Flash :: PLEASE HELP: Wierd Problem

Very Very Wierd
i have an MC on the main timeline. then i have it moving into the middle of the screen with motion tween. it works fine, except when it is a different color...there are buttons in the begining that change it color like this

Code:
colorTarget = "guy";
input = "000000";
newcolor = new Color(colorTarget);
newcolor.setRGB(parseInt(input, 16));
now the tween doesn't work...i don't understand.Can anyone help me?¿?¿?¿

Wierd One
Hi
I am using the following command so the return key and mouse can be used to submit:

on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
}

I am getting comment from clients like "press return key and computer is idol until the mouse is ‘jiggled’"

Anyone experience this problem or are they just running slow systems as I have no such problems

Any comments would be appreciated
Ol

Something Wierd I Am Not Getting This....
I am setting a flash animation to play 3 times and then if the cookie's counter i set goes past a certain number and less then a certain number the play head will go and stop to a frame.

Everything works until i drag a instance of a movieclip to the frame i want static .....IT does not show up. i have put text and boxes on the frame and it shows. as soon as i put something in from the library it does not. this is driving me nuts!

Can anyone help i have attached the fla file.

This Is Wierd
Check this out. I created a text document "testing" then i made it a symbol, then i created a simple motion tween where it fades in form frame 1. But everytime I play it it doesnt work check it out and play the movie, why does it do that

Am I Wierd?
does anyone else put subliminal messages in flash movies or is that just me?

Wierd If & Else
Ok, this is really wierd, or I'm just stupid. Either way, I need help...

I have a movieclip (ball) with a button inside. by clicking on the button, I want to be able to swich the balls y-position between two global values (_global.ballNorth & _global.ballSouth)

This is how I tried to solve it, but it didn't work out...

Actions for "root-frame":

_global.ballNorth = 10;
_global.ballSouth = 100;

Actions for button inside ball:

on (release) {
if (_root.ball._y=ballNorth) {
_root.ball._y = ballSouth;
} else {
_root.ball._y = ballNorth;
}
}

When I test the movie the balls y-pos is 10. Then I click on the button inside the ball, and the ball moves to y=100. So far so good.
But it won't move back to y=10 when I click on the button again!

I use Flash MX 2004 on Win XP SP1, so please tell me, am I stupid or is it a bug?
Help!

I'm attaching the file in case anyone don't understand what I mean...

Greetings
Kalliban

Wierd MC's
Hey i got this little animation going on so its easy i got stuck with this my main timeline plays a MC a simple fade in so i give my main timeline some frames so the MC can play., now some frames ahead i want the same mc to fade out but i just can't
i gave my mc a instance, and try the my_clip.gotoandplay (#frames) code but i can't

Here's A Wierd One......
Hi guys,

I had a wierd one and I'm not sure if anyone else has come across this - or if I'm just being a muppet.

I wanted to send some variables to a php file. Easy enough

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

lv.dataOne = "Data one";
lv.dataTwo = "Data two";

lv.send ("myfile.php");

It didn't work.

I tried a few different variations and then thought, lets do a send an load for testing.

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var test:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

lv.dataOne = "Data one";
lv.dataTwo = "Data two";

lv.sendAndLoad ("myfile.php",test);

test.onload = function () {

trace ("It's finally worked!!!!");

}

Ran it, got the trace and also it hit the php. So why on earth did sendAndLoad work, and not just send? I believed that leaving send with only the file to hit would POST the variables to it? Or for send to work do you HAVE to define a window to open?

I've only ever had this situation where I was sending variables only without waiting for a response so I've always used sendAndLoad up to now.

As it's working now it's not desperately pressing, but I have to confess I'm a bit stumped.

