Flash :: Having Trouble With Shiny Orbs Tutorial [renamed]

Shiny Orbs
Hey folks,

I have always been a fan of Kirupa's glass shiny orbs. However, now I would like to do something more difficult with them.

Here is what I would like to do:
I have a XML with some data;
I extracted a colour attribute for a Actionscript variable;
Based on that variable, I would like to give my orb a certain colour....
Now, I don't know how to do that... I have checked the beginGradientFill colour but that would mean making the whole orb through Actionscript which is almost impossible I guess.

Is there some "smart" way or workaround to do that?

Thanks in advance! That is really important for me!

Cheers,

KeSh

Got Stuck Help Needed With Shiny Orbs/break Apart
Hi folks,

I'm new with Flash MX and i'm learning through several tutorials. I managed to create some shiny orbs on my own (and thanks to kirupa) and now i want to make a shape tween between those orbs and a triangle in another color.
So i need to break apart right?

The problem is that the shiny orbs are a movie clip with 3 layers......so if i break apart, i won't see the same image as a whole...What should i do?

Shiny Orb Tutorial > Shiny Box
hi,
i have been looking at the shiney orb tutorial here http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/shinyorbs.htm and i want to make a shiny box for a banner that is 468 px x 60 px with a similar glassy feel but in a rectangle shape.
can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial here or anywhere that shows how to create this using the flash tools.

thanks in advance.

Anyone Know Of A Good Way Or Tutorial To Make A Shiny Effect?
I have an image of a silver trophy in a flash movie and I want to make it look like light is reflecting off of it OR it's got little sparkles that come up on it. Does anyone know of a good place to find this effect or tutorial?

Thanks in advance,

Ari.

Trouble Making Text Appear By Pressing A Button [renamed]
I have made a button that displayes a movie clip (some text with a scroll bar), but when I click the button the text only displayes while the mouse button is down. How can I get it to remain after the button is pressed?

Code or instructions both welcome,

Thanks alot

Nuke

Preloader Tutorial Needed [renamed]
can some1 please help me out?
im trying to find a progress bar that works and it loads a whole movie.
I really need this so please help

P.S how to work the component progress bar would be good to

Looking For Sliding Menu Tutorial [renamed]
hello.

i need to realize some sliding menus. such as seen on: http://www.gooq.de/. that one at the bottom.

those who slide out and are active and shown as long as your mouse don't leave their shapes. and then moving backwards. i'm searching my arse off but can't find any hints. i don't even know what they're called.

could you give me some names or links to tutorials please?

thanks a lot!

klick

Having Trouble Changing Frames Of MovieClips (via Menu Interaction) [renamed]
Hey its me again, im stuck here trying to figure how to jump from one frame a movie clip, rot menu, to a frame of another, main, through a button in rot menu, rot menu is a movie clip in symbol 1 which is in another (cant remeber) in main. from frame 1 of main i want the button to be pressed and it takes you frame 2 of main. im using a tellTarget code, which i think is wrong. If anyone can help me please let mw know. I can send you the *fla file by email if you wish
Selorm_k@msn.com

thanks, munky

Help With Kirupa's Dynamic Scroller Tutorial [renamed]
Hey all,

I'm having problems with kirupa's tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm

Basically, I wanna know how to use html in the text file. I clicked the "Render txt as HTML" button in flash, but the tags don't show as html...help?

Thanks!

Gradient Fill On 3d Surface? (MM Tutorial) [renamed]
hello
this is my first time here

does anybody know if there is a way of giving a "surface" 3d object a gradient fill from two diffrent colors as oppost to a solid color,. here is the code im using based on the 3d flsh tutorial in macromedia.

