Flash :: Help With Overlap Test

Hit Test - Don't Allow Overlap
Hi. I'm trying to make a basic game to use with my pupils. It's like dominoes, I have 13 movieclips on the stage and when they press play then words related to our study appear in the movieclips. I have the movieclips dragging and stopping. Ideally they would move the movieclips next to each other as you do in dominoes. But i would like to make it so that when they touch each other then the can't move or overlap each other. Should i seach under collision or hit test?
I have attached the fla file - hopefully
Cheers
Lesley

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I want to test to see if two rectangles overlap at all. Is there a simple way to do this?

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Flash 8 Quiz Guru Needed: Make Link Appear For Next Test Only If Test Taker Passes.
Greeings, all,

Flash 8 has quiz templates which are coded for multiple choice, true/false, text statement, and matching types of questions, along with hotspots and probably anoher type I am forgetting. The test taker makes their selection(s) or answers, and clicks a "check answer" button. They then get a feedback statements depending on whether they have answered correctly or not. Many questions involve multiple selections to be correct, but all must click on the "check answer" button to advance to the next question.

The point is that all of this functionality is coded in the component(s) which make the template so versatile. A copy of my .fla shouldn't actually be needed (I am guessing here), because the component code is what I believe needs tweaking, at least the part where the final percentage of correct answers is calculated at the end of the test, and that percentage is compared to a user-defined passing percentage score.

I think this requires a Flash Quiz Guru, who knows just how to connect the pass or fail result to a new button or a "go to" redirect. I don't know whether the same effect could be accomplished by frame scripting, but I expect tweaking the component(s) code would seem a more direct approach.

I cannot fill in the blanks for any idea that is just an idea. If anyone can code this, make it work and test it, and direct me to where the snippets must be placed, I would be deeply grateful. This is about education, not a game or commercial razz-ma-tazz.

Are there any Flash Quiz Guru's who can help me out with this?

Thank you.

regards,

stevenjs
____________________________________
"I am but an egg."
--Stranger in a Strange Land

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Flash Quiz Guru Needed: Make Link Appear For Next Test Only If Test Taker Passes.
Greeings, all,

Flash 8 has quiz templates which are coded for multiple choice, true/false, text statement, and matching types of questions, along with hotspots and probably anoher type I am forgetting. The test taker makes their selection(s) or answers, and clicks a "check answer" button. They then get a feedback statements depending on whether they have answered correctly or not. Many questions involve multiple selections to be correct, but all must click on the "check answer" button to advance to the next question.

The point is that all of this functionality is coded in the component(s) which make the template so versatile. A copy of my .fla shouldn't actually be needed (I am guessing here), because the component code is what I believe needs tweaking, at least the part where the final percentage of correct answers is calculated at the end of the test, and that percentage is compared to a user-defined passing percentage score.

I think this requires a Flash Quiz Guru, who knows just how to connect the pass or fail result to a new button or a "go to" redirect. I don't know whether the same effect could be accomplished by frame scripting, but I expect tweaking the component(s) code would seem a more direct approach.

I cannot fill in the blanks for any idea that is just an idea. If anyone can code this, make it work and test it, and direct me to where the snippets must be placed, I would be deeply grateful. This is about education, not a game or commercial razz-ma-tazz.

Are there any Flash Quiz Guru's who can help me out with this?

Thank you.

regards,

stevenjs
____________________________________
"I am but an egg."
--Stranger in a Strange Land

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(Authoring mode-test scene-test movie )Different results WHY?I will get mad working on a quiz for a month plz help: im working on quiz game -frame by frame- its 15 scenes each scene contain about 70 frames with 70 action script :go to and stop - go to and play - stop every thing is fine till scene No. 11 in the authoring mode when choose from control menue enable simple buttons - enable simple frame action : its working fine scripts executed fine but when going to test movie mode some scripts doesnt work WHY? what mistakes i have done? what should i do ? how can a void such a problem ? any suggestions PLZ??? Thanks in advanced

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Hi all,
I have buttons in a movieclip i've used
_root.
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Hello,

I have two flash objects in div.

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Hi ,
I have made two different swf files.First one of them contains some annimations along with a sound file that i want should play continously in the background. Then after finishing out the animations in that movie i loaded 2nd swf file in the level1.
This file contains the main movie and has many voice over files in it , and some buttons on which these voice overs are called accordingly....
Now what i did was on pressing any of these buttons i used "stopallsounds" and then played the corresponding voice over ..... this was done to stop any sound file playing in this 2nd swf .... but it also stops the main music in level0
Now what should i do ... i want the background music to play on continously and to change voice overs according to the button clicked on....
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need some help!

