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Reality Check: Flash CS3/AS3 Check Syntax
I need a quick reality check. I've finally started playing around in CS3/AS3 on my Mac. Whenever I click "check syntax" I get a very limited error response: specifically, I get actual syntactical errors (e.g., a missing brace or paren), but I get NO COMPILER ERRORS (e.g., use of an undefined method or property). These compiler errors trigger at runtime, but not having them during authoring makes coding and debugging unnecessarily difficult.

Is this really how it's supposed to work?

In Flash8/AS2, we had compile-checking right in the AS file. If I attempted to access an undefined method or property, the error-checker would catch that right away. No time-consuming compile was necessary to catch these obvious errors (see example below). But AS3 doesn't seem to be as clever.

Am I missing something?

Thanks much!

-------------EXAMPLE---------------

Attach Code

import flash.display.BitmapData;

class myClass{

var _bmp:BitmapData;

function myClass(){
_bmp = new BitmapData(500,300);
_bmp.methodNotDefined();//unknown method of BitmapData triggers an error
myVar = 5;//unknown property of myClass triggers an error
}
}

3d Flash Engine
i want to be able to give each movie clip created through this script a unique instance name. my goal is make this 3d objects into buttons. the script i'm working with is based on the 3d engine posted in macromedia at.

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/.../flash_3d.html

i'm wiling to pay a reasonable fee for anyone who can help me with this.

Can You Do This With Flash 3d Engine?
can you do this with flash 3d engine?

http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/rl/

that is my best bet (although i dont know for sure).

can anyone tell me how to do this?

thank you

3D Flash Engine
I have always wanted to experiment with 3D.

i went through the tutorial on this site about a 3D engine in flash...

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...on/index.shtml

i followed it, and kind of understand how it should work, but when i tested my movie, nothing rendered.

I'm just wondering if anyone out there got this to work, and if they did can you post a FLA?

or if you know another tutorial they may be more descriptive...

I would be forever greatful!

Flash 3d Engine
Has flash got a 3d engine now or aer there any 3rd party tools?

have a look at this games site by wmteam:

http://clients.wmteam.de/uniroyal/fu...p?fileLanguage=

any ideas how the extremly well rendered track has been achieved?

[flash 8] 3d Engine
Hi everybody!

I'm planning a personal project and I'd like to have a very simple starfield like navigation menu with a lot of items.

I've never done any 3d scripting in flash, but I know for sure it will be easier to implement someone's else 3d engine...

I need moving through the items (camera movement), object drawing with perspective, etc. I dont need any bitmap textures, only vector drawing in real time.

I've found this one but at first sight didn't seem easy to use.
http://www.papervision3d.org/

Do you have any suggestions for a simple but efficient 3d engine?

Regards

3D Flash MX Engine HELP ME PLZ
Sorry but i've some problem with the 3D engine in flash MX.
I'm italian and my english ism't well but i post this message.

I've inizialized the 3D in flash with actionScript (only with it). And i don't say how i can make some objects. How i can draw a 3D shape, or a cube ???

Plz help me.

Thanks for all.

Search Engine In Flash 5
Hi,
I wish to create a searche engine with flash. My goal is to search in a fixed 292 lines text file for a word. Exemple : I'm typing "vig" and the search engine find a line containing "vignole" then send me a variable containing the word plus 2 others attached variables.
It's for searching a street name then locate on a plan the street requested.
I wish to do this without php or sgbd if possible.
Could someone help me please ?
I don't know if I had to create an array or if I had to make a if then else test which seems to me a bit un-optimized ;-)
Thanks for your response(s)...

Help With Flash/XML Search Engine.
Hi,
Since my last post I've found some tutorials and I'm now okay with importing XML documents into flash array's and displaying them etc.
I'm now trying to put together a search engine that will search through the keywords of each artile in my XML document.
Can anybody give me any help at all on how to create a flash code that will search for keywords in an XML document and then display the results.
I know it can be done because I've got an example of it, but I'm not very sure how it works.
The file that I have is located at:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/XML/XML_Base-Sean_Car-2793/index.shtml

Thanks for any help.

Flash Search Engine
can anyone plz send me some file through which i can learn creating search engine in flash.

Is There A Way To Incorporate An Engine With Flash?
I have posted this message yesterday. Is there anyway to incorporate a search engine with Flash??? I have a site that has inventory already in thumbnails, is there a way to do a search engine and is there somewhere somebuddy who can steer me in the right direction.

