Flash :: Flickering Problem With LoadMovie()

Loadmovie Function Causing Flickering On Mouseover
Hi there,

I'm not great with actionscript, but I'm making a scrolling gallery, where when you mouse-over the image, it gets bigger. I've called it in with

loadMovie("pic1_thumb.jpg", "thumbnail_loadbox");

One the over keyframe, I have a separate version of the thumbnail, slightly larger, but now when I publish it, it loads the image twice, once originally and once again when you mouse-over.... EVERYTIME. This causes it to flicker. Any suggestions on how to pre-load the thumbnails so that it doesn't flicker?

Thanks! I appreciate your help!

Flickering
I have had two people on two different computers tell me that the intro to my newly created website was flickering very badly. I noticed that it was doing it on my computer, but I thought it might just be MY computer. Can someone please check out the intro and tell me if it is flickering and if so how to i make it stop. I did increase the frame rate but it flickered just as bad.

http://apertureiseverything.tripod.com

Please Help With Flickering
Hi i am building a flash site and i am having some troubles with a movie flickering between 2 frames - i have added stop scripts into the frames, the movie fades in and out and its when it fades that the flickering happens??

You can see the problem at http://www.anotherfn.com/ and if you can help i have upload the fla as an attachment - i can figure what i am doing wrong.

Thanks

Using Flash 8

Flickering Png Bug
Hi all,

been a while but I'm back hah-hah. Hope you've all been having a good time. Anyhow the reason I'm back -

I've come across an irritating bug that seems to be being caused by saving a Flash 8 FLA in CS3.

The symptoms are - any animations containing transparent pngs flicker really badly. On closer inspection I've found that whats happening is the tweens aren't being drawn so all you see is the key frames.

(Actually It may even be affecting clips that only contain vectors - I haven't investigated)

I can force the flickering to stop by clicking each timeline in each affected movieclip and then exporting the movie. However as soon as I save out of CS3 the flickering comes back the next time I export.

Unfortunately I'm working on a machine that only has CS3, the other developer here only has F8, so I end up converting the .fla every time I save.

Anyone seen this before? Any thoughts on how to fix it permanently - clicking 150 timelines after each save is getting really boring.

J

Flickering
Hi,

I'm animating simple oval shapes moving across the screen. Shapes are solid color and created in Flash. When I play the movie (29 fps, 1024x768) the shapes flicker as they move. The shapes have a tween from 0% alpha to 40% alpha which happens while thay are moving.

Any idea how to remove flicker?
Thanks!

FLV Flickering
Hi!

I've made a video in Maya 2008 exported it to AVI and then recompressed it to FLV using the Flash CS3 Video Encoder...

The problem is that the video is not smooth as it should... It flickers A LOT!! I don't know what else to do... I've tried everything I thought of...

Can someone please help me? I've uploaded all the files, so please take a look...

http://www.lpfmultimedia.com/videoFlick ... kering.zip

Thanks in advance!

How To Prevent Flickering?
Hello to all Flash gurus out there. Please HELPPP!! well, I would like to animate a line from one point to another. In other words, the point was set to 0 for both it's height and width. I've placed the follwing codes in frame 2 in the time line and frame 3 is to loop back to frame 2. Frame 1 is for initialization of variables.

if (_root.v_line2._width < r) {
_root.v_line2._width = _root.v_line2._width + /:speed;

} else if (_root.v_line2._width > r) {
_root.v_line2._width = r;
}

The code works, however the line (v_line2) keeps flickering. Is there anything wrong with the codes?? How can i reduce/prevent the flickering??? Thanx a MILLION!!

Unwanted Flickering
Howdy!

I got a problem. I am working on a flash movie, sort of a sci-fi series. In the first scenes I include some spaceships flying above a futuristic city. The problem is that when the ships fly by, the background behind them flickers slightly. Not much, but annoying anyway.

The background is an imported jpg picture and everything else is symbols drawn in flash.

What can I do to prevent this flickering effect?

Mouse Flickering
I've just put a preloader on my flash movie... but when it loads the next scene... the mouse flickers...

any ideas on how to stop the mouse flickering after a preloader..??

eChimp!

Help With Flickering A Movie
Actually i my problem is how to flicker/blink a movie clip or a text,, although i knew how to do it, but i have forgotten the code,, some one please help me, regarding the flickering/blinking of a movie clip,,,
Someone please help
[Edited by keywestgui on 08-16-2002 at 05:05 AM]

Flickering Button
Hi There
Would be keen to know about how to stop a button from flickering.