I have 8 buttons that I have programmed to show MovieClips when pressed. Problem is,if I click on Button 1, it displays MovieClip 1, which is what its suppose to do. But when I go to click on Button 2, the MovieClip 2 that is programmed to play when button 2 is clicked, overlaps the movieClip 1 that was activated with button 1.

How do I get the previous movieclip that is showing, to disappear when you click on another button to view its movieclip, there for not having any of the movieclips over lapping etc.

this is the actionscripting I'm using for button 1, although the rest of the buttons have the same scripting just different tellTarget info numbers. Info stands for MovieClip:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("/info1") {
play ();

any help would be great, Thanks!
}
}

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Ok, I have already once asked this question and got no answer. I think it is a pretty easy one, so i attached the zip file of what i am talking to make it easier.

I want to load a external swf into another swf. (loadmovie command i know). I got that part happening.

First question : How do i tell this window where on the screen to load? rathan then position x=0 y=0

Now whilst the window is loaded if you move the mouse around it and pass over the links from the main swf file you are able to click on them. I don't want to be able to click on them.

How can I prevent this??

files are attached. anyhelp would be great. Thanks in advanced

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I am trying to play movies over each other in my scene using the instance.play(); command, however they just overlap and I want the existing movie to dissapear first, I plan to use this system for thumnails and wiuld be using about 12 movies. Is there away to give the button a command to clear the other movies before playing the new one?

I would really appreciate anyones help on this.

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is it possible to over lap music using AS like.....

---- = music

-----------_________
________------------

coz i made a little loop in FLstudio, and it has like 1/2 second gap at the end. the thing is it is for my site, so there is only one frame to have it on, so i cant just overlap it manualy. or if theres any other way that would be appreciated thanx

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I have created 5 buttons that point to an object. When each buttons rolls over the object animates with a background fading in.

However, when you roll off one button and onto another, it starts the animation over. How can I set it so that when you are over the image or any of the buttons, the animation starts and doesn't stip until you roll out of this entire area.

I trie dusing a big button over the area, but the overlapping buttons cause a problem. Only the button on top worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

My flash is too big to attached here, but I have posted the swf so you can see how this is working currently.

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Sound Overlap ~_~
Here's the code for frame 1 of the main timeline;

Code:
stop();
introsound = new Sound;
introsound.attachSound("intro");
introsound.start(0,999);

However the problem I have with this code is that evertime it returns to this frame, the sound starts, overlapping with the original;

I have a button that moves to frame 2, another button that moves back to frame 1, and so the problem starts;

Is there anyway to have a sound object play through multiple frames?;

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Hi. I'm not a complete newbie to flash- have made a few sites in it and learned some basic action script. I'm wondering if I'm missing something really simple which has changed in more recent versions of flash.

When I first published my movie (with scaling set to 100% x 100%) I got everything off stage also viewable in the browser. No problem, I simply erased excess graphics that overlapped the stage.

The problem reoccured when I wanted to load an external SWF. I made a movie exactly the same size for it to load into. (138h x 900w). The external swf was made in Swish Max with a stage of the aforementioned size, scrolling a long jpeg across the stage. Now when I publish the movie the external swf loads and plays correctly but the whole long jpeg is viewable overlapping the stage and crossing the width of the web browser!

Once again, I'm sure there must be an easy way to deal with this. As far as I know, only the stage is supposed to be viewable when published in a browser, right? Any help would be much appreciated.

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Using HitTest For No-overlap
Hi All

I'm trying to use hitTest so that if any images overlap they will be replaced on the canvass.

ActionScript Code:
function imgSeed(){
for(i=0; i<5; i++){
   a += 1;
duplicateMovieClip(test_mc, ["newImg_mc"+a], this.getNextHighestDepth());
_root["newImg_mc"+a]._x = myRandom(50,450);
_root["newImg_mc"+a]._y = myRandom(50,450);
//below code is for checking no overlap of images. Its with this that I'm having problems
if(_root["newImg_mc"+a].hitTest(HIT ANY OTHER EXISTING IMG){
//new random placement      }
}
}

I'm stuck with the hitTest bit I want it to take the current mc and hitTest it for all the other existing mc's and if hitTest == true then I can re-run for a new placement.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

edit--

i've narrowed it down to a function

ActionScript Code:
function overLapCheck(){
for(k=0; k<5; k++){
if(_root["newImg_mc"+a].hitTest(_root["newImg_mc"+k])){
trace ("hit test == true: newImg_mc"+a+" hit newImg_mc"+k);
}
}
}
although this works, It checks against itself, so it always true at least once, how can I tell it not to check against itself?