Something Really Wierd?
hey everyone - i have an interesting one for you.

i'm loading data from mysql, through php to flash. very simple data. each row in the table contains 4 fields. one of them has a name of an image to be loaded into flash.

i manage to load the data normally. i receive it in flash as a long string with different symbols separating them. i think split the string into an associative array. when i call the data, it reads it (and it traces properly) but it's as if the file isn't found! i'm trying to load pngs, but i also tried with jpgs and it still doesn't work!

here is the code when loading the image:

Code:
for (i=0;i<totalToLoad;i++) {
...load("images/" + mainMenu.groupVars.tG + "/" + theGroup[i][0] + ".png", tempGroupItems[i].hh)
}
the funny thing is, is when i use the following code it works:

Code:
for (i=0;i<totalToLoad;i++) {
...load("images/" + mainMenu.groupVars.tG + "/" + (i+1) + ".png", tempGroupItems[i].hh)
}
** the difference is that instead of using the name from the array, i'm just calling files named with numbers (ie 1.png, 2.png, etc.). i also tried hard coding the file name to the name of the file (ie "thefilename") instead of the array and it also works! its' got to be something with the array.

any idea what is going on!? the funny thing is, is that i've done this SO many times and it's worked!

thanks!

Wierd...
I have created a square button which is the mask of a gradient bar. Now that works fine when i play it i see the gradient in the shape of the square button as it pases, but as it pases the other squares I added after that, theres no mask? What the heck is goin on. The other squares are the same tween and on the same layer. ? Herm

Wierd One...
I have a set of buttons that are buried deep into two movie clips.
>City (movie clip 1)
|
>CityBtns (Movie Clip 2)
|
> BtnRed (Button1)
> BtnBlue (Button2)
> BtnGreen (Button3)

Unfortunatly, due to the animation, there not really any way of putting those buttons into the root of the animation. The OnClipEvent(release) doesn't work either.

Is there any way to be able to utilize those buttons or do I need to go back and tell my art department to redo the animation?

Please help!!

SpecterCorp

Arrays = Wierd
Okay, Im not sure if Im missing something quirky about how you address arrays in flash or if its something blatant Ive missed, but this is wierd. I have an array:

month = new Array();
month[0, 0] = "January";
month[1, 0] = "February";
month[2, 0] = "March";
month[3, 0] = "April";
month[4, 0] = "May";
month[5, 0] = "June";
month[6, 0] = "July";
month[7, 0] = "August";
month[8, 0] = "September";
month[9, 0] = "October";
month[10, 0] = "November";
month[11, 0] = "December";

And then i get the date from this:

today = new Date();
currentmonth = today.getMonth();
currentday = today.getDate();

now i have a dynamic text box on stage called text1. If i say just

text1 = currentmonth;

then it sets the text box = 5 for June. But if i change it to

text1 = month[currentmonth,0];

then it puts in 'December' in the dynamic box. And I even tried just putting in 5 instead of currentmonth, with the same effect. Is their some trick to accessing data of multiedimensional arrays in flash? Or am I overlooking something stupid. Any help is appreciated...

Wierd Problem
this is a wierd problem, i'm having a loadvariable swf that loads bunch of stuff from a cgi script. it works perfectly when i run it on my local drive, EVERYTHING is fine. but when upload it to my website, it doesnt work.

anyone has any clue about this wierd prob??

thanks alot
[Edited by dancinkid6 on 04-03-2002 at 03:14 AM]

Wierd Problem?
I dont know if anyone else has experienced this kind of thing,

i have a project that i have been working on for the last 2 months or so - some pretty intensive code but i am happy with it. So the coding side is perfect as far as i am concerned so i now use Photoshop to create imagery to give the movie a bit of "gloss"!!!

The funny thing now is that when i run my movie, my cpu starts to run at 35% where as before the adjustments it ran at 1 or 2 percent.

OK well it could be complex images that flash is having to redraw at the 36 fps frame rate - NO i checked this

The coding and the layer structure has remained the same as the prototype.

I know it is not the images that are causing the problem because i take them out of the new fla and still the thing runs at 35%.

(there are no cpu intensive animations occuring at all. There is complex coding but this only occurs as the user requests - the 35 % happens when no complexity is happening at all)

WIERD!!!!!!

anyone else have this trouble

Weirder still, if i take the top 4 layers from the movie, then the cpu returns to it's normal state, but these are the same top four layers as in the prototype and so should not add anymore cpu intensity......should it???

answers on a postcard......

gilesb

Just Plain WIERD (possible BUG?)
Hi,

This one is a little odd...

