Flash :: One Big ? Or Some Small ? Swfs

Mx.controls.loader Is Loading External .swfs Too Small
So I'm using an mx.controls.loader. For the Home button, it loads the external .swf perfectly fine. However, on my About button, it will load that .swf many times smaller than the original size. I don't see any difference at all between the way I built the two files and the code looks fine to me. What are some causes for an mx.controls.loader to load an external .swf a lot smaller than what they are supposed to be? Thanks for your time.

Small "flashing" Problem During Transition Between Swfs
Hi there
i´m currently testing a navigation sistem for a website i´m building.

I´m using the actionscript of the external swfs transitions tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions2.htm and it is working fine.

Basicly the animation is a centered box opening and closing. When you click o a button the "outro animation plays (the box closes) and then it loads the external Swf (witch starts by opening the box).

The problem is that after the swfs "outro" animation plays and the next swf is loaded there is a quick "flash" that breaks the continuum of the movie.

I know the "flash" thingy happens because of the loading process but i want to know if there´s a way of stopping this little flash from happening while loading the external swfs.

Thanks

Small To Large To Small In Actionscript
Say I wanted an "a" to go from 100 xscale/yscale to 200 then back again as in normal tweening, how would I do this in actionscript? Here is what I thought of but didn't work:

if(this._xscale<>200 and x<>1){
this._xscale+=5
this._yscale+=5
}
}else{
x=1
}
if(x==1 and this._xscale>100){
this._xscale-=5
this._yscale-=5
}

Am I Blind..? Small Small Bugg But Where..
maybe i´ve got my eyes in my ass but I can´t see where it goes wrong...
works fine in flashplayer 6 but not 7 & 8

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
loading = this.getBytesLoaded();
total = this.getBytesTotal();
percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25;
per = int(percent);
percentage = per+"%";
loadBar._width = per;
if (percent>99) {
_parent.gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

somebody?

tnx

Big MC Made Up Of Small MCs Not Reflecting Change Made To Small MC
Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have a large movie clip (screen size) that is made up of 30 small movie clips called 'element1'. I was hoping to load a small (screen size) external movie clip into this 'element1' movie clip and knock out the existing content. This it does, but because the large movie clip was made up of 30 movie clips I would have expected after the content of 'element1' was replaced with the external SWF file that the whole of the large movie clip (made up of the 30 small clips) would have changed to reflect the change in swapping over the targeted 'element1' movie clip. All that is happening is that only the targeted 'element1' is showing the swap. Do you have to refresh the screen or something?
Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Loading SWFs Into FLAs And Making The SWFs Transparent HELP
I have a set of buttons inside a movieclip, inside a movie clip (if that makes sense).

When the buttons are clicked I need them to load a content .swf file into frame 2 at at specified position (x=20, y=140)

I also need the .swf being loaded in to have a transparent background.

How can I achieve this?

I cannot include the .fla files for your perusal because the KirupaForum uploader can't upload bigger than 2mb and my zip file is 5.28mb or something like that.

Loading External Swfs Into Externally Loaded Swfs.
ive got some buttons on my main timeline that im using to load external swfs into an empty mc. the buttons are coded with the following:

on(release){
if(_root.currMovie == undefined){
_root.currMovie = "1";
emptyMC1.loadMovie("1.swf);
} else if (_root.currMovie != "1") {
if (emptyMC1._currentframe >=
emptyMC1.midframe) {
_root.currMovie = "1";
emptyMC1.play();
}
}
}

1.swf also has some buttons that load external swfs into a second empty mc. those buttons are coded with the following:

on(release){
if(this.currMovie == undefined){
this.currMovie = "2";
emptyMC2.loadMovie("2.swf");
} else if (this.currMovie != "2") {
if (emptyMC2._currentframe >=
emptyMC2.midframe) {
this.currMovie = "2";
emptyMC2.play();
}
}
}

1.swf loads into emptyMC1 ok, and 2.swf loads into emptyMC2 ok.

when i press any of the buttons on the main timeline, the outro animation of 1.swf plays correctly, but the outro animation of 2.swf does not. is there a way to the buttons so that the emptyMC's unload sequentially?

