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Drawing On The Stage From External As File
Hi guys, Ive just started learning flash last week and am very impressed so far. I do alot of Java so the concept of classes constructors and methods is very familiar but I have come across a problem which I do not seem to be able to fix. Could any of you guys advise me on this.

I am trying to create a class called Particle, this class when created by calling the constructor would create a new circle on the stage which would then be accesible to the rest of the AS files by referencing a unique instance name.

So far I have this as my code in my main class

//Main Code

import Particle;

var firstPart:Particle = new Particle(5,4,50,50,0x333333,10);

And this as the external Particle.as

package {

import Acceleration;
import flash.display.*;

public class Particle extends MovieClip{
//Variables
//Drawn particle
public var drawnParticle:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

//Particle velocity
private var velocity:Number;
private var velocity_angle:Number;

//Particle acceleration general
private var ac1:Acceleration;
private var ac2:Acceleration;

//Particle size and colour
private var pSize:Number;
private var pColor:Number;

//Particle Location
private var x_Location:Number;
private var y_Location:Number;

private var step:Number;
private var is_Started:Number;

//Constructor
public function Particle(velocity:Number, velocity_angle:Number, start_x:Number, start_y:Number, pSize:Number, pColor:Number){
this.velocity = velocity;
this.velocity_angle = velocity_angle;

this.ac1 = new Acceleration(0,0);
this.ac2 = new Acceleration(0,0);

this.pSize = pSize;
this.pColor = pColor;

this.x_Location = start_x;
this.y_Location = start_y;

step = 0;
is_Started = 0;

drawnParticle.graphics.lineStyle(1);
drawnParticle.graphics.beginFill(pColor);
drawnParticle.graphics.drawCircle(start_x,start_y, pSize);
this.addChild(drawnParticle);
drawnParticle.graphics.endFill();
trace(pSize, pColor);
}
}

there is also an acceleration.as file but I dont think i need to include it here to show you guys. If for some reason you need it just let me know

Cheers in advance guys

Jon

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I want to draw a line around the stage to form a border, but the code below produces a square just a bit shorter and smaller then the stage size. Why is this?

Code:
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mShape.lineTo( 100, 0 );
mShape.lineTo( 100, 50 );
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onEnterFrame=function()
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Also when I resize the stage, the 0 coordinate seems to have an relative position(?), wich causes the border to move as well. How can I prevent this behaviour?

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I do not know where to begin? So may need a lot of direction on this one.

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Hello, I'm new to this board and kind of a flash newbie so you could probably help me out.

What I'm trying to build is what you could call a scrolling drawing board - just like a drawing board but when the mouse comes close to the edge of the window, it scrolls and lets you continue your drawing.
I have no problem creating a drawing board with API, but i can't make it scroll. Usually when i want to scroll a background image i make it move along with the mouse when the cursor is near the edge of the window (for example, if the mouse's coordinates are above a certain number, the background image starts moving in one direction so it "scrolls" in the other direction).
So i wanted to do this with the movieclip of the drawing in a drawing board (make it move according to mouse's coordinates near the edge of the window), but when i scroll i have to stop the mouse at the edge of the window because i cant go any further :p so the drawing moves but it stops drawing. Or maybe what i need is some way to draw even when the mouse is not moving. Is that possible?

I'm sorry it may seem a bit confused (moreover english isnt my native langage :p), I'll try to post an example later. In the meantime, if any of you see how i can do that ... thanks

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Hello everyone, (almost) first post here
I'm creating a, quite original flash website (meh... not my idea in fact, I'm only the flasher!), in wich you're in a car, sitting on the passenger side, and you're looking outside to see the contents coming on the road.
It rains.
A lot.
So the windowseat is "fogged" (how can I say that...???) and while you're loading the content you actually can draw on the glass with your.. err... finger (mouse!), like how your friends usually do in your car when you really don't want their fingerprints all over your car glass

Ok, easy way to do that:
1 - attachmovie
you actually duplicate a circle, give it some randomness in blurring and size so it looks irregular and place it right under your mouse.

