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Someone Point Me In The Right Direction, Please
hey nice people at flashkit,

okay this is a general picture of what i want to do:

<img src="http://www.clockwatching.net/~vroom/personal/show.jpg">

the thing on the top is a scroll bar and it will be in the main container movie.

a through z will each be small swfs contained and loaded within the main container swf (levels 1 through 26 maybe?).

what i want to do is, given which swfs to load, the container movie will load these swfs. i can't figure out how to place loaded movies on the screen. for example, when i load a.swf and b.swf, they appear on the same place on top of each other (top left hand corner). is there a way to manipulate loaded clips that are smaller than the container movie so that they appear at a certain place? also, i would need to control them with the container movie through the scrollbar.

second problem: this part is kinda more backend-ish... if i have a database that had the information of which swfs should be loaded in this container movie, how do i access it? using asp? any sample code will be very useful. basically, my flash application will have to interact with some kind of backend so it can know which swfs to load.

if you know how to do any of this, or if you know of a tutorial somewhere which explains how to do any of this, i would love to know! sorry if this question is a bit LOADED but i didn't know where else to turn, so i had to rely on flash kit once again.

thank you very much,

~jimmy.

Please Point Me In The Right Direction.
I want to make a smartclip that will take a graphic symbol and shrink it to 90% then animate it back to 100% . I have 20 instances that this needs to happen and I really do not want to tween each one. If anyone can give me advice on the best way to do this you will have made my week.

Thanks

Hi, Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction?
hey i'm looking for a tutorial on the basics of making a scroll bar for a block of text, i'm very unsure of how to tackle this. thanks in advance

If You Could Just Point Me In The Right Direction...
Here's what I want to do.....a site I have will be showing the same symbols in different .swf files. I want to reuse the same symbols so that they only have to load one time. I guess what I want is a library on the web. My problem is not that I don't have any resources, between FK and my AS books I'm fine....I just don't know what to look up for this kind of thing. If someone could just point me in the right direction by giving me some keywords to look up, that'd be great. If someone has time to explain it by posting here, that'd just make my day. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

Please Point Me In The Right Direction......
I just now posted this in the AS forum, but realized it may not necessarily have to do with AS. So I'm posting it here as well....

Here's what I want to do.....a site I have will be showing the same symbols in different .swf files. I want to reuse the same symbols so that they only have to load one time. I guess what I want is a library on the web. My problem is not that I don't have any resources, between FK and my AS books I'm fine....I just don't know what to look up for this kind of thing. If someone could just point me in the right direction by giving me some keywords to look up, that'd be great. If someone has time to explain it by posting here, that'd just make my day. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

Point Me In The Right Direction Please
I need a picture scrollbar that basicly works just like a text scrollbar. Instead of adding text, I want to add 50x50 picture thumbs that are linked to bigger pictures. I searched for tutorials on "Scrollbars", "Picture Scrollbars", "Scrolling Pictures", "Pictures", but none seem to talk about what I want.
Anyone know of a good tutorial on this?
Josh

Where Do I Go From Here (a Point In The Right Direction Please)
(this is a really cool emoticon)

ANYWAYS!

hows it going I've been goofing around with flash and I know a little about it. I've done most of the tutorials on the macromedia site. I can animate and stuff.

here's a link to one of the tutorials I did (it sucks) this is about the maximum of flash that I know so if anyone want's to point me in the right direction (or give me some personal tips) I'd really appreciate it

my site
http://homepage.mac.com/juliefisher2
(I embedded an mp3 file to it but for some reason it won't play unless you go to

http://homepage.mac.com/juliefisher2/training.swf

I have a preloader http://homepage.mac.com/juliefisher2/index.swf but if you go to it, it doesn't play the mp3

Point Me In The Right Direction
Hello everybody,

I'm (also) making a memory game. And i need some help. I bought two books: macromedia Flash MX by Reinhardt Dowd and an actionscript basic learning book. I really tried to figure this out. Can anyone just point me in the right direction? My memory game is about matching two different pictures together: like rabbit with carrot. So i made two movieclips one with the animals and one with the things they eat. If i want to match them how do i do that? Do i have to nam the first mc for example Animal and my second mc Food? You don't have to 'give' me the code just give me a hint so i can try to figure this one out.

Thanks a lot!

Yarabe, love from Holland

Please Point Me In The Right Direction.
Problem #1:
I am trying to find a tutorial on how to type font in an input text area, and have the font duplicate on another part of a screen. I will also need to change font for my project. I have looked everywhere, and have run out of ideas on what to search for.