I have a multi-scene SWF.
On scen 01, I click a radio button and then a SUBMIT button. This does TWO major things. and 1 MINOR thing

MAJOR:
1) It grabs the value of the button (no problem, that part works)

2) It sends some info to a server (again, no problem it works).

MINOR:
it goes to scene 02. (no problem it works)

In the first frame of scene 2, the SWF makes a request for some XML from a server. (no problem it works)

PROBLEM:
UNFORTUNATELY and without REASON when I test the movie, It makes the scene 02 request first, THEN sends the info from scene 01 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please help if you can I'm at a total loss, without any answers on the net that I can find. No book I've read/got even mentions this!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP

Wierd Loadvariables?
question about loadvariables, i am sending and loading some variables from php/mysql, kinda like registeration. so its like loadvariable("url/blah.php?name=dd&pwd=ddd",this), and php code reads it, if everything is fine, it returns var like sucess=1 means it suceeded,

so now, i use loadvariables to get this var sucess, but somehow it has a wierd type, i tried to convert it with String(), but it cant be recognized in if condition,
which means like if(String(sucess)=="2") would return false even tho "sucess" is shown as 2 in trace function. anyone has any clue?
[Edited by dancinkid6 on 08-10-2002 at 07:27 PM]

Wierd JPG Loads But Sometimes Don't
Im working on a gallery and on my way i've found this freaking issue!!! i got 3 jpg's named esc01.jpg esc02.jpg and esc03.jpg <-- these 3 jpg's loads perfectly but the ones named g101.jpg thru g109.jpg just dont load !!!! im using this code --> loadMovieNum("g109.jpg", _root.myPic);

can someone tell me whats happening ?

?wierd Problem?
on my website, in the drawings section, i have several pictures.however when i go on the site, the drawings dont seem to appear in the drawings section, until i refresh the page.
can anyone solve the prob??
sims
oh yeh www.geocities.com/sims_web

Quiet Wierd.. But Can Some One Help
The pannel siez of my flash 5 application has changed drastically...
I tried a lot of options.. But it is not returning to its normal size.. can some one say. what's the problem with it??

My resoulution is : 1024 x 768
For your understanding, i am attching a sample gif, which will give u some idea..

Thanks in advance

Wierd Tab Problem
I'm having a problem with my tabs and I don't really understand why, hopefully someone can help.

I set the tabEnabled and tabIndex's up the way I want them.

Then I decided to get rid of that yellow selected box that appears over my buttons when I tab to them by using

_focusrect=false;

Ok so now the selected box is gone, good thats what I wanted.

But since getting rid of the selected box now pressing enter when I've tabed over to a button doesn't push the button.
I know the button is selected because it's in the over state.

If I enabled the selected box again( _focusrect=true; ) it works fine.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Wierd Thing
Hi all!

i've got a mask layer (with animated mask) and beside, i've got 2 layer (pix1 and pix2).
These 2 layer contain empty mc and i load external swf inside it. But, i don't know why, i don't see the mask animation.

It seem that the external swf are place above the layer mask ... but it can't be ???

Can someone please help me .... very urgent

Steve

Wierd Problem
ok! i got this wierd problem , none of my buttons work in the output file ( the swf )

but in the fla they work? i don't know why ?

can anybody help ? thanks in advance

Wierd One With SwapDepths() ?
Hi
I have a strange problem with swapDepths()
I have a load of movieClips that can be dragged around. The last one to be dragged id the highest. When I move forward on the _root timeline all is fine, as soon I move backward on the timeline they duplicate themselves?!?
Can anyone explain this
Cheers
Ol

Wierd Problem
i have encountered a wierd problem... and i cant imagine whats wrong.. thats why im turning to the professionals..

take a look at this
http://www.xylophex.com/eaw

nothing wrong with it so far... but try pressing the digital art link fast about 4 times.. its not just that.. its any link you press fast multiple times...

evrything just starts rambling.. evrywhere.. i have absolutly no clue what is doing this.. all the code is solid and there should be no way it could get past the stop places..

im really hoping on some help on this matter.. i cant have it like this.. i spent alot of hours on this site and i dont want it ruined couse a stupid bug

thnx in advance for any help you may be able to offer..

