Flash :: How To Add A Blank Keyframe In Very First Position

Diff Btwn Blank Keyframe And Keyframe?
Hi all,

I'm a first time Flash user who is currently floundering in her attempt to learn Flash MX. Burning question of the hour: What's the difference between a "blank" keyframe and a keyframe? In which circumstances should I use a blank keyframe? How about a plain ol' keyframe?

Thanks for your help!

Stage Goes Blank After Adding A Keyframe...
Sometimes when I add a new keyframe, the stage will go blank. What causes this? Sometimes it doesn't do it and is just fine. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to give more information about what I'm trying to do?

Flasher in the making,
Josh

Loading Dynamic Text With A Blank Keyframe
I have set up a dynamic text field (named "btn_txt"), within a movie (btntxt_mc), within a movie (button_mc), within another movie (b1). I want to dynamically load my link text into each button, and it works fine, so long as I place the AS code within any of the first three symbols. Once I place the code in my "b1" movie, or in the "button_mc" movie in anything less than frame 30 (where the "btntxt_mc" enters) it stops loading the dynamic text.

From what I can tell, this is because I do not load my "btntxt_mc" movie clip until frame. When I change it so that it loads right away on frame 1, I am able to load the text from the higher level, "button_mc".

I want to be able to load all my information from the _root of this file so I can eventually run it all from an .xml file and have it distribute to all the different buttons properly.

Can anyone explain what I can do to bypass this annoyance and why this is happening?

PS - I would attach the .fla but I can't find an option to do so

Newbie: Get The Position Of A Keyframe ?
Hello,
I'm quite new to actionscript.
I'd like to do a "accelerated" move of an object with actionscript.
The Start end Endposition of the Object is set with keyframes. Is there a posibility to get the _x and _y values of the object at the two keyframes ?
Thanks a lot in advance for any help
Stefan

As3 Flash Cs3 Movie Position = Keyframe
I have just started to make my own web site.
been at it a week after doing the adobe tutorials.
and have hit a problem with a symbol movie.
the movie is 40 frames and has key frames with labels on frames 1 stop1,2 openT, 20 stop2,21 closeT, 40 stop3.
in my main movie action script i only want sliding graphic to be available when button is pressed and certain frames which are labeled with stop have been reached.

instance of : tileShutter
Movie clip
mShutterT

instance of:button
Movie Clip
picBtn
thanks andrew

"Convert To Blank Keyframe" Doesn't.
Select a keyframe, right-click on it and select "Convert to blank keyframe". This adds a blank keyframe after the selected keyframe, but does not replace it as it should. How come?

Play Random Keyframe To Keyframe In MC
Hey all i am creating a game now this is complex but i have been told by my fellow actioncript co worker that its doable, What it is i have a game "Reaction Tester" and It is inside a car going along the road so its psudeo 3d and i have the "walls" and road sorted now i want a movie clip in the road to throw out random objects From a Movie clip, now i will call them from frame names, say..

frame 1-10 is a tween with a box coming down and then frame 11-20 is a cat and frame 21-30 is a hole in the road Etc i want it to call a random frame to frame, to play can anyone help, thanx in advance

[AS3] Determine The Last Keyframe/if A Frame Is A Keyframe
i'm making a game and to score some extra performance im rendering every frame of every entity into an array of bitmapdata's the first time the frame is seen, and it works well, but its wasting alot of memory because we have alot of animations, and most of them are double framed at least, so more than half of the bitmaps could be ignored if there was a way to determine if a frame is a keyframe or not

but it seems theres no simple way of doing this (like mc.lastKeyFrame) so i was wondering if anyone had a solution to this problem

thanks

Send From One Keyframe To Another Keyframe
In one keyframe I have a script that read a PHP file to show some text.
But I also get some information that I like to show in next keyframe too.
Is that any easy and nice way to do that or do I need to use alot of variable

Blank Key Frame Remaining Blank
I thought I was in the clear after I solved my FLV problem, but now I am trying to add content at a key frame and the key frame remains blank after putting the text in this case on the stage, any thoughts on why this is happening?