Good, it works... but when you move fast, it just leaves a blank spaces between clip and clip...

Hey... that's not fair...

2 - drawing api
Oh my god... I can't make a mask with a simple line, so I should draw a shape while moving the mouse.
The point is... HOW???

I dunno if there's a better way to do that, but that's the only one in my mind now.
Actually the drawn clip should also be blurred a little bit (1 or 2 percent) wich is not a problem since you can easily blur the container.

But now the real point is: how do I draw like that with the beginfill?!?!?

Note: I uploaded the fla so you can have an idea on how it looks...

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I'm doing a flash application with flash cs3 actionscript3. I tried with as2.
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the application includes:-
all the vector or images should be editable means scale rotate color change etc.

draw line -
draw rectangle -
circle
input text.
curve with node points

if anyone have any tutorials or any resourse please post here.

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Hey fello flashers,

what i'm trying to achieve can be seen here, at the FWA's website.

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if anyone has encounted this problem before or can help, then pls do i'm a little confounded on this one.

thanks
cam

Stage.align = "TL";

var numberOfGalleries:Number = 20;
var thumbMarginX:Number = 163;
var thumbMarginY:Number = 109;

function init():Void {
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resizeStage();
}

function enableButtons(numberOfGalleries:Number):Void {
currentRow = 0;
currentColumn = 0;
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tracker = i;
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currentThumbnail._y = currentRow*thumbMarginY;
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currentRow++;
currentColumn = 0;
}
}
}

function resizeStage() {
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//
}
Stage.addListener(myListener);
}

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Hey folks,

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the problem is when the mouse moves over a button, i see the movieclip move but then the entire stage dissappears and turns a few shades of gray.

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An external swf is loaded using this code...

ActionScript Code:
on(release) {
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not sure how this next step goes. do i need another addlistener to the background mc that im tweening ?

kindly check the .fla. to see what i mean.
its very rough cut but hopefully you can get the gist of it.
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Code:
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frame.fla.zip

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
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MC moves off stage left, comes on stage right.

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-------------|-------------
-------------|-------------
-------------|-------------
__________o__________
-------------| **********
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And at the origin is the top left corner of the flex swf.

Now since the flex swf only takes up a small amount of Quadrant 4, when an Alert message from the flex swf comes up (from mx library) it looks up professional since it is not placed in the center of the application, but the center of quadrant 4.

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I'm having what, I want to assume, is a common issue and there's something I'm missing here...I have a flash movie that works fine (that is Stage.height and Stage.width) return their proper values when the actual SWF is played in the flash player, however, when I put the movie into an HTML page and set it's height and width to 100%, Stage.width and Stage.height are 0 and my neato script breaks.

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I need the image_mc movieclip in this .fla to scale to fit browser, however i need the image to scale in proportion. I would also need a listener of sorts that will NOT allow the image_mc movieclip to scale below the stage size of 1024 x 768.

Can anyone drop some science on me?

http://www.spent2000.com/scale_propo..._for_stage.fla

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the image must scale to fit the browser, But.
the image must not leave empty areas of the stage exposed (upscale the image if needed to cover blank stage area exposed, which will clip off a end of the image and thats where Stage.align comes in)
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as I have it now

_imageHolder is a hypothetical image and stage is a reference to the stage.
I know this algorithm is not a best practice and it don't cover the stage completely. Any help would be great.

PHP Code:

if((_imageHolder.width >= stage.stageWidth) && (_imageHolder.height >= stage.stageHeight)){ if(_imageHolder.width >= stage.stageWidth){ _imageHolder.width = stage.stageWidth; _imageHolder.scaleY = _imageHolder.scaleX; }else if(_imageHolder.height >= stage.stageHeight){ _imageHolder.height = stage.stageHeight; _imageHolder.scaleX = _imageHolder.scaleY; } }else if((_imageHolder.width <= stage.stageWidth) && (_imageHolder.height <= stage.stageHeight)){ if(_imageHolder.width < stage.stageWidth){ _imageHolder.width = stage.stageWidth; _imageHolder.scaleY = _imageHolder.scaleX; }else if(_imageHolder.height < stage.stageHeight){ _imageHolder.height = stage.stageHeight; _imageHolder.scaleX = _imageHolder.scaleY; } } }

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Too make matters even worse is that the results I get when previewing the movie in the IDE Flash Player is not even close to the results I get in the browser Flash Player. Could it have something to do with the fact that I recently installed Flash Player 10?

