Flash :: Timeline Effects

Mx Timeline Effects Errors
Hi,
I have version 7.0.1 of Flash MX2004. Whenever I go to timeline effects and select an effect from any of the three options (assistants, effects, transform), I get the following errors. I'm hoping someone can help me to get rid of the errors:

first I get:
While executing in [the document name is here, say untitled1], the following Javascript errors occured: missing ) after argument list

then I get:
While executing in [doc name], the following Javascript errors occured: TypeError:Object.fxutil has no properties

next:
While executing in [doc name], the following Javascript errors occured: undetermined string literal

then it loads the window, but it keeps flashing loading preview and then pops up a window saying three times:
Error opening URL "While executing in [doc name], the following JavaScript error(s) occurred:unterminated string literal

if I change the values, say doing a blur and change the direction, and then say okay, it does apply the effect. I was hoping someone could tell me how to get rid of the error messages and enable the preview in the pop-up window. Thanks.

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Free Timeline Effects?
Does anyone here know where to find free downloadable flash mx timeline effects?

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[F8] Timeline Effects Not Showing
I think I am missing something very basic here. I have a movieclip with its own timeline in a root layer. In that timeline I have shapes, and in layers above I have shapes that slide via shape tweens to reveal the lower shapes. Every shape is in its own layer and everything works great when I manually drag the timeline across but when I run a preview all I see are the bottom shapes and the sliding shapes are invisible.

It almost seems that the timeline "skips" the frames that the tweens are on. What I can't understand is why it works when I drag the timeline but not when I run it.

I've tried using timeline transitions and even changing my sliding shapes to movieclips but no success.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rick

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Timeline Effects: Old School Guy Need Em?
A friend is learning flash and was having trouble. She couldn't get the results she wanted. I told her to send me the fla and i'd look at it. it was crazy messy, first problem. then i noticed all these timeline effects, which seemed bloated and unnecessary... more library junk. i've never heard of them before, but then i haven't been using much flash lately, are they new? are they lame? are they some kind of crappy shortcut? thanks. i'll also do some searching and researching.

jellyd

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Timeline Effects Not Working
why would all the preinstalled timeline effects product errors? Even after a clean install of Studio 8?

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Timeline Effects Error?
I have used the timeline effects successfully on my work computer, but here at home I just got this message when I tried to do the spin in transform. I also tried to do the wide and fade, but I got the same error.

Here it is:

While executing, in happy_dogs (my filename), the following Javascript error occurred:

At line 160 of file"C:Documents and SettingsOwnerLocal SettingsApplication DataMacromediaFlash MX 2004enConfigurationEffectsUberTemplate2.jsfl":removeFrames: Argument number 1 is invalid.

What the heck does this mean? Can anyone help me fix it?

Thanks!

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[discuss] Does Anyone Use The Timeline Effects?
Just curious. I don't, but I probably would if the effects were better -- the system itself of applying and editing effects works nice.

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Hangs Up With Timeline Effects
I stupidly thought I'd try a Timeline Effect and forgot that I had tried it months ago to the same problem... it hangs FlashCS3 up.

I get the message about a script is making Flash run slow..yada yada so I check YES to abort the script but the preview window stays up and I need to Force Quit.

Has this been experienced by anyone else? I was applying the drop shadow script to a shape tween (I know, I know but since it wasn't grayed out I thought perhaps something would work).

Thanks

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Multiple Timeline Effects
Hello everyone.

I am using a timeline effect to fade in a logo. CLICK TO ENTER text then appears under the logo. Upon clicking the text, I would like to initiate another timeline effect (Transform) whereby the logo rotates 720 degrees counterclockwise and shrinks in size while moving to the upper left corner, and after about a second, a hyperlink is followed.

The fade-in works, and the text appears, but I am having a problem with the rest.

Can someone please help. Thanks much.

Regards,
Doktor_G

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Flash Timeline Effects
Well, I've only played with them a little bit but I think I hate them thus far. the preview is incredibly slow and the effects are limited. Am I missing something here?

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Timeline Effects Error?
I'm seriously frustrated with this!

My Timeline Effects option doesn't give any options...when I choose - Insert - Timeline Effects - the only option says "effects list". This also happens when I have clicked on my object or text from the stage and then right-click to bring up the context menu to choose timeline effects.

If anyone else has had this problem or knows how to fix it please let me know --

Thanks in advance!

