Flash :: Advanced Problem?

Advanced Help
Hi,
I am trying to connect with a mysql database with PHP to create a multi user chat server. Could be a game server as well. I found a tutorial at Ultrashock, but not much luck. I have set up a mysql database with 'chatUsers" and 'chatMessage' fields. I have the right connection string for it. PHP trouble? Actionscript trouble? I don't know! Any help?

Thx in advance!!
~GD~

Here is the fla...
http://caveart.tv/testchat/split_chat.fla

here is the swf that just times out...
http://caveart.tv/testchat/chatt.swf

Here is the PHP...........

Removed the PHP code, made the post too long.......
I think the PHP script is ok, the problem I'm having is hooking up to the database itself. If you would like to see the PHP I can e mail it.
[Edited by grvdgr on 07-14-2001 at 10:19 PM]

Advanced Get URL //
Hi,
I need to open new window with this code:

javascript:window.open ('http://www.mrmnhj.co.il/zafira/mini.html', 'newWin2', 'status=yes,width=600,height=350,top='((screen.hei ght/2)-(175))+',left='+((screen.width/2)-(300))); void(0);

Simply put it in the geturl command doen't work.

Please replay only if you know for sure

Rob.

Advanced I Think
Hi!

Again me with my stupid problems

I wanted to know if there is any way of controlling(altering alpha) an graphics object(called taust) through an externaly loaded swf.My main movie is called "avaleht"(the movie that contains the graphics object taust) and the external swf is called firmast.swf.

I know i could do this when i transform the "taust" into a seperate movieclip and externaly load it into my mainmovie, and than use firmast.swf to alter the alpha on taust.swf,
but thats just what i don`t want.

Tons of thx in advance

Not Sure If Possible...anyone Know? (advanced)
Is it possible to get the "instance name" of the mc that another mc was duplicated from?

In other words.... if i have one mc...and i many 100 duplicates of it.... is it possible that any one of these new mc's can find out who they were "a copy of"?

I really hope this is possible... I know about _name and _parent... but I don't think that helps me..

TIA

-Ryan

2 Advanced.com
Hai everyone

Does any one of you know what fonts do they use in 2 advanced website. If you know please give a link or the name of the font.

Thanks

2 Advanced
Hi,

I was on the site of 2advanced ( http://www.2advanced.com ) and I saw the awesome backgroundimage with the clouds.
Can anyone tell me how I can do that?
Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

Advanced AS Q
In the example movie http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Third...8108/index.php there are several things that I cannot reason out. If any advanced programmer could please explain these questions I would be VERY gratefull!

1. Why in the .txt file do they put !# before everything?
2. In the accompaning .txt file why do they put flashstudio. before thier variables?
3. I just dont understand what the flash variable cmd_name does in the MC

Pretty much all I am interested in is understanding the search code, so if it is not applicable dont waste to much time explaining it, although I would still like to understand that also.

Advanced Pop's Ups
Hello Guy's and Girls. IT is I again - still trying to figure this out.

Here is the issue: My main site is a pop up from the splash page. I have links on the main site that I want to pop up as well in it's own window. (Independent from the original pop up).

In basic form: How do I create a pop up from a pop up?

Is it even possible?

More Advanced Help?
i have about 10 books on flash, i have looked at almost every tutorial on this site. yet still, none of the sites that i can do are anywhere near the level that i see other people doing.

my main question is just trying to figure out what the next step would be... i'm pretty good with actionscript and i've got most of the flash basics down, in fact, if you'd like to see one of the sites i've done you can go to difuzhan.com

if you know of any good books or anywhere that i can get some more advanced training please let me know

thanks

Advanced Help
Hello, im using flash mx 04 pro, and i have this problem thats making me go crazy!!! ok... im making this game and it adds a movie with the
code: attachMovie("name","name"+dpth){
blah blah
}

ok and now this works properally, but i want to give the new move an instance name is there any possible way? any help will be gratful

Advanced Help
ok people im making a sorta zelda and i want to have save files is there any way i could use coding to save all my variables into a .doc or somthing???? help will be greatly apreciated thanks

Me Vs. 2 Advanced
This may be an impossible or stupid question but..
I have a 24kb swf loading a 21kb swf.
all vector, no bitmaps..
no action script..well, not really
simple button rollovers with goto and play small 15 frame animation.
how come my flash performance is not as good as say, 2 advanced.. I'm pretty sure they have more going on in the swf's than I have in mine.
I do have a looped animation in the background.. maybe thats it..

