Flash :: Wierd Happenings

Wierd Happenings...?
I am working with a FLA file that is a map of the USA. Each state is set as a seperate button with the instance name as that state's 2 letter abbreviation. I have an action on each button that tells it to gotoAndPlay a seperate frame in the movieclip that contains a "popup layer" (new movieclip) with specific information about that state.

Here's the REALLY weird thing. Every once and a while, the file randomly corrupts my library and starts replacing certain components with other compents (ie - it will replace my graphic symbol of CA with that of FL, or it will replace TX with my close window graphic). The file itself doesn't corrupt - it just messes with the library.

Has anyone else ever experienced this issue with Flash? I'm at a loss as to why it would do this...

Thanks in advance.
-DarthJay-

Flash Into Dreamweaver Wierd Happenings...
got this animated drop down navigation created in flash mx which works perfectly fine in flash. when put into dreamweaver the links work but dont stick around so you cant see the submenus. (see attached) any idea why this might be happening?

Strange Happenings
Hi, I have been working on this problem for about 10 hours and I am completely stuck.

I have a one scene movie, on the first frame is a flash calendar component. There is a function in the first frame that hides certain dates depending on information loaded from a text file.
This all works fine, later on in the scene pictures are displayed and the option to go back to the first frame is displayed via a button.

The thing is, when you go back to the first frame the mc's inside the calendar can no longer be referenced (even directly). They could be referenced as soon as the movie runs but not when returning to the first frame, I have no idea why.

The file is here:

imagetest5

Hopefully someone knows what the problem is/ can see whats going wrong?
Thanks for any help

Very Strange Happenings Please Help
I'm creating this e-learning thing in flash 5. Below I've attached the menu of the app. The problem is that the text for the buttons is showing up in some buttons and not in others. I'm using _sans (as it appears in the font pallete). Any idea why this is happening? Only the first 6 buttons have this same font (_sans), but notice the text in 5th and 6th button is missing.

Please help!
thanks

Strange Happenings
I've got a pretty weird problem this morning.
I logged on to my machine, opened Flash and Dreamweaver.
I opened a page in Dreamweaver I had been working on the day before.
I hit F12 to preview the page expecting to see it pop up and run just fine.
But that's not what happened.
The html page opened but the flash file would not load in. hummmmm?
I went to the swf and it worked ok. So I detached it and reattached it again in the html file. Still didnt work.
So I went to some other pages from various sites that I know work, and when I tried to test those, about 1/2 worked.
If I can get a swf file opened in an html file, the buttons pulling in external swf files dont work. This happens the same locally tested and internet tested. I have these files out on the net and they do the same thing running off my ISP's server as they do my own machine. But I put some of those files out on the net months ago and they have worked until today. Imagine waking up one day and finding all the sites you have on the net with embedded swf files arent loading those swf files. You'd think it was the ISP. I did. But that doesnt explain them not working locally on my machine. Nor does it explain why some load and some dont.

Here's a link to a site I'm working on for a client. This is one where some of the swf's work, and some dont.

http://home.insightbb.com/~M.RISCH/SectionNews2.htm

The white space is where it should be. Where it was yesterday when I looked. Any ideas???????

Very Strange Happenings....
Hello all

There is something very strange going on with a couple of flash movies/sites that I have created.

At first it was only noticed by one person, but it is now two, which makes me wonder how many others are having the problem.
Please check this site and this site in IE6 (if you still have it).

The problem is that on the first site the navigation on the left hand side doesn't appear to work but the images all show and they can see the background. When they roll over where the navigation is it shows the rollOver state but no text. The same is so for the second site's flash header.

It works on the majority of other test machines we have tried and I can't understand why the odd ones can see the images but not the text as the swf files are the whole thing (not images seperate from the nav). Do the fonts need to be embedded or made into outlines (like Illustrator) because I thought that all fonts would display using flash?

Just wondered if anyone else had come across this very odd thing or anyone could offer any advice, it's confused me.

Thanks in advance
James

Odd Text Happenings
I have some text (Fixed Miriam Transparent) in a movie i created, however when i export the movie it is displayed in a different text. I can't figure out why and I need it to be in Fixed Miriam Transparent text.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Weird Happenings With Text. Help
Why is it that when I type text into my movie, only to have it disappear when I preview it? This has REALLY been bugging me for a while now.

