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Tutorial Building Games In Flash 5- Having A Problem
hi there ^^
i have to make my final exams in a month and part of it is a flash work about a game like in the tutorial i linked downwards.. i would be REALLY thankfull if you could help me with my problem..

i might be wrong but at least for me this game:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ga...611/more13.php
has a little problem and i cant make out where it lies so lets describe it:
every time i hit ctrl+left the game starts new
when i hit ctrl+right it shows game over

well as you might imagin this might make my mark a bit
help pls

Trouble With Tutes (esp. Tutorial 38 Building Games In Flash)
Ok, i have had a look at a few tutes and i'd like to congratulate all the contributors on all the time and effort they have put in to create such a detailed, free, understandable resourse.

Unfortunately though i have had a few troubles in some of them... I am currently using Flash Mx. I know how to use many of the program's non action script features.. tweens etc, and some basic things like pressing buttons for new scenes etc.

With "Tutorial 38 Building games in flash" i have got as far as the bit where we try to tell flash that when we push the arrow keys something should move.

when i press ctrl + enter i get the preview pop-up, along with an output pop-up which feeds lots of #'s through when i move the mouse... but when i press the arrow keys i get no movement... i also get told the key i pressed corresponds to 0, in the number code it usually gives. Is this normal (should it be zero), and if so... why do i recieve no movement?

pls assist... thx

Building A 3D Carousel Using A Tutorial As Base
I am building the 3D carousels in the gotoandLearn.com video tutorials, however at the moment I'm utterly stuck. The code is AS2:

Code:
var numOfItems:Number;
var radiusX:Number = 320;
var radiusY:Number = 90;
var centerX:Number = Stage.width/2;
var centerY:Number = Stage.height/3.2;
var speed:Number = 0.03;
var home:MovieClip = this;

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;

xml.onLoad = function()
{
var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
numOfItems = nodes.length;
for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
{
var t = home.attachMovie("icon","icon"+i,i+1);
t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
t.onEnterFrame = mover;
t.icon.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);

}
}

xml.load("icon.xml");

function mover()
{
this._x = Math.cos(this.angle) * radiusX + centerX;
this._y = Math.sin(this.angle) * radiusY + centerY;
var s:Number = this._y / (centerY+radiusY);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s * 100;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
}

this.onMouseMove = function()
{
speed = (this._xmouse-centerX)/9500;
}
In tests, this works except for a problem - it sees the XML file, but does not load the actual .png graphics. The graphics are located in the same directory, and all the linkage properties are set correctly. I get four floating basic images in the carousel (there are four nodes)..nothing else, however.

Help With Understanding A Website Building Tutorial...
Ok, well I found this http://www.webdesigntutorials.net/tutorials/flash_tutorials/Flash_MX_tutorials_The_Complete_Tutorial_on_How_to_Build_a_Flash_Site.php tutorial on how to build a Flash Website. I was doing pretty good until Step 23 and it told me to repeat Step 19. I'm confused because if I repeat Step 19 it will mess some things up. I'm still a beginner with Flash, so I may just be missing something easy.

Here is what I have so far from following that tutorial. http://download.yousendit.com/BE7C68226EE2AC58

And if anyone can recommend a better tutorial on building a Flash website, feel free to post it up.

Video Basics :: Building On That Tutorial
I'd like to build on the Video Basics tutorial and use multiple video clips. I'd to have about 5 buttons that will each load a different video clip when clicked. My question is, do I have to make up 5 different NetSream objects or can I simply load a different FLV url into the command:

ns.play("http://www.mysite.com/myvideo.flv");

(I would have a variable containing the flv url attached to each button and it would load that into ns.play(variableToUrl); or something like that...

Any suggestions?

Building Your First AIR Application With Flex - Video Tutorial
http://www.beedigital.net/blog/?p=1084

Building A Flash Game? Help Please.
Hi there.

I'm looking into making a flash game, but im not to sure where to start.

The basic idea is to have an person scroll left to right trying to catch things falling from random places from the top of the screen.
There will be two object falling. One object (object 1) should add to the score and the other object (object 2) would be taking away from the score, more or less.

The idea is that if they got to much of either object the game would be over. They user would have to maintain a healthy medium between the two.

Also, the persons graphic would increase if they had two much of object 1 and would decrease when they have object two.