FLASH SEARCH ENGINE
hey guys,
just wondering , I want to make a cd-rom in flash that the user can look for key words within the swf files and then flash will display it?? is this possible?? If so how would it display the files??
thanks,
tom

Search Engine In Flash
I don't know if this is the correct section to post in but here goes. I was wondering if it would be at all possible to do the following.

I want to be able to put a small serach feature into my stand alone flash project without any external input.

I want set a search box in a certain scene and have it so that if a person types in a word from a predefined list it will take them to the proper keyframe with info on that word. Also if the word they type in id not on the list it will go to a keyframe telling them that there is no such word.

Is this even possible to do in flash at all? I am not that great actionscript and in fact I know very little so I am looking for help and or tutorials on this. Really any help would be great.

Job Search Engine In Flash
i want to create a job search engine in flash, do you have any examples or sites where i can refer them????

Search Engine In Flash
Hi

Anybody can tell me how to make a search engine in flash
Thank you.
Kamal Nair

How To Do A Search Engine In Flash
hi all
i saw a search engin in flash so how can i do it

emmmmm

first input text
button with action
then ??

Flash Engine Optimisation
I'd like to know once and for all whether longer variable names and longer variable target paths use more processing power than shorter ones.

It becomes an issue when you have onEnterFrame events with lots of code in them - game engines and the like.

For example, would the variable '_root.robot.arm.laser' take longer to access than the variable 'laser' defined as a global variable?

And in the interest of speed, should we use the variable 'lb' instead of 'laserBeam'?

Flash Engine Optimization
Hi,

I'd like to know once and for all whether longer variable names and longer variable target paths use more processing power than shorter ones.

It becomes an issue when you have onEnterFrame events with lots of code in them - game engines and the like.

For example, would the variable '_root.robot.arm.laser' take longer to access than the variable 'laser' defined as a global variable?

And in the interest of speed, should we use the variable 'lb' instead of 'laserBeam'?

Flash Search Engine
Hi flash addicts !

I'm worried about this search thing.
My client wants a search engine into the Flash cdrom im making for him.
But I've not any idea of the for ceate this !!!

Hey, ik somebody can give me a idea, a link to find how, thanks a lot...

Indylana

Flash (5) And Xml Search Engine
I want to created a serch engine based on xml. i found this tutorial.
i wonder if it is possible to "attach" an action to the search results? ís it possible to jump to a framenumber, framelabel or load in a swf? i hope some can clear things up for me!!!!!

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...2793/index.php

greetz,

blaffer

Flash Engine Slow?
I have a movieclip which acts as a button. On rollover the movieclip simply calls another the timeline of a newclip and starts playing. (Basically the called movie fades in, called start). When I rollout, the movieclip again calls the timeline of another movie and plays again (Basically the called movie fades out, called end). Now if I go back and forth over the button with somewhat speed, then the movie called on rollover and rollout does not fade in and out each time. Rather, it will just pop in. If the movie that is called to play from a label on rollout is not finished fading out, and then is called again to play from a specific spot, liek to fade it, it does not work. It like the engine cannot keep up or something.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be great

Thanks

Search Engine In Flash
I need to link a Flash site to google.
Anything special I should know?
Any good examples/tutes exist for querying an outside website w/ FlasH?

Flash Search Engine On XML
Anyone have the source code for the above

Click here for the xml code

Flash Search Engine SDK
I have just downloaded the "Flash Search Engine SDK" program from Macromedia and put a SWF file into the folder with all the files. But I can not seem to figure out exactly how to make this work. Does anyone know of a good web site tutorial or better yet have step by step instructions for running the application to export an html document? Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Flash Dynamics Engine
Does this work with Flash MX? And how do I install it?
http://www.cove.org/flade/

Search Engine In Flash, Not The Web
I'm creating a "virtual catalogue" if you will in flash 8. There are six catalogues, each having several pages. I need to create a search engine so the user can quickly search within one catalogue or throughout the six catalogues to find a word or phrase. This is not going to be online, but a dvd so it has nothing to do with the web. I've searched online and even in the flash help files, but i can't find any information on the subject. Can anyone direct me somewhere or help me with this one?

Thanks!