[AS2.0] Weird Happenings With Loop-generated Clips
okay. here's the weirdness. the clips inside the loop won't update (thumbnails/text won't work). the single variably referenced clip outside the loop doesn't either, but the explicitly referenced clip does. WTH?

CODE:

var lev01:Number = 2; // number of categories
var lev02:Number = 4; // number of category elements
var slot:Number = 0; // start level
var stak:Number = -72; // start position

for (i=0; i<lev01; i++)
{
// do some stuff if necessary...

for (j=0; j<lev02; j++)
{
// so some stuff...

var clipName:Object = "listItem"+i+j+"_mc";
var pixName:String ="thumbnails/kaboom_0"+i+j+".jpg";
slot = slot+i+j;
stak = stak + 72;

/*trace ("i= "+i);
trace ("j= "+j);
trace ("clipName= "+clipName);
trace ("pixName= "+pixName);
trace ("slot= "+slot);
trace ("stak= "+stak);
trace ("
");*/

attachMovie("mcListItem", clipName, slot,{_x:50,_y:stak});
clipName.itemPix_mc.loadMovie(pixName); // THIS NO WORKY
clipName.itemName_txt.text = "Kaboom 0"+i+j+".jpg";
}
}

clipName.itemPix_mc.loadMovie(pixName); // THIS NO WORKY
clipName.itemName_txt.text = "Kaboom 0"+i+j+".jpg";

listItem99_mc.itemPix_mc.loadMovie(pixName); // THIS WORKY FINE
listItem99_mc.itemName_txt.text = "Kaboom 0"+i+j+".jpg";

Weird Happenings... Movie Not Stopping When Told 2
Hey,
I'm working on a flash site and i want my movie to stop at the end of the second scene when the site is fully loaded. I'm using just stop(); and it doesnt do anything... it used to work before i added a pre-loader tht a friend of mine scripted, but the pre-loader code doesnt even appear on the second scene...

I'm also loading in an external .swf would this effect things?

Here's the script for the pre-loader incase thts wht's messing it up

ActionScript Code:
fps = 26;
//MAKE SURE TO CHANGE THE FPS TO YOUR FPS
barMaxWidth = bar._width;
function refreshkbps() {
time++;
if (time == fps) {
kbps = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/1024-(kbps1/1024))+"kb/second";
kbps1 = getBytesLoaded();
time = 0;
}
}
onEnterFrame = function() {
bar._width = getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal()*barMaxWidth;
percent = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal()*100)+"%";
kb = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/1024)+"kb/"+Math.round(getBytesTotal()/1024)+"kb";
if (_root.getBytesLoaded() == _root.getBytesTotal()) {
_root.play();
} else {
stop();
refreshkbps();
}
};

Thanks for any help

Strange Happenings... Play Head Stops On Frame For No Reason....
Hello - I'm making a header for a website. I have actionscript on the first section to make an image appear, some text to scroll across, the image disappears and it jumps the playhead to the next section. The next section works the same and does just what it's supposed to do. When it goes to the 3rd section which is a series of bitmap images placed on the timeline in sequence to create a blur effect, the playhead will only go to the first frame of the 3rd section and it stalls. There are no actionscripts on the frame. None on any of the movie clips and all the actionscript prior to the point at which it stops is correct... I don't understand what is happening. Pulling my hair out - it should be so simple. Someone please make me feel stupid...

the fla is attached below...

thnx
tony

Wierd Ish Going On>>
Why is it that when i have a dynamic text box that is supposed to display a variables contents it doesnt work when inside of a MC?

Need help fast!

Very Very Wierd
i have an MC on the main timeline. then i have it moving into the middle of the screen with motion tween. it works fine, except when it is a different color...there are buttons in the begining that change it color like this

Code:
colorTarget = "guy";
input = "000000";
newcolor = new Color(colorTarget);
newcolor.setRGB(parseInt(input, 16));
now the tween doesn't work...i don't understand.Can anyone help me?¿?¿?¿

Wierd One
Hi
I am using the following command so the return key and mouse can be used to submit:

on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
}

I am getting comment from clients like "press return key and computer is idol until the mouse is ‘jiggled’"

Anyone experience this problem or are they just running slow systems as I have no such problems

Any comments would be appreciated
Ol

Something Wierd I Am Not Getting This....
I am setting a flash animation to play 3 times and then if the cookie's counter i set goes past a certain number and less then a certain number the play head will go and stop to a frame.