Navigation Through Flash Site, Old .swfs Remain Behind New .swfs
need to unload the .swf files, not sure how to do this. All my swf interlace with each other

heres the code

Code:
stop();
about.buttonMode = true;
contact.buttonMode = true;
portfolio.buttonMode = true;
var ldr:Loader;

about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, overAbout);
about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, outAbout);
about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, downAbout);
function overAbout(MouseEvent):void{
about.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
function outAbout(MouseEvent):void{
about.gotoAndStop(1);
}
function downAbout(MouseEvent):void{
/*var request:Loader = new Loader();
request.load(new URLRequest ("AboutMe.swf"));
loadMC.addChild(request)
*/
var request:Loader = new Loader();
request.load(new URLRequest ("AboutMe.swf"));
loadMC.addChild(request)
gotoAndStop(2);
}

portfolio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, overPortfolio);
portfolio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, outPortfolio);
portfolio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, downPortfolio);

function downPortfolio(MouseEvent):void{

var request:Loader = new Loader();
request.load(new URLRequest ("Portfolio.swf"));
loadMC.addChild(request)
gotoAndStop(2);
}

function overPortfolio(MouseEvent):void{
portfolio.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
function outPortfolio(MouseEvent):void{
portfolio.gotoAndStop(1);
}

contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, overContact);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, outContact);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, downContact);

function downContact(MouseEvent):void{
var request:Loader = new Loader();
request.load(new URLRequest ("Contact.swf"));
loadMC.addChild(request)
gotoAndStop(2);
}

function overContact(MouseEvent):void{
contact.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
function outContact(MouseEvent):void{
contact.gotoAndStop(1);
}
any help would be excellent!

Compiling SWFs With Classes & External SWFs Attached
Do you make sites in flashYes6

Loading Swfs Into Swfs: Undesireable Result
Situation:
I am using one swf to import other swfs dynamically based on user input (menu with buttons that are dynamically configured once the SWF has loaded).

I built the framework/base (I will refer to this as mainframe.swf) movie in Flash, I then built the populating SWFS in Swish Max (they will be called ad.swf).

When I load the swish max movies into the flash, they show up in the right location and everything, but if the imported movie (ad.swf) has items/shapes that over hang the bounds of the movie, the show up in the framework swf.

and example can be seen here, the issue is in the second ad (CFP):
https://fieldnet3.massmutual.com/fnm...ig002-temp.xml

I want to restrict the visible area of the loaded movie to the original movie that is it populating ( I replace a content holder.swf with ad.swf using a loadMovie). In the movie I am loading int the framework, I have created a white mask to block anything outside of the grey box. This just proves to obscure the buttons, title etc. in the mainframe.swf

The buttons are loaded dynamically as movie clips and I have assigned them to a level 10 levels above the movieclip that holds the ads, this doesn't seem to make them take precedence....

Any one have any ideas on how I can make the movie clip on the edges or make the buttons raise up?

Code availabe as needed.

Allen

Loading/Unloading - Swfs Inside Of Swfs
Here we go...

---------------------------------------------
I have a main.swf.

Main.swf contains 4 buttons(about, portfolio, contact, clients).

These for buttons call in external swfs(ex. portfolio.swf) into an empty movie clip on the main.swf stage.

inside portfolio.swf are three more buttons(print, web, logos)

When you click on one of these buttons they need to call in another external swf(web.swf) and also remove itself(portfolio.swf)
---------------------------------------------

That is where I run into my problem.

this is the code i am using for the original buttons on the main.swf:

Code:
function initMovieLoad(path) {
movieToBeLoaded = path;
if(!initializedExternalMovies) {
initializedExternalMovies = true;
loadNewMovie();
} else {
target.gotoAndPlay('midpoint');
}
}

_global.loadNewMovie = function() {
target.unloadMovie();
target.loadMovie(movieToBeLoaded);
target._y=-130;
target._x= -160;
}

var mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip('target', this.getNextHighestDepth());

initMovieLoad('intro.swf');

this.homeBTN.onRelease = function() {
initMovieLoad('home.swf');
}

this.aboutBTN.onRelease = function() {
initMovieLoad('about.swf');
}

this.portfolioBTN.onRelease = function() {
initMovieLoad('portfolio.swf');
}

this.clientsBTN.onRelease = function() {
initMovieLoad('clients.swf');
}

this.contactBTN.onRelease = function() {
initMovieLoad('contact.swf');
}

I thought I could just place this code inside the portfolio.swf and boom, everything would be set. but it didnt work.

