Flash :: Attaching MC Ques

Nav Ques
Hey guys I seem to remember a thread regarding how to make this kinda of NAV :

http://dopepope.com/ntps/Build_onff/

Anyone remember the thread or have a link on a tutorial to dup that kind of load jpg and have the window resize automatically...thanks all

_parent. Ques
im trying to load an external jpg. and the file name of this jpg is the name of the mc 2 levels above the command.
if u dont understand this is thi code im trying to use

Code:
x = _parent._parent._name;
loadMovieNum("x".jpg, 1);

i also tried putting th eparent crap in the load move itself like this

Code:
loadMovieNum("_parent._parent._name".jpg, 1);

and its still not working. any one able to give some advice

AttachMovie Ques
Hi -
I'm using the code below to bring mcs from the Library to the stage. It works fine until I tried to add the x,y at the end.
I thought there was a way to include _x and _y coordinates to the same statement as the attactMovie. Is there?

TIA the correct way to accomplish this.

jl

Attach Code

mc_btn2.btn2.onRelease = function():Void {

attachMovie("Q2WithGame","Q2Game",this.getNextHighestDepth,[_x=45,_y=110]);

};

Simple AS 1.0 Ques
AS 1.0
I have this code in a keyframe on the main timeline:

var score = 0;
if (score == 2500){trace("winner")}

Othe stage in the maintimeline i have a dynamic text field I labeled "score" in the var box. The instance name is "pts" but i wasnt sure if i needed an instance name anyway here. The score box works fine as far as keeping score but when it reaches 2500, I dont get my trace. What am I missing? Thanks

-Chris

Stupid Ques
hello new be ere (welsh) i got a prob wanderin if some1 could help im tryin to get a news page that updates ive got this off yahoo

this

so now tryin to use it but flash does ntlike it im prob doin some thing stupidly wrong now on the verge of not botherin

PLEASE HELP

Flash Ques
please can you explane me how can I make this file like on this site:
http://www.t-s-k-b.com .You go on this site and press SAKUBA WORKS and then button Painting/Drawing

I would like to make a picture gallery like in Painting/Drawing: So how I can make when the mause on the button to show small image of the picture and when I press the image to open the picture how is on the site(not in a new window)?
Please tell give me advice how could I make it!
thank you

Another Loading Ques
Is it possible to make the movie load let's say... only the 1st 2 frames of movie that has 8?

Button Ques
Ok real dumb ques..I have this animation..u can dl it from here: www.zeroxposur.com/test/nav.fla
So what I want to do is have 5 buttons fade in ..onto the bar as it finishes its animation..but I dont know how to do it.. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks

Easy AS Ques.
ok so I have a flash doc..theres a an MC called target on mainstage that has the entite site in it (doing a fullscreen centered website)..now I have MC nav buttons on the stage (inside target). Inside one of the nav buttons I have a line of AS that says

ActionScript Code:
this.onRelease = function(){
_root.target.loadMovie("bioresume.swf", "loader");
}

Now im not sure If im doing that right..but what i want to happen is; after u release the button, load the ext swf into the empty MC called "loader". But what seems to be happening is it loads the ext swf but everything else on the site disappears. See I originally had this as my AS cause i thought this made sense but it ends up not doing anything:

ActionScript Code:
this.onRelease = function(){
loadMovie("bioresume.swf", "loader");
}

So if anyone knows what I did wrong, much appreciation. Heres the site link if u want a visual:

www.josephsernio.com/test

Easy As Ques.
Ok for some reason the end of this code doesnt work.. on release, i want it to take me to frame 2..and it wont...btw this a movie clip that has button properties through AS:

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){

if(rewind == true){

prevFrame();

}

}

this.onRollOver = function(){

rewind = false;
play();

}

this.onRollOut = function(){

rewind = true;

}

this.onRelease = function(){
gotoAndStop(2);

}

MC Loader As Ques.
im working with the moviecliploader AS..so a button loads an ext SWF and also has a percentage loader .. so on my mainstage i have a loader mc (instance name "loader")and a holder mc (instance name "holder")..heres my AS on the main timeline:

var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

var mclL:Object = new Object();

mclL.onLoadProgress = function(target,loaded,total) {
loader.percent.text = Math.round((loaded/total) * 100) + "%";
}

mclL.onLoadInit = function() {
loader._visible = false;
loader.percent.text = "";
}

mcl.addListener(mclL);

Now i have another MC that houses about 20 or so buttons..so within the buttons MC i have say this for one of the buttons:

b4sub.onRelease = function() {
_root.loader._visible = true;
_root.mcl.loadClip("LevisCampaign.swf",holder);

And unfortunetly it doesnt to load the ext. swf..did I code the _root incorrectly?