Jared

If ( Blank Or Blank) Problem
basically the script is not recognizing the if statement and is changing the alpha even though one of the statements is true.

a movieclip (browndress) sets itemnum = 0 on load
inside browndress a clip (item6cp) which has and a button whhich sets itemnum to 6

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.scrollholda.browndress.itemnum != 0 or _root.scrollholda.browndress.itemnum != 6) {
_root.scrollholda.browndress.item6cp._alpha = 20;
}
}

Blank Keyframes Are Not Blank
Hello,

I have a very weird problem. I've got 9 buttons placed each one on a different layer. Their first keyframe is in frame 3, and in frame 10 i've placed a blank keyframe on each layer. Everything's fine on the project, but the published movie keeps on showing buttons 3 to 9 as if they were there in frames where they are not supposed to be. Buttons 1 and 2 are working fine, and there's no difference from one to another.

It's driving me crazy. I've removed the empty frames after the blank keyframe and nothing happened. I erased the layer to see if maybe the buttons were duplicated somewhere else, but they were not, I've read every thread under "blank keyframe" search keyword, and I found nothing similar.
Deadline is comming close and i lost a day with these buttons. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Open A BLANK And Another BLANK
I am opening a window using
getURL('http://www.website.com/newMember.html','BLANK');

this opens fine in a new window... as I wanted... however in the window I have just opened I have another

getURL('http://www.website.com/terms.html','BLANK');

This time it does not open in a blank window, but it opens in the same window as the previously opened window... is there a way to overcome this? thanks J.

Edited: 05/30/2007 at 12:37:07 PM by jonnybennett

Reset Movie Clip X-position & Y-position Back To Original
Is there a command to reset x-position, y-position and rotation all at once...like reset command?...or would I have to find the original x-positions and y-positions to all elements and hardcode that back....EEEK!!

Many Thanks
Andrea

SoundChannel.position - Trouble Triggering Event Based On .position
I would like to trigger an addChild event when my mp3 reaches a certain point.

My trace statements will only fire if I use <= but not ==

The goal is to add text to the stage when the MP3 has reached one second, what am I missing?

Ultimately there will be several trigger marks I need to hit along the MP3.

ActionScript Code:
var buffer:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(10000);var welcome:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("Intro.mp3"), buffer);var welcomesc:SoundChannel = welcome.play();addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, playMessage);function playMessage(event:Event):void{trace(Math.floor(welcomesc.position));if (welcomesc.position == 1000) { trace("NOW!!!!!!!"); } else { trace("WAIT-------------"); }welcomesc.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, soundComplete);}

How To Position Mc_example Depending On Position Of Empty Movieclip?
I have a series of movieclips (graphics) which I want to position in a row.
I know that I can define the position of each movieclip individually by _x and _y. But can I place an empty MC on the stage and define the position of every single MC with _x and _y IN RESPECT TO THE POSITION OF THE EMPTY MC - so that ALL movieclips will change their position when I move the empty mc?

Thanks for helping
Aribert

[F8] Control Position Of Playhead In Movieclip By Position Of A Button
I am fairly new to actionscripting and just need a little help.

I have a bar which has a slideable block on it. When this block is dragged, to the left/right i want it to control the playhead inside another movieclip.

For example, when the block is to the far left, the playhead (of my movieclip) will be at the first frame. When the block is dragged to the right it will play the movieclip at the speed that the block is being moved and when it is at the far right it will be on the last frame of the movieclip. And when the block is dragged to the left it will play the movie backwards at the same speed etc...

It is just like the scrubber bars that are in media players, but instead of playing an actual video, i want to play the movieclip which is of an animation.

How would I do this?

Thanks

Flash Y Position Converted To Browser Scroll Position
I have a Flash movie that makes an fscommand call to the HTML page, and via Javascript, it moves the browser window scroll position down. I need to be able to scroll down to a position that coincides with a Y position on my Flash page, but I can't seem to figure out how to convert coordinates from a Flash Y position to a browser-window vertical scroll position. I hope this makes sense. Does anyone know how to do this? (I have all the code working to do this, except for this coordinate issue. That's the only part I need.)

