Flash :: Question About Outlines On MovieClips And Whatnot

ScrollPanes And Whatnot...
hey.

nearing the end of my school project now and just one more problem before i'm finished.

part of the criteria for my project is to download, and from my work, link to this flash movie

for it to work, you'll need to download this text file into the same folder as the swf.

basically, whatever the code is in the text file, that will be the code you need to enter into the flash movie to "crack the code"

it works fine when it's played on its own in Flash Player, but because i've chosen to do my project in flash, i thought i would embed it into my game via a scrollpane, where it would be placed on a nicer looking scene to make it more interesting (...i know, the code.swf thing looks really crappy - but i have to use it.)

the scrollpane displays the flash movie fine and lets me scale it down and everything, but the code is always marked as incorrect, and for some reason it's stopped the whole cracking the code thing from working.

is this because of the scrollpane? if so, is there another way to embed the swf (while maintaining its functionality) to make it work?

thanks a lot.

[Q] LoadVars & XML And Whatnot...
Howdy...

Quick question...

I am sending out a variable(StationID) to ASPX page and ASPX page returns me the XML string depending on the Flash variable...

This is what I do to solve the problem...

ActionScript Code:
function loadASPX(loc)
{
var data_lv = new LoadVars();
data_lv.StationID = _global.StationID;

data_lv.onLoad = function()
{
this = new XML(unescape(this));

_global.StationID = this.firstChild.attributes.StationID;
_global.StationInfo = this.firstChild.attributes.StationInfo;
_global.CamImage = this.firstChild.attributes.CamImage;
}

data_lv.sendAndLoad(_global.aspxFile, data_lv, "GET");
}
The code works, but I am not sure if this is the correct approach or not...
If I am loading the XML file, I'd go with this...

ActionScript Code:
var data_xml = new XML();
But I am using LoadVars instead because I need to send the parameter to the ASPX page and convert the ASPX output into the XML when the data is loaded...

Is it how you will do or can this be done with the 'data_xml' approach???

Thanks...

Photoshop And Whatnot
on my site...the images that i get from photoshop show up really blurry and just look horrble...any suggestions on how to get rid of that ugliness...thanks

Setting Values And Whatnot
ok, well i know how to set variables, well i think i do anyways. Here's the problem:

I have a group of pictures in a movie clip in a long horizontal line, that movie clip is called colors. That is on the main stage.

Also, behind it on the main stage, i have an invisble button. I want the button to set the x value of the movie clip to + some amount of pixels depending on where the mouse is, so the farther right the mouse is, the faster the pictures will move.

In the first frame i have 2 layers, actions and layer 1. Actions has speed = "_xmouse" and thats all.

Layer one has the 'colors' movieclip and the button. On the button, i have

onMouseOver
setproperty ("colors", _x, +speed);

This does not work, i could be totally lost and not know anything of what im talking about, but i think im somewhere near the right track... oh well whether i am or not, please provide some guidance for me! thanks alot

LoadMovieNum / Eval / With / Whatnot
alright heres my code:

Code:
gameCount=0;
levelNum = gameCount+10;
loadMovieNum("file.swf", levelNum);
ob = eval("_level"+levelNum);
with (ob) {
_x = 12.5+(curX*60);
_y = 12.5+(curY*51.67);
_width = 50;
_height = 41.67;
}

and i get this error: "Error: A 'with' action failed because the specified object did not exist."

any ideas?

Outlines
I may be crazy, but how can you add an outline to an object? For instance, I have a basic shape that would look better if it had a black 2 pixel border completely around it. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks!

2 Outlines?
How would I convert a shape with an outline to a single shape? In other words, I have a small object that has a 3 pixel outline. I'd like to add an additional outline to it. How can this be done? Thanks!

Outlines
Hey ppl

I just re-installed flash, it worked fine before, but upon re-installing it this time the outlines don't appear on shapes or lines when i am drawing them. This makes it very hard to judge how big i have made the shape. Is there an option i have missed.

Any and all help greatly appreiciated, Thx

Outlines
I'm new at Flash, and I'm having some annoying difficulties.

I'm using a scrolling pane with the drag enabled and scrollbars disabled. I deleted the bounding box, so that the edges would blend with the background. A faint white outline appears around the edges, along with a faint white square in the top left corner, and when text moves outside the bounds of the box it appears in faint white against the background.

Does anybody know why this is and how to fix it?

Outlines Around Txt
I can't seem to make text just have an outline ! What are I doing wrong ?

White bacground white txt but outlined , thats all I want todo

Masking Outlines
I want to create a masking effect that goes thru an outline of the contour of someone's body in a photograph.

I can easily trace the person using the pencil tool. It looks neat and took five minutes. There are also some effects I might want to mask with things I have drawn with a pen tool.

From what I am reading, you cant create a masking effect on an outline, you can only using masking on fills, image symbols and movies.

It seems to work fine when I use the paint tool, but when I use the pen or the pencil tool, the mask doesn't work. From what I can see, I assume its because these tools create outlines and not fills.

The problem with using the paint tool is that it's not as precise as the pencil or pen tool. The results of the paint tool are sloppy and look horrible compared to the pencil outline.