Thanks for your help.

Fscommand Ques
Hi all, I was working with fscommand, when it struck me what FSCOMMAND stands for.

"Future Splash Command"

Can anybody confirm this, or am I mad, lol

Later

ORANGE900

LoadVariables Button Ques
Hello all. I have this code attached to a button calling up a different text file to a dynamic text field and it works fine, except I'm having to hit the button "twice" for it to work. Can't figure out why. Can someone enlighten me please?

code:

on (release) {
scrolltext = scrolltext1;
loadVariables ("scrolltext1.txt", scrolltext1);
}

Thanks in advance

Easy - Pong AI Ques.
Ok just to see if I could do it(never really got into game programming) I tried to make a pong game everything works so far but I have a problem with this:
Flash code:

PHP Code:

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(_global.cspeed == 0) {
}else{
    if (this._y != _root.ball._y){
        if(_root.ball._y < this._y){
                this._y -= _global.cspeed;
        }else if(_root.ball._y > this._y){
                this._y += _global.cspeed;
        }else{
                this._y = this._y;
        }
    }
}
}

The problem is that instead of moving smoothly up the screen it looks like it s shaking up and down really quickly, but I would like it to be smooth.
Please help.

Movie Clip Ques
Hey i just started doing flash yesterday and i am doing a text fade

I made the motion tween and and everything and when i go to control and play everything is smooth but when i go to test movie nothing it just stays the same and doesnt fade :> plz help me

Quick Mask Ques
Im sure this is an easy one.. on the foofighters website http://www.foofighters.com When U click a button that flourish/swashy graphic looks like it is unwinding or growing rather. I would like to get the same effect.. Its obviously a mask of some sort. I know who to mask, im just figuring its a mask that is animated somehow. Anyone have an idea? Appreciate any insight into this. Peace

-R

Quick Actionscript Ques.
Ok so im building a portfolio website and basically if you click on the art image it goes tothe next art image..I have it set up so the art images are buttons and when u click it, it is coded to goto next scene..On one scene however the art image is a movieclip (fading effect)...now how do you write the actionscript so if you click on the movieclip it goes to the next scene? I dk im right but...my guess is to put the MC within a button symbol? But I dk. Thanks guys.

UI Text Input Ques.
Ok so Im making a form in flashmx2004..I drag out onto the stage the UI compnent textinput box..now I want to make this box multiline but it doesnt give me the option to do so. Do I have to make input boxes in a different way?

Motion Guide Ques
Hi all,
Is it possible to create a motion guide, so the object connected to the motion guide is always in the centre of the screen.

What I mean is, if we were trying to go from point A to point B
we could see the full journey of the object travelling along motion guide in the centre of the screen.

A-------->--------->-------->------B

The sort of thing I mean is included, but with no motion guide instead, the car remains in the centre of screen and is able to move around the track which in turns moves the the track below.

Thanks for your time, sorry for the broken language. Hope you can help.

--------------
FLA = MM2004

<> QUICK QUES RE:Positioning After Dupe
Hi Im using a while loop and the dupliacteMovieClip() to dupe a certain number of my Mc's. I want to postion each duped Mc after its created with setProperty but I cant figure out how to do this within the same loop.
It complains in output box:

Symbol=playlist_Mc, Layer=Layer 2, Frame=1: Line 9: Expected a field name after '.' operator.setProperty(_root.playlist."box" + count, _y, vertpos);

Obviously I cant do the <"box" + count> bit, but how else can i do it?
(see code below)

Code:
onClipEvent(load){

var vertpos = 46;
var count = 0;
//create
while(count!=4)
{
duplicateMovieClip(_root.playlist.box, "box" + count, 1);
-->this doesnt work//setProperty(_root.playlist."box" + count, _y, vertpos);

trace(count);
count++;
}
//position
}

-Rich

Pleez Help With Random Keyframe Ques.
I have four different movie clips on four different keyframes (2-5) the first key frame has a clip with an invisible button over it. WHat I would like to achieve is onMouseover of the button in the first frame......I would like the playhead to randomly gotoAndStop on of the other frames (2-5). To give the illusion of random movement. The on mouseout return to the first keyframe. any help greatly appreciated....either a .fla I can study or some AS would be great.

Probably Simple LoadMovie Ques. For JPEGs
I have a target MC that I want to load some JPG's into in my Flash Movie. The Target MC's dimensions are 650x500px. The JPG's are the same. When I attempt to load them, I can notice that something has changed in the tone of the movie clip (I had the target MC a grey color then that color disappears) but the JPG does not load.

