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Reveal Mouse Clicks Etc.
Hi,

Can anyone help me with this actionscript coding I want to perform both operations, any ideas:

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Patient1.buttonMode = true;
Patient1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
var Patient_correct:Patient_correct = new Patient_correct();
Patient_correct1.x = 560.8;
Patient_correct.y = 287.9;
addChild(Patient_correct);

---**I need to add a variable or code here for the both parts to work**-------

button1.buttonMode = true;
button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void {
var circle1:Circle = new Circle();
circle1.x = 617.5;
circle1.y = 224.9;
addChild(circle1);
}

Please help, thanks

Drag Mouse Reveal Mask
Hello,

I am hoping someone has tried to accomplish this one!
I am trying to create a mimic of a scratch and win ticket for playing demo purposes, in Flash MX

I have a 'scratched' version of the ticket as a background image, then created a mask of the scratch area, to be scratched by the user.

Where I am stumped, is how to create the dragging mouse "eraser" effect to reveal the unscratched version of the ticket, when the user "scratches" the scratch area.

Does anyone know some links to some tutorials for this? I have searched for this, and haven't had good results.

Deadline is nearing....please help.

Thanks!

Urgent Help - Mouse Reveal Over Image
Hi, Am designing a Xmas card with a frosty PNG over an image and when the mouse rolls over the image the frost is whiped away permanantly. Once all the image is clear the scene changes. Any code suggestions. flash doc is 520 x520 and wipe away mouse area needs to be 100x100 circle. Can be contacted at info@noisyspace.com http://www.noisyspace.com/clients/personal/xmas.html

Steve // Noisyspace // London

Mouseover Reveal Text
Hi,

Im desperate for a .swf file that shows one Letter and on mouse over reveals the rest of the word.....

For example "L" and on mouse over you see "LOVE"

I need this effect for a pano project Im working on, can someone point me to a file of this sort or to a tutorial on how to achieve this?¿ Clients have asked for this effect, Im not very good at flash!

thanks, appreciate any help at all!!

Done a search in google and on here cant find anything!

Reveal Text Effect
I would like to use an effect to reveal text (I have seen it many times before - it is nothing new) but I don't know the name of the effect. I was wondering if anyone could help me so I could perhaps find a tutorial somewhere.

The text is revealed like on an old-fashioned timetable board you would find at a train station. The text dials-in from the left and displays a string of rapidly-changing random characters which one-by-one stop changing to reveal the text.

I can't explain it any better than that - sorry! Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Hey What Is The Big Secret?
ok flash people! time to show the world your goodies lol!

well i've been having a hard time trying to figure out how a lot of the cooooollll flash sites use a sort of blinking affect on their images.. the blink slows down and eventually stops.. i know they dont make a clip for every image that blinks-in that would be too time consuming...

WHAT IS THE ACTIONSCRIPT TO MAKE AN IMAGE HAVE A DECELERATING BLINK EFFECT?? please tell me I cannot find this information anywhere.

DO YOU ALL KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!?!?!

*sigh*

*gasp*

(please help, i love this effect)

Tell Me The Secret
I have seen on more pages very dynamic elastic moving menus and object.
E.g. is here
http://www.flashmedia.cz/flashkit/ex...enu[1].swf
Can anybody explane the code of this moving.
It'd be very useful for me to understud the AS code.

Thank you advance.

Jan

What's The Secret?
hi flashkit,
ok, here's my question:
what is the secret to fast loading flash websites? Take 2advanced for example, how are they able to get all of those special effects to all load so fast? i am self taught (w/flashkit) and i have been working with flash for about 18 mos. i have seen so many flash sites that have all kinds of tweens and masks going without any preloaders or anything. How? What am I missing?
I would appreciate any advice or even tutorials on how to speed things up.
I know not to use large jpegs and things of that nature, but even then things just seem faster on the other side.
thanks
DK

What's The Secret?
Here's a question for all you guys out there who cracked Action Script on your own.