I hope this makes sense. And I hope someone here would be able to help me out with some links to tutorials and such..

Like I said... I've never made a game before. But I am pretty good with flash.

Thanks

Building Screensaver W/ Flash MX?
Does anyone know how to build screensaver using Flash MX? Or if this is possible at all?

P2779

Building An All Flash Website Please Help
Hey! I need to know a few things about building an all flash website (flashsite):

1. Is the site made of different swf's (ie. navigation bar, main content, mp3/music player)

2. Do i just create tables/layers in Dreamweaver and put the swf's in them.

3. How does the navigation swf pull up differnt pages (other swf's) in seperate swf (main content area)

Please help in giving me your in put, and anything else that i have to know about building a flashsite. THANX!

How Ilustrate Building In Flash?
Hi flash fans.
I want now create nice icons for my map in Flash.
I tried my first building last evening, but i am not content with my work.
Please see first try a give me impulse, what is the best way.

http://www.flashmedia.cz/flashkit/ex...icons_test.zip
Jan

Building A Web Site With Flash MX
Can anyone recommend any good books or tutorials on building a complete website using Flash MX? I've found a thousand & one books/tutorials on Flash MX/Action script & making objects follow the mouse around the screen etc.... Yawn! People are going to be sick of that kind of stuff before long aren't they

What I really want, After going through some basics with Sams: Learn Flash MX in 24 hours book, Is something that will demonstrate how to construct complete web sites with Flash MX. The only book I've found so far is the one on the link below but it's had appaling reviews & apparently contains lots of mistakes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...253786-9205213

Cheers, DB

Building A Mp3 Player In Flash
I'm using flash MX.

I'm building a website for a band and was wondering where I can find a tutorial or some kind of help on the actionscripting I would need to make a MP3 player for a few of their songs. Thanks for any help.

Building Flash Websites?
I am a very newbie web designer, well I wouldn't even go as far as to call myself a web designer but i'm starting!!

I am very proficient with photoshop and have gotten to grips with very basic animation in Flash MX. But that was learned by fumbling and just jumping in at the deep end.

I am now working on a site for a friend and want to use as much flash as possible and would like some tips on how to use action scripts or make links.

Other than that the general design principles on a flash website, as in are the individual pages different scenes or seperate animations. how to integrate a preloader etc.

If anybody would care to help I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Ionize

Building A Flash Application
Hello I'm writing to request some advice from a senior flash developer.

I myself am a flash artist/designer, with not much programming/dev experience. I'm starting a flash application project that involves a lot of interactivity. Basically the user will have a menu system of objects to click on, then drag to the central area of the screen and interact with the main object [central focus].

My questions are these:

> i would like some professional advice on how to build this application so its done correctly, meaning taking ever precaution to make sure i have a robust and sturdy interactive application. I already have some thought on this, like maybe use a multi framed page and call to different object using javascript....or build it entirely in a FLASH MX. Could you provide any tips, things to look out for etc.

This is my view of the application [just so you have an idea of what I'm doing].....

I have a Flash MX application that has a central focus character. Surrounding the character are a variety of object/tools that when selected [the mouse cursor turns into the object or tool] and dragged to the character [central area] the specific tool interacts with the character which depending on the tool or object will invoke a particular animation or event. make sense? There will be a variety of other small items involved like a button to create a snap-shop of the character--which will become a pop up window that has the ability to email to the user, well i have a bunch of questions, but like i said prior, I'm pretty sure how this all works, i just need to research, but if you could advice me how to start i'd greatly appreciate it.....

some things i already know......

> a pre-loader definitely
> i need to learn the mouse cursor function

-thanks in advance- roy

1dt Time Building Flash Cd
Hi everyone
I am trying for the 1st time to make a standalone player to be burned and distributed on cd.
I've got a couple of questions that i was hoping people might know the answers to:

is there a way to make the player open automatically as the cd is loaded. for a pc a guess that would be something to do with making it an executable, I'm actally working on a mac

the other question is wether it is possible to open a pdf directly off the cd thru a button in standalone player. i tried getURL but it tries to open explorer instead.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Building My First Flash Site.
good day to all!

first time here by the way,
well im building my first site in flash, ran into a problem tho...i put a stop action in one layer at frame 220. in another layer i put a go to and play (1)..evn though i have no clue about action scripting....therotetically layer 2 should keep looping and layer 1 should stop. problem is both keep looping. if anybody can help...would appreciate it.

