Flash :: Random Image Appearance

Random Appearance
I am making a First-person shooter and I was wondering if anyone knows the code for making people randomly pop put of their hiding places. So like the person comes out of the same place, but at a random time after some others. Anyone know?

Help With Random Appearance AS2
Hi,

I have searched high and low for this and cannot find the answer. I am not an adept in AS, but I do use it simply and edit scripts to meet my own specifications.

I need to have a series of four numbers appear randomly with fade in and out and stay on screen for a couple of seconds each. These are then linked through to separate movie instances that display relevant information regarding that number and then go back to the random numbers.

There are options to randomly display text from an external file, but not library objects within the same movie.

I have a cobbled together version using scenes and timeline animation, but it's repetitive. It needs to be more random and effective as a visual element.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running CS3 using AS2.

Background Random Appearance
Hi

I am designing a flash area for a website, and what I want is for my small image of a cloud I made to pass across the stage (120 X 400) from right to left, across the stage. However, I would like the cloud to come in at random places, have random speeds, and be random sizes. I have no idea how to approach this. Any ideas would be really helpful

Thanks

Weird Order Of Image Appearance.
Hello People

I'm trying to create a flash website which has different movieclips as backgrounds which have transition effects and appear over each other if you click on a particular button.
So basically you start with background1 and then when you click on a button the movieclip associated with that button would then play and appear over the previous movieclip. After this the first movieclip would become invisible. I've upload the .swf and the .fla if you want to have a look. The problem comes in when you click on a button for a split second the new movie will appear over the old one and only then start playing. It's easy to see what I mean if you have a look at the swf file.

Can any of you clever people tell me what the hell is going on?

you can have a look here:

http://www.waterberg.co.za/temp/example.html

I've replaced the images with smaller ones in the fla to reduce download times.

Yours sincerely

Wouter

Using Actionscript To Fluctuate Image Appearance
hey folks,

Been awhile since I was here but you have all been so much help I figured I'd stop in and ask about a cool effect.

Check out this site:

http://www.urban9.com/

If you click on the link that says Phase2...

Any idea how they get that grey background to sit there and fluctuate its appearance like that??

Thanks

Kellys

Random Flash N Random Image
Basically I have 5 flash movies and 3 images and I want to show them randomly using dreamweaver.. anybody knows how to do it?

Tween A Random Image To A Set Image
ok

I have a website that is going to have a spinning 'e'
Say that it is currently upside down and backwards...is there any way to have it tween from that point to a set image?

ei:
e <- is rotating on all 3 axises
e <- currently backwards and sideways on the z axis
mouse rolls over a button
the e tweens into another e that is flat (it goes back to normal)

how do i do this??

Random Image, Just Not The Same Image A Second Time.
Does anyone know how to have a random image that does not repeat.

For example if a particular image has loaded once, I dont want this image loading again just because its part of the random feature.

Any samples of this in place would be very helpful.

Thanks

Appearance Of 3D
I have a flash site in the making. The title bar has a logo in it...I would like the logo to spin around like a coin, so I would have to make the logo appear to be 3 dimensional. I don't have any 3D software, does anyone have an idea as to how I can pull this off? Is there some 3D rendering freeware? Is there some trick in flash I should know about?

Random, Random Image?
Hi,
Im going through this method for generating a random image into a movie clip

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61320

->macneilslt Thanks by the way

I was just wondering if theres a way to check if say for example image 4 has loaded into the movieClip previously (just before)...and if so....not load that image and randomly pick one of the other images

Thanks in advance

Movement And Appearance...
Ok... I've implemented some script so that the player can move...

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x += moveSpeed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -= moveSpeed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._y += moveSpeed;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y -= moveSpeed;
}
}

But I was wondering of it was possible to change the graphic representing the player depending what way they moved... I have the graphics for the front, left, right, and back of the character. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Type Appearance
I'm having a problem using a typeface in FLASH. FLASH allows me to select and write with the font, but when i click out of the text box the type dissapears. It seems to only be happening with one specific typeface (Folio). Is there any reason for this?
-jay

Appearance Issue
I use Flash MX and in the Actions window (while in Normal mode), the space where the actions go is tiny. I can see only one action at a time in the box. Is there a way to extend it or make it bigger so that I can see more actions in the box without having to scroll around?