I'm resonably ingelligent (no genius - no way!) but after hours and years of trying, AS is still only making very limited sense. It's supposed to be the non pragramers programing language!!!!

I've bought Flash in 24 Hours and Mookes AS MX2004 - which is what I have I've stolen bits of code for drag and drop etc - then I look back at it and I think "What?!!!".

What is the best way of cracking it? What was your moment when it all made sense? What is your tip for getting it sorted?

Huw
PS In my day job I'm a linguist - perhaps that's my problem!

What's The Big Secret.......?
I've read through the book by Keith Peters called "ActionScript 3.0 Animation.

The reason I bought this book was because of people telling me it's great for the ones who want to code the animations in flash rather than using timelines and frames for tweening, etc.

But the book isn't helpfull at all. Not for me.
I get the part about creating an object and make it move, but the parts about making the object seems like it's animated just don't seem logic to me.

A common mistake is (according to the book) to use the code:

for (i = 0; i < 500; i++){
ball.x = i;
}

Although the ball does end up at the desired x-point it want be animated the you might want to because the 'i++' happens before the ball.x is set.
I understand the logical point of this part.

But what the book DOESN'T cover is the right code for getting the ball animated for x-point(A) to x-point(B).

I've flipped the pages in the book several times and doesn't seem to find the right part containing the code needed to place the ball on the stage while the x-point being calculated in a way that the ball is animated the way I want.

The book DOES explain that I have to create a loop that runs over and over again until the new x-point for the ball is reached while the ball is being placed on the stage during the loop with the new coordinates calculated during the loop.
That's pure logic and I get it!!

But... HOW DO YOU CREATE SUCH LOOP WITH THE CODES NEEDED??

Here's what I want to do:
I have a thumbnail-menu that I want to move from side to side when a mouse-event is happening.

The mouse-event happens by clicking on two buttons ("next" and "prev").

I do get the thumbnail-menu to move from side to side, but it doesn't animate. It jump to the new x-point rather than smoothly slide across the stage.

So what's the big secret??
What seemed logic before isn't logic anymore...

I need all the help I can get... It's for a website and I'm allready behind the schedule...

It might be just some simple codes put together the right way, but the more I work with Flash the more complex and advance it becomes.

Secret Behind 3d Layouts?
Hi,
some time ago, there was this really exceptional 3d layout by www.talbot.com. So, when you move around the place, is actually the screen you see a mask, so when you move to the right or to the left, the mask moves?

Thanks a lot,
Manojo

Secret Word
How can I add a secret word to a flash file that'll open either a new scene or a go to a precise frame?

I know that this is the way to do it in Javascript but is there another way of doing it in action script?

Quote:

<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var SpecialWord = "javascript",
SpecialUrl = "http://javascript.internet.com/new/",
SpecialLetter = 0;
function getKey(keyStroke) {
var isNetscape=(document.layers);
var eventChooser = (isNetscape) ? keyStroke.which : event.keyCode;
var which = String.fromCharCode(eventChooser).toLowerCase();
if (which == SpecialWord.charAt(SpecialLetter)) {
SpecialLetter++;
if (SpecialLetter == SpecialWord.length) window.location = SpecialUrl;
}
else SpecialLetter = 0;
}
document.onkeypress = getKey;

</script>

Help With Secret Codes
Hey all,

I'm looking to make secret codes for my site. Basically I have flash on the header of my page, i want people to type in a code like u would for let's say playstation cheats..

Say they press left, down, up and right in that order it tells the flash to do something.. is this possible? Events in flash being triggered by a certain order of keys?

Btw to stop confusion, I don't mean type into a box, i mean just press the keys, people aren't sposed to know about it, it's similar to a cheat code, they get to see a special video if they know about it..

I hope I've explained well, if you're unsure of something just ask..

Thanks in advance!

Ben

God, What's The Damned Secret ?
Hi everyone,
my question is about how making the scripts without killing cpu.

Usually I use setInterval function with timeout set to 30, but when just 2 actions are present, I see the movie getting slower and heavier...

How can you make all this actions that I see online, without killing my cpu, and manteining movements smooth and fast?