Wierd Thing...please Help
Hi i have recently started developing the site click for site
if you enter the site and click on the dates or the chart menu tab its loads the text from an external file. But it does a wierd thing of loading some text really quickly that you cant read and then displaying the correct text.

I cant work out where the text is coming from or why its doing it. Can anyone help me.

Thanks
Jon O

Wierd Thing...please Help
Hi i have recently started developing the site http://www.jongurd.com if you enter the site and click on the dates or the chart menu tab its loads the text from an external file. But it does a wierd thing of loading some text really quickly that you cant read and then displaying the correct text.

I cant work out where the text is coming from or why its doing it. Can anyone help me.

Thanks
Jon O

Wierd Masking
anyone have anyidea how you would go about doing a "sun" mask like the one one www.aperfectcircle.com i tried a few different things, but i cant seem to make it loop correctly and such.

Something Really Wierd Is Happening
Ok, I have a symbol that was converted into a movie clip, then a button. I have an animation in the movie clip with a stop action in the first frame, then on the button I have it:

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("Game", "start");
}

except when I click it instead of playing the animation, it goes to the next scene. What exactly am I doing wrong?

This is in Flash 5 also if that matters

Wierd Happenings
Okay, I dloaded this jukebox player from Flashkit that all you have to do is upload the mp3's and edit a txt file to play them, which is great for what I want.

I attempted to add some animated txt to the player to spice it up a little but for some reason when the txt gets to the end of it's animation, the entire player flashes different colors...

I can't figure out why? I've tried several different txt and it does the same thing.

Wierd Bug With My Scrollpane...help Please.
when i preview my swf the scrollpane runs fine, but when i publish it for html to put on my site, there is a wierd glitch. right before the scroll contents show up the site is flashing an image of a blank scroll pane for a second. check it out at [url=http://ihearticon.com/girlgallery] any ideas?

Wierd ID3 Tag Problem.
Hello.

I'm trying to pull the ID3 tag info from dynamically loaded mp3s and display them in trackInfo.text:

trackInfo.text = "artist : " + mysound.id3.TCOM;

It works perfectly for every tag (album, trackname etc) except artist, to which it always returns "undefined." I have tried lots of different MP3s and have made sure they are tagged correctly using a tag editing prog.

Anybody got any ideas?

Wierd Masking
Howdy, heres the question. I'm working in MX 2004 Professional, and I understand masking and how it works. Now I have a circle with a blueish color, but I want to have a mask rotate around the circle to show the color? I've tried making a shape Tween and it looked all wierd, then I tried a motion and it wouldn't work. And I can't figure out to do this? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

[MX] This Is A Wierd One I'm Stumped.
Hello,

I have a bit of a strange one here. On my new site, when you go to the home page (click the brown circle) it looks fine, but if you open up another browser and browse away at other sites etc and then go back to the browser that has my site in it, the text is all shimmery and wobbly.

Have a try and see if it happens - www.boxwellwebdesign.com

Do I need to embed the font? I'm using Tahoma all the way through the site.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers
G.

[F8] Wierd Problem
I am looking into how to use the window component in flash 8.

I have a window component in my library, but none of the scripts I try seem to work.

Could it be the scripts I'm using or what?

Also, any help regarding the window component would be appreciated too.

Thanks,

Jake

HitTest Being Wierd
When I run this code the result from the hittest is abnormal, hittest seems to return a true value when the cursor is in the area of 100, 100 to 200, 200, which would sugest that hitTest beleives _mcBoundry is at position 100,100 when infact it's at position 0,0. In short when I have the cursor over the _mcBoundry I don't get the desired true value.