I need to know how to call from the main.swf that web button inside of the portfolio.swf to bring in the web.swf

Any ideas would help at this point. THX

Preloading .swfs AND The .swfs They Call
Hello. I'm using a preloader on my website, the first .swf of which loads another .swf into a movieclip. The preloader only checks to see if the 1st .swf is loaded, and not the called .swf, which interferes with the timing, depending on how fast or slow the user's connection is.

So, how do I make a preloader which accounts for the loading of .swf files called by the _root swf?

Here is my preloading technique:

frame 1:

if (_root._framesloaded >= _root._totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("start");
}

frame 2:

gotoAndPlay(1);

frame 3:

this frame is labeled "start

frame 4: [loads the other .swf]

this.createEmptyMovieClip("main", 999);
loadMovie("main.swf", main);

Multiple External Swfs With Other Swfs In Them
Hey guys,
I am probably the newest guy here to use flash so please bear with me.

I am making a site for myself and my buddies. Well I want to have a music player on the site at all times. All im going to do for now is just play one mp3 so its not that complicated but while reading Kirupa's tuturial about adding music it said that you need to have more than one swf for the player to work.

My question is...how can I load multiple swfs in one main swf.
so this is what i want:
music player loaded at all times, and other swfs loaded whenever a person navigates through the site.
please help me out.
Thanks in advance.

p.s.Sorry if this is a dumb or simple question.

Loading Other Swfs From Loaded Swfs
Flash - 8 : Above is an example of what I would like to do/have done. I've gotten as far as loading the "loaded.swf" into the "start.swf" but my problem is I'd love to use that little loading action I made earlier without copying and pasting into the new movie the same actions for a different link. So, how do I load "loaded2.swf" into "loaded.swf" via the link in "loaded.swf"?

If you need anything just ask, also, any help is useful.

Thanks

Controlling Loaded Swfs, From Other Swfs....
alright on my site, i have a loaded movie clip with sound, which is the main bg music, and i have a samples page, and i want each sample to load up on press or whatever. now i need to know how to not just unload the mian bg music swf, but make that swf go to and stop on frame 3 (1 is loader, 2 is play, and 3 is stop) thanks alot!!

Transitions Between External SWFs - Looks Crap As The Size Of External SWFs Grow
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm

regarding this tutorial I started my site (http://technoportsolutions.com/technoflash/) to get some trasition effects but im getting somewhat different since the external SWFs take time to load. isn't it better to create "intro and outro" on the same time line instead of loading external SWFs bcos once the movie loaded as a whole will lead to smooth and contineous transitions. If anyone ever did something better or how can I use some transition effects (like intro and outro) without using external SWFs ? is my current problem.

Transitions Between External SWFs - Close Button For External Swfs
I recently created a site using the "Transitions between External SWFs" tutorial for Flash MX 2004. I use this to load the sections of my site into the main movie file. Each section is an External SWF file. When a viewer clicks on a navigation button, the specific external swf move will load and play. Currently, a viewer would need to click on another navigation option to close the current external swf file. I would like to add a close button to each of the external swfs so that a view has the option to close the window without clicking on a naviagtion link. Anyone have any suggestions? I am fairly new to actionscript and not quite sure how to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance for you help!
-RhynoDesign

SWFs Controlling Other SWFs?
I am working on a pretty simple menu and have come across a layout issue. As is, I have the buttons display an icon in a "fire circle" at the top of the menu bar when rolled over. It would be great though if I could have 2 SWFs: One which contained all the buttons and another with that "fire circle" (see link). Buttons.swf would of course have to tell FireCircle.swf to "on rollover goto frame x in scene x". Is this possible? So I guess my question is can you have one swf file control another?

