Flash :: Problem Coding Button Over Frame By Frame Animation

Next Frame & Previous Frame Coding Help
Im basically creating a special flash photo app, where there will be the main area where the image loads, then there will be 2 arrows below, 1 going left the other going right. So a main window, and 2 arrow buttons beneath, quite simple. But my problem is, Im having trouble finding that coding to goto the "next frame" or the "previous frame) so i could put that coding on the buttons. Fairly easy, i just cant find the AS references for this sort of coding.

Basically I will be taking photos of this client's product going 360 degree's around the object. Now I've seen apps on threads on these forums with regards to creating apps in the same sort of way, that can be controlled frame-by-frame with some simple actionscripting, any examples, tutorials, .fla's or even links to helpful threads would be great ! thnx.

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Tips On Frame By Frame Animation (the Traditional Way)
So.. any tips? I've seen a lot of ppl do better stuff and more entertaining stuff by frame by frame animation.

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Shape Tween Or Frame By Frame Animation?
i want to make a horse morphing into an airplane...
i am not sure what the shape tween can do this or not..?
or i hav to do it using frame by frame animation... ...?
and if shape tween can do... how detailed the horse can be...? or is it just a silhouette?

Anyone can give me any example or reference?

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Fastest Way To Make Frame By Frame Animation?
My problem is pretty simple.

I have converted animated sprites straight from a game to animate in flash. The problem is that when I was converting them, it turned all the frames of the gifs into seperate files.

So I want to know what is the fastest way to import 100+ gifs into a single movieclip or graphic on flash. (when I try importing all of them at the same time, it just stacks them all in the same frame)

A few trains of thought I've had...
1) Get a program that can turn a bunch of images straight into a single animated gif and import that. I wouldn't know of such a program that could do that automatically. (if I wanted to do it manually with fireworks or something, I could might as well just do it on flash)
2) Maybe flash has a feature allowing me to distribute all the images that I import over frames.
3) Flash might have another feature similar to photoshop's actions to process batch stuff. I could have the action be, move up one frame, make a keyframe, import image, align the image, and then do the whole thing over again with the next image. (I tried this in Image Ready but it doesn't work very well)

Well so far none of these work.

Any suggestions?

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Distributing Keyframes In Frame By Frame Animation
I am doing a frame by frame animation of something I brought in from Illustrator. I have 20 keyframes, each with one (slightly different) symbol. I need this to move accross the screen.

How does one do it, I must be missing something, this must come up all the time in frame by frame animation? I need the symbols to be distribited exactly same distance apart.

I tried using the "align/distribute" feature the same way I know it from illustrator, and it is just kind of working. I check "edit all frames" make sure all the keyframes are selected and then go to the align panel and distribute the centers of all symbols.
What goes wrong is this: it distributes them, but out of order. Instead of putting frame 2 couple pixels to the right from frame 1, it puts it right at the end where I would like the frame #20. the middle then seems in the right order but beginning and end are always mixed up.
Is the distribute feature the best way of doing this , and why am I having this problem?

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Is It Possible To Change The Frame Rate Of An Animation With A Button?
Is it possible to make that when you click on a certain button, the frame rate changes to a certain number?

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Making A Button Play A Certain Animation If Not On A Certain Frame?
My website is www.arcanevisions.com - looking at it will help you understand what I'm saying.

Right now, the only button that works is "news" - I'd like to have another button, say "updates" do the same thing as news, only with a different text file. I have that part figured out already - here's what I need help with. See how my site opens when you press news? I want the "updates" button to do the same thing as news, but ONLY if the site is already closed. That way if the site is already open, and they were to press "Updates" it wouldn't play the opening animation over again. I vaguely understand what I need to do, I just don't know how to do it in flash. Basically, what I want to do is this:

on click if frame label = open
load updates.txt
stop();

else
play frame label open
load updates.txt
stop();

I think something like that would hypothetically work. I just need to know how to implement it.

EDIT: Also, something I just realized - I like the way you can click the current "news" button and have it open and close - I'd like to keep that, however with my current setup if you were checking out the news section and then clicked over to the updates section, the site would close. Is there some script I can throw in there that would only close the site if the button clicked equaled the current section of the site? For instance, if they're looking at the news section, I'd like the site to be able to close, but only if they clicked the news section again. If they clicked the updates butotn, I'd like the site to stay open. That'd rock.

