Flash :: ScrollPane Woes

ScrollPane Woes 2
Hi,

I try to attach a ScrollPane to a TextField with some text, but I have 2 bugs:
The scrollBar is shown inside Flash testing movie environment, but not on the server, even when the text is long enough for a scrollbar.
Even if there is no scrollbar, the textField is cropped (by some scrollpane obscure behavior).

Thanks,
Tal

Attach Code

//[...]

txt.text = txt.text.substring(0,txt.text.length-2);

var txtWidth:Number = 200;
var txtHeight:Number = 100;

txt.setTextFormat(TEXT_FORMAT_SMALL);

txt.wordWrap = true;
//tags.multiline = true;

txt.height = txtHeight;
txt.width = txtWidth -20;
txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
//txt.background = true;
//txt.backgroundColor = 0x339933;

// add ScrollPane

txtScrollPane.setSize(tagsWidth, tagsHeight);
txtScrollPane.source = txt;
txtScrollPane.move(someX,someY);

contents.addChild(txtScrollPane);

setTimeout(updateScrollPane, 250);

function updateScrollPane(e:Event = null):void {
txtScrollPane.update();
txtScrollPane.refreshPane();
}

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More Scrollpane Woes - Oh Yes.
hola

been having probs with the scrollpane in mx 04

i get it to work as I want - borderless, fully skinned scrollbars, the correct movie i wanna display etc

this i do all manually by dragging a scrollpane instance to the stage and setting its parameters for the hscroll policy and content path

set the border style to none using the following actionscript in the 1st frame

scrollera.setStyle("borderStyle", "none")

--- so far so good

the problems arise when I load a movie with the scrollpane into another movieclip using the loadMovie command - and to a lesser extent when I load the same clip into a level rather than another movie clip

what happens is the scrollpane highlights completely in the Halo theme colour when its clicked upon - something i don't want it to do. I've solved the problem temporarily by matching the themecolour with the background pic upon which the scrollpane is overimposed.

this is not an ideal situation

I don't think the same thing happens when using the sample theme instead

with that I have to figure out how to get rid of the scrollpane's filled background

any ideas as to how to get rid of the halo glow completely from the theme?

you might be able to replicate this problem by dragging a scrollpane on a new stage, setting it up to display a movie - testing the movie with cmd / ctrl + return then refreshing it once or twice after it loaded

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[F8] Button Inside Scrollpane, Cannot Control MC Outside Of Scrollpane?+emptymc
Hi, first look at the example of how it should work :

http://www.surfacingmedia.com/VIDEOPLAYER2.html
notice the Buttons in the scroller on the right tell the MC on the left to GOTO MC frame i want it too (each frame then holds Player for specific video.)
works great right?

Now when I load this into my main site into an empty movieclip i use for all section content it Does not work at all! sure it loads the first video but the buttons are disabled?
(use link below navigate to photo/video and selet video.)
http://www.surfacingmedia.com/

the code is the same just calls to the videoplayer MC and tells it to goto a certain frame.
it doesnt work when loaded into my empty MC. ?
any suggestions?
If kill the scrollpane altogether, buttons work fine then even loaded into emptyMC. seems once buried in scrollpane its too deep for buttons to work? which for me defeats the purpose kinda.
Note-Flash 8 (i am a code lightweight i used the BEHAVIORS commands gotoand stop on frame select the MC.)

Thanks in advance i will answer some posts while i am here that i can now.

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ScrollPane Auto Scroll On Frames Within ScrollPane
Hi Guys,

I am using an instance of the scrollPane component to load in scrollable content, some of the items of content are .swfs that have separate navigation within them. I am wondering how I can get the scrollPane to adjust the amount it can scroll based on the content on each frame of the movie that has been loaded into the scrollPane. Ideally the scrollbar would also turn off when the content is small enough for there to be no need for the scrollbar.

Thanks,

-Jim

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Swapping Scrollpane Content With Button Outside Scrollpane
Hi,

I'm terribly new to flash which is probably why I couldn't solve this with any tutorial out there.

