Flash :: DuplicateMovieClip Not 'transforming'

Transforming
hello out there

..how do you transform an object so that only one side of the shape is altered?

i.e if i wanted to give a square some perspective & make the far side shorter than the near side what should i do..? (preferably without going back into the source symbol & making a permanent change)

helpful hints much apreciated,
cheers

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Could somebody please revise this short AS2 code to AS3 syntax so that the swf file can keep its interactivity when loaded into AS3 main swf.

This swf gallery (a free template) in its current (as2) state, can be loaded into as3 swf, but only as a plain animation, without 'click on pic' interactivity, and even with wrong size. (i have scaled it down from original size, via AS code)

Thanks a lot in advance

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Hello.

I am loading some images into a .swf but I want to make sure all the pictures fit in the frame. How can I set the Transformation with actionscript?

Any ideas?

Thanks

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If i do a color swap on an MC with maybe 4 frames, will all frames be effected?

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i have a project im working on take up too much room on the working area. i try to select the whole thing, and only one set of keyframed tweens want to change, in this case, resize.

i want to take the whole set, begining to end, and shrink it, without loosing the tweens and the like.

also, the same idea with moving the whole thing around a page without screwing the tweens.

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Transforming Text
Hello and thanks in advance for anybody's input..

What I'm trying to accomplish is something that I'm sure is rather simple, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. Here is what I want to do..

I want the user to be able to click a word, sentence, etc. And have the text's color change from one color to another, let's say black to grey. After the user has clicked the black text to turn it grey, they could click the grey text to change it back to the orginal color, black.

Should this be approached as two different button symbols that get switched from one to the other? Should it just be one graphic where the color values change? What would be the simplest solution?

Much thanks..

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Transforming Questions
Hey all,

I have a question about skewing objects in Flash. Is there an easy way, (I.E. - a way that doesn't require extrusion matrices or seriously advanced math) to control a timed skew to give a 3d rotation effect with actionscript? I know you can just keyframe it, but It's always smoother to make things mathematical and do it all with AS.

Any ideas?

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Color Transforming Help
I am stuck on a program I'm trying to make. What I want to do is use input text fields to read two HEX codes from a use then perform a transformation on these two HEXes. The transformation is what I am stuck on. I want to take a random % (just raw Math.random() at the moment) and apply it to the difference between the two colors, so that a random point in between is chosen. My current method is to try and find a way to sift out the individual red, green and blue values of the two colors and to try and work with those. But I can't get it to work. I can get the input fields to apply directly to a movie clip and I can apply a totally random color to the same movie clip, but I can't get the parts in between to do what I want them to. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could work this or should I scrap my current method?

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Hi all,

i want to transform some desktop based flash games fro mobile.is there any tool that transforms for mobile.so that i can do easily.

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Hi

I have an irregular shape (a square with on of the corners extruding).

What i would like to do is to have the point that is sticking out to anchor at a cordinate. When i drag the item, i would like to have that point to remain in the same position.

Im not sure how i would do this. Would i need to use a Matrix?

thanks

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I am thinking about a movie that will allow me to transform bitmaps. If you use adobe photoshop you can move an image from a flat view to horizontal or any angle you want with the transform tool.

Does Macromedia let me do that within flash? I would like to create a motion tween that pulls a screen shot off of an image and turn it into the start of a movie. Any suggestions? I will have to load a swf within fla to do this. Thanks.

Brandon

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Hey, for those of you who use this. Is there a way to create an envelope tween, through frames or even actionscript? I've tried with frames, but when I create the tween, the shape turns into a global graphic symbol. When I try to modify the shape at the last frame of the tween, it applies the modifications to the entire tween. Hope that made sense. Cheers.

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Hi guys.Thanx for all the replies on my last post,they both worked .Ive been lookin thru kirupa and ive yet to find a shape transform tutorial .Does any1 know were i can find 1?.Also,i dunno if u call this shape transforming,well im not sure wot u call it.If u go here,click studio then watch the intro,u will see how the boxes "unfold" if u will.Any tutorials on this?.Many thanx in advance for ppl who are kind enuff to reply.Peace,Tec

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Transforming Color Over Steps
I am doing a multimedia CD for an upcoming confrence and the main informational part is set up like a web site and I trying to set up the AS so that when you click on the buttons for the different sections it will make the background image MC change colors, ie. blue tint picture to green tint.

So far I can get the color to change by adding to each button a variation (depending on the color) of this:
//myBackground is the target
on (release) {
myColor = new Color (myBackground);
myColorTransform = new Object;
myColorTransform = { ra: '100', rb: '50', ga: '100', gb: '40', ba: '0', bb: '-255', aa: '100', ab: '0'}
myColor.setTransform(myColorTransform);

}

But what I want to do is make the color change over several steps. I am compleatly clueless on how to make it transition over steps to the new color.

Please help.

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When I run my movie, two symbols which are both black boxes inexplicably rotate and skew themselves. In live preview they look normal, and there is no actionscript that even references them. When I run the movie in debug mode they are rotated and skewed before I even let flash run the first line of code.

Has anyone encountered this before?