any ideas

I Need Some More Advanced Help :)
ok, what im doing is making a dynamic picture album, and at the bottom i want a scrollable list of all the images i have so far with thumbnails...i attached a picture showing more in detail what i am trying to do...im using xml and i can load all the imformation and get it sorted right, but i just dont know how i would put thumbnails into the box and have it scrollable dynamically...ANY point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated, thank you

by the way, im also using mx2004, so maybe an AS2.0 class for creating each thumbnail and setting it all up may be the best route, but im new to AS2.0, so id need some explaination...and i dont have to worry about actually making the thumbnails in flash, they will all be loaded seperately and be the right size to begin with...so i dont have to worry about resizing them at all

Advanced HP Bar
I've been currently working on a game these past couple weeks and my HP bar is pretty bad. Not graphicswise. What I would like to accomplish is make the health bar decrease as every single digit is lowered down, just like most other flash games. The current HP bar just lowers down every time 10 hitpoints decrease. Not very good huh? I hope someone can help me or teach me how. Thanks.

Per 2 Advanced
How can you make the iteams shift around

Like in 2advanced, they move some of the navigation around when you maximize or minimize the window. How is this done.

Any help or point me in the right direction ? Is there a specific name for this ? Thanks

[F8] Who Here Is Really Advanced With AS2.0?
I am a pure coder. I don't use anything on the timeline ever unless I want to separate a pre-loader from my content. In that case, my movie will have 2 frames. Otherwise, all my movies have just 1 frame.

Anyone else a pure coder? Or love to write / advance functions and formulas?

Somewhat Advanced...
I was wondering how Paul Neave, www.neave.com, found out that this string of code produces certain colours with a fading effect, and how one would interpret this code so that it can do the same thing in another code. I would e-mail him, but he's currently slightly busy and took his mailer down.

This is where he defines his colours:

ActionScript Code:
function setBlobColor() {
// Page colour definitions c1 - Edge, c2 - Body, c3 - Header
switch (sectNum) {
case 1: // Neave Rant colours (blue)
c0 = 0x4499EE;
c1 = 0x8EC2F5;
c2 = 0xE7F2FD;
c3 = 0xFAFCFF;
cT = 0x224C77;
break;
case 2: // Neave Inspiration colours (red)
c0 = 0xDD3344;
c1 = 0xEA848E;
c2 = 0xF7CCD1;
c3 = 0xFEF5F6;
cT = 0x841E28;
break;
case 3: // Neave Photos colours (green)
c0 = 0x88CC33;
c1 = 0xB7E084;
c2 = 0xEDF8E0;
c3 = 0xFCFEF9;
cT = 0x365214;
break;
case 4: // Neave Games colours (purple)
c0 = 0xCC66DD;
c1 = 0xE0A3EA;
c2 = 0xF4DDF8;
c3 = 0xFEFBFE;
cT = 0x66336E;
break;
case 5: // Neave Lab colours (grey)
c0 = 0xAAAAAA;
c1 = 0xCCCCCC;
c2 = 0xF2F2F2;
c3 = 0xFFFFFF;
cT = 0x444444;
break;
case 6: // Neave Who? colours (orange)
c0 = 0xFF8822;
c1 = 0xFFB77A;
c2 = 0xFFE7D2;
c3 = 0xFFF9F4;
cT = 0x703D00;
break;
default: // Neave default (dark grey)
c0 = 0x333333;
c1 = 0x848484;
c2 = 0xCCCCCC;
c3 = 0xEBEBEB;
cT = 0x444444;
}
}

This takes the hexidecimal values and converts them to binary, shifts them a certain length, shifts the new colours, then recombines both into a new colour.

ActionScript Code:
function mixColor(c1, c2) {

// Split colours
var r1 = c1 >> 16;
var g1 = (c1 >> 8) & 0xFF;
var b1 = c1 & 0xFF;

var r2 = c2 >> 16;
var g2 = (c2 >> 8) & 0xFF;
var b2 = c2 & 0xFF;

// Recombine colours
var r = r1 + (r2 - r1) * mixCol;
var g = g1 + (g2 - g1) * mixCol;
var b = b1 + (b2 - b1) * mixCol;

return (r << 16 | g << 8 | b);
}

This portion of code controls the variance in the colours, making them grade to the new level.

ActionScript Code:
if (newCol) {
// New colour needs mixing
dn = false;
ci0 = mixColor(ci0, c0);
ci1 = mixColor(ci1, c1);
ci2 = mixColor(ci2, c2);
ci3 = mixColor(ci3, c3);
info_txt.textColor = mixColor(info_txt.textColor, cT);
mixCol += 0.02;
if (mixCol > 0.5) newCol = false;
}

If anyone has any idea as to how this is done, please let me know as this is something I've been wondering over for quite some time now.