I have found this movie, and it is close to what I need, but I cann't figure out how to change it so a person actually knows where to click to start typing and being able to change text.

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...6896/index.php

Problem #2:
I need to know how to send info to myself through any source at the end of my page. I need certain info like the position in which they drug and placed the text they typed, as weel as the type they used and what a person has typed. I can set up a form for name, and everything like that, but how do I record these other actions, accounting for the x and y dimentions of where they drug the text too. These will be seperate movies so I cann't use this code completely, because while it gives a dimension, what do I do to record this info from another MC that is being drug around, and which movie they had selected and drug around. Like the below Flash movie, I can get the coordinates, and have it done through an outside movieclip, but what do I do to retain that information into a document that could be emailed to me just from having a person hit a send button, So I know exactly where they want there product placed. Confusing???

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...3927/index.php

Thanks.

Please Help Point Me In The Right Direction...
Hi, I need help getting started on a project...

I have a flowchart (built in visio, saved in gif format & posted to an html page) and I'd like to connvert it into a .swf to make it more dynamic. Basically I would like to highlight sections of the chart based on a value in an xml file. In other words, in an xml file there is one of four values (ie. A,B,C,D) for each box and I want to highlight each box based on that value. Also each box needs to link to an html file.

I think I will be able to get the xml working after looking a little closer at some tutorials but I don't know what would be the most efficient or easiest way of doing the highlighting. Any suggestions?

-my pref would be to import the gif rather than recreate the whole flowchart in flash
-can I change the color of a button on the fly? (i.e. just put buttons over the boxes and change the color after reading the xml file)
-do I have to use 4 different movieclips and somehow put the appropriate mc over each box?

Thanks in advance for any help!

M.

Point Me In The Right Direction
I just want to know if anyone knew where i can find a tutorial or lesson or book even that will hepl me program stuff like this.

the nav in this site: http://www.unreal-uk.com/

i just want to know how to get the arrow to follow the link that is clicked. I dont know flash so im not even show the keyword i would search.

the photobox in this site:
http://www.olaf-veltman.com/

how the photobox auto resizes to match the portportion of the image.

any help would be great.

Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction?
I'm looking for a tutorial on how to make controls in flash for playing mp3 files.

I want to build something that I can have a playlist and controls for play, pause, and stop along with a button for next song?

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks
Mike C.

Need Someone To Point Me In The Right Direction
What I want to develop is a way to record the location a user clicks on the screen, up to say 20 locations... be able to save those locations to.. a text file
(this will not be running off the internet, so no server side stuff needed.. i think) ...

So pretty much... click the screen in 20 random spots, record the x/y coordinates for each click... be able to type in a name to referance those locations... and then right it to a .txt file.

Thats the first step... then I need to be able to go back and read the names of the different "files" already saved on the text file... select one... and the coordinates would then be displayed in some manor...

Could someone help me out via example or simply start me out here....?
Thanks in advance

Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction Here?
I'm attempting to create an effect, and the actionscript required is beyond my expertise. I'm not even sure what to call it to search for a tutorial!

I've created a rotating 3-D box and want to be able to settle on 4 different orientations. (we'll call them front, back, right, left) The visitor will be able to click on several buttons which would each rotate the box to one of the four orientations. The problem is that, because they can click on the buttons in random order, I have no way of knowing where the box is starting out.

I would assume that I would begin by creating movie clips that rotate the box on the following paths:

front --> back
front --> right
front --> left

back --> front
back --> right
back --> left

right --> front
etc.

Then the actionscript applied to each button would somehow check the box's current orientation, then based on that, call the correct clip. Am I in the ballpark?

Can anyone suggest a tutorial, a plug-in, or any other resource? I'm using Flash MX 2004.

Thanks!

Point Me In The Right Direction
i am creating a website that is going to serve as my online portfolio. i have webspace through my school but i have a question concerning how a flash website works. is this what i should be doing . . .

making a flash file with get url commands assigned to buttons in order to go to other flash files.

for instance i have a 'home page' and then i have a button 'about me', should i have a get url code attached to the 'about me' button, and have that file as a seperate uploaded flash file? any help is greatly appreciated.

[F8] Point Me In The Right Direction?
I'm looking to get back into flash animation, cartoon style. It has been a year or two since I've used flash for anything complex. So I'm looking for your help.

This site is MASSIVE can you point me in the direction of tutorial etc to do with cartoon animation techniques...