Everything works until i drag a instance of a movieclip to the frame i want static .....IT does not show up. i have put text and boxes on the frame and it shows. as soon as i put something in from the library it does not. this is driving me nuts!

Can anyone help i have attached the fla file.

This Is Wierd
Check this out. I created a text document "testing" then i made it a symbol, then i created a simple motion tween where it fades in form frame 1. But everytime I play it it doesnt work check it out and play the movie, why does it do that

Am I Wierd?
does anyone else put subliminal messages in flash movies or is that just me?

Wierd If & Else
Ok, this is really wierd, or I'm just stupid. Either way, I need help...

I have a movieclip (ball) with a button inside. by clicking on the button, I want to be able to swich the balls y-position between two global values (_global.ballNorth & _global.ballSouth)

This is how I tried to solve it, but it didn't work out...

Actions for "root-frame":

_global.ballNorth = 10;
_global.ballSouth = 100;

Actions for button inside ball:

on (release) {
if (_root.ball._y=ballNorth) {
_root.ball._y = ballSouth;
} else {
_root.ball._y = ballNorth;
}
}

When I test the movie the balls y-pos is 10. Then I click on the button inside the ball, and the ball moves to y=100. So far so good.
But it won't move back to y=10 when I click on the button again!

I use Flash MX 2004 on Win XP SP1, so please tell me, am I stupid or is it a bug?
Help!

I'm attaching the file in case anyone don't understand what I mean...

Greetings
Kalliban

Wierd MC's
Hey i got this little animation going on so its easy i got stuck with this my main timeline plays a MC a simple fade in so i give my main timeline some frames so the MC can play., now some frames ahead i want the same mc to fade out but i just can't
i gave my mc a instance, and try the my_clip.gotoandplay (#frames) code but i can't

Here's A Wierd One......
Hi guys,

I had a wierd one and I'm not sure if anyone else has come across this - or if I'm just being a muppet.

I wanted to send some variables to a php file. Easy enough

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

lv.dataOne = "Data one";
lv.dataTwo = "Data two";

lv.send ("myfile.php");

It didn't work.

I tried a few different variations and then thought, lets do a send an load for testing.

var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var test:LoadVars = new LoadVars();

lv.dataOne = "Data one";
lv.dataTwo = "Data two";

lv.sendAndLoad ("myfile.php",test);

test.onload = function () {

trace ("It's finally worked!!!!");

}

Ran it, got the trace and also it hit the php. So why on earth did sendAndLoad work, and not just send? I believed that leaving send with only the file to hit would POST the variables to it? Or for send to work do you HAVE to define a window to open?

I've only ever had this situation where I was sending variables only without waiting for a response so I've always used sendAndLoad up to now.

As it's working now it's not desperately pressing, but I have to confess I'm a bit stumped.

Something Really Wierd?
hey everyone - i have an interesting one for you.

i'm loading data from mysql, through php to flash. very simple data. each row in the table contains 4 fields. one of them has a name of an image to be loaded into flash.

i manage to load the data normally. i receive it in flash as a long string with different symbols separating them. i think split the string into an associative array. when i call the data, it reads it (and it traces properly) but it's as if the file isn't found! i'm trying to load pngs, but i also tried with jpgs and it still doesn't work!

here is the code when loading the image:

Code:
for (i=0;i<totalToLoad;i++) {
...load("images/" + mainMenu.groupVars.tG + "/" + theGroup[i][0] + ".png", tempGroupItems[i].hh)
}
the funny thing is, is when i use the following code it works:

Code:
for (i=0;i<totalToLoad;i++) {
...load("images/" + mainMenu.groupVars.tG + "/" + (i+1) + ".png", tempGroupItems[i].hh)
}
** the difference is that instead of using the name from the array, i'm just calling files named with numbers (ie 1.png, 2.png, etc.). i also tried hard coding the file name to the name of the file (ie "thefilename") instead of the array and it also works! its' got to be something with the array.

any idea what is going on!? the funny thing is, is that i've done this SO many times and it's worked!

thanks!