I tried a smaller JPG, like 1/4 the size, and it loaded OK. ANyone have a suggestion?

Action Script Ref Code Ques
Hello i keep getting this this action script error when i attempt to render this swf could some one explain what this error message means ......i am not sure what the variables are looking for ....... the version is Flash 8 - the action script is below and the error message is below that.......

#include "lmc_tween.as"
//classes are loaded on this frame
var state:com.collection.State = new com.collection.State(this);
// start program
var main:com.collection.Main = new com.collection.Main(this)
//
bg_img.tween("_alpha",100,1,"linear",.5)
stop()

Error message (below)

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=5:Line 1: Error opening include file lmc_tween.as: File not found.
#include "lmc_tween.as"

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=5:Line 3: The class or interface 'com.collection.State' could not be loaded.
var state:com.collection.State = new com.collection.State(this);

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=5:Line 5: The class or interface 'com.collection.Main' could not be loaded.
var main:com.collection.Main = new com.collection.Main(this)

Total ActionScript Errors: 3 Reported Errors: 3

Action Script Ref Code Ques 2.0
Hello please see this link it is a follow up to the thread i created before....i am stil trying to figure this error out when i generate the flash swf it works but not properly... below is a link to what the swf looks like there are buttons that should show and i get this message (shown below) in the flash error box that says (output) when i hit ctrl+enter to generate the swf.... any suggestions...?

b1,b2,lgText,redText,arrow,a:link,a:hover
yo

http://www.amjaydesign.com/mainCol.html

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=744878

Simple Ques About Blue Border Box
I'm using flash 8. When you draw something or import a picture flash 8 puts the blue border box around it. Well mine is gone. If I draw something and click on it it is a broken shape. How do I get the blue border box back?thanks

Loading Clips Into Levels? -quick Ques
Hi, I need a quick bit of code or at least somebody to give me an idea on how to actually have a clip load itelf into a specific level depending on the value of a variable. I want to do this as my duplicateMovieClip() code is putting MC's on higher levels than other elements (other Mc's) in my movie, and one of these elements in perticular needs to be the 'highest'.

I tried using setProperty() as below but it doesnt work, flash complains (I gather it doesnt consider '_level' as a property?)

Code:

setProperty(need2BHighest_Mc, _level, highestLevel);

Any help appreciated

Html Code Inside Flash Ques
I have a client who wants me too put some html inside the flash actionscript. He's not sure it will work and I'm not sure if it's possible or how to do it. Here's the code any suggestions thanks

<form action="/gift/save/1234" enctype="multipart/form-data"
method="post">
<input name="file" type="file" />
</form>

Attaching MC From Other Swf
In my main swf i loaded another swf file with loadMovie command, and and from this movie i need to attach some MC to one MC in main swf. can i do this??

Attaching .jpg
I am having some weird problems loading .jpg files with loadMovie().

1.I download an image off the net to put in my movieClip.

2.Depending on the individual jpg, some will display and some will not(also I get no file not found errors).

3.Furthermore, lets say one displays. If I go to resize it in photoshop and then run the flash movie again it may or may not display.

I am !&#*in' confused.

Attaching A MC Into Another MC.
Basically I just want to attach a movie from the library into a movie clip on the stage.

Attaching A Pdf
I want to attach a pdf so that when a button is clicked the pdf appears. This is not on the internet but on a CD with a flash movie on it. Right now the PDF appears but thru a browser because of the script.

on (release) {getURL("englishfinal.pdf");

but I don't know any other way. I just want it to open in adobe reader not a browser window.

Attaching A Movieclip
How do you use the attachmovie action.
The flash actionscripting ref book is very vague.

I know how to first name my movieclip for sharing by selecting my mc in the library and right-clicking to linkage, export this symbol, and giving it a name.
What happens next?

What do you attach the code to?
The mc in which the new mc will appear?
How do you know where about in that mc it'll appear. (top, bottom, middle????)

Please advise. Need tutorial!!!!

Attaching To Moving Obj?
Is there any way to attach, say, a square to a circle that moves by motion tween? I want the square to be able to trail behind the circle. Please excuse my obvious newbie-osity.

Attaching Sounds
I have a movie that loads many different SWF's (like a slide show) that all use the same sounds. I want to keep all of the sounds in the main movie and just call them from the SWF's in frame actions so that they don't have to keep being loaded each time. I am a bit lost in this area. Can anybody help??
[Edited by rockstar on 04-24-2002 at 10:30 PM]

Attaching Movies
Ok, I've a big problem with the method .attachmovie
I tried some settings, but it seems that this method works only with objects (correctly concatenated with an IDname) in the same level of the target movie.
This is what I would make:
- In my main timeline, I create an empty movieclip
- I Make an external swf with some objects concatenated with an IDname
- I Load this external swf on _level1 of my main timeline
- From _level1 I wish to attach one of my concatenated objects to the empty movieclip on _level0, but it doesn't work !!!!