I'm still trawling through the site myself but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[F8] Can You Point Me In The Right Direction?
Hello,
I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. I want to create a movie similar to the one on this site where the images rotate and the text flies in and out according to which image is showing. Basically, I want the exact movie but I obviously need to chance the images, text, and background. I have Flash 8 but I am VERY new to it.
I am not expecting anyone to give me a step by step on how to do it…but if you could point me to a good tutorial, that would be great. Thanks in advance for your help.

Could Someone Point Me In The Direction...
of a tutorial that does the following?

I'd like to have a doodle section on a website. A place where users can go and draw a quick doodle and then submit it allowing other users to be able to view it (the doodles will being compiled on a separate page, like how a forum works when making replies)

Anybody know of a tutorial or feel like making one?

[F8] Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction?
Hi all, i need someone to point me in the right direction and tell me what i need to add.

I have a flash gallery which works fine. It calls the image from an xml file.. I get the thumbs and the big image also! This part is ok.

What i want to add, is, lets say a play button, and when this play button is clicked, the images start showing one by one with a 5 seconds delay. Can someone just give me some hints that could get me started?

Any help apreciated

[CS3] Point Me In The Right Direction
I am a photographer and I downloaded a flash template for my personal page. I have been studying flash and action script and have been steadily progressing. I have edited this template front to back, changed the animations, colors, logos, and everything I need... except one section. The photo section is killing me (the most important part!). I put in my own images and thumbs and it looks great. The problem is that there are ten spaces for images in the template per page which is fine because it has a neat scrolling effect to get to the next 10 images and so on. The images that I have put in repeat over and over and I can't figure out where the thumbs are linking to the images that are being displayed!

I am looking for someone to just take a look at my .fla file and say "you need to edit 'this' mc" and point me in the right direction. I seriously cannot figure this out for the life of me. Please help! Thanks in advance. The FLA is a little big to upload so if you are willing to take a look please email, supadrumr at yahoo.com

-Dave

Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction?
Hey guys,

I have a full set of renders for a character. At this time I have a 4 point stand and an 8 point walk motion. Basically 4 separate images for standing and 8 separate images for walking.

I want to use AS3 and have the character standing and doing the 4 point animation. Then I want to make him walk via user control with the 8 walk images.

To this point I have searched everywhere for a tutorial on how to do this but all I end up finding is for artists and how to properly draw the animations to get nice animation. But like I said, I have the animation images, I just need to learn how to implement them into flash.

In the end to learn this, all I want to do is to properly encorperate the images into flash so that I can do a test movie and have the character doing his stand animation and then when I press left or right have him do the walk animation. From there I will go onto collision and whatever I feel like learning at that time. Right now, just getting a standing animation and a user controlled walk would be great.

Could anybody point me towards a good tutorial on how to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Can You Point Me In The Right Direction Please?
Hi, can "paper" effects like this be done using papervision/away3d, (so it's not a "fake" vector tween)?
http://flashden.net/item/strongpaper...ugh_id=1365071

I've been pulling my hair out trying to find some instructions.... Can someone point me to a tutorials please

I eventually want to make an image twist like in this website

http://www.42goodthings.com/

thankyou thankyou thankyou

JPV

Point Me In The Right Direction...
Hi,

I'm working on my site, and want to make it do almost exactly what the example below does. My site is just to show my artwork. I do know Flash pretty well, although very minimal actionscript. So little that I'm not even sure where to start to get this accomplished. Maybe someone could just explain to me how it's done, and what commands, etc i should learn to do it. I know I need to get the images to fade in using script, but maybe I need variables, because who knows what pic a user will click on first, etc. I really don't know.

Goto "A" on the site. See how the pics fade in when you click on the thumbnail, and how the background of each pic resizes. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I assume it's all done in actionscript because I know if the fades were done timeline based, and you clicked on another thumbnail before the first was done fading in, things would get all screwy. This happened to me while trying to do it. I wasn't even worried about the resizing background. I hadn't gotten to that yet. If I can just get the pics to fade in like that, it'd be enough. The resizing background would just be a bonus.

http://www.martin-fivian.ch/flash.html

Any help, or direction at all, will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

~Matt

Please Help Point Me In The Right Direction
Can some one point me in the right direction to learn more about button keyframes controling movies, jpegs with FX's, ect.
Like if I wanted the over keyframe to fade in a Jpeg or start a movie. Thanks much,
Milt

Point Me In The Right Direction
Is it possible to have one flash file where it reads the url and finds out what country that page is in and then read the appropriate text in the text file?