How Would You Go About Building Something In Flash That You Created In PS
HI, I create a player skin for a client in PS and was wondering how you guys would do this. Should i try and receate it in flash or bring in parts of it from PS and put it together? Save as a PNG? There are some effects I did in PS that i don't think i can recreate in flash. It needs to load as fast as possible of course.

thanks

[F8] Page Building In Flash
Hi, I've tried multiple different ways to build pages in flash, I've currently just built separate flash files, so that each page would load a new html. as it is now my site I know this isn't a good way of doing it. I know theres a way to build each page inside of one flash document, but everytime i Try it's just a mess. lol. If anyone knows where I can find a tutorial, or if you could just explain for me, Id greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for your help.
~nick

[F8] Help With Flash Website Building
Hello everyone.

I am new not only to flash kit but to website building with flash in general. I have been asked to build a site similar to this one: http://www.faithhill.com, albeit a more simple functioning site. Of note is the news on that website and how it has the embedded frame with 2 windows, one with the news item that is clickable and the right pane which is a scrollable window that contains the actual news article.

This is the main functionality I am trying to figure out how to implement in flash 8.

I'm not new to working with code nor with building websites, but I am new to attempting to do this in flash.

I've looked through the samples that come with Flash 8 and I've begun to look through the vast amounts of information here at flash kit, but I'm hoping that this post and some discussion of what I am attempting to do will help shorten the time frame that it will take to figure this out.

Any assistance, or even discussion is greatly appreciated.

D

Building A URL In Flash With Dropdowns
Hello everyone,
First post, and apologies if it is in the wrong section.
I have built this ecommerce site called Scent Design.
Because the product is user controlled, I figured out how to do the links to specific fragrance blends using the attribute strings.

For example:
http://www.scentdesign.net/mm5/merch...t_Attri butes[1]:value=vanilla&Product_Attributes[2]:value=vanilla&Product_Attributes[3]:value=all_spice&Product_Attributes[4]:value=musk&Product_Attributes[5]:value=sandalwood

My first question here on Flashkit (I've lurked here for years ) is:
How do I add or 'build' strings onto one URL using dropdown menus in Flash8? I don't need someone to design it for me, but because I'm not an actionscript guy 'yet', I don't really know where to start looking for this specific information.
The ultimate goal is for a flash banner ad that will adjust the URL depending on the choices the user makes in the flash banner.

Thank you all for your time and any wisdom you all wish to share!

[F8] Building A Flash Questionnaire
I want to make a Flash Questionnaire that assigns number values to each answer, adds them up, and then tells the user which product they should use (based on the values added up over 3 or 4 questions) Like, 30> Product "X" is your best solution or 20< Product "Z" is your best solution. Could anyone help me out with this coding? I've been trying to make something work that I found on here but with no avail...

[F8] Building A Forum In Flash
Hi Guys,

I am trying to build a site which will have a flash intro and some other flash elements, but the main thing I want to incorporate is a forum, which the public can access freely and post messages, but I also want to have a member area that is password protected on the forum too.

Just want to get some advice on which would be the best way to do this i.e. is this something that can be created easily in Flash (I use CS3) or would I be better off creating an HTML site and building the forum using another language?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Flash Form Building
What's up guys and gals? I hope I have a pretty simple question for you Flash'perts. I am new to flash and am learning with each project. Here's my question.

I have a simple form that I made with text input fields and have given each of them variable names. The form is linked to a PHP file and sent to a database. All of that is working just fine. How do I get the form not to send if a field is left blank?

The form is tagged as a movie clip with an instance name of "form" and here is the action script I have assigned to the movie clip:

onClipEvent(data){
// show welcome screen
_root.nextFrame();
}

My submit button scipt looks like so:

on (release) {
form.loadVariables("email.php", "POST");
}

Where and how would be the easiest to actually stop the form from being proccessed because of a blank field? I know this has got to be elementary, but I just can't figure it out. Any help at all would be great. I am a semi-tight deadline.

Building A Tsunami In Flash 8
Hi I have been fascinated by the tsunami in the tutorial on this site http://www.actionscript.org/resource...ami/Page1.html

I am having two issues when loading it up in to flash 8.
One is that when the code updates automatically the menu no longer seems to return to its original state properly

The other is putting links on to each menu item.