I've got a scrollpane, and outside that I have a few buttons working as a nav bar. I want these buttons to load a different movieclip (which isn't in the stage, it's in the library) to the scrollpane.

Using the tutorial on this site (the one where you add or remove a blue movieclip to the scrollpane) I got as far as adding the movieclip to the scrollpane. Problem is, I need the buttons to unload the current movieclip before loading the new one.

(So for example, if the movieclip called "home" is loaded in the scrollpane and I click on the button "Patterns & Textures" I want that button to unload "home" from the scrollpane and load the movieclip "patterns")

My code so far looks like this:

Code:
scrollPane.setStyle("borderStyle", "none");

var i:Number=0;
var mcMain:MovieClip;
function init() {

scrollPane.contentPath = "home";
mcMain = scrollPane.content;
trace(mcMain);

}
init();

brushes_btn.onRelease = function() {

mcMain.attachMovie("brushes", "brushes"+i, mcMain.getNextHighestDepth(), {_y:50*i+5, _x:5});
i++;
scrollPane.invalidate();

};
Taken from the tutorial.

I'm pretty sure I don't need the + i part because I won't have more than one mc in the scrollpane at once, but I don't know how to remove it without screwing it up.

I'd greatly appreciate any help!

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Scrollpane Content Not Limited To Scrollpane
I am using the scrollpane component in flash mx. I have content loaded into the scrollpane via actionscript. The content loads up, but the scrollbars scroll it past the edges of the scrollpane. The content then overlaps the rest of my movie(outside the scrollpane. How can I fix this? shouldn't there be a mask there? thanks for your help, garrett

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Loading Mc In One Scrollpane From Mc Clip In Another Scrollpane
I'm still stuck.

I have one movie clip with a whole bunch of buttons 'loaded' into scrollpane and I want each button to load a different mc into a different scrollpane when clicked.

I tried using "attachMovie" but I'm still very confused.

Is this what I use?

If so, do I go

on(release){
attachMovie("mc name", "frame label of loaded mc", "level not in use");

}

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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Scale Scrollpane Content Not Scrollpane
Friday arvo, fantastic.

Any way I can scale a externally loaded clip sitting in a scrollpane.

I can scale the scrollpane no probs using a slider but I want the scrollpane to be static and the swf inside the scrollpane to scale.

cheers in advance.

H

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Postioning Content In Scrollpane Without Using Scrollpane
Hi guys.
Not sure if this is possible. i had a look through the help files but had no luck I have 2 questions so here goes.
i am using V2 components in particular the scrollbar component.
I am attaching an mc to the scrollbar the mc contains several lines of text.
Is it possible to use a button elsewhere in the movie to set the postion of the mc in the scrollpane. Essentially moving the content up or done without using the scroll pane buttons or track bar?
How on earth do i change the colour of the scrollbar track button?

thanks
Paul

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More Woes
I have a button inside of a movieclip. My main movie has two scenes. When this button is clicked it should forward to the next scene, but it doesn't...

Code on button:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}

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<img> Tag Woes
i'm having big problems with the <img> tag in an html text field.
i want one photo to be in the corner, and then the text to flow around it. this should be easily possible.

if i use the <img> tag with a jpeg, the image doesn't load straight away, which is understandable. but when it does load, it appears behind the text - the text is not flowing around it. and then inexplicably if i click the textfield or the picture, after half a second or so it rearranges and flows around the picture, how i want it. but this is no good - i can't have it wrong and then suddenly right, it looks terrible.

then i thought, maybe it's something to do with loading remotely, so i'll try using a movieclip - using the linkage feature. when i do this, it works straight away - or sort of. something appears straight away, and the text is where it should be, flowing around the right size box, but the image that appeared is actually only the first 20 or so rows of pixels of the image.

what's going on?

the reason i don't just hard code the text and picture in is that the text must be dynamic - updateable by my client. the picture will remain but i can't flow dynamic text around a picture any other way. or if there is a way i'd love to know it.

thanks a lot

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AS Woes.
Okay, here is another problem that I've come upon. This isn't so much a problem as a nuisance. Now what I've got set up is so that the BG of the site is randomly chosen. However, the way it is currently set up, the BG just shows up. I tried adding the first 'while' loop so that it would randomly change BG's before settling on one color.