Can someone point me to see how that can be done?

thanks!

Point Me In The Right Direction, Please :-)
Hi All!

I am working on a new project and need to setup a MC that moves on a user click. Can you point me in the right direction/tutorial to help out?

I have a MC(lets call it MAP_MC) and inside at 0,0, is a jpeg map. From _root I have a collection of buttons that need to move the jpeg map to a new point. Say the map sits at 0,0, then the user clicks bathroom, I need the map to move to 25,500.

I would also like the movement to move via a tween, not just a jump with easing.

Can you help me out?

Thanks!

Can Someone Help Or Point Me In The Right Direction....
I'm looking to create the "Liquid" effect seen here:
http://www.actionscript.cl/ it is effect #5

I'm trying to create a flag waving... but the script i have isnt quite what i want..
thanks...

Point Me In The Right Direction
Alright guys, i've searched repetetively, but I cant find how to make a button that when clicked, goes to the first scene (or next scene etc). Can anyone point me in the right direction, i.e AS that will get this to work? Thanks..sorry if I missed it on a search.

Could Someone Point Me In The Right Direction
Hi
I am looking for script or tutorial that will show me how to move the interface around like the one show in this fantastic website - any advice or pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
Nikinova

http://www.pedrotabasco.com/

A Point In The Right Direction ...
A point in the right direction ...
I am familiar with creating .exe files from flash .swf's, but can anyone point me in the right direction in terms of creating a custom icon for the .exe that a .swf produces ?, Do I need to look into Northcode or SWFStudio for this or can it be done without these ?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Point Me In The Correct Direction Please.
Hi,

Im looking at recreating the effect (from this site http://www.amnesia.com.au/amnesiagroup/index.html ) of the Square boxes as they hop onto the screen. Im not interested in the animation after they are onscreen, just the way that they enter the page.

Would it be possible for someone to give me a starting point to work from Im new to flash so its a vertical learning curve at the moment.

Thanks.

ChefSolid.

Can Somsone Point Me In The Right Direction
I've been searching this site all yesterday and 1/2 of today but with no luck found the tut i wanted... so i was hoping someone knew how to do this OR if they could point me to a tutorial.. i semi know how to do it but don't know where to start

http://4ward.ca/portfolio.html - if you look at this site (in one of there works, you can click the arrow and it scolls to the next peice of work... i was wondering if someone could tell me how to accomplist that. (or point me to a tut that tells me)

Thank you for any help

i figure that the work is in a MC and that's as far as i got

Hi Can Someone Point Me In The General Direction Of..
a basic tutorial for xml scrollboxes?

Let me tell you what i am doing, and maybe that would help a little.

I want to make a basic dynamic xml scrollbox, with website urls and text for each of the websites on the list explaining what is on them... thats all! thanks

so please i'm begging you! this is my first venture into xml, and i would really really appreciate it if someone could tell me where i could find a tutorial, or quite frankly anything to help me.

btw? IS this hard to do thanks (dumb question, but i just want to know what i'm getting into)

HAPPY HOLIDays! and thanks again!

Point A Graphic In The Right Direction
I've got a sprite moving towards a target. I need the sprite to angle correctly as it heads to the target.

The sprite has x and y co-ordinates, as does the target.

I know I should remember this from trigonometry class, but it was a long time ago!

Can anyone help refresh my memory please?

Newbie Help Point Me In The Right Direction
I need a clue about what direction to go. A link to a tutorial or Keywords to look for would be great

I have five buttons on the timeline. When I rollover any one of the buttons, I want the other 4 to disappear.

Thanks for any help

Can Someone Point Me In A Direction To Start?
hey guys, i'm trying to make a presentation that will eventually play from a CD. I'm not trying to impress anyone with the flash work, So i'm keeping it super simple. I am familiar with the interface of flash, but i've only made slide show type files where i can go from scene to scene. I need a little help with getting the framework of this one. Here's my logic:
make a 'main.fla' movie with 5 'place holders' with which i loadmovie or attachmovie external .swg's to the panels as certain buttons are pressed. This is rather than fight with scenes and all that jazz. I know this is possible, i've just never attempted it before, and actionscript isn't my friend quite yet.

so my 'main.fla' has two frames in the timeline and 5 panels that i guess will act like place holders (emptyclips i guess would be a better word). How do I initially loadmovie onto the place holders at the start of the main.fla movie? Is the code assigned to a frame? To one of the empty clips? What does the code look like for after a button press to load an external .swf onto a targeted place holder?

