Flash :: Holy Newbie Question

FOR THE LOVE OF... All That Is Holy Pls Help Me...
Ok i posted here before on how to make a guy move with the keyboard, and be able to not walk over water or buildings. i GOT it to work to a certain extent thanks to the help of one of the executive members here, however its bug city the way we tested it, heres what happend below...

[swf width="600" height="390" background="#000000"]http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/uploads/12000/12553_Introduction_temp_.swf[/swf]
CRONO CONTROLLS: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT MANGUS CONTROLLS: HOME, END, PAGEDOWN, DELETE

the LOGO will serve as a testing house... notice how when u walk up to it you stop but yet you get stuck when u try to pull away... how can this little bug be fixed?

heres what code i have on crono at the moment...

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
moveSpeed = 4;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x += moveSpeed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -= moveSpeed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._y += moveSpeed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y -= moveSpeed;
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.mc2)) {
movespeed = "0";
}
}
mc2 = movie clip house...

-Xclint
[Edited by lwf.-.Xen0 on 09-26-2001 at 06:14 PM]

Holy Crap
ok, i saw this movie a while ago, and ever since i saw it, i wanted to learn how to make it, and i kinda did. but it wasent good news, i was told the only way to animate things in flash it frame by frame. that would take a lifetime to do, look at this movie i was trying to duplicate....

http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com

i know its in japanese or something, but click the 3rd box, movie 3 and look at it

is there any way to do that not frame by frame, cuz that would take years

Holy Crap
holy crap!!! (as title reads).. i'm tryin to make a VERY simple flash web site, yet i keep finding myself running into the same problem:

LINKING PAGES in FLASH IS SOOO HARD AND TIME CONSUMING! I have to make a friggin copy of the original swf, deal with the over-sensitive bugs that always appear (SYMBOLS!!! DIE!!!), make changes to both when i make changes to teh first, then i keep running into continuous actionscript! Why is Flash so complicated for such small things? Please someone give me advice.. I was somewhat familiar with Flash 5, but MX does it so much harder and complex! Am I doing something wrong? Anyone please got some TUTORIAL SITES that I can go to and learn various things? My project is not going anywhere I've been working on it for the past 6 hours.

I'm contemplating using swish.. but I really think I should learn Flash.. I feel like Macromedia has turned EVERY aspect of Flash into a 12 hour long task. Does this get any simpler or am I normal in feeling I have to go the EXTREME LONG WAY in everything?

Why In The High Holy.... Please Help
I call the following main timeline function from a frame inside map_mc which is on the main timeline. On the same frame as the call to this function are my three buttons, button11_mc, button12_mc etc... On the main timeline i also have an array of frame labels defined (diningBarsArray)

function setupDiningBars() {
var i;
for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
diningBarsButton = i+11;
map_mc["button"+diningBarsButton+"_mc"].onRelease = function() {
map_mc.gotoAndPlay(diningBarsArray[i]);
};
}
}

I've written many for loops like this that work just fine, as long as the buttons they are defining the onRelease event for are also on the main timeline, but must it be this way? I can't get this to work for buttons that are nestled inside a movieclip! What happens is, all the buttons gotoAndPlay whatever the last loop tells it to

Thankyou kindly

The Holy Grail Of Pop-Ups.
Can anyone tell me if there is one frickin' chromeless pop-up code out there that will work on all major browsers?

ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!

Thank You,
Mike

Holy Script
Hey all,

I am working to make a Class that predict the further..

I only got here:

Class Nostradamus
{
function Nostradamus(){

trace(this)
}

}

any help?

Holy Cow This Is A Sweet Technique
Does anyone know how to do this naviagtion technique. The links drop down smoothly. How is that done?

http://www.valentinassecret.com/main/main_low.html

Holy Crap. This Is Frustrating.
Hello all!
I am about ready to pull (what's left) of my hair out.
I have a button that uses loadmovie. The movie i want to load is a MC with a QuickTime embedded inside.
So:

on the button I give the path to the MC where I want it to load:
on (release) {
loadMovie("aviationQT.swf", "_root.container.services.subContainer");
}

and when i click the button, instead of loading the aviationQT.swf
IT STARTS THE WHOLE SCENE OVER AGAIN!

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

what am I missing here?
any input is great! Thank you in advance for your time!

If anyone wants to see firsthand, here's the link:

http://www.demonstratives.com/303_flash/main.html
(click on services, then aviation)

I apologize for posting the link in the help forum.

