Actionscript Methodology
this is a pretty general question about when to use actionscript and when to use plain tweening/frame-by-frame animation techniques. im working on a site that, after the preloader, goes through a maybe 4 second transition to the homepage and has subsequent 1-2 second transitions between the other pages. my question here is, in your experience, is it better to do page transitions using actionscript to control the movement of various objects, or is placing movie clip objects and using tweening/framebyframe a better way to go? my main concern here is with reducing file size and choppiness.
i guess this question boils down to: is actionscripting ALWAYS necessarily better (from an optimization POV) than oldschool flash animation methods?
discuss.
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Posted on: 06-09-2003, 05:31 AM
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I have some scrolling navigation that works when published using actionscript 1 but not actionscript 2. I need to use actionscript 2 because it supports the streaming video that I'm trying to navigate. Can someone help me rewrite my button logic to get the scroll bar to work as it did in actionscript 1? Please see my fla if necessary, but here is the area I need help with.
if (Number((getProperty("../scrollhandle", _y)))>Number((Number(../:top)+Number((../:speed/(../:height/../:scrolllength)))))) {
setProperty("../scrollhandle", _y, (getProperty("../scrollhandle", _y)-(../:speed/(../:height/../:scrolllength))));
} else {
setProperty("../scrollhandle", _y, ../:top);
}
tellTarget ("../scrollhandle") {
gotoAndPlay(3);
}
the error that I get is:
**Error** Symbol=buttonlogic, layer=Layer 1, frame=2:Line 1: Operator '>' must be followed by an operand
if (Number((getProperty("../scrollhandle", _y)))>Number((Number(../:top)+Number((../:speed/(../:height/../:scrolllength)))))) {
**Error** Symbol=buttonlogic, layer=Layer 1, frame=2:Line 2: Operator '-' must be followed by an operand
setProperty("../scrollhandle", _y, (getProperty("../scrollhandle", _y)-(../:speed/(../:height/../:scrolllength))));
**Error** Symbol=buttonlogic, layer=Layer 1, frame=2:Line 4: Unexpected '.' encountered
setProperty("../scrollhandle", _y, ../:top);
Please help if you can.
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myItemArray[x] = parseInt(Math.random()*9) + myItemArray[x];
Based on my research it's because it's old script and I'm not sure how to go about converting it so I don't get the error. I've pasted the entire block of code for your understanding. Thanks in advance for you help.
Code:
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The following code works if you have your flash file set to:
Flash Player 6
Action Script 1
I need it to work for
Flash Player 7
Action Script 2
What it does is that basically if i have
1 2 3 4 5
and i click on the 5 it will arrange the movie clips so they will be
5 1 2 3 4
mc is the name for action script of the movie clip i'm using
I think
the function that doesn't work correctly is the move function
HOW CAN I FIX THIS Sad
Code:
var acceleration = 12;
var friction = 0.7;
clipArray = [];
posArray = [];
for (var k = 0; k<5; k++) {
myclip = attachMovie("mc", "mc"+k, k);
myclip._y = 100;
myclip._x = 170+myclip._width*k;
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//countArray.push(k);
posArray.push(myclip._x);
myclip.onPress = dostuff;
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var xdif = posArray[this.jvar]-this._x;
this.xspeed += xdif/this._parent.acceleration;
this.xspeed *= this._parent.friction;
this._x += this.xspeed;
this.checkDistance();
}
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if (Math.abs(posArray[this.jvar]-this._x)<1) {
this._x = posArray[this.jvar];
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
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// setting indexes
clipArray[i].ivar = i;;
}
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k = clipArray.splice(this.ivar, 1);
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clipArray = k.concat(clipArray);
for (var j = 0; j<posArray.length; j++) {
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clipArray[j].jvar = j;
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clipArray[j].onEnterFrame = move;
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Thanks,
Alan
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var speed:Number = 0;
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var reverse_map_postion:Number = reverse_map_mc._x=0;
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point_mc.duplicateMovieClip("point_mc2", -16367);
point_mc2._x = point_mc._width;
point_mc2._y = point_mc._y;
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if (mouse_control) {
speed = ((_xmouse-centerX)/mouse_force);
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front_map_position += speed;
reverse_map_postion -= speed;
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if (reverse_map_postion>0) {
reverse_map_postion = -(reverse_map_mc._width/2);
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point_mc._x = front_map_mc._x=front_map_position;
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ActionScript Code:
g_list.addItem({label:"Wikipedia", data:"Wikipedia"});
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getURL ("http://www.wikipedia.org");
break;
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g_list.addEventListener("change", listHandler);
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I create an AS3 project and associate the stage to the Main class that adds a child - g1 - of type Graph using addChild(), then I add several Elem instances to Graph using addChild().
While running I need to update the Elem instances so I iterate through g1's children of type Elem, using getChildAt(i=0, numChildren).
I need to port this to AS2
In AS2
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The questions are:
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b) how can I add g1 to Main?
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1 2 3 4 5
and i click on the 5 it will arrange the movie clips so they will be
5 1 2 3 4
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I think
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posArray = [];
for (var k = 0; k<5; k++) {
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myclip._y = 100;
myclip._x = 170+myclip._width*k;
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posArray.push(myclip._x);
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}
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var mp = MovieClip.prototype;
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var _yskew = this._yskew;
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}
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if (!div) {
div = .0000001;
}
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this._yscale = 100*(Math.sin(xr)+cosyr)/div;
this.inner_mc._yscale = this.inner_mc._xscale=50/cosyr;
// scaling inner to maintain width/height
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};
ASSetPropFlags(mp, "setXskew", 1, 0);
//
mp.getXskew = function() {
return this._xskew;
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ASSetPropFlags(mp, "getXskew", 1, 0);
//
mp.setYskew = function(value) {
var _xskew = this._xskew;
//
var _yskew = value;
//this._yskew = value;
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if (!this.inner_mc) {
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for (var clips in this) {
if (typeof (this[clips]) == "movieclip") {
this.inner_mc = this[clips];
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break;
}
}
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return trace("No interior clip for skewing found in "+this._name+".");
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this.inner_mc._rotation = -45;
}
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}
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var xr = _xskew*toRads;
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var cosyr = Math.cos(yr);
this._rotation = 45+(_xskew+_yskew)/2;
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var div = Math.sin(this._rotation*toRads)*.707106781186547;
//div: divisor - sin rotation *sin 45 degrees;
if (!div) {
div = .0000001;
}
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this.inner_mc._yscale = this.inner_mc._xscale=50/cosxr;
// scaling inner to maintain width/height
//
};
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//
mp.getYskew = function() {
return this._yskew;
};
ASSetPropFlags(mp, "getYskew", 1, 0);
//
mp.addProperty("_xskew", mp.getXskew, mp.setXskew);
ASSetPropFlags(mp, "_xskew", 1, 0);
mp.addProperty("_yskew", mp.getYskew, mp.setYskew);
ASSetPropFlags(mp, "_yskew", 1, 0);
delete mp;
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and here's the code for the press button.
#include "lmc_tween.as"
//
skew_btn.onPress = function() {
squares_mc_xskew = random(180);
squares_mc.tween("_xskew", squares_mc_xskew, 1, 'easeInOut');
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};
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The following code works if you have your flash file set to:
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What it does is that basically if i have
1 2 3 4 5
and i click on the 5 it will arrange the movie clips so they will be
5 1 2 3 4
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// script by Jae Young, Choi
// on Designers Forum (corea)
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fscommand("showmenu", "false");
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