Listen For Cues In A NetStream :: SOLVED ::

Using FlashVars With The NetStream Player * SOLVED *
I want to make the NetStream player play a video defined "outside" of the player in the embed code so I can use the same player to play different videos on different pages.

I think it's possible with the FlashVars function but I can't get it to work right

something like on this post but with the ns script altered:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=719

any ideas?

* EDIT *

I figured it out. it took some code tweaking but now it works superbly. I will post the process some time later today or tomorrow after some extensive testing. Maybe I'll even be honored with an entry into the "User Submitted Tutorials" section !?!

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Movie Cues
Okay, I'm stuck. Here's what I've got:

on (press) {
tellTarget ("_root.clearStage") {
play();
}
tellTarget ("_root.productsText") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

But I want to tell productsText to play(2) only after clearStage is done playing. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jay

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Help With Embedded Cues
I will preface this all by saying I am very new to the whole idea of using code for anything (I have problems programming my watering system at home and it's got buttons) and I could sure use some help from people in the know.

I'm working on an FLA that has 7 talking head videos w/PowerPoint slides as pngs from a medical conference.

I'm trying to get slides to synchronize with embedded navigation cue points in the video. All the code I entered so far was based on the Adobe article "Controlling Flash video with FLVPlayback programming-Cue point event handling" and I used the code example provided. When I exported the movie all I get is a flickering flv icon on the screen and the following error message:

line 1 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: MetadataEvent.







Attach Code

function cuePointHandler(event:MetadataEvent):void
{
trace("name = "+event.info.name);
trace("time = "+event.info.time);

// Go to a frame label with the cue point name
gotoAndStop(event.info.name);
}

flvControl.addEventListener(MetadataEvent.CUE_POINT, cuePointHandler);

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A Problem With Cues
I had a problem before about attaching external SWFs, but that seems more complicated, rather how can I have my cuePoint code play a different frame for each different cue?


Code:
//This batch of code attaches the FLV from the server and plays it in the vidHolder
//and pauses it in the beginning. The metaData method checks for cues as well
//as provides the scrubber with neccessary information to scrub.
videoPlayer.onMetaData = function(metaProp:Object) {
trace("The metadata:");
traceMeta(metaProp);
duration = metaProp.duration
};
vidHolder.attachVideo(videoPlayer);
videoPlayer.play("http://images.legacynetwork.com/flv/tutorial.flv");
videoPlayer.pause();
function traceMeta(metaProp:Object):Void {
var p:String;
for (p in metaProp) {
switch (p) {
case "cuePoints" :
trace("cuePoints: ");
//cycles through the cue points
var cuePointArr:Array = metaProp[p];
for (var j:Number = 0; j < cuePointArr.length; j++) {
//cycle through the current cue point parameters
trace(" cuePoints[" + j + "]:");
var currentCuePoint:Object = metaProp[p][j];
var metaPropPJParams:Object = currentCuePoint.parameters;
trace(" name: " + currentCuePoint.name);
trace(" time: " + currentCuePoint.time);
trace(" type: " + currentCuePoint.type);
if (metaPropPJParams != undefined) {
trace(" parameters:");
traceObject(metaPropPJParams, 4);
}
}
break;
default :
trace(p + ": " + metaProp[p]);
break;
}
}
}
//Checks for cues as they go and outputs a trace statement as the cues comes up
videoPlayer.onCuePoint = function(infoObject:Object)
{
txtHolder.gotoAndPlay(1);
txtHolder.gotoAndPlay(2);
txtHolder.gotoAndPlay(3);
txtHolder.gotoAndPlay(4);
txtHolder.gotoAndPlay(5);

trace("onCuePoint:");
for (var propName:String in infoObject) {
if (propName != "parameters")
{
trace(propName + " = " + infoObject[propName]);
}
else
{
trace("parameters =");
if (infoObject.parameters != undefined) {
for (var paramName:String in infoObject.parameters)
{
trace(" " + paramName + ": " + infoObject.parameters[paramName]);
}
}
else
{
trace("undefined");
}
}
}
trace("---------");
}

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Dynamic Text Cues
is it possible to make text cues for dynamic text with a scrolbar? lets say you click on some word on the text and it forwards you to some other point in the text (basically just moves the scrollbar). if this is possible, how could i do it?

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[CS3] 2 Cues 2 Actions, Simple?
Im streaming a flv into a swf and the first cue point ("1") tells instance "invite" to gotoAndPLay. The second cue stops the flv on that frame.