Thanks,
DaVuLf

How Advanced Is This.....
Hi everyone,

I came across a really good site and was wondering how difficult it would be to do something simialr in Flash. Here is the swf file url: http://www.frooition.com/files/swf/ebaydesignclients.swf

Is this really advanced flash? I'm quite a novice at flash. I have been using it on and off for work during the last few months, but wouldn't know where to start with this one!!

Thanks

Edited: 11/26/2008 at 08:52:12 AM by Wardy118

About The Advanced 'F8'-ing
When we name an instance into a movie/button/graphic there is a little 'advanced menu' underneath the naming box...
what's the use of the 'linkage', 'export for action script' ? and all these functions ?

thnx

Where To Get Advanced Help
where can i get advanced help with my code?

Getting Desparate Now - Advanced?
I don't think it's a particularly tricky Question but no one seems to know - I need to reference several instances from within (I presume) a function. if anybody knows ANYTHING I'd be unbelievably gratious and buy you a car.
[terms and conditions apply]

Advanced HitTEST
I'm trying to create a hitTest where MAN, the moveable character, stops when it hits TREE, any still object that is blockable.

Is there a way to assign a hitTest to multiple TREEs (movie clips)? If not, I will create the background first and a custom clip that forms a transparent movieclip over all the TREE areas.

Either of those ways, when MAN detects TREE, he needs to stop and disable the direction he is going until undetected by TREE.

I'm thinking I can do that by setting variables each time one of the four direction keys is hit. When MAN detects TREE, it loads direction variable and disables key set to that variable. This should stop them from moving that certain direction, unless the person is faster than the script and hits another direction right when they get stuck.

It would also require that MAN stop detecting TREE until it is out, or all the keys will become disabled as long as it is detecting TREE.

I'm not sure if this was just for commentary or help. Either way, if you actually read this, put in your thoughts.

Advanced Actionscripting?
anyone knows how the 2advanced interface actionscripts works or in short anyone knows the actionscripts? thanx in advance!!

Advanced Stuff
I'll just cut to the chase!

I am moving mapMC using actionscript (_x and _y positions). Here's my problem:
I need things to happen if mapMC is moved to a certain position. so if I move mapMC to _x=500 and _y=450 I want to telltarget newMC to play. How would one write such an if statement? any help is much appreciated

I really can't use hitTest because mapMC is larger than the dimensions of the movie...
[Edited by flipsideguy on 08-20-2001 at 12:41 AM]

***VERY ADVANCED ACTIONSCRIPT***
Ok, so i exagurate the title... (sp??)

Hey everyone, you might not know me because i havent been around for quite a while now... thats because i almost completely been wiped out of free time. Anyways, I need help and that is why I am here.

Here is the problem:

I am trying to make an object that is basically an array with some extra properties, parent, and child... anyways its not exactly those values, but what i want to do is kind of like:

Code:
// inside an mc
Array.prototype.parent = this;

except instead of that, i want an Object that inherits all of the properties/methods of an array and then add a few of its own. Inheritance in actionscript is not clearly explained, so I ask you for help for anyone who has actually experienced it.

Code:
function advancedArray()
{
this.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype.__proto__; // cant get it to work. invalid??
this.prototype.name = function () { return this._name; } // works

// private
this._name = "";
}

In the above example, I TRIED to make an advanceArray that calls the prototype of an array and then add one method to it. Is there any way to do that or am i just confused and sleepy??

Please let me know. Thanks.
-MoMad

Advanced Menu
im having some trouble making an advanced menu.
im trying to create a menu with buttons which can scroll and you can add and remove new items on the menu (something specifically like the final fantasy 7 menu).
plz help??

keep flashin'!
stevz!

Advanced Effect
How to make some picture which is in color turn to black&white with effects(advanced) what parameters to put in?? is that possible at all??

Advanced Preloader
Just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction on building a preloader based upon the ammount of data loaded instead of using the ifFrameLoaded command.

Thanks,
~Steve~

Advanced Preloader Pt/2
hey, deva_station

I have done what u said so far, i know i have still done it wrong....cause it doesn't work. can u pls download what i did and fix it please??? and email it to

amit_kapadia@msn.com

download the *.fla from:

http://www.geocities.com/kiwi7472000/preloader.fla

thank u very much.