Wierd...
I have created a square button which is the mask of a gradient bar. Now that works fine when i play it i see the gradient in the shape of the square button as it pases, but as it pases the other squares I added after that, theres no mask? What the heck is goin on. The other squares are the same tween and on the same layer. ? Herm

Wierd One...
I have a set of buttons that are buried deep into two movie clips.
>City (movie clip 1)
|
>CityBtns (Movie Clip 2)
|
> BtnRed (Button1)
> BtnBlue (Button2)
> BtnGreen (Button3)

Unfortunatly, due to the animation, there not really any way of putting those buttons into the root of the animation. The OnClipEvent(release) doesn't work either.

Is there any way to be able to utilize those buttons or do I need to go back and tell my art department to redo the animation?

Please help!!

SpecterCorp

Arrays = Wierd
Okay, Im not sure if Im missing something quirky about how you address arrays in flash or if its something blatant Ive missed, but this is wierd. I have an array:

month = new Array();
month[0, 0] = "January";
month[1, 0] = "February";
month[2, 0] = "March";
month[3, 0] = "April";
month[4, 0] = "May";
month[5, 0] = "June";
month[6, 0] = "July";
month[7, 0] = "August";
month[8, 0] = "September";
month[9, 0] = "October";
month[10, 0] = "November";
month[11, 0] = "December";

And then i get the date from this:

today = new Date();
currentmonth = today.getMonth();
currentday = today.getDate();

now i have a dynamic text box on stage called text1. If i say just

text1 = currentmonth;

then it sets the text box = 5 for June. But if i change it to

text1 = month[currentmonth,0];

then it puts in 'December' in the dynamic box. And I even tried just putting in 5 instead of currentmonth, with the same effect. Is their some trick to accessing data of multiedimensional arrays in flash? Or am I overlooking something stupid. Any help is appreciated...

PLEASE HELP: Wierd Problem
Has anyone experienced this problem, and if so what is the fix? I have a thumbnail button movieclip (named Thumbnail Menu) load into my portfolio website using the loadmovie command (loads into level 20). When one clicks on a thumbnail another SWF movieclip (named Slideshow) loads using the load movie command on top of the Thumbnail Menu SWF movieclip (also loads into level 20). What is weird is that anytime I drag my mouse in the area where the hot thumbnail buttons are located underneath Slideshow SWF movieclip this area remains hot eventhough the thumbnail buttons are beneath the movieclip Slideshow SWF. What is the right way to load movieclips so that they don't interfere with each other? Thank you in advance.

Wierd Problem
this is a wierd problem, i'm having a loadvariable swf that loads bunch of stuff from a cgi script. it works perfectly when i run it on my local drive, EVERYTHING is fine. but when upload it to my website, it doesnt work.

anyone has any clue about this wierd prob??

thanks alot
[Edited by dancinkid6 on 04-03-2002 at 03:14 AM]

Wierd Problem?
I dont know if anyone else has experienced this kind of thing,

i have a project that i have been working on for the last 2 months or so - some pretty intensive code but i am happy with it. So the coding side is perfect as far as i am concerned so i now use Photoshop to create imagery to give the movie a bit of "gloss"!!!

The funny thing now is that when i run my movie, my cpu starts to run at 35% where as before the adjustments it ran at 1 or 2 percent.

OK well it could be complex images that flash is having to redraw at the 36 fps frame rate - NO i checked this

The coding and the layer structure has remained the same as the prototype.

I know it is not the images that are causing the problem because i take them out of the new fla and still the thing runs at 35%.

(there are no cpu intensive animations occuring at all. There is complex coding but this only occurs as the user requests - the 35 % happens when no complexity is happening at all)

WIERD!!!!!!

anyone else have this trouble

Weirder still, if i take the top 4 layers from the movie, then the cpu returns to it's normal state, but these are the same top four layers as in the prototype and so should not add anymore cpu intensity......should it???

answers on a postcard......

gilesb

Just Plain WIERD (possible BUG?)
Hi,

This one is a little odd...