The problem is that it doesn't rotate, it just modifies the variable l to 10000 and then starts the second 'while' loop. This happens in under 10 seconds. I just want it to rotate between colors that I can see.

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
//setInterval(tinter, 1000)
//function tinter(){
l=0
while (l <10000) {
blue = random(150);
red = random(150);
green = random(150);
var transformObject:Object = new Object();
//Attach your random values
transformObject.rb = red;
transformObject.gb = green;
transformObject.bb = blue;
//Now we need a color object attached to "this"
var myColor:Color = new Color(this);
//Finally, attach the transform object to the color object
myColor.setTransform(transformObject);
l++
trace(l)
}
mynumber = random(20);
i = 0;
while (i != mynumber) {
i = random(100);
blue = random(150);
red = random(150);
green = random(150);
trace(mynumber+" "+i);
//trace(red+","+green+","+blue);
//Create a transform object
var transformObject:Object = new Object();
//Attach your random values
transformObject.rb = red;
transformObject.gb = green;
transformObject.bb = blue;
//Now we need a color object attached to "this"
var myColor:Color = new Color(this);
//Finally, attach the transform object to the color object
myColor.setTransform(transformObject);
}
}
Now I'm going to try and add new lines of code that start onClipEvent (enterFrame) for the first loop, but we'll see.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
DaVuLf

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Pop Up Woes
Hi. Im kinda got pushed into falsh really quickly. I have a webssite with small images. I created a click to enlarge button so people can see my artwork bigger. i use a beginner script to do it.

on (release) {
getURL("file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/HP_Administrator/My%20Documents/jontest/XLImages/driver1finalXL.html","_blank");

}

For some reason the pop up only works when i view it on my home computer but it will not work on the internet at all. Could anyone tell me why? By the way my site is
www.jellisart.net

Maybe it will help to see what im talkin about.

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[F8] XML Woes
Hey,

I'm having some problems and i don't know how to fix them. I'm relativley new to flash.

Here is my actionscript:

Code:
//create a new xml object
urlXML = new XML();
//when the xml data has loaded, we want the XML Object to run the convertXML function
urlXML.onLoad = convertXML;
//Write to your text area that the data is loading.
content_feed_display = "Loading data...";
//now load up the url.
urlXML.load("song.xml");

function convertXML() {
if(this.loaded) {
content_feed_display = "Data loaded.";
}
mainTag = new XML;
elementTag = new XML;
articleList = new Array;
elementList = new Array;
mainTag = this.firstChild.nextSibling;
if(mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "moreovernews") {
articleList = mainTag.childNodes;
content_feed_display = "";
for(i=0;i<=articleList.length;i++){
//initialize a couple of variables to hold xml data we want displayed
document_url = "";
headline_text = "";
if(articleList[i].nodeName.toLowerCase() == "article") {
//we get the child node array beneath the articles, aka the meat and potatoes we are after
elementList = articleList[i].childNodes;
//and loop through that looking for the data we need
for(j=0;j<=elementList.length;j++) {
elementTag = elementList[j];
elementType = elementTag.nodeName.toLowerCase();
if(elementType == "headline_text"){
headline_text = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
} else {
if(elementType == "url"){
url = elementTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
}
}
}
content_feed_display += "<p><font size="+2"><a href="" + url + "" target="_new">"+ headline_text +"</a></font></p>";
}
}
}
}
I'm getting this error when i test the movie:

Quote:

WARNING: This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 5 player
Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 2, frame=1:Flash MX Text Field Instance Name

What do i need to change, get rid of, or do differently?

Thanks!

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FLV Woes...
Hi,
I have this program I have been asked to "update". They had the videos for it redone about a year ago (the company who did the vids is no longer around) the FLVs they have are compressed for flash player 8 or higher... here is the issue... the program they need to go into has to be published as 7 for they older code to work with the older LMS/script.

