Flash :: It Seems Easy But I Can't Find It.....please Help

Too Easy To Find In The Tutorials
Hello,
It's been a little while since I've used Flash and I can't figure out the most simple of things.

I'm using Flash MX. I have made an infinate menu from the tutorial in this site.

Now the problem, How in the world do I link the buttons!

All I want to do is play the movies I have in the Library from the buttons on the menu.

Please help. I'd appreciate it.

Easy Question (I Just Can't Find The Answer)
I know I've seen this posted somewhere online, but I can't remember where or what it said about it. I just switched to AS3 and I don't recall getting this error before, then again who knows.

Anyway, why can't I load numbers in a dynamic text box from an XML document? I am loading an icon and when you hover over it you see a "tooltip" that is supposed to say "3D Work". However, it only comes out as "D Work" and the XML says "3D Work" ?

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

Easy Question... Can't Find Answer...
Hi fellow flash gurus... (I don't include myself in this group, but I'm trying to get there..!! )

I've got a quick question: What happens when/if someone visits a site I've done, with Flash Player 7 AS2, and this person has FP5, or FP6 AS1, etc, etc...

It's hard to test since I've only got one PC, and I don't have faith (due to past problems..) in uninstalling a newer version to install an older one, vice versa, and so on....

Will they be redirected to MacroMedia site, to install the required version, or will they simply watch an empty page, since they can't read the content, or will they see my site, but with some functionality not working..???

Many thanks..

Back Button - Easy Maybe But Can't Find Info - Help
Maybe i'm blind (if i wasn't i will be soon) can't find how to create a back button despite having gone thru about 60 pages - pls help someone out there - if you really want to feel sorry - my tv and cd recorder both just packed up - make me happy!

Find Width Of MovieClip: Not As Easy As It Sounds
Ok, I'm trying to calculate the width of a movieclip on screen. The catch is that inside the movieclip there is a mask. I want to calculate the width of the masked area, _width returns the size of the whole thing, wether it's on screen or not.
How can I just get the width of the section that is onscreen?

Where The F*ck Can I Find A Tuturial For A Nice Looking Preloader Thats Easy To Make
where the f*ck can i find a tuturial for a nice looking preloader thats easy to make bequase im searching for something i can add before this:

http://frankster.topcities.com/asw/asw.htm

i need a nice looking one but dont know how to make

please help me (again)

Am I The Only One Who Find SWiSH To Be Incredibly Easy But Flash 5 To Be Impossible?
I just got Flash 5 I have no idea how to work it and I don't like tutorials

Cosine Function To Find Angle Of Robots Arm For My Game. EASY?
Ok heres the deal...

I am making a megaman style game. I am currently making a Boss. The boss has an arm that needs to rotate to point at your charactor, to shoot his gun. Right now I have a script I wrote that gets the diference in X's for sideB of the triangle and Distant in Y's for sideC and the pathagoreon therom to get sideA. All the sides are correct.

Now for the rotation, I am finding angle A (opposite of sideA) which is the hypotinues.

The function for cosine is: A = acos(b2 + c2 - a2) / (2bc)....Heres my code. Please tell me what I did wrong for the angela. Thanks in advance.

::SCRIPT::

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.sideb = _root.pos2._x - _root.robotout._x;
_root.sidec = _root.pos2._y - _root.robotout._y;
_root.sidea = math.sqrt(_root.sideb*_root.sideb + _root.sidec*_root.sidec);
_root.anglea = Math.acos((_root.sideb*_root.sideb + _root.sidec*_root.sidec - _root.sidea*_root.sidea) / (2*_root.sideb*_root.sidec));
this._rotation = _root.anglea;
}

My 'find' Won't Find Empty Lines And } Now
on 750 buttons I'm trying to go from:
{
Sound01

}

}
}

to:
{Sound01}

by deleting the empty lines and these } using find & replace - and when I hit replace all - it says none found, even though I copy directly from button code...

Is possible this happened by earlier having copied code from AS window - pasting it onto main stage to hold it while busy doing something else - then later double-clicking it and copying it into the find/replace window - which strangely puts little squares in wherever there was a carriage return??? Help please.

SUPER EASY / RETARDED EASY SetMask ?
Ok got a simple retarded question. I have 1 swf loading into a holder_mc and a mask_mc set with setMask but it is not working. There is nothing else to this but so help me it is not working and I know I have to be overlooking something simple but I am just not seeing it.

Heres the whopping 3 lines of code:
code: stop();
contentHolder_mc.loadMovie("home.swf");
contentHolder_mc.setMask(contentMask_mc);

Example attached.

thx

c

Easy Question, Hopefully Easy Answer...
How can i create a grid of 20 movieclips? I would like to have 4 columns and 5 rows.
Its going to be used for a drag and drop game. any help would be REALLY appreciated!!