I have the invite working but dont know how to tell it stop on cue "2"

Simple right? I have no actionscript experience and this is all I have:

var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.cuePoint = function(cues) {
invite.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

vid.addEventListener("cuePoint",listenerObject);
Thanks

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How To Tell Playhead To Wait For Cues In FLV
I have VO as a FLV that I'm trying to synch with onscreen movement and am getting timing off between MAc and PC and even Older PC and Newer PC...
If I can get the cues to work that should fix.

1. In Flash Video Encoder I can see where to add cues, should I make them EVENT or NAV ?

2. Then how do I word the Action Script in the timeline to wait until Next cue (or do I have to say wait for CUE4 or whatever specific cue name I give)
Can someone type in the correct code for me?


okay more question
Is there a format Flash likes that will keep it's cues or markers from a sound editing program ie soundDesign or AIFF?

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Video Controls And Cues
I have a flash swf that calls flv files using a media play component and cues for graphics. I have the video controls including a seek bar that allows the user to back up, but the cues don't work properly and sometimes not at all if they back up. Is there a way to control the cues so they work even if the user backs up?

I'm using Flash8 but the earlier component to handle cues. The graphics are in a movie clip in the swf.

Is there a way to only allow the user to back up a set number of frames?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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Dynamic Text Cues
is it possible to make text cues for dynamic text with a scrolbar? lets say you click on some word on the text and it forwards you to some other point in the text (basically just moves the scrollbar). if this is possible, how could i do it?

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Flash 8 Video Component Cues
Can anyone tell me or point me to a tutorial on how to communicate with cue points that are added in the component inspector of the flv playback component? I do not understand how to talk to the name of the cue point or the parameters that need to be set. Here is a link to the website that I created: http://www.pkworks.net/ Now I want to make some text come up after the videos play.

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Movie Clip Time Cues
Currently when I drop a Movie Clip on to my main timeline, I set the time of the animation in the movie clip by delaying with extra frames before keyframes. Is there a way to actually set the movie clip on the main timeline to pause for a specific amount of seconds before actually playing?

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Controlling Mediadisplay Cues Through Buttons
I'm a newbie so here it goes.... Intially I had picked up a project from someone else who embedded large videos into a Flash interface that was set up to display Powerpoint converted slides. Here's how it's set up currently.

Basically, as soon as the interface pops up, you'd see a series of buttons to the left (slide titles), the current slide to the right, and a small 160x120 window at the bottom left with the speaker talking about each slide. The buttons, when pressed are set to go to a specific frame (based on the speaker talking to the slides) using the gotoAndPlay code thus showing that slide. It worked well when using the embedded video as the video skipped to that particular part in time. The problem with it though is the audio would eventually go out of sync on some occasions. I read how it's better just to stream the video instead of embedding it so it won't lose sync. The problem I'm having is trying to figure out how to use the buttons to the left to control both the slides to the right as well as the mediaDisplay component. I was able to set up cues in the component and use examples in the help docs, but it is used for controlling the slides based on the cues in the video. I want the buttons to do both, but I don't know the coding to use to get that to happen. There is one more button that was added underneath the video window. It's basically a pause/play button, using "stop();" and on (release) {_parent.play(); prevFrame();}

I still want to have the pause/play capability, along with using buttons off to the left to control both video and timeline. The other thing I thought of was to leave the button coding alone, and create actionscripts for each slide frame label which would move the play head of the video to a spefic cue point or timestamp once the frame was hit. Any suggestions?

BTW, doing this in Flash 8.. but it needs to be exported to Flash 7 AS 2.0

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Using Cues To Display Graphics In Flash8
How do you activate the event cues embedded in video? I embedded event cues at the times I need into the video when encoding it. But I have yet to be able to use those cues to activate the graphics I need. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Or where I can find directions?

Please help. What worked in MX2004 is not working.
Thanks,

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Flv Navigation Cues Not Working In Firefox
Perhaps I'm missing something here.

Using the FLVPlayback to play the flv. I inserted the navigation cuepoints in when using flash8 video encoder. I use the parameters, and attached a listener to listen for the cues o sync animations. Everything works grand, in all browsers.