Blue Dragon

Advanced Preloader
Does anyone know if it's possible to make a preloader which can accurately calculate how many kb of your movie has loaded? I'm not after the type of preloader which spans loads of frames and has mcs hidden under a cover on key frames.

Cheers

Advanced Preloader
I'm looking for an advanced preloader that can tell bytes - not frames - loaded and is NOT a separate scene. It would ideally be a movie clip I can add to different scenes.
Everywhere I seem to look I find preloaders that are scenes, in advance of the main scene. I'm looking for a movie clip.

Please help!!!!
Thanks
Chris

Advanced Hittest
hey there,

i asked before but didnt get a useful reply, anybody in here
that knows an advanced hittest method? i want to make a game
with boundarys that are diagonal, and i dont have a clue how i could do this, maybe "paint" a line to make those boundarys?

anybody in here that can help me?

Advanced Tsunami
Hello. I've been toying with the idea of building a menu in a similar style to that shown here http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ac...29/index.shtml - however, I do not want to have lines of text in my tsunami, but flash graphics that act in the same way to the example above.
My problem is that I cannot get a simple graphic to behave in the above manner, let alone a series of grouped graphics with behavious of buttons.
Can anyone push me in the right direction?

Rob.

Advanced Variables
Hello!

I downloaded a nice menu from flashkit, it has menus with submenus (duplicate movieclip).
But there is a problem, the submenu buttons only work with get url`s. I want them to go to a label in my main movie.

The main logic of the menus is as follows:

submenu button
getURL (URL, Frame_Target);
one of the menues
LabelRub2 = "Button1";
TotalSousRub_Rub2 = "1";
LabelRub2_subrub1 = "Button1.1";
URLrub2_subrub1 = "http://www.www.com";

Id be very grateful if someone could help me out and show me how to make the submenu buttons to go to labels in my main movie.
URL for the menu itself is:http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Interfaces/Menus/-Daafy-1975/index.shtml

Thousands of thanks in advance

Somewhat Advanced Problem
I want to create an animated button (button with a movie clip in the over state) with a movie clip that will follow the mouse, ONLY when in the over state of the button. When the mouse leaves the button the movie clip wont be visible, ONLY when over! Ive seen this on sites but i cant figure it out. I owe whomever can help!!!!! PLEASE HELP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!

Anyone Have An Idea ?....advanced?
Thanks in advance if you can help here...

Problem: I want to control which movie clip gets duplicated. One clip, for example, is a red dot. The second clip is a blue dot. On a mouse action (press), I want to duplicate the first clip, then, perhaps I want to change to duplicating the blue dot. The changes between 'onemode' and 'twomode' will use two buttons, one button for choosing the red dot and another button for choosing the blue dot.

so, we have a minimum (ideally) of two buttons and we have two clips that could be duplicated by pressing the mouse down.

The real problem is that whatever clip is duplicated, that clip is subject to further control by scripting, so for what I want to do, I should (just) dynamically change the movie clip's name that I want to duplicate:

if 'onemode' is on, then duplicate the red dot and that movieclip's instance will be referenced in another script by the name of, say, 'mcinstancename add i'.

if 'twomode' is on, then duplicate the blue dot and that movieclip's instance will be referenced in another script by the name of, say, 'mcinstancename add i'.

I've tried using a goTo frame in the clip that is being duplicated in hopes of avoiding using a second clip altogether. That is, red dot in frame one, blue dot in frame two...didn't work.

I've tried changing instance names using properties. That only works the first time, there's no switching back to 'one mode'....can one switch names back-and-forth?

Well, thanks to anyone who might be able to help....

Well Beyond 'Advanced Flash'
I'm trying to recreate a navigation system I've only seen once before on voxangelica.net in their archives section.

Namely the lake nav.

I'm looking for any fla's or tutorials on how to develop what I'd (a designer) call a Z-AXIS, Depth scrolling navigation system where the navigation resides on a 3D plane as opposed to the typical 2D. As a user clicks towards the horizon or moves their mouse they move in and out of the environment.

I'm posting here (actionscript 5) under the assumption that there is an actionscript answer (?).

I appreciate any feedback or direction.

