Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs
First I wanted to thank those that have helped me out when I had questions in creating an application for work. I have completed the first wave of the application and is now being sent for review to 'Mahogany Row'! =)

The next question I have is based on the concept of Easter Egg's in software applications. I would like to either create a 'hot spot' using an invisible button, or even a key sequence that would load a simple screen that otherwise wouldn't be available.

My intent is to place a 'Credits' screen in the application, and animates in and dissolves ... or something similiar.

If anyone has any samples or ideas, it would be great if I could learn from them.

Thanks again to everyone that has helped me in the past!

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Easter Eggs
I'm looking for ways to include "easter eggs" in a flash file. (Easter eggs are little hidden things in DVD menus or games that aren't obvious unless you look very carefully or enter a secret code).

I came up with two ideas, but there are probably many more. The first way is clicking on hotspots that aren't obvious buttons, and those launch the special feature.

The other method is a bit more complicated and I'm not sure if it's possible. I'd like to have the user type in a code, kind of like how a game cheat code works. The thing is, there wouldn't be a text field because that would be too obvious. Is there a way to do this?

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Easter Eggs
Yeah ok, so I'm a newbie who's never taken a class, not certified by Macromedia or anything, don't know sh*t about the basics of scripting, and flash in general, but somehow I get wind of the advanced cool stuff and I just have a field day.

So I'm wondering about Easter Eggs (at least that's what I've heard them called). As I understand it, an Easter Egg is like a hidden button or something like it. I'm trying to make an Easter Egg that is triggered by typing three keys in a particular sequence. The way I was planning on going about it is a s follows:
-3 buttons, each triggered by pressing a different key
-the first button (in frame 3 let's say) then sends you to frame 4, where the second button is, and everything else about the movie is stationary (as it was in the previous frame). This button then takes you to the frame 5 (where everything is exactly the same as the previous two frames - less these hidden buttons)
-upon triggering this last button, the movie unloads and reloads a different movie with the "hidden content"

So yeah, that's my idea so far as to how to do this. I've heard of someway to make a plug-in that you click like a button and it gives a pop-up (in the movie) asking for a password or secret code of some kind. That's what I want to do, instead of the long-winded way I've described.

Just a thing: I've tried posting a similar post on Macromedia's forums, but they're guys are like "oh yeah use a blah blah blah (insert actionscript terminology I don't understand)." So if you have an idea, or are laying out how I should go about this, just note that I have no idea about anything sofisticated in ActionScript -- still teaching myself...(what a terrible teacher -- not to mention a class that doesn't pay attention).

So thanks to who ever takes the time to read this. And MEGA-thanks to who ever helps me out.

Cheers,
Nick

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MX Easter Eggs
Last edited by .:dReAm:. : 2002-06-18 at 05:56.
























http://www.macromedia.com/software/f.../flashegg2.swf

from Flash Guru's Blogg ...

woops .. soryy ... wrong forum !

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Adding Easter Eggs To Flash Site?
I have a client that wants a site that's content is all hidden in easter egg style concepts. One of the ideas I'd like to do is have the user type in a code and have it activate a movie clip or a function, can anyone help with this?

My ActionScript knowledge is still a bit beginner so try to keep it in laymans terms.

--Casey

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"secret" Buttons (easter Eggs)
how can I disable the hand cursor when a person hovers the mouse cursor over a button?

I tried useHandCursor = false; (someone suggested it) but it didn't work. maybe i didn't use it right or something.

how do i do this



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Eggs,what Are They>?
I always see "I have 128 eggs in my animation, can you find them?"
or
"I found a couple eggs"
"I enjoyed finding all the eggs"
"I had a hard time finding the eggs, any hints?"
"Look on the main page for the eggs"

What are these "eggs"?

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Do You Like Eggs With ICE CREAM, DO YOU ?
Hi, anyone know a good site, like the flashkit, but for director ???

Thanks

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Quees Bob Lays Eggs
dont ask what the title is for, more or less to catch the eye

i want to know is there a way to have flash detect screen res, and then point them to a page suited for the res they use?

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Thanks For The Easter Egg Help ... I Need A Little More Though ...
Thanks to those who helped me with my Easter Egg problem earlier ... I wish you guys could've seen me banging my head on the edge of the desk. I can't belive I didn't think of using a movie clip. I do that sometimes, I'll to think of the most complex answer to my problem, only to realize there is a really simple solution. Anyways, I have a new question though. You know how I make an invisible button and attach the script to it:
on (keypress "<UP>") {
nextFrame ();
}
Right got that, but that presents another problem, technically I can hit whatever button I want to but once I press UP it'll advance. So here's my prob: Is there a way to specify any key other than UP, sorta like
on (keypress! "<UP>") // using "!" to specify not UP
Something similar to that, the ! doesn't work (I already tried). Now of course I can do it long hand by putting an "on" event for absuletely every key pressed, but that would make my script unbearably huge.
Anyways, thanks for the help.

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Easter Egg
I'm developing an interactive sales presentation for my company and I would like to add an easter egg for fun. How would I script when a user hits an odd config like control J or something that an swf loads in its own window? Any help on this is greatly appreciated. It's sort of a surprise for my boss.

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Easter Egg Help
how do i make an easter egg?

for those of you who don't know what that is, it is a hidden thing where when you click on it, it plays a secret movie or something like that.

i made the button, but when you do mouse over, it goes into the hand!! how do i make it so it stays at the person's normal pointer?