Thanks,
mrMagic715@aol.com

Appearance Of Texts
Hello,i have a few questions that i hope somebody will be able to explain to me.

1.how do you make text appear out of nowhere?(i can make it just fly in but i want it to kind of fade in,like the ''did you know'' thing in flash 5 movie)
2.how do you make text fade away?
3.what are other ways of having the text appear and how is it done?

Thanks

Fonts Do Not Take On Their Appearance
I noticed that I can import fonts from suitcase to flash mx, however, the fonts don't look like they are suppose to. How can I fix this? Thanks.

Png Appearance Sucks Help
I have a movie clip that contains a png image. When it's not being rotated, it looks fine. (x and y movement is perfect) However, with a slight rotation, the image becomes jagged, as if it was never saved with antialising.

is there any way to help with a crappy appearance other than going to the bitmap property box and selecting the highest compression available? (tried that and nothing worked)

[F8] Combo Box Appearance
Have a simple question I think. I'm using the combo box component (drop down menu) and the rollover states are green. Can I change that?

Thanks Flash Family!

Cursor Appearance
Hi all,

i'm trying to make sure that the cursor stays as the normal white arrow pointer when it moves over a button mask. I've applied to following code to the button mask, but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone got any advice?

Quote:

on (rollOver) {
fl.tools.setCursor(2);
}

Cheers

Cursor Appearance
Hi all,

When I roll over any button or movie clip that has onRollOver defined, the cursor changes by default to a hand. What if I want it to stay as the default arrow? I know there is a way of replacing default cursor with your custom made one, but I want it to be the default arrow. Also, I don't want to modify this behavior throughout the whole .swf, just on one movie clip. In other words, I want my movie clip to have an arrow cursor when you roll over it, but my buttons should have a default hand.

Thanx for help

Phantom URL Appearance
the strangest thing is happening:
i have a flash MX site where one button triggers the opening of a pop up html page. that's working just fine. but after you open that html page and you go back to the flash site, the URL for that html page appears in an input text box that i set up to collect email addresses. it won't be there until you have opened the html page... it's so weird! i don't really see why that's happening... does anyone have a clue?
p.s. so here's the link -- it's a modest attempt... www.lesfreres.org
click on the pict/button on the right, or the "repertory" button: the actionscript is just the center pop up window tutorial from right here. browse if you'd like, but then go back to the main page and click on the picture with the three nuns, the one that says, "join les freres corbusier" -- it'll jump to the page with the input text box, with the URL! let me know if it's easier just to attach the .fla
thanks!

Button Appearance
I am looking for a tutorial on how to make button appear on the screen in a fancy way like this website http://iso50.com/iso50.html click on photography or any other buttons and you will see what i mean

Bending Appearance
Hmmm, well i dont quite know how to descibe it and I can't currently find any site that has an example but....

* How do you tween something to appear to be 'bending' into shape. For instance a box grows into the foreground and appears to form into box shape bouncing back from a distorted shape. *

LOL.....Does anyone know what this crazy girl means....?

~ Seretha

Dynamic Appearance
Hey all. This is a best practices question... I have a fellow coder who has implemented a dynamic appearance model for our little eLearning app. All of our graphical assets are dumped into the library of an external swf, which is loaded so that the graphics can be grabbed by bits and pieces throughout the main app at runtime. The way that she did it involves loading the swf (via MovieClipLoader) every time an asset needs to be pulled from it, instead of loading it once and pulling everything from that instance. My instinct tells me that this is bad, but is it really? I assume that the browser will cache it, but does Flash know that it already has that clip, or is it going to load a complete copy of that swf into RAM every time? Any thoughts?

-Mike

Appearance Problem
In flash my movie fits exactly the working area(that rectangle)...it's size is 1024x768 and in the publish settings i have the 100x100 percent option introduced...
THE PROBLEM: when i publish the movie to view it in the browser the content wich fits the rectangle in flash is in the middle of the screen...and i want to fit the browser....where am i doing wrong?