Could anyone help with the solution to this?

Much appreciated

alexstrong29

Building A Flash Site
Hi there,

Can someone help me please? I have a master.swf file that has an empty movie clip called content to display other external swf files. It is an existing site with multiple scenes that I've have just broken down in smaller chunks (i.e. one swf file per menu item). I have a preloader.swf, home.swf, aboutus.swf etc.

In my master.swf, I am calling the preloader.swf in frame 1 and home.swf in frame 10. My home.swf doesn't load. How do I get it to load after the preloader finishes?

Also in my home.swf, I am not sure how to call the external swf files for each of the buttons. Any help on this too would be much appreciated. I am just getting used to AS2 with books and looking on the net to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Many thanks.

Building A Big Website With Flash
Hi,

Im building for the first time a website with flash (ac3). but Im not a total n00b to flash .

My plan is it to creat a main.swf file which holds things like the navigation and the language selector (you can choose "ru" or "eng") and it has a function which loads the subpages.swf (i think its better to make the subpages unique becouse they wont look the same at all) e.g. if I click on the second navibutton it should load the 02.swf inside of the main.swf __and__ destroy the old .swf which was there befor. I dont know how to write this function the best way (addChild / removeChild maybe?), but i know how to addEventListener to the buttons.

My second problem is inside of this (e.g. 02.swf) will be a function which fillout the textfields with xml data. So this function needs to get the language var from the main.swf to parse xml with the right language. I know how to do the parsing part. But i dont know how to send a var from main.swf to the page.swf.

I would realy appreciate if someone could give me some tips for that

Building First Site With Flash
I have been messing around with Flash for about a year now (off and on). I am working on building my first Flash site.

At first this didnt seem to difficult, but as I go along it is getting more and more complicating.

Does anyone have any suggestions or know of any sites that discuss building entire sites with Flash. I am interested in standards, rules, or practices I should try to follow.

Thanks

Building A Flash Website
I am building a flash website, the company logo needs to be animated and displayed on all pages throughout the website which I have completed, but in the main.fla file where the action and content layer lies, there are stop actions in the action layer that are interferring with the animation? I thought if I moved the animation layer above the action layer that it would resolve but it has not? I am at a loss and have no idea how to fix this or dont know if there is an alternative way to accomplish what I am doing? If you can offer any assistance, i would be eternally grateful! thanks guys!!!

Building Flash Website
I am new to everything about flash and currently going through the tutorials at an amazing comfort. However, I am going ahead of myself in trying to understanding a feature i recognized on a site built in flash. I make reference to www.indersfashion.com - when ever you pull up the site in your browser an image shows up as the bachground. If you were close your browser and pull up the same site, a different inage shows up as the background. I have seen over 10 different images as the background for this site and I wondered how is that possible.
Well, my question is what function(s) or is scripting that makes it possible and how can it or is it done?
I would appreciate any help. Eventually, i would love to use this concept for future plans.

Component Building - Flash 8
I created a Company Specific button component that needs to update in the authoring environment. As of right now, the component only updates on Run-Time. Can any one describe the procedure used in updating components in the authoring environment? If anyone has an example or a tutorial I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

Building A Flash .NET XML Socket
Hi, I am trying to build a Flash Application that will need to send and receive XML docs. I want to use XML Sockets - my problem is with the .NET part.

My understanding is that Flash will send and look for the doc from a certain port no in the host dir. How do I code in .NET to write to a Port No?

Appreciate any help you can provide.

Can Someone Help Me Please- Building A Site In Flash
I am getting this error: The class or interface 'Event' could not be loaded.

Building A Game In Flash
Hi there.

I'm looking into making a flash game, but im not to sure where to start.

The basic idea is to have an person scroll left to right trying to catch things falling from random places on the top of the screen.
There will be two object falling. One object (object 1) should add to the score and the other object (object 2) would be taking away from the score, more or less.

The idea is that if they got to much of either object the game would be over. They user would have to maintain a healthy medium between the two.

Also, the persons graphic would increase if they had two much of object 1 and would decrease when they have object two.

I hope this makes sense. And I hope someone here would be able to help me out with some links to tutorials and such..

