Flash :: Delay Action Is Beating Me

Delay An Action From A Button
Howdy,
I am using Flash MX in OSX, and I have a parent MC on the stage whose X and Y position is controlled by five buttons. Each button tells the MC to move to a certain position on the stage when clicked (i.e. positions 1-5).
When I click on button4, the main movie goes to position 4, and a child MC plays.
If I then clicked on button 3 to move the parent MC to position 3, I want the child MC to finish playing (or close) before the parent MC moves to position 3 on the stage.
How do I do it? Any ideas?
The child MC does not have to be within the Parent MC. I can put it on the main timeline if required.
I would appreciate any help.
Cheers
Boxx42

Delay Mouseover Action?
Hi Everyone,

I have a horizontal menu bar that is made of buttons that when you mouse over them, a horizontal sub nav bar drops down with additonal options.

The problem: if you accidentally "touch" a neighboring button with the mouse, it drops down that buttons menu.

I'd like to make a delay such as:

if mouse is paused over button for specified time, then play movie clip.

Here's my site: www.pointofgrace.com/site

Macromedia's top nav does what I'm trying to do: http://www.macromedia.com

Can anyone provide me with the actionscript to make th menu bar function that way?

Thanks in advance!

Lance

Delay A GotoAndStop Action
I am creating a quiz where the user must obviosly answer questions. After selecting the correct answer the user receives a short piece of text feedback. At the moment they then have to click on a button to move onto the next question. I would prefer to give them a short period of time to read the feedback - five seconds or so - and then automatically move onto the next question. The questions are on different frames on the timeline so I basically need to delay the gotoAndStop action for a few seconds. Is there an simple way to do this?

Delay Before Playing An Action
It may be super simple but it's 4 am and I'm almost asleep . What I need is an actionscript code that will delay another action from happening x seconds.

For example:

I want to load a movie clip let's call it load1_mc and then after load1_mc loads I input a delay command that will wait x seconds before loading load2_mc and so on.

onEnterFrame

_parent.load1_mc.loadMovie("test.swf");

*Delay Function/Command Here*

_parent.load2_mc.loadMovie("test2.swf");

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm almost sure there must be a simple way of doing it, but I just can't think of one now. Maybe the setInterval() instruction... I dunno. The idea is for loading mc's like the example above or any other "actions" I can think off without relying on frames.

Any help will be appreciated.

Delay In Action Script
Hi,

I am drawing a line dynamically in actionscript (lineto), based on calculations at runtime, but the line is being drawn too quickly. How can I slow it down/delay it?

Thanks

RTB

How To Delay An Action After A Click?
Is there an action that will count clicks of the mouse and perform after a certain amount has been reached?

I'd like to have the user click on an array of objects at random and after the third click, it then goes to a url. I've seen banners ads do this recently and am trying to learn how.
I'm an action script newbie, but can learn.

thanks!
-Joe

Delay Action By Frames
How do you delay an action until a certain number of frames?
on (release) {
play();
function loadIn(movie) {
content.loadMovie(movie);
clearInterval(loadInterval);
}
loadInterval = setInterval(loadIn, 200, "musical/interviews/peteteo/peteteo.swf");
}

This is the code for milliseconds, however, its not efective.

any clues?

Timer To Delay An Action
Hello,

I'm working with flash 8 and I have a 100sec soundclip that plays with the images at 12fps. Problem is the sound invariably ends before the images. I don't mind sound/image being out of synch -I just want the images to cut off regardless of where they are when the sound ends. Any suggestions?

I wonder if it is possible to create a kind of an actionScript timer that counts actual seconds rather than # of frames so that after pausing/sleeping/waiting 100sec's, the action gotoAndPlay(frame label) is executed. Is this possible or is there a better way around the problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Llyfre

Inserting A Delay Before Action
hi,
how do i add a few seconds delay so that a sound on a button can finish playing before the on(release) action takes place?
thank you for your help!!

Navagation System - Delay Action?
OK, I've been racking my brain for a couple days tryin to figure out how to get this to work, and have come to the conclusion that I need some sort of delay action. I've tried to accomplish this with a do while statement, but was unsuccessful, here's my script (ive included line numbers to help describe):

01 on (release) {
02 if (currentwindow=1) {
03 _level9.btunav.gotoAndPlay("close");
04 }
05 _level9.btunav.gotoAndPlay(1);
06 currentwindow = 1;
07 }

What I need to do is delay after line 3 executes, to prevent line 5 from executing too soon. I realize this script seems redundant but the IF statement is incomplete and I wanted to make sure I had the thing working before I went and coded the entire thing...