Thanks all
D.

This Most Well Guarded Secret In All Of Flashdom?
Guys - Girls,

I have searched tutorials, I've posted on this board, I've looked practically everywhere. I know people know how to do this, so that's not the issue, but getting the info is like pulling teeth. All I want to know how to design an action script driven movie clip menu like the ones found at any of the following sites.

http://www.webagent007.com/2001/default.html

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/brak/index.html
(it's not porn, it's a cartoon - look at the menu under Character Profiles)

http://www.godsmack.com
(click between the "News" & "Band" links

Simply put, you click a button and the movie clip scrolls either left or right to a specific spot. You click another button and it scrolls either left or right to another specific spot. You click yet another button and it scrolls either left or right to yet another specific spot etc. etc.

What's The Non-Smoothing Font Secret?
I have been a flasher for over 2 years now - I am even certified! BUT - to this day I still have problems getting clean type out of flash. I know the whole positioning on whole numbers on the stage and within movie clips - and no, still not that clean. I then thought it would be a good idea to use device fonts, this works well except that you then have some masking issues, some people even have arial messed up on their machines, some macs handle the display poorly and your list of fonts is extremely limited.

I have seen sites like:
http://www.aamertaher.com/main.php?id=1
http://www.blueflamemarketing.com
http://www.natzke.com
http://ps3.praystation.com/pound/v2/

and many others - blue flame is obviously using pixelfonts but even so - its beautiful type. Can anyone let me in on the secret?

How To Make A Secret Page?
Hi!!
I need some help on making a secret page in a flash animation.
I want to know :

Make a page in flash and if a make a command with the keybord (or/and mouse) another page opens.

Please help me out with that!!!
Thanx!!!

Secret Screen On Type
Hi Dudes ^^

I was thinking in make an 'easter egg' in my applications.. look..:

if someone type: 'abracadabra' it will go to another scene and in this scene will have some secret info... i think this can be done using actionscript and onKeyPress, but i am a totally new into this...

Has someone done this yet?

Thanks in advance for any info : )

Khrysller

The Secret Use Of Graphic Symbols.
I was of the oppenion that graphic symbols where neer compleately useless. untill i began trying to animate charictor speach. Its then that i discovered the hidden tallent of graphic symbols in the area of lipsynching, if you take your movieclip, and convert it into a graphic symbol you can select a certan frame to display as just a graphic, very very handy for animating mouth movement. and all sorts of things.

Secret Flash Function
This is a secret flash function it works similar to setInterval except it only fires the function 1 time ! maybe handy in some situations just thought i'd post about it.

PHP Code:

setTimeout(testFunc,1000);
function testFunc(){
i = 0;
i++;

trace("fired 1 time"+i);
}

clearTimeout(testFunc);

[F8] Dropdown Secret Negation
Hi, I post my code, I did alone. There is a MC named bar0 on the Scene and this same bar (button) is linked in Library as bar.

My wish was to:
- attach multiple bar's from Library to the one on the Scene,
- slide all of them down from the main bar, when it's clicked,
- rollover on some menuitem on the Scene, which can't cause close() function to be launched

//----- CODE

odstep=0;
ilosc=5;
speed=3;

var napisy = new Array('menu','element 1','element 2','element 3','element 4','element 5');

function open() {

for (i=1;i<=ilosc;i++) {
this.attachMovie('bar','bar'+i,i);
this['bar'+i]._y=bar0._y;
this['bar'+i]._x=bar0._x;
this['bar'+i].endY = bar0._y + i*(bar0._height+odstep);

this['bar'+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._y += (this.endY-this._y)/_root.speed;
}

this['bar'+i].createTextField("napis", getNextHighestDepth(), 3, 2, 80, 20);
this['bar'+i].napis.html = true;
this['bar'+i].napis.selectable = false;

this['bar'+i].napis.htmlText="<FONT FACE='Verdana' SIZE='11' COLOR='#000000'>"+napisy[i]+"</FONT>";
}
}

function close() {
for (i=1;i<=ilosc;i++) {
this['bar'+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha -=10;
}
this['bar'+i].napis._visible=false;
}
}