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[F8] Pressing A Button To Trigger A Frame Label Animation?
Ok I'm having some problems getting an MC to play an animation when a button is held down. First I put a button over the MC and had some script on it to go play the frame label to start the animation but it didnt work so I made the button on a seperate layer and it still didnt work, so then i added some onClipEvent script to the MC itself but with mousedown gotoAndPlay the frame label, that works however you can press the mouse button anywhere on the screen, I want it to be in the same area as the MC.

Can I trigger the frame label to work from a button? Also I have a mouse cursor MC as well if I can put code on that for it to work, I'll keep trying maybe I can work something out

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[F8] How Can I Link A Button To A Frame Or Animation In A Movie Clip
good morning fellas. first off thanks to dallasnyc for the help on my last problem. ok, so my issue is that i have a movie clip on the timeline. it plays a short animation. after that animation theres two optons, two buttons on the page user clicks one the animation disappears and another box shows up, same with second. im just not sure what to do from here. any help would be appreciated. i can post the project if neccasary. thank you

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HELP How Do You Get Smooth Frame-by-frame Animation?
Every time I try to make a movie with it, it looks all squiggly! Help! I'm new to Flash and your site.

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Frame By Frame Running Animation
I have seen people create cool frame-by-frame animations such as a person is running or dancing. Is there any one know how to create those? Do I need to purchase other software?

Thank you

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Anyone Be Willing To Tweak My Frame By Frame Animation?
Hello everyone,

Anyone willing to help me out and tweak my frame-by-frame animation? For example, 2 characters are supposed to be going up a hill and the hill should be spanning out so that it grows bigger and bigger. And as the characters bounce up the hill, they should be getting smaller and smaller (since they're going up the hill). I just have a simple motion tween that doesn't have much of an effect. Any suggestions?

Anyone willing to tweak my fla? I'll post a link if anyone's interested.

Thanks

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Tweens Or Frame-by-frame Animation?
Hello Us ppl.

I have a question to you all:
Do you guys use motion tweens or shape tweens, or design ALWAYS every animations frame by frame?
I know the tween motions turn the file heavier...but...You guys always animate frame by frame?

What you say about this?

Hugs

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Flash 8 Frame By Frame Animation
Hi guys and girls.

I'm afraid I'm new to using flash but I do need it for a specific purpose.
I have rendered 60 frames of 3D animation in Bryce 6 at 80x80 pixels and I want them turned into a flash animation for insertion into a web page. The frames are all bitmaps.
I realise I can have an animated .gif but the page really requires flash.

When I run Flash 8 I have the stage work area in front of me.
I change the document size to 80x80 pixels.
Then I go to File, Import and import the first frame of my sequence.
The software then realises that this is part of a sequence and asks me if I want to load the rest of the frames. I say yes.
The problem I have is that when the frames are imported they appear outside of the white working area of the stage.
I can move the frames individually but this is a pain in the arse especially as there are lots of them and there will be much longer animations to come.

So my question is this :

How do I get the imported frames to automatically align to the 80x80 white area of the stage so that when I create the animation they are actually visible ?

Or am I going about this in completely the wrong way ?

Thanks in advance.

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[CS3, AS2]Coding Color Into The Frame
After using some color tutorials, I'm trying to do is create 5 squares of random color to appear in random places on the stage.
So far I have:

myArray = new Array(0xffffff, 0xff0000, 0xff9900, 0xffff00, 0x00ff00, 0x0000ff, 0xff00ff, 0x000000);
myNumber = Math.round(Math.random()*7);

onEnterFrame = function () {
for(i=0;i<5;i++){
_root.attachMovie("Square", "square"+i, 1+i);
_root["square"+i]._x = Math.random()*3*Stage.width/4;
_root["square"+i]._y = Math.random()*3*Stage.height/4;
_root["sqaure"+i]._alpha = 50
_root["square"+i].setRGB(myArray[myNumber])
}
}

...I'm thinking the color code isn't right cuz all my squares are white that show up. Could someone fix it so it works and I'll know what to do next time?