I have a multi-scene SWF.
On scen 01, I click a radio button and then a SUBMIT button. This does TWO major things. and 1 MINOR thing

MAJOR:
1) It grabs the value of the button (no problem, that part works)

2) It sends some info to a server (again, no problem it works).

MINOR:
it goes to scene 02. (no problem it works)

In the first frame of scene 2, the SWF makes a request for some XML from a server. (no problem it works)

PROBLEM:
UNFORTUNATELY and without REASON when I test the movie, It makes the scene 02 request first, THEN sends the info from scene 01 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please help if you can I'm at a total loss, without any answers on the net that I can find. No book I've read/got even mentions this!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP

Wierd Loadvariables?
question about loadvariables, i am sending and loading some variables from php/mysql, kinda like registeration. so its like loadvariable("url/blah.php?name=dd&pwd=ddd",this), and php code reads it, if everything is fine, it returns var like sucess=1 means it suceeded,

so now, i use loadvariables to get this var sucess, but somehow it has a wierd type, i tried to convert it with String(), but it cant be recognized in if condition,
which means like if(String(sucess)=="2") would return false even tho "sucess" is shown as 2 in trace function. anyone has any clue?
[Edited by dancinkid6 on 08-10-2002 at 07:27 PM]

Wierd JPG Loads But Sometimes Don't
Im working on a gallery and on my way i've found this freaking issue!!! i got 3 jpg's named esc01.jpg esc02.jpg and esc03.jpg <-- these 3 jpg's loads perfectly but the ones named g101.jpg thru g109.jpg just dont load !!!! im using this code --> loadMovieNum("g109.jpg", _root.myPic);

can someone tell me whats happening ?

?wierd Problem?
on my website, in the drawings section, i have several pictures.however when i go on the site, the drawings dont seem to appear in the drawings section, until i refresh the page.
can anyone solve the prob??
sims
oh yeh www.geocities.com/sims_web

Quiet Wierd.. But Can Some One Help
The pannel siez of my flash 5 application has changed drastically...
I tried a lot of options.. But it is not returning to its normal size.. can some one say. what's the problem with it??

My resoulution is : 1024 x 768
For your understanding, i am attching a sample gif, which will give u some idea..

Thanks in advance

Wierd Tab Problem
I'm having a problem with my tabs and I don't really understand why, hopefully someone can help.

I set the tabEnabled and tabIndex's up the way I want them.

Then I decided to get rid of that yellow selected box that appears over my buttons when I tab to them by using

_focusrect=false;

Ok so now the selected box is gone, good thats what I wanted.

But since getting rid of the selected box now pressing enter when I've tabed over to a button doesn't push the button.
I know the button is selected because it's in the over state.

If I enabled the selected box again( _focusrect=true; ) it works fine.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Wierd Thing
Hi all!

i've got a mask layer (with animated mask) and beside, i've got 2 layer (pix1 and pix2).
These 2 layer contain empty mc and i load external swf inside it. But, i don't know why, i don't see the mask animation.

It seem that the external swf are place above the layer mask ... but it can't be ???

Can someone please help me .... very urgent

Steve

Wierd Problem
ok! i got this wierd problem , none of my buttons work in the output file ( the swf )

but in the fla they work? i don't know why ?

can anybody help ? thanks in advance

Wierd One With SwapDepths() ?
Hi
I have a strange problem with swapDepths()
I have a load of movieClips that can be dragged around. The last one to be dragged id the highest. When I move forward on the _root timeline all is fine, as soon I move backward on the timeline they duplicate themselves?!?
Can anyone explain this
Cheers
Ol

Wierd Problem
i have encountered a wierd problem... and i cant imagine whats wrong.. thats why im turning to the professionals..

take a look at this
http://www.xylophex.com/eaw

nothing wrong with it so far... but try pressing the digital art link fast about 4 times.. its not just that.. its any link you press fast multiple times...

evrything just starts rambling.. evrywhere.. i have absolutly no clue what is doing this.. all the code is solid and there should be no way it could get past the stop places..

im really hoping on some help on this matter.. i cant have it like this.. i spent alot of hours on this site and i dont want it ruined couse a stupid bug

thnx in advance for any help you may be able to offer..

