Flash :: Oh, Mr And Ms Wizards ...

This Should Be EASY For You Wizards :)
Guys,

Is there a script, Java, ACtion or otherwise that checks to see if the user is browsing from Microsoft Internet Explorer or from Netscape, and/or maybe even an AOL browser, and directs them to a certain html document accordingly? I'm sure there is. Steer me in the right direction some good samaritan.

Thanks,
Marc

Flash Wizards Help
Hi All,

Can anyone pls teach me how to disable the "Print Screen" keyboard button. Meaning the user cannot capture screen shots of the flash presentation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Louie

[F8] Need Some Help From Flash Wizards
I am wanting to put a flash php mail form on my site and found a great one in the movies section that has anti-flood. I got it to work for me no problems, now when I put the library files into another movie it stops working, it just hangs on the preloader. It also does it when I created an empty movie symbol and put the files inside, figured that I could just take the one compact movie from the library and put it my slide system. I think it has something to do with naming of variables or an instance but I have no clue how to go about making it work. I am trying to put the mailer form on the bottom slide. I would also like to lose the preloader for it as the main swf will have a preloader, tried to lose it and it stopped working.
I can be reached at xcloths@telus.net if anyone is gracious enough to help me out.
Stephen

Calling All AS Wizards
On my webiste home page I have some text that says welcome and is alwas scrolling to the left. Right night now it's done using frames. I also have a gradient bar at the bottom.

link: http://keepitmovindesigns.com/KIM_WEB_V3_reset.html

Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating these effects using AS, or just a better way to do this. They're really slowing down my site.

Here is an fla example for the gradient bar, If you need to know how i did it.

Thanks in advance
Pharoh32

Preloading Wizards Need Here
Hello guys i need help with my preloader. Well my preloader works fine with .swf file but wheni upload it to the web the preload doesnt load. Instead the browser loads blankly !
Any solutions ??
Thanx a lot !

Preloading Wizards Needed Here
Hello guys i m newbie in flash and made a preloader and uploaded it on the web. The problem is that the preloader doenst work and the browser blankly loads the page.
Thanks a million !

Should Be Simple For You Flash Wizards Out There
working on a flash/coldfusion app and have a problem i can't make heads or tails of. here's what's happening:

i am calling the db with a method that returns the status of a particular module, and the timestamp of the completion of this module (if completed).

the problem comes when i try to put this timestamp into a Date object.

the timestamp is a string of the format "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:mmm" and returns correctly from the database. Right now my code goes as follows:
lfyear = Number(getStat1VarsOut.TS.substr(0,4));
lfmonth = Number(getStat1VarsOut.TS.substr(5,2))-1;
lfday = Number(getStat1VarsOut.TS.substr(8,2));
lfdate = new Date(lfyear,lfmonth,lfday);

when debugging, i see the correct values of the variables, but when i later trace the values of lfdate, separated by dashes, i get "--" (should be in format "yyyy-mm-dd"). if i hardcode that last line of code to be 'lfdate = new Date(2004,5,2);' then the trace correctly shows "2004-5-2".

any ideas why this date object won't initialize with variables? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

i am working in flash mx pro 2004 with flashplayer 7.

thanks.

Math Wizards Needed (F8 & F9)
I have been messing with some math that is a little over my head and figured that some smart peeps could help me out hopefully

I am dynamically drawing a line which two end points which are (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2) …

… arrow attaches to the last end point and is rotated relative to the direction of the line…

PHP Code:

arw.onEnterFrame=function(){
    arw._rotation = Math.atan2((Y2 - Y1),(X2 - X1)) * ( 180 / Math.PI );

.....

I really am confused how I could get the arrow to drop in the middle of the line between (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2)

I have been trying to work this Pythagoras theorem into it….

PHP Code:

arw.onEnterFrame=function(){
    arw._rotation = Math.atan2((Y2 - Y1),(X2 - X1)) * ( 180 / Math.PI );
        xdist = Math.round(X2 - X1);
        ydist = Math.round(Y2 - Y1);
        distancefromthis = Math.round(Math.sqrt((xdist*xdist) + (ydist*ydist)));
        trace(distancefromthis);

    }

this gives me the distance and all I need is an X and Y coordinate for a point that is half of the number from the highlighted variable above.

Anyone have any suggestions.

Any Math Wizards Out There? Need Drawing Help...
I'm drawing a parabola between three points controlled by sliders, but I need to extend the ends of the parabola off the graph and can't figure out how to keep the same intersection points and extend the graph...

Any math experts out there that can give me the formula??

