Flash :: Scripting Problems

Flash 5 Scripting Vs MX Scripting
ok, I have this script on a movieclip called g_loader:

onClipEvent(load) {
loadMovie("contact.swf",this);
}

onClipEvent(data) {
trace(this.getBytesTotal())
}

this is how it would be written in flash 5, and it worked fine.

I tried to write the same thing using MX syntax:

g_loader.onLoad = function() {
loadMovie("contact.swf",g_loader);
}

g_loader.onData = function() {
trace(g_loader.getBytesTotal())
}

And it WILL NOT WORK!! Am I going insane? Why won't this work!!!????

URL Scripting.
I've have a site made partly in flash.
And I have some buttons which are linked to other web pages.
My question is. Do i really need to specify the entire URL..the actual URL or can i just use it juts like that with the '/' or ''
all the pages are in e same folder including that of the page wit the flash component.
eg..the page name is ; Intro.htm
and therefore at the URL of go to ..do i have to type out the entire URL for eg. http://www.dunearnguides.scriptmania.com/Intro.htm
??

Thanks in advance..Cos i'm rather blurr on this..

Cgi Scripting
How do I create scripts needed for submitting forms in Flash 5? Is there any toturials?

Scripting V2
Hey,

I have a input text box and a submit button. How do i make ti so that the number in the text box goes to that frame number when the button hit submit button is clicked?

L8

Scripting Help
I'm working on a digital cv that has a pixelized version
of my face on it. As you roll over a series of button's the
relevant section of the face stretches out and will ultimately reveal a part of my cv.

The problem i'm having seem's to be with the way i've ordered or positioned the script. The script works if you roll over the buttons seperatly, but if you roll over all the buttons at once you don't get the desired effect of growing and shrinking. The script seem's to get confused or conflict with itself.

If anyone has a minute to help and look at my fla I could e-mail it to you and would be very grateful as it's almost there and is doing my head in.

Thank you

luke.parish

Scripting Can't Get It?
Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble getting an certain effect to work. I want to have something similar to the old 2advanced site what I'm trying to achieve is when a button is clicked I want a external swf to load in to main movie clip but while its loading I want these two doors to come in over whats loading behind the doors and stay there until the external movie is done loading. When the movie is loaded I want the doors to then open again! This is my code on the button.
on (release) {
_root.introclip.shutter.gotoAndPlay("open");
loadMovie ("members.swf", "membersload");
_root.introclip.membersload._x = -325;
_root.introclip.membersload._y = -179;
_root.introclip.membersload._yscale = 86;
loaded = _root.introclip.membersload.getBytesLoaded();
total = _root.introclip.membersload.getBytesTotal();
if (loaded == total) {
_root.introclip.shutter.gotoAndPlay("closed");
} else if (loaded < total) {
_root.introclip.shutter.gotoAndStop("closed");
}
}
if anyone could help it would be great!

Thanks

Kyle

SCRIPTING HELP
Can anyone please advise where I might be able to learn basics regarding Actionscript - preferably with a tutor based in London, UK. I have tried self taught tutorials but I need to fully understand the basics of variables, arrays etc. Without this knowledge it is very difficult to begin to understand the capabilites of Flash and it also takes me forever when scanning back and forth through the pages of books. I would prefer to pay someone to help me understand basic programming functions. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Scripting?
In flash 5 how exactly do you get to add your own scripting w/o using the actions Flash gives to you? If any1 understands what I am talking about, please help me....lol

Scripting M O V E M E N T ---->
Hello there.

I need to create a dragable "movie-clip" which
will detect it's position (_x + _y) on the stage.
and
will move (animation move) to new _x and _y positions
on the stage

I tried this code but it didn't work:

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
startDrag("_root.mymovie");
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
stopDrag();
}
onClipEvent (load) {
xpos = "_root.mymovie_x";
ypos = "_root.mymovie._y";
if (xpos>236 & ypos<154) {
xpos++ & ypos++;
}
}

Scripting
What is the name/format of the scripting that you write in flash mx? is it c++, or a special flash script, or something else?

AIM Scripting
I am batting my head against the wall because I have created AOL icons for buttons and am trying to get them to auto prompt the AIM to pop up which they do just fine. The problem is that blank windows pop up. Is there anway to get rid of them.

This is what I am doing

on (release) {
getURL("aim:goim?screenname=&message=Hi!");

Help With Scripting
on (press) {

for (i=4; i>-1; i--) {
for (var name in _leveli.mc) {
_leveli.mc.stop();
_leveli.mc[name].stop();
_leveli.stop();
}
}

}
Hi guys,
What I'd like to do is autodecrement a number and put it into a variable so I don't need to specify the amount of levels I have. But I can't seem to get the variable (i) working in the script above. What this basically does is pauses any movie clips that are playing in particular levels but I would like to set the _level so that it is automatically updated rather than type each individual level number and repeat the script.

