Flash :: Duplicate A Movie After It Has Been Made Invisible.

Cursor Made Invisible After 4 Seconds - Problem. Movie Attached
See attached movie.

I have a movie with some nice graphics that I dont want to be disturbed by the cursor. Therefore I have this script in the frames over the graphics that makes the cursor invisible after 4 seconds, if the mouse has not been moved. The script is working perfectly.

BUT :
- I have a options box where the user can turn off the background music and other things.

This options box is made visible by clicking on a options button on the stage. The options box is then showing on stage.

As long as the options box is visible on the stage I dont want to have the cursor made invisible after 4 seconds. It will disturb the user when he is deciding in the options box what settings to use, that the cursor suddenly will disappear. It will come back as soon a user move the mouse again, but it will give the user a disturbing experience with this undesiding cursor flickering.

What I want is that when user click on options button then the "hide cursor" script is turned off. And when the user thereafter is clicking the "OK" button in the optionsbox to make the box go away, then I want the hide cursor script to be active again.

What I want is something like this on the options button:

on(release){
sliding._x=230;
sliding._y=78;

clearInterval(nIdleTime);
}

What I want is something like this on the OK button:

on(release){
_root.sliding._x=-260;
_root.sliding._y=631;

idleTime:Number = 4;
}

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Here is the hide cursor script on the frames:

var idleTime:Number = 4; //define number of seconds for idle time here
var mouseCord:Number = _xmouse+_ymouse;
var nMouseMoveDetect:Number = setInterval(mouseMoveDetect, 500);
var nIdleTime:Number;

function mouseMoveDetect():Void {
if (mouseCord != _xmouse+_ymouse) {
//mouse has moved in last half a second
Mouse.show();
clearInterval(nIdleTime);
nIdleTime = setInterval(idleProcess, idleTime*1000 - 500);
}
mouseCord = _xmouse+_ymouse;
}

function idleProcess():Void {
clearInterval(nIdleTime);
Mouse.hide();
}

Im Not Trying To Duplicate The Clip,'I've Just Only Made A Symbol...
Im not trying to duplicate the clip...

I've just made a clip, OK?

I inserted in the main timeline and, when a reproduce the animation inside flash i cant see the animation of the clip...i only see the first frame of the clip.

Theres no way to see the whole animation of the movie clip in the main timeline inside flash?---not in the timeline of the movie clip (symbol).

Thanx

Jorge:

confused:

Duplicate Library Items And Changes Made To Them
Hi,

I have produced a library item as a movie clip. However, I need to duplicate this and edit them so each one is different (basically they are balls, each one needs to be a different ball)

I have tried to duplicate and then rename the item, but any change i make to it is made on all the different balls.

How can i duplicate this item and change the colours without each one making the other change.

Thank you

James

Is There Any Way To Load A Movie Thats Made In AS2 On An AS3 Movie And Vice Versa?
If I was to make a movie using Flash AS2 and then loadMovie thats made using AS3 into my AS2 movie, is this possible? or vice versa.

Like make a movie using AS3 then load a movie that uses AS2 with MC Tween maybe.

Are they backward compatible? I am wondering how could you mix and match and load different movie versions and actionscripts.

Invisible Movie ...
hi .... first i want to say sorry to all people who are reading thins message .... *gg* my english is not good because im from austria ^^ ....
so i got a problem an may one of ya flash checkers can help me .....
i need to know how i can make an invisible background on a flash movie ...
i hope u can help me
thx...
cya KKƒ

Invisible Movie
Thanks to atomic I got everything figured out to get my movie online. When I loaded the index to to server to put it online, I typed in the URL and the flash movie is invisible.

While working with it offline everything is fine, but the minute it is online... invisible.

I can right click the area of the page where the movie should be and I do get the about flash 9 window as well as the regular window to access the source when I right click off the movie area.

Is this strange?

*EDIT: I should say... When I publish the movie html it is invisible. When I publish it swf I get a white box.

