Flash :: Graphical Xml Thermometer

Thermometer Guage
Hi,

I just need a little guidance please:-

I'm trying to animate a linear thermometer. I have 4 layers....

Action
Background
Thermometer Scale
Needle

... and Symbols for most graphics

The needle layer has a tween that runs from 0 to 99 degrees using 100 frames and a ease to give a bit of life. I'm stuck on what to use to play the needle tween a given number of frames according to a value read from a text file.

1) How do you play a tween from frame 1 to frame x then stop?
2) Apply the ease to the shortened frame 1 - frame x tween
3) Read a value from a text file?

I just need pointing in the right direction. I can probably work out AS code from the reference but any examples would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Nigel.

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Goal Thermometer?
I need to make a Goal Thermometer work dynamically. I have made the symbols and all in Flash and now need to make it work.

All my experience in Flash has been "cell" animation (all Timeline - no ActionScript'n) but now my manager wants this goal thing to work for different departments to see on the intranet (after they login...)

How do I pass the value to the symbol [redbar] to make it grow?? I know I have to make some kind of percentage calculation like (goal_achieved/total_goal)*100 which will be done in the HTML but how do I get value received into the SWF???

sorry but AS confuses me (I'm just a lowly pixel monkey)

thanks for any help you guys can offer,
scott

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Hi there

I am designing a thermometer (flash 8) that will read a variable to animate the red portion of the thermometer to reach the given temperature.

I am told this will be done by passing the value via php (which is over my head), but for now to get a working model I can start by having flash read a value from variable in a text file.

Can anyone help me get started on this with the logic and actionscript? I am novice-level in programming.

thanks!
Steve

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Hi guys/girls

I am creating a thermometer and i would like to create a piece of action script that allows the user to increase or decrease the temperature by pressing a button.

i have created a version for which you can see at http://www.colourchange.com/clini-temp/.

Currently it works by have action script on the up button to simply go to the next frame, however i encountered a problem when the user tries to decrease the temperature.

i just cant get my head around it.

any ideas and advice are welcome.

cheers

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HI guys --

I am trying to find a way to do a thermomenter animation in flash - the mercury in the thermometer would be linked to a percentage ie 85%

In the beginning - this can just be an amount from some place else in the flash file...ie a set percentage 85%

But moving on -- I am not sure how exactly i would do the scripting for this!

or even add a script in so that it looks for the percentage in a database?

Any advice?

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I currently load daily performance data into an Excel spreadsheet stored on our company server. The spreadsheet calculates weekly summary metrics from my daily detail data entries. The metrics include such things as; weekly shipments, on-time-delivery and shipments past due. The resulting summary statistics are all calculated as 'percent to goal' type metrics.

I would like to develop a way to graphically and simply display the resulting metrics on our company website. Is it possible to create a Flash movie that could automatically refresh a series of 'thermometer' type animated images directly from the Excel files?

Other than to ask the question, I'm not really sure where to start. Has anyone seen this done before?

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Hi guys and girls,

Im working on a project that requires the user to be able to increase and decrease the temperature by pressing a button.

At the moment i have got it to work using "next frame" action script on the increase and "prev frame" on the decrease button.

when the user presses increase, it goes to the next frame which then plays a movie clip ( the movie clip shows the temperature fade out and then fade in).

My problem comes when the user wants the decrease the temperature, so when the user presses the decrease button it just goes back to the beginning, so its in a loop. What i would like to happen is for user to press the decrease button and the movie clip to play in reverse order.

i have the link here for you guys to have a look http://www.colourchange.com/clini-temp/ and clarify what i mean

I have also attached the fla aswell http://www.colourchange.com/clini-te...-temp-test.fla

i need to brush up on my Action Scripting, seriously.

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Thermometer Preloader Nested In Other Movies Not
Thermometer preloader nested in other movies not working!

Can anyone help me.

I've built a basic thermometer preloader for a file "TRACK1.swf" (200K).
This, on it's own work fine when i test the movie... the thermometer bar increases gradually then jumps straight into the movie when it's preloaded.