Something Really Easy To Answer, But Yet Not So Easy
Can anyone tell me if the ; is needed in flash MX because in flash 5 it gave me errors when i never put it in. But in MX it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Easy Question Or Not So Easy?
I am trying to save buttons and movies I have created to the main Library for use in other projects and I am having trouble figuring out how to do this. I am using flash mx. I tried going into program files and flashmx and finding the library that way. I thought I found the folder and exported a file to it and when I opened the folder it was there but when I was in flash and opened the main library flash provides for you it did not show up. Please help this newb.

thanks,

Don

Easy Easy Question
alright i have a movie clip within my movie that will display text, but the text is always different and it loads it dynamically what is the best way for each of my buttons to tell the movie clip to load and then tell the textbox to load a specific file.

_alpha / Easy In And Easy Out
I need for this code a Easy in/ onRollOver and Easy out/ onRollOut.

---

for(i=1;i<6;i++){
theButton=_root["mc"+i];

theButton.thisNum = i ;
theButton._alpha = 0;
theButton.speed = 5

theButton.onEnterFrame=function() {

if (_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe) {

this.elasticScale(150, 0.7, 0.3)
} else {
this.elasticScale(100, 0.7, 0.3)
}
}
theButton.onRollOver=function(){

this.speed = 5;

if (this._alpha > 100)
{
this._alpha += speed;
}
else
{
this._alpha = 100;
}

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe=true;

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].swapDepths(5000)
}
theButton.onRollOut=function(){

this.speed = 5;

if (this._alpha > 100)
{
this._alpha -= speed;
}
else
{
this._alpha = 0;
}

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].overMe=false;

_root["mc"+this.thisNum].swapDepths(5000)
}
}

I Want To Find A Job, Who Could Help Me?
I am in china, and I want to work for a USA company's chinese office.

where should I to find it?

Can Someone Tell Me Where I Can Find...
Can Someone tell me where I can find a site with a promo box(s) on it? you do know what that is right? plz I need to know asap. thank you all, and merry christmas!

Tony

Find The VAR
I'm looking for the way to..

var max = #

what would be the actionscripting command?

thanks.

d.

Trying To Find Tut [ HELP ]
Awright troops i need some help here. I haave an idea and I have been stumped @ the first block

I saw a tut some months back, it was to do with collsion dection. The tut used a COLLISION DECTION MAP. It looked like somthing below.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxoxxooooxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxoxxxxxoooooxxxxxxx
xxxooooooxxxxoxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxoxxxxoxooooox
xxxxxxxxooooxoxoxxxox
xxxxxxxxxoxxxoooxxxox
xxxxxxxxxoxxxxxxxxxox
xxxxxxxxxooooooooooox

With x being the border and o being the only area available , this is somthing that i want to setup. Does anyone recognise this tut?

Cheers

Cant Find The Bug :
I created a preloader with a percentage display. The dynamic text "loadingdisplay" displays the percentage loaded.

I cant find a little bug in this code though. I was tracing the loadingdisplay-variable to find out why it is always showing 67% - from 0 bytes loaded to all loaded.

Can anyone check the code for me plz?
_____________________________________

if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 1", 1);
} else {
loadingdisplay = "";
loadingdisplay = Math.round(_framesloaded*100/_totalframes)+"%";
trace(loadingdisplay);
gotoAndPlay(_currentframe-1);
}

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I Really Need This....where Can I Find It?
Hello,

i am working on a flash web site and i arrived to the conclusion that i need a funtion which i can use this way:

MC.fall();

fall would be a function to simulate the falling of a MC with gravity and bouncing. Does anyone has such function?

Another question:
can i put an enterFrame inside an if statement?

thanks,
Miguel

Cant Find It.....
Hey guys,

i need some kind of help here...

i want to create a menu, for a site im working on, that was posted as a tutorial here at flashkit (i thought)...

ive put an description in the image ive attached to this thread...

the explanation *when you choose for option 3 it slides to the right, next to option 4, and then the image (for option 3) appears...

if someone could reach me a hand here, or know where to find that tutorial, i would be very helped...

any help would help me,

thnx

Can't Find
there was a fla movie with a computer that opened with a red button, then opened the screen with an apple..it had a search engine and everything..I can't find it here and wondered if anyone knew the fla or author ?
maryann_mancini@yahoo.com

Someone Knows Where To Find This
Hello..I have a client who is dead set on having a banner on her site that has the effect of water when the mouse is moved across the banner(not ripple effect). I know I have seen a tutorial somewhere on how to do this but for the life of me I can't remember where. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

CAN't Find It...
grrrrrrrrrrrr..

i made a new movi , 100 * 100 and want to make a picture-move from the outside of my document.. but everytime i test the movie the size changed - and the "outside-world" can be seen also..

how do i stop this??

i have searched the board - but didn't find anything-

paraf

Im Sorry But I Cant Find?
can anyone give me the path or link of animation master and Light weaver...

i just want the trial or demo anything...

thanx

Please - How To Find If NaN?
I'm trying to check for a textfields value, if it's NaN or not.
Nothing works - please help me somebody!