//-------------------

function buttonStates(n) {

this[n].state = 0;

this[n].onPress = function() {
this.state = !this.state;
};

this[n].onRelease = function() {
if (this.state) {
open();
} else {
close();
}
};
}

this.buttonStates(_root.bar0._name);

As you can see above, all works fine but one thing. The negation this.state[n]=!this.state[n] causes, that when I launch open() at the program start, I can click item in menu (the hand shows up), but when I click main menu, and the want to rollover subitem in that menu, the hand is gone, even when I test it, launching open() twice, to check if something was wrong.

So at the end, something is wrong witch switch on/off function, especially with the negation, but what?

I used Flash 8 Professional, below is an attachement with the application. Be free to use it, like you want.

Maybe, you will find simpliest way of implement on/off and select functions.

I'm exhausted with my tiny little problem. Maybe someone has clear mind, how to overcome or reroute this? I would be glad if so ... I'm not ;D

[CS3] Login Form (Secret)
I'm trying to make the login form work with

on(keyPress""){
gotoAndStop("secret");
}

where do I enter this code?

What's The Secret Of A Good Animation?
Hey everybody,

I'm still pretty new to FLash and I was wondering how those fast, blinking animations like on this site are done? Is it just fast tweening with a lot of alphas or some kind of motionblur? I've been trying around a bit, but it just won't turn out as smooth..

Preloader Secret Question
Respected all,

I'm making a presentation with preloader, preloader works good, ok
i have sound object (160 kb) when i add it to movie preloader count to 100% good but don't playing bar... ??

many thanks

Why Is The BitmapData Object So Secret
Is it my imagination or is there some sort of plot going on to keep folks from learning about the BitmapData object and/or various Bitmap Filteers?

I have read everything I can get my hands on and I have even done a couple of project where I have used the BitmapData object, but I still can't find any good solid resources for explicit information.

Even the generous scripts provided by GrantSkinner and Senocular don't explain the basics very well--though they do a great job of demonstrating aspects of the class that are applicable mostly to the examples they provide. Without a suitable bridge for figuring out how to apply that information to other projects, it gets really difficult. So if ya wanna draw veins on your screen, your screen or tweek some colors in a very explicit way, no problem.

If you want to take advantage of non-rendered multilayer bitmap effects, good luck.

I have found more sites.blogs dedicated to complaining about the lack of resources for the Flash Implementation of the BitmapData Object (in AS2.0) than I have resources for how to apply it.

Any suggestions?

Jase

AS That Detects The End Of A Song? Share Your Secret....
I am making a presentation cd using a Flash "exe" file. I'm loading in full MP3's. I'm placing the songs in a seperate movie and loading it into the main movie. Is there a way for action script to read when the song comes to the end and launch an MC with a control panel for the user to select the next song.

I can do this by draging the frame accross the whole layer till it ends but I would like to avoid doing this since there will be around 5 full songs in the same movie..

So in short can AS detect the end of the song? Or do I need to do it another way?

k

Anyone Knows The Secret To Animation/motion Of Www.stardust.tv
subj...

[F8] Loading External .swfs In Secret - Help
I posted earlier tonight in general help and I don't mean to be repetitive but I have a new, though similar question and I think this is a better forum for it.

I'm a photographer with a site to display my images etc. I need the image quality to be good. My images are all 380px by (smaller side) at 72 ppi (Saved for Web in Photoshop).

To shorten loading times I've saved all my gallery pages as individual .swfs that I bring into my site using loadMovieNum. Once loaded, if the user chooses another gallery or page I use _level().visible = false instead of unloadMovieNum() so that if the user goes back to that gallery they do not have to wait again. I'm using a percentage loader for my main movie and my external .swfs. All of this works well.

My only problem, and a big one for me, is that the external .swfs take too long too load. I've compressed my movies and lowered the jpg quality in flash but I don't want to compress my images any more in photoshop because quality is important.