Gary

Ok I've Made The Movie Now....
now I wanted to display it on the internet, but instead of having the URL blah.site/movie.swf i wanted to embed it, but i don't know the code for it, can you please tell me if you know?

Load Movie Invisible
moin,

I want to load a swf in a new level, but it should come up invisible so that I can make it visible later.

I tried:
loadMovie ("blabla.swf"; "_level6");
_level6._visible=false

...but the swf appeared. - What´s wrong with my script?

Ciau
Tom

How Do I Make A Movie Invisible?
Can someone tell me how I can make a movie invisible?
I thought this would be easily done by having the following:

movieInstance.visible = false;

I've read the Flash help... and I'm pretty sure the above is supposed to make the movie invisible??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

OM

Invisible Movie Clip
How do you make a movie clip invisible until it is played.

MY clip is a shape tween.

Thanks,
eze.

Why Isn't My Movie The Size I Made It?
I'm in the beginning stages of a movie that I set at 800 wide by 250 tall. I could tell that the dimensions look strange on the screen, like it's not actually those dimensions, but the rulers concur that it's 800 x 250.

I wanted to test the movie before I went much further so I set it to play on a html page, with the html properly calling the movie up in those dimensions. It appears to get the height dimension correctly, but it's definitely not 800 pixels wide -- it looks to be around 450 or 500.

There must be a simple explanation for this. I just don't know what it is. Please help.

Thanks!

Ive Made A Movie Clip, Now,
How do I move it into my main timeline?

How do I move it onto layer 15 of my scene 1 timeline so It can loop seperately from my rotating icons?(layer 15 is blank)

How Can I Prove I Made A Movie?
With flash it's kind of complicated on how to prove for sure who is the creator of it. I'm wondering if there is a way to show someone and to make them go, 'oh **** he DID make it'. The reason I'm wondering is because I need to contact someone that ripped me off, but if they ask me for proof that I made it, what can I say?

I have all the files I used for the movie still, the .FLA, the .WAVs, even the background .JPGs
But isn't there those dicks who make software that just rips a .swf and lists all the library items? I need proof, PROOOOFFF!!

Choose The Movie You Would Like To See Made
So here is the problem I have to figure out and I can't even think of where to start.

I'm going to have 2 columns with 3 videos in each one.
The user can click on a video from each column and then see them combined into one streaming video.

I figure I can make an flv of every combination possible. I just need to figure out how to go which video depending on which boxes you've clicked.

Any suggestions? Are there any true flash Macgyver out there?

Movie Clip Made Appear
I have a movie clip which is invisible onClipEvent(load).
This movie clip is made visible on(release) button, as follows:

on(release){_root.cat._visible=true;}

after on(release) button, goto next frame. On next frame, on(release) button, go back to previous frame, but the movie clip which was visible is invisible. How do I make the movie clip keep on visible when I come back from other frame.

Thank you.

Problem Online Movie Invisible
hi guys.
i just made a website wich uses a flashmovie i got through this site.
offline everything is working perfect, online nothing can be seen....

very strange...

in attach you can find the file i use
my site can be seen at htt://www.mastuvu.nu/lieveblancquaert
if you click on portraits normally an image should appear...
but it doesn't

the flashmovie works with images it takes out of a map (so i can easily add new images...)

thanks!

ine

How To Make Movie Clips Invisible
ok, i have 3 movie clips on one page, they will all play in the same spot. they work fine except movie clip 1 doesn't disappear when i select movie clip 2. movie clip 2 shows up behind # 1. what scripting do i need to do to make all invisible but the one i have selected? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

How Do I Make A Movie Clip Invisible?
how do i make a movie clip invisible?

i want it to be invisible and when i click a button it becomes visible

Parts Flash Movie Invisible
I've made a standard html page with a flash object using Flash 8 pro. At the office we still use IE6 with flash player 6. I've noticed that when I view my html there, certain parts of my flash movie become invisible? It works in Firefox there, but IE seems to make certain objects invisible or at least won't show them.

