Flash :: Text Animation Libraries

Dynamic Libraries(shared Libraries)
Hi,

I'm a total AS3 noob, so bare with my learning curve please.

I would be interested to load multiple swf files in the main movie and use the libraries from each swf file.

Can I do that with AS3. I know it's impossible to do that in AS2, where you can have only one shared library, but how about AS3 and FP9?

I've found some threads + posts on the internet, but they are not really helping as I need to understand the foundation and how to and what it means, so I'm hoping for a really helpful soul out there to enlighten me...
Pages I read:
http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/lo...ata.php?page=1
http://www.ultrashock.com/forums/act...swf-92007.html
http://www.scottgmorgan.com/blog/ind...-swf-with-as3/

Thanks in advance,
Eddie

Dynamic Text Fields, Layer Masks, And Shared Font Libraries.
I'm having a problem with using dynamic text fields with layer masks.

Basically I'm try to have a gradiant on a dynamic text string. So the text is my mask, and the gradiant is my base layer.

I realize that I have to embed the font. When I embed the font, it works. However, I want to seperate the font into an external font library so that I can use the font in multiple swf's. As soon as I externalize the embedded font into a shared font library, the layer mask stops working.

Question: Can I use layer masks on dynamic text fields while using a shared font library? If so... how? Thanks a bunch.

-Mike

Experts? To Share Libraries Or Not To Share Libraries This Is The Problem
if i have a library of 77k, does it deserve to have it shared all over a site, if the elements in it r themselves
with small sizes about 6k each or it will bring problems more than saving time.
in fact i would like to know all the defects of using shared libraries to deside, plz give me your opinion as experts.

note: i think i wont edit this library frequently, but the site is gonna be realy big and using this elements in it over and over again.
thanks in advance

To Share Libraries Or Not To Share Libraries This Is The Problem
if i have a library of 77k does it deserve to have it shared all over a site if the elements in it r themselves
with small sizes about 6k each or it will bring problems more than saving time, plz give me your opinion

Help On Creating A Text Animation So The Text Types Up On Screen
i need to create a text animation so that when one accesses the site, text will type itself on screen.

step by step would be handy

thanks
josh

Type Writer Text Animation & Flashing Text
Hi all of you

I have been working at my flash for hours and I am at my wits end .

I have a flash animation where type-writter text loads into the screen, thats ok. but I have a different set of text that I want to flash after the type-writing text has loaded in.

Does any body know the code for when a scene is loaded, play another scene?

I just cant get it, and its killing me

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thankyou

Chris

How To Add Unlimited Text For Text Slide Show Animation With XML?
Hi All,

I want to create text slide show animation with XML for my flash site.
But there should be no limitation to adding text in xml.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

You can also reply at: webmaster@perceptionsystem.com

thanks,
john.

Libraries
i have an fla that i want to import as a library so that i can use it in another fla can someone tell me how to doo this please?

when i try to import it the fla format isnt found

and its interactive so it didnt work as a movie file or am i just doing something wrong with the settings?

Libraries
is there a way to load an external library full of images into flash with either code in the flash or xml or something like that?

Where Can I Get The AS 3.0 Libraries?
Does anyone know where you can download the actionscript 3.0 libraries? They aren't on Adobe Labs anymore.... links anybody?

Text Slowing Down Animation/using Text Behind A Mask
hey,
first: you might want to check this link to get an idea what i'm asking.
http://www.jamolo.com/maoHuge.html

it seems like having text in my mc is slowing down the dynamic animation of certain elements.

i've got a mc called maoMask which has a mask with a picture mc and some text behind it.
on the main mc, maoMask ypos is dynamically reset and the mc's behind the mask in maoMask are reset so they appear to be still.

the problem: the text makes the dynamic repositioning of mc maoMask hella slow.
I take out the text and it runs fine. I've checked my algorithim to make sure it's not eating resources, but it looks fine.

If I switch the text to dynamic text and bring it out of the mask, it works fine. But dynamic text doesn't appear if I leave it behind the mask.

what can i do here to maintain the intended effect and have it run smoothly?