I was posting in the general forum because I've been trying to pre-load my .swfs on the home page and only make them visible when the user gets to the gallery page. This isn't working, though my code is the same. I think I am suffering from the elusive flash bug.

I've been spending hours trying different ways to do this and then I realized that each external .swf only loads if the user stays on the same frame of the main movie until it is loaded - if they give up early and go back it has to start loading all over again. This makes me question whether it would even work to load the movies the same way on the home page at all.

So.. my question is this: Is there any way to script loading the external .swfs while keeping them invisible, while a user navigates around the site? Is there something other than loadMovieNum and loadMovie that can be used?? A few of my galleries only have 10 images and 10 thumbnails (70x70x72ppi) and limited animation and they still seem to take 30 seconds to load. Other galleries with more images take forever. I won't get much work if people don't have the patience to wait and see my images, or if I compress the images in photoshop making them look like pixellypoop.

(I don't like the idea of using movie clips instead of levels because I need my _visible = false and _visible = true to be frame actions, not button/movieclip actions)

my site is here if you would like to see for yourself: cyndyryder.ca

If this is not possible, does anyone have any other suggestions to help loading time? (I also tried loading the jpgs individually with loadMovieNum but that was even Slower!)

please and thank you!

ps the home button doesn't work because I made a mistake but everything else is working now

Marz’s Secret Project – Exposed
Check this out guys! Marz, the original creator of the AI tutes and has helped alot of you guys out here and there.. (if you don't know who it is check out the game programming section) Well, i've gotten ahold of a juicy rumour that he's pushing his site out.. A full flash site too.. If anyone knows marz.. working in full flash is almost unheard of... Damn php-head that he is.

Anyways... I only wanted to inform you guys of this because he's gone missing as of the past so many months... If anyone has heard anything else on this.. Please give me some more information.. I can't wait to see what it'll be..

Secret....Eliminate This Problem Permanently..Enjoy
Hi,

Having problems with Margins....I've seen a lot of queries on this issue here.

This is the easiest way to do it. It will solve your problem forever.

Just go to the macromedia site & go to the extensions section. You will find extensions for various applications.
Download MX 139558_noMargins.mxp.

Then install this extension on your comp. What this will do is to put another option in your publish window ( HTML template ). This will say Flash only ( No Margins )

Just choose this option whenever you publish your files.
This will stay in your comp as long as you want it to.

I know this will solve your problem. It permanantly solved
mine.

KEEP FLASHING....& ...DESIGN THE FUTURE.......ENJOY......

Raj

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Is There A Secret To Distortion Free Pan And Zoom Of Images?
We're trying to implement a smooth distortion free pan and zoom similar to the pan and zoom slide show in Windows Vista. I'm using the Tween class for the animation. For zoom I'm tweening the _width property then setting _yscale equal to _xscale in the change event. In parallel, I'm tweening the _x and _y position for the pan motion. I've set the quality to highest, the cache bitmap property to true, and the FPS on the Stage to 30. Still, the images show lots of wavy, shimmery distortion on every redraw. The start and destination rectangles for the images is known up front. I tried just tweening the _xscale but that doesn't translate well when you're targeting specific rectangles. Maybe there's some other completey different way to do it I haven't ran across? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. The way it looks now doesn't meet the quality bar to actually consider using it for real.

Thanks,
Mark

Secret Actionscripts In Flash (eg: Right Click Detect Sorted...)
Hey All,

ok, i saw on this forum or were-here that there was a method to check for a right click. this is not my code and i don't take credit... i don't know who's it is actually...

so basically, you'd make a prototype:

Code:
Mouse.isDown = function(click) {
// click = 1(detects left) or 2(detects right)
var click;
return asNative(800,2)(click);
}

ok... so then instead of making a messy set of clip event statements, you can say:

Code:
onClipEvent(mouseMove) {
if (mouse.isDown(1)) {
trace("you're dragging the mouse");
}
}

Ok now if you've followed all that (and if you've also read the huge post on prototypes in were-here), here's the question...

ok so what the hell is the "asNative" and more importantly ... are there any other built in function that anyone knows of that Macromedia hasn't told us about?