Thanks again

Scripting Help?
Hello Board_

I am loading an SWF into another using the following action script :
________________________________

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("Tree.swf", 200);
}
________________________________

I guess that to most, I'm being rather redundant in saying that this script loads "Tree.swf" to level 200 of my main movie.
The SWF loads in the Upper Left corner of my main movie.
How can I make it load to a position 150 pixels down from there?
I am not planning on changing the X-axis coordinates.
Any help would be great.

Best Regards,
KQ

Scripting Help
how can i call a SWF into a MC?

i've got a movie clip on the stage with a button in it.
on release of that button i need to have a swf play inside that movie clip.
i know how to call the swf to my main movie but not to this movie clip.

thanks.

Please Need Scripting Help NOW
(flash 5)i am using the following script for a preloader in the first of a two scene movie...when it finishes and loads the second scene , it jumps over about a quarter of the second scene and proceeds to loop 30 some odd frames...it seems to get stuck..can you figure out if there is something wrong with the script or what?..how can i fix it/figure it out?..i got a deadline, any ideas appreciated...thanks....

loadedbytes=getBytesLoaded();
totalbytes=getBytesTotal();
loadedkbytes=Math.ceil (loadedbytes/1000);
totalkbytes=Math.ceil(totalbytes/1000);
if (loadedbytes == totalbytes) {
nextScene ();
}
frame = int(loadedbytes/(totalbytes/100));
tellTarget (_root.loader) {
gotoAndStop (_root.frame);
}

Scripting Help.
Hey everyone,

I'm only 17 but I'm determined to be a top webdesigner. I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford university so I want to start learning now. I need some help and guidance with scripting, cgi, perl, even java. I'm good with graphics etc already, and I can make a site, but scripting gets me.

Please post any good links to beginners guides to scripting of any relevant kind. Also, if you're willing to talk me through things you can add me to your Yahoo! and my ID is annunaki_of_nibiru Please help my dream come true.

Best regards,

KD.

PHP Scripting
Hey - I finally have Flash MX! Yay! lol
My question is in regards to retreiving data from a php script. I am using YaPP (Yet another PHP Portal), and it comes with a forum, on it I am able to see who's currently logged in. I'm wanting to implement this script on my flash movie, but I've no clue where to start. Any help on how to do this would greatly be appreciated. TIA

Help Me With This Scripting
what is wrong with this script

if (success) {
i=1
while (i <= 9){
user[i] = this.user+(i);
password[i] = this.password+(i);
i = i + 1
}
}

Scripting Help
Hi im trying to make a clock that displays the date and time and i can get the time down, but i cant get it to display the date and im wondering if i coded something wrong, heres the code:

d=new Date()

day=d.getDate()
if(day>10){
day= "0" +day
}

mon=d.getMonth()
if(mon>10){
mon= "0" +mon

yer=d.getYear()

timed=+mon +"/" +day +"/" +yer

My hopes what to make it look like this:
mm/dd/yyyy

Any help is greatly appreciated

Scripting Help
Is anybody out there can help me to figure out the script below? the script below is to control a car by the arrow keys, but this script only works when I put the car movie clip and the boundary movie clip on the main stage which is the _root.

What I want is to put the boundary movie clip on the main stage (_root.boundary) and the car movie clip put inside another movie clip called land (_root.land.car), but once i put the car and the boudary in a different place, the car will not stop when it hits the boundary.

i will really appreciate it if someone can help me on this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
// this script is to attach to the car movie clip.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// make the car go forward
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
speed += 1;
}
// make the car go backwards
if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
speed -= 1;
}
// tells the car to slow down after the speed of 20
if (Math.abs(speed)>20) {
speed *= .7;
}
// you can change the rotation of the car to your desire
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_rotation -= 15;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_rotation += 15;
}
// here is where the hittest is for the boundary
speed *= .98;
x = Math.sin(_rotation*(Math.PI/180))*speed;
y = Math.cos(_rotation*(Math.PI/180))*speed*-1;
if (!_root.boundary.hitTest(_x+x,_y+y, true)) {
_x += x;
_y += y;
} else {
speed *= -.6;
}
}

Scripting With ASP?
Is it possible to update image and text content within a Flash site with ASP?

If it is what would be the best course of action to take?

Scripting Help....
k guys heres my problem, i have a bunch of buttons on a scene and what i want to happen is that only after u click every single button will the scene jump to the next scene... wat code would be required??