But I also have a menu that allows user to navigate to those same cuepoints, using this statement:
_parent._parent.videoOne.seekToNavCuePoint("wellness");

it works on IE PC, and Safari mac, but not firefox mac/PC. But the listener gets the cues.

however, this works:
_parent._parent.videoOne.seek(63);

Am I missing something here? A bug perhaps?

thx in advance.





























Edited: 04/09/2007 at 11:50:45 AM by TimTee

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NetStream.Play.Stop/NetStream.Buffer.Flush Called Prematurely
So I've created a custom video interface (based on the one Lee Brimelow created in his Lynda.com tutorials ) that hinges on the NetStream.onStatus events. It uses the Play.Start and Play.Stop to create an onEnterFrame that updates the progress bar/seek functions/timecode/etc.

My problem is that when I connect it to a FVSS/Media Server, the 'NetStream.Play.Stop' and 'NetStream.Buffer.Flush' events are called about 75-80% of the way through the video - yet the video continues to play perfectly until the end of it. This causes some crazyness with my control interface in relation to controling the video.

So far i've tried it on a 3rd party streaming service, and the dev version of Media Server 2. Same error both places. I'm using the simplest code possible (this is the code for the 3rd parth FVSS, hence the extra parameters in nc.connect).

quote:var serverName:String = "server";
var appName:String = "path";
var streamName:String = "filename";

var client_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
client_nc.connect("rtmp://" + serverName + "/" + appName, false, streamName);
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(client_nc);

ns.onStatus = function(info){
trace(info.code);
}

testVideo.attachVideo(ns);
ns.setBufferTime(2);
ns.play("whatever");

If anyone can tell me why those two events are being fired 75-80% of the video when it has clearly not Stopped Playing or give me any workarounds for dealing with this, I'll make out with you eternally. Or just be very happy.

Any information on this would be great - I've scoured all the searches/forums for any info on this, and haven't found anything.

Many many thanks for your help!
-will-

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Jumping To Framelabels Via MediaDisplay Component Cues?
Is it possible to control a timeline using a mediadisplay component's cues? What I'm trying to do is, once the cue point is reached in the video, I want to go to a specific frame label in my timeline. Kinda like an automated presentation. The project has to be done to Flash 6/7 specs.

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How Listen Changes In Dyn. Txt
How listen changes in dyn. txt field?

I use this code:

this.createTextField("myInputText_txt", 99, 10, 10, 300, 20);
myInputText_txt.border = true; myInputText_txt.type = "input";
myInputText_txt.onChanged = function(textfield_txt:TextField)
{ trace("the value of "+textfield_txt._name+" was changed"); };

This works only for INPUT text.

How can i listen any change in dynamic txt field, if i have in my project many btns, which makes after click changes in text in my dynamic text fields?

Thanks

I hope u understan what i mean.

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Why Won't You Listen?
I have a list box in an external swf that I am loading into the main SWF. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get the function to engage on hte main timeline. Listener traces, object traces, but the function does not? I need more brain matter to figure it out, thought someone else can help.

here is the code on the external SWF


Code:
var vlist:XML = new XML();
vlist.ignoreWhite = true;

vlist.onLoad = function() {
var videos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(i=0;i<videos.length;i++) {
myCB.addItem(videos[i].attributes.desc,videos[i].attributes.url);
}


}

var vidList:Object = new Object();
trace("object defined");----------this works----------
vidList.change = function() {
trace("object function loading");----------this DOES NOT WORK--------
_root.load(myCB.getItemAt(myCB.selectedIndex).data);
trace("loading from list box");---------thisDOES NOT WORK--------
}

_root.myCB.addEventListener("change",vidList);
trace("listener is listening");---------------this works-----------
vlist.load("xml/videos.xml");
trace("xml loaded");-------------this works--------------

myCB.setStyle("selectionColor",0xCCCCCC);
myCB.setStyle("textSelectedColor",0x000000);
myCB.setStyle("rollOverColor",0xCCCCCC);

thank you

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You Never Listen
Hi,

I understand the functionality and flexibility of listeners, but am unsure when to use them in lieu of a callback function. Will someone enlighten.


Chris

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You Never Listen
Hi,

I understand the functionality and flexibility of listeners, but am unsure when to use them in lieu of a callback function. Will someone enlighten.


Chris

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My '_parent' Won't Listen To Me
I'm stumped. I have a flash file that loads another SWF into itself in the first scene.

At the end of the loaded SWF file, I have:

stop ();
_parent.gotoAndPlay ("fadein");

Which is supposed to trigger the main file (the parent) to go to the frame 'fadein'.