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Easter Egg Problem ...
Hey, I was wonderring if anyone was ever able to emulate the classic Konami cheat code (you know the one ... up, up, down, down, b, a, b, a, start) into a flash movie or something along that line. I wanna put an easter egg in a movie, but I wanna access it in that sorta fashion. Now, I know someone out there will be a wisenhiemer (good word, huh) and say that those buttons don't exist on a keyboard, but you catch my drift. The best I could do was a cntrl + x combination, but that's to easy. Any help would be much obbliged. Thanks again.

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Easter Egg Problem ...
Anyways, I asked this a while ago and got some responses that helped but I ran into a problem and was wondering if anyone could help devise a solution. Here's the deal. I'm making some games in Flash and I want to have special bonuses for entering an up,up,down,down,left,right sorta thing. Someone helped me by recomending using a movie clip with stop actions on each frame and it will only advance if you hit the keys in some order, on the last frame is the bonus. I couldn't believe I didn't think of that (I always try to think of a more difficult solution than realizing the easy one under my nose). Anyways I ran into a problem with that solution though. You could hit any key you wanted to between hitting the ones in the appropriate order, so any monkey who just starts hitting keys at random will eventually hit the jackpot. Anyways on to my question. I want to make one of these easter egg revealers that will tell what key you press, wait for you to release the key (some keyboards have this insane turbo when you hold down a key for long time), and make sure you input the keys in a particular order and if you don't it will make you start over and will keep track of how many times you've messed up and if its over a certain amount it won't let you get the bonus. Is there away to solve this problem? Anyone who can help will greatly be appriciated.

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[MX] Easter Egg Question
Hello,

I'm working on a site where I am thinking about incorporating easter eggs. Here is the part I am having a problem with. I want it to where once one user finds the easter egg it comes up to print a page with a code on it. That part I can figure out. Then I want it to erase the easter egg from the .swf so that way it can only be found once. This is where the problem comes in. Due to server restrictions there is no server-side scripting capabilities. I was told that javascript was supported, but I don't think .jsp is. I know none of the others .asp, .php, .cfm, .cgi are supported. Is it possible to pull off what I am wanting done without the support of server-side scripting? Thanks.

Mo

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Flash CS3 Easter Egg
http://www.beedigital.net/blog/?p=1374

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Drawing On An Easter Egg
Okay, I have searched nearly every thread on AS.org relating to the Drawing API and I still can't find the answer to my question.

I am setting up a simple Easter interface where the user can draw on an Easter egg. The challenge is limiting the line to the egg shape, where the lines don't draw outside the egg. I have tried dynamically loading the egg movie clip, and I have tried the reverse, by placing an egg movie clip on the stage and attaching an empty movie clip. Neither does the job.

Am I attempting the impossible?

Here is my script which enables the user to draw anywhere on the stage. Plus, for some reason, it draws off-center. The line comes out a couple hundred pixels away from the pencil movie clip. Arrggh.


ActionScript Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("egg_mc", 1);
egg_mc.attachMovie("eggo","eggo",1);
var lw:Number;
var colLine:Number;
init();
pencilInit();
function init() {
    lw = 3;
    colLine = 0x0000ff;
    this.createEmptyMovieClip("pencilCursor", 3);
    pencilCursor.attachMovie("pencilIcon", "pencil", 3);
    pencilCursor._rotation = 30;
    Mouse.hide();
}
function pencilInit() {
    line_color.setRGB(colLine);
    egg_mc.eggo.lineStyle(lw, colLine, 100);
    pencilCursor.onMouseMove = function() {
        this._x = _root._xmouse;
        this._y = _root._ymouse;
        updateAfterEvent();
    };
    onMouseDown = function () {
        egg_mc.eggo.moveTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
        onMouseMove = draw;
    };
    onMouseUp = function () {
        delete onMouseMove;
    };
    function draw():Void {
        egg_mc.eggo.lineTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
        updateAfterEvent();
    }
    clearer.onRelease = function() {
        egg_mc.eggo.clear();
        pencilInit();
    };
}

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G'Day All Happy Easter
Another thing on scroll bars!
I have three sections of dynamic text on three layers. I would like to have scrollbars for each of these but it don't work (with putting them on all different layers, all three scroll bars control the first dynamic text.
How do I go about it?
Thanks guys!
Happy Easter...
Nicko,

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Flash Easter Egg
If everyone already knows about this then im sorry for bringing up old news but for the people who dont.

In Flash MX 2004 Pro if you go to help and click on 'about flash' a little window will pop up and there will be a very small 'tm' i dont remeber exactly where because i use 8 now....but if you keep clicking that lil tm fast enough the little window will actually load a series of games. have fun!

also you have to be connected to the internet for it to work, ive tried to find something like that in v8 but failure so far...if anyone knows of it feel free to share

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Flash CS3 Easter EGG
http://www.beedigital.net/blog/?p=1374

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Flash 8 Easter Egg
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but if you open up the "About Flash Professional 8" and click on the dot of the "i" in "Macromedia" you will get 6 small flash games.

I think I remember that there was this same easter-egg in Flash 7 (MX 2004 Pro) as well, with a different hot-spot. (I think it was in the ™ on the About)...

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Easter Egg Actionscript Help Needed
Hi all:

Could anyone point me to some AS that acts like a hidden easter egg:

User types a word like f-l-a-s-h and the flash window plays a sound or jumps to another page. There should not be a text field visible for feedback. I'm using Flash 8.

Thanks.

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