Flash :: An Interesting Read

Bought CS3 But Haven't Read My MX Actionscript, MX2004, Books. Should I Read Them?
I just bought CS3 and I am now debating whether I should read my Flash MX Actionscript bible, Flash 2004 Bible. I should have read them, but It's just hard to fit the time in.

Would I benefit from reading these books when CS3 is Actionscript 3? How much functionality is lost when scripting in Actionsript 2 and 1 as compared to Actionscript 3.

Would it be wiser for me to just learn Actionscript 3 properly and get a book on Actionscript 3 than waste my time on reading old scripting and technology?

Also is MC tween compatible on CS3, actionscript 3.

READ Mc.hitTest(mc2) Needed Please Read And Help
I've looked and looked but can't find one tutorial that works for hit tests.
player = g
box = box
I need a script for when "g" hits "box" "g" reboundes a bit
thx

see attachment if you are questioned about my stuff
DON'T LAUGH AT THE GRAPHICS! I'LL CHANGE THEM LATER!

Here's An Interesting One...........
G'Day all,
I was wondering if there was anything in Flash that allowed the user to browse files on their machine. Like what you do when you want to attach a file to a web based email program. Can this be done, are there any components for this? Does anyone know anything about it??????

If I must I will patch in some sort of ASP page but I'd prefer not to.

Interesting....
Anyone know how to create the menu - interface effect used at this website (interface reshapes), I would appreciate any help.

Cheers
G'luk.

http://www.svizra.com/

Here's An Interesting Little One
I have this code:

code: Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onResize = function() {
test = Stage.width;
};
Stage.addListener(myListener);

Which shows the current width of the browser window (if you set your .swf to 100% wide)

I'm wondering if there's any way to make 'test' display the width as you scale the window (rather than when you've finished dragging the browser window resize tab and released the click)

tnx

Got An Interesting One For You :)
Ok,

basically... i have the following code:

Code:

/*
This is a string, this will always be a string... this must be a string!
*/
var obj_string:String = "{Name:'myName', Age:20}";

var obj = eval(obj_string);

trace(obj.Name);
Basically no matter what i try, the obj_string variable will not be converted into an actual object... its either a string or undefined.

The obj_string variable is defined here for simplicity, but it is being brought in from elsewhere

I have tried the following:

var o = eval(s);
var o = new Object(eval(s));
var o = new Object(s);
var o; eval("o = " + s);

I think thats about it...

a bit annoying because any of the obove will work in javascript ;P

Thanks for your help

Interesting Must See
followiong is interesting
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2002/scripting-flash/

Very Interesting But How Is It Done?
This is really interesting.
I am wondering how is this done. The image are being loaded but the flash swf is ready. The images when loaded they have a white border around their thumbnails version and if you click on the thumbnail with the white border around the image is displayed immidiately.

But if the border is gray and you click on the image thumbnail the image holder tells you that the image is now being loaded.

ie how can the swf be still loading but available for interactivity

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/photos/

thanks

Anyone? [interesting]
function loadEntries() {

// Show Please wait text
_parent.read.entries.text = "Loading entries... Please wait...";
// Begin Loading
myEntries = new LoadVars()
myEntries.ref = this
myEntries.load("GuestBook.php?action=read&r="+rand om(999))
myEntries.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
// Assign output to components and objects
htmlText = true;
entries.htmlText = this.entries;

}
}
}
// Load Default
_parent.read.loadEntries();

Interesting... Anyone?
Q:

What do you think would be the preferred method of using the Infinite Menu and being able to drag the menu items from within the Infinite Menu and drop them at a location and then drag them back again?

Well THAT Was Interesting
Don't know if anyone else has had this happen to them, but I hit cntl-z to undo and Flash instantaneously crashed to the desktop - completely vanished! One sec it was there and the next - gone. I had to check the task manager to make sure it was indeed not running.

Makes me go and

Then when I restarted the program, it tried to act all casual - as if nothing had happened - no apology, no message - nothing! If I had been Flash, I would have at least said something like "Um, sorry... I had a brain fart..." Where have programs' manners gone?

Interesting ?
http://www.videowebsystem.com/

if you ignore the sales pitch the technology is impressive.

Got An Interesting One For You :)
Ok,

basically... i have the following code:

Code:

/*
This is a string, this will always be a string... this must be a string!
*/
var obj_string:String = "{Name:'myName', Age:20}";

var obj = eval(obj_string);

trace(obj.Name);

Basically no matter what i try, the obj_string variable will not be converted into an actual object... its either a string or undefined.