Holy Cache Batman
Hi,

I have a problem and would want to know if anyone has a solution. A .swf i have on a page links to an .xml file for some data but it seems that IE and i assume Netscape are keeping the original xml document in the cache and so my updated files never get refrenced. It seems like this would be a common problem at one point in time. Any help even just a link to the same question elsewhere on the forums would be great.

Thanks

Marcus Wilson
//DrSchollz

Pause - The Holy Grail?
HELP,
I'm looking for the Holy Grail.

I have a fla that contains smaller MC's and audio files. Different MC's and audio files appear within the main timeline at various intervals.

My question is how do I control all these MC's and audio files with one pause and play button that resides on the main timeline?

Any help most appreciated.

Thanks

LEE

HOLY COW WHATS WRONG WITH MY Swf?
So I am making a game, and it works perfectly when I preview it in flash mx.

When I publish it and run it in a web browser, it slows down in performance. I do not know the exact Frames Per Second it is decreasing, but I can tell it does.

In flash mx the game is set at 60fps. Any idea why the performance decreases? Even when I publish it at low quality it looks like poo but it runs slowly in a few animations, and in an area where your score gets added up really quickly.

Like if you have 1000 points it adds like 2 at a time to make it look like your score is scrolling up like 2,4,6,8,10.........

Any ideas

The Holy Error #1009:
I have been just starting to jump into creating packages (actually the whole jump to AS3). I have to say I would be entertaining to watch. I have a package for a general movieclip button to gotoAndPlay an "up", "over", "out",. First things first I don't know if this is common practice or if there is a better way? Im always open.

My code is attached and the error I receive when I compile is

"TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Button/frame1()"

Help would be most appreciated!
Thanks,
Kevin

Attach Code

package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

public class Button extends MovieClip
{
public function Button()
{
this.buttonMode = true;
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, buttonUp);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonOver);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, buttonOut);

}
private function buttonUp(event:MouseEvent):void
{
this.gotoAndPlay("up");
}

private function buttonOver(event:MouseEvent):void
{
this.gotoAndPlay("over");
}

private function buttonOut(event:MouseEvent):void
{
this.gotoAndPlay("out");
}

}
}

For The Love Of All That Is Holy IE Cant Find .swf
Hey guys im about to lose my ever fragile mind if i cant get this thing to work.
Basically i have a flash web page with 2 movie clips inside and a button that goes something like this:

on (rollOver) {gotoAndPlay("over");
}
on (rollOut) {gotoAndPlay("out");
}
on (release) {
_root.mainmovie.boardcontent.loadMovie("board_mayh emfish.swf");
_root.mainmovie.closeswf.gotoAndPlay(2);
_parent._parent.boardmov._visible = false;
}

not too complicated as i have a blank movie clip called boardcontent that loads and external swf board_mayhemfish.swf now this works perfectly in flash when i test it but the moment i upload it the board_mayhemfish.swf cant be found. Now one would assume thats because i dont have the right path so ive tried directly putting where it resides which was:

_root.mainmovie.boardcontent.loadMovie(http://www.explicitmedia.com/clients...mayhemfish.swf);

now if i click on that direct link i just put in it takes me to the SWF fine but for some reason the flash file cant find it or doesnt load it. Anyway im out of ideas and any fresh ones would be great.

Thanks,
Chris

Holy Mother Of My Sanity
This is driving me absolutely crazy! I can't figure this out for the life of me!

I know it's a simple solution, but I can't find it to save my life! I'm going crazy here... I've been trying to solve it for hours!

Anyways, I have a very very very simple animation and I want to create a "shine" effect in the middle (frame 484) between the growing and the shrinking. So I created a mask and a shine gradient and the mask is supposed to mask the gradient to make it shine, but it doesn't work! I've tried many many things and can't seem to get it to work.

It works fine if I paint a new mask, but that's not the right shape. I don't understand why this one isn't working. I've tried breaking the symbols apart, but that doesn't work either. I've tried changing the line thickness... I've tried changing the line type... Nothing!

anyone, someone! Please. I don't understand why it's not working!

Psychos, Gurus > Holy Grail Within
Well there will be the Holy grail (in flash terms) If you can tell me how to customise the Right-Click Menu.

I have heard of disabling the right-click menu. This is no good - I still want to be able to zoom in + out, change settings, print etc. Just disable play, back, forward, rewind....

It is not neccessary - but would really top off my project professionally

Holy Fadeing Text Batman
Hello all,

Just a simple question.... Can text be faded from left to right, or up to down etc. in flash MX???

Thanks

Andrew

Holy S**t Unexpected File Format On My FLA?
HELP HELP HELP!