But it doesn't work.

It looks like it should, but I must be missing something obvious.

Any ideas?
[Edited by aluminumcan on 06-22-2001 at 05:15 PM]

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Listen Up Peeps
im needing some help, its been a little while since i last created a game in flash.

Im trying to use the hitTest method to detect collision with any possible movie clip, not name specific. any ideas? i know hot to do the usual hitTest, but in this game, any movie clip could hit a certain object.

Any help would be appreciated.

Take it easy my fellow flashers ....

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'Listen' For Value, Then Do Action
Hey guys!

I Have a Flash signup form that stores info into MySQL via a PHP script including a username that is chosen by the user.
I am building a function that checks if a username already exists in the database and if it does, PHP returns the vairable: user_exists = true; if the username does not exist, PHP returns: user_exists = false;
How can I use action script to listen for this variable and execute an action based on it's returned value?

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Do Variables Listen?
Hi ppl, been a long time since i posted on this forum.

I have a particular problem.... what i need to know is this can we use listeners to see if the value of a variable has changed. One way of doin that is using the following code.


PHP Code:




actions_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
    if (_root.currentMC_var == "content0") {
        _root.marker1_mc._y = 648;
    } else {
        _root.marker1_mc._y = 708;
    }
};







Now, thats one way of looking at things. What i wanted to know is can we do something like this

PHP Code:




currentMC_var.onChanged = function() {
    if (this.value == "content0") {
        _root.marker1_mc._y = 648;
    } else {
        _root.marker1_mc._y = 708;
    }

};







or any other method with which anyone can do the same thing without using onEnterFrame. cos i think onEnterFrame tends to make the whole thing processor heavy.

Also are listeners only meant for keyboard and mouse events?

Please do refer me to some useful articles on the same.

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Listen That Music
Again with this site (www.widegroup.net) , watching the movie , "K-Pax" , nice movie , with Kevin spacey , i found something familiar, and that was the music... just take a look at this film , and you´ll find this music.

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Listen For Cuepoint
Hello all,

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to listen for a cuepoint to be reached in the media component

tnx

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Listen To Me Game
hi all this not really a game it is an education way to teah the alphabet of the Englsih language
what i am trying to do it play a sound loop ( letter ) if the student press the correct letter on the key board the gets a score else the letter sound keep playing .
i cann't make the sound play and keeping (loop)
see the fla

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Is There A Way To Listen For A Drop
while using drag and drop? im using onMouseMove then i do a if hitTarget inside of that, but it still runs after the hitTarget executes.


Code:
dragListner = new Object();
dragListner.onMouseMove = function(){
//trace(_xmouse+" "+_ymouse);
path = "_root.contributionMC.contributionSPsorted.spContentHolder."+_root.dragId;
if(eval(path).hitTest(_root.contributionMC.contributionSPsorted.spContentHolder[outline[cId]])){
trace(_root.dragId+" hit "+_root.dragId);
//call function to rearrage
ctoolNC.call("arrangeSorted", null, this._parent.id, _root.dragId);

//remove clip
removeMovieClip(eval(_root.dragId));

//redraw tree
buildSortedTree(732, 332, true);
}
}

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Listen To MovieClip
Is it possible to call a function when a movieClip is removed with .removeMovieClip?

I have a movieclip that referse to another movieClip. The first should listen (without using an onEnterframe or Interval) to the second movieClip. And when the first is removed, the second should remove itself to.

grts
Steven

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Listen For Events From Os?
Hi everybody.

Is it possible to listen for events triggered by the operating system?

Is it possible to, with ActionScript, find out if anything is connected to the USB? And in that case is it possible to find out what is connected?

Thanks!

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Listen For CurrentLabel?
I don't know what I am doing in this new AS3 world.
I created a function that gets called when a MC is created. Now I want to wait for the playhead in the timeline of that MC to reach the end of the animation and remove another MC subsequently. I came across the currentLabel feature but haven't figured out a good way to use it.
I had hoped I could create a listener that listens for an enter frame event and then checks it that frame's currentLabel is the one?
Is that a good approach? How would you go about this?

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Listen For All Events?
Hi

I wonder is there any way to listen for all events dispatched by object?

I am creating application based on modules and ech of modules will be dispatching some customEvents with will be handled by ModuleManager class (the point is jus to add module to application and it should intergrame as mutch as possible).
I could create array of listeners in each module, and resister them dynamicly in ModuleManager, but each time I use dispatch new type of customEvent I'll have to remember to add it to this array ;/

Is it possible to listen for all events?