Example:

Code:
myMC.onRelease = function() {
//Command to Javascript function in html doc
//Scroll down in browser to Y pos specified
//This scrolls down to 1000 position within browser window but
//but does NOT equate to a Y position of 1000 in .swf movie
//even if .swf movie is at 0,0 left & top margins within browser
fscommand("scrollToAnchor",1000);
};
Ultimately, what I am trying to do is simulate anchor points from HTML (not anchor points in Flash to go 'Back'), whereby you have a link at the top of the page, and you click it and it takes you somewhere else lower on the same page. Then you have a link there that says "Back to top", and it takes you back to the top of the page, etc.

Any ideas?

X Position? Y Position? Differs In MovieClips From _root?
Hey!

I'm confused:

I want to move a movieClip that is embedded in another movieClip:

firstMovieClip >> floatingMovieClip

Now, X = 0 IS NOT the upper left corner when I try to direct floatingMovieClip.

When I investigate the movieClip sets it's X = 0 in the middle. But on _root lever, X = 0 is the upper left corner.

Is it supposed to be this silly way?

THanks!
Regards

Help With Tweening From Current Position To Clicked Position
Hi
I have a motion tweening question-
I have a large rotary dial with an arrow on it, around that are 5 buttons. I want to set it up so that when the user clicks any button, the rotary dial will rotate until the arrow is pointing to that particular button. I can't figure out how to make it so that the dial tweens from one position to the other, which is of course dicated by where the user clicks. I also want that dial to stay pointed to that specific button until another one is clicked.

How can I do this?

Thanks!!!

-Steve

Mouse X Position To Control Movie Position?
Hi, my understanding of actionscript is very basic and I'd like some help with writing a very simple script. Basically the x position of the mouse should control the play position of a movie. Do I need something like an event handler (I'm not sure exactly what these do, but I've seen similar scripts that seem to use them).

Reported X Position Doesn't = Actual X Position?
I can't figure this out. I'm loading a serious of pages of images in the same flash document, but all pages after the first one have a lower y position of about the height of one of the images. When I trace their y position they all say 30, when it's clearly more like 150. What's going on here?

[][][][][][][][.] <-- Keyframe
ok, this is my prob: I have a movie with a 60 frame per second rate. I also have a textbox, with text to scroll. How can I modify the speed of the scroll object? Is it impossible to set it to different speed from the one of the root movie?

Thanks

Something On A Keyframe
I have 20 keyframes and I want a command so that if you click on a certain keyframe it will go to play an animation.
So, if I click on keyframe 10 it will go and play something on keyframe 50.

If any one has any help of some kind please reply.

Thank you very much.

3 Keyframe
I got 3 keyframe. And I want to loop 1 and 2 frame. What should I do?
I tried to gotoAndPlay in frame 1 and 2. But it cause error for it

any hints is appreciate.

Keyframe
Is there a way of placing a keyframe without it automatically joining the previous keyframe. Im trying to place a keyframe then have a gap, then place another one, so that the image appears and disappears continually. Im going this with multiple layers to get that effect whereby you have animation that moves constantly around the outline as it is redrawn.

When I add a new keyframe further along the grid, it joins up the previous keyframe and means that the image is present in between. I have to delete the frame inbetween manually each time which is reeeeally time consuming. I was hoping I could just highlight all the keyframes and keep repeating them. They all end up joining up so you see all layers.

RR

Keyframe ?
Hi, how do i gotoAndPlay an keyframe and remove all the MCs on the Screen which i have attached with AS?

ex: (there might be syntax, wroted from head)

ActionScript Code:
attachMovie('ball','ball1',this.getNextHighestDepth)_root.gotoAndPlay(2);

How would i 'clear' the frame from Mc's but not removing the variables and functions?

Swf In Keyframe?
hello. I am new to flash. I followed a tutorial online that showed me how to make a simple movie that when you press a button a sound plays, and when you press it again, it stops playing. This is working perfectly. My problem is that I want to put this movie inside of another one. What I tried doing was to import the .swf into the library and then drag in onto the stage into a new keyframe. The movie shows up, but it just loops forever and doesn't function.

What is the proper way to include a .swf file into a different movie???

-
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." Robert E. Lee

Keyframe Strangeness
I don't believe this is relevant, but just to make sure:
The FLA was originally created in Flash5 and updated to MX to replace an outdated preloader. When the preloader was updated, the LogoAnimation symbol it contained was NOT replaced. So far so good.