Just so you can get an idea of what i'm talking about, I posted the file here . Any words of advice would be greatly appreciatted.[

Flash Q - Point In Right Direction
I just want to know if anyone knew where i can find a tutorial or lesson or book even that will hepl me program stuff like this.

the nav in this site: www.unreal-uk.com

i just want to know how to get the arrow to follow the link that is clicked. I dont know flash so im not even show the keyword i would search.

Point In The Right Direction (newsletter)
I have a site which has 'register/submit email address' form.
I want to write back to all those who have submittted their email at say the end of the month.

The submit button runs an ASP script which forwards the emailer's address to an email account I have set up.
Wanted to have Outlook set up to collect email address's into its Address Book
(have found no rule that actually does that, got to reply to each first or copy paste :-( grrrr

The idea was that I could write the 'news' and send to all in the Address Book.

Am I going about this in the wrong way? because its a headache.

Head-in-hands, 3r1k

Point In Correct Direction
Hi all,
I am a newbie to AS and want to learn by trying to create a similar nav as http://www.blackeyedangel.com/ can someone point me in the right place (ie tutorials) to learn how to do this.
Thanks!!!!!
-Dr.

Advanced Concept: Point Me In The Right Direction
Hello out there in flashkit land.
Maybe you can point me in the correct direction to bring this concept to fruition.

I would like to start with a movie of solid white. The solid is composed of hundreds of small white squares the are butted together where no seams show.

At a key point I want the movie clips to fall out one by one in a random pattern. The movie clips will tween from large to small, giving the illusion of a downward fall.

Any links or information that you think will help would be
much appreciated..

Thank you for your time...
Path

Can Someone Please Point Me In The Direction Of An 'array' Tutorial
Hello, i would like to set up an array so that i can create an inventory of items which you can organise and use etc. I think the most efficiant way would be to use an array, any suggestions would be fantastic.

Jim

Variable Frustration - Can Someone Point Me In The Right Direction
I have been rooting around in here and I have found a few threads that were close but not quite what I need and have gotten to a point where I am just confused and otherwise stuck like chuck.

I have been able to successfully load variables from an XML and parse them in Flash to the point that when I run the movie the output window displays the variables and the values. Here is where I am stuck - I have all my clips and instances created but now I need to attach the variables to the movie clips.

Does someone know of any tuts or maybe have a hint as to what I am leaving out. There has to be something I am not doing or overlooking I have made the leap from basic designer to learning to be more of a developer so my AS skills are kinda basic at the moment but thanks to the forums here and devnet I am learning more each day.

Let me give you an idea of what I ahve so far since I noticed some of the best developers relate better to the code itself.

My XML is rather simple
--
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<timeline>
<point omc="stimuli" xp="25" yp="25" zms="200"/>
<point omc="stimuli" xp="85" yp="175" zms="200"/>
<point omc="stimuli" xp="325" yp="55" zms="200"/>
<point omc="stimuli" xp="115" yp="355" zms="200"/>
<point omc="fixation" xp="289" yp="229" zms="200"/>
</timeline>
--
The AS if formed like this
--
var timelineXML=new XML();
timelineXML._context=this;
timelineXML.ignoreWhite=true;
timelineXML.onLoad=function(success:Boolean) {
trace ('Data loaded: '+success);
this._context.parseXMLData(this.firstChild);
}//onLoad
function parseXMLData(data:XMLNode) {
for (var count:Number=0;count<data.childNodes.length;count+ +) {
var currentNode:XMLNode=data.childNodes[count];
var oValue:String=String(currentNode.attributes.omc);
var xValue:Number=Number(currentNode.attributes.xp);
var yValue:Number=Number(currentNode.attributes.yp);
var zValue:Number=Number(currentNode.attributes.zms);
trace ('object_type='+oValue);
trace ('x_coordinates='+xValue);
trace ('y_coordinates='+yValue);
trace ('z_display_interval='+zValue);
}//for
}//parseXMLData
timelineXML.load('input.xml');
--
Now what I need to do is attach the vars to 2 different movieclips that will be effected by the values loaded from the xml. Even just being able to control the x,y right now would make me happy but right now if I try to make the clips appear on the stage in the x,y I get an error:A 'with' action failed because the specified object did not exist. So I am assuming I need to do something to make the object exist which is where I am confused becasue the clips exist and I have given them instance names.

Help