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Timeline Effects Don't Work Sometimes
Hello,

Do you guys also experience that the timeline effects such as "Drop Shadow", "transformation", "transition", etc don't work. Sometimes I select an object and then go to
timeline effects and try to add a transformation for example, but then it won't let me do it. I mean when I click on "transformation" the stage shakes slightly, but nothing happens and I dont' even get an error message. Some other times it works and another window opens and gives me different options for "transforming" the object.
I don't know why sometimes it doesn't let me to perform the effect.

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Timeline Effect > Effects> Explode
Hi, i am fairly new at flash, but have some knowledge and could mostly likely figuere out what to do if you gave me some brief heads up of what to look for. Alright here is the scenario. I have a layer made that contains about 343 blank frames (due to other layers containing stuff) then i created a frame, inserted my picture into it and extended it o say 25 frames. so i highlighted all those 25 frames, went to Insert > Timeline Effect > Effects > Explode (so that i could make my picture explode out of scene) and it came up with the following errors: TypeError: sel[0] has no properties (so i hit the ok button) Then it opens the Explode screen and flashes Loading Preview. My output box opens and says:

Error opening URL "file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Mitch/Local Settings/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash MX 2004/en/Configuration/preview1.swf"

so i hit ok then it says that some Java script error occured and at line 41 of "the directory to explode.jsfl"enterEditMode: no selection
then i hit okay and it says:

TypeError: fl.getDocumentDOM()selection[0]has no properties

Then an Explode 1 layer appears on my scene but with nothing in it, can anyone please tell me what to do, i really want my pic to explode out and i just cant figuere out whats wrong. It would be much appreciated seeing how i did take awhile to make this post.
- Mitch

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Reversing Premade Timeline Effects
Hi,
Lets say i have some text. I take that text and break it apart, and apply the premade timeline effect blur, to kind of "blow up" the letters. Then lets say I want to take that blow up kind of thing, and in another layer reverse the process and have it start "blown up" and assemble itself into another word. I make the new text and apply the effect, but it wont let me reverse the effect.

Any Ideas>?

Thanks,
Jeep

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Shorten Effects On Timeline After They Are Built
I have built an effect(shape tween) that Iwould like to make smoother and shorter. it runs for sixty frames, Iwould like to shorten to 3o frames yet keep some ballance. it is to layers thick, is there a keyboard short cut, or an easier way than rebuilding it? Or should i just remove 1 frame at a time. thanks every body.

cheeks

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Timeline Effects->transition Gets Played Over And Over Again
hi folks,
I have added a timeline effects->Transition to a line of text, I set the the transition to play once, the text resides on one of a series of slides. however when I view the flash the transition gets played over and over again, why?
thanks!!

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Flash Timeline Effects Problem
Hi All

I have created quite a complex animation, well complex for me anyways!!

However I wanted a logo and enter link to fade in at the end of the animation, if I simply stick the logo for example in a keyframe of its own and in a layer of its own, and then right click timeline effects - transition it just doesnt show up on the animation preview at all. If I double click on the instance of the logo in the timeline then do timeline effects - transition it shows up but just keeps on looping even thought the remainder of the animation is static. I tried removing the loop by selecting play once in the properties panel, but all that does is remove my main logo which it has nothing do with????

Sorry for the long story, I have tried everything I know for the last 2 hours and pulling my hair out, any help would be fantastic. I have attached a screenshot to this post.

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Timeline Effects And Javascrpt Errors.
Dear All,
I had this problem with Flash MX 2004. I know have it with Flash 8. If
Choose a timeline effect the preview window opens and I get several
javascript error messages. I close this window, without being able to use
any of the preview facilities, and the timeling effect is there. Any
solutions?

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Adding Extra Timeline Effects
Hi. I have flash 8. Is there a way to add extra timeline effects to the program? Perhaps in the form of a plug in or extension or something?

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Newbie Fade In And Out Using Timeline Effects
Hi All
Having a great time using tweening fade in's and out's but this fancy software lets me use the timeline effects to create a fade in or fade out. I would like to fade in and then fade out. Call me crazy or maybe just tired but I can't figure it out.

Example: Want to fade graphics in and then out and then another comes in and what a wonderful time I could have...

Let me know how I can make the images fade in and out.

Thanks much,
Jeff.

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Problem With Loading .jpgs Externally And Timeline Effects
I need to have an .swf that loads multiple .jpgs externally, that I can do. I also have to have it fade each one out in a slideshow fashion along with having a next/previous button, and I've got that much working as well.

However, I'd also like to add a pause button, but that's where I'm having my problem. Whenever I stop the animation, the movieclip that has the fade out effect continues to loop, which it shouldn't do. I need it to just stop playing exactly where it is.