Within that LogoAnimation symbol, there are a number of movieclip symbols which playout until they hit an internal stop on their individual last frames, then tweenfade. Each tween obviously begins on a keyframe, and when the symbols hit that keyframe, they're playing again. Is there a way to keep them from restarting? And is this a new wrinkle in MX or some kind of anomally caused by the preloader or updating?

Time A Keyframe?
How can I use ActionScript to time how long my movie stays on one key frame...... EXAMPLE:

I want keyframe 1 to play for 45 seconds and then go to and stop keyframe 2 then 45 seconds later go to and stop keyframe 3

-Thanks-

FLASHKIT IS THE COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE. KEEP PIMPIN FLASH TO THE MASSES!

Keyframe...frameshtml...help?
Is it possible to have a outside source such as a message board in a flash movie. I have not seen any. For example, I am designing a flash movie and I already have a message board on another url. Is there a way to have that message board show a on keyframe in a flash movie? Kinda like in HTML you have frames and in one frame you have one page and in the other frame you have another page? Thanks all.
-Tim

StopallSound For The Keyframe Only
Hello,
I have a keyframe where is music and I want to stop that music, but not the sound in other frames, how can I do that?
Greetz & thanks,
Big_Boss_Man

Keyframe Actionscript
Im using the current action script to get the arrow keys to move the movie to the next frame but I want it to be able to go the next Keyframe not the next frame.
Can I do this easily enough I have tried also to put labels on keyframes but still couldnt get it to work.

onClipEvent (keyDown) {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
_root.nextFrame();
}
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
_root.prevFrame();
}
trace(_root._currentframe);
}

Random Keyframe
Hi all.
Im once again having problems with action script...probably just syntax problems, but nevertheless I need help.
I have a MC with 13 event sounds laid out with labels 0-12. I want to (either button or frame acion) generate a random number 0-12 lets call it "varnum" and use If (and if else) statement to tell the MC to go to corrisponding frame label. jeeese...Im bad at explaining this
Ok..better...I have 13 event sounds and I want to randomize their play on a particular event. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks!

Keyframe Preloader
Im trying to build a preloader where the bar moves in a circle. the whole animation is keyframed and runs 50 frmaes. What script would i use to runs the loader where 2% would load frame 1 4% would load frame 2 and etc. Im a newbie and any help wouldbe aprreciated!!

Insert Keyframe
what key do you hit to insert key frame in Mx?

I hate doing the drop down insert option over and over...

Thanks

Button Keyframe
When I make buttons they only appear on the 1st frame. If I create any motion tween they only appear on the 1st frame. Actually its regardless if I have tweens or not. How can I make the buttons stay regardless of which frame its on? I've already tried to F6 em. heh

Thanks

Moving A Keyframe In MX
How do I simply move a keyframe from frame #1 to, let's say, frame #20 without it LEAVING the frame#1 there also? Older versions I just clicked and held down the mouse, and dragged it to where I want the keyframe to start. I'm sure it's simple,but I cannot figure it out without duplicating the keyframe. Thanks, Mark

You Can Use A Button Or A Keyframe
for a button use:
Code:
on(press)gotoAndPlay(framenumber);
or

Code:
on(press)gotoAndStop(framelabel);
In a keyframe just write

gotoAndPlay(framenumber);

Is this what you wanted to know?

Keyframe Question
When I import any movie I have one long keyframe. Does anyone know how I can break up the move into a keyframe for each scene?

Thanks

Jump To Next Keyframe
ok I want to save myself some typing in the actionscript area. Here is my dilemna. I have a slideshow of pictures with a VCR style control that that, when clicked goes to the previous or next pic as well as plays and pauses the slideshow. I have the following for the next arrow:

on (release) {
tellTarget ("counter") {
if (_root.count == 8) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 01");
} else {
nextFrame();
}
}
if (_root.count == 1) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 02");
} else if (_root.count == 2) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 03");
} else if (_root.count == 3) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 04");
} else if (_root.count == 4) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 05");
} else if (_root.count == 5) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 06");
} else if (_root.count == 6) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 07");
} else if (_root.count == 7) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 08");
} else if (_root.count == 8) {
gotoAndPlay("Pic 01");
}
}

As you can see I have a list of 8 photos and according to what number the value of the variable "count" is determines the next photo the show goes to.
Is there a way to set it so that it just automatically jumps to the next keyframe without having to type out all this code? Or should I just quit B*tching and deal with what I have since it works already?