Shared Libraries
i heard that you can link an mp3 or wav file to use in your flash movie from a shared library that would be outside your movie. So the loading time will be cut down.

Maybe i don't understand the shared library concept but my problem is i have to use an mp3 for background sound and if i load it in directly my movie will be too big.

any ideas on how to solve this?

thanks for you help in advance...

Shared Libraries
Can anyone give me some insight into shared libraries and how they work. Right now I have a window "class" that I drag from swf to swf to use. If I open up a shared library will that in effect keep classes from being duplicated?

Shared Libraries
hi

i'm looking to better understand shared libraries. my impression is that utilizing them offers the potential to save loads of time when dealing with, for example, a presentation that contains similarly structered but different (in the details) swfs...

i'm even just looking to be pointed in the direction of a good explanation.

thanks

Shared Libraries
OK here goes...

I have 2 movies, A and B. A is the main movie. B has nothing on the stage, just some objects in its library which I want to dynamically load onto movie A's stage. Movie A is on level 2 and Movie B is on level 1.

What is the syntax for loading an object from movie B's library onto Movie A's stage? I suppose attachMovieClip comes in somewhere, but what are the arguments and the prefix?

cheers,

Darkwhiteorange

Linking Libraries
How can I link library from different .fla files in flash MX?

Shared Libraries
Hi,

I have set up a common shared library that will
hold things like my icons, and other movie clips that
I may decide to change at a later date.

It seems to work ok for the movie clips, but not for variables stored inside the movie clip.

In my test movie that loads the shared library, all the
movie clips come in fine. I placed a piece of dynamic text
and set it to _root.myclip.myvar and it correctly displayed the string set by that variable.

However when I try something like
trace("var = " + _root.myclip.myvar);
It doesn't display anything. I need to be able to swap in libraries with different values for that variable.

So the question is, how come the dynamic text pick up the variable, but the action script doesn't?

Cheers

Libraries In Flash MX
Well I am really a starter. I creted buttons and so on and converted in to symbols they are all in the Library but the thing is when I close that fla file and open a new fla file all those buttons that I created are gone. Is there a way to save those libraries so wheneve I open up a new .fla file I can use them again.

If you answer please be descritive, so that I can understand

Thanks in advance

Preloading LIBRARIES
hi!

i just want to ask if anyone got an idea about preloading libraries.
my problem is: i have a movie (book.swf) in this movie i have a preloader, but this preloader is only shown when all pics out of the LIBRARY are loaded. i cannot find a solution to build a preloader which is already shown when the loading of my pics in the library begins. any ideas? i tried over an external movie with "loadMovieNum ("book.swf", 1);" to preload the book.swf but it is the same, the preloader only appears when the pics out of the library are already loaded. but exactly THIS is important for me, cause the rest of the movie is very little. and i must load the pics out of my library cause the actionscript which works with the pics afford it. the pics are not on stage - my actionscript puts them via actionsscript on stage.

if anyone can give me a hint i would be very thankful!!

greets
ilsa

Questions About Libraries
Say I import files into my library....if I do not use them in my actual movie, are they still in my .swf? I dont think they do.....but my fellow designer at work says they are. Tell me wuts up guys....

www.vyrusdesign.com

Shared Libraries
I am trying to use a shared library that holds navigation buttons, and it's acting a little strange... I made the buttons in a separate .fla file, and set them all to export for runtime sharing, and then published that movie, and then i dragged each one into a test movie, and it automatically set them to "import for runtime sharing," but when i publish the movie, the actions on the buttons aren't executed, but the look right, and the over and hit states work fine... any ideas?

dave

Stock Libraries?
Hi
just wondered if there was any resource where i can get hold of stock library symbols such as buttons or other symbols.

cheeers

Shared Libraries
I am trying to create some swfs using the shared library function. My problem is that I expect that when I change a symbol in the shared library swf that it should change in all movies that use that symbol. I republish the shared file and my original movie still shows the original symbol. I must be doing something wrong.
Oh yeah v.5

Loadmovie And Libraries?
if im usin a 'loadmovie' what library do my mc's have to be in to use 'attachMovie'?

ie.

i have a preloader that loads my main movie which uses an attachMovie. where do those clips have to be?