So the flv's will not play when published as 7. Is there anything I can do to the flvs to re-compress them with the player 7 compatible codec????

I only have access to the flvs and not to the original whatever they were filmed in files.

Any suggestions at this point would be helpful.

Thank you!

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Ie6 Woes
Hi All,

I have a question for anyone using IE6. I recently completed this site. It works fine on all the browsers that I have tested it on.

Someone has recently gone onto the site and has said that when they click on the "enter" button the get a page can not be found error message.

I have tested it on my browser - IE5.2, and it works perfectly, so I am wondering if it something to do with the conflicts that were predicted with flash and IE6?

Would any of you with IE6 possibly test it for me and see if that is the reason for this user getting the message please?

If it is caused by IE6 does anyone know how I can put it right please?
Be grateful for any suggestions, pointers and help in putting this error message right.

Hope someone can help.
D

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XML Woes
I have an SWF that loads an XML file. It works fine on my computer but it won't work on the server. The XML and SWF are in the same directory. It works fine in Internet Explorer, not in mozilla and not on Mac via Safari. The problem is even there when I access the SWF direct blahblah.com/xmltest.swf(no html embed/object)

Tried a few different servers, windows 2003 and fedora (linux). Any guesses

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XML Woes?
I am having a ****ens of a time trying to find out how many items I have in each of my libraries. I can get the count of childNodes in the furniture which is 4, I can drill down and get the names of the libraries, Tables, Chairs, Sofas and Hutches. But I can't figure out how to get the count of the items in the libraries.

What I want to have happen is when I click on the library value in the combo box the out put window would say for Table: 2 items, end_table and rd_table... etc... for each item clicked in the combo box.

But I can't figure it out.

Please help.

Here is the XML:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<furniture>
<tables name="Tables">
<item title="End Table">end_table</item>
<item title="Round Table">rd_table</item>
</tables>
<chairs name="Chairs">
<item title="Recliner">chair</item>
</chairs>
<sofas name="Sofas">
<item title="Leather Sofa">sofa</item>
</sofas>
<hutches name="Hutches">
<item title="Double Hutch">hutch</item>
</hutches>
</furniture>
Here is the flash code

Code:
var myXML:XML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
libraryList_ar = new Array();
libraryItems_ar = new Array();
//combo_list.dataProvider= ["Library", "Tables", "Chairs", "Sofas", "Hutches"];
combo_list.dataProvider = libraryList_ar;
myXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//trace(this);
//
var libraries = this.firstChild;
var libCount = libraries.childNodes.length;
trace(libCount);
var libItems = libraries.childNodes.childNodes.length;
trace(libItems);
for (var i = 0; i<libCount; i++) {
//libraryList_ar[i] = libraries.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
libraryList_ar[i] = libraries.childNodes[i].attributes.name;
}
}
};
myXML.load("myXML.xml");
//
combo_list.change = function(eventObj) {
//trace("Value changed to "+eventObj.target.value);
};
combo_list.addEventListener("change", combo_list);

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Xml Woes
for some reason, i can't seem to get the node values i need from this simple xml.. it's mindboggling! I'm sure i'm overlooking something b/c i've been screwing around with this too long.

I originally started doing it the way i usually do by creating vars to store nodes and referencing the vars to call child nodes. that seemed to give me an array structure at that point and I could no longer reference any nodeValues.

what i have should work though, but i'm getting null and undefined.

here's code:

Code:
getIPLocation=function(ip){
retXML=new XML();
retXML.ignoreWhite=true;
retXML.onLoad=function(){

trace("XML: "+this);
trace("status: "+this.status);

info=this.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.firstChild;
trace("info: "+info);
_global.userLoc=new Object();
userLoc.cityState= info.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
userLoc.countryName= info.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nodeValue;
userLoc.countryAbbrv=info.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nodeValue;
var Coords:String= info.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
trace("coords string: "+Coords);
trace("city/state: "+userLoc.cityState);
trace("country name: "+userLoc.countryName);
trace("country abbrev: "+userLoc.countryAbbrev);
trace("location coords: "+userLoc.latLong);