ActionScript Code:
function InitScene() { createEmptyMovieClip("Scene", 1); Scene._x = moviewidth/2; Scene._y = movieheight/2; /*red*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[100,50,200], /*end*/[100,0,200]], [[50,-100,10], [50,0,200]], [[-100,-100,10], [50,50,200]], [[-100,100,10], [100,50,200]]], 1, "0x000000", 100, "0xff0000", 75); /*orange*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[100,100,-150],/*end*/[100,50,-160],/*curve*/[125,75,-150]], [[100,50,-160], [50,50,-170]], [[50,50,-170], [50,100,-150]], [[50,100,-150], [100,100,-150],[75,80,-150]]], 1, "0x000000", 100, "0xff9900", 75); /*yellow*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[0,-150,50], /*1*/[0,-200,10]], /*2*/[[100,-100,10], [-100,-200,10]], /*3*/[[-100,-100,10], [-100,-150,50]], /*4*/[[-100,100,10], [0,-150,50]]], 1, "0x0000ff", 100, "0xffff00", 70); /*green*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[100,200,-10], /*1*/[100,200,-10]], /*2*/[[100,-100,-10], [50,200,-10]], /*3*/[[-100,-100,-10], [50,250,50]], /*4*/[[-100,100,-10], [100,250,50]]], 1, "0xff0000", 100, "0x00ff00", 50); /*blue*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[-225,-15,0],[-225,0,20],[-225,-12,16]], [[-225,0,20],[-225,20,0], [-225,14,20]],[[-225,20,0],[-225,0,-20],[-225,14,-20]],[[-225,0,-20],[-225,-30,0],[-225,-17,-25]],[[-225,-30,0],[-225,0,30],[-225,-20,25]],[[-225,0,30],[-225,30,0],[-225,20,30]],[[-225,30,0],[-225,0,-30],[-225,20,-30]],[[-225,0,-30],[-225,-40,0],[-225,-28,-40]],[[-225,-40,0],[-225,0,45],[-225,-30,40]],[[-225,0,45],[-225,50,0],[-225,35,50]],[[-225,50,0],[-225,0,-55],[-225,32,-50]]], 1, "0xff9900", 100, "0x003366", 50); /*purple*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[200,50,150], /*end*/ [200,50,100]],[[200,50,100],[200,-10,100],[200,20,130]]], 1, "0xffffff", 75, "0x666699",75); /*white*/make3Dobj("surface", [[/*origen*/[50,50,-75], /*1*/[50,-50,-200], [0,0,-200]], /*2*/[[100,-100,-200], [-50,-50,-200], [0,5,-175]], /*3*/[[-100,-100,-200],[-50,50,-150], [0,0,-150]], /*4*/[[-100,100,-75], [50,50,-75]]], 1, "0x000000", 100, "0xffffff", 75); /*x*/ make3Dobj("line", new Array(new Array(0,0,0), new Array(100,0,0)), 2, "0x009900", 0); /*y*/ make3Dobj("line", new Array(new Array(0,0,0), new Array(0,100,0)), 1, "0xff9900", 0); /*z*/ make3Dobj("line", new Array(new Array(0,0,0), new Array(0,0,100)), 1, "0x000000", 0); }

Looking To Have Tutorial For Site Tested For Quality [renamed]
hey mods, or kirupa, just wondering,
is there any way for us to send you guys tutorials we have created for testing, then if you find them to have no errors be posted on this site, because i have created a pretty in-depth tutorial with .doc(tut), FLA(mx), and swf files.

so yeah, i want to know if you find any errors, and if you find it good enough for the site.

Problems Adding Hyperlink (using Creating A Hyperlink Tutorial) [renamed]
after following the instructions in the Creating a Hyperlink (link below) tutorial, I had trouble when it came to adding the actions. Eventually, I figured it out, but wasnt able to do it as instructed.

My question is how do I pull up the url field? It may be that Im using flash mx 2004, but you would think they would make things easier in 2004 instead of taking out usefull tools such as the url field..

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/hyperlink.htm

also..how do I turn on html code for my posts?

AS3 - Floating Orbs
hi all,

back again, with yet another parent/child issue ...

i am trying to create a stage full of floating orbs. it doesn't throw an error, but only one f&$%ing orb finally floats, while i have added 40 with a for loop before.

i try to get the child by name for the onFrame function, everything is coded on Layer 1/Frame 1.