I haven't used any special AS , just the ordinary mc's/buttons. Even tried exporting to flash player 6. The only thing it commented about is the use of 'enhanced strokes' in my logo.

It's a full screen flash movie so the width/height is set to 100% and scaling is turned off.

But instead of showing all buttons, mc's, graphics, it just shows a text line inside my logo and a tweening movieclip. The rest becomes the background colour.

I've tried it at home, also using IE6 but with flash player 9 and it doesn't have any problems there.

What could cause a thing like that? Some security setting perhaps?

Invisible Mc Flashes When Movie Starts
I have a bunch of mc's in my movie, and on the first frame, I make them all visible=false. And it works except, when the movie first loads up, all the mc's flash real quick and then disappear. Any idea why this is happening?

Invisible Buttons In Movie Clip
okay - I'm using Flash MX and rather new to it. I have this small "movie" that simply rotates four pictures. Once on the web, I want each picture to by hyperlinked to a different URL. I gather I need to make an invisible button during the duration of each picture, but each time I try to even make one button, I get the following message: Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 6, Frame=1: Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on(release){

Obviously I have made the button wrong. Can anyone look at my fla and see if they can add the appropriate script so I can and the ULR's in question?

THANKS!!

Kris

Activating Invisible Movie Clip
Let's see if I can explain myself clearly......I have menu buttons A, B and C in a swf file, directed to movie clips A, B and C in a second swf file. When I click on any of the buttons I'd like it to open the second swf and its corresponding movie clip to appear but not the others.

Those same three menu buttons also appear in the second swf file. Once it's open I'd like the viewer to continue clicking on buttons and bring movie clips into view, thus adding to the scene until all movie clips are in view.

How do I script this and where do I apply the script? I'm a newbie and need explanation in simplistic terms:-)
Thanks so much!!

Invisible Vinculation Between Movie An .as File?
Hello!
I have downloaded an example from here and I can't find the way the main movie is calling the .as files around...
I have even deleted the .as files from the folder and the movie keep working, but this can be due to the movie calling the files straight from Internet or maybe because it is already on my player memory.
Apart from this paranormal behaviour, the real question is: how das the movie invokes the .as files???

Invisible Button For A Flash Movie
I am working on a website that used a fla movie for the header of the page. I want the header to be a home button, but when I try to do this it will not let me. I think that I am doing everything right, but still trying to figure out Flash. It is all new to me.

Making A Movie Clip Invisible
hi

i have to make a movie clip invisible when i press the enter key.

i used the script:

onClipEvent (keyDown) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.ENTER)) {
this._visible = false;
}
}
i have attached this to the red coloured movie clip.

can u help me out with it.

i am attaching the zipped flash file.

Invisible Buttons And Movie Clips?
Hi,
I need to make the invisible buttons go to the labels in each of these three movie clip buttons. Can anyone remind me how to do this?
Thanks a lot.

very frustrated sob

Controlling Movie From Invisible Button
I'm trying to control a different movie clip from each of several invisible buttons. My actionscript for the first one is

Code:
on (rollOver) {
mv_acevo.play();
}
but it doesn't play the clip. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong please?

And 2nd question, given that there are going to be 9 or so of these should I put each mc on a separate layer? If so what's the right way to refer to each mc in actionscript?

My fla is at
http://www.get2thepoint.org/g2p/resources/projects3.fla

Thanks

Remove A 3D Movie Made With Arrays
I´m very desperate ´cause I solved a problem of doing a bed in wireframe (my logo) with actionscript... the bed rotates as you move the mouse around it.
I know some actionscript and I bought a book with actionscript for games. I based my bed in an example given in this book... the element was a cube, so I just changed the coordinates and made a few changes.
The cube was made with a graphic of an invisible dot and a white line that moves around coordinates drawing the bed.
}The bed now works perfectly and responds to the mouse movement. It´s a 3d model made in flash, but when I
make a button so I can change to another scene,and press it, the scene changes, but the bed just freezes and it stays on top of every layer in my new scene.
I just can´t remove it.
Maybe you would like to see the actionscript of it...