Flickering Jpeg/bmp
I have an imported jpeg tweening from alpa 0 to alpha 100 then stopped. Easy enough. I notice after the stop, parts of the image will move around very slightly. thanks

Flickering Text
Well, I posted this in newbie forum but didnt get much help so ill give it a shot over here..

Hey, ive just got Flash MX and Ive been looking at the sweetest Flash Movies. However, ive been delving around and havent found a tut on how to do this certain (awesome) style of text.
An example is: http://members.shaw.ca/pbleper/tehd...shconcerto.html
At the beggining you see that text? How would you accomplish something like that?

My Project Keeps Flickering
My project keeps flickering! I am working on a flash project and it is a image fade out project. But when viewed, the client complains it flickers. The client claims its not the monitor, but that project. What can I do to fix this???

Has anyone encountered anything like this? PLEASE HELP!!!

THANK YOU

Buttons Flickering
I have created a cd navigation interface with a lot of buttons.... When you roll over the buttons quickly they flicker a little bit (it is like something is in the background) and I remeber this issue from prior versions of flash but can not figure out how to resolve it.

Please help.

I have posted the file without the CD contents at
http://www.igixo3.com/flash/mq12.swf

I checked it on another system it only does it in the flash player mode. It does not flicker in a browser.

Flickering Text
How would I go about making my text flicker like a crumby neon light that is about to blow?

Flickering Button
ive made all of the different frames for my button, and when i have the button scroll accross the screen, it flickers through each frame.

but once the my flash movie stops(using the stop command) it doesnt do any of the frame(mouse over, hit)

Flickering Problem
hi ...
i asked this question on the game forum but so far havent had any joy so i thought i try here ...i have a scrolling background MC containing a moving platform for a simple game...my problem is that the hero starts flickering as soon as hes on the moving platform but then hes fine on the still platforms...here is the code on the moving platform:

[code]
onClipEvent (load) {
velocity = 2;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
var x;
x = _x+velocity;
if (x>-200 || x<-400) {
velocity = velocity*-1;
}
_x = _x+velocity;
m_bounds = new Object();
m_bounds = this.getBounds(_root);
if (hitTest(_root.hero)) {
if (_root.hero.b_edge<=m_bounds.Ymin) {
_root.hero._y = m_bounds.Ymax-14;
_root.hero.platform = "on";
_root.hero._x = _root.hero._x+velocity;
}
if (_root.hero.t_edge-12<=m_bounds.Ymax) {
_root.hero.vel_y = 0;
}
}
}
[code]
/////////////////
the code on the hero is this:
[code]
onClipEvent (load) {
vel_y = 0;
accel = 4;
jumping = false;
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
my_bounds = new Object();
my_bounds = this.getBounds(_root);
t_edge = my_bounds.Ymin;
b_edge = my_bounds.Ymax;
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x = this._x+5;
_xscale=50
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x = this._x-5;
_xscale=-50
}
if (this._x<=10) {
this._x = 10;
}
if (gravity eq "on" and platform eq "off" and !jumping) {
this._y = this._y+8;
jumping = true;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && !jumping) {
platform = "no";
vel_y = 24;
//height jump
jumping = true;
}
if (jumping == true) {
if (platform eq "on") {
gravity = "on";
vel_y = 0;
jumping = false;
} else {
gravity = "off";
}
vel_y -= accel;
if (vel_y<-8) {
vel_y = -8;//speed of fall
}
this._y -= vel_y;
}
platform = "off";
gravity = "on";
}
[code]
////////I cant figure out why this flickering should occur....
heres the fla. if anyone can figure this out i will be most grateful
many thanks in advance...

Flickering Problems - Please Help
Hi Flash Community,

I'm programming in AS 2 a very simple ball class that can connect to other balls.

Please look at the example I'm providing. When I move the green ball, the lines flicker. When I move the blue balls, the lines don't flicker, why is that?