I Can Scroll Text & Trace The Mouse Wheel But Not Move The Text With The Mouse Wheel
Can u help me scroll some loaded text with the mouse wheel?

This code is great but I just cant get the mouse wheel to scroll. I have set up the mouse wheel trace but need help from here on please

Code:
scrollmcMaxY = tmask._height-scrollmc._height;
scrollmc.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("over");
if (this._y>=22 && this._y<=scrollmcMaxY-22) {
this.arrowup._visible = true;
this.arrowdown._visible = true;
} else if (this._y<22) {
this.arrowup._visible = false;
this.arrowdown._visible = true;
} else {
this.arrowup._visible = true;
this.arrowdown._visible = false;
}
// end else if
};
scrollmc.onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("out");
};
scrollmc.onPress = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("press");
endy = _ymouse-this._y;
this.onMouseMove = function() {
if (_ymouse>=endy && _ymouse<=scrollmcMaxY+endy) {
this._y = _ymouse-endy;
} else if (_ymouse<endy) {
this._y = 0;
} else {
this._y = scrollmcMaxY;
}
// end else if
ratio = (chpTexteHauteur-tmask._height)/scrollmcMaxY;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
var _loc2 = -this._y*ratio;
chpTexte._y = chpTexte._y+int(_loc2-chpTexte._y)*2.000000E-001;
};
};
};
scrollmc.onRelease = function() {
delete this.onMouseMove;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};
scrollmc.onReleaseOutside = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("out");
delete this.onMouseMove;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
};

var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseWheel = function(wheelNum:Number)
{
if (wheelNum> 0)
{
trace("towards computer");
}
else if (wheelNum< 0)
{
trace("away from computer");
}
}
Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);

Reveal For Mc:s?
Is there a simular event as the reveal event for screens? That is when the mc changes visible? Or do i have to write my on code for this?

Suggestions Please? M/over To Reveal M/c
Hi there - just about to start a CD project and have a few ideas about how to approach, but there are a couple of puzzlers that I wanted to ask ya'll opinion on.

The first is that there will be a scrolling text area in the middle of the screen. It will contain rollover text (see later), little icons for pdf, word docs etc and links to download the file to the desktop. I was thinking about loading the text in from a sep. file, but then the rollovers won't work. Any ideas?

Secondly, the rollover text (Title of the document to be downloaded) will reveal a m/c on another part of the screen with a picture of the document cover to be downloaded. I was thinking of creating X-number of movie clips, placing them in the same spot, on different layers, and setting their visibility to 0 and then setting it to 100% when the user mouses over the appropriate title? What do you think?

Also just had a thought about the text area - should I create a movie clip containing all the images, text, text-mouseovers etc which is then scrolled? Can you do that in Flash 5? I know you can load in a text file and scroll that, but what about a m/c? I assume the mouseovers for the document titles (Which reveal the document cover image) would be handled by a mouseover event on an invisible button?

I know it probably sounds like I'm answering my own questions, but I'm just trying to get everyone elses thoughts on my ideas!

thanks for any help

frank

Reveal An Image Under Another One
Hi,

I hope someone can help... I am more of a designer and only have basic knowledge of action script. However, I have been tasked to create a sort of "scratch and win" card. Where I have one image on top of another, and I need to take a custom made cursor and "scratch away" the top image, revealing the bottom one. I hope someone can help and point me in the right direction, either with a tutorial or with some sound advice.

Thanks

Dynamic Reveal
Can anyone help me figure this out. I am trying to create a series of smaller boxes that combine to make a bigger box, when a user rolls over parts of the bigger box the little boxes spread apart to reveal what is underneath the big box, I was trying to make it look random and have the little boxes get a little bigger as they spread apart. The overall look would feel like a ripple effect. I am not that great at actionscript, if someone knew of a tutorial or an example that is close to this I would greatly appreciate the help!

Thank you!