But anyway, if someone can help me out it'd be appreciated....

-CK

HELP: Delay Of Action In Running Timeline
hello all,

i read this script or tutorial some months ago and did not download it (S***) but mayby anyone of you has mastered the following and can mayby help me....

its the following, i would like to execute a buttonAction from the main timeline(scene 1),like "goto and play scene 2" (or something)

when i click the button;
from that moment on this buttonAction needs to be delayed while my main timeline starts playing till a certain frame, like 10 frames further on my timeline(scene 1). when my timeline has reaches a certain frame the buttonaction needs to be executed.. so my my movie will go to scene 2

does anyone know this or if it is possible.. plz help
or even better has the tecnote for me ..

desperately breaking my head
lol
thanx already

raoul petrus

Button Delay Action Help Needed
I have 5 buttons and 5 movies to load. Each movie enters and exits with movement. I need the buttons to tell the movie to play its exit action and at the end load the movie associated with that button. I have used the gotoAndPlay then loadMovieNum commands but both are executed immediately and the exit activity is not shown.

Can anyone assist me. thanks

Is There An Action That Lets U Delay The Timeline?
i have a flash movie designed frame by frame and its got a lot of frames. i need to go to the begininng to add a sound loop (its going to be looped 3 times) and i dont want to have to push the entire movie and all its layers back several frames.

ideally i'd like to just put an action in the movie at a certain frame that will make the whole movie kinda delay for a certain amount of seconds/frames (until the sound loop is finished) and then resume again. is this possible? is there a better way?

How To Delay An Action In OnEnterFrame Function.
Hi all,
Im still working on my platform game, for my last dat I hope i just need one little piece of code;
I got an onEnterFrame collision detecter. Now I got a function removeHard.
When my enemy hits my hero there is a variable "hit" that gets set to 1.
Now I have a function removeHard that removes one hard from my lives etc this fucntion works how its suppose to. Now what I need is as soon as the var hit = 1, the function removeHard gets called on once with a delay of lets say 1 second. The reason I need the delay for is becouse when I dont delay the character and the enemy move trough eachother and the function still gets called on repeadidly.

I hope someone can help me with this.
Thank you all in advance,
Grtz.

Delay Between Click And Performing Action?
is there a way to have a delay, say four or so frames between release and the time when the action takes place?

TIA
-Al

How Do I Make A Button Delay Before It Takes Action
Hi, I want to make a button do multiple things, but not simultaneously. I have a code here but its not finished. Any ideas?

this.onRelease = function(){
_root.HoldMain.loadMovie("URL");
//Here I want to make it wait 3 seconds before it completes the next function.
_root.HoldLeft.loadMovie("URL");
}

-Sergio
Soig@aol.com

Code To Insert A Delay Between The Event And The Action
I'm having a problem with coding...

I want to write a code that allows me to insert a delay between the event and the action, I mean, if I click on a button now, I want the instance of that button duplicated 3 seconds later... I know I can achieve that on AS, but I don't know how, can anybody help me???

Delay Action Script By 3 Sec At Mouse Hover (tooltip)
I have the following script witch workes great but i would like to run this script after 3 seconds after rollOver

Script for button:
on (rollOver) {
_root.tooltipL("Maak site normale grote");
}
on (rollOut, dragOut) {
_root.remove_tooltipL();
}

Script for frame
function tooltipR (string) {
xmouse = getProperty("", _xmouse);
ymouse = getProperty("", _ymouse);
duplicateMovieClip ("_root.tooltipR", "tooltip1", 1);
tooltip1.tooltip = string;
setProperty (tooltip1, _x, xmouse);
setProperty (tooltip1, _y, ymouse);
startDrag ("_root.tooltip1");
tooltip1.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
function remove_tooltipR () {
stopDrag ();
removeMovieClip ("tooltip1");
}

Thanks !

Hold Time Or Delay Timer In Action Script 3
I'm new to concepts of AS 3 but i'm stumbling through it.
So i'm looking to the Fourm for some Mentor ship

Here's my issue...
I have a simple Regular Flash slide show with 4 slides and an intro label

I need my Intro label to have a Timer or Delay event that holds on the "Intro" Label for a certain amount of time before the Timer expires and calls a function that tells FLASH to go on to slide "Slide 1" label.