The SWF is here:
http://byte-site.com/balls.swf

and my code is just this:

class ball extends MovieClip {

var connectTo:Array;

function ball() {
connectTo = new Array(1);
onEnterFrame = drawLines;
//trace('initited');
}

function onPress () {
this.startDrag();
}

function onRelease() {
this.stopDrag();
}

function setColor(myColor:String) {
var c = new Color(this);
c.setRGB(myColor);
}

function drawLines() {
this.clear();
this.lineStyle(1, 0, 100);
for(var i = 0; i < connectTo.length; i++) {
this.moveTo(0, 0);
this.lineTo(connectTo[i]._x - this._x, connectTo[i]._y - this._y);
}
//updateAfterEvent();
}

function addChild(obj:MovieClip) {
connectTo.push(obj);
}

}

Thanks,
Tony

My Button Keeps Flickering And I Don't Know Why.
I created a drop down menu from a tutorial using Actionscript but as soon as I added more "options" to the menu (more than the tutorial used), the button started flickering when I tested the movie. What am I doing wrong?

This is the actionscript coding I attached to the movie that contains the drop down menu buttons:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// if the mouse IS over the menu ...
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
// if the menu is NOT fully open
if (this._currentframe<this._totalframes) {
// go to the next frame of the menu opening sequence
nextFrame();
}
// if the mouse is NOT over the menu
} else {
// if the menu is NOT fully closed
if (this._currentframe>1) {
// play the previous frame of the menu opening sequence
prevFrame();
}
}
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I also attached the file. Any ideas at all what I'm doing wrong?

Also, out of curiosity, how would I add sub-menu buttons to the current menu buttons? Would I use the parent function?

Thank you!
Furpants

Flickering Letters
I was wondering how I would go about getting the letters of a word to all flicker and appear at different times and then eventually stop and just have the word.
*hope this makes sense.

Flickering LoadMovies...
Hi,

I've created a movie that loads various swf's into a target movie clip (using loadMovie), depending on which button is pressed by the user.

Since there are 30 different buttons, and the swf's that they load vary in size, I've put a preloader on each swf to be loaded - nothing complex, just a loader in frame 1 and the movie content in frame 2.

This all works fine to a degree. What I'm finding though, is that if I click a button to load in one swf, and the click a different button to load another .swf quickly BEFORE the first has finished loading, all hell breaks loose!

Every swf I try to load after that seems to flicker wildly between it's first and second frames, and even other completely unrelated animations appear to go haywire. The only thing to do then is refresh the browser, which obviously isn't acceptable..

Any ideas why this is happening, and any solutions?

Help massively appreciated as always...

Skratch

Flickering At Animation End
Hi Folks,

I have an animation which flickers at the end when it loops. Only the masked part is flickering for some reason.

ANyone know why?

TIA

-Al

Flickering Rollovers
I'm doing a flash project where when you scroll your mouse over a certain area, a mouseover pops up. I've got ten of these. Two work beautifully, but the rest don't. They rollover correctly, but when you mouse over the actual box that pops up, they begin to flicker. I can't find any differences in the code and makeup of the ones that work and the ones that don't work. Button areas don't overlap.

I used this tutorial to create the rollovers:
http://www.developingwebs.net/flash/onmouseover.php

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Why Flickering In Animated Gif?
I have tried all sorts of settings to eliminate the flickering in my published animated gif from Flash MX.

What causes this and how to I eliminate it?

Many thanks.

Please Help Flickering Light
currently doing an interactive office background and i'm in need of flickering lights. to give a sort of spooky feel. can you help?

Flickering Light
Hi, as you can see on the attachment, i have a dark room. what i want to do is have a flickering light at the top of the page (in the middle). i've tried loads of things but can't get to look any good.
Can anyone help

Flickering Cursor
hi everybody.
What´s that: on some normal movieclip-buttons the cursor is flickering. It switches the hand cursor and the arrow continuosly with a very nervous result! Did this ever happen to any of you?

Flickering Video
hi,
with this example (just a techn. one) the video always starts to ‘flicker’ as soon as you go with the mouse over the display and controls. Probably there is an interference again with the rollover actions of the button surrounding it (realized the swap with a change in color property, hoping that it would solve this problem, but unfortunately the ‘flickering’ remains)
Maybe somebody knows how this idea can be accomplished without any interference?
Thanks in advance, best,
flo

Flickering Stars
hey,
im tryin to develop an interactive space application as part of a college assignment.
i found a source of script which creates random flickering and shooting stars. only problem being that it appears above everything else..
anyway can someone help me understand the script ? or how to change it so it doesnt apear over certain objects.
thanks ...

script is in actionscript 2.0 if im right::