-= greendog =-

KeyFrame Brack By Sec. Is It Possible ?
hi
can i brack or pause KeyFrame by sec. is it possible ?

David K.

KeyFrame Brake By Sec. Is It Possible ?
hi
can i brake or pause KeyFrame by sec. is it possible ?

David K.

Stop At Keyframe
Hello,

i created an animation with some buttons inside of it. the animation plays in a loop but i want it to stop at certain keyframes when buttons are pressed.

The animation is a mc called "totwaar". my button is located in the mc "totwaar.inter.redbut" and has the name "redbut"

what script can i use ?

Stop At Keyframe
Hello, i created an animation that spins. I have four buttons that steers that animation. When clicking on button 1 the animation has to go to keyframe x and stop at that keyframe. When clicking on another button the animation has to play till it reaches that keyframe and stiop, etc ...

Now i have this actionscript:

code:
DF = 1
this.totwaar.inter.redbut.button.onRelease = function(){
DF = 14
}
this.totwaar.inter.beigebut.button.onRelease = function(){
DF = 6
}
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
HF = totwaar._currentframe
verschil = DF-HF

if(verschil > 0) richting = 1
else if(verschil < 0) richting = -1
else richting = 0

totwaar.gotoAndStop(totwaar._currentframe+richting )
}

The problem is, when clicking on a button the button goes to that keyframe but then the movie seems to loose the script because clicking on a button then doesn't work anymore.

When the spinning movie exists of 1 tween without keyframes it works but i have to use keyframes to position the movie right and to add a blur.

i added the movie in mx format so there is no blur but can somebody have a look at ik please ?

grtz

Odd Keyframe Behaviour
Hi,

This is my first Flash project, a website for a local band. I've tried to think of a way to explain my problem, but it's not clear. Take a look here instead: unclear_insight

Mouse over the polaroids, then try going thru the link tabs from RIGHT to LEFT. Note the odd behaviour of the images on the right. It only seems to effect the first image touched by the mouseover. The images are instances of MCs. I think this behaviour is caused by jumping to keyframes, but I don't know how to fix it.

If anyone could offer any insights I'd really appreciate it. I can supply the .fla if necessary.

Regards,

Jason.

Keyframe Blink?
Okay, so I'm using Flash 8 and animating a bunch of vector shapes to expand and shrink and move across the stage. Each shape is within a movie so I can add the new blur effect, along with alpha. Most of them start with a zero alpha and then move up to a more visible point, before moving back to a zero alpha. And this is where i'm encountering a sudden change in the alpha that's about like a blink. Anyone know whats going on with this?

It'll be fine as it starts from the first keyframe, going from transparent to more visible, then when it hits the next keyframe where i set the next alpha level, it blinks and becomes much more solid before moving on to the next level of alpha on the next keyframe where it may or may not blink again.

I'm running an animation at 30fps and so i'll ease them in to a semi-transparent point, then move them and make them slightly more transparent over time, then back out.

This is just adding to a problem i already have with enlarging the evil thing and having it run properly.

Any help would be appreciated.

LoadVariables On Keyframe
I have been building this movie in which I have a movie clip, and on the 70th frame of the clip, I have a dynamic text box that I need to load variables from external text files. I use other movie clips outside that as buttons one to controll these actions.

I need the button movie clips to first test if the main clip is on the 70th frame, and if it is not, to play the clip and then load the content. If it is already on that frame, it can just load the content.

The ccode I've been trying is as follows:

Code:
on(release) {
if(this._parent._parent._parent._parent.pagemain_mc.homepicmain_mc._currentframe == 1) {
this._parent._parent._parent._parent.pagemain_mc.homepicmain_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
if(this._parent._parent._parent._parent.pagemain_mc.homepicmain_mc._currentframe == 70) {
this._parent._parent._parent._parent.pagemain_mc.homepicmain_mc.container_mc.loadVariables("aboutus.txt");
}
}
The problem with this is that once I press it, the clip plays, but I have to press it again to get it to load the variables.

If anyone has any advice, that would be amazing!

Thanks.