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I have a bunch of short movie clips that i need to transform across the stage one right after another. when i try to apply the transform effect to the movie clip on the stage the preview just shows it spinning around all distorted.

Can i even do this or am I doing something wrong?

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hi, I am newer to actionscript. I have some problems with scenes' transforming.
I want to know how to transform one scene to another scene by release a button.

I know it's code: on(release) and next scene but I dont know how to make them together.

The button's name is "ONE"

pls help.

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Hi there. It's been quite some time since I've been on here, but the help I have received on here has never failed to be helpful, quite an impressive communtiy here. Anyways, here's my mini problem...

I am working for a client that had an older program whipped up in Director. I'm basically just doing a screen for screen translation and having the info posted online for her students (she's' a professor). One area features a "brainstorming" section where the students enter text in a series of text boxes and submit it via a "next" button. The next screen now has boxes for every text entry they made, but they can drag the boxes with the content and arrange/organize them in groupings which they see fit. I'm pretty much a noob with action script, but does anybody have any suggestions as to what direction I should be moving in to accomplish this? Any help is most appreciated.

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Component For Transforming Textboxes?
Hi,

Is there a component available where users can extend an input text box to suit the length of their writing which is also draggable?

I've been looking for a way to do this in flash but cannot solve the problem.

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[F8] Perspective Transforming Tool
hi guys,
is it possible to scale a symbol *perspectively* using the 'free transform/distort' tool?

i tried it on a symbol and it seems to only work if i break down the symbol all the way.

anyway to work around this?

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Big Problem With Transforming Dynamic MCs
I have 'sectionMC', which is loaded into a dynamically created MC with the following code:

Code:
_root.Container.createEmptyMovieClip("form", 501);
_root.Container.form.attachMovie("Contact", _root.Container.form, 501, {_x:20, _y:20});
then within the sectionMC, there is this code:

Code:
txt.textColor = 0x000000;
Box.colorTo(0xFFFFFF, 0);
Boxtween('_width', 60, 1, 'easeOut', 0);
(uses the Zigo tween component to change the Box MC to white)

The text colour changes to black.
But the Box MC colour remains unchanged, however the width tweening works!!

If the sectionMC is placed directly on the stage, it all works.

is it a path issue ?
How can i resolve this?

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I have a bit of a problem, after reading a couple of good actionscript articles here on actionscript.org I managed to create a countdown from 12:00 to 00:00 in a movieclip. ( http://nieser.net/flash/countdown.swf )

Only thing I need to do is to slightly distort the movieclip so it aligns better with the background image. However when I drag the Movie Clip from my Library onto my Scene the "Distort" button on the toolbar is greyed out. All I can do is scale, rotate and skew.

Another problem which might be related is that when I skew or rotate the Movie Clip the Move Clip dissappears when I export the movie to .swf. Scaling works fine though.

Click here for the .fla file. (Flash MX 2004)

Click here for the font I used in the .fla above.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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I love using the manual tinting feature plus tweens to transform from an mc's current color to another. I would like to switch to a scripted method of doing this. I have found that the color matirx filter or ColorTransform might be the best options= for this. I would like to be able to control how long the tween from the current color to new color is when I press a button. Which method is the best for achieving this. I'd just like toi tell it the new hex color and the amount of time it should take to transform to it. Will I need to implore both the transition class and something else?

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Hey there reader,

Does anyone have a clue how to transform a drop shadow? I want the effect of light coming from above a ball, and a skewed shadow on the "ground" below it. I can't apply the transformation matrices to filter objects, and i don't know a way to place the filter effect in its own Sprite to transform.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks!
Jesang

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I'm having the silliest problem transforming a movie clip symbol to 20% of its original size. When I click on the instance and then go to the Transform panel and enter "20%" for the size, then go back to the stage and select the instance again, it turns out the instance is still at 100% of its original size. I really don't know what the problem could be, since I had no trouble reducing the size of another movie clip in the exact same movie. Anyone have any ideas on what's happening? Thanks.

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I had asked before why my dynamic text was not able to be transformed. Now it appear as though it can but only with certain embeded fonts. And not only just the fonts in general but specific fonts in specific movies. For instance: Goudy Old Style will be able to transform in one movie but not in another. Is it a problem with the way I am embeding them, those that work and those that don't were embedded at the same time... Any suggestions will be praised! Thanks guys

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I must do the following:

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The problem I´m having is that the SWF do not open .EXE files without asking to open or save it, so I must transform it to a projector?
is there another way of opening .exe files with a SWF? maybe .dat files?

hope I´ve been clear.
thanks for any help

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Here is some code I'm trying to finish. It does two things: Fades the color of a movieclip to another color, and scales (increases the width) the rectangular movie clip - all of this I figured out with the help of some very nice folks on this forum, so thanks!

The code works, the mc resizes and fades to the desired color, BUT I need the movieclip to scale back (decrease in width) once it reaches it's target width of 400.