};

retXML.load("http://api.hostip.info/?ip="+ip);
here's the xml:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<HostipLookupResultSet version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.hostip.info/api" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.hostip.info/api/hostip-1.0.0.xsd">
<gml:description>This is the Hostip Lookup Service</gml:description>
<gml:name>hostip</gml:name>
<gml:boundedBy>
<gml:Null>inapplicable</gml:Null>
</gml:boundedBy>
<gml:featureMember>
<Hostip>
<gml:name>Grandville, MI</gml:name>
<countryName>UNITED STATES</countryName>
<countryAbbrev>US</countryAbbrev>

<ipLocation>
<gml:PointProperty>
<gml:Point srsName="http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#4326">
<gml:coordinates>-85.7561,42.9038</gml:coordinates>
</gml:Point>
</gml:PointProperty>
</ipLocation>
</Hostip>
</gml:featureMember>
</HostipLookupResultSet>
I should definitely mention that this works:

Code:
userLoc.cityState=info.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
while the others do not!

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ScrollPane To ScrollPane Communication
I have a scene with two ScrollPanes. One ScrollPane contains a movieclip of thumbnails (used as buttons), the other ScrollPane contains larger pictures. Similar to a photo album. When each thumbnail is clicked, it is supposed to go to a specific frame label of another movie clip within the second ScrollPane.

This is the code I am using for the thumbnail buttons:

on (release) {
_level0.Ads-Scroll-Large.tmp_mc.gotoAndPlay("AD2");
}

I know it has to be something stupid...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks,
Todd

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Loading Mc In One Scrollpane From Mc In Another Scrollpane
I'm still stuck.

I have one movie clip with a whole bunch of pictures as buttons 'loaded' into a scrollpane and I want each button to load a different mc into a different scrollpane when clicked.

I tried using "attachMovie" but I'm still very confused.

Is this what I use?

If so, do I go

on(release){
attachMovie("mc name", "frame label of loaded mc", "level not in use");

}

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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One ScrollPane Scrolls Another ScrollPane?
Hi. I have 2 scrollPanes in 1 .swf. The left one loads in an mc with text and links. The right one is the main text content. I want users to be able to click on links in the left pane to vertically scroll the right pane.

Oh. And I need to publish this in Flash 6.

Thanks for any advice.

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Calling From ScrollPane To ScrollPane
I am still pretty new to actionscripting...so please bare with me.
Here is what I have...
I have 2 scroll panes
Both of the following scroll panes are on the main stage (frame 1).

One scroll pane has an instance name of "scrollComponent". It is loading the movie "componentList_MC".
In the "componentList_MC" movie is a battery button with an instance name of "batteryBut_btn".

The second scroll pane has an instance name of "viewsScroll". It is loading the movie "viewsPanel_MC".
In the "viewsPanel_MC" I have a frame label of "full" and another label of "230-6368_Battery".
The inital state of the "viewsPanel_MC" is set so that it is on the frame label "full".

I am trying to get it to where when you click on "batteryBut_btn" that it will go to "viewsPanel_MC" and go to the frame label "230-6368_Battery".

Here is the code I have on frame 1 on the actions layer. This is what I have described above and is not working. Any thoughts or suggestions that someone could help me out with?

//12V Battery (230-6368_Battery)
batteryBut_btn.onRelease = function() {
_root.viewsScroll.viewsPanel_MC.gotoAndStop("230-6368_Battery");
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ActionScript Woes With NS
Hi! I'm pretty much a "newbie" at action script, and I think I've made pretty good progress so far.

HOWEVER ... I've got something that should be VERY simple that's giving me BIG troubles.

I've made a drag-n-drop interaction that will be used as a review question of sorts. Anyway, it works BEAUTIFULLY in IE, but in Netscape, all of my targets that SHOULD have an alpha setting of zero at the beginning are showing up as 100% in NS. You can drag the draggable items, but the correct targets aren't recognized as correct.