The trick is i need this delay to run everytime the Timeline is at the "Intro" label as i have an animation playing while the timer or delay event counts down and finally at end goes to label "Slide 1"

Can anyone share some simple code snipets that would point me in the right direction to accomplish this using AS3 ?

Thanks in advance to the flash forum for the Mentor Ship

Beating The Login
I have a flash movie that starts out with a login. It's purpose is just to give the user a username. I want them to be able to use spaces, but I don't want them to just hit the spacebar a bunch of times. How do I make sure they use some combination of letters and numbers and not just a bunch of spaces and making it look like there is no name?

I restricted what they can input by using:

myText_txt.restrict = "A-Z a-z 0-9";

And, I can use the code below, but it won't help if they hit the spacebar.

if (myText_txt != "") {
//login;
}

Any suggestions?

Creating A 'delay' So That A HitTest Action Doesnt Happen Twice Too Quickly.
Im making a game, and you lose a life if these little dots hit a line that you draw. Thats all fine and dandy, but whats happening is i lose several lives at once because there are 3-5 frames in which the dot crosses over the line.
Is there anyway to invoke a delay before anything happens? and obviously just 1 delay so that i dont lose 5 lives again, just a bit delayed.

Thanks,

Alex

Ok, I've Been Beating Around The Bush But I Can't Figure It Out
I've been trying to get ideas to help me with what I'm trying to do, and everyone HAS helped me a lot... but I still can't figure it out! What I'm trying to do is have a ball always moving right; when it reaches a certain point... say frame 15 or getTimer()+whatever, then it will start over (moving right) but the rotation will be random and it will resume from the position that the last frame was at. So it's constantly moving, after a while it will turn a random direction and go that way, after a while it will turn... you get it. I've tried everything! OY!! If you want me to say what I've tried so that you have a starting point or so that you can see what I was doing wrong, please say so. Thanks

I Know Im Beating A Dead Horse.....
But someone has to have an idea

Here we go

Ok, I have a flash movie, this flash movie is a map with 52 movie clips, they all have an instance name of "section" with a number after it IE: section0 section1 and so on. Ok, In the main coding of my movie I have XML that passes thru ASP that changes the color of the movie clips depending on the variable that is in my database. I use SQL. Here is the coding in my movie

"

/* function sectorArray(){
var msectors, varColor, sid, ftxt
for(i=0;i<=rcrXML.childNodes.length;i++){
if(this.childNodes[i].nodeValue == null && this.childNodes[i].nodeName =="sectors"){
msectors=this.childNodes[i];
}
}
var msector
for (q=0;q<=msectors.childNodes.length;q++){
if(msectors.childNodes[q].nodeName=="sector"){
msector=msectors.childNodes[q];
sid=msector.attributes["id"];
for(j=0;j<=msector.childNodes.length;j++){
if(msector.childNodes[j].nodeName=="color"){
varColor=msector.childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue;}

}

changecolors(varColor,sid)

}
}

}
function changecolors(varColor,sid){
ftxt=new Color("section"+sid)
ftxt.setRGB("0x"+varColor)
}
rcrXML = new XML();
rcrXML.ignoreWhite = true;
rcrXML.onLoad = sectorArray;
rcrXML.load("zRcrXml.asp?mdsid=2")
stop ();
||||||

That is the code INSIDE the movie. My actual xml/asp file has this

"
<%option explicit
dim cn, rs, sql
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Response.Buffer = true
sql="SELECT * FROM vw_RCR_Mapdata WHERE mdsid = " & request.QueryString("mdsid") & "; "
'Response.Write sql
'Response.End
cn.Open "provider = SQLOLEDB.1;Initial Catalog = OGToolsDb; Data source = Webapps; user id=fsfxsb07; password = "
rs.Open sql,cn
%><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<sectors>

<%
do until rs.EOF%>
<sector id="<%=rs("secid")%>">
<rcr>"<%=rs("Rcr_Value")%>"</rcr>
<secname>"<%=rs("Name")%>"</secname>