Regards,

http://www.inwww.ltd.uk

Levels Only Gone In Appearance?
Well, I've been cruising along okay, and I am now having a problem I can't quite figure out how to solve.

Problem

When I load or attach a movie on top of my base movie (_level1 vs _level0)...The hotspots for my buttons are still active on lower levels (ie _level0).

Questions
[list=1][*]Is this a problem of "focus"?[*]Should I also movie the buttons off my stage on the lower level?[*]Is there another easier solution I haven't thought of?[/list=1]

Thank you!
Keith

Scrollbars - Font Appearance...
My client has a few pages in her all-Flash site with a lot of text, for
which she wanted to use scrollbars. But, at least as far as I've been
able to discover, when you use scrollbars in Flash, you reference an
external text file, which means the font has the appearance of html
text. About 75% of the pages don't have scrollbars, so the text there
has that "vector graphics" appearance (I'm still learning all my
graphics terminology, so forgive me if I make a blunder!!) which she
prefers. She keeps referring to the html text as "typewriter-text."
We've tried a few different fonts, to see if we could a) minimize the
difference, or b) find a font that she would like in html, then have
all the pages refer to external text files...but to no avail...

Does anyone know of a way that I can create scrollbars in Flash
without using an external text file? Or has anyone dealt with
something like this and came up with a brilliant solution?

You can see the issue here

http://www.alexiarobinsonstudio.com/introsite.htm

just skip the intro, then click "CLASSES" and compare "Schedule"
to "Admission/Tuition"

Thanks!!

Any Way To Change The Appearance Of The Mouse?
Hey yall. I'm still new at all of this. I'm making a tutorial for a software program in windows. I want it to be user active. I want them to be able to push the butons for themselves from the Internet and to be able to draw in the program (Kinda like the paint program). Is there any way to change the appearance of the mouse, and, is there anyway they can draw in the program from the Internet? Sometimes I'm just beside myself because I just can't realize how powerful FlashMX is. If yall can help, or point me to a site where I can learn more about this I would appreiate it. Thanks!

Scrolling Text Box Appearance
It is really easy to make a scrolling text box with the UI Components in Flash MX, but is there any way to customize the appearance of the scroll bar? It is too plain looking for the project I am working on.

Thanks. Barrett.

Text Symbol Changes Appearance
I am a Flash MX newbie. I created a bullett using the Wingding font by using the letter l. I then converted it to a symbol to use throughout my movie. It appears correctly in my fla file, but when I publish preview in Flash, it changes the symbol to the Arial l. I am in Windows 2000. I checked the control panel for the type of font -it is a open type font. Does the swf not support this type? And, if not, any other ideas for making good bullets? Thank you!

Changing ComboBox Appearance
Hi
I'd like to change the appearance of the nasty ol ComboBox - in the Flash help it sort of describes how to change the actual component itself but it looks complicated - someone told me that it's possible to change by using actionscript to change its attributes - is this true? and if so, does anyone know where i can get some info on this ???
thanks
Bob

Html Background Appearance
does anyone have any tips for how to get background images to seam with jpegs in flash movies... sometimes if i use a gradient that goes from the swf to the html it looks really bad with the way flash interprets the jpeg.

thanks,
dave

Dynamic Text Appearance
sorry if this has been asked before, the search wont work for me right now, so people may have asked this before

when u have dynamic text, it looks really bad. how do u fix this? i have heard of something about embedding the font. dunno what that is or if it even has to do with this. any help appreciated. thanks

Editing ComboBox Appearance
Is there any easy way to modify the apperance of the combobox from the flash ui?

How To Make The Appearance Of Drawing...
Look at this site: http://ronherman.com/index_flash.html

How do they create the appearance of drawing out?

Changing DataGrid Appearance
Hi All,

I have to change the appearance of the datagrid, but don't know how to do it

1) How do I hide a column in a datagrid?
2) How do change the color of a cell?
3) How do I remove the line between any two columns?

I'm using Datagrid V2 component

TIA

Mahesh Kokadwar

Custom Appearance Throughout The Presentation
I need to set the appearance of various components like textField, textInput, TextArea, Tree etc.