After reading through some of the posts, I've come to the conclusion that it's a pathing issue, and that Netscape requires absolute pathing. The script that currently works in IE (for one of the draggables) is shown below. I've tried replacing the slashes with "_root.", but that hasn't worked, either. Any suggestions?

on (press) {
startDrag (decision_out, true);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag ();
if (_droptarget eq "/decision_in") {
setProperty ("/decision_in", _alpha, "100");
setProperty ("/decision_out", _visible, false);
tellTarget ("/decision_in")
gotoAndPlay ("in");
setProperty ("/notcorrect", _alpha, "0");
setProperty ("/correct", _alpha, "100");
} else {
setProperty ("/notcorrect", _alpha, "100");
setProperty ("/correct", _alpha, "0");
}
}
[Edited by heidster on 06-25-2001 at 08:53 AM]

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Preloader Woes.
Hello.

I have made a movie which will be loading in level 0.

But I have not made any room at the start of this movie for a preloader to check if all the frames/bytes are loaded.

I now need a preloader to display a loading message while the rest of the 100K movie loads.

I was thinking of a separate movie on level 1 which would hide the level 0 movie and display 'loading etc' while it checks if the movie on level 1 has loaded or not.

Does anyone have any suggestions, bits of script etc so that I can continue with this project.

I have tried a few things already and haven't managed to accomplish what I wanted.

Cheers.
References to any movies within flashkit would be good.

Gav

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Alpha Woes
Hey guys... I've been using Flash 4 to design a site
http://dru-hill.cjb.net/
but I found it inadequate to my needs (ie I couldn't make custom cursors etc) so I thought... hmmm I'll use Flash 5.

Anyway, I need to know how to vary alpha settings of instances via a button (check my site http://www.eggman56.f2s.com/druhill/druhill.swf and u'll see a button that sez 'lighten' and below it 'reset'... this was done in flash 4 but I am gonna use 5 to finish the site) lighten drops the alpha to 50 so the text is more viewable... reset resets it... i want to know how to change the alpha in increments of say, 10 (ie sort of like the text.scroll - 10 command)... please help... can it be done or am I just jerking off?

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LoadMovie Woes
Ok i am building an entire site in flash and to be bandwith friendly i want to load in images as they are needed on various pages instead of all at the beginning. I know i need to make the images SWFs and load them into a level above the main site. What i don't know is a) how to make a loader that will display while a particular SWF is loading and b) why on slower connections it seems that a loaded swf just never appears at all...

If someone could help me with either of these two questions I would be greatly obliged. Thanks!

Dave

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Button Woes (something New... I Think)
This should be fairly simple, but the solution is eluding me. I have a button, with a mc on the over frame. When you click the button, it shrinks and spirals away, but if you mouseover it as it does so, the mc will still play (obviously). My question is-- how do i get it so after you hit the button, the mouseover part is disabled? i would put up the .fla, but i dont have a server, so if you dont understand, i can email it to you.

btw-- ericlin if you read this, i have a question on your fading script.

thanks!

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HitTest Woes..
PreStuff:

I have four Walls named "Wall1" through "Wall4", on a frame w/ a stop action. _root.NoWalls = 4; is also on this frame.

The PROBLEM:

I Have an MC named "Zakarus", he has an action that says if i hit the "UP" key, to gotoAndStop on "Zakarus"'s frame 2. On frame 2 of "Zakarus" I have another MC named "ZakarusUp". On the first frame(named "run_up") of "ZakarusUp" I have this:

for (I=1; I > _root.NoWalls; I++) {
if (not (ZakarusUp.hitTest("/Wall"+I))) {
_root.Counter += 1;
if (_root.Counter == _root.NoWalls) {
setProperty ("/Zakarus", _y, getProperty("/Zakarus", _y)-8);
}
}
}

On each of the other 5 frames of "ZakarusUp" i have

call("run_up");

To me this looks all good and dandy.. BUT, always a but, it plays all the frames and does as it is told, except for the fact that is doesnt move up 48 pixels, in fact it doesn't move up at all, just lays dormant showing the animation.