<%'Check for runway surface conditions for this secid
'Response.Write rs("secid") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("Rcr_Value") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("Takeoff_Landing") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("WaiverThreshold") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("TaxiThreshold") & ", "

if rs("secid") = 0 or rs("secid") = 5 then
'Comparison between takeoff threshold for the runway and rcr

if rs("Rcr_Value") < rs("Takeoff_Landingcaution") then
if rs("Rcr_Value") >= rs("Takeoff_LandingRed") then
'Assign yellow as the color
%><color>ffff00</color><%
else
'Assign red as the color
%><color>ff0000</color><%
end if
else
'Assign green as the color
%><color>00ff00</color><%
end if
else
'Comparison between taxi threshold for the rest of the airfield
if rs("Rcr_Value") < rs("Taxicaution") then
if rs("Rcr_Value") >= rs("TaxiRed") then
'Assign yellow as the color
%><color>ffff00</color><%
else
'Assign red as the color
%><color>ff0000</color><%
end if
else
'Assign green as the color
%><color>00ff00</color><%
end if
end if
rs.Movenext
%></sector><%
loop
%></sectors><%
rs.Close
cn.Close
set cn = nothing
set rs = nothing
*/
||||||||

My question being, there has to be some way possible, to make a code that allows me to mouseover any of the movie clips, and they display the variable in the database that corresponds to their individual section number

Or am I just not going to get it cuz its not possible????

Beating The Popup Blocker
I have an aspx form that I need to load from a button as a popup but the blocker catches it. We tried to load it with getURL(javascript:window.open()), but the popup blocker(IE and a google popup blocker) caught it. Is there a way to make something popup on a user driven event like this? The thing is is that we could do it with "_blank" just fine but we also need to limit the size of the window scallability menubar and all that other stuff you can do with window.open. What do you guys suggest?

Heart Beating Tween
How can I implement a tween simulting the heart beating.

var myTweenX:Tween=new Tween(myShiningLogo,"scaleX",Bounce.easeOut,1,0.6, 1,true);

var myTweenY:Tween=new Tween(myShiningLogo,"scaleY",Bounce.easeOut,1,0.6, 1,true);

this is almost what I want. But I would like the object to come back to initial dimensions. Should I use other 2 tweens ?

Beating The 16,000 Frame Barrier Without LoadMovie()
Heya folks.

I've been working ona personal Flash project for quite some time now. I was oblivious to the 16,000 frame limit until now. My movie is running at 30 fps and is between 10-12 minutes long, so as it turns out I'll be exceeding this limit by a fair amount. Cutting stuff out of my film or reducing the fps is not an option at this point in development, and this all need to be contained in one SWF. I really want to beat the barrier, and I have an idea, but I wanted to throw it out there to make sure it will work before I go through the trouble of doing it.

I'm assuming 16,000 frames is the limit for the main timeline, but the timelines of movie clips exist outside of this barrier. Could you realistically compile half the movie into an 8000 frame movie clip, put the other half of the movie into another 8000 frame movie clip, and then put these two movie clips on a 2-frame movie? The first movie clip would have actionscript that moved the main timeline to the second frame (and the second half of the movie) when it completed its 8000 frame run.

I've never tried this before. Would this work without defying any of the frame limits? If this idea is even theoretically sound but I'm missing something important, any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Beating My Head Against A Wall Over Mappings And External Data
Ok, here's what I need to do.

I have a set of options, such as eye color. There are a variety of choices.

The choices are based on a previous variable.

What I would like to do is have an external file contain these choices in a mapping, such as eyecolor = (["blue", "green"])

In flash, I'll have a dynamic text box to display the choices (one at a time), and a left and right arrow to cycle through the various possibilities.

What's driving me crazy is turning those externally defined mappings into something flash can use, probably an array. That way I can have the buttons control a function that cycles through the array's indexes.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

XML Resize Thumbs (hope I'm Not Beating A Dead Horse)
Hello everyone! I've been all through these 60 some pages on this subject and didn't find what totally what I was looking for... of course eye strain might be a problem so if there is a thread to something I ask please tell me. I apologize in advance if I do. This is my first ever thread also.

Here is a zip of all my files so far. http://marazita.com/funstuff/gallery.zip First here is the link to Scotty's thumb resize that I've put into my .fla. V3_with_thumbs zip Mine doesn't work because what I'm trying to do is make the thumbs replace the mc's that I've added (each with an instance name thumb1, thumb2, etc.). As an artist I like to group images that belong in a group. Sometimes a group can have 3 sometimes 4, etc.. This is what's been wrong with what I've found in the threads so far. They've just been lumped into a certain amount to columns and rows. If you look at my files you'll understand better. I was also hoping that the thumbs would load like this zipped file http://marazita.com/funstuff/gallery_preloadthumbs.zip (which is another nice dynamic loaded one that you don't have control over either). Any help will be greatly appreciated and at the end I'll post my finished file to share with everyone since I've gained so much from this site I would like to also give back. This will help a lot of artists out there I'm sure. Thanks to all that help in advance. I have other questions... but lets do baby steps at first.

