Flash :: X Movement Action Script

Action Script Movement
hi all,
i hope you've seen this effect before or it may not make sense....
you have a square in the movie which displays teh main content. you have buttons that when you click on, displays an exetrnal swf in the main square. this is the cool bit... the square resizes itself depending on how big (physically) the movie being loaded is. does anyone know how i can do this?
any help is much appreciated.
- gBay

Action Script Generated Movement
This must be basic for most of you but i have no idea where to start. I want to make a movie clip move on a keyPress. I have a button outside the movie area that has other keyPress actions on it and just need to add something to make another movie (we will call it MOV for now).

Could you say something along the lines of...

speed=5
while (keyPress "<Right>") {
setProperty ("MOV", _x, (MOV._x+speed));
}

I know this will not work but am i on the right track or way off!? Sorry if this is a dumb question but i have never scripted in this way before. Refference to a tutorial would be great if you know of one.

Thanks, appreciate any help you can give me.

Circle Movement With Action Script
I'm trying to make a ball move around a center point with action script . Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Action Scripted Movement For Rollover.
wanted to know how this was done.
I only know of
_x +=1

That is what i use to move clips i need a more complicated better working way to do this.

Action Script Movement For A Speaker
Need sum nice action script for a random movement for a soundspeaker.. so it like bounces..

http://www.unserwebdesign.de/snuf/olr4.swf

ALlrdy got sum.. but .. just looks crappy .. maybe one of you got a nice idea for it ,.. thnx

Image Movement Thru Action Script
i would like to move series of images or one long image across or veritcally in the screen no by regualr animation but thru action scripting

can u help me in this

Slow Action Script Movement
I have 2 problems with a site i am currently building, any help with either would be great.

1) i have a moving background with stripes on it, as it move all the strpes look funny.I have tried a jpeg and gifs, and even drawn directly into flash.The result is always the lines being disjointed and looking in strange.
note that in safari they look fine, this is only in IE.

2) I am using actionscript to movie movieclips

ie-

on button::::::
on (press) {
box.xFinal = -228;
box.yFinal = 256;
box.xScaleFinal = 100;
box.yScaleFinal = 100;
}

with the movie clip actionscript being::::::

onClipEvent (load) {
var easing = 4;
var xFinal = this._x;
var yFinal = this._y;
var xScaleFinal = this._xscale;
var yScaleFinal = this._yscale;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._x += (xFinal-this._x)/easing;
this._y += (yFinal-this._y)/easing;
this._xscale += (xScaleFinal-this._xscale)/easing;
this._yscale += (yScaleFinal-this._yscale)/easing;
}

the problem is that on every computer it seems to be a different speeds.

on newer pcs it is much faster than on older pcs.It is also different speeds on different macs, also loading a movie in a higher level with this kind of actionscript movement seems to slow it down, whereas if itsthe base movie it is better.

thanks for any pointers

Movement In Action Script In This Menu
i know there's someone who knows how to avoid using motion tween in this menu
i just wanna drop the submenu without using motion tween. just ActionScript

Movement In Action Script In This Menu
movement in action script in this menu
i know there's someone who knows how to avoid using motion tween in this menu
i just wanna drop the submenu without using motion tween. just ActionScript

Action Script Movement W/o OnClipEvent?
I am trying to modify a puzzle game script I got here. It is a 3x3 box puzzle with the 1 piece removed and you have to move the 8 pieces around to solve it. Anyway, currently when you click the pieces the on release handler calls a function in the actionscript of the first frame which checks if they empty spot is near it, and if it is changes the _x _y values to fill the empty spot. What I am trying to do is actually show the pieces sliding from one spot to another but I think I can only do this from the main actionscript and not on each piece individually. The puzzle sample I used is here
sorry if my problem is unclear. Basically im trying to script movement but not within the movieclip that im moving.
Thanks

Action Script 1 Movement Codes
I know how to use movement codes in action script 2 but I don't know how to do the same in Action Script 1.
First how do you tell the program that a key is being pressed? And how do you tell the program to move an object.

Also could some one tell me about collisions in action script 1.

If your wondering why I'm asking this it's because I want to desing games for the iriver clix and this iriver can play flash lite 1 games.