I've included the .fla of what I've got at the moment, if that helps any.

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Advanced Masking Effects In Transitions--programmatic Or Timeline/graphics?
Hi everyone,

I've cobbled together some of my own effects to do less complicated stuff like this, but I'm hoping someone can sort of tell me "yeah, this is how they do that":

I've seen galleries with transitions between images, or transitions between content on Flash sites, where the wipe to the new content is some very complicated graphical mask--like maybe the old sort of breaks up into hundreds of "shards" and disintegrates to reveal the new content. This is programmatic, right? Or are people using manually created mask animations to do some of this stuff? Does anyone have any links to tutorials of this type of animated transition stuff? I've seen many variations, but all SEEM to be some type of heavy-duty programmed animated masks or programmed manipulation of the leaving bitmap data that is happening at runtime.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. THanks!

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Streaming Files Effecting My Main Timeline Sound Effects? Out Of Sinc?
Hi,

I have a question regarding streaming sound effects happening over your animated movie time line. I must be doing something screwy!

This is fustrating. When I add another streaming sound file, it effects the other sounds in my time line that are supposed to happen at that specific time.

When I add a sound effect over a certain part of my main timeline (say a boom sound) I want it to happen when 2 objects collide. I can do this. Pretty simple stuff.

However, It works fine when its by itself, but when I when I add other streaming sound effect over my same movie somewhere else on the main time line it changes the sound so my original "Boom" sound does not play over where it intitially played before in time with the colliding obgects. It is off and and it is not in time.

What can I do,
Please help!!!

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"Expand Timeline Effects" Problem?
I am using Flash 8
I am tried animate the text taken from XML..
I am able to get the text from XML using Dynamic textbox..
and i am able to made some simple animations like transform etc..
actually i made some text animation statically..
I need some actionscript to animate same like my static design..
Please some one help me..
here i am attaching my static design SWFand FLA..

and this is my XML file..
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<BANNER>
<INFO>
<IMAGEPATH/>
</INFO>
<ONELINERS>
<LINE1>The Best</LINE1>
<LINE2>You can </LINE2>
<LINE3>Find on Web</LINE3>
</ONELINERS>
<NEWSTEXT>
<NEWS_LINE1>News Line 1</NEWS_LINE1>
<NEWS_LINE2>News line 2</NEWS_LINE2>
<NEWS_LINE3>News line 3</NEWS_LINE3>
</NEWSTEXT>
</BANNER>

Static_Design.zip

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This is an article discussion thread for discussing the SitePoint article, "The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript - Chapter 3: Animation Effects"

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Bouncing Effects And Elastics Effects
i read some tutorials about some clips that includes bouncing or elastic effects, the problem is i can't still figure out some axnscripts such as MovieClip._x*=100 or MovieClip._x-=100, what does these syntax mean anyway?

can i have some tutorial like a dribbling ball that bounces a lot then settles down after a few moment?

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AS3 - Bad Tv Effects Or Fuzzy Tv Effects?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/meta4orce/launch.shtml

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OnDrag:scroll Thru Timeline / OnRelease: How To Resume Playing The Timeline
i want to scroll thru the timeline by dragging a slider. (just like scolling thru QT) framenumber will be calculated based on slider._x.
when release slider, timeline should play from that point normally

when i stop dragging the slider, the procedure of gotoAndPlay(calculatedFramenumber)does not stop and movie sticks on that frame where slider-button was released.

slider-button-code:
on (press) {
startDrag("", false, 276.5, 331.5, 757.5, 331.5);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

slider mc-code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
slideframe = math.ceil(1.892*(_x-276.5)+1908);
_root.gotoAndPlay(slideframe);
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
_root.play();
}

can anyone help me on that simple issue?

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Controlling A Movie Clip's Timeline Separately From Main Timeline
I've got a problem here that I've been trying to figure out for a while now, and it seems like it should be way easier than this. Here's what I've got:

I'm trying to make a neato little flash swf with lots of buttons that you can push and another little movie clip will show some little animation.

I thought I could get this done pretty simply by making a bunch of buttons, giving them an over, down, hit, sound, etc. and then having one single movie clip do all of the animations, but cleverly use stop(); and gotoandplay();

I have tried a few different ways, searched through the help & tutorials, looked all over forums on the internets, and I still can't get this to work. The main timeline is really just 1 frame, and its only purpose is to just hold all of the buttons. I have given all of the buttons instance names (ending with _btn). There is a separate layer in the main timeline for the actionscript alone, and was hoping to put all of the gotoandplay commands there. The code that I am trying to use in that frame is:

Code:
this.WV_btn.onRelease = function(){this.productzmovie_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
};
The productzmovie_mc has a command to stop(); in the first frame, and I am trying to get a button to skip to the next frame to get it going. I put a stop(); on the last frame of that animation so that it won't run through the whole thing on the first button press. If I remove that stop(); on the first frame, the whole animation just runs whenever I test it and the button has no effect.