Id also like to take advantage of this thread to ask if it is possible to set the stage w/h to 100% via the swf metatag. Ive tried to do this but have been unsucesful.

Here is the link... which is not even close to what Im seeing when previewing in the Flash IDE. '

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I wonder if you can help... I'm wanting to create a flash site that has a fluid layout.

I've attempted to follow various tutorials and looked through the books that I have, but at present I'm struggling.

I'm using CS3 on the Mac platform and I'm really quite new to actionscripting.

I want to create a page which has a "menu" hugging the top left hand corner of the browser, a "footer/heading" sitting at the bottom right (both with a slight margin from the edges of the browser window). Then once completed I will add a central area for the main content.

* Can I do this with the Stage.align coding and using "listeners?"
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* What I have attempted so far, is it actually resizing to the browser size at all?

Can anybody please help, I've asked around on a few other forums and as I said looked at tutorials but I can't seem to apply the coding to achieve the results that I want!

Thankyou in advance!

(I will post a link to what I have so far.. I just need to make a few amendments)

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hello.
still looking how to maintain max. stage width and height. i have managed to achieve it on the width, but for some reason have been unable to do it for the height. that is, i have managed to make a line go from one side to the other (almost) but cant figure out how to do it on the vertical.
zbot is the horiz line at the botton
ztop for the one above
the problem, is for xleft (the vertical lineon the left)
i have included what i think to be the nearest code yet, and a fla.

any help, thanks a lot.

Code:
Stage.align = "LT";
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
bg._width = System.capabilities.screenResolutionX-20;
bg._height = System.capabilities.screenResolutionY-70;
bg.onResize = function() {
this._x = (Stage.width-this._width)/2;
this._y = (Stage.height-this._height)/2;
};
Stage.addListener(bg);
zbot._x = 62;
zbot.onResize = function() {
this._width = Stage.width;
};
Stage.addListener(zbot);
////
xleft._x = 270;
xleft.onResize = function() {
this._height = Stage.height;
};
Stage.addListener(zbot);
////
ztop._x = 62;
ztop.onResize = function() {
this._width = Stage.width;
};
Stage.addListener(ztop);
// get the content clip to stay fixed horizontally centred
content.onResize = function() {
this._x = (Stage.width-this._width)/2;
};
Stage.addListener(content);
// manually invoke the onResize events for the clips to start things off
bg.onResize();
zbot.onResize();
ztop.onResize();
xleft.onResize();
content.onResize();

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Hi everyone, and thanks in advance for reading...

I am trying to make an online display application...with two views...standard view, and full screen view...

the standard view can be seen at www.expocadvr.com/temp/default.html

I have a main SWF file which contains a movieclip which the two external SWFs are being loaded into...

the difference between the two views is the size of the main vewing window...in the fullscreen version, the window takes up the whole browser window(with small margins) and I want this view to be scalable to the broswer so if the user changes the browser size, the window will resize as well...

In the standard view, the tools are visible on the left, and I do not want the movie to scale with the browser, I just want it to center on the browser...

how would I go about changing the stage size of the main movie to accomodate the two different stage sizes of the external swfs and at the same time have one scale and center, and the other only center...

please help.

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What am I missing here? According to the docs:

Quote:

When the value of the scaleMode property is not set to StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE, the stageWidth property represents the width of the SWF file as set during authoring in the Document Properties dialog box. This means that the value of the stageWidth property stays constant as you resize the Flash Player window. This property cannot be set.

So stick this in a new FLA

ActionScript Code:
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
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function onResize(e:Event=null):void
{
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