Advanced Pop Out Menu
i have a pop out menu which pops out the side when u click a button. i want the menu to pop back in after 2 seconds if you havn't rolled onto the popout menu yet. i dont have a clue what the code would be and cant find it.
thankyou

Advanced Question
i hope this code will make sense to you it would help me allot because i will be one step closer to loading .jpg's dynamicly (just add to the folder and it will be visible inside the flash project).

onClipEvent (load) {
var maxNum = 5;
var num = 1;
for (a=1; a<=maxNum; a++) {
for (b=1; b<=maxNum; b++) {
_root.box.duplicateMovieClip
(""+num, num);
_root[""+num]._x = a*60;

num++;
}
}
}
i use this action to duplicate a MC called "box" and give them numbers as names. on the box mc the is following code

onClipEvent(load) {

num = this._name;
pictarget = "_level0.box";
pictarget = (pictarget+num);
picpath = "images/picture";
picnum = this._name;
picext = ".jpg";
pic = (picpath+picnum+picext);
loadMovie (pic,pictarget);

}
// the outcome is like this
"loadMovie ("images/picture1.jpg",_level0.box1);

what the problem is, i have to have a MC called box+number so i use the following code

onClipEvent (load) {
var maxNum = 5;
var num = 1;
for (a=1; a<=maxNum; a++) {
for (b=1; b<=maxNum; b++) {
_root.box2.duplicateMovieClip
("box"+num, num);
_root["box"+num]._x = a*60;

num++;
}
}
}

it seems that only one duplicateMC action works so it will load only one picture. only "box" will duplicate and "box2" does nothing, it should duplicate it self to box1 box2 box3 box4 ect. but it doesn't

can anyone help

thanx

[Edited by grafx_one on 04-29-2002 at 09:24 AM]

Advanced MC Question
Are you able to target another MC within a timeline

I have a button it plays MC_one when MC_one reaches the end It target MC_two

?

Advanced Actionscripting
I know how to display time in flash,"BUT HOW TO MAKE A WORLD TIME MAP WHICH SHOWS ATLEAST 5 CITIES AT A TIME"

Advanced Button + MC
I am going crazy trying to figure out how to do a advanced movieclip with buttons.

For example got a picure that moves forward when i push button 1 and when i push button 2 the MC rewinds back to start. hope you flashmasters understand my bad english =)

/Fredrik

http://www.razorclean.com

Html Help Somewhat Advanced
uhm...I got a lil' problem with my borders, on my right side it has like a 2px line before it starts, but on the left side, it starts from the top

just on the top is what I need help with.

it's here:
http://www.philez.net/trizkut/cbs3

Advanced Preloading
Hi there,

I cretaed the following file for the video preloading.... However, I am going to show the loaded % with the process bar.... ( it shows 0% at the moment )

http://communities.msn.com/mingcheun...preloading.zip

[4KB only]

Can u please help me?

Cheers

Advanced Preloader
I am using Flash MX and am trying to develop a preloader that is a little bit more complex than most. In addition to having the standard loading message and bar, I would like to add a download percentage marker, a time remaining entry, and if possible a bandwidth measurer. Would anyone be willing to help me with this or direct me to tutorials that show how to do this?

Advanced Button
Hi!

I was wondering how the h*** u make those kewl advanced buttons! All the tutorial links I've tried is either broken, or the tut doesn't answer my questions..

here's the deal:

A button that presents itself (say, fade in from alpha), and LOOPS from a frame# to another frame#. If I make a presentation of it in the "up" state, it replayes the whole thing when you do a MouseOut!

one more thing: How do you tell a button to finish the "over" animation when a person removes the cursor from it? Looks weird when it just stops abruptly... :0( (EX: a button fades to red when mouse is placed over it, and fades back to the original color when mouse is removed)

Hope someone can help!!

Color : Advanced
hy all..

Ok here is a question:
I have obj that is gray to white gradiant square. i wan to make a button that will on press change color:advance of that obj from Red =(100% xR)+0 to Red=0% xR) +0 Blue=(50% xB) + -102?

Thnx all.

Random -Advanced
Hello all,

I creating a quiz! My questions sit in a movie and I call them randomly. But i dont want the questions to repeat! Can someone please tell me how I can write the action script so that the movie stops only at the questions not asked earlier! hope I am clear in what I want!

nixthinx

Advanced Rollover
Hi there

Got a question for you all.

I have a button which when rollover plays a movie which has 20 frames. When rollout the movie plays from frame 20 back to 1. The problem I have is if I rollover and then rollout when the movie is halfway through, say frame 10, it will jump to the rollout state and play frame 20 - 1 which looks a bit jumpy.

The question is, is there a way of coding a button or an mc which plays frames 1 - 20 but if I rollout halfway through, say on frame 10 it plays the rollout movie from frame 10 - 1 and NOT 20 - 1.

Here is a link to a site where the above works a treat.

http://www.nikon.co.uk/

Thanks very much

Paul