I thank you in advance and if i missed something key in explaining what I have just tell me and i will post up what it is. PLEASE i really need your Flash O' powerful knowledge on this one..

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Hi All,

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code:
____________________________________________
loadedbytes = getBytesLoaded();
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totalkbytes = Math.ceil(totalbytes / 1000);
frame = Math.ceil(loadedbytes / totalbytes * 100);
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____________________________________________

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if you could have a quick look and let me know why...

http://www.millenniumit.freewebsitehosting.com

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Hi All,

Im still having trouble with my preloader..

http://www.millenniumit.freewebsitehosting.com/

everything works except for the freakin' loader bar...it just seems to loop bacl to the start every second

heres the code im using...(thanks to XFM ):

Code:

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Hi:

A have an intro that I get to preload properly.

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Code:
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Now, as you can see (i.e.,_level1), I created an empty movie, containing nothing but my preloader script & the (percentDisplay) text field, then loaded my intro into it.
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I use this same preloader to load music sound tracks on my portfolio site, and it works fine.

Also, I tried using another preloader with this intro, the one which I use to preload my portfolio, but it doesn't work either, altough it works great on my site, under the same circumstances, i.e., as a preloader scene.

Can anyone offer an suggestions as to why these don't work with this intro? I don't want the intro to start playing while the preloader is still on screen counting down, and I'm not catching on as to why I have to load this intro into level one, and preload it from another movie. Any advice?

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http://www.ekigroup.com

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He is risen!!!

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Here's my exact script:

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(I just found that integrating the .swf file in html is 1 extra step and it's not best for all screen sizes.)

Note: The preloader will work if I completely load the page, go to IE and delete all offline content (while still on the page), and then press the reload button. But otherwise it's completely useless.

Any help's much appreciated...

- stsren

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So enter the infamous FScommand....

I entered this into my main form:

Private Sub FlashMovie_FSCommand(ByVal command As String, ByVal args As String)

Dim Drunk As New Drunk()
Dim TwentyBeers As New TwentyBeers()
Dim tenBeers As New TenBeers()
Dim ThirtyBeers As New ThirtyBeers()
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And in the flash movie(s) I entered in action, selected fscommand: and typed in (command) TenDone. Second movie had a fscommand of TwentyDone, and so on...

I build the project and it doesn't work.
Now mind you, everything worked fine before I tried playing with the fscommand. The problem was, I have a flash movie that I want to play and from that load a frmWindow depending on the tenDone, twentyDone.... Frmwindow doesnot open from flash but from the VB program. Unless I put the frmwindow open commands in flash?

The program is a slot machine and I have a movie for spinning, but the little popup windown I had for winning were popping up before the actual spinning was done. Which is why I Want to enter the fscommand signaling "Done" so go a head and load the winner window...

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I want to make a bar with a gradient @ 400 px wide and 40 px height.
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IS this the proper way to make that type of nav? ANY HELP will be appreciated!

For iaskwhy,

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Here's my exact problem. I've written a little actionscript function that creates a new instance of a movie clip (already existing on the stage). Here it is:

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_root.quote.text = "Zx should die!";
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_root.games.text = "104";
_root.nickname.text = "****er of the Goats";
_root.picture.text = "N/A";
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_root.age.text = "25";
_root.location.text = "Virgina";
_root.aim.text = "squadkillerDBD";
_root.quote.text = "Garth Brooks Rules!";
_root.kills.text = "14836";
_root.deaths.text = "11428";
_root.flags.text = "67";
_root.games.text = "103";
_root.nickname.text = "Mini-Van Man";
_root.picture.text = "N/A";
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_root.name.text = value;
_root.age.text = "20";
_root.location.text = "Washington, DC";
_root.aim.text = "rabbi2153";
_root.quote.text = "";
_root.kills.text = "11361";
_root.deaths.text = "6076";
_root.flags.text = "45";
_root.games.text = "91";
_root.nickname.text = "Funny looking kid";
_root.picture.text = "N/A";
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_root.age.text = "13";
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_root.quote.text = "";
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_root.deaths.text = "4891";
_root.flags.text = "143";
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