Here is an example of the menu bar, as one swf, if you need to visualize it: http://www.blownheadlight.com/menu.swf

Thanks.

Controlling Swfs With Other Swfs
I am trying to make one main SWF movie that calls on other individual SWF movies (one being a "menu" movie). The catch is that I want the main movie to tell the menu movie where it is and have the menu movie button that corresponds to that section of the main movie to show the button in an "over" state.

Loading Swfs Into Swfs...
this may be a silly question but i've tried a few different things and i seem to be stuck... i was wondering what the proper action and/or path was for loading a swf into another swf in the same dreamweaver document... i have buttons on the left and an empty movie clip on the right and i'm trying to make the buttons on(release) load the little movie clips into the empty mc... they are separate flash files in one dreamweaver document...

any help would be much appreciated...

Swfs In Swfs (mx2004pro)
hey,
Im probally being stupid but i cant add a swf in another swf.

I have a little application where you click "games" and i want a swf of my game to load up.

Grrr!!

please help

cheers guys

Swfs Talking To Swfs...
I need some help!!!

I have a main movie (we'll call it swf1) that loads an external swf (swf2). I want to to work that when you click a link in swf2, it loads a new swf (swf3) into swf1 (swf3 doesn't replace swf2, it loads in addition to it).

Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions or help anyone could provide would be GREATLY appreciated!

AS2.0 Swfs Inside AS3.0 Swfs?
is it possible to load in swfs that run off of AS 2.0 into AS 3.0 swfs?

what happens? does the flash player allow this? my guess is if it is allowed, the 2.0 swfs cannot communicate with the 3.0 swfs. (which is fine for what i'm doing)

ty in advance

Loading AS3 Swfs Into AS2 Swfs?
I have some ActionScript 2.0 swfs that I (now that we have AS3) would like to load ActionScript 3.0 swfs into.

Code:
fscommand("fullscreen", "true");

function firstRun() {
firstRunSO = SharedObject.getLocal("firstRun");
if (firstRunSO.data.firstRun == undefined) {
trace("This is the first time the program has run");
System.showSettings(1);
firstRunSO.data.firstRun = false;
success = firstRunSO.flush();
stop();
} else {
trace("This is not the first time the program has run");
}
if (success) {
trace("Write successful");
}
}

firstRun();

var theMapMovie = this.createEmptyMovieClip("theMapClip", this.getNextHighestDepth());
theMapMovie._xscale = 80;
theMapMovie._yscale = 80;
theMapMovie._x = 200;
theMapMovie._y = -40;

var theChartMovie = this.createEmptyMovieClip("theChartClip", this.getNextHighestDepth());
theChartMovie._xscale = 80;
theChartMovie._yscale = 80;
theChartMovie._x = 200;
theChartMovie._y = 200;

loadMovie("maps/milestonemembers_map.swf", theMapMovie);
loadMovie("Charts/SpreadSheet.swf", theChartMovie);

stop();
The milestonemembers_map.swf (AS2) loads fine but the SpreadSheet.swf (AS3) doesn't. Can this even be done. Did I overlook that in the release notes? Will I have to re-write all my AS2 apps?

Thanks.

Small A.I.?
has anyone written a small A.I. for somthing like Tic Tac Toe? If you have would you please send it to me. I would really like to see this done.

500 Small Swf's Or 1 Big .exe : What Is Best?
Your valued opinion is needed here (yes yes, yours too)!

I have a client that wants an interactieve CD-rom with lots of text, about 45 videos and 500 pictures (nope, no typing error, that's really five hundred).

They also want to have some copyright protection on these pictures. I have made up a little scheme but if you got any ideas, shoot! My idea is to put every picture in a swf of its own (together with a little protection through AS) and load these swf's into the main file (menu/navigation) when needed.

A second idea I have is to put all of the pictures in different scenes of the main file (menu/navigation) and wrap up the whole presentation in one exe-file.

Whaddayathink? What's best, what are possible problems or difficulties, any ideas or experiences you might want to share... Do tell me folks, do tell me!!!