Shared Libraries
If I decide to use shared libraries, when are they downloaded? When I need them or in the first frame?

Shared Libraries
I have a file folder full of sounds which I want to download into the shared library sound folder.
It looks like the only way to do this is to laboriously take each sound WAV file and load into the main library and then transfer that to the shared library. Is that right or is there a way that i can take the whole folder and dump it right into the share library.

Would appreciate any help on this.

Dave

Dynamic Libraries
Hey everyone. I have a problem. I need to show a specific set of images based on the value of a variable passed to my flash movie. I don't want a huge swf though. Anyone know if there's a way to dynamically load only the required library of images?

Thanks

Crazy Libraries
Hey there, I'm having a bit of bother...
I work on a iMac Graphite. I use Flash 5

Some times when I bring in an animated graphic from a library into a scene "decorated" with instances from another library, the new graphic "picks up" chunks of the existing stuff.

example:
I have a library of assorted scenery I call The Scene Dock.
I also have a library of a cartoon walking called Terry Walking.

After I create a scene for Terry to walk on, I bring in Terry.
When I do this, Terry's arm is now the mountain and his leg the clouds.
Or perhaps his body is the river and his head the sun.
It's not consistant, but it's frustrating...
Please help
Thanks

Flash Libraries
Whats the best way to approach shared libaries?

I want various libaries, buttons, custom graphics etc, brought in to one overall library. I want to use my shared libraries across my .swf files, but would like to pre-load them as and when needed?

so i could have a library with some items totalling 200-500k, but only load the items i require, not the whole library. This is a new topic for me, so any suggestions on how you might do this yourself would help.

Any advice would be good. Thanks.

DD

ps. ive read tutorials on this site already, so please dont link

Sharing Libraries Help
Ive got one flash movie and i plan to copy the actual FLA a few times and change small things in each of the copies.
I was wondering how I could share the library from the original to the rest of the copies?

Shared Libraries
Hello, I am designing a flash site which should be as streamed as possible. I was noticing that utilizing some of the components provided by Flash MX 2004 adds to file size considerably. Thus, I have attempted to better utilize shared libraries containing common components such as Buttons, Labels, and TextInput fields.

The problem I have is that the shared library is attempting to load twice. I am loading the shared library into _level1 at the beginning. However, when I later load in the flash file which contains the links to the shared library components, it loads the shared library again. The problem is that I don't want it to load twice, and it is also causing functions which I am calling on a clip which is supposed to be loaded to fail (because it is re-loading the shared library instead of using the shared library already loaded into _level1).

I was under the impression from the various books and tutorials I have consulted that once a shared library has been properly loaded, it will not need to be loaded again by swfs or clips which contain linked components.

By loading a "dummy" clip which has a link to the shared library, I am able to load the shared library first. Later, when the actual swf which has the links I care about loads, it does not reload the library. However, it seems like there must be a better way to do this. In order to create a loading bar for the shared library, the only thing I can think of would be to put the actionscript code inside of the shared library itself, and then it would have to call a known function at the root level to have its information displayed. Either that or I could just put the loading bar into the shared library. Both of those seem like hacks and I am trying to keep my app nice and cleanly designed. I don't understand why the shared library can't only have the shared library components (instead of the actionscript or loader bar I described above).

Please help me!!!!
Keith

Shared Libraries
Is there any way to use shared libraries in an application that will run from CD. I have a presentation that shows a technical assembly and I was hoping to use a single component library for all the separate animated movies. I have tried to use the readme files with flash but I am not having any success.

Can anyone shed any light onthis matter for me.

TIA

Rob H

Is It Possible To Save Libraries To Use Later?
Is it possible to save your libraries and use them in other movies? And if so how?