Code:
var tallet = parseInt(text_txt.text);
trace(tallet);

if(tallet!= NaN){
trace("Not NaN!");
}

Could Someone Please Tell Me Where To Find
the program that allows you to take out movie and sound clips from swf files? I had it awhile back, and i lost it when i reinstalled. I've seen some mind-boggling tricks in flash lately, and I would like to see how they were done.

thanks in advance, and have a nice day! =D

Where Can I Find ?
Hey does any one know where I can find a very simpleTutorial with pictures as giudes on

How to make a preloader Using "Frames" instead of "Bytes"

How Do I Find A Certain SFX?
OK, i dont know how you would explain this. Lets see if i can. Ok you know the sfx on the 'hero' shows, where when there is a transition, it fades to neon colors, and the logo zooms in and zooms out. Ugh, its like diddly-diddly-diddly-didly-duh.
Kind of a bouce, cartoonish loop.
I think this was on the original batman show. I dont know.
If anyone understrands what i mean, please send a sfx, or point me in the right direction, or tell me how i should go about finding it.

SHeesh, i am crazy

Thx
-nanascalala

Do You Know Where I Can Find...
I'm looking for tutorials on making RPG's...can anyone point me in the correct direction? Thank you!

Can't Find Something
Hi

Does anybody know where i can download free video's which explain the features of flash MX 2004, about some of the effects and things like that. also the actionscript.

Thanks

Please Help To Find A Bug
Hi all,

Thanks for reading this.

I have the following problem:

On a site, I have a main.swf .
Inside that, on level 1, another SWF is loaded, let's call it child.swf.
The child.swf has in it:
several movieclips, containing graphics, some are on stage from authoring time ( I put them there manually), some are put there by attachMovie.
several textfields, mostly dynamic text.
a button, which reacts on the mouse and with a keylistener on the "v" and on the "V".

All works well, but sometimes, ( and I can't find what triggers it, it seems to happen randomly, and only once in a while meaning I can play the swf 20 times without anything going wrong) something goes wrong.
What I can see from the screendump sent to me is:
- All the dynamic textfields from child.swf and main.swf are still there, visible and functional (holding there values)
- All the movieclips and all the static textfields from child.swf containing the graphics are gone,
- besides that child.swf still works properly (but offcourse you can hardly see what you are doing), so the actionscript still works
- main.swf is still fully functional, still has all the textfields (which are all dynamic) and graphics visible.

This happens on more then 1 pc, so I take it it has nothing to do with the OS or pc. One of those pc's has the latest flashplayer installed. All swf's are made with FlashMX2004.

This only seems to happen with this one child.swf, with all the other child.swf's this hasn't happened, yet.

Any idea's ? Really, anything ??

Thanks!!

PM

Can't Find Something, PLEASE HeLP
I am using Flash MX and am trying to find: the Fill panel so that I can do a text effect... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help!

Can't Find The...
Fill Panel.

Flash MX.

I Can't Find It
something like http://www.botschilde.com/ that effect

i searched everyware but i can't find it

Where I Can Find ?
Fill Panel in Macromedia Flash MX v.6.0...
In tutorials for Macromedia Flash MX
i saw that fill panel but i can't find
it anywhere....
Where is it.... Help

Thanks

Where Can I Find...
Hi,

Where can i find templates in Flash ?
Well what i want is a site already done that we just have to change the lawout.

I know, i'm trying the fast way :P

rhercules

Help Me Find My...........
help me find
i was searching the moves section when day when i came across a nice
trick
the move says look at these 2 pic they are not the same look closely
when u start to concentrate on the pictures trying to find the difference
between them suddenly a loud scream and horrible picture of a monster appear
nice trick is it .
has anyone seen it
i forget to download it and misplace it , searched but nothing
i am mainly after the sound and the monster pic ( i can do something like it)
please help me find it may be you will have better luck than me

searched for days tried every word i could think of ....differ, scream ,pictures , monster

thanksssssssssssssssssss

Help Me Find A Way To Do This :)
Hello to all,

i need some hints about a project that could end up being used in a lot of places.

I need a way to have an swf file play locally (or through an http server) and load content (either by means of loadmovie into it) or any other way around i dont know yet. I want this content to change periodically to suit changes, like product changes, new catalogues etc.

The problem using loadmovie is that when a movie has been loaded, it keeps it in the temporary files so it could ignore the change in the content.

Any way to ensure such new files are loaded for sure?

thanks for any insight

Trying To Find
hi about 2 months ago i saw amessage some where in here about how to do a scroller text .a guy had refered to a site that he had liked and put up alink to it and asked how it was done .the site was like a dj site some where in europe the guy add music to flash sites ..i really like his work but lost his www.address.com. can anyone rember it ....as i looked for over a week now and still cant find it ...thanks for your help guys

Can't Find AS In This Fla
I have an fla (attached link) that when tested seems to be looking for other swf files - but when checking out the fla, I can find where that AS is. I am writing an xml banner ad rotator that plays swf after swf, but this thing is fudging it all up - can someone tell me how to fix this?

http://naturaltalent.cc/xml2/flex4/FLAs/home-main.fla

I posted this in the wrong section before.