Like I said... I've never made a game before. But I am pretty good with flash.

Thanks..

Building A VLOG With Flash Mx PRo
this may be a silly question: Is it possible to build a simple vlog site with Flash MX. Where one can upload video and add comments, and allow other users to upload there videos, and anybody can comment on the videos or (vlogs)

I cannot find any tute telling me how to accomplish this, so I am assuking it is not possible. Well luckily Kirupa is full of very inteligent individuals so if you say it cannot be done - then i know. lol

Flash Site Building
Hello everyone at Kirupa! I'm new here and I just wanted to say hello!

I'm making a flash site for my MySpace. Right now, I'm struggling with the actionscript stuff, I'm a complete newb at it. I'm learning though.

My question is, how would I make a site that will load external .sfw files into the movie with a working preloader for each .swf file.
As of now, I know how to load external movies; now I just need to add preloaders to them.
I went through the tutorials on this site and don't care for the results. I found one tutorial that came close to what I wanted but I didn't like how it added a transition. Can I just make each .swf have it's own on/off animations and have one preloader for all of them?

Here's an example:
I'll have the main movie play and stop where the content gets loaded.
The main page will load and I'll have buttons for the external .swf files.
If one of those buttons were clicked, then the current external .swf would play it's own out animation then have a preloader load the next .swf. Once that .swf is loaded, the preloader will fade out and the .swf will continue with it's in animation.
Catch my drift? I hope so, that's a lot of reading huh... I'll leave it at that.

Thanks for all future posts!

Building Things In Flash
Im doing a thing where you "build" a watch.. you specify how much of each part you want and then submit... i think i need something simialar to if/else so that...

textbox.iron = "3" && silver = "50"
then textbox.result = "failed"

I need something like that.. but in actionscript

Building A Flash Forum
Please, I am new to this site/forum and I havent had much luck anywhere else when asking for help from people on how to create a flash forum.

Does anyone know any good websites that have step by step instructions on how to integrade a forum into a full flash website? I have never used the likes of PHP or MySQL etc before...so it seems very difficult!

Please someone help, need to do it for a project in uni!

Caroline

Building A Whole Website In Flash
Hiya there people, got an essentially quite simple question but with many, many answers I imagine!!! so here goes...

I am reasonably new to AS3 and generally the idea of OOP, and I'm just about to tackle building a whole site in flash. I'm aware there are a few different approaches to this, and I'd like to know people's practices for organising and putting together a site in general.

Right, so far I have a Core.swf that loads the Intro.swf, followed by the Home.swf... and so on, using the menu that is located within Core. I'm having trouble figuring out how the section swf's are going to reference some of the methods I have in my Core.

Does that make any sense?? I've considered extending all my section classes with my core class, or trying to have static methods in my Core class that I can always access, but there always seems to be a problem!!

...So has anyone got any links to good resources or can people share the way they usually deal with it? So far I haven't found a lot about it! All theories welcome!!

Phew, long post. Sorry guys I will learn eventually...

Cheers!
Tyler

Building A Flash Website
Would it be better to build a web site as one flash file with several scenes as different pages, or build the site using multiple swf files and load them as needed?

Any and all opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

FSEdge

Building A Flash Portfolio
Are there any in-depth tutorials out there that'll teach you how to do everything there is to make a fancy portfolio?

I want to make one that looks kinda like this:
http://www.templatemonster.com/flash...ates/8917.html

Building A Website Using Flash
whats up fellaz, i'm a newbee with flash but i have a basic understanding of how to use it. I'm in the process of building a website in flash but i need a lil info. I'm really stuck on what the dimension of the stage should be so the flash movie will fit flush with the web browser. At the moment i have a flash movie on my website but it doesn't fit in al web browsers. thankz for your time and consideration and i hope to hear from you's soon.

Ahmed www.essentialmovements.com

Building A 100% Flash Site
Just started learning flash about 2 weeks ago. Went out and got the program and i really dont know what books to go out and get. So I have two questions to ask ya guys. What books should i get to understand flash more(I have 2 books right now on AS and its some purty tough ****, but i'll get through it), and are there any books that can help me learn to make a full flash website. www.2advanced.com is my inspiration and would love to know how this guy did it. So if you guys could let me know on some books, tuturials, fla.s or anything i can get to better understand how to do this, it be great.