XML And Flash Search Engine
Need some backup over here people....
I started a search engine in flash for a small 15 pages website,and in these cases I think it's best to create an XML file as a database... I need to say that I am a beginner in using actionscript and Macromedia Flash as I used other software before...
here is the progress so far:
Search engine
and here is the XML file to get an idea:
XML file
there are some words in Romanian, as I requested some help on a forum but no luck... but the idea is to enter one of the words in the ""...
so... now to the problems:
1).I need to compare the VAR entered by the user in the search box with the DESCRIPTION from the XML, what I was able to do is to compare if they are equal, that means you need to enter the exact description to get a result, what I need to obtain is for example to enter "goo" and still get the result for GOOGLE, or "gle" or whatever...
2). I also need to use the search button as a trigger and also the key ENTER, I was able to do it but not together, it was either ENTER or the button, I need to specify here that the function from the onRelease command of the button is a very complex one, if needed I can upload the FLA file but I don't wanna mess with your head, as you may not understand my work(I say this because I am a beginner and I am sure there are several ways to do it, and I just might have chosen a harder way).

Flash Search Engine
Does anyone know of a Flash Search Engine for free or purchase? I need it to search within my Flash based content and spit out the results in Flash.

Flash Search Engine
Hey guys here's another scripting question (I hope not too hard)
I have a site in which most of the text I display is being imported from external text files. Is there any way I can create a search "engine" for the site? I think it can be done by reading through each of the text files and looking for the words that the user is searching for and then displaying the results.
I was thinking of using arrays somehow and storing the file names inside the array then searching through each file for the specific words. But I'm not sure on how to go about actually performing the search.
Any ideas?

Flash Engine Linking
Hi,

I've been looking into ways of linking separate Flash projects into one SWF, so we can keep our code nicely separated. In our project, we have our core actionscript code mostly consisting of .as files, and then we have our main FLA where all he graphical work is done, including placing and positioning buttons and so on. Potentially, we want to make up to 100 of these FLA files, which will be different in only very subtle ways, but the core Engine code in the AS files will stay exactly the same.

The problem we want to avoid is fixing a bug in one of our .AS files, and having to then republish 100 FLAs all over again, even though their code wouldn't have changed. We want to be able to change the Engine once, and through some linking process have the 100 FLAs work automatically simply by attaching itself to the Engine.

If I were doing this in C++, I would publish the .AS files into one .dll file, which would only need to be changed once, and the main project would not have to be republished because it merely links to it. There does not seem to be an equivalent way of doing this in Flash, though.

Our best option seems to be making the Graphical FLA load the engine as a separate movie, and run one SWF within the other, so that if the engine is broken, we don't need to republish the main FLA when it's fixed.

Are the any better ways of doing this, and what are the speed issues going to be involved in doing the above?

Thanks,
Jim

XML And Flash Search Engine
Need some backup over here people....
I started a search engine in flash for a small 15 pages website,and in these cases I think it's best to create an XML file as a database... I need to say that I am a beginner in using actionscript and Macromedia Flash as I used other software before...
here is the progress so far:
Search engine
and here is the XML file to get an idea:
XML file
and the actionscript:
Actionscript TXT
or
Actionscript PDF
there are some words in Romanian in the search engine link, as I requested some help on a forum but no luck... but the idea is to enter one of the words in the ""...
so... now to the problems:
1).I need to compare the VAR entered by the user in the search box with the DESCRIPTION from the XML, what I was able to do is to compare if they are equal, that means you need to enter the exact description to get a result, what I need to obtain is for example to enter "goo" and still get the result for GOOGLE, or "gle" or whatever...
2). I also need to use the search button as a trigger and also the key ENTER, I was able to do it but not together, it was either ENTER or the button, I need to specify here that the function from the onRelease command of the button is a very complex one.

Flash Search Engine Help Pls
hi .

i am trying to build a search engine which will access the database when the user enter something in the field and display the results on another keyframe. but it somehow does not bring mi to the required frame but remain stuck at the same search frame when i press the submit button.

i am using VB asp, flash mx , pws and access 2000 as a database.

i am really in need of help as it is part of my project. pls . thank.

attached are the files. hope someone can help

thank in advance.

