button i want the movie clip with the buttons in it to slide up or down depending on the button i move my mouse over....

and this is probably super easy action scripting but my God for the life of me i can't figure the stupid thing out... so if anyone can give me a nudge in the right direction so i can get this to work... that would be great....

thanks,
CRG

Action Scripting
Hi, im new to flash and id like some help.
I know about all that make an object slide mutate or shift etc... but i was wondering if there was a good book outthere that someone would recommend me buying that teaches and explains action scripting. and also recommend an flash book that kinda walks you through the basics of web designing? like explains why you should layer things the way you do etc... thx a bunch

Action Scripting Help Please
i need to know how to make a movie clip play ONLY when the mouse is moved over it, if there is anyone who can help me that would be great, thanks a lot
Dan

Action Scripting Help Please
i just need to know how you remove a movie clip after it's played when you press a button. if anyone could help me that would be great thanks a lot

Action Scripting
I have a parent movie.
in frme 2 i have a child movie.
that has some frame navigation that works successfully.
when i
on (release) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(1);
}

It works.
then i can get it to go to another frame,with cild movie, where there is the same exact frame navigation. only the navigation goes bach to the "root" movie frame two. when the action scripting specifies frame 5 of the root movie. i even tried specifing frame labels.
does anyone have an idea what might be going on?
i've workd for hours trying ot figure it out and can't.

Url Action Scripting
I've been having some problems with the GetURL action script, and i was wondering if anyone knew the solution. Iam sort of new to flash, and dont know anything about the action script except for stop and play actions. Anyway, how do you give a button a hyperlink in flash 5? is it on (release) {
getURL ("www.website.com", "_blank");
}

or _self, or _top? I did _top and it worked in a previous movie i did, but in the new one iam doing now it only works when flash is currently running, and as far as i know wont work on the net. If anyone has an answer to fix this simple problem plz respond!

Also,

Of all the sond fx websites out there, which do you think is the best one?

Action Scripting Where Is It?
I used Flash 5 a long long time ago! I now have MX, and wish to start learning again, I downloaded a very simple drag-bubbles FLA, so I could try to remember how to do it...

There wasnt a piece of action script anywhere?? not in the movie clips or layers or graphics...Is MX different? I was looking for something that resembled startdrag or something. I downloaded another one which was a motion tween, I couldnt see any tweening in the frames??

Am I being incredibly stupid?

Thanks

PS Everytime I try to use my own startdrag script, the mouse never snaps to the center of the graphic why? I clicked the box that says snap to center??

Thanks again

Action Scripting?
i have two, offset, overlaping boxes that i want to swap positions when you press a button...but i want with each press of the button for them to swap again...so box 1 is on top...press the button then box two is on top...press the button again...back to box one...
any suggestions?
xxxjosh

I Need A Pro At Action Scripting
i need help on a certain actionscript that im not sure how to explain. You know when an action is moving but when you pause the movie it is still moving. and all you need to do is insert 1 frame for that whole action to move....yah, any 1 understand???
i need it for simple lipsyncing of a character.

I Need Action Scripting
how do i make a sprite walk with arrow keys when i put in the action script it makes it slide please help me

Action Scripting
hi--
I am trying to add a function, so that every time you press the mouse the movie reloads...here is what i have:

ears = new Object();
ears.onMouseMove= function() {
if (onMouseDown){
myArtwork.buildArtwork();
}
}
Mouse.addListener(ears);

the action scripting contains no errors, but it still does not work...
any suggestions?

Thank you

Help With Action Scripting
I need help. I took a flash course about three years ago and totally forgot how to add action scripting to a button.

I need to button to take me to scene 2 frame 1. All I remember is something like onrelease gotoAndPlay () but I don't know how exactly I am supposed to write this stuff. Is there a book anyone recommends on reading for action scripting?

And how do you use the scroll bar?