Wierd Thing...please Help
Hi i have recently started developing the site click for site
if you enter the site and click on the dates or the chart menu tab its loads the text from an external file. But it does a wierd thing of loading some text really quickly that you cant read and then displaying the correct text.

I cant work out where the text is coming from or why its doing it. Can anyone help me.

Thanks
Jon O

Wierd Thing...please Help
Hi i have recently started developing the site http://www.jongurd.com if you enter the site and click on the dates or the chart menu tab its loads the text from an external file. But it does a wierd thing of loading some text really quickly that you cant read and then displaying the correct text.

I cant work out where the text is coming from or why its doing it. Can anyone help me.

Thanks
Jon O

Wierd Masking
anyone have anyidea how you would go about doing a "sun" mask like the one one www.aperfectcircle.com i tried a few different things, but i cant seem to make it loop correctly and such.

Something Really Wierd Is Happening
Ok, I have a symbol that was converted into a movie clip, then a button. I have an animation in the movie clip with a stop action in the first frame, then on the button I have it:

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("Game", "start");
}

except when I click it instead of playing the animation, it goes to the next scene. What exactly am I doing wrong?

This is in Flash 5 also if that matters

Wierd Bug With My Scrollpane...help Please.
when i preview my swf the scrollpane runs fine, but when i publish it for html to put on my site, there is a wierd glitch. right before the scroll contents show up the site is flashing an image of a blank scroll pane for a second. check it out at [url=http://ihearticon.com/girlgallery] any ideas?

Wierd ID3 Tag Problem.
Hello.

I'm trying to pull the ID3 tag info from dynamically loaded mp3s and display them in trackInfo.text:

trackInfo.text = "artist : " + mysound.id3.TCOM;

It works perfectly for every tag (album, trackname etc) except artist, to which it always returns "undefined." I have tried lots of different MP3s and have made sure they are tagged correctly using a tag editing prog.

Anybody got any ideas?

Wierd Masking
Howdy, heres the question. I'm working in MX 2004 Professional, and I understand masking and how it works. Now I have a circle with a blueish color, but I want to have a mask rotate around the circle to show the color? I've tried making a shape Tween and it looked all wierd, then I tried a motion and it wouldn't work. And I can't figure out to do this? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

[MX] This Is A Wierd One I'm Stumped.
Hello,

I have a bit of a strange one here. On my new site, when you go to the home page (click the brown circle) it looks fine, but if you open up another browser and browse away at other sites etc and then go back to the browser that has my site in it, the text is all shimmery and wobbly.

Have a try and see if it happens - www.boxwellwebdesign.com

Do I need to embed the font? I'm using Tahoma all the way through the site.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers
G.

[F8] Wierd Problem
I am looking into how to use the window component in flash 8.

I have a window component in my library, but none of the scripts I try seem to work.

Could it be the scripts I'm using or what?

Also, any help regarding the window component would be appreciated too.

Thanks,

Jake

HitTest Being Wierd
When I run this code the result from the hittest is abnormal, hittest seems to return a true value when the cursor is in the area of 100, 100 to 200, 200, which would sugest that hitTest beleives _mcBoundry is at position 100,100 when infact it's at position 0,0. In short when I have the cursor over the _mcBoundry I don't get the desired true value.

Code:
class MyClass
{

private var _mcBoundry:MovieClip;
private var _nInterval:Number;

public function MyClass ()
{
createBoundry ();
}

private function createBoundry () : Void
{
createEmptyMovieClip ("_mcBoundry", getNextHighestDepth ());
with (_mcBoundry)
{
lineStyle (5, 0xff00ff, 0 );
moveTo (0, 0);
lineTo (100, 0);
lineTo (100, 100);
lineTo (0, 100);
lineTo (0, 0);
}
_nInterval = setInterval (this, "checkIfMouseIsOnBoundry", 100)
}

private function checkIfMouseIsOnBoundry () : Void
{
trace (_mcBoundry.hitTest (_xmouse, _ymouse, false));
}

}
Can anyone tell me why hitTest is not doing what it's supposed to?
Any help would be very much appriecated