Movement Of Object With Action Script
Hi,

Im kinda new to action script so I have a very simple question. I wanted to move object (lines) from one point to another with the help of action script. also these lines should duplicate and change their thickness and their transparencies (alpha values) while they move. Please help.

Thanks In Advance.

Flash Movement On Html Action
Hey out there all you geniuses. Hope you can help me out. Video production is my specialty but I find myself getting flashed at work this week.

Problem: We have a very basic html site using png bg images with hotspots as links. We are firm believers in less is more and we want to incorporate just a bit of flash movement. When the user clicks on a link and goes to another page on our site we would like our flash graphic to change images. The flash graphic is in a window that is always displayed. So is it possible to have flash take direction from outside of flash like the html link?

Thanks for you time....

justin
thinking HD

Action Script Movement With Keyboard
id like to know if someone know how to create an alternative movement in flash with two key from the keyboard.
i'll try to explain myself
like in games "track n field" u press one button then another faster to make the sprite run faster ?
if someone know a source or could help me it could be nice.

Game Character Movement Action Script
I have a character in a movieclip with contains movieclips on the timeline which I've applied behavior to but I have problems when I try to use any of the letter characters to apply a key press comand. Could some one please check out the attached file and see if they can offer a solution. Also can someone please provide an answer to the problem of a character returning to it's orginal position. rather than staying in the last position used.

The file can be found here -
Problem File

Use Action Script To Simulate Mouse Movement
i have the following code:
var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
//trace("checkin pan");
_root.mouse = _root._xmouse+", "+_root._ymouse;
if (_root._ymouse>50 && _root._ymouse<451) {
if (_root._xmouse<375) {
_global.panNavAcc = Math.round(((375-_root._xmouse)/100)*maxAcc);
} else if (_root._xmouse>375) {
_global.panNavAcc = Math.round(((375-_root._xmouse)/100)*maxAcc);
} else {
_global.panNavAcc = 0;
}
} else {
_global.panNavAcc = 0;
}
};

how can i use action script to make a movie simulate a mouse movement upon exiting, so that the pan can pick back up?

Action Script For Random Movement Vertical How To Set Bowndries
Hello i have a piece of code witch will couse an movie clip to randomly move verticaly

Code:
onClipEvent(load){
yDir=random(3)-1;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (random(10) == 0){
yDir=random(3)-1;
}
_y+=yDir;
}
But how do i prevent the movie clip to move to outside the scene like -1 or less, and set an limit to the movement to the bottom.

thanks for your help!

Fast Mouse Movement Doesn't Activate "ON RELEASE' Action
Hello,

I have just started with flash and made my first menu logo with an action script.
My problem is that if a user moves the mouse to fast over the buttons, than the movie that is triggerd by the mouse-over action is overlapping the movie from the next button.
If they move too fast of the button, the action "on release" doesn't get activated

My question is how I can prevent this!

The movie is temporally placed at: http://www.acngroep.nl/menu/menu.swf
The source is temporally placed at: http://www.acngroep.nl/menu/menu.fla

I made it in Flash MX

Just open the movie and move the mouse fast over the buttons “Telecom – Assurantie – Financiering – Reizen” and see what I mean.

Many thanks in advance…

Mouse-movement Triggers Background Movement - Help Me Find Tutorial
I want to learn how to make an image react on my mouse-movement, so you get the effect as if you're looking around. You move the mouse to the right, and the image on the screen moves to the right, etc. I've seen an example of that on http://www.center-of-the-world.com/ - but I don't know how to find a tutorial for that on the Flashkit-site. Can anyone help?

Capturing Mouse Movement/locking Out A Direction Of Movement
does anyone have a good solution in AS 2 for simulating horizontal and vertical finger gestures like on an iPhone?

I have a Mouse listener that calculates movement in both directions and whichever one is larger in value (primary movement of mouse) then it locks out the other using a boolean value. And then once the mouseUp event is triggered, it sets the values to true again to listen for another horizontal or vertical gesture movement.

the problem I'm running into is that every once in awhile while I'm "gesturing" or moving the mouse in a particular direction, I'll get some funky results which clues me into that the other direction might not being totally locked out.