-- if i try to get the child via getChildAt(i), it throws:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/getChildAt() --

please see below, i would very much appreciate any hint in the right direction, i have the feeling i am close, hehehe ...

var glFilter:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter(0xFFFFFF, 1, 20, 20, 4, BitmapFilterQuality.HIGH, false, false);

var orbNum:Number = 40;

var frameCount:Number = 0;

for(var i:int = 0; i<orbNum; i++)
{
var orb:BallClass = new BallClass();
orb.name = "theOrb";
addChild(orb);

orb.x = Math.random() * stage.stageWidth;
orb.y = Math.random() * stage.stageHeight;
orb.alpha = Math.random();

orb.filters = [glFilter];

orb.initialY = Math.random() * 10;
orb.initialX = Math.random() * 10;
orb.rnd = Math.random();
}

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame, false, 0, true);

function onFrame(e:Event):void
{
frameCount++;
for (var i:int=0;i<=numChildren;i++)
{
getChildByName("theOrb").y = orb.initialY + Math.sin(orb.rnd * 100 + frameCount/10)*20;
getChildByName("theOrb").x = orb.initialX + Math.sin(orb.rnd * 100 + frameCount/10)*20;
}
}

thx alot guys!

Floating Orbs Question
How's that for descriptive..."floating orbs...."

Erm....I am making a nav with small circular buttons. After all the buttons pop up, I want them to kind of float around inside an invisible box.

I found this script (see below), but I'm wondering if there's a simpler way to do it?

Thanks in advance,

Saint

// ----------------------------------------------
// start move
// ----------------------------------------------
my_radius = (getProperty("", _width)/2);
// 'n' is always 'name' of circle.
my_x = getProperty("", _x);
my_y = getProperty("", _y);
my_n = getProperty("", _name);
if (Number(ymov) == Number("")) {
// *********************************
// ----------------------------------------------
// first run through code,
// this will initialize circle
// ----------------------------------------------
// *********************************
// pick a distance:
ymov = Number(random(/:speed))+1;
xmov = Number(random(/:speed))+1;
//
// pick a direction:
ysign = random(2)-1;
if (Number(ysign) == 0) {
ysign = 1;
}
xsign = random(2)-1;
if (Number(xsign) == 0) {
xsign = 1;
}
// adjust x and y movement
xmov = xmov*xsign;
ymov = ymov*ysign;
// ----------------------------------------------
}
// *********************************
// ----------------------------------------------
// check edges
// ----------------------------------------------
if (Number(my_x)<=Number(Number(my_radius)+Number(/:speed))) {
xmov = xmov*-1;
my_x = Number(my_radius)+Number(/:speed);
}
if (Number(my_y)<=Number(Number(my_radius)+Number(/:speed))) {
ymov = ymov*-1;
my_y = Number(my_radius)+Number(/:speed);
}
if (Number(my_x)>=Number(/:movie_width-my_radius-/:speed)) {
xmov = xmov*-1;
my_x = /:movie_width-my_radius-/:speed;
}
if (Number(my_y)>=Number(/:movie_height-my_radius-/:speed)) {
ymov = ymov*-1;
my_y = /:movie_height-my_radius-/:speed;
}
// ----------------------------------------------
// check for collision
// ----------------------------------------------
n = 1;
// start checking for collisions
while (Number(n)<=Number(/:total_circles)) {
// don't check myself
if (n ne my_n) {
n_x = getProperty("../" add n,_x);
n_y = getProperty("../" add n,_y);
n_radius = (getProperty ("../" add n, _width) / 2);
delta_x = (Number(my_x)+Number(xmov))-(n_x);
delta_y = (Number(my_y)+Number(ymov))-(n_y);
if (Number((Number(delta_x*delta_x)+Number(delta_y*de lta_y)))<Number(((Number(my_radius)+Number(n_radiu s))*(Number(my_radius)+Number(n_radius))))) {
// ----------------------------------------------
// handle collisions
// ----------------------------------------------
// I collided with circle 'n'.
nx = eval("../" add n add ":xmov");
ny = eval("../" add n add ":ymov");
// swap travel values with it.
tempx = xmov;
xmov = nx;
set("../" add n add ":xmov", tempx);
tempy = ymov;
ymov = ny;
set("../" add n add ":ymov", tempy);
set("../" add n add ":collision", my_n);
} else {
}
}
n = Number(n)+1;
}
// ----------------------------------------------
// move me
// ----------------------------------------------
setProperty("", _x, Number(my_x)+Number(xmov));
setProperty("", _y, Number(my_y)+Number(ymov));
// ----------------------------------------------