A Maze Engine In Flash
okay, well i was just thinking if it's possible to make a maze engine in flash like the old pacman games.

a simple maze
a yellow dot
some other dots{monsters}
and little red dots for food

if anyone knows of a good tutorial about classes in mx...post the address here please

Flash Search Engine
im trying to use a .swf that can control or use an ASP based search engine i created. i know its possible considering the tut that kirupa has with the atomz.com search and the XML database input form tut. Im just not sure on how to go about it, what i basically want is to make an input form in flash where you type whatever word and press enter (i know how to make the hotkeys and most of the script, just need help on one part) and it actually inputs that word in the ASP input box and initializes the search. basically you press enter and the results appear.

i would input the search box in the actual page but.. i also have php on the same page and what the hell, i want a search through flash, thats cool.

if anyone can help me that would be great, in return for the favor, i'll give you a copy of the search engine to use for yourself. you dont have to give credits to me.

Edit: you can test out the engine on one of the sites i created www.varelahs.com at the bottom.

Flash Search Engine SDK
I downloaded the Flash Search Engine SDK, ran it through the command prompt and generated an .html file.

My question is, what do I do with this .html file containing the text/links from within my .swf?

Do I upload into my default directory? I don't get how having a random .html page filled with text from within my .swf will help with search engines... How will a google search show my index.html rather then my .html file that I generated through the Flash Search Engine SDK?

Do I just put a re-direct script on my generated .html page? Or will google think I was trying to trick them?

Thank You!

Mickey
Currently working on:
http://www.hallmedia.com

Flash And Search Engine
Hi,
Can someone light me on the following matter:
Does Flash animation in a html page would block search engine indexing?

Thanks

XML And Flash Search Engine
Need some backup over here people....
I started a search engine in flash for a small 15 pages website,and in these cases I think it's best to create an XML file as a database... I need to say that I am a beginner in using actionscript and Macromedia Flash as I used other software before...
here is the progress so far:
Search engine
and here is the XML file to get an idea:
XML file
and the actionscript:
Actionscript TXT
or
Actionscript PDF
there are some words in Romanian in the search engine link, as I requested some help on a forum but no luck... but the idea is to enter one of the words in the ""...
so... now to the problems:
1).I need to compare the VAR entered by the user in the search box with the DESCRIPTION from the XML, what I was able to do is to compare if they are equal, that means you need to enter the exact description to get a result, what I need to obtain is for example to enter "goo" and still get the result for GOOGLE, or "gle" or whatever...
2). I also need to use the search button as a trigger and also the key ENTER, I was able to do it but not together, it was either ENTER or the button, I need to specify here that the function from the onRelease command of the button is a very complex one.

Flash Chart Engine
Hi,

we're creating a flash chart engine, something that could be compared to Google Finance's engine (http://finance.google.com). all is well, except that the engine gets rather slow when the amount of values is big eg. 10 000 or something. I know that it's not an easy task to achieve, but we need to do it.

ATM, we're creating a dynamic linechart, which can have multiple target whose values need to be printed out. We're drawing the line with the Drawing API. I'm just wondering, how Google managed to do their charting engine. It's incredibly smooth, eventhough it has quite an amount of values to pront out.

In addition, does anyone have any idea on how to do tweening when the timeline changes. In Google Finance, when you change the length of the viewable timeline by dragging, the change is ultimately animated. How'd that happen?

Search Engine IN Flash
hey how do i create a search engine in flash?
i've seen it done a couple of times, anyone have any idea?

i've went online looking through this, but all i have is some flash search engine optimization

Best 3D & Physics Engine In Flash?
Which is the best 3D engine and the best physics engine in Flash?
There are so many now...

Flash / XML / Search Engine On CD
Ok...here is what has been presented to me. Need to find out how to create a flash based application that will use xml as the datasource that works as a search engine. This application will be used on a cd. The xml datasource will be updated locally on the clients machine and pushed and burned as a version release.

Does anyone know of any resources or tutorials that i could look at? This is my first time getting my feet wet using flash / xml

Thanks!

Basic Engine Behind 3D Flash
Ok I know some basic 2D animation with Flash but my question is that how is 3D animation created with flash?

http://www.template-help.com/screens...0/4944-ih.html

I am guessing its an imported video say from 3DStudio Max and then it is played there. Everything just seems to play so well in the video.

How is this done, is another program used to create the video and then its exported as a flash video?

Flash Search Engine SDK - How To?
Hello,

I'm trying to get the Flash search engine sdk to work.
I've read the readme-file over and over and over... but I just don't see what to do. Actually I even didn't find the instructions in there .
So my question: How do I get the swf -> html and what has to be done to get a search engine 'reading' the content of my swf?

Thanks,

Yanie!