I have a big flash presentation so setting them manually is going to be a lot of hassle.

Is there a way to apply styling to all comps?

With MovieClips I would do something like:
MovieCLip.protype.onLoad=function(){
StyleManager.setMyStyle(this);
}

Changing The Flash IDE Appearance?
Hey,
To what extent can you modify the Flash CS3 IDE?
Personally i'd like to do some modifications, other than WindowSWF's.
Anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks

Delayed Appearance Of Preloader
I've got a game built on a single-framed swf, which weighs in at 1481KB. I moved it to the second frame, and on frame 1 placed a text field and a MovieClip made up of a simple rectangle.

I attached the following to the first frame...

Code:
stop();
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loadProgress);
function loadProgress(event:Event){
var mcBytesLoaded:int = this.root.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
var mcBytesTotal:int = this.root.loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
var kLoaded:int = mcBytesLoaded/1024;
var kTotal:int = mcBytesTotal/1024;
bar.scaleX = mcBytesLoaded/mcBytesTotal;
progressText.text = "Loading: "+kLoaded+"K";
if(mcBytesLoaded >= mcBytesTotal){
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loadProgress);
nextFrame();
}
}
I test the movie and hit View>Simulate Download. The preloader does work, but neither the text field nor the progress bar appear until 42%, or about 630 KB, of the swf is loaded. Relatively speaking, that's a heck of a long time to be staring at a blank window. Is there a fix for this?

Many thanks.

Can't Customize Appearance Of Components
Hi Guys,

I want to get rid of the rounded-off window edges in the AVPresence component so, I drag it onto my stage, double click it and delete the layer that contains the box. I step out of the movie clip and the rounded edges are still there!

What am I doing wrong?

artane

Changing Appearance Of A Component
is there a way to change the appearance of the Progressbar component? like the color of the load bar or even replacing it with a different graphic

Controlling Appearance Of The DataGrid
How to control the appearance of the columns and rows of a DataGrid

I have the code below where I controlling the Column width
I also want the text of column at index 1 to be aligned to left.
Is it possible to have an alternating row color and also removing the lines between the columns?

var myDP_array:Array = new Array();
myDP_array.push({Name:"Ted", Score:1000});
myDP_array.push({Name:"Bob", Score:1250});
myDP_array.push({Name:"Scott", Score:25});
my_dg.dataProvider = myDP_array;
my_dg.getColumnAt(0).width = 100;

If you have answers to one or more of these issues please give me a hint

TIRislaa

Multiple Buttons With Same Appearance
What is the best way to make multiple buttons with the same appearance? What I would like to achieve is to make it easier to adjust the appearance, so if I change one, they all will change.

Suggestions?

Changeing The Appearance Of The Mouse
i have a movieclip that i want to drag and change the appearance of the mouse.
at the moment i used a button inside th movieclip because i want the mouse to change on rollover and i didnt find a way to do it with onClipEvent. so what i have now is this:

Code:
on (rollOver) {
Mouse.hide();
myChangedMouse._visible = true;
myChangedMouse.startDrag(true);
}
on (press) {
this._parent.startDrag();
}
on (release) {
this._parent.stopDrag();
myChangedMouse.startDrag(false);
}
on (rollOut) {
Mouse.show();
myChangedMouse._visible = false;
}
but the problem with this that if i move to fast it doesnt always change back. i am sure there is a better way. can anybodey help?

Flash Movie Appearance
Hello,
I am having trouble lining up my flash movie buttons with the background image.

http://www.un-identified.com

The menu on the left is distorted. I cant figure out why it is distorted just where the buttons are. In my .fla the button in the Up and Over states is a grey square with alpha 0% in the first layer while the Over state has another layer under the grey invisible square that has the image of the button mouseOver.
Please Help

Thank You,
un-¡dentified

Change Appearance Of Scrollbar
How can you change the appearance of Scrollbar Component. I want to remove the both top and bottom arrow of scrollbar and change the size of dragger.

I will prefer to do this using actionscript.

Thanks

Random Image Appearance

i would like to have a bar of about 5 images at the bottom of a page in flash mx, but i want random images from a list of about 15 to appear in the spaces is their any way of doing this?