The obj_string variable is defined here for simplicity, but it is being brought in from elsewhere

I have tried the following:

var o = eval(s);
var o = new Object(eval(s));
var o = new Object(s);
var o; eval("o = " + s);

I think thats about it...

a bit annoying because any of the obove will work in javascript ;P

Thanks for your help

Interesting Question :)
ok, i have a few buttons that are supposed to jump to different scenes on release, but they wont go to a different scene unless they are located on the _root timeline. the ones inside MC's on the root timeline wont work. can anyone tell me why? i tried referenceing things to _parent, _root and _level0 to tell the button to look at the root timeline before trying to go to a different scene, that didnt work or i did somethin wrong. anyhow, thanks a bunch

Interesting Question
does anyone know a way, or tip/trick or function that will take a loop, duplicate a movie clip a certain number of times and PLACE EACH CLIP ON SEQUENTIAL BUT DIFFERENT FRAME OF THE TIMELINE.
Any ideas welcome.

Interesting Problem...
Is it possible to drag an object with a clip cursor?(cursor made by the user)

I've tried and the cursor was left behind, any suggestions?

Thanks,
madpiXel.
http://www.mad-pixel.com

Interesting Question
Is there a way where I can create a photo album in Flash that calls an XML file. This file will contain the photos and will also contian the information that goes with each photo. I hope that was clear enough for everyone to understand.

Interesting Text... But How Do You Do It
hello all,

just was making a page and thought it would be interesting to create a mouse over menu effect. Please visit www.aldoshoes.com to better understand what I mean.

I want the menue to show up on mouse over but then dissapear whan you move the mouse elseware....

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Andrew

An Interesting One With Text...
Please take a look at: http://www.i-thinkdesign.com/matt/

You will see 2 text boxes that can be manipulated by the anchor points in the corners. i am pleased with the results so far, apart from the text resize. as you can see i can't get the text to word-wrap without some kind of resizing taking place.

Does anybody know how i can achieve this please???

tnx

Interesting Question...
Hi

Check this page out...

http://www2.warnerbros.com/babylon5/beings.html

you'll notice they have the first vertical menu (mind games, beings, etc.) , then the second and third column loads up the "characters"... it's on a greenish background.

when you hover your mouse over any of the characters, the background becomes a lime green, and the text becomes black.

i usually use the same button, but multiple copies of it, and regular text over the button, so i can make the button change color, but the text remains the same.

for this website, did they have to make a seperate button for each 'character'? (that when you hover over it the text and background changes color)? or if not, how did they do it?

Thanks
~Lorenzo

Interesting Question I Have...
ok so, i have a fairly advanced query... (at least it is for me.) anyway, here is how i have it set up. in the left frame (entitled navigation) is just that, navigation. it is a flash movie with particular labels at specific times (...artwork, design, fun, index...etc...)... in the right frame is my content in a different flash movie (entitled content). my dilemma is that in the index page there are 4 buttons in the content that also link to internal pages... how do i get the navigation in the left frame to jump to where it should be if one of the buttons in content in the right frame are pressed?

any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks in advance.

jetta

How To Do This Interesting Menu
I am assuming that this is some sort of action script, if anyone knows any tutorials that they can direct me to on how to do this it would be greatly apreciated.

I am looking for something that looks like on the following page:

http://archweb.unl.edu/

how the main menu falls, and when you mouse over one of the falling menu items it stops its motion and drops its submenus

Again thank you all in advance on any help you can give me

-Beto

Web Effect... Interesting
hello..
i am making a webpage..
can someone attach a example or teach how can i do the book effect.
you know when i click on a button. i want that effect that looks like you are turning the page..
hope that u can help me
tnanks alot !

Not Related But Interesting
http://costofwar.com/

Imagine how many Flashers could of been helped!

Interesting Navigation
Go to this awesome site (maybe just to rest your eyes on a beautiful lady) and check the navigation:

http://www.federicafontana.it/index2.html

I'm searching for a component/script/movie with such dynamic navigation. Do you have any sites that offer tutorials or components itself for a navigation like this.

Please, any kind of help would be appreciated.

Here's An Interesting Question...
Double post...

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...50#post2603150

Any Solution For This? Interesting One...
var varfirst = "50.0";
var varsecond = "0.12";
trace("Direct Multiplication: 50.0*0.12 = "+50.0*0.12);
trace("first variable varfirst: " + varfirst);
trace("second variable varsecond: " + varsecond);
trace("Variable Multiplication: varfirst*varsecond = "+Math.ceil(Number(varfirst)*Number(varsecond) ));

output:
Direct Multiplication: 50.0*0.12 = 6
first variable varfirst: 50.0
second variable varsecond: 0.12
Variable Multiplication: varfirst*varsecond = 7 (THIS SHOULD BE 6 RITE), so any solution or workaround for this one...?

note:
i'm taking a value from XML messages for varfirst and varsecond, that's why i make them as a string...

thanx!