Thank you...

Preload Script, Possible To Add After Movie Made?
Ok, i made a movie. Well more of a slideshow, but either way, has some music and lots of images. I want a preloader, i downloaded one, but do i have to open the preloader, and build my movie in the next scene or is it possible to add the preloader to my current movie, thnx

Made A Movie Symbol, How Do I Get It To Play?
i made a movie symbol thing for my flash movie. inside that symbol i have text exploading... how do i get it to play in secquence?

Ok I Made This Movie, But It Won't Stop Looping
i use flashmx 2004, and when i save it as .swf it will loop, if i save it as .html it doesn't loop, but it still needs the other .swf file to work, my question, is how do i stop looping it on the .swf? is there some marker i have to put at the end to tell it not to loop?

How To Use Preloader In A Flash Movie Made For Web?
I am using Flash MX.
I have a flash movie with sound controll.This is for a web page.Each and every thing of the movie is in symbol(i.e. either in button, or graphic symbol or movie clip).After that I have assimilated those in the screen.
Now I am facing the problem with handling preloader.
Please ,tell me how to use an actractive preloader.

I Made My Movie Too Big. Can I Have It Resize At Start?
Rather than manually resize my root movie and all the movies it loads, can I globally change the scale as they all open up? I'm not using this on the web, it will be on a cdrom.

Thanks for any help.

HELP I Made A Button Out Of A Movie Clip
I found a tutorial that lets me do rollover and rollout animation. What I want to do now is make the button link to more movie clips and menu pages, but I want these pages all in the same .fla.

My site: http://www.geocities.com/camoblur/index.swf

Here's how my "buttons" work: I made a movie clip then did the motion tween to have it get bigger (zoom in effect.) From the tutorial, I found that with enough action scripting, I was able to make this clip in to a button with "on (rollover)" play clip to zoom, and then "on (rollout)" play the clip in rewind so it sets back down.

My problem is that I can only set the "on (release)" actions to "getURL", because when I make it "gotoAndPlay ("scene 1", 25)" it doesn't work.

Can I get the same zoom in/out effect with a REAL Button? Or is there a way I can make this movie clip thing work out?

Thanks

Exported Movie Isn't Same As The One I Originally Made
Using Flash CS3

I made a very basic animation with some text floating around, fading in and out for a small healthcare website. The text floats up from the bottom of the screen fading in then fading out with alpha. I also have a few pictures doing the same thing.

When I export the movie, however, only the first line of multiple lines of text appear, and the alpha fading effect does not work at all.

How come the original movie I made does not reflect into the movie that is exported?

How To Made A Movie Clip Repeat Y
i want to made a sea waves effect and i think i have to do a loop with a clip repeating x and movingo to left...

ho can i repeat the movie clip by actionscript?

Making A Movie Appear After A Certain Task Is Made
hi all i have a pbs with loading move and making it appear after a certain task is made.

Hope your people here can advise me how to make it works.

I have a redball and a whiteball, i trying to make whiteball appear after redball vanished.

redball actionscript

onClipEvent(load){
value=10;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._alpha -= value;
}

whiteball actionscript

onClipEvent(load){
this.attachMovie("whiteball","whiteball",1);
this.whiteball._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(redball.alpha == 0){
this.whiteball._alpha = 100;
}else{
this.whiteball._alpha = 0;
}
}

I have also attached the ball.fla file incase you don't understand what i am trying to do.

thxs for reading

Inserting Something Into A Ready Made Movie
Hi..i got a flash movie already made..

however..i want to put something at the beginning of the flash.

theres several layers already in the movie...so..its not like getting the one layer and doing stuff at the beginning like inserting frames and stuff.