Events based application seems more right way to me, but still It can be done by passing ModuleManager handler function (with will hadle events) reference to modules and run this function inside module with different event types.
What do you think?

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Listen For Mouse Over Mc :D
hiiiiiiiiiii,
anyone know how to set a flag _global.stop = 1 on mouse over an mc... my mc is called ctrl cheers

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Listen For Frame
ive added about 10 different frame numbers that i want to listen for in an array, ive added a listener to that array.. now, i want to add an if statement saying that if the current frame number is in that array, do something. however, its not working like i'd hoped. i need to be steered in the right direction.







Attach Code

var myListener:Object = new Object();
var num_array = new Array(96, 207, 318, 429, 540, 651, 762, 873);
num_array.addListener(myListener);
if( _currentframe == num_array){
gotoAndPlay(96 + 111*getIndex(arr, addr));
};

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How Do I Listen On Several Addresses?
I have a server with several multi-homed adapters. I want to listen on BOTH 80.23.54.211 and localhost.
In fms.ini I have set

ADAPTOR.HOSTPORT = 80.23.54.211:1935,443,80

but with this configuration FMS doesn't listen on localhost.

Is there a way to get FMS to listen on several (but not all) of the IP endpoints on a server?

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_global Won't Listen
I have the most stupid thing: I have Flash site with different .swf's.

_level0: projector.swf (AS2)
_level0.site_mc: menu.swf (AS1)
_level0.container_mc: other.swf's (AS2)

In projector.swf I have a movieClip with 2 buttons for language: nl_btn & eng_btn. Clicking makes the _global.taal change to "dutch" or "english".

menu.swf gets the global and responds, but all the movies loaded in _level0.container_mc won't get the globals set by projector.swf.

Now that menu.swf is in as1 i thought this would be the problem, but changing the _level0.container_mc movies into as1 I still couldn's trace the _globals......:-(

Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

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Listen To A Variable - Is It Possible?
Hey,
Im trying to set up an event listener that listens for when a variable has its data changed.

something like this:

var test = "testing...";

test.addEventListener(variable.DataChangesInside, doSomething);

function doSomething(event:variable){
trace ("the new value in the variable is: " + event.target)
}

is there an event like that?

Thanks for any direction at all

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Loader -- Listen
I have a flash website that has the main flash movie, and then each page is a separate file loaded into the main one. This is all controlled by a listener. Is there a way to add a "back" button to the individual pages, so they call the listen function in the main movie?

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Why Won't The Smart Clip Listen To Me?
Hello,

I have just started working with two separate smartclips in my movie. Now, I have two separate problems!

ONE : Using the 'easy popup window' smartclip, i managed
to get the popup window generated. to test the popup,
i entered a simple website address. then, i saved, published, and found a working popup (to my delight). next, i went to change the parameters, particularly the URL, to my own movie settings.
to my dismay, upon saving and publishing, the .swf only seems to contain the original parameter settings. the old parameter settings remain even when i change the URL to one i KNOW is valid. the new settings show up when i load the .fla file, but they do not seem to be active.
unchecking 'lock in instance' had no effect (though i am not sure its actual purpose).
does anyone know why the changed parameters do not become active?

TWO : Duplicating the 'text effects' smart clip, i ran into a similar problem. i wanted to change the parameter 'text' setting in each duplicate to another word string, so as to reuse the text effect. however, only the 'text' parameter of the original smart clip seems to have an effect on the 'text' parameter of ALL the duplicated smart clips.
does anyone know how to override this power of the original smart clip?

To me, these smart clips don't seem very smart.

thx,

Emceedeus

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My Movie Doesnt Listen To Me
Does flash create a new instance of a movie when you go back to earlier frames on the main timeline? If so, does it's instance name change?

I have a movie called toolTip and a button with a mouseOver event that calls a few things, including toolTip.swapDepths(5000). This works fine until I go forward a frame and back a frame, then the swapDepths action doesnt happen.

Although it is there it is like it is not listening.

Please help, thanks

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Listen To Me...LET'S MAKE SOME MONEY
Okay, I feel sick to my stomach. I'm not kidding. I honestly feel sick because of the potential I am looking at in this field.

