Actionscript Tutorial Issue ?
I was reading Eddie Carrol's (sp?) tutorial on operators......well to get to the point, in one part he discusses the NOT operator...and give some lines of code:
On (Release)
If ( not on = 0)
Set Variable: "output" = "not on"
Else
Set Variable: "output" = "on"
End If
End On
I seem to have a problem with line 2..when i type it inside flash's actions, it tells me: The operator 'not' must be followed by an operand.
I am using flash 5, is Eddie's code outdated? If so what is the current way to use the NOT operator?
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Posted on: 01-12-2002, 10:33 PM
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So, lemme get this straight... What I do is I add the code that Lee adds (which I've done), but how do I add the video exactly? When I click that "New Video" thing in the library it asks me to import the .flv video file right then and there, but Lee's Flash MX 2004 doesn't do that. So what I did is I opened up a different new flash document and saved out my video in a .flv file with that. Then went back to the first file (with my actionscript and all) and imported my .flv in the Library's "New Video" choice. Then I dragged out the video and it worked. But I really feel I did something wrong, my actionscript of course has the file ("MoNht1.flv") in the last line which is my file instead of Lee's file ("vegas.flv"). When I test it out, the sound in my video sounds like crap and I don't know if I did it all 100% correct. Any help?
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Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!(Yeah I know, I'm late)
Well. In order to train and familiarize myself to flash (Macromedia flash professionnal 8 version), I decided to follow and put in application the Carousel 2 tutorial.
Everything worked fine since my last carousel swf build. My main problem is that the text is not displayed in the tooltip box. And I don't know why. My code seems to be nearly the exact copy of the one's which is given in the tutorial, but the tooltip box remains empty. A notice: When I put the text to "static", it is shown, not the case when I check "dynamic". Here is my actionscript code:
Code:
import mx.utils.Delegate;
var numOfItems:Number;
var radiusX:Number = 280;
var radiusY:Number = 75;
var centerX:Number = Stage.width/2;
var centerY:Number = Stage.height/2;
var speed:Number = 0.05;
var perspective:Number = 100;
var home:MovieClip = this;
var tooltip:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("tooltip","tooltip",10000);
tooltip._alpha = 0;
var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.load("icons.xml");
xml.onLoad = function()
{
var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
numOfItems = nodes.length;
for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
{
var t = home.attachMovie("item","item"+i,i+1);
t.angle= i* ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
t.onEnterFrame = mover;
t.toolText = nodes[i].attributes.tooltip;
t.icon.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);
t.ref.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);
t.icon.onRollOver = over;
t.icon.onRollOut = out;
}
}
function over()
{
home.tooltip.tipText.text = this._parent.toolText;
home.tooltip._x = this._parent._x;
home.tooltip._y = this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
home.tooltip.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this,moveTip);
home.tooltip._alpha = 100;
}
function out()
{
delete home.tooltip.onEnterFrame;
home.tooltip._alpha = 0;
}
function moveTip()
{
home.tooltip._x= this._parent._x;
home.tooltip._y= this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
}
function mover()
{
this._x = Math.cos(this.angle)* radiusX + centerX;
this._y = Math.sin(this.angle)* radiusY + centerY;
var s:Number = (this._y - perspective) / (centerY+radiusY - perspective);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s * 100;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);
}
this.onMouseMove = function()
{
speed = (this._xmouse-centerX)/2500;
}
Here is my xml code:
Code:
<icons>
<icon image="earth.png" tooltip="Reseau" />
<icon image="add.png" tooltip="Ajouter" />
<icon image="del.png" tooltip="Supprimer" />
<icon image="members.png" tooltip="Membres" />
<icon image="seek.png" tooltip="Rechercher" />
<icon image="help.png" tooltip="Aide" />
<icon image="email.png" tooltip="Email" />
<icon image="home.png" tooltip="Accueil" />
</icons>
Can someone help me find the "bug" please? Thanks in advance and sorry if the problem have already been posed (I made a search but find nothing related to my issue...).
Edit: I searched more and I downloaded the carousel2 version of the tutorial. Seems that the issue was bound to my tooltip movie clip. The way I made it was obviously wrong. I need to train myself more. Sorry to have bothered.
P.S: M.Lee, Thank you very much for your effort. I know this is not so simple to make such tutorials. Hope there were more people like you on the net.
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I have been working with this tutorial ¨Transitions between external swfs¨ from kirupa.com. I downloaded the zip and then tried to modify it with my own external swfs...worked fine as long as the swfs I swapped in were simple. But when I tried it with swfs that included galleries or any other kind of interactivity it seemed to break down. Made me wonder if I need to modify something additional when working with these kinds of slightly more complex swfs...
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Photo Gallery Tutorial Issue
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Flash
Code:
stop();
var senderLoad:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
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_root.gotoAndStop("success");
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}
}
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Code:
<?PHP
$theName = $_POST['theName'];
$theEmail = $_POST['theEmail'];
$theMessage = $_POST['theMessage'];
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Email: " . $theEmail;
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Message: " . $theMessage;
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Reply-To: $theEmail";
$sentOk = mail ($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "sentOk=" . $sentOk;
?>
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Submit button has this code:
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gotoAndStop(2);
}
The Form mc has this code:
onClipEvent(data){
nextFrame();
}
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<?php
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$subject = "From My Web Site";
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$headers .= "<" . $_POST["email"] . ">
";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "
";
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$message = $_POST["message"];
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?>
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Code:
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import mx.services.PendingCall;
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var ws:WebService = new WebService(earl);
var pc:PendingCall;
function getRates():Void {
pc = ws.getRate("United States","Canada");
pc.onResult = onResponse;
}
function onResponse(rate:Number) {
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}
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xRate_txt.text = "Error with request";
};
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<script type="text/javascript">
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fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
fo.addParam("loop", "false");
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onClipEvent (load) {
Symbol=content, Layer=actions, Frame=1: Line 7: Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
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To all of you actionScript Jedis out there Let there be light !
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Help, Please? Actionscript Issue. Thanks
THis is a three d rotating menu. What I want to do with it is simple.
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http://www.apgroup.la/devon/help.fla
thanks.
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I have on a timeline 2 different areas where I have labels. Say the labels are "Play1" and "Play2". And I have a button and in the script it says when released go to and play "Play1" and then go to and play "Play2". The problem is though when the button is clicked you can only see "Play2" happening and so I want it to start playing "Play1" and when it is finished THEN go to "Play2".
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