Code:
para_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.p0._y = this._parent.sliderPara_p0.slide._x*5;
this.p1._x = this._parent.sliderPara_p1.slide._x*5;
this.p2._x = this._parent.sliderPara_p2.slide._x*5;
if ((this.p1._x)<(this.p2._x)) {
this.p0._x = (this.p2._x/2)-(this.p1._x/-2);
} else {
this.p0._x = (this.p1._x/2)-(this.p2._x/-2);
}
clear();
lineStyle(1, 0, 100);
moveTo(this.p1._x+this._x, this.p1._y+this._y);
curveTo(this.p0._x+this._x, (this.p0._y*2)+this._y, this.p2._x+this._x, this.p2._y+this._y);
this._parent.display_a = (this.p0._y*2)/100;
this._parent.display_p = (this.p1._x*2)/100;
this._parent.display_q = (this.p2._x*2)/100;
};
Thanks!!

ActionScript Wizards Alert
Who has the ActionScript genius to create a function that listens and tracks all UI events, ie. mouse clicks, key presses, idle time, I.R. input, etc.

Ho Ho Ho not me.

Any takers?

Even abstract suggestions and pseudo code, provided it is wizard-like, (more like Gandalf, not Hairy Potter), will be appreciated.

An Interesting Challenge For You Flash Wizards
ok heres the situation....

ive got this great php form which ive used b4 on other projects, but this time im using it inside a movie clip.

Now when the user fills out the form and presses the submit button.... it doesnt work.

What im trying to achieve is that once the form is filled out u recieve a javascript alert saying "your message has been sent" and all the fields clear.... or if an email address is not entered the u get javascript alert saying "you must enter ur email address".

This is the code im using on the submit button which is in the movie clip along with the form :

on (release) {
if ((vemail.indexOf("@") != -1) && (vemail.indexOf(".") != -1) && (length(vemail)>5)) {
action = "Send";
loadVariablesNum("mailform.php", 0, "POST");
getURL("javascript:alert('You message has been sent');");
name = "";
company = "";
email = "";
telephone = "";
comments = "";
} else {
if (vemail == "") {
getURL("javascript:alert('You must enter you email adress');");
}
stop();
}
}

Hope u can help....

Thanx

Help Actionscript Wizards Simple Problem Needs Solved
Hi all
Can youse help me solve this problem
i have a button with audio that is taken into dreamweaver ...
i want it so that when teh user clicks audio will be played .....which is inserted into the button........but i need teh audio to play for a short while and then teh button to take the user to the desired link ...
at the moment this is what i have

a button on layer one

with the following applied to the layer

play ();

then on the layer above

stop ();

a 15 frames later

getURL ("crocodile.htm");

crocodile is the url i want it to go to.
this goes to it ok but even if i do not click on this button then it will automatically jump to the url link anyway
.....can anyone out there let me know what is wrong
or the correct actionscript...for it
i think there should be a if or when statement....don't know
anyone know a quick fix
pretty urgent thanks

Question For Flash Gurus/popes/Wizards
Hi,

I've got a problem for which I've been trying to find a solution for quite some time now but nobody had been able to help me so far.

It's about the FUI Message Box component. To change the title text color i could use the following code:

globalStyleFormat.FMessageBoxTitleText = new TextFormat( "Arial Bold", 15, 0xffffff);
globalStyleFormat.applyChanges();

But when i embed fonts with the following code, the title text disappears completely?!?!

globalStyleFormat.embedFonts = true;
globalStyleFormat.FMess..........
etc...

Has any of you Flashwizards outthere any idea???

>> XML Newbie Requires Assistance - Calling All XML Wizards <<
Hello All,

Does anyone have a clue how to change the xml flash photo gallery here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow.htm -

to allow for the photos to be resizeable, or for horizontal and vertical photos to arrive at different designated coordinates. This has been driving me crazy for days. Would appreciate some help. I'm an html and css wiz, but this xml stuff is pretty new to me. Thankya

Strange Scroll Bar Problem.....Calling Action Script Wizards
I am experimenting with setting up a guest book using Flash.

Everything works fine; sending the variables from the guest book form, writing to a text file, returning them to text box, EXCEPT the scrollbar does funny things?!! Any suggestions would be helpful.

I have posted a zip with the files here:

http://www.siddhu.com/weirdScroll.zip

The folder named "scrollbarOKAY" has the scrollbar I would like to use. It loads the associated text file without problem.

The second folder "php-load", contains the FLA with the scrollbar set to receive the output from the PHP script.

You can test this by uploading the "php-load" folder to your server and calling the SWF. The PHP script calls the data stored in "GuestBook.txt" and loads it into the SWF.

However, the scrollbar goes does not behave correctly. It goes funny even when it is tested without the script running.

Where has the code/logic gone wrong??? I would love to know.

All help appreciated to the maximum.