Sharing Libraries
Hi
I know you can share libraries in flash but have read the help files and still cant work it out.
Basically, i have one flash file with animation,etc in it and the library in that file has all the stuff i want to share with other flash documents.
how do i make a new flash document and use the library from the other file without the files taking up file size in the new file.
So bacially, i should end up with one large SWF and one small SWF and they could have the exact same animation in them. is that possible to do?
thanks

How To Use Shared Libraries
Hey guys, I imagine that no one will answer this in any one post, but I'd like to ask if anyone can point me in the right direction of a tutorial for shared libraries.

Also, the pros of using a shared library are obvious, how about the cons? Anyone know?

Shared Libraries
Does anyone know if Shared Libraries are still permitted in AS 3.0, and if so, have an example of how to use them.

This is one area that I really don't understand, well actually haven't really used much. I have several SWF files that may require components which are currently stored in a single swf file. I want to access those components without copying the files to different libraries.

Thanks in advance.

[CS3] Help With Image Libraries
I need to know what the best way to have a dynamic image library where it can easily be updated and changed in flash cs3

Using Swc Actionscript-libraries
hello there..
I want to use swc-encapsuled actionscript libraries like the imageprocessing or the corelib library. But it seems like I can't get access to those libraries no matter where I place those files.

does anyone have an idea?
thanks

How To Make AS3 Libraries
I have a customer who wants the source code for a project I have been working on. That is fine, however we agreed that only the project specific code should be delivered in source code format while the rest of my company's sensitive and pre-existing code and source libraries are to be delivered as binary libraries that can be used with the project specific source to compile a new working version on their end.

Problem is, I do not know how to do this...

Anyone who can help? Thanks...

Help With Importing Libraries
when i try too import import fl.controls; I get the following error. "1172: Definition fl:controls could not be found." any idea why?

i can import other packages such as fl.transitions..

Sharing Libraries
when you load a .swf into a new mc does that loaded swf library load into the library of the main swf.

Asking cause the problem I have is when I load my external swf into my movie and then play them the sound doesn't play with the swf.

That is were I came to the conclusion since the sound is linked in the library and then played out of that and repeated by

ActionScript Code:
soundb=new sound(this);
soundb.attachSound("sound");
soundb.start(0,6);

when I load it into a different swf it wont play the sound.

I was wondering if someone knows a different approach to this

Shared Libraries
This is probably a stupide question and I am ashamed to pose it but I need some better understanding.

I am using a shared library for all my graphics which are used by many movies.
I was wondering about the size of the shared library and how I could have a visual that tells the user some assets are loading. I suppose that the movie that contains all the graphics has to be totally downloaded before the other movies can use the graphics. So, what would be the max size recommanded for it? and how do I show the loading of the shared library in the main movie?

Shared Libraries
please someone show me a good tutorial on doing this..... I can't find one.

Shared Libraries
Hi all,

Ok, so here's my problem:
I have a main flash, with many mc's in my library, everyone with an identifier relating to an object (in this case, sounds) exported from others swf's... I make it work nice, and I can play the sounds, make them stop and everything, nicely.
The problem I have is that all the swf containing my sounds are loaded on the first frame on my main flash... which I don't want.
Is there a way to load these external swf only when... let's say the user presses a button? Or define when the "sharing the libraries" starts?

Is it clear?
I really need help on this one.
Thanks in advance

The Common Libraries
How do you use the common libraries? Specifically the buttons. I understand how to change colors and kinda understand how to set the onRelease, but how do I impliment multiples on these buttons such that each button is different and can be given different actions to do.

Swf Files As Libraries
Hi, I'm working on an extremly huge project at the moment, which involves alot of photography (because of that I get files 100Mb and up).

My question now was... would it be interesting to break down the project in smaller files (thus using the several .swf files as libraries for my one main file where I bring them all together). This project is not intended for the web. the only reason why I am considering this is because flash is freezing up alot because of the huge filesize.

If it would be convenient to break the project up into little pieces, could someone guide me in the right direction or provide me with a tutorial on how to do so? (the usage of several swf files as libraries)

Thx in advance

Text Animation Libraries

I've spent a couple hours trying to find a good open source text transition library but I haven't seen anything out there. Does anybody know of any good text animation libraries?