Make any sense?

Action Script Question: Where Is The OnRelease Action In The Action Folders
I’m working on a project and I trying to make it when you click down on a button that click will send you to a point in the movie and then a symbol will play from there. I know that you need to pick the key with the button on it in the time line and then I know you need to pick the button that you would like to assign the GoToAndPlay statement on.

But what’s really messing with me is where in the heck the on release or the on mouse down statement is in the little action a book when are looking in the action window.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Action Script Question: Where Is The OnRelease Action In The Action Folders
Action Script Question: where is the OnRelease action in the action folders

I’m working on a project and I trying to make it when you click down on a button that click will send you to a point in the movie and then a symbol will play from there. I know that you need to pick the key with the button on it in the time line and then I know you need to pick the button that you would like to assign the GoToAndPlay statement on.

But what’s really messing with me is where in the heck the on release or the on mouse down statement is in the little action a book when are looking in the action window.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Flowing Mc Movement Opposite Of Mouse Movement
I have a mc (fStrip) which looks like a piece of filmstrip with thumbnail images in it. I want this mc to move when the users mouse is positioned over it, but I only want it to move only along it's x-axis and in a direction opposite that of the mouse. And I want it to move or flow smoothly.

I've been trying to figure this out (see my lame attempt below) but without much luck. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
buffer=20 //movement buffer
mousePos=_root.fStrip._xmouse //store mouse position
if (mymouse!=_root.fStrip._xmouse){ //if the mouse has moved
diff=mymouse-_root.fStrip._xmouse; //find amount of movement
_root.fStrip._x-=diff/buffer; //buffer & set strips movement
updateAfterEvent(); //adding this makes the movement cleaner
}
}

Image Movement Based On Mouse Movement
I have my Flash canvas. In the Canvas I have an image that's centered and larger than the canvas. Obviously the entire image isn't shown. How can I use actionscript to move the image according to where the mouse is? So if I move my mouse to the top right corner I want the image to move accordingly to display the top-right corner (obviously in a smooth fashion . I tried looking for examples but wanted to know if anybody out there new.

Any ideas?

Little help and thanks in advance!
Brian

Ants Movement (based On Snow Movement)
Hey! I have a question for those who think they can help and might have the time to do so. I wish to get the effect of ants scuttering across the screen or up a tree, I have not decided which direction yet. I started with the tutorial code for the snow effect from kirupa, and changed it around to fit the little vector ant I created. The way I have it now looks pretty good, but the movement is a little too fluid. They obviously move in sinusoidal paths bc the code tells them to. I have about 20 copies of the main obj, and they're all a little different in size and specs (speed, transparency, etc) but what I was wondering was if there is any way I can change the code to make it a little more hectic, or erratic, not so fluid. If there is no way of doing so, it looks pretty good right now. If there is, however, I think it could look awesome. here's the code I'm using for the object.

onClipEvent (load) {
//stage
movieWidth = 850;
movieHeight = 50;

//mods for ants
i = 1+Math.random()*5;
k = 1.2*(-Math.PI)+Math.random()*Math.PI;

//each ant diff
this._xscale = this._yscale=38+Math.random()*30;
this._alpha = 75+Math.random()*100;
this._y = -10+Math.random()*movieHeight;
this._x = -10+Math.random()*movieWidth;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
rad += (k/70)*Math.PI;
this._y -= Math.cos(rad);
this._x += i;
if (this._x>=movieWidth) {
this._x = -3;
}
if ((this._y>=movieHeight) || (this._y<=0)) {
this._y = -2+Math.random()*movieHeight;
this._x = -3;
}
}

(I apologize for posting the code without one of those code boxes ppl use, I do not know how to do that yet....)

Any help is greatly appreciated! I wanted to congratulate everyone here at kirupa for having a great community, and great help to those that need it. I am so glad to be a part of it.

Luke

Object Movement Based On Mouse Movement
Not sure how to word this but. I have a object on the stage lets say that is 300 pixels wide. The actual stage is only 100px wide. I want to be able to "pan" the object left and right based on mouse position/movement. I saw a tutorial for it a while back but cant seem to find it. Anyone have a link to a tut or can throw out a little source code? It would be greatly appreciated.