Also, maybe, I'd like to know how to do a setInterval statement so each square refreshes 2x a second (or slower-longer, doesn't matter I'm just doing this for the sake of practice.)

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How To Address A Button On The 5th Frame Of A Movie Clip With Action Script Located On The First Frame Of The Main Time
I'm trying to make a button appear on frame 10 of a movie clip and write actionscript on the main time line that addresses that frame 10 button. I'm not sure of the method I need to do to get that frame 10 button to get a url. I tested the same button when put on frame 1 and it worked, but I'm not sure how to address buttons and other symbols that appear as a result of the playhead moving to different places on movie clip time lines.

Can anyone help, or give me a link?

Thanks
Dennis

Attach Code

//works
_root.buttons_mc.go_btn.onRelease = function(){
_root.mall_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);
//a stop action is placed on frame 10 of the mall_mc movie clip
};
//this button is inside the mall_mc movie clip on frame 10
//doesn't work
_root.mall_mc.url_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL("http://yahoo.com");
};
//An instance of the same url_btn is dragged on to frame 1 of the mall_mc
//movie clip and given an instance name url_frame1_btn
//works
_root.mall_mc.url_frame1_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL("http://yahoo.com");
};

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Script On Button To Play Scene/clip From Frame To Frame
I there an action script that will allow the user to click a button and it will only play a section of the movie? Such as so many frames of a scene (like frames 20-176) or of a movie clip?

Thanks
ryan

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Any help is greatly appreciated!

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I'm trying to figure out:

a) how to loop a scene to go from the first frame to the last to the second last etc

WHILE

b) having the scene play either forwards or backwards (as above) while the user has their mouse over a button but making the scene pause when the users mouse isn't over the button.

can anyone help me????

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I'm trying to take a Powerpoint Presentation and put it into Flash. The problem is that I im not sure how I can get a mouse click to advance to the next frame. I want a user to click on the Flash item and go from frame 1 to frame 2 and so on and so on. What would be the best way to do this so it looks and acts like a Powerpoint presentation.

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Make Button Go To Certain Frame Depending On What Frame Movie Is On?
I want to be able to tell a button to go to a certain frame depending on what frame the movie is on. In this flash file, I have a piece of paper moving to the top of the screen, two pieces of tape coming to tape it up, and then writing on the paper. I want to make it that if someone has already clicked on a link, and the paper and everything is on the top of the page, that the next link they click on, just goes to the frame where the writing for the page begins, and not have the paper and tape again and vice versa...

I hope this makes sense...

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Quick Button Question Next Frame And Previous Frame
hey there, just a quick problem im hoping someone can help me with please?

ive got this code on a button:

Code:
on (press) {
newDepth++;
var h = box.createEmptyMovieClip("holder"+newDepth, newDepth);
h.loadMovie("vanda.swf", "_root.holder"+newDepth);
preLoader(h);
}
have then got this code on another button in the same timeline as above with this code:

Code:
on (press) {
_root.bar.buttons.box.holder+newDepth.gotoAndStop(nextFrame);
}
i would like these buttons to tell whatever swf has been loaded into the empty movie clip to go forward one frame and stop and backward one and stop? am i close?

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[F8]Playing A Movie Clip From A Certain Frame To A Certain Frame With A Button
Hey guys,

im slamming my head in trying to figure this out.

I have an invisible button and only one mc, the mc loops 3x then stops, this is defined with as in mc.

Now i want to play the movie from the invisible button but only loop it once.
Which means i would like to play it from frame 1 to frame 215.

And also when u rollout i would like the movie to stop and go to frame 1.

this is my button code so far

Code:
on (rollOver) {
tellTarget ("loader")
{
gotoAndPlay (1);}}

on(rollOut){
tellTarget ("loader") {
gotoAndStop(1);}}

on (release)
{
getURL(clickTAG, "_blank");
}
Help please

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To Go To The Next Frame & Previous Frame Of A Movie Clip Using A Button?
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Hello there.

I am trying to create a small animation just as a little bit of fun. I would like to do it frame by frame.

I have a simple question to ask about frame by frame animation.