What Is Action Scripting 2?
I have heard of AS 2 that is new with MX 2004. But I haven't seen lots of information on it. Is it a new language or just a modification? Is it going to completely replace AS 1? Am I going to have to learn an all new language? Because if so I want to get crackin'.

New To Action Scripting
hmm doesnt work. I'm trying the hittest function but it gives me errors, im using flash MX.

Im getting the following errors.

code: Symbol=laser, Layer=Layer 2, Frame=1: Line 3: ')' expected
with (_root.nme_go_down.00003){

Symbol=laser, Layer=Layer 2, Frame=1: Line 5: Unexpected '}' encountered
}

the file attached is my game that im working on.

Help With Action Scripting
This is getting pretty frustrating...by the way I'm using Flash 6.0.

I'm trying to get this picture to slide up when the mouse rolls over the image and down with the mouse moves off the image. The problem I'm having is they are not smooth transitions.

Basically, no matter where the movie clip is in it's process I always want it to complete the full range of motion. And if the mouse remains over the button then I want to image to stay at the top. I'm not sure if that is very clear, here is a website that has what I'm trying to create (http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/main/...ge=wb_homepage)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Everything that I've figured out this far has been from online tutorials...I really don't know what I'm doing.

Thanks in advance,

John

I've attached the .fla file to be more helpful.

XML And Action Scripting
Hi, I making a "player" that loads a set of images through xml. On the site I want to make it so a person clicks on a thumbnail and the swf will load that set of images. The only problem is if I link the swf file to a certain xml file that wont be dynamic enough to load a different set of images. So the question is does anyone know how I may go about this?

Need Action Scripting Help
hi buddies
i m new here to need ur help in action scripting.i hav created like text editor where i can change font color,font,and size of text which i write in a text box (input type) but now i want that another text box which is also dynamic type ...........when i input the text in textbox1(input type) it insert into 2nd text box(dynamic type) when i click on update text button on 1st time. but i want that if i change the textbox1 font,color or size and click again on update text button , the text of textbox2 will b change as textbox1 everytime when i change.

thanx hope u ppl help me to do this and to learn Action SCripting.

here is link wat i got the idea to do this but how to do this...can u help me
http://www.uberprints.com/studio/?pId=AN923&cId=WHT_BLK

Help With Action Scripting
Hi there,

I've made a Navigation with six buttons, the swf file is located within

E-PortfolioSwfTop_Nav
av.swf

for the home button i used this script

on(rollOver) {
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on(rollOut) {
this.gotoAndPlay(11);
}
on(release) {
getURL("Main_Page.html");
}

now when i open the html page

G:DocumentsE-PortfolioIntroduction.html

and click on the home button it goes to

G:DocumentsE-PortfolioMain_Page.html

which is fine, however when i open

G:DocumentsE-PortfolioOnline_ServicesOnline.html

and click on the homepage it says "cannot locate the file"

i think because the online.html is in another directory

how can this problem be resolved, becasue when i take it to school i want it to work as well and when the moderator sees it, it shoud work for him as well.

How do i do that

Thanks you for your

Action Scripting For An RPG
haha
alright well heres my predicament:

I have a character with a set of walk cycles from different angles (front back left right) and would like to match his movement with the arrow keys and the such. Now i have gotten him to move accordingly but the problem i have is that i can only get him to return to one pose when he stops. I cant figure out how to get him to stop at his respective poses ( like if he walks to the left he stops walking and it stops on a pose facing the left etc...) is this possible?
or am i wasting my time?

hehehe let me know.

Help With Action Scripting
I have been developing a site and I am having issues with something that is probably very simple. I have created several movieclips that expand and contract as you roll over them. I wanted to make a function/method so that when the user clicks, it takes them to another scene in this movie. Here is the action script I am using:

on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 9");
}

Unfortunately, this is not working. I thought that perhaps the on(release) method wouldn't work on these movie clips based on the action script I was already using to expand/contract the boxes, but the following code works just fine:

on(release) {
getURL("home.html");
}

I'm stumped. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to what I should do? Here is the web address of the page I'm working on, it has the movie I'm having an issue with. AndrewJW.com. The first image on the left next to the word photography links to another page of the site. The image of the pearl ring next to that is the one that will not advance to another scene in the movie.