I thought this would be way simpler than making 25 separate movie clips and hiding them or spawning them. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong here? This seems like a pretty simple operation, and I am probably screwing up some mundane detail (I always do that). Be gentle, I am trying to learn Flash and I am a bigtime n00b. I can post the .fla if you need to see it, but it's pretty simple so far, just lots of buttons.

Thanks!

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ActionScript Differences Between Main Timeline And Movie Timeline?
Hello,

Could someone explain the difference if Action Script is on the main timeline or in a movie clips time line which is on the main timeline?

I guess I mean is with regards to referring to other items or movie clips or external scripts etc.

To try and clarify what i'm going on about....

I have a form that uses a php script. The form.swf is brought into my main movie with 'loadmovie' action script.

When the form.swf is run on its own it works. When someone enters the info and hits 'send' the form gets what it needs from the php script and then goes to a 'sucsess' frame. Great.

But..

When the form.swf is run from within my main movie and someone hits 'send' the form goes to my 'fail' frame (even though it is sending the email), the php script is returning a 'fail - invalid email entered' message to the flash form (the email was valid though!!).

Because the form.swf works on its own I'm guessing that, when loaded into the main movie, i need to add something to make it talk to the php properly.

The odd thing is that it must be talking to the php as it is sending the email!!! So why is the php sending back a 'fail' and not a 'success'.

It could be that the form.swf is just not getting a response from the php and so it going to the fail frame. In which case, if my form movie is within my main movie what do i add to the php (or action script) to receive the info to the nested movie.

I cant work it out.

Thanks soooo much for your help.

Julian

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Play Movie In Timeline But Keep Main Timeline In Place
Hello,

Scenerio: You are at frame 1 of the timeline and it's stopped, you hit a button and it jumps you to frame 20 and then at frame 20 a movie clip plays.

Question. Can I have that movie play for however long I want (let's say it's a 100 frame movie) BUT have my main timeline still sit on frame 20? And then when the movie is done playing it goes to frame 21 of the main time line? Currently I have to make my main timeline be the same length as any movie I have in it, and so my main timeline ends up being an absurdly long.

Just a general answer will help - which action scripts would I be looking to use (I'm using Flash 8 Pro)?

Thanks

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Playing Timeline In Reverse Mode (the Whole Timeline, Not A MC)
hi,
I have to make a flash book where you can view each page forward and backwards - as if you were actually reading the book by clicking on a next or back button depending on what you wanna do.
My problem is: I have the main timeline and all the animations are placed there without using any MCs.

i know a similar topic has been covered hundred of times on this forum, but i didn't found anything covering this specifical issue.

All topics refer to MC's placed on the timeline, but i have all my stuff on the main timeline, without any mc's, so.... i have to ask
Is there any script to make the movie, once stopped, move backwards and then stop, when it finds the stop command?????????

Help!
Thanx in advance
Mcclaine

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Ok, i have made a movie clip in Swift 3d and have imported it into Flash MX. Now it is in the first frame as flash will place it there and what i would like to have happen is to tell frame 1 that when the movie clip's timeline ends and stops(frame 90) to then move the parent timeline to continue with stuff
If any one reads this please help or refer me to a MX book that is worth the valuble time we think we have!
Mike

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I'm using the following code:

stop();
if (_root.text01aMC._currentframe>=156) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(2)
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This code doesn't seem to do anything?

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Thanks

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Hi guys,

There is the frame in my main timeline which has a movie symbol and when the timeline heads reaches & stops at this frame & start playing the movie symbol timeline, i want that when the timeline head reaches at the end frame of the movie symbol timeline, it should take me to the any frame number/label of the main timeline i want.

I tried adding the action to the end frame of the movie symbol to take me to a different frame of the main timeline but it doesn't do anything. It remains at the same frame of the main timeline.

Is there any way out?

Regards, Rohit

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P.S. Actionscript 1.0

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The problem is the main timeline overrides the mc's timeline.
I was able to sort of fix this by shortening the main timeline, but I can see this solution is not satisfactory for any number of reasons, and even at the most basic level it seems erratic.
Obviously my understanding of this issue is too theoretical and not practical enough, or the other way around.
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