The script:-

//*********************************************************
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
percent = int((_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal())*100);
gotoAndStop (int(_totalframes*(percent/100)));
}
//**********************************************************
The script above points to a movie clip with a hundred frame tween for the thermometer to show percentage loaded!!!
//**********************************************************

However, when i nest this movie (i.e. load "TRACK1" into an empty MC on another movie "NAVIGATION.swf") within another and test it on the web, the thermometer bar doesn't work.

The problem lies with "_root." in the script in that it's addressing the root movie and not the one the preloader is in.
I've tried using instead of _"root"; "this." and "_parent" but neither works properly on the web.

Can anyone suggest how i can fix the problem?
Or point me to a source file that solves the nested movies problem.

Please help.
Thanks in advance

Mark

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Hi all.

I have designed a graphical preloader that use a png that is only 3kb. Why when I test my movie or I upload it to the server I can't see it before than the percent arrives at 36%. If I use my vectorial preloader all is ok.

How can I resolve this problem?

Thx to all

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Graphical Equalizer
Hi!

I'm trying to get a graphical equalizer to start playing the music without the user having to press the play button (however still want the play and stop controls in place).

I'll paste all the actionscript:

code: set("length",142.8);
set("fulllen",142800);
set("step",154);
set("rows", 928);
loadMovie("roloPastores.swf", "myClip");
myClip.stopAllSounds();
myClipBytesLoaded = myClip.getBytesLoaded();
myClipBytesTotal = myClip.getBytesTotal();
setProperty("eq", _visible, "0");
setProperty("dot", _visible, "0");
eqy = getProperty("eq", _y);
eqx = 11;

if (myClipBytesLoaded == myClipBytesTotal) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

gotoAndPlay(2);

i = "1";
while (Number(i)<15) {
duplicateMovieClip("eq", "eq" add i, 10+Number(i));
duplicateMovieClip("dot", "eqdot" add i, 30+Number(i));
setProperty("eq" add i, _x, Number(eqx)+Number(i*5));
setProperty("eqdot" add i, _x, Number(eqx)+Number(i*5));
setProperty("eq" add i, _yscale, 1);
set("doty" add i, 0);
setProperty("eqdot" add i, _y, eqy-1-Eval("doty" add i));
i = Number(i)+1;
}
status = "stop";
stop();

starttime = getTimer();
loop = "0";
maxloops = "300";

playtime = getTimer()-starttime-(fulllen)*loop;
j = int(playtime/((step)));
i = "1";
while (Number(i)<15) {
if (status eq "play") {
sc = ((eval("myClip/:s" add i)*20.8));
if (sc>99) {
set ("sc","99");
}
} else {
sc = 0;
}
setProperty("eq" add i, _yscale, 1+Number(sc));
setProperty("line" add i, _yscale, newy);
if (sc >= eval("doty" add i)) {
set("doty" add i, sc);
} else {
set("doty" add i, eval("doty" add i)-3);
}
setProperty("eqdot" add i, _y, eqy-1-Eval("doty" add i)/5);
i = Number(i)+1;
}

if (Number(j)<Number(rows)) {
gotoAndPlay("eqplay");
} else if (Number(loop)<Number((maxloops-1))) {
loop = Number(loop)+1;
gotoAndPlay("eqplay");
}

stop();

PLEEEEEEEAASE can anybody help... What do I need to change to make the music start playing automatically?!

Thanks!

MediaMonkeyMX

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Hi my current preloader on my site is a countdown, I want to make a counter which is formed of 3 strips of graphical numbers (0 - 9) that shift up to make the percentage of download. How can I set off a tween function on every percentage change, like the step from 99% to 98% would kick of the function to shift one of the mc's up?

many thanks

http://www.simonkinslow.com

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Hi everybody,
I hope you can help me with this.