Sluggish Movement With ActionScripted Movement...
I really enjoy using the following bit of code for quick little flash animations:

=======================================

onClipEvent (load) {
_root.targXscale = 50;
_root.targYscale = 200;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
cXscale = this._xscale;
cYscale = this._yscale;
difXscale = cXscale-_root.targXscale;
difYscale = cYscale-_root.targYscale;
setProperty(this, _xscale, cXscale-(difXscale/5));
setProperty(this, _yscale, cYscale-(difYscale/5));
}

=======================================

It comes straight from the tutorials ("Basic Animation via ActionScript"). Anyways, whenever I view the .swf (via IE) on my computer (2.4 Ghz / 512 MB RAM), it looks great... better than great... it looks AWESOME! But, if I check it out at work (550 Mhz, 256 MB RAM) it looks terrible. It's choppy, mouse movement is sluggish, and the entire animation looks like it's running at 1 or 2 FPS.

I know it can't be completely dependent on the computer speed, b/c I've seen other flash sites that look great on the slower PC. Even some of the non-scripted movements are sluggish on my work PC... what the?! Is there a snippet of code that would / could help?

"Electron Movement" Tricky Actionscript Movement Animation
Can anybody help me with the actionscript for this one?

Objects floating from right to left on a page, when they float into static objects instead of passing behind them or in front of them or bouncing off them and going the other way, they simply move round the static objects and carry on.

Like drunks walking through a jungle of lamposts.

Action Script Replaycer, Action Script Viewer V.3,08 And URL Action Editor V.3
My friends! I urgently need the programs: Action script replaycer and URL action editor v.3 (or upgrade v.2 up to v.3).
In an exchange I can give you the programs: Action script viewer v.3,08, URL action editor v.2, SWF decompiler MX, SWF scanner v.2,63, SWF extractor, Action script obfuscator , Fla****! (deprotector), Vid2flash7t ( converter to format SWF), Fireworks (MX), Dreamweaver (MX), FreeHand (MX), Director (MX).
I shall be glad to send you any (or several) program in exchange for one or both programs which I need. And if you don't need its, send me please simply so.

My E-Mail: Flash_567@mail.ru
Flash_567@mail.ru

Image Keep Flying By The Site In Circular Action In Action Script
hi
all right are goes to try to talk in ingles:
how to do to create an effect in which for image keep flying by the site in circular action in action script
would you know the step-by-step?

Jeov@n

Frame Action To Call Tell Target (rather Than Button Action)?
I really need a frame to Tell Target a movie clip. For some reason, I can't get a Frame Action to work with Tell Target.

I have no problem applying the same Tell Target to a button, however. Am I missing something? Is Tell Target not meant for Frame Actions?

On(rollOver)action + On(release)action + Photo Transition
Okay, I'll try to describe what I want to do and probably just need help putting it together.

I have :

5 black & white photos -- all converted to MC's (bwimage1, bwimage2 etc)
5 color photos (same as b&w) -- all converted to MC's (image1,image2 etc)
5 buttons -- all converted to symbol-buttons (image1_btn, image2_btn etc)

I have the 5 buttons lined up vertically on the left side of the page. I have a spot on the right side of the page where I want the picture to be visible, the black&white version on (rollOver) and the color version on(release).

I know how to make just one of the photos appear on rollover or on release but I don't know how to change the photos from B&W to Color on the actions. I would like a transition between the photos from rollover to release (b&w to color) like a fade.

Any help is appreciated.

Assign Cursor Action To MovieClip Using OnRollOver Action?
Hi all

I have a cool component from FlashLoaded which lets me create brilliant 3d layouts with out much hassle. The componet uses the cursors to zoom in zoom out and pan left and right.

I dont want to have to put an explanation on the site, I would like to put some invisible mc's or buttons on the stage that when the user rolls over them with the mouse it triggers that action.

Is there a simple piece of code i can place on the buttons to make this happen?

Many thanks in advance

Greg

Adding Action To Button Stops Other Action.
Flash MX.....

I have two frames, there resides on the stage a button with the instance name "blabla".

