Burger King's Subservient Chicken: How To?

Subservient Chicken
Hello All,

I'm sure everyone has seen the subservient chicken thing before:
http://www.subservientchicken.com/

Basically, there are about 400 different clips of the chicken doing random things. Depending on what you type into the field, the flash will load the movie that has been labled with the corresponding attributes.

I'm trying to accomplish something similiar in scope, where a keyword or phrase entered by the user would trigger or call a specific movie clip.

Any ideas on where/ how to begin?

Thanks in advance!

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Subservient Chicken
I am referring to the Subservient Chicken Website in my title.

I understand how you could type in a command and then have it do the command, but how do you make Flash break down the text and read only the words that are associated with the command.

For example if you type in "Pushup" it will do a pushup. If you type in "do a pushup" it will do a pushup.

I've seen it in Perl books, but I'm not sure of how it was done. How do I go about doing it?

Thanks!

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'subservient Chicken' Clip Latency Problem
Hi!
I'm making a subservient-chicken-like (www.subservientchicken.com) app... having trouble with delay between the clips.

When a new keyword is typed there is a roughly 1 second delay before the new clips begins playing.  The delay remains if the keyword's clip has already been played (and is presumably buffered).

Here's my test site if you'd be good enough to check it out!  Just remove all dashes in the URL:
http://fightgirltest.fi---ghttu---be.tv/fightgirl.html

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Chicken
why does chicken taste like chicken?

does flash have chicken

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Chicken Or The Egg
I have my main site SWF which loads an external SWF.

When a button on the Main SWF is clicked, it loads an external SWF which is fine. When the user is finished I have a close button which unloads the movie and returns back to the main movie to a specified point on the main timline which is also fine.

But I also have an MC which is a scroller and some how it wants its own root. It will not action using this._parent for some reason and only root.

The thing is It wont work using .this._parent so I put on this._lockroot = true then the scroller works but now the close doesn't, because now this thinks this IS root and does not return back to the main SWF.

So WTF??? It's either one or the other.

Can anyone help me with this as its costing me time and money

Thanks

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Polymorphic Chicken Fodder
haha made you look!
SWF advert playlist
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I have made a swf advert playlist player. It uses a comma seperated file (.csv) for the play list, each advert cannot have any additional actionscript added to it. it needs to be controlled from the central empty movie clip where they are loaded into.
This all works fine, i pull the totalframes from each swf advert as it is loaded, endframe and then when endframe is reached move onto the next swf in the playlist. all is peachy except, a number of the swf files are 1 frame long, they have longer movies inside them, so they are like 30 secs long but with the main timeline only 1 frame long. Because of this the totalframes thing wont work, it plays the movie and then sits at the end of it not moving onto the next one.
Q1) How can i detect when the movie is finished without adding any actionscript to the one frame movies.
*thought : could i put in if >endframe then next swf ?


Q2) Also these one frame movies use some strings pulled from external txt file, is there anyway of referencing the txt file location without using the empty movieclip name which it will be loaded into at the moment it is i.e. _root.emptymovieclip.texta i want to get rid of 'emptymovieclip' so that they dont have to mess about with getting the urls right when the adds are made. can i use _root.this.texta or somthing? not sure please advise
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please heeelp
arran

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The Chicken Egg Paradox Of Using Help Files
Does anyone know of the existence and whereabouts of a definitive reference AS2 to AS3 dictionary of where I can look up a method, function, class, etc and get to see the AS3.0 equivalent.

This would make using and learning AS3.0 so much easier and accessible, because as so often is the paradox of using "help", you need to already know the terminology of what you are looking for before you start.

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NaN - Yes It F**king Is
why can't I get flash 5 to recognise data input in an input text box as a number and use it in a mathematical calc.

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NEED A FLASH KING
OKAY, I NEED TO BE ABLE TO DRAG AND DROP A MOVIE CLIP(OR IMAGE) THUMBNAIL INTO A TARGET AREA AND BEGIN TO PLAY. KINDA LIKE THE OLD INSOMNIOUS SITE, IF THAT HELPS ANY.
ANY SUGGESTIONS WITH SCRIPT OR MAYBE YOU KNOW OF A GOOD TUTORIAL? THANKS!

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Stephen King's Nav Bar
Anyone know how the rollOver effect in the nav bar at www.stephenking.com was made?

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We Need Votes For Our King
Hi.
We are poor studenst from Czech republic. We visit high school Přímětická in city name Znojmo. We have competition between high schools in Znojmo for best king. So we want please you vote for our king Ondra on http://www.majales2007.euweb.cz/volba_krale.html. You must click on Král Ondřej z SOU SOŠ Přímětická. Thakns for your votes. We will be happy for all votes.

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King Of Flash, Please...
I want to create a scroller just like in this website http://www.gotoandlearn.com (tutorial archives). does anybody know how?! any tutorial?

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Check King In Chinese's Chess
I've a problem while coding this game. Check King, I done, but check to Win or not, I can't. Please give me your help. thanks in advandce

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A Flash Game: Monkey King
Hi folks,
This post is not necessarily about flash, but it is about a product made by flash. Since we need as many feedbacks as possible from all kinds of people, which include flash masters, so I think this is appropriate to post it here.

We're trying to figure out how interested you are about Eastern-themed flash games from Chinese flash developers. And here is one of the best among them---Monkey King.

Please play the game and let us know what you think, we would really appreciate your feedback. If many people happen to like it, we might consider bringing more classic Chinese games to the Western audience.

Thank you for your support.

Play the Game here: http://myredflash.googlepages.com/monkeyking.htm

If you have any trouble playing the game, please visit our blog: http://red-flash.blogspot.com/

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Solve This Masking Problem And YOU WILL BE CROWNED KING OF FLASHKIT
Hi,

I working on a rotating nav bar. I've got a script on it that makes it rotate different directions depending on the mouse position.

Now I can make two mc symbols (the emblem and the "X") rotate with the mouse, but I can't get the mask (the window panes NOT the clouds) to rotate with the other mc's. Why is that and would somebody be so kind to see if they could fix it and repost it. Also, if you could change the Flash 4 scripting to Flash 5 compatible.

I have attached the ".fla".

Thanks for all your help!

Blastbum

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Solve This Masking Problem And YOU WILL BE CROWNED KING OF FLASHKIT
Hi,

I'm working on a rotating nav bar. I've got a script on it that makes it rotate different directions depending on the mouse position.

Now I can make two mc symbols (the emblem and the "X") rotate with the mouse, but I can't get the mask (the window panes NOT the clouds) to rotate with the other mc's. Why is that and would somebody be so kind to see if they could fix it and repost it. Also, if you could change the Flash 4 scripting to Flash 5 compatible.

I have attached the ".fla".

Thanks for all your help!

Blastbum

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'Space Quest'/'King's Quest' Type Of Character Movement?
Heya'.

I'm psuedo-new to ActionScript, and I'm currently making a game in Flash MX. There's only one thing that's standing in my way at the moment; character movement.

Can anyone either tell or link me to a tutorial on how to make a character whose movement is governed by where the player clicks?

Either that, or a MC that can move with a walk animation (facing the moving direction) using the keyboard.

Thanks in advance.

-P.B

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