HEEELP MEEEEE

Attaching A Movie
Hey guys, i've got a prob and i'm totally stumped
instead of trying to confuse everyone with a long winded description, i'll just poste the code and my prob.

Code:
onClipEvent(load){
max=4
i=0
px =260
py =0
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(i < max){
j="jeep"+ i
jimg =j+".jpg"
jlnk = "jeeppics/" + jimg
attachMovie("Misc","misc"+i,10+i)
mov="misc"+i
mov._x= px+10
mov._y = py
px += 100
i ++

}
}
ok basically, it loops throu 4 at a time, and should place the mc's 10 px apart, but when i "trace(mov._x)" i get undefined. Now if i change "Mov._x.." to read "misc0._x=..." it sticks it in its place. Otherwise, it seems like the mc's just pile up on eachother. any help would be great!
thanks a bunch

Attaching A Clip
using flash 5
need to attach a clip to a movie but I don't want it covering everything else.
attachMovie(arrayLinkage[i], "articleText", 50);
I am unsure of what level I should put in the spot where 50 is.... I don't know what levels all the
rest of my stuff is on.
is the level number the same as the layer number or are they 2 totally different things? If they are then is there any way to find out what level a specific movie clip is on?
I forgot what numbers half my layers were anyway.
to get to the point I just want to find out how to attach a clip beneath certain clips that are already in my movie.
Thanks in advance,
-Fireborn

Attaching Sound
I have a problem attaching sound to my movie....I'm trying to figure it out but im not too sure exactly what to do...i did what it said in the actionscript dic. and it didnt work...

Can anyone help???
Thanks.

Attaching To Email
Hi,

Is it possible (because I don't think it is), to set an email up (with using getUrl, and mailto so that it has an attachment??, is it possible to send to it an relative/absolute path, and the email program attaches that file to the email automatically??

thanks again.

phil.

Attaching Fla Files
Is there any way to attach an fla. file so that someone can download it or view it from the forum? If I have to make it into a zip, how do I do it? I have a mac and I use osx, and I use flash MX. help!

Attaching Movies
This is probably a newbie question but I tried to work it out myself to no avail so here it is.

I've got a a bunch of buttons and a picture tv screen above them. I've also got a bunch of movie clips with words that fade in (meant to be placed on the tv screen) when the mouse goes over the corresponding button.

Say I wanted a movie clip of the words fading in (exported with "wHome" as the identifier) to play when the mouse goes over the home button and to dissapear when the mouse rolls out, what would the action script look like?

Thanks in advance.

-Tom

BTW, I'm using Flash 5.

Attaching A Quicktime(.mov) To An .swf
how can i attach a quicktime movie(actually several quicktime movies) in a .swf file? in my project i have a tv and i want the buttons to play different movies on the "screen" of the tv. any advice will be greatly appreciated!

Attaching Movie
Hi,

I want to Attach lots of movie clips, to another movie clip. But I only want them to be attached to the 2nd frame of the parent clip, if that makes any sense, so I can jump to the 1st frame of the parent clip, which will be blank to turn them off, how would you do that?

I've tried putting another clip on the 2nd frame of the parent clip, and then attaching them all to that clip on the 2nd frame, but it doesn't work.

thanks

phil.

Help With Attaching Sound
Hi! What I want to be able to do is dynamically load an external mp3 automatically. I found how to do it by clicking a button but how do you do it so that it starts loading when the movie starts playing? Greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks!
Abbe

Attaching An MC To The End Of A Textfield
Hi,
i have a problem here, which is i have an MC, blogentry.
it contains 2 textfields both dynamic which will receive content from sql, and both autosize.
thing is after the 2nd text field, i need to attach another MC, blogcomment which contains basically the 'posted by <author> at <date> ' .
but i am having trouble finding a way to program the coordinates of MC Blogcomment such that it will stick to the lower right corner of MC Blogentry. Anyone got any ideas?
what i tried initially was set a variable, start_pos = blogentry._y + blodentry._height;
and blogcomment._y = start_pos;
apparently it did'nt work. at least not on the web server with the real time data

Attaching A Class To A Mc
hi all,

i want to attach a class to an mc.

i figured out that it works when i do that manually in the the linkage props of the mc.

when i the attach it, it works.

but, how can i do that dynamicly.

thanx for any answers

marcel

Attaching MC Ques

hi.. anyone out there can give me a tutorial which teaches attaching a MC to another MC?? urgent..