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hi.

i have 5 different buttons on my website. 2 of them
call seperate swf's to load into my main.swf and the others
are a part of main.swf- they're on the same timeline/scene, etc...

the other buttons are text pages, and now seem to appear behind
the loaded movie swfs....basically the loaded movies wont go away
upon clicking another button.

do you know why this is happening?

here's what i have on the buttons calling external files

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("accessories.swf", 1);
gotoAndPlay("accSF2005");{
}
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Button Overlap Tip
Here's the situation:

I have an expandable banner, that when the mouse moves off of it should go back to it's original size. The way I would normally do this would be to add a big button over the expanded banners full size and put a onRollOut action to it.

Trouble is, this specific banner has three other small buttons in it. So what happens is, when I move over one of the three small buttons the onRollOut action is called since these small buttons are in the way.

What would you guys suggest in this case? I tried calling faking the onRollOut by just getting the mouses coordinates onEnterFrame, but that is kinda buggy since if you move the mouse out of the banner too fast it doesn't detect the roll out.

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I am working on a map of the usa that as you roll over each state the name of the state appears and the state is highlighted. I had no problems until I was done and tested it. Some of the roll over parts of the button (the text of the state names) fall underneath of the button (state) right next to it. Why would the rolled over button be affected by the untouched button to it's sides?

I do have all of these buttons on the same level and they are close/touching each other. How do I make it so that the button that is rolled over and it's text are in the forefront and exposed?

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Overlap Function Help
Hi, wonder if anyone could help me with this problem.

Basically the following code is creating concentric circles.

I've got a collision detection and overlap function script at the end which is telling me if two or more circles have interacted with another.

What i'm basically after is for flash to give me a string of numbers to tell me how much of an overlap is occuring.

I know the end of this script is wrong - I'm getting a boolean outcome instead of a number, I think "return true;" needs to be "return dist;" and "return false;" should be "return 0;" but if I try and change that then I get:

"The Expression returned must match the function's return type"

and if I try and change :boolean to :number in that function then I get:

"Type mismatch in assignment statement: Number where Boolean is required"

Any ideas?

Heres my script:

circles = new Array();

circle._visible = false;

var drawCFlag:Boolean = true;

listener = new Object();
listener.onMouseDown = function(){
_root._quality = "MEDIUM";
instructions._visible = false;
msDown = true;
}
listener.onMouseUp = function(){
msDown = false;
drawCFlag = true;
}
Mouse.addListener(listener);

var circleCount = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = function(){ // updates every frame
if (msDown==true && drawCFlag == true){
circleCount++;
var newCircle:MovieClip = _root.circle.duplicateMovieClip("circle"+circleCou nt, circleCount);
circles.push(newCircle);
_root["circle"+circleCount]._x = _root._xmouse;
_root["circle"+circleCount]._y = _root._ymouse;
trace ("[x value= " + _root._xmouse + "]")
trace ("[y value= " + _root._ymouse + "]")
trace ("[circleCount= " + circleCount + "]")
trace ("[circles size = " + circles.length + "]")
_root.max.send("; x_value " + _root._xmouse + ";"); //send info to max/msp
_root.max.send("; y_value " + _root._ymouse + ";"); //send info to max/msp
drawCFlag = false;
}
andgo();
}

function andgo(){

//Collision detection:
for(var i:Number = 0;i < circles.length;i++)
{
var src:MovieClip = circles[i];
for(var j:Number = 0;j < circles.length;j++)
{

if(i == j) continue;
var dest:MovieClip = circles[j];
var touching:Boolean = checkOverlap(src,dest);
if(touching)
{
trace("Circles : " + src._x + " " + src._y + " : " + dest._x + " " + dest._y + " overlap");
}
//else
//{
//trace("No overlap between : " + src + " : " + dest);
}
}
}

function checkOverlap(c1:MovieClip, c2:MovieClip):Boolean
{
// distance between centers
var dx:Number = c2._x - c1._x;
var dy:Number = c2._y - c1._y;
var dist:Number = Math.sqrt( (dx*dx) + (dy * dy) );

if(dist < c1._width + c2._width)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;

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Hi,

I am using attach movie to populate the screen with a bunch of mc's. That part is working. Each mc is represented by a small red dot and each also has a rollover function that displays a label. Many of my attached mc's are very close to each other and on the roll over they are all overlapping or showing under the other mc's. What I want is on the roll over it should bring the currently rolled over button to the top level. Currently I am using swapdepths for each button to set the depth very high(swapDepths(100000000)), but still some are not appearing on the top.

On the first page load all works fine but once you add a city the depth problems appear. Check the link to see what I mean.

http://www.joeshields.net/flashlab/cityviewmax/

Any help would be appreciated.

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When you hover over product types, you'll notice that the drop down falls under the 'water banner'. I have set the z-index of that specific banner to be lower than the flash header but it still did not work. When I change the 'water banner' to a static image instead of a flash file, the menu overlaps without a problem.

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Code:

function checkBoxClick() {
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<start of as>

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}
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myInterval = setInterval(changePhoto, delay);

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