A lot of people complain about their jobs or lack there of. They complain about the current market and the recession and what not. Well...screw all that. We've got to go out there and take what we want. We have to generate business ourselves and not rely on someone to throw us a bone and give us a paycheck every other week.

It's time to make some serious money. Why the hell not? We are sitting on the brink of a new age. And WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE RIGHT SKILLS. We know flash. We know computers. We are way ahead of the game.

Okay....listen to me and then seriously consider what I am about to tell you.

Let me first tell you about myself....I am a flash designer...with a background in traditional animation and a degree from UCLA. I have made a couple flash sites, and received some praise for them. Praise to the point that I am now the head flash designer for a web design company in Beverly Hills. Okay...but ....all is not well.

I slave around for a paycheck that is less than I'm worth, and I get a rinky dink commission on any job that I bring to my company.

What are we selling?

Flash sites primarily. However...I have grown disillusioned with constantly making flash sites, and bending to every whim of my clients. The process takes weeks and weeks to complete, and I'm at the point where I'd rather outsource it to someone like you or someone else. And trust me...there are a lot of flash designers out there with talent who would jump at the chance to take on a project. I have no problem outsourcing my projects and taking a small profit for my trouble.

However....I want to talk to you about something else. Something not Flash, but that can incorporate flash. Hear me out.

No one makes huge money in the service industry. You can do well...but doing a service takes time and effort and has a slow turn around time.

The real money is made when you have a product and you can sell it to a large number of people. You maximize your profit, and you can do it in a relatively small amount of time.

Let's be honest here....the most important factor in all of this....is selling something. Selling somebody, somewhere on your product. Convincing some stranger to give you money for whatever you are selling. That is the essence of business, and is the most valuable skill to have.

It turns out that I posess this skill. I say this because my recent endeavors have proven to be quite profitable. I have stumbled onto something that every business could use.

CD business cards.

Okay? That's it. This is where it is at in my opinion. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out http://www.microbizcard.com
They are a company that make these things.

CD's cut to the size and shape of a traditional business card that can hold 80 MB of data. Hear me out...they hold anything and everything. Graphics, text, video, sound, flash sites, html sites....basically, if you can digitize it, these cards can hold it.

These cards have no download time. The person viewing the card never has to wait for anything to load. It's already been 'loaded'. With that in mind,...think of the cool flash stuff you could do without worrying about memory all the time...and how fast the thing loads. The constant 56k modem concern is gone.

These cards have a silk screened image on the front of whatever the client wants. They actually can come in custom shapes, so long as it's symetrical so that it can spin in the tray efficiently.

People can use these cards like they would use their traditional business cards...except they are much better. They hold more information, they are more engaging, state of the art, effective, and impressive. Especially if they contain a flash site on them or a flash presentation. They are the perfect tool for promoting a business and generating traffic to a site. Oh yeah, they launch automatically when you put them in a computer, and they can link to your website.

Pretty damn nice, no?

As a flash person.....you can always try to sell people on creating a flash site or redesigning their current site in flash and then burning that on a card.

These CD business cards can be bought in bulk for a reasonable rate. If you buy a thousand, they are a dollar a card...and that includes an individual plastic packaging for each one.

Are you with me?

Okay, so what the hell am I talking about. I'm talking about making some money here.

In the past two weeks.....I have created a few lists of emails which targeted certain industries. I started off with photographers, thinking that they could benefit from having a card which they could put their whole portfolio on.
I sat in a dark room and copy and pasted for hours and compiled a list of a few hundred photographers. I also hit up some modeling agencies. I then wrote an eloquent email describing briefly about Flash, trying to sell them on getting a flash site, and also explaining CD business cards.
Keep in mind, this is just me...in my spare time....sending off a few emails to a few hundred people.

From that initial email surge that I sent off.....I have received a mountain of response. I'm talking about photographers and modeling agencies from all over the place writing me back asking how they could get some. To name a few.....
-a photographer in new york wants a flash site and cards.
-a photographer in upstate new york wants a flash site
-a web designer in new hampshire wants to outsource her clients photographer site to me.
-a modeling agency in Moscow wants a flash site.
-a modeling agency in China wants CD cards.
-a modeling agency in Washington D.C. wants 1000 cards
-a photographer in central california wants a flash site
-a photographer in chicago wants a flash site
-a photographer in dallas wants a flash site
-a photographer in london wants CD business cards
-another photographer in new york wants a flash site
-a web design studio in california wants CD cards
-a photographer wants Cd cards and a flash site.