I have even tried saving the pencil-drawn outline as a symbol, but to no avail... still doesn't work.

Is there a way to turn the results of a pen or pencil tool into a fill so that it can be used for masking?

Please help...
Thanks

Outlines Redux
Still trying to figure this one out. Why do the outlines of a scrollpane show up in faint white after I've deleted the bounding box, and why does text within the scroll pane content remain visible in faint white outside the bounds of the pane? Attached is a small image of this.

Outlines Problem
I posted this problem to the FlashMX board and got no response, so I'll try it here:

I'm using a scrolling pane that contains both graphic and text content. I disabled the scrollbars so that it is click and drag. The content is a separate movie clip that is linked to the scroll pane. Also, I deleted the bounding box on the scrollpane and made the background color of the content match the background color of main page so that it would (should) blend in. Unfortunately, the edges and a small box in the upper left corner still appear in faint white against the background. Also the text, when it moves beyond the edges of the scrollpane, is still visible in faint white against the background. I've attached a small image of this phenomenon. Does anybody know how to fix it?

2d Drawing Outlines
Hey-

I am trying to make this outline draw in succession like as if a person were actually drawing, but it would only show the line not a hand or anything. does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

ps i attached the drawing.

Outlines For Shapes
i made a shape with no outline, and now i need to give it one, but when i go to properties and try to give it one, it wont let me

How To Add Outlines To Fonts In Fl V.8
Hello all,
is there a way to add an outline of x pixels to any text and keep it as font (without breaking it apart)? thanx

Flawless Gif Outlines
The Kill Bill Web site for example http://www.kill-bill.com/flash/index.html has a graphic of Uma Thurman as a separate layer but its created flawlessly (without any strange outline imperfections) I was wondering how they do that? Is there some kind of Gif trick to make this work?

Help, Please. Looking To Rid Stage Of Outlines.
-- while doing some last minute work, i drew a rectangle at the bottom of the flash file ... it came up as a lime green outline.
-- two hours later ... still can't draw in that flash stage (or any new flash file) without that same lime green outline coming up. no fills, no rects, no ovals, no lines (thicker than 1 pixel). only lime-green outlines.
-- interestingly enough, had old file that didn't have this problem (it had plenty of red and blue rect's and ovals) and when i pulled that file up and began cutting and pasting into the new file the red square (with a solid fill) would come up as a lime green ouline in the new file.
-- in addition, colors, fills and lines all work correctly in browser.
-- lastly, seeing as this is my first post in "actionscript.org", i would just like to say that this site has been extremely helpful in learning flash. any help in my, uhhh, lime-green problem would be very much appreciated.

Outlines Not Showing Up?
I downloaded the trial copy of MX 2004, after having a play with Flash at school. Whenever I try to draw a rectangle or a circle, I do not get a preview of what I am drawing while the button is held down. Can someone please help? I have the correct system requirements..

Outlines Look Fuzzy
Hi all,

Why is it when ever I draw a shape, whether it be a square or circle, with an outline, the outline looks fuzzy and not crisp. I've made sure the shape had whole values for size and x,y placement, just like you would do with text and when I look at it at 100% it look bad. Any suggestions,

Thanks LOTW

No Outlines While Drawing?
I just installed new Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 drivers for my video card and now I can't see what I'm drawing in flash. This is similar to the complaint addressed in the macromeia support forum:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...atirage128.htm

But that is about ATI cards, and mine's a geforce. Not to mention the driver was released very recently. Any help would be appreciated.

Outlines View
How do I get out of "outline view?" It's driving me nutso.

Thanks!

K

Holy tek-tips batman!

Drawing Outlines
HI - I've been asked to make a flash movie where there are items such as TV's HI-FIs etc and I really wanted to give the effect which I've seen where it looks as thou they are being drawn on the page. Starting with an outline around the shape. How is this done ? Im sure its just a guide layer type thing is it not ?

Thanks loads

Drawing Outlines
Im relatively new to flash and it's really annoying me as I keep making parts of sites using it and I know i'm going about it all the wrong way and there are easier ways to do things - but - How on earth do I just get to a line to follow an image - not just tracing round it, but so it appears as thou the image is being drawn ?

Any help would be so appreciated.

Thanks

How Do You Create Animated Outlines?
I was visiting this website and saw this effect and am interested in recreating it as simply as possible. I dont know a lot about action scripting but am trying to learn it. Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this??
I want to create an outline that is traced around an image. If you follow this link and click on "local sounds" > "then and now" you will see what I am talking about.

http://www.hollisterco.com/hol/flash...h/hb_main.html

Thanks!!

Tweening Bold Outlines
Whenever I try to shape tween any outlined shape or line from the paint brush in flash MX, it trys to cross itself up, invert, and generally go crazy rather than staying as the outline that i need. So... I headed over to the tutorials section and learned myself up on shape hints and such so that helped a bit but now, when I have to try to force flash to do something it really dosen't want to do, it just kind of gives up for lack of a better phrasing. Like when I try to pin the outline in a place where it "wants" to go all the way across the mc, Flash just makes the outline completely dissapear rather than dealing with my request. This is obviously no good so does anyone have a different workaround than to go through each frame and manually animate each frame????