Code:
class MyClass
{

private var _mcBoundry:MovieClip;
private var _nInterval:Number;

public function MyClass ()
{
createBoundry ();
}

private function createBoundry () : Void
{
createEmptyMovieClip ("_mcBoundry", getNextHighestDepth ());
with (_mcBoundry)
{
lineStyle (5, 0xff00ff, 0 );
moveTo (0, 0);
lineTo (100, 0);
lineTo (100, 100);
lineTo (0, 100);
lineTo (0, 0);
}
_nInterval = setInterval (this, "checkIfMouseIsOnBoundry", 100)
}

private function checkIfMouseIsOnBoundry () : Void
{
trace (_mcBoundry.hitTest (_xmouse, _ymouse, false));
}

}
Can anyone tell me why hitTest is not doing what it's supposed to?
Any help would be very much appriecated

Wierd Problem.
Hello,

In order to allow me test files locally on my own server without appending a cache killer, I have made a class called Config.

Whenever I need to refer to a file that needs a cache killer, I use
Config.chk(nameOfSFile).

In Config I have a var _isLive and the following function:

Code:
static public function chk():String{
if(_isLive) return "?chk="+ new Date().getTime();
return"";
}
When I am working locally I switch the _isLive var to false so that when called, chk appends nothing, then when I put the site up online, I switch the _is Live to true and rebublish the swf.

However, when used online, the function chk returns undefined instead of the time.

Why might this be?

Wierd Happenings...?
I am working with a FLA file that is a map of the USA. Each state is set as a seperate button with the instance name as that state's 2 letter abbreviation. I have an action on each button that tells it to gotoAndPlay a seperate frame in the movieclip that contains a "popup layer" (new movieclip) with specific information about that state.

Here's the REALLY weird thing. Every once and a while, the file randomly corrupts my library and starts replacing certain components with other compents (ie - it will replace my graphic symbol of CA with that of FL, or it will replace TX with my close window graphic). The file itself doesn't corrupt - it just messes with the library.

Has anyone else ever experienced this issue with Flash? I'm at a loss as to why it would do this...

Thanks in advance.
-DarthJay-

Wierd Annoyances
Guys why are these happening?

I use loadVariables to load strings from a text file which contains this:
&x=abc
and when I trace x it says "undefined".

I try to strip off the last character from strings using this:
s = s.substr(0, s.length-1);
and the strings remain the same. Even when I do substr(0,2) the string remains 10 characters long...

Is it my fault or is something wierd going on?

Wierd And Frustrating
Hello all,

Maybe it is me expecting to much, but to me this seems to make no sense at all.

To make a flashapp distributable you kan make it a projector(.exe). But what good is it if there is no set of proper filesystemfunctions. To make it work, there is always a lot of help needed from third party programs. Not only is this unnecessarily extra expensive, but also proofs that it is possible.

To underline there is the following

1 MMexecute is there, but is not to be used in an exe.

2 FLfile is there, but nobody seems to get it working. Also there is an installation needed off the flash development environment.

Most of the times it is needed to write data to a file.
i.e config settings or scores from a game for a highscorelist. I need it to put some vars into a file that kan be accessed later. It also might be nice to build for example a word document to save a shoppinglist that kan be printed. (another customer project)

But to my amazement no of these options are not available without ouside help.

Is this planned for the future or is there some logic behind the choice not to implement these features?

Jerry

Wierd Math
I'm having some wierd math results with Flash 8. Anybody know what could be
causing this?

n1 = 30.1
n2 = 30

trace(n1-n2) // traces 0.100000000000001

Wierd Problem
Zup fellow kirupians got a little problem here.

Im making a CD based presentation yet again, but this time im using mov files for my animations which will be controlled via flash buttons.

Im loading the mov files into the projector because for some weird memory problem flash wont create the projector file with all 12 mov files embedded. These are some 3d animations i created in maya and composited in combustion into mov fiels thanks to our good friend soulty .

The problem im having is that every time i load the fourth mov file into the projector flash acts weird and the animation is wrong its as if the mov is going backwards and the forwards and then plays normally i get this same problem everytime i play the fourth movie loaded its not the mov files its something flash is doing. Is it better to use the attach movie option or what thats going to be my next try. Suggestions are welcomed i need to finish this project asap so i can use all the help i ca get thanks fellas .