I need the class to be able to generate a table showing you the data inside an object (instance name: "list1" in my current script). That's what it already does. Then, upon clicking a cell in this table, this cell shall become selected. It sort of does that too, but cells already selected don't become "unselected" (nevermind that now, I will get this to work by myself). Now, the data that is shown in the table cell shall be changed inside the list object ("list1"). I'm still trying around with this, but I though asking won't hurt either. So, if you know anything that might help me, please feel free to respond to this thread. As far as I found out, the problem is that I can't let the "cell" MC know to which property it relates, or in other words: I can give the "cell" MC the VALUE of the property but it doesn't know where it came from and thus isn't able to WRITE a new VALUE to that place.

I will include the whole script to this thread for you to try out. You will need a MC with linkage name "cell" that has a dynamic text box in it which gets its text from the variable called "label". (Linkage... : "cell"; var : "label") In the second frame of this MC, the border around the clip should be another color (that's the "selected" state of a cell).

So, here's the script:

Code:
$List = function (entries) {
for (var i = 0; i<entries; i++) {
var itemName = "item"+i;
this[itemName] = {lab:"ITEM"+i, val:Math.floor(Math.random()*100)};
}
};
$Table = function (list, location) {
if (typeof (list) != "object") {
trace("No List Object specified!");
trace("Syntax: 'InstanceName' = new $Table(ListObject[, Location])");
}
if (typeof (location) == "undefined") {
location = new $Point(0, 0);
}
if (typeof (location.x) == "undefined" | typeof (location.y) == "undefined") {
trace("Location has to be an Object in format 'InstanceName' = {X, Y}");
}
this.list = list;
this.rowCount = 0;
for (var item in this.list) {
this.rowFlag = this.list[item];
if (typeof (this.list[item]) == "object") {
this.cellCount = 0;
this.rowFlag.rowClip = this.clip.createEmptyMovieClip("row"+this.
rowCount, this.rowCount);
this.rowClipFlag = this.rowFlag.rowClip;
for (var each in this.rowFlag) {
this.cellFlag = this.rowFlag[each];
if (typeof (this.cellFlag) == "string" | typeof (this.cellFlag) == "number") {
this.rowFlag["cellClip"+this.cellCount] = this.rowClipFlag.attachMovie("cell", "cell"+this.cellCount, this.cellCount);
this.cellClipFlag = this.rowFlag["cellClip"+this.cellCount];
this.cellClipFlag.stop();
this.cellClipFlag.label = this.cellFlag;
this.cellClipFlag._x = (this.cellClipFlag._width)*this.cellCount;
this.cellClipFlag.onRelease = function() {
for (each in this._parent) {
this._parent[each].gotoAndStop(2);
}
};
this.cellCount++;
}
}
this.rowClipFlag._y = (this.rowClipFlag._height)*this.rowCount;
this.rowCount++;
}
}
this.clip._x = location.x;
this.clip._y = location.y;
};
$Table.prototype.clip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("table", 0);

$Table.prototype.select = function() {
this.cell.gotoAndStop(2);
};

$Point = function (x, y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
};
list1 = new $List(20);
table1 = new $Table(list1);

Hopefully you can help me.

Thanks in advance
~Wasty

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huge thanks in advance

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See attached image for example.

Basically, there is a set number of "empty" cirlces on the stage ( 30 to be exact)

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If they miss, the "X" circle shows.

If they miss a total of three times, the game ends (game over)
If they get all 30 then the game ends (success).

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PHP Code:

_global.scoreMiss = 0;
_global.scoreIndex = 0;
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scorecircle._y = -30.0;
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}
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var j;
var k;
var i = 0;
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            _y = 8+k*30;
        }
        i++;
    }
}

scorecircle is a movieClip that contains three frames and labeled accordingly:
emptyCircle, rightCircle, missCircle

As it stands with the current code, if someone misses, the correct frame (missCircle) , and if they miss the next one, it moves onto the next duplicated scorecicle movieClip. However, if they miss one and get it right on the next one, the scorecircle movieClip which had the miss, resets and then shows the circle in the frame rightCircle, and if they miss the next one, that same circle resets and shows the circle in frame missCircle. However, the count is still kept.

What am I missing?

Also at the end of a game, how do i reset the "score" so if they wish to replay, it doesn't "start" from existing "data"?

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