I have no idea what happened, but I just tried to open an FLA I've been working on for a client, and I get a "Unexpected File Format" pop up. Just what the hell happened?

I'm using MX Studio Pro. Does anybody know how to fix this, maybe hex edit??? I put in a ton of hours on this thing, and now it's absolutely ruined...

Holy Projector File, Batman...
Hi friends.

Ok.....

I need to prepare a projector version of a website for a client, which she wants delivered on a CD-rom. The orginal site has a master.swf file referencing dozens of other .swf movies and preloaders. I really, really don't want to have to burn her a cd with a folder with one projector file and a huge list of other random .swf files all in the same folder, and I also really, really, really don't want to have to go in and build the site again, all self-contained in one single movie. Can I:

a) put all the files except the main projector file in a folder called data, then somehow tell the projector file to reference that sub-foler,

--==OR==--

b) can I somehow publish the whole kit-n-kaboodle as one single consolidated projector file?

Thanks so much for your time,

Meeg

Holy Crap My Toolbar Is Gonne1111111
oh no i dunno how this happened but my toolbar with all the brushes and paintbuckets and erasers ect just dissapeared how do i get them back!?

[F8] Holy Invisible Feilds, Batman
Okay, this one's tricky.

I'm making what is essentially a presentation SWF that pulls data from an XML.

it's got some quirky animation here and there but ultimately it revolves around 6 symbols (or rather 6 instances of 1 symbol) each with a different name, and each with a field within it.

The field is set to trace a variable (local to the symbol) and the outside stage sets that variable (via instance.variable_name) from data provided to it from the XML.

Here's the tricky part. The field never displays the data. At first I thought it might not be getting it (I am using a sort of complicated method for putting the data there) but when I trace instance.field.text it outputs the correct data. I also thought it might have something to do with that layer not drawing properly (perhaps the nearby masking layer was affecting it) so I tried drawing a simple box on top of the field (same layer) and it drew just fine.

It's probably something to do with the actual symbol not updating it's draw or something complicated like that, if you have any idea how to get by this it'd be awesome = thanks

EDIT: I guess it's also worth pointing out that I've tried putting in initial text by hand (sans-action script) and it didn't show up either. I then went so far as to make ANOTHER dynamic text field, give it no trace, and just initial text, it didn't show up either... static, however, did show up

[MX Or 8]Holy Mackerel .flv Crashing Browser HELP
Wow. wow. wow.

Just found a major boo boo with my fla. when I went live with it. The swf. is of a little drive in movie theater that plays 3 different films as .flv's. It seems to work great, movies load in, play, you can stop them, start other movies playing in the middle, leave anytime you want. Perfect!

Until...

You leave the movie theater, and try to come back. [i.e. load and unload the drive-in.swf]

As soon as you come back and try to play a .flv, firefox says " If you wish Flash Player to contiue this scrip your computer may become unresponsive. Do you wish to abort this scrip? YES NO" if you choose yes, the time line starts playing over and over and over, kinda funny-- in a sickening way. If you choose No, it really does lock up...

Here is the link online: http://www.chewycafe.com/phaseII/
you can skip the intro with the link in the lower right and then choose "movies" at the prompt. start playing any movie, then go back to chewyville and then choose "movies" again at the promp and try to play another movie or the same one... careful, it will shut you down...

I will link the .fla in MX here in a second

I have scoured this board and the net for "unload .flv" but that does not seem to be the answer...

Ideas? Suggestions? THANKS!!!!!

Holy Crap Why Isnt It Working
when i click on my .fla s it says cannot find. and when i click the icon for the program(flash mx 2004) it doesnt do anything. i am wigging out. please help.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy Cow... Full Browser Problem
ok im pretty sure, it's not supposed to look like this.

when I publish from flash, its great... but when I drop it in a browser.. this is what I get...

URL REMOVED ::: for now.

wow! What in the.....??

can anyone help?

Function Engine. My Personal Holy Grail
For those of you who are into actionscript as pure science

Here is gen one of my holy grail functionEngine.