THEN I sent out some emails to architects...

-an architecture firm wants CD cards
-an architecture rending firm wants CD cards
-another architecture firm wants CD cards

AND now I'm dabbling with Real estate brokers..
-a real estate broker wants a quote on CD cards
- a real estate firm wants CD cards...

...and liteally the list goes on and on, I can't even keep track of these leads.

And this brings me back to why I feel sick. Because I am just barely scratching the surface of this thing. I am sending out a few hundred emails and generating this sort of response. The product is legitimate and sells itself. My marketing strategy is working and my emails are being well received.

BUT...I need some help here. I need a team of people. Partners. Like minded individuals who are smart and capable and who are looking to earn some money. For example...
please look at this ONE directory I am currently trying to go through to collect email addresses.

http://www.builderdirectory.com

Look at the real estate agents....and just marvel at how many potential clients are just sitting there. I have spent the last five hours collecting five hundred emails from Real estate agents in California. AND I'M NOT EVEN 1/4th the way done with the CALIFORNIA section. I mean, it's ridiculous.

My next industry to target is LAW Firms. Law firms all have literature that they produce about their company which they put out in brochures. They send these things out and spend the money to print the paper and mail off the heavy thing. They might easily spend five bucks a pop. These companies need to be made aware of CD Business cards. They are cheaper and a million times more effective. I haven't even sent one email to a law firm....which frustrates me. But I don't have the manpower...or the time to get these email addresses. That's where you come in.

Look, I just looked at a directory site for law firms..and there are literally thousands upon thousands of firms around the country and world listed there. All of them could should and most likely will be interested in what we have to offer.

Let me give you some bottom line numbers. For the standard amount of 1000 units.....I charge one dollar a card. I buy each card for 75 cents a card...and my manufacturing will go down on that number when I flow him some business and when I have a large order of course.
I also charge a set up fee of 250 dollars to assemble their data, create a master, silk screen their cover art, and code the card to launch automatically.

Therefore, for a standard order of 1000 units...I am making 500 dollars profit. I can do all this within a couple hours. Once I get the order...I burn the master, assemble the data and then send it off to my man at the manufacturing plant just outside los angeles. He handles the shipping. As of now...I'll have to deal with the invoicing and billing and such.

I've researched this industry and have learned that if you can land a large company or big client, you can be doing orders of 50,000 units and up. Companies with budgets for promotions or marketing are interested in something like this. Just brainstorm on it. Beer companies are always promoting stuff....why wouldn't they be interested in some tight flash presentation on a CD business card they could use for promotional events. Movies promote like no other. Why wouldn't they want to print out a few million to hype some major movie campaign. Cruise lines and Resorts send out thick fat ass brochures to try to seduce potential clients. Why wouldn't they want to upgrade to the digital era. We are offering them something that is more cost effective and simply better than what they are doing now. They simply don't know that it is possible. They need us to bring it to their attention. Please, if you have any other ideas or suggestions on markets to target, go ahead and tell me. The possibilities are endless. I'm taking an ad out in the local actors paper. Actors can send Cd business cards to casting agents with their picture on the front and on the inside, there can be video clips, whole photo shoots, a clean flash presentation promoting who they are and what they bring to the table. It's a much more effective way than sending a headshot and bio. Those things get put in piles, cd business cards get put in computers and experienced.

Jesus, this is long.

Okay, so here is what I'm proposing. If you help me collect these email addresses.....I will pay you a commission for every client I get that was based on one of your emails.
I will give you 20 percent of the profit just for getting me their email address. I will handle everything else. I have a mass email program, and I will keep separate lists so that I can track where each lead is coming from.

You supply me the emails...and I share the profit with you.

That is the offer on the table.
Of course, I would eventually like to develop more of a partnership in time.

If you are interested, write to me at zero460@hotmail.com

I can then call you and discuss it all. Give it a shot...what is there to lose? I know full well that I need help here. And I think we can both profit on this.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

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Listen You AS Vet's , I Really Need You To Solve This Prob For Me
Okay, i have a flash site, it's basic, you click a button and the stage ease's to a certain x position where the content lays for that button, okay, now ! How do I tell flash to load an external movieClip when the X position is either nearing or almost at the absolute x position ? This is simple and easy, please help me out, I would gladly appreciate it.