First frame actionscript is.....

blabla._y = blabla._y + 1;

Second frame actionscript is........

gotoAndPlay(1);

The button slides down the screen when published, that is the desired effect.

Problem..... as soon as I add any actionscript to the button, even just two comment slashes "//", the movement stops.

I have a feeling that there is some really basic concept that is flying over my head at the moment.

Action Script Doubt For Changing The Action
i had used two this code to stop the movie and to play the movie

on (press) {
kk.onPress = function() {
this.count++;
if (this.count%2) {
stop();
} else {
play();
}
};
}

kk = button instance name.

it is working but the only thing is that on the very first click there is no action taking place
and on the next click onwards it is working properly

help me out to over come this.

from
aristotle

Button Triigers Action Only If Other Action Has Been Performed.
I need to make a button call an action only if another specific action has already been performed.

Here's the scenario:

I've got four MC's, each set up as a button, placed on my main stage and given an instance name.

Each MC has a stop action in the first frame. When the button is clicked the MC will begin to play simply by using this code:

on (release) {play();

Once it's off the screen (or no longer behind a mask I should say), the MC stops at a frame labeled "down" with a simple stop action. A few frames later, I have a frame labeled "up" that when triggered, will cause the mc to start again and the button/graphic that is off the screen will come back on the stage.

This works fine using the code below:

on (release) {play();
_root.associates.gotoAndPlay("up");
_root.services.gotoAndPlay("up");
_root.portfolio.gotoAndPlay("up");
}

However, I dont want the button to trigger any of the gotoAndPlay actions UNLESS the specific button has already been clicked and is off the stage.

I guess the code I am looking for would be something like this:

if_root.associates =("down") then _root.associates.gotoAndPlay("up");

any ideas?

Thanks

Passing Variables From Action To Action
Hi all Flashers!

In my Flash project I have 2 functions that has to use the same variable, they has infuence of eachother, but I understand stand variables in functions expires when the function ends. My question is: how do you pass a variable from action to action, or should I use global variables. If yes, how can I declare them properly.

For people interested to view my code. Here are some links:
http://www.eyecatchers-online.com/test/code001_temp.txt

Thanks in advance!

Question / MC Action (different Action By Clicking)
Hi. I am a beginner of ActionScript, and I need some help to do the Movie Clip action something like this:

(1) When you click a movie clip (say, square) itself, it moves to particular direction and stops.

(2) Then when you click it again, this time it moves to the other direction and stops at the position where it has used to be.

I would like to make this thing with all ActionScript.

I am appreciated if some of you could help me out. Thanks.

Have a nice day.

P.S.
I use Flash MX.

Karatechop

Where Action Fits Into Button That Has Already Some Action?
i've got this code in one of the buttons, but i want the button to be link to the 2nd frame or scene, but do't know where should fit that peiece of code

onClipEvent (enterFrame) // this action already is in main timelin
{
_y = _root.menu4._y
}

something like go(release... should it be after, b4 or within the brackets?

thanks

Delayed Action In CS3 Action Script 3.0
Hello everyone...

I've been working on a problem for three days now and have tried various forums attempting to get the answer. So..... I'm here to give the KIRUPA group a shot.
Here is my problem:

Using Flash CS3 and Action Script 3 I created a flash site with lots of pretty cool animation. On one page I have a few buttons which are linked to various urls. With my limited knowledge, the Flash CS3 Bible and the Action Script Bible I am able to get this far.

On this page, I would like to enter script for each of the buttons that will cause a delay of 5 seconds before the requested url action is taken and the user is taken to the next page. This is so the animation that is running can finish before the user is redirected to the requested url.

I hope that I've made myself clear on this issue. I've had a lot of practice attempting to explain this over the past few days.

Thank you VERY much in advance to the person who can help me with this problem.

Alasandro

X Movement Action Script

Could someone please tell me how to get the xmovement action script to loop?This is the code I am using at the moment:onClipEvent(enterFrame) {speed = 1;this._y += speed;}Thank you.

Could someone please tell me how to get the xmovement action script to loop?

This is the code I am using at the moment:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
speed = 1;
this._y += speed;
}

Thank you.