Rotating Orbs With Mouseevent
I have no idea how people create these menus that will rotate depending on where the mouse is. To me it seems to need an infinite number of paths, can someone please explain how to do it or link me to a site that does so? They also get things to blur when the reach a certain 'distance' from the screen...how?

Thanks.

Lines Connecting Orbs
I have several orbs and lines conecting them.
I´d like to make some nice effect on the orbs as they are mouse over...
I´m thinking about making them to stick on the mouse, and the lines should remain conected to the orbs... how to make thins effect?

I'm Looking To Recreate An Effect Where Little Orbs Of Light Are Animated.....
Perhaps by a particle generator, or through code......The effect is to create something like pixie dust.

Do you know of any examples of this, and or perhaps source files? I'd sure appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

I'm Looking To Recreate An Effect Where Little Orbs Of Light Are Animated.....
Perhaps by a particle generator, or through code......The effect is to create something like pixie dust.
Do you know of any examples of this, and or perhaps source files? I'd sure appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

Having Trouble With This Tutorial
Hi, I'm trying to follow this tutorial.. It was writen for flash % and I am using flash MX.. I need help with the action script..ACtually I need an idiot proof tute hehe...

If someone would be so kind as to show me the script in a more legable way I would really appreciate it.

Thx for your time.

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-541/index.php

Trouble With Tutorial
I originally followed this tutorial to make a popup window from a flash movie, but i then tried to make the popup window appear behind the active window. this is where the tutorial failed and the window continued to load up infront of the window. My question is... is there any way that i can make another window appear under the original one?

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Dy...-748/index.php

Having Trouble With Tutorial..
Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place..if no then im sorry =]

This is really urgent..it's for a birthday and it's tomorrow..
Anyways I found a gallery tutorial and I didnt have enough time to follow
it so I just downloaded the FLA file and I tried to edit it but I only edited
half of it which was easy but the other part wasnt.
Here is that tutorial:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tut...-Gallery/26396 (I suggest you download too in order to help me XD)
After I downloaded the FLA file I changed the little images into the once I want..but here is that hard part..I cant change the big images..so whenever I press the small once the originial big image appears instead of the ones I want..
If someone knows how can I do that..I will thankful! It is very urgent.

Hope I was clear.
thanks!

Trouble With Tutorial
hi
its my first post here, so first off hi everyone. i really like the site and im lookin forward to socializing in the forums. i have maybe 9 months experience with photoshop but im very new to flash.

my question is about the dropdown menu tutorial. particularly step one. im not sure what to do in the action panel, cant find where to put the code

Tutorial Trouble
Hey, i'm just working my way through a tutorial and iv found a problem. The tutorial looks at a Mouse Trailer. It says that i can type in what ever word i want for it to trail after the mouse, trouble is, i can't! it doesn't seem to recognise words if the same letter is used twice in a word. Anyone know how to stop this?

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/mousetrailer.htm

thanks to those who help out!