Scripting Help
I nned some help with a script that zooms out and zooms in. I have the zooming part working good but I can't get it to zoom out from center. I know very vague, so i attached a file for a better explanation. By looking at the flash file the problem sould be very obvious.
Thanks for the help

JLD

Scripting Help
Hey all,

I am not very familiar with actionscripting. I am learning thanks to all of you in this forum. I have used in my movie the "loadmovie action" and everything works fine. Now the problem I have is that I have pictures that I want to click on (like a button) and have each picture become larger and center in the same movie. I have done some reading with the available tutorials that I can find and it is apparent (i hope I am right) that i need to introduce some variables. I dont know how to assign or even begin to start with variables. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I am using FLASH 5....

Thanks
CHANDLER26....

Scripting
Scripting
Greetings all. I'm a new Flasher and I'm going crazy. Ok, maybe i'm already crazy from trying to make something work that doesn't. Here goes. I downloaded a file from Flashkit and don't know what I'm suppose to do with it to make it work. (DUH) It's action scripting but I don't know where to input the script in order to make it work. Am I suppose to put this in something like Frontpage or HTML or should I be putting it straight into Flash. I have the MX version. Am I way off beat or what. Many thanks for any feedback.

Here's the script.
2 parts to this script
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
==================================================
====
part 2
==================================================
====

<body onload="bgtrans()">

Scripting?
I was wondering if there was any way to find who the person is logged in as, using either java or a/s? any help?

thanks

Php Scripting
Hello,

i have no idea how to start going about making this.
what i have is a form and you type in a name for example and then it gets saved to a file on the internet. i have already made this work with sharedobject, and i have a server to host the script - how do i make the scripts.

Help With Mx Scripting
OK, heres my mx scenario.
4 buttons on an oval motion path.
They need to rotate counterclockwise
on rollover (except if rollover is on whichever one is front and center.)
Whichever button is rolled over should be the one to stop front and center and could then be chosen to open a corresponding mc.
I can do this with a lot of keyframing and stop actions in the timeline, but i would like a more efficient scripting approach.
Please Help!!I posted this in the action script forum and no one has replied.!! Thanks!
heres a pic if it helps!

Scripting
I use Swish.. knock off of flash. But i was wondering how I could open up a sized window with it using actions and maybe java or html. If anyone knows the java for a link to open a sized window that should be all i need. I just don't know it. www.siwebdesigns.com/FB My bands website.. we are going to impliment a scrolling text box for the news. We were ganna have the news do like the fear-store does but when i put the ffects in to transform it moves from where the last effect was.. which makes everything go wacko. If that makes sense...

Ryan

Scripting Help
Okay, I've just downloaded this chat thing in the "Movies" section at http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Appli...7898/index.php. I was wounder can any help me script it. It's in PHP so I don't know anything about it. If you can, please reply it here, or Email me at hongnanthinguyen@yahoo.com.

Thank you so much!

P.S. Please explain it in a way that I can understand. I such a newbie to PHP.

.fla Scripting HELP
I'm a little new to Flash, and i have NO idea on how to put these on you Site (HTML code). I tried the one for Shockwave Flash, but it didn't work. The file extension is .fla

Can somone help me?

Please Help With Scripting
Hi, I have created my swf movie, but do not know how to embed it in my site to make it show. I have a test page set up at http://www.candlesofeden.com/index1.html Could someone please let me know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Help With Scripting.
Hello, i was wondering if someone could help me with something.

I've been making this site, http://halogic-design.tragicntrue.net/halogic.html

i've been wodering if there is a way to put http://livejournal.com/~halozero in the main box when the "journal" link is clicked from the main menu.

thanks.

-ray.

Scripting
I have my movie stopping at frame 245 and a nav bar rolls down. OnMouseRelease i want it to finish the scene... play frames 246 to 270 and then load another scene.

Any hints on how i do this?

Thanks

Scripting
hi i have a problem, i have a couple of swf files and on the main one there a button that i want went click it will load a swf file but then unlaod the main page so there no conflict does anyone know how to do that????? thank you

How Do You Use The Scripting?
i dont know what it is... is it like java? or something like it? is it used for interacting?

<a href="http://www.llamalords.sictaar.com">llamalords.sictaar.com </a>

Help With Scripting In MX
I am trying to make a game and have the _x and _y from one MC become detected when they equal some _x and _y value of another MC. I don tknow how to do this with MX...the flash tutorials dont seem to help at all. I dont understand if I am suppose to getProperty or setProperty -- also i dont understand the parameters of these two commands. Is there another flash tutorial site that might help?

New To Scripting
Here's the deal I'm new to scripting and i need help with loading jpg in to flash.

I have multiple buttons and i want them to load a jpg to a certain place on the screen. I also need to be able to resize the pictures to fit the desired area and the pictures need to do a quick 3-5 frame fade in..

all these images are external, inside an images folder. i would also like to know how to make a quick preloader to load before each image if needed.
i tried a few things but nothing seemed to work so if anyone could help me out i would really appriciate that ..thank you

Need Scripting Help
does anyone know a code that will make it so wherever you click on the screen, a MC will appear where you clicked

Scripting
is ther sumwer i can learn sum basic scripts?...a link 2 a site would be very helpfull...thanks...