Thanks for any and all input.

Andrew

Is This Action Scripting?
Hi........ I have several menu items that need to run thru the same transition once clicked on (screen fade out), but I don't wanna have to do this animation sequence per every menu item........... how could I tell all these menu items to run thru this sequence yet end up in a different spot down the time line? Is this called action scripting? SO for example, for NEWS it would run thru the sequence frames 55-90 then go to 100, EVENTS would run thru 55-90 then end up on 130....... does this make sense? any help would be appreciated.

Action Scripting
hi
how to add one imagefolder to this prolem,

stop();
//next button
next_btn.onPress=function(){

if(mc_content._currentframe==mc_content._totalframes){

mc_content.gotoAndStop(1)

}else{

mc_content.nextFrame()

}

}
//last button

last_btn.onPress=function(){

if(mc_content._currentframe==1){

mc_content.gotoAndStop(mc_content._totalframes)

}else{

mc_content.prevFrame()

}

}

Action Scripting
hi good moring
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=action s, Frame=1: Line 1: ';' expected
Set up the variables;
please help me out

Action Scripting
hi,
Error opening URL "C:y foldery images0.jpg"
how to remove this error

Action Scripting
hi
Error opening URL "file:///D|/CCS/multimedia/flash/fla%2Bimg/picture2.jpg"
I get this error every time when i press ctl+enter.
this my scriping.
imgbtn1.onRelease = function() {
infoField._visible = true;
startLoading("picture1.jpg");
};
imgbtn2.onRelease = function() {
infoField._visible = true;
startLoading("picture2.jpg");
};
imgbtn3.onRelease = function() {
infoField._visible = true;
startLoading("picture3.jpg");
};
function startLoading(whichImage) {
loadMovie(whichImage, "imageLoader");
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
infoLoaded = imageLoader.getBytesLoaded();
infoTotal = imageLoader.getBytesTotal();
percentage = Math.floor(infoLoaded/infoTotal*100);
infoField.text = percentage+"%";
if (percentage>=100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
infoField._visible = false;
}
};
}

I Am New To Action Scripting
Hi to all,

I am new to action scripting.. i would like to know how to start programming in flash.. what are all basic things need to know..What is the Object Oriented Programming... is there any good tutorials to understand.. i am having basic knowledge please any one help me on this..

Thank you all
Satish Kumar RajulaText

Action Scripting
what is the best method of knowing and remembering the actual script code

Action Scripting
okay, my first post, i sound like a total nub

im making a intro for a game, and i want to be able to type a username and password in, and have it email what i imputed to my email.

can anyone give me some help?

my .fla file
thanks in advance

**** This Action Scripting
is there a way i can change the actionscripting box to normal mode lol, im not that good and i cant remember anyting, when i try to write it on my onw, it never works plus, all my books are the old mx or 5 ones, never get anything right.

im so stuck and i tried to save my file in 2004 in the regular mx but when i go to mx i cant open it!!!

cant use my mx2004 fla in my other flash mx

so confusing

i hope i dont have to do this all over again in mx because its ganna be a hassle

***oh and i tried to take the stuff on mx2004 and copy/paste to mx and still couldnt

Action Scripting Help
okay,

i have a main movie clip that has two movie clips inside it, movie clip A and B. and inside of movie clip A i'm trying to execute this script:

cthru.onPress = function() {
wording.projectplay._visible = false;
};

but the problem is that the movie clip "wording" is inside movie clip B. if there is anyone that can help me direct this command, that would be a great help. thanks
Dan

Action Scripting
what is the best method of knowing and remembering the actual script code