AMFPHP Tutorial Trouble
hey guys

having real trouble getting AMFPHP to run, can't even get through the tutorial. when i try and execute the simple_gateway.php file on my server (like it tells you to in the tutorial) i get this PHP error message:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: gateway in C:Program FilesApache GroupApache2htdocs est_remotingsimple_gateway. php on line 7

for what its worth i dont think i have the php include_path directive set up right, but i modified the include path in simple_gateway.php to point to the right place ... in my case "http://localhost/flashservices/app/Gateway.php"

anyone got any ideas what the trouble might be?

cheers for you help!

jed

Trouble With Preloader Tutorial.....
hello i am trying to apply the lessons taught in this tutorial about loading dynamic files and using preloaders to a project i am working on.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/p...transition.htm

the problem i am having is that i cannot figure out how to control where the external .swf that i am loading loads onto my stage.

can anyone help me out? thanks

Having Trouble With The Countdown Tutorial.
Hello there. I've been following the countdown tutorial on kirupa.com, and the first part of it seems to work just fine, I have the numbers movieclip and the counter movieclip, but once I get to the actionscript part It doesn't seem to have any impact on the movie.

How Do I Get A Shiny Look?
Say i draw a circle and i want to make it have a shiny spot, how do i do this? Because just drawing a white blob with the pencil tool doesnt look right, i want it to blend or fade, you know what i mean. hopefully

Shiny Orb
hi

i tried the tutorial shiny orbs and it all worked but i want to make a rectangle shiny orb are there any tutorials or anyone know how to do 1 cheers

Trouble With A Tutorial Of Scrolling Text
i followed a tutorial that showed me how to create a smooth scrolling text box. It had me create the text i wanted to scroll and then tween it. then, it had me command my "scroll down" button to play the tween when it was rolled over and stop the tween when it was rolled off of. then, it had me create a MC with nothing inside of it except actions. It was supposed to make the text go Up when it was played. so, it told me to command the "scroll up" button to play that movie clip when it was rolled over and stop that Mc when it was rolled off of. now, I got the scroll down button to work just fine. When its rolled over the text scrolls down. and it stops when the button is rolled off of. BUT, the scroll up wont work. when i roll over it it says TARGET NOT FOUND, and when i roll out of it says the same thing. i think the problem is that Im putting this whole movie clip text thing into another movie clip. whenever you push a button on my site, an animated MC of a box comes up, then the text fades into that box. from there I want the text to scroll. I Downloaded the .fla file of this tutorial and whenever i put it into my MC box it wont work, but when i put it onto my main stage it does. how could i fix this?

Trouble Following Popup Menu Tutorial
I've been following the tutorial for building a pop up menu on this site at: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...-121/index.php but I keep running into problems at step 5. I believe I have followed the steps correctly and when, at the end of page 5, I try to test the movie I get the following message:

**Error** Symbol=PopMenu, layer=MenuButton, frame=1:Line 1: Syntax error.
On (RollOver) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

To put the code in I click on the MenuButton while in the PopMenu sub movieclip and just paste the text into the actionscript editor - is that right? I am using Flash MX 2004 and it looks like the tutorial is for an older version of Flash do I need to use some different code, if so could someone please let me know what I should use instead.

It's possible I've messed up following the instructions, I'm not brilliant at flash so I've included what I've got so far in case anyone can figure it out. The menu sort of appears when over the text of the menu so it sort of half works!!!

Trouble With High-score Tutorial...
i have searched for a flash/php/mysql high-score tutorial and found this: http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ga...-657/index.php

and i have made this thingy: http://members.lycos.co.uk/murka390ae/test.swf
(.fla is added as an attachment)

the problem is, that I can add names and scores to that list, but other people CAN'T. What the he*l should i do, to get it work. :S

USING FLASH MYSQL PHP TUTORIAL TROUBLE
I thought I might avail of your offer for some help on your tutorial "Use Flash with PHP and mySQL"http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_mysql.htm

I am not returning any text from my database into my textfield (with the variable name 'content') and wonder if you can locate anything obvious in the process I have done.