Need Some Scripting Help :)
Hello i am new here, i was working with a file that i had found on here that looked neat. I was trying my best to get it to work within a little website that i was working on but everything i try does not seem to work. The file that i am talking about can be found here on this site....

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...9792/index.php

My question is to how i can get the buttons to go to another place inside my movie. I thought that by changing after the on release command at the end of the button scripts it would do it but apparently not. I think it has something to do with that the buttons are also movie clips. But honestly i have no idea and any help would be great because i am losing sleep trying to figure this out. So again what i am trying to figure out is where in the code i edit so that the buttons will function and by clicking on them will take the user to the desired placed within the movie.

thanks

Map Scripting Help
Well...I'm close...I'm trying to develop a pretty simple map with scripted pan, and zoom functions.

I've got the pan working nicely, but I'm having trouble with the zoom (getting it to zoom on center properly). I think I'm very close, just off with the math somewhere after staring at this thing for hours.

If someone could take a peak at the code and let me know what you think it would be much appreciated. I'm sure it's something obvious, I'm just braindead from looking at this for so long.

Zip: http://www.thodyconsulting.com/junk/mapv3.fla.zip

Sit: http://www.thodyconsulting.com/junk/mapv3.fla.sit

adam@thodyconsulting.com

Cheers,
Adam

MC Scripting
Hi, I've been making a pretty good game and managed to work out how to shoot people and everything, anyway, I want to be able to make the scene goto my Game Over screen once the health in the HealthBar Movie clip has gone. With the health movieclip, I've managed for it to lose a part everytime someone shoots, but once it gets to the empty part of it (i.e when you die) a put in a script saying

tellTarget (_root) {
gotoAndPlay("Game Over", 1);
}
this seems to work when I add it to someone dieing (i.e, i've made it go on to the nextScene), but not with this, any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Scripting I Cant Do It
ok i have to make a portfolio piece for a class so i have to have a home page, a gallery page, a resume and a contact page, OK But i can not get my pages to go from one to the next and i cant get buttons to go from next to previous i just cant program anything in flash I have flash MX 2004 professional PLEASE HELP

Pls Help Me With This Scripting
i have created a full screen movie and am playing it from my swf file.
how do i exit that movie on the press of escape button????
pls pls help

Scripting Help
Been away from Flash for the last 3 years. Nice being back agian. Looking at code, what does "" mean? Is this a path, _this, _root, etc? Also what is this ..:?

Thanks

Ian

Scripting Help
Hey all flash-kit members,
I need some help with this interface idea I had. I would like to know how could I script this so all the box’s are dynamic and the animation is all scripted.

This has been puzzling me for a few days now.

I have attached a manually scripted FLA with only one of the box’s working but you will get the idea.

Thanks,

D.

Need Scripting Help
Hello
What I am trying to create is a simple car racing game from one of the tutorials I found on this site. However, a car game isn't a game without lap.

My problem is creating a counter that would count the number of laps that have been completed and end the race after 3 laps.

It sounds easy enough and I know how it would be done, I just dont know how to code it and such.

Could someone please explain to me how I would create a counter for laps that would finish after crossing the 'finish' line 3 times?

Thanks!

-Ostil-

Very New To Scripting
Hi everybody Iam new to this forums and very very new to actionscript.
Iam a cartoonist and designer for web as well printmedia. I know macromedia flash. I do animation upto the clients requirement and satisfaction but my weak point is action scripting. When it comes to the action script all my completed projects are being handed over to the action script guys and final credit goes to them. It really hurts me. I paid Rupees 3000 (almost $60) for learning basic in action script. But only I attended 2 days last week for classes in the evening....My boss unable to spare me for classes. He made me to float over some white papers for rough drawings to be scanned for animation. Even I donot know myself all my animation works are going where and who is using them. Iam not aware of how much they are getting from clients for my works. I almost lost my 3000 thousand rupees for want of learning action script basics. Since I donot know the actionscript the other actionscript guys looking at me as if Iam an illiterate. They can't draw a single line on drawing sheet for animation purpose. Only their positive point is scripting and taking total credit. After somuch of hardwork management pays me 10,000 rupees per month (equals to $200). Thinking this consequences at my workplace Iam totally become sleepless....But I want to learn actionscript at any case....Presently Iam not in position to go for classes..I forgot about my rupees 3000. I want to start learning action scripting right from ABCDs...

I request forum member to help me out from this situation. Iam unable to bear the inferior feeling that has been developing day by day. During nights I will have lot of free time. But by that time all Actionscript institutess are getting closed for the day.

Please suggest me to start my scripting tutorials through flashkit forums right from ABCDs with members help.
A forum member inneed is a forum member indeed.
Regards
Ramakrishna