How This Good Flash Movie Is Made...
i found this good flash movie at www.news.com.au (see top most right side)
to see how it is made ..i decompiled..
but got nothing....

i think it uses dynamic rss feed.....

does any body have any idea..sample tutorials ..movies..fla or anything that can be used...

just to see ..or test

Exported Movie Isn't Same As The One I Originally Made
Hi all, flash newbie here. I'm using Flash CS3...

I made a very basic animation for a small healthcare website featuring some text floating around, fading in and out. The text floats up from the bottom of the screen fading in then fading out with alpha. I also have a few pictures doing the same thing.

When I export the movie, however, only the first line of multiple lines of text appear, and the alpha fading effect does not work at all on text. It does work correctly on the pictures. Both text objects as well as pictures were converted into movie symbols.

Any idea how come the original movie I made does not reflect into the movie that is exported?

Movie Clip Tween Invisible On Stage...
I have 6 similar movie clips on stage with an action to play them on press. The Movie Clips contain a Symbol with a motion tween over a path, and a mask motion tween. When the Movie Clip is clicked it starts to play but the symbol tweening does not show up, while the mask tween works fine. Every symbol is in its own layer and the tweening seems fine in the .fla preview. I'm attaching the file, the smallest of the symbols on the stage is the one scripted. Thanks in advance for any help.

<mgl>

Making A Movie Clip Invisible, But Tangable
How can I make a movie clip invisible, but movable by my mouse still? I have a movie clip that only moves on the x Axis and I want the left side of it (where there appears to be nothing unless you move the movie clip over a certain spot) to be movable. In other words, I want to be able to movie the movie clip without having to touch the clip exactly. I tried using the alpha, but wierdly, it still gives me some sort of shaded-like box. If I use the _visible = false; it makes it invisible and not touchable. How can I get the best of both worlds? thanks - Chris

Is There A Way To Make The Background On A Flash Movie Invisible?
So that graphics on the html part of the page can show through?

Making Movie Clip Invisible On Different Frames
Hello everyone,
Probably a really stupid and easy question...I'm just not thinking straight

Basically I have 2 frames...on the second from is a MC called car. I was curious as to what actionscript is that I would add to frame 1, to make the MC invisible on fame 2?

For example: _root.car._visible = false...will only work on the 2nd frame (where the MC is located) and I was curious what the code would be to change it invisible thorugh the first frame...

Thanks for reading, hope it isnt to hard to understand

[F8] Make Invisible Visible With A Movie With Hittest
I've tried my hardest to figure this out on my own. I searched, and got Ideas. but now I am stuck

anyway... here I'll put the code of what I've got.

I have two movie clips

one called trigger with and instance of trigger_mc
and another called called triggered box with the instance of triggeredbox_mc

in my action frame I have:

this.trigger_mc._visible=false;
this.triggeredbox_mc._visible=true;

on the trigger box movie I have

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest( _root.trigger_mc )) {
gotoAndPlay(2);

}
}

here
is my current swf.

what I want is when the trigger hasn't hit the trigger box. I want the trigger box to be invisible.

I'm prettry sure in the action frame I'm going to have to start out with

this.trigger_mc._visible=false;
this.triggeredbox_mc._visible=false;

but I what I'm not able to find out is how to make it visible once it's been triggered... or when the hit test is true....

if helpful my fla is at
here

LoadMovie() Make Loaded Movie Invisible
I have a mc called loader which loads "1.swf"

I want 1.swf to be invisible so I made "loader" not visible

PHP Code:

this.onLoad = function() {
loader.loadMovie("1.swf");
loader._visible = 0;
};

Anyway, 1.swf is visible. What should I do to make it invisible.

Thanks in advance

How Do I Make Movie Clips Invisible On Load?
I had this going before but I forget now, and I'm up real late and its really pissing me off.

Lets say I have a box and I dont want it to be seen when the movie starts. I name its symbol box and its instance name box1

I have frame actions box up and I double click "evaluate" and then choose box1 from the target browse function.

immediately after _root.box1 I insert _visible=false;

so it says

_root.stick_visible=false;

But when I preview my movie it isn't working. HELP!!! Its eating my up.