I am using phpmyadmin remotely

my mySQL database table is called 'files' and my database is called 'myweb318235_colum'
I have two files in the table

Host: lalalalala.com
Database : bababababa_baba
Generation Time: Jan 03, 2005 at 10:28 PM
Generated by: phpMyAdmin 2.5.4
SQL-query: SELECT * FROM `files` LIMIT 0, 30;

filename content testfile [BLOB - 36 Bytes] testfile2 [BLOB - 61 Bytes]

my flash files are called bigphpmysqltest.fla and bigphpmysqltest.swf
in bigphpmysqltest.swf I have the dynamic text field with variable = content which is saved amovieclip with this actionscript

onClipEvent (load) {
loadVariables("read.php?file=testfile", this, "GET");
}

the php file is called 'read.php'

<?php

if($file) {
$link = mysql_connect("hostname","username","password","da tabasename") or die ("didn't connect to mysql");

$query = "SELECT content FROM files WHERE filename='$file'";
$result = mysql_query($query)
or die("<b>error</b>: failed to execute query <i>$query</i>");

mysql_close($link);

$desiredContent = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC);

mysql_free_result($result);

print "content=$desiredContent[content]";
?>

files is the table in the database

It just doesn't work unfortunately - I have been intouch to my server people to check if my register_globals was on but they couldn't help.
Unfortunately I am a very novice beginner in this and if nothing is obvious in the above, how would I use $HTTP_POST_VARS into the php file?

I would so appreciate your help!

Thanks in advance.

CollyK

Trouble With The Flash Login Tutorial
Hi!

I've tryed to make an adaptation of the Login tutorial, but I've a few problems with it. First, it works all right on my testing server (my PC) but when I uploaded it to the site it didn't work as it supposed to. As far as I could see, the login movie works fine until it's time to load the URL I wanted to load as a result. The browser looks like cycled into a forever connecting-to and stop without letting me do anything but closing it. But when I restart the browser the sesion is already started.

The code:
In a frame on the main time line:
user.restrict="a-zA-Z0-9";
pass.restrict="a-zA-Z0-9";
Selection.setFocus(userinput);
status="Introdusca los datos de usuario";
this.onEnterFrame = function ()
{
if(_root.checklog.substr(0,1) == '3'){
getURL("goodlogin.php", "mainFrame"); //<-- Here looks to be the problem
}
if(_root.checklog.substr(0,1) == '2'){
status = "Usuario o contraseña incorrectos. Vuelva a intentar nuevamente.";
}
}

ON THE BUTTON:
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
if ((user != "") && (pass != "")) {
status = "Revisando acceso - Espere porfavor...";
loadVariablesNum("mewlogin.php", 0, "POST");
}
}

Now I'm getting tired of trying to figure out whats happening here: I've created the page with Dreamweaver, and it works all right when I use Mozilla, geko, Netscape, Konkeror, blablabla... but with explorer the same login movie is not displayed. The publish settings are the same as the other movies in the site, but it is the only one that doesn't work at all on explorer.

Trouble With A Tutorial (3d Face/depth)
has anyone got the following tutorial to work? ive tried a few things with the actionscript (followed the entire tutorial and included previous actionscript) but i cant get it to work, i just get a blank screen

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...ces_depths.htm

could someone post the actionscript for this?

cheers

Trouble With The PHP/MySQL/Flash Tutorial
The one found here is giving me grief!

I've modified the code to work with Pear, since I had it installed. However, I can't get the code to work. The consolation is I can't get the original code to work, either.

You can find the original code's results here:

The PHP file

The Swf File

The HTML page

My modigied versions are here:

The PHP file (You can see it is connecting to the database and recovering the data)

The SWF file

The HTML page (obviously just as blank as the SWF)

Since neither one works, I'm going to assume (for the moment) that the problem lies in the implementation of my SWF somewhere. Anyone have any ideas whatsoever?

Thanks.
P.S Using Flash MX 2004

Trouble With Random Motion Tutorial
I followed the random motion tutorial at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...dom_motion.htm and it's working *almost* perfectly, except that it gives one almighty jerk shortly after my movieclips started roaming. I used the code as it was given in the tutorial, only changing the size of the width and height to the size of my frame.

I have several movieclips, and didn't use the code given to generate duplicates. Could this be the problem? Also, the mcs are masked.

That's it, can't think of anything else that would be making it jump like that. Only does it once. Have been banging my head off computer all afternoon. Thanks in advance to anyone who can suggest a solution - or suggest an alternate (and foolproof) random motion tutorial!

Cheers.