MovieClip.prototype.appear = function(val:Number) {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._alpha<80) {
this._alpha += val;
} else {
this.disappear(Math.random()*2+1);
}
};
};
MovieClip.prototype.disappear = function(val:Number) {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._alpha>15) {
this._alpha -= val;
} else {
this.appear(Math.random()*2+1);
}
};
};
MovieClip.prototype.slowRemove = function() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._alpha>-1) {
this._alpha -= 3;
this._xscale *= .98;
this._yscale *= .98;
} else {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
};
};
for (i=0; i<200; i++) {
var newStar:MovieClip = star.duplicateMovieClip("star"+i, i);
newStar._x = Math.random()*Stage.width;
newStar._y = Math.random()*Stage.height;
newStar._xscale = newStar._yscale=Math.random()*350;
newStar._alpha = Math.random()*100;
newStar.disappear(Math.random()*2+1);
}
function showShine() {
var shiner:MovieClip = shine.duplicateMovieClip("shine"+i, i);
shiner._x = Math.random()*Stage.width;
shiner._y = Math.random()*Stage.height;
}
function tailStar() {
var way:Number = Math.round(Math.random()*2)+1;
vInc = hInc=-10;
frictiony = .99-Math.random()/10;
frictionx = .97-Math.random()/10;
star2._xscale = star2._yscale=star2._alpha=100;
trace(way)
if (way == 1) {
star2._y = Math.random()*((Stage.height/2)-(Stage.height/4));
star2._x = 0;
}
if (way == 2) {
star2._x = Math.random()*((Stage.width/2)-(Stage.width/4));
star2._y = 0;
}
if (way == 3) {
vInc = -10;
hInc = 10;
star2._y = Math.random()*((Stage.height/2)-(Stage.height/4));
star2._x = Stage.width;
}
star2.onEnterFrame = function() {
vInc *= frictiony;
hInc *= frictionx;
this._y -= vInc;
this._x -= hInc;
copy = this.duplicateMovieClip("starr"+_root.getNextHighe stDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth());
copy._x = this._x-.5;
copy._y = this._y-.5;
copy._alpha = Math.random()*50+50;
copy.slowRemove();
if (this._alpha>-1) {
this._alpha -= 3;
this._xscale *= .98;
this._yscale *= .98;
} else {
var shiner:MovieClip = shine.duplicateMovieClip("shine"+_root.getNextHigh estDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth());
shiner._x = this._x;
shiner._y = this._y;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
shineInterval = setInterval(showShine, 4000);
tailInterval = setInterval(tailStar, 7000);

Flickering Background
Hi, i'm new here, been using flash for the last few months, for uni work primarily, so while i'm not a complete beginner, i don't know all that much...

Anyway, i am making an application in flash 8, and i am having problems with the background. Its in a swf format, added to the library, and then put as the background for the entire application, pretty simple stuff. Its not anything complicated, just a simple repeting background, with two copies of the image next to each other, then scrolled through, but whenever i play it, it makes the screen flicker terribly, lines going across the middle where it doesn't seem to be playing right. I originally thought it might be a monitor or graphics card problem, but on trying it on other machines, i have had the same problem, so the only thing i can come up with is that its a problem in flash, so i was wondering if anyone had any ideas to whats causing it, or a possible solution.

Thank you for your time

Edit: I apologise, i realise that this is probably not the right place to ask this question, it belongs more in Animation, in general, i guess. I wont start a duplicate thread, because i know how annoying they can be.

Flickering Animations
Hi,
I'm creating a game with Flash CS3 Professional which contains several characters with animated motions. When I integrated the animated MovieClips in my main FLA-file everything worked fine. But at a certain point of development after adding several items to the FLAs library the animated charaters began to flicker suddenly.
After I had recognized that the filesize of the FLA was extremly large I saved it under a different filename and the filesize decreased. After doing that the animations worked as they should without flickering.
But after adding some more items to the FLAs library I had the same problem again, this time the trick dIdn't work.
The weird thing is that the same SWF played on another computer worked fine. But while developping on the other machine the same bug occurred.
I can't figure out what the cause for this bug is.
Can you help me?

How To Fix Flickering In Actionscript?
I have a problem making my FLASH working seamlessly. When you put the mouse over the buttons (movie clips) then they are flickering. Do you know how to fix that? I want everything to work smooth and slow, without flickering and flashing in the eyes. I used only this script:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay ("1");
}

on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay ("2");
}

Link to that example

FLA source

If you put the mouse in the middle of the button (there are 4 of them there) it starts flickering. Why? How to fix that?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Y Is Button Flickering?
plz view my .swf

when u rollover the button it eases in and out..but when u go up a lil further onto the grey bar the button starts to flicker and goes back & forth like crazy!

is there something in the actionscript?

write me.