This is the deal. I built a function engine that stores the function to execute, and the associated data. The problem is, I don't know what you are putting into the engine, it may be a BC.. it might not. So I have to give you a way to call your own destructor. If you want to call removeMovieClip then go ahead. Lets look at the code example:

_root.attachMovie("FunctionEngine","FOO", 600); (fudge 600.. fix later)

FOO.attachEngine();
FOO.AddEngineFunction("_root.hello","Ian",false,"_ root.Goodbye");
FOO.AddEngineFunction("_root.hello","Fred",false," _root.Goodbye");
FOO.StartEngine();
stop();

I stated earlier that I needed an engine.. so in the FLA u will see that bc. Here I attach the FunctionEngine to _root, and YOU specify that engines name (keep in mind you may want to run several engines at once). You do this with the line:

root.attachMovie("FunctionEngine","FOO", 600);

We know that attachMovie actually creates and instance of your library movie. In this case.. we call it FOO. (note that the engine mc on frame 1 is a stop())

next, I call the MC.prototype .attachEngine(). What we are doing is creating an array to store the function/data/engine-structure. We also need an index to point to the function we are currently executing.

Looking at the next line:
FOO.AddEngineFunction("_root.hello","Ian",false,"_ root.Goodbye");

Here we want to add a function to our list that we called "hello" and pass it the string "Ian". The next parameter false says, do not call a custom destructor. (If it were true, I would execute your destructor)

Last but not least, I call FOO.StartEngine(); which sets the engine in motion. The function will continue to execute as long as their are functions to execute.

Now, what's really gonna bake your noodle later on, is when you realize that if your function returns true.. then I know a condition which you have defined has been met. If it's false I assume you are not done yet and stay parked on your function and continue to execute it until you return me true

For instance, your function counts frames and you don't return true until say 50 frames has passed (like a pause function maybe?).

Anway... here it is for decipherin. I have tried to keep it clean.. but you the engine fans have to tell me what you think.

http://www.nebulouscore.com/examples/funcengine.fla

Peace!!!!!!

ps. This is HOT off the press so I expect some revisions... but I am always open to discussion... unless of course you piss me off .lol.

Gibbosniper Vs Munkie Or Newbie Vs Newbie
Ok Gibbosniper,

This is the start of the thread, for our contest of Newbies brains in action. Let us set a time limit of sorts, and go from there.

Again, I am far from an MX master, I just started just over a week ago, so it might take a while for me to produce something worthy of public display, but if you are patient, so am I.

Game on!

Munkie!

Keyboard Control-for A Very Newbie Newbie
I was wondering if there is a simple way to control flash animations when
pressing a key on the keyboard. Example: Scene 1 is an animation of a
circle, this scene will continue to loop until I press the 'f' key, and
then the flash movie will change to Scene 2 where we see the circle
explode. I looked around flashkit.com and found some tutorials, but I
think they used an earlier version of flash, because I can't find the
instance properties in order to change the action from mouse click to key
press. I own flash professional 8. Anyway, I can use as much help as I
can get, so if you know of an action parameter in which I can execute
this...action, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time!
-Timmy

Newbie Asking A Newbie Question
Thanks for looking at my post. I am very new to Flash and I want to make a simple movie withsome text. I know how to insert text and customize it, but I wanted to know how I could jazz it up a bit. Add some effects to it. I was wondering if anyone could help show me how to make it shine, or glimmer, or glow, or something of tht sort, you know? You know on the Ultrashock logo when you put your mouse over it, it shines? I wanna know stuff like that. Can anyone help? Is there a tutorial or we page I can go to? Thanks in advance, and thanks for looking even if you can't help...

AS NEWBIE NEEDS SERIOUS HELP
i got a problem, ive made buttons which grow bigger when the user roll overs they 'bonce up' and when the user rolls off they bonce back down ;

i made MC and on that i placed this code:

-------------
onClipEvent (load) {
mc2 = 100;
// initialise _xscale.
friction = 0.8;
ratio = 0.3;
speed = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (mc2 != this._xscale) {
speed = (speed*friction)+(mc2-this._xscale)*ratio;
this._xscale += speed;
this._yscale += speed;
}
}
---------------------
and in side of this movie clip is a graphic in one layer and an invisable button on another layer, on the invisable button i placed this code.

-----------------
on (rollOver) {
mc2 = 150;
}
on (rollOut) {
mc2 = 100;
}
-----------------------------

now the AS works but i cant use them as buttons as i cant apply mouse actions. so i want them to go to the next frame or scene it doesnt work. I want the AS buttons, cause they look good, but if i use it im not sure how to make them work as buttons. PLEASE HELP.

I'm No Newbie But I Need Newbie Help
I am great at actionscripting one one side of the spectum but on the other I have no clue what arrays are. If someone could explain what an array was and how it is an portant I would greatly apprieciate it.

Newbie Help
Hi, I just created a flash banner for my webpage im starting. Unfortunately my html is not so good.