-Justin-

www.marazita.com

Help With Loading External Movie Clip(beating A Dead Horse)
Hello folks, I seem to have run into some problem with a project of mine. I have a Main movie which loads multiple external movies. I am using an empty movie clip called contents to load them into.

one of my external movies has a button in it that launches a centered pop up window(kirupa tutorial). This external movie named site works perfectly by itself, but when loaded into the main movie, the button does not work. I'm using:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("site.swf");
}

any input would be greatly appreciated.

How To Stop A "delay" (timer) Action?
Hello everyone,

I made a flashmovie, when you start the flashmovie you go to the mainscreen where there are buttons for different subjects. Now I want to make a kind of screensaver. So when you at the mainscreen and you don't go to a subject within 2 minutes it automaticaly goes to a MC (I named it "testmovie").
I used the following code for it (don't mind the time that's for testing, otherwise I have to wait everytime 2 minutes :P )

Code:
doStuff = function(){
_level0.gotoAndPlay("testmovie");
clearInterval(timer);
}
timer = setInterval(doStuff, 5000);

The code works good, but there is a problem. If you go to a subject within the 2 minutes it's still goes to the "testmovie".

Is there a way to stop this delay?

Delay: Need Escapable Time Delay Actionscript2.0 Function (Flash8Pro)...
Hi,

I am brand new to Flash® 8 Professional. I have many year experiece as a Visual C++ programmer, but am having some troubles learning to code in Actionscript2.0...

I wish to have an Actionscript2.0 function that does the following:
Delay for x milliseconds, but if user clicks mouse in Flash document then delay is immediately over.

Can someone with experience give me some hints on how to code this in Actionscript2.0? I am using Flash® 8 Professional.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. - Working on a Flash® Tetris® game called "TetriCrisis100%™".

JeZ+Lee
Silent Hero Productions®

Creating Text File - Or - "Beating A Dead Horse"
Hey Folks,

Please forgive me for revisiting this often-asked question, but...

I just installed Flash MX 2004, and was wondering if there was
any new functionality that allows the developer to create and
write to an external text file.

From what I've read, this is possible using PHP, ASP, etc... Though,
that requires access ta a PHP or ASP web server - something I don't
want to set up at this time. So, I guess I'm asking if there is any
way to create/write a text file without the help of PHP, ASP, or
a web server?

I'm inserting the movie in VB and using FSCommand to communicate
between the two - Flash input, VB create the file. This works, but
is not very elegant, not efficient, can't run it in IE, etc...

Can you do it using XML? Any other suggestions?

Thanks A Lot,

Loading A .jpg Dynamic "I'm Beating My Head Here"
I've done this many times before and suddenly It won't work.

I'm loading a .jpg dynamically during runtime into a MC.

the clip is named "container"
the .jpg is in the same directory

here's the code I'm using..

container.loadMovie("logo.jpg");

The movie clip will disapear during runtime as if it was being replaced with the .jpg, but not image appears.....

any idea?

thanks,

Beating Heart With Variable Heart Rate?
Okay everyone. Put your thinking caps on.

I need to create a beating heart. I need to be able to have control over the heart rate... and therefore, the speed at which the heart beats.

Any clever ideas?

Action Script Question: Where Is The OnRelease Action In The Action Folders
I’m working on a project and I trying to make it when you click down on a button that click will send you to a point in the movie and then a symbol will play from there. I know that you need to pick the key with the button on it in the time line and then I know you need to pick the button that you would like to assign the GoToAndPlay statement on.

But what’s really messing with me is where in the heck the on release or the on mouse down statement is in the little action a book when are looking in the action window.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Action Script Question: Where Is The OnRelease Action In The Action Folders
Action Script Question: where is the OnRelease action in the action folders

I’m working on a project and I trying to make it when you click down on a button that click will send you to a point in the movie and then a symbol will play from there. I know that you need to pick the key with the button on it in the time line and then I know you need to pick the button that you would like to assign the GoToAndPlay statement on.

But what’s really messing with me is where in the heck the on release or the on mouse down statement is in the little action a book when are looking in the action window.

Any help would be much appreciated.