P.S. i got this from kirupa's complex/rollover tutorial

Color Flickering
I have this button with an white arrow on it
when i put my mouse on the button the arrow should flicker white red white red as long as i keep my mouse on the button.

mcArrow turn to red when i rollover But it never turn back to white.
How come?

flicker = function () {
if (arrowcolor.color == ffffff){
arrowcolor = new Color(mcArrow);
arrowcolor.setRGB(0xff0000);
}else if (arrowcolor.color == ff0000){
arrowcolor = new Color(mcArrow);
arrowcolor.setRGB(0xffffff);
};
}

hitBtn.onRollOver = function() {
mcArrow.onEnterFrame = flicker;
};

hitBtn.onRollOut = function() {
delete mcArrow.onEnterFrame;
};

[help] Keeps Flickering Between Scenes
This will probably sound like a ridiculous question, but for some reason it has left me puzzled.

I am busy with a game that I am creating and when the game is over you get sent to the "gameover" screen and then from that screen there is a button that is supposed to send you back to the main menu...but when i click on the button it won't take me to the menu. Instead it just flickers between the current scene and the main menu scene.

Does anyone have any idea as to why this might be happening? Its really puzzling me and I am so desperate for Help, I would really appreciate it.

I actually feel stupid even asking this question. It's not that I haven't put a stop() somewhere...i just don't understand why this could be happening.

Flash Flickering
I have created a flash header, which has some of navigation button. But the problem is when it is loaded in the html page, there is some flickering on the navigation buttons. The hand cursor never appears. Please help me out.

How Can I Stop Flickering?
I have often run into this problem in flash where things appear to flicker (as if they are single buffered). Even very simple flash animations do this.

How To Avoid Flickering
hi Guys,

I have a problem during , load external XMl data's, i get the content from xml and dynamically generate the text box using html text. Xml content with external bullets(Png,Jpeg,etc.,). i got the result but, its always flickering see this code.
xml file:
<textContent>
<img src="Bulletsullet.png"/> aaaaa
<img src="Bulletsullet.png"/>bbbb
<img src="Bulletsullet.png" />cccc
</textContent>

coding:
var textContent_txt:TextField= new TextFiled();

textContent_txt.htmlText=slideArray[0]["textContent"];

need immediate solution.

Thanks

Flickering Image
hi guys i need your help or suggestion.

I have made an MC with in that lots of images. Now i made it to move left or right. i did it 2 ways, with AS and motion tween.
but there is small flickering jurk while moving left or right.

some body tell me why it is happening? any possible reason behind?

thanks for you time

Movieclip Flickering
I've a trivial (not for me) question!
I try to move a movieclip via actionscript in the following way:

here is the "stupid" code in the main frame

_root.onEnterFrame=function()
{
ball._x-=5;
if (ball._x<0) ball._x=500;
}

where "ball" is the instance name of the movieclip

The problem is that the ball flickers too much during the animation, even if the frame rate is the highest and even if the movieclip is the simplest one (in this case a small ball)!

How can I reduce this horrible effect?

Thanks!
S.

Swf Jumping Or Flickering
hello,

Could anyone tell me why the .swf on the front page of(www.shanerein.com) is jumping when viewed though a mozilla browser or any mac browsers.

Thanks
Shane

Flickering Links?
Hello, this is web adress www.neumediacompany.com
Im getting a flickering on all my links. I put a rectangle fill behind the text hit button and they still flicker.. What am i doing wrong??

I Cant Figure Out Why This Is Flickering?
i think the problem is in the html code used to embed this but it keeps flickering...

http://www.altoonadesign.com/freeware/test1.html

i put nothing in the swf to make it to that theres no MC that even looks like a big black box. theres only 2 mc's one for text and one for embeding fonts. if you just look at the swf u will most likely get an error because it relies on vars passed to it via FlashVars but i put them in manually and tested on my computer and no flickering, so i think the problem lies in the html used to embed it but im not a strong html guy so i dont know what would do it.

Flickering Problem With LoadMovie()

HiI am developing an application in flash.in that i need to call external swf file.when external swf file is called the flickering effect takes place.so is there any way to solve this flickering problem.pls help.............Thanks in advence....

Hi
I am developing an application in flash.
in that i need to call external swf file.
when external swf file is called the flickering effect takes place.
so is there any way to solve this flickering problem.
pls help.............

Thanks in advence....