When drawing frame by frame, you would usually have a transparent overlay that you can compare with the next frame. Is there a way to do this in flash without having to copy the previous keyframe into a new keyframe on a new layer?

Thanks Emdiesse

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Hello

My main timeline has a login movie clip. When someone enters the corect user name and password i want them taken to another frame on the same timeline.
On that frame I have a 'content' movie with a few labeled keyframes on its timeline.

So I want to be able to jump to a frame on the main timeline and to a frame on a 'nested' timeline all in the click of a button!

Here is my button action script:

on (release){
if (tUserEnter.text == "XXXXX" && tPasswordEnter.text == "XXXXX"){
this.gotoAndStop("_root.clients");

}

Ok, so this goes to the frame I want but what do I add to go to a frame within a movie on that frame?

Thanks for any help

Julian

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well, hello i'm just gettin started and faced a simple but yet rather foggy question i've searched these forums to make clear this - how can be controlled the speed of such a frame-by-frame movie? it's easing or something
thanks a lot i'll appreciate your help and attention

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well, hello i'm just gettin started and faced a simple but yet rather foggy question i've searched these forums to make clear this -
how can be controlled the speed of such a frame-by-frame movie?
i've changed the frame rate, but it affected only the tweens and frame by frame animation which follows next is still rather slow
maybe it's because the size of graphics or i don't know the cause exactly but i've tried 50 fps even

thanks a lot i'll appreciate your help and attention

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How do you do frame by frame animation on flash 8, i know about motion tweens it that when i try to edit frame by frame i delete the image off the frame and it deletes on the other frames so could you help me

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or something wrong with the way I am asking it? Mainly I want to know if am am even using the right tool for this task. And why the helll this is not working?

I am doing a frame by frame animation of something I brought in from Illustrator. I have 20 keyframes, each with one (slightly different) symbol. I need this to move accross the screen.

How does one do it, I must be missing something, this must come up all the time in frame by frame animation. I need the symbols to be distribited exactly same distance apart.

I tried using the "align/distribute" feature the same way I know it from illustrator, and it is just kind of working. I check "edit all frames" make sure all the keyframes are selected and then go to the align panel and distribute the centers of all symbols.
What goes wrong is this: it distributes them, but out of order. Instead of putting frame 2 couple pixels to the right from frame 1, it puts it right at the end where I would like the frame #20. the middle then seems in the right order but beginning and end are always mixed up.
Is the distribute feature the best way of doing this , and why am I having this problem?

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I have been a flash developer for close to 5 years now so i have a solid understanding of the program, just havent ever had to use this many images for anything! So any kind of advice, how to's, things to try would be greatly appreciated... also, this is for a 42" touch screen kiosk with a stage size of 1280x720 so everything is pretty large!

thanks in advance!

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sup, me again lol

for the frame by frame animation is there a faster or easier way to do it than just erasing and extending, shrinkin, and all da other long takin time.

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Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me out with an issue I'm having. I have my flash on multiple scenes, and would like to play an animation when clicking on the navigation button before switching to a different scene.

I'm halfway to accomplishing this.

Here is what i used

Code:
_root.gotoAndPlay("changepage1");
_root.onEnterFrame=function(){
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}

}
The above code is on a blank keyframe. Changepage1 is the start of the animation and Changepage2 is the end of the animation.

Upon clicking the navigation button it plays the above scenes.

However it doesn't change scenes to scene "Home2".

Thank you in advance for all your replies.

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I really need help.

on main movie I have 2 layers.
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movie clip instance contains 30 pictures.

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also, when i reach the last frame of movie clip, pushing forward button once more will take it back to frame 1.

[back button works the same way]

Can someone show me how I can do this?

I know it's easy for many of you, but to me this is extremely hard. don't know where to start the scripting.

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mmm..

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Anyway, if I click on the students button it will load the students swf and take me to that frame in my mc. If I am already in the students frame, it loads the next frame in my mc instead doing nothing, which is what I want it to do. Anybody know why this is?

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- The second frame will also use AS3 ENTER_FRAME to do an animation (a ball bouncing between the left stage and the right stage). If without the first frame, the ball will be bouncing continously.

My Problem:
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http://josephryannasipak.com/script_ani.fla

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