WIERD XML Problem...please Help
Ok, I've worked with XML and Flash alot, but never on a MAC. That's what I'm trying to do now. Here is the problem. Say I have this in my XML File:

Quote:

<people>
<first>John</first>
<middle>Charles</middle>
<last>Doe</last>
</people>
<people>
<first>Jane</first>
<middle>Alice</middle>
<last>Smith</last>
</people>

and this in my flash file:

Quote:

peopleXML = new XML();
peopleXML.onLoad = function(success) {
}
peopleXML.load("test.xml");

This will give me value of John:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1])

This will give me a value of Charles:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[3])

This will give me a value of Doe:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[5])

Notice I have 1, 3, 5 for my last childNodes values. I should be able to put 0, 1, 2 respectively in those brackets to get those trace values. If I put a 2 there and trace it, I get an output box, but it is completely blank. I'm completely boggled!! Surely someone has come across the problem.
I made the XML file in Dreamweaver MX on a MAC. Is there some hidden node that it is creating or something? Appreciate any suggestioins. Thanks.

WIERD XML Problem..Please Help
Ok, I've worked with XML and Flash alot, but never on a MAC. That's what I'm trying to do now. Here is the problem. Say I have this in my XML File:

Quote:

<people>
<first>John</first>
<middle>Charles</middle>
<last>Doe</last>
</people>
<people>
<first>Jane</first>
<middle>Alice</middle>
<last>Smith</last>
</people>

and this in my flash file:

Quote:

peopleXML = new XML();
peopleXML.onLoad = function(success) {
}
peopleXML.load("test.xml");

This will give me value of John:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1])

This will give me a value of Charles:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[3])

This will give me a value of Doe:

Quote:

trace(peopleXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[5])

Notice I have 1, 3, 5 for my last childNodes values. I should be able to put 0, 1, 2 respectively in those brackets. If I put a 2 there and trace it, I get an output box, but it is completely blank. I'm completely boggled!! Surely someone has come across the problem.
I make the XML file in Dreamweaver MX on a MAC. Is there some hidden node that it is creating or something? Appreciate any suggestioins. Thanks.

Wierd Loader
can someone plz take a look at this fla file pls

Whats wrong with the script ? the wierd thing is that i have that same loader in another fla file an it works ok..
can someone help me...

when i run my movie the loader just stays there... no numbers moving.. nothing.

thanks., damm youre right.. but the fla Is to big so instead ill put the code.

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
loading = _parent.getBytesLoaded();
total = _parent.getBytesTotal();
percent -= (percent-((loading/total)*100))*.25;
per = int(percent);
percentage = per+"%";
loadBar._width = per;
if (percent>99) {
_parent.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
and of course in my stage i have my dynamic text of the counter
and my MC of the bar..

Wierd Timming.. Fla To Swf
hello ive just made a move... 1900 frames 3 layers..
1 where all my images go... 50 images each on in frames,
2 layer some squares nothing much
3 layer 1 minute loop.wav

now when i hit shift +enter the transition run's great... because the images appear deppending the sounds...

but when i export it to swf ctrl +enter the timming i had on my flash is not the same as the swf.. plus the sound quality decreases

soo mm whats the deal.? any ideas to solve the problem???
if the file wasn't so big i would upload it but is huge.. so if u have any questions just post them.

simple 3 layer movie...
50 image sequence... 50 fps..
thanks alot.

Wierd Question
I am trying to have a picture load from user click using a reference from a link; all from XML. The wierd thing is it works just fine when just previewing the swf file gallery.swf.

However this swf is getting loaded into a container_mc (empty movie clip) and when site is viewed as: index.html -> index.swf -> container_mc -> gallery.swf;
the image will not load into imageloader_mc (empty movie clip).

Any ideas as to why this is happening? I have it traced properly, there is no conflict with instance names, I am using Flash 8. Thanks for any insight.
MT