I've tried a few things, but uh, not quite finding it...any ideas? Thanks again! Here's the code:

// mc_retangle contains a black retangle...
var mycolor = new Color(mc_retangle);
var change = {rb:169,gb:195,bb:217};
mycolor.setTransform(change);

button.onRelease = function() {
// scale movieclip
mc_retangle.onEnterFrame = function(){
if ( mc_retangle._width<=400) {
mc_retangle._width += 40;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

// fade color
//varibles to mix desired color
var red_dest = 219;
var green_dest = 201;
var blue_dest = 174;

onEnterFrame = function(){
//change red//
if (red_dest>=change.rb) {
if (change.rb<red_dest) {
change.rb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.rb>red_dest) {
change.rb -= 3;
}
}
//change green//
if (green_dest>=change.gb) {
if (change.gb<green_dest) {
change.gb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.gb>green_dest) {
change.gb -= 3;
}
}
//change blue//
if (blue_dest>=change.bb) {
if (change.bb<blue_dest) {
change.bb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.bb>blue_dest) {
change.bb -= 3;
}
}
mycolor.setTransform(change);
}

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I bought a flash template from Template Monster for a client.

I'm a seasoned developer but completely new to flash, or mostly anyway.

After hours (and hours) of browsing thru the .fla file, i got a understanding of how it works and how it all ties together but still find myself dumbfounded when i try to make anything else than a light change.

Here's the thing, the website ill deliver needs to be bilingual and the template is in english only.

Fortunately, its a dynamic template so most of the text is in an external file and all i had to do is create to separate instances, one in french and one in english. That part works.

What doesn't work is those parts of the template that were static and changed to dynamic text.

i put the variable name in the .fla, I put the variable in the text file. render the movie but flash doesn't take it.

I'm guessing that the part where the player reads the file doesn't bind the new dynamic text but...

I think you understand whats my problem...

Can someone briefly indicate me the steps for transforming a static symbol to a dynamic one please ?

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This issue gives me problems because I'm using dynamic text to load a .txt file with html properties - and I use this .txt with the IMG tag to load images - well, as I found out, no matter what size your text box is, if it has a distorted aspect ratio (I.E. anything that's not a square) your image will be distorted with the same aspect ratio of said text box.

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This is a very stupid and angering issue that really shouldn't be this damn annoying

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if(frame2picRatio<=1){
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Im duplicating a movieclip and the clips that are duplicated sit on top of my other layers in the movie... I want the duplicated movie clips to lay under my other layers..

Any suggestions?

I'll provide you with the FLA if you want : )

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hi!

I've got a problem that I'm sure will be very easy for you guys to solve.

Here is the my object tree:

_level0.Box
_level0.Item

that means that at the beginning of the movie I have 2 objects on the scene: Box and Items. Both objects are in the root.

Here is the list of the objects after some action:

_level0.Box
_level0.Item
_level0.Box.Item2

You see that Iwant to duplicate Item to the Item2(Item2 should be within the Box).

What should I do? I read all that we have here at this forum, but not found anything for such a simple problem.

Please help me!!!

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hi people! i got a small actionscript problem. i think i need the dublicatemovieclip (what a word! ) but i don't understand it:

duplicateMovieClip ("TARGET", "NEWNAME", DEPTH);

i think the target is the movie to dublicate, and the new name is...the name of the dublicatet movie , but what the hell is depth??
if i dublicated the mc can i set any properties too?
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I am having a performance problem and I would like to know if the "duplicatemovieclip" call is doing it.
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But this is causing the main flash movie (which holds this menu) to drag (really really drag!) at startup.
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Hi,
I am using the below script, I dont particular understand it.....
But I know what I want it to do.
For some reason or another its not duplicate the name of the old instances to the new instances its creating.
Is there any way for it to copy the name of the instance it duplicates.

kv is the name of my movie clip which contains serveral other movie clips , which I need to keep the name of.

while (Number(n)<19) {
n = Number(n)+1;
bn = "kv" add n;
duplicateMovieClip ("kv", bn, n);
setProperty (bn, _x, Number(getProperty(bn, _x))+Number(n*getProperty(bn, _width)));
setProperty (bn add "/b", _x, getProperty (bn add "/b", _x) + (random (20)+1));
set (bn add ":n", n);
}

If any one can help it would be very appriacted.
Cheers
Kaan.

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In my game that i am making, the movie clip has the following code:
===================================
onClipEvent(load){
randomizer = 39

if (randomizer == 39){
duplicateMovieClip(_root.diamond, "diamond"+i, i)
setProperty("diamond"+i, _x, 100);
setProperty("diamond"+i, _y, 100);
i = i+1
trace("made it");
}
}
=====================================
It is on a LOAD event clip since i only want this action to happen once at the beginning. The first thing that happens is the variable "randomizer" gets a value (in the final version this will look more like "randomizer = random(50)" or somthing). Next it checks if randomizer equals 39 (wich of cource it does but later this WILL be random). Since it does equal 39, it then tries to duplicate the movie clip that is located on the mian timeline, named diamond. But it doesnt work...

This code DOES work if i put it in a button, and say (instead of onClipEvent(Load)) on(release){ then code, it DOES work when i click it... But if its in a movie clip, it wont... Any help? If you have any idea, i would realy appretiate help Thanks!!

Elyxia

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