Thanks already

Dubya

Ive Got A Small Job For You
ok does anybody want a small job.
this job will test your talents to the max.
i need a password app and im willing to pay for it.

any help apply within. heheh

Anyone Want A Small Job?
First apologies if i'm not meant to post this in here (moderators please move if neccessary).

I have a project that i'm doing for a cd but I need to print out the full contents of what is loaded into a scroll pane.

Currently we have it working (using flash mx) but if there is a lot of content in the scrollpane it squeezes the text down to fit on a page, what I need it to do is print the content of the scrollpane over serveral pages if neccessary.

I've heard on here that you can do it with flash mx 2004 using printjob, but I only have flash mx and can't justify the expense of upgrading for one project.

If anyone is interested (who has flash mx 2004) in doing this small job for me , I will pay well (especially as it is a rush job and over the xmas period) - i've uploaded a zip file to here if anyone wants to take a look and give me a price it would be appreciated.

Like I said this is a very rush job so I would need it back in the next 3 days max.

Apologies once again if I have posted this in the wrong forum

Small Bug
Well... see, my problem is a relatively simple one. I'm building a battle simulator, and I want to be able to enter two text boxes, one to determine your army's size and the other to determine your enemy's army size.

After you do this, you go ahead to the next frame, and theoretically a piece of ActionScript in the next frame should duplicate a movieclip as many times as you entered for each army.. Each of those movieclips being a soldier, and there's two different movie clips, one for either army's soldier.

However, I'm experiencing a strange problem. When I enter the army sizes, only one of them will duplicate as much as you entered in. The other will only stay at the one movie clip that I put in on that frame.

So, to give you an idea of what happens...

I enter five at the first text box(my army), click the button to go to the next frame. I enter five at the next text box(enemy's), and click the button to send me to the next frame, which is the combat frame. Only my enemy's army has five. My army consists of one single soldier... a bit unfair to my side I'd say. However.

I enter five at the first text box, and enter nothing at the second. When I click to the next frame, my army now has five soldiers while the enemy has only one.

Help please? I'll post up the code as soon as possible.

Note: The only reason that that one soldier is there is because I put one soldier from each army there in the creation, just for reference purposes. I suspect that if I didn't have it there nothing would show up at all.

Small Q
if i create close button i writ this script

on (release, releaseOutside)
{
getURL("FSCommand:quit", "true");
}
on (rollOver)
{
showTips("exit");
}

on (rollOut)
{
hideTips("");
}
*************************
but if i need to make minimize button how can i make it
plz hope to help

Small Job
I'm looking for someone to swap out about 15 pictures on my website. www.ecclesine.com.

All .fla's are very nicely organized. Shouldn't take too long - a few hours tops.

Looking for someone who can turn it around fast and do it right. Pay is $125.

If interested please email me patrickecclesine@yahoo.com

Need A Big Map Small Map Example.
I need an example of the 'big map small map' Flash application.
i.e. where you have a small map, drag a small box around on the small map and have the big map move around.

I have a few examples, but the coding behind it looks much more complicated than necessary. And I'm sure using MX code it should be much simpler.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM

Help On A Small Help Pls...
hw can i gave an action 2 goo 2 the next scene.. :S?
and how cna i gave the print action also.. :S?

Small Bug
in this flash presentation, I have a FLA called nav.fla

You can see the presentation here:
http://www.redwooddesign.com/staging...e/staging.html

The nav works fine in every case except the first instance of hitting one of the navs... IT DOES NOT FADE IN THE TOP TITLE BAR as it should. The top title bar is a home button so you can see how it is supposed to work if you click back home using it, then click another bottom nav, and you will see the correct fade in. The code looks something like this:

if (_root.home) {
_root.home = false;
gotoAndStop("in");
}
else {
_root.home = false;
gotoAndStop("up");
}
}

Like I said the FLA is called nav.fla

everything is posted to
http://www.redwooddesign.com/staging/asealslife/

Any help is much appreciated. This minor bug is killing me!

Jason

HELP For Small XML Fla
Can someone take a look at my fla.
I can't display the information from the XML into the swf.
I've made a dynamic txt field where i want to display the data but it doesn't seems to work the way i want it to.