I just want to know how you can display the banner on the top-center the webpage in html. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Newbie Needs Help
I'm looking to have part of the movie read 'loading' while the movie loads to the user's computer. Anyone know how? I'd appreciate some help..

thanks

Panzerr
http://www.frostburn.org

Newbie Help....
y0y0 wat up.....im new to flash(i know a lil bit) but i know swish very well....i was wondering if flash is a language like vb or c++ and also if anyone has any tutorials or things i could learn from.....because i look at open source files and they dont help at all ....... i dont understand them.........well any help at all would be cool.......thanks

peace

Newbie Needs Help W/IE
when I play my movie in the swf player, i'm fine. it's when it preview in internet explorer that everything is shrunken and off center. Anybody know why?

Help A Newbie
Ok, I'm pretty new to Flash and I have what I think is a Newbie question. I've looked around the site and can't find an answer, so... here we go:

I'm trying to make a small movie for the bottom corner of a webpage - a team signature to be exact. I'd like to use 3 pictures(jpegs), text and some motion tweening - pretty basic.

I traced the images and converted them to symbols. The symbols now look more like a painting than a picture and that is fine.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to determine how big a symbol is when it is converted? My movie ended up being about 78k, which is way to big for such a small piece of a page - about 200px X 200px.

Also, is there a better technique that I am not aware of for what I am doing?

Any help would be MUCH appreciated!

Newbie Needs Help
Hey everybody!
I dont know if I bit off a bit more than I can chew, but I need to build a 3D room with doors that will open up web pages when you click on them...
Whats the easiest way to do that?

I'm A Newbie
Hi, I'm a newbie, I do not know if there is a fee for Flash5 and Since I'm only 12, I don't think I can pay something over $30. If you can help me make a couple of games for my website, it would be worth more to me than a few golden bars. Post ?'s here.

::Newbie Needs Help::
Hi i am doing a flash 5 animation but i am finding it hard to go beyond 20 frames. I am doing a cartoon animation and it needs to be 10 seconds long. I have done the cartoon but cannot get it to 10 seconds so i need some advice on what i can do? May be motion tweens?

Please help!

Thanks

Newbie Needs Help
I've got an image to move left and right using some buttons, which works fine.

I've got the picture behind a mask/frame so that you can only see part of it at any one time and i want to make sure that when it reaches one side it stops before the image edge is viewable.

I'm a bit new to this so any help is appreciated.

Really Newbie
I wanted to put this swf file in my homepage:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound...63/index.shtml

My code looks like this:
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="32" height="32">
<param name=movie value="images/player1.fla">
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src="images/player1.fla" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="32" height="32">
</embed>
</object>

But when I do it, nothing shows up, and no there's no sound. What am I missing?

Thank for the hlop

Please Help Out A Newbie.
I was just wondering if any of you guys know any sites that teach how make tight footers??Or just any good flash 5 tutorial sites that use specific direction for newbies(Flash for Newbies) those type of sites.

I Am A Newbie... PLEASE HELP
i need the script for my game.. i have an movie clip that is named battleindicater and another one named gotobattle..
what i need is when the battleindicater MC and the gotobattle MC intersect.. it goes to my battlescene1 Scene..

now i tried to put this code in the gotobattle movie clip

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(battleindicater)) {
gotoAndStop ("battlescene1", 1);
}
}

it won't go to the new scene why is that? is my coding wrong somehow? i doubled checked and my scene name is right... can someone tell me or show me the code i need...

Too Newbie 4 Newbie
ive got some text plus some lines how can i change the brightness so it gets really bright and turns totally white thanks

Newbie Needs Help
my movie contains two sounds.

sound 1 is about 20 seconds long and is some kind of an intro.
sound 2 is just about 5 seconds long, but it should be looped over and over, for keeping the movie size small.

the actionsscript of the first frame is:
s = new Sound();
s.attachSound("mySound");
s.start();

"mySound" is the first sound clip; (i chose "link" in the right-mouse-click menue and the i exported the original file with the new name "mySound")

but now i m stuck. how can i tell flash to start sound 2 exactly in the moment when sound 1 stops? and how can it be looped?

i would be glad about every idea! thank you!

Holy Newbie Question

http://www.wrecked.nu/I'm working on a site where I want the portfolio to open in a window like the url listed above. I'm positive this is insanely easy, so if you could point me to a tutorial, I would be grateful!

http://www.wrecked.nu/

I'm working on a site where I want the portfolio to open in a window like the url listed above. I'm positive this is insanely easy, so if you could point me to a tutorial, I would be grateful!