Very Interesting Problem Right Here.
Ok, could someone please have a look at this source file.

All I want is the clip to have limits , when sliding left and right, so that it does not continue to slide off the screen.

Please help

Thanks

Interesting Navigation
I stumbled onto the y-conference site and liked the navigation.

I would just like to know how to get something like this working for myself. My buttons just don't work once the movieclip is being dragged.

If anyone could help, that would be great.

here is the site...
http://www.y-conference.com/

thanks

A Very Interesting Question
Say, we have a function and its property - something like:

Code:
a = function()
{
trace(a.prop);
}
a.prop = "toto";
a(); // traces "toto"
As you can see, to get the value of its property the function addresses itself using its own name.

Now imagine we are creating this function "on the fly" and need to write code that when executed inside the function would address the function itself and its properties.

Something like:

Code:
this[i] = function()
{
trace(this.prop);
}
this[i].prop = "toto";
this[i]();
The above wouldn't work and would trace undefined since 'this' would be a reference to the object that contains this function, not the function itself.

trace(this[i].prop) is not an option since at the time of execution the value of "i" has changed.

Is there any way one can do it?

Well, This Is Certainly An Interesting Challenge
See the error message i'm getting. It's attached. I have all the fonts i need. Yes, all of them, i've gotten to the point where i just want the error to stop showing up. Just somehow hide it. It pauses the export halfway through and it won't complete without me saying ok. I really want to find a way to just hide any and all errors like this but the preference menu doesn't help.

I'm using flash MX 04 but i doubt it makes much difference.

Thanks.

Interesting Error
Im not sure if anyone else has had experience with this error. but if you take a look at preloading into containermc's, this command causes an error in netscape but not an error in IE.

percent-=percent-(_root.containermc.getBytesLoaded()/_root.containermc.getBytesTotal()*100)*.25.

I thought that was interesting and was wondering if anyone else experienced similar issues. Thanks in advance
Don

An Interesting Comparision
Hi their folks,
This is my first post out here,

I want to start it with an interesting discussion, a discussion that I had with my friend yesterday. I dont know wether this is the right forum to address this.

Any of the e-learnign experts can help me here.

About comparing Flash with authorware as E-learning tools.

following are the comparing elements:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authorware
Pros
1. Authorware: Was developed for the E-learning community.
coz has features which enable the developer and helps in speedy development.
2. It has features which enable to read/write a txt file which is a powerful feautre and which isnt the case with flash except that you can write into a sol file but the information being rather stored in an encrypted format.

3. Has features thru which u can keep supplimentary files like images, and other stuff external during the development process and compile as one when to be delivered, again not possible with Flash.

4. Can be easily integrated with a LMS(learning management System). Not sure wether its possible with flash.

Cons,

1. Coding standards / style is very different from conventional standards.

2. No image editing, creating features.
3. Animation is very limited unless u use series of images like gif.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flash

1. industry standard for web media.
2. lots of animation/graphic development features,
3. Vector program
4. Excllent coding style ECMA2, and now with MX2004 its pure OOPS.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We were not sure wether both can develop scorm compliant applictions.

I need all your valuable feedback, comments, suggestions and tips regarding the issue.

Thx.Cheerz........

This Might Be Easy For Some Of You, Interesting.
Hi!
Please help me out someone!
Okok, this is how this goes...a dummy file will do the trick, using banana cartoon characters.

Download this file and preview it and please tell me how to make the 3 banana guy standing behind to the front/on top of the banana guy holding the 'WTF' sign when your mouse is over the 'main'?

Interesting Problem....
I'm building tic tac toe, but having problems with detecting for the horizontal win. This is the code I've been using.
code:
//check for horizon. line
for (count = 1; count <= 9; count += 3) {
if ((board["cell" add count] == board["cell" add (count +1)]) && (board["cell" add (count + 1)] == board["cell" add (count + 2)])) {
if(board["cell" add count] != "") {
return board["cell" add count];
}
}
}

Personally, I can't see any problems with it, but for some reason, it will never manage to detect the horizontal line. Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?

thanks,
Spidy

Interesting Transitions
I am curious about some transitions I came across in the work section of this site below. How do they get the portfolio examples to transition in and out this way?