Shape Tweening Outlines?
I've used motion tweens so much, that shape tweening has totally slipped away from me...

I want to create an outline around an object in a photo. But I want it to start from a single point and tween it so that it appears to be "drawing" itself around that object. It definitely needs a definite path to follow, not just a random shape tween.

Is shape tweening the way to go? Does it need to follow a guide? Or is it much more comlex than that?

It seems like it should be so simple, then again...

Preloading With Font Outlines
I have two fonts outlined in various dynamic text fields...And when I try to preload the movie, it traces only from 95-100 percent...The first frame of the movie is 145kb with no content on it...What is going on here? Pleeeease helP???

Example: Draw Font Outlines
There have been many posts about how to draw lettes dynamically. This is an example of drawing the font outlines dynamically. Not the same as "writing" them, but an interesting technique that I hope is helpful.
http://jerryscript.hostrocket.com/fl...drawfonts.html

Changing Text To Outlines
I always use stock fonts but I installed some new fonts and can't use more then 20 or so characters before I get an error message saying I need to convert the text to an outline. How is this done? Thanks!

Break Apart Text To Outlines?
Okay, I've broken apart my text twice now each letter is a shape. But the shapes have no strokes, just fills, and I can't set the color of the stroke. Is there a way to convert fills to strokes?

Thanks!

How Do I Convert Fonts To Outlines?
I'm using unusual fonts in a cartoon but of course it won't show up on everyone else's computer if they don't have that exact font. I'm wondering if it's possible to convert fonts to shapes or outlines so they can be seen by everyone.

JSFL And Font Outlines
Hi,
I have (I think) a corrupt FLA that is including font outlines for no adequately explained reason, however, the alternative is that I have a perfectly valid textfield with font outlines embedded lost in the murk of the library clip definitions and hidden somewhere that I cannot see.

I've been searching for an automated way to search for and unset font embedding in every single text field found in the FLA, but have run out of imagination and time to waste on it.

Has anybody out there got any ideas how to approach this?

Cheers,
Gaius

Embedding Font Outlines
I've got a Flash™ movie with quite a few dynamic text fields. For each text field, I'm having to embed the same font every time. I use to think that once you embed one font, to a text field, that same font wont have to be embedded again. However, that's not happening. . . Therefore, after having to embed the same font for every text field, the file size increases each time, and publishing takes FOREVER! . . . What's the solution, or is the nature of the beast?

How Do You Make Text Outlines?
I dont have Illustrator here at work, or I could just do it myself, but how could I put outlines around my text in flash?

Normally in illustrator I could select the stroke of a letter and then get rid of the fill and then have just the letter outline, or i could keep the fill and have it framed. is there anyways to do this in flash?

Bitmaps Displaying As Outlines
Just purchased Flash CS3 and suddenly found that imported bitmaps are displaying as outlines but they are OK when I publish the movie. They only display as outlines when editted in the flash enviroment. Any ideas please?

Outlines Around Flash Objects
When I roll my mouse over the flash obejects on my page an outline of the object appears. When I click on the objects the outline goes away.

Is there a simple way to get rid of these outlines that appear?

Masking Text Outlines
why cant you mask text outlines?.....Is there anyway around it?

Embeding Font Outlines
I was wondering if it is possible to Embed the font outlines of two different fonts in the same dynamic text field? If so how do you do it?

Thanks

Italics And Font Outlines
Hey guys, I've got a quick question...hopefully an easy solution. I've got a dynamic text box that receives HTML via .net remoting. The text box is configured for font outlines (upper, lower, punc, and numerals). When run, all the text shows up nice and anti-aliased...except for anything in italics, they don't show up at all. I've tried using several different fonts but still get the same result. Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks!

Internet Explorer Outlines
hey guys,

whats up with some internet explorers that have like outlines around flash movies?? My clients computers have this and hes really annoyed. Is there anyway to turn it off?

Browser (IE) Outlines Flash
When I view my website the Flash objects show an outline when I mouse over them and a message displays that says "click to activate and use this control". How do I stop this?

View Layer Outlines Problem
Hello, I'm confused about the View menu option for viewing layers as outlines. Does it serve the same function as the little color squares in the timeline? I'm asking because when I use the little colored squares I'm able to toggle between viewing outlines and not viewing outlines.

BUT when i use the menu and scroll down to view layers as outlines, i'm unable to undo this choice. Needless to say, after spending time to create artwork within the Flash environment, setting up all the animation, then to choose this menu option hoping it is temporary, only to be unable to undo it is frustrating. Does anyone know what I mean? Has this happened to you? Or is this menu option something other than what it seems to mean. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! And sorry if the english is strange grammatically. xo, ducky77

Question About Outlines On MovieClips And Whatnot

You know how MovieClips and Buttons and Graphics all have that blue outline boxed around them? Well, does anyone here know how to make the outline fit the outline of the actual shape of the object rather than box around it? Thanks in advance for any help ^_^