P.S , also when they press another button, it unloads that Movieclip so it wont rest on the stage, and then go to the next buttons content and load that one, and so on and so on ? Any answers or suggestion will be appreciated


AIM: Eyawn Tanaka
MSN: nyong15@hotmail.com
Yahoo: love_meh_or_leave_meh_alone

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How Can I To Listen An Object's Method?
I know how to use the listener to listen the component's event,but how can I to listen an object's method?

example code:

myload = new LoadVars();
myload.load("data.txt");
myobj = new Object();
myload.addEventListener("onLoad", myobj);
myobj.onLoad = function(result) {
trace(result);
};
I want to listen the onload method of myload,but it is no use just as the code above,Help and thanks!!!

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HELP How Do I Listen For Clicks On Many Movieclips
Hi

I am trying to create a set of attached movieclips, which do something when they are clicked. Below is a snippet from my code. The below works if I take out the mc_this.onRelease() = function():Void handler. I need to know which clip was clicked from the handler/listener.

Can someone point me in the right direction of a good tutorial or give me a hint on this code please?


Code:
for(var j=0; j<6; j++)
{
for(var i=0; i<7; i++)
{
var mc_this:MovieClip = this.attachMovie('cloneme', 'd' + dayNumber, this.getNextHighestDepth())
mc_this._x = (i*_global.w);
mc_this._y = (j*_global.h);

mc_this.onRelease() = function():Void
{
trace("clicked on");
}
}
}


The above code is in a class which extends movieclip and I'm using Flash 8.

TIA

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How Can I Make 2 Listen At The Same Time?
Hi there..

got a little localConnection problem...

Got a swf file with this code on frame 1


Code:
mySender = new LocalConnection();
and this on a button


Code:
_root.mySender.send("myConnections", "myAction", 1);
In two other swf files (that I want to listen to this one) I got this code on frame1


Code:
myReceiver = new LocalConnection();
myReceiver.connect("myConnections");
myReceiver.myAction = function(doThis) {
if (doThis == 1) {
_root.nummer = 1;
play();
} else if (doThis == 2) {
_root.nummer = 2;
play();
} else if (doThis == 3) {
_root.nummer = 3;
play();
} else if (doThis == 4) {
_root.nummer = 4;
play();
} else if (doThis == 5) {
_root.nummer = 5;
play();
}
};
stop();
But there's problem with the listening file.. only one of the is listening.. the other one isn't responding at all..

who can help me solving this problem... please help me out..
I've been trying serveral things the past week but I can't solve it

_j

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[F8] Listen To Com.class - Xml.onLoad
I wrote an xml loading class, and am wondering how I may go about setting up my fla to listen for the xml onLoad event. Does anybody know if this is possible?

Thanks in advance…

Implementation:
import com.michaelantebi.utils.configXML;
new configXML("configuration.xml");


Class:
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class com.michaelantebi.utils.configXML {

private var xmlURL:String;
private var x:XML;

public function configXML(xmlURL:String) {
this.xmlURL = xmlURL;
init();
}

private function init():Void {
x = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;
x.onLoad = Delegate.create(this, parse);
x.load(xmlURL);
}

private function parse():Void {
var i:Number;
var key:Array = x.firstChild.childNodes;

for(i=0;i<key.length;i++) {
trace(key[i].attributes.id + "=" + key[i].attributes.value);
set(key[i].attributes.id, key[i].attributes.value);
}

}

}

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Listen To IFrame To See Which Page It Contains?
Hi
I have an .swf that I use as a menu which opens different pages in an iFrame on my page. I want it to listen to which page is in the iFrame so that I can change frame in flash depending on which page the iFrame shows. How do you do that?
Thanks in advance

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[CS3] [AS2] Listen For Button Press
Hi I have a mp3 player in a movie that was provided by others.
I need to listen for the play button being pressed and then trigger some other events.

From what I can determine the button is name PLAY and the button code is


Code:
function audioPlay() {
// ==================================================
// To bind to PLAY button
// ==================================================
isPaused = false;
if (this.Buffer != undefined) {
this.Buffer = "off";
ns.pause(false);
swfAudio.play();
} else {
this.Buffer = "on";
this.currentEntry--;
playlistNext();
how do I listen for this?

thanks
mark

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Listen For Variable Change
I am trying to get my flash animation to do something when it detects a change in a variable (number) that is communicated to it from JavaScript. All I need to do is
if (variable changes){
do some stuff
}


Anyone know how I can do that?

Thanks.

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