TIA

Small One...
It's a doubt of mine, i have a table that occupies more space then the size of my swf. So, the solution would be to put a scroll bar, right? But how do i make it? Just to have sure, i already tied with the UIScrollbar, but obviously it didn't work...

So, anybody can help me out here? Is it any other component, like... Scroll Pane? How does it work?

What do i have to do to put a scroll bar on that table, so that the user can scroll up and down?...

Thanks in advance!

Help With A Small Map
Hi, im pretty much a complete noob with flash but can follow a simple-ish tutorial.

Im using flash 8

Basically what i want to know how to do is, make each island on my small map highlight in some way like change colour for example and some text appear in a space to say the island name and for the island to be clickable to go to a html page about that island.

this is the map i will use (probly), its not a true geographical map as i have changed the spacing of the islands but its kept its basic shape and makes it better for what it has to do - http://www.capeverdebreaks.com/CapeVerde-new.jpg

and this and is basically what i want it to be like http://www.usflashmap.com/samples/xm...index_ext.html

so if you imagine each continent which changes colour with a mouse over is one of the islands in my map.

I hope you understand and looking forward to finding out how it would be done.

Thankyou.

Need A Small Help
HI,

This is the first time i am posting a new thread......

I just need a little help for scripting.......

I am new for Action scripting so i had prepared a layout in flash
and i have put in a Mp3 sound track on stage now i need to put a
sound on/off button, i am able to activate the off button but putting
"all sound off" but i don’t know how to turn it on. But i also want that music to run in the background when the flash is open......

Please help!!!!!!

I know its a very small thing for you guys but difficult for me as i am new to the scripting part....

Small Question Plz ?
Hi guys
I wanna make mask on image and make that mask follow the mouse ... ???
Plz Help me ..

Small But V.V.V Urgent Help::::::
i have mc on frmae 6 of main time line.in this mc i have a button with action on release ,tell target _root gotoand stop at 7(similar code),and it works fine and goes to frame 7 of maintime line.but when i put the same action on the button inside an diff Mc in frame 7 it doesnt work.What could be the reason??? I tried putting this button on the top frame of the Mc also,but no use???

2 More Problems (small)
is there a way to close the flash player from within flash?
can i have a quit button?
i tried searching for close, quit, release, exit.. no luck.

the other problem i am having.
my movie is set up so that u answer questions, get a score, then, it reads ur score and sends u to a new scene depending on what u scored. if u scored between 0-3 u go to scene 2, between 4-6 u go to scene 3, 7-9 scene 4, 10 scene 5.
ok, so in each scene there is 1 frame, 3 layers, 1 layer is the code: stop and the background image, next frame is text, next frame is an MC with sound inside it and a small animation.
scene 2 0-3 works perfectly, scene 3 4-6 works fine except that the sound from 0-3 plays alongside the sound from 4-6, then in scene 4 7-9 the sound from 0-3, 4-6 and 7-9 all play alongside each other. it continues with scene 5 but im guessing u get the idea.
anybody know how to help this?
thanks.

All I Want Is A Small Window.......
Right. I have a flash site which has a link to open up a new window in which there is a Qt movie. I have worked out how to do everything except specify the size of the new window. I want the new window to be small, not much bigger than the movie, and also would like it to have no button bar etc.

I assume that you specify this in the actionscript area for the button that opens this new window.... the same place as where you specify "_blank". Unfortunately i only worked this out by guessing, so i don't know how to do the rest. My HTML and actionscript knowledge is somewhat limited.....

Can ya help me?

BTW the site is here: http://www.nuoptik.com/gu/flash.html

If you go to the "video clips" area and hit the "view trailer" button you will see what i mean.

Cheers

Small Banner
I was wondering how some of you add a small flash banner with your reply !!!!

Small But V V V Urgent
i have two frame on main timeline in first keyframe i have a mc .Inside this mc i have a arrow clicking which i want to go to maintimeline's 2nd frame.None of these is working::
_root.gotoAndStop(2); ***** _parent.gotoAndStop(2),i even tried labeling the frame but no use.
What should i do?(note: the mc does not exist on the 2nd frame of the main time line.)