Exopolis Design
http://www.exopolis.com/site/

-Mike

Interesting Question
Hi.

I installed IIS 5.0 and I'm using flash with some asp scripts, when I try to run my project, I simply open explorer and write:
http://localhost/project.html
This loads my html files which contains the flash inside, my question
is when I load my project and for instance I made an update in my .fla I compile it again inside flash and I try to refresh the explorer for checking the changes and it doesn't load the new changes, I have to close the explorer and reopen it. why ??
any ideas how to overcome this anoying issue ??

thanks.

One Interesting Question.
Hi All,

Seasons greetings...

I am facing a problem in flash animation and giving action script.

if i make a movie of 70 frames of simple animation...say for example a ball moving from one place to another. I give different kind of animation from 25 to 45 frames. I give gotoAndPlay(25); .....I want this process to continue only 2 times and then movie to move ahead from 46 frame..

How to do that???

please help!

Interesting Question
If a computer has flash installed, but not flash mx the program, how can you play a flash movie in the flash player that comes up with flash mx installed?

Interesting Nav Question
Can anyone give me a clue as to how to get a rollover effect like the navigation in here:

http://www.imagine-entertainment.com
(you have to get past the opening flash to see the navigation)

Thanks for any help anyone!

Interesting Effect ... How?
Hey,

This site uses an interesting navigation technique:

http://www.sorenhald.com

Notice if you keep clicking through the images in one direction you end up at the beginning. (also... ess annoying than the Ultimate Scroller.)

Do you think this is one very long symbol with images positioned manually? My guess is not.

Any guess as to how this is done???

cheers
jen

ADDITION: This site also does it in a different way!!

http://www.in2media.dk/

Interesting Problem
Hi everyone,

I am building a flash movie that loads external SWFs into the player one at a time....my problem is that each flash movie has a different background color, so is there anyway to change the color of the stage with acitonscript.

I have read through many forums and they all say that you have to do it using a movie clip, but when i load the swf into the movie clip and try to also change the color it doesn't work.

So basically is there a way to change the stage color only without the use of a movie clip instance.

Thanks for you help in advance,
Chris

::Interesting Question::
Whats up guys, I have an interesting question here.

I have a flash movie that works as my primary navigation. There are 6 parent buttons, each one having a dropdown menu to access it's child pages. I'll have 6 flash movies, one for each parent category. So 'Solutions' will have 5 dropdown buttons, each of those will use the same 'solutions.swf" movie.

I have some space in the movie that I'd like to use as a way to title the movie. But before, I just had the parent title, so each Solutions sub-category would have "Solutions" as the title. I'd like to be able to dynamically place the title in the movie, depending on what page you are actually on. So if you rolled over solutions, and selected "Button A", the title would become "Button A". But the catch is that in selecting Button A, you would be loading a new html page, which would reload the same flash movie. So my initial thinking is that each button would set a Shared Object, when the movie was then loaded it would check to see what the last button hit was, and then show the appropriate title...

Of course I'd have to be able to rewrite the cookie, or else once you selected Button A, the title would always display "button A".

So in a nutshell, I want to dynamically place a title in the movie, depening on what button you selected.

Here's what I have now:

http://www.regaldecision.com/NewIndex.html

*The only button that works is the Capabilities-> Simulation Modeling.

So notice when you select simulation modeling, the title of the page is capabilties, but I'd like to be able to dynamically set that to "Simulation Modeling".

Here's the logic that would produce this effect:

I'd have a movie clip with all 5 title loaded as PNG's.

When you select a button it would set a cookie that says, "You just clicked Button A"

When the movie reloads, it would check the cookies and see "You just clicked Button A"

That would fire a tellTarget (MovieClip with Titles) go to and stop frame 2 which would have the appropriate title, in this case "Button A".

Any thoughts?

gallion311

[F8] Interesting Challenge.....
Okay so basicaly what i've got here is a bunch of Flash 8 movies/chapters that I have been working on the past few weeks. They are all in seperate published .swf files and now my boss wants me to merge them all together somehow so that a user can click a chapter and view the tutorial.

My initial thought was:

1. Make a new document
2. Import all the swfs.
3. Create a scene for each section with the swfs
4. Create a menu to go to each tutorial.
5. Create a partial preloader for each section.

Is there a better way to do this? The whole ideal sequence of the final version would go:

loader for the logo intro > the logo intro (10 seconds) > menu to select > scenes with swfs > return back to menu.

Problem is that flash 8 is saying theres a problem in importing the swfs. Any other solutions are highly appreciated.

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