Flash :: Is There Anything Wrong With This Idea?

I Have No Idea What Im Doing Wrong?
OK... letme see if I could explain this correctly.

This is my situation. I have a Flash movie that uses several sound clips that need to sync with words on the screen. I got the sound to play in sync with the words and stop when the user leaves that certain section... thats not my problem. My problem begins on one section I have the main timeline stop on a frame where a movie clip plays. This movie clip contains the sound object and several layers with text. At the end I want this movie clip not to loop, so I placed stop; command at the last frame. But this doesnt seem to work. The movie clip just loops over and over again with the sound object also playing again. If you exit that section by clicking a button... then the sound continues playing until it comes to its end.

I think that if I'm able to get the movie clip from looping I would probably solve my problems. I've even tried stopping the soundobject at the end of the movie clip and as a "release" button action thingy... by inserting the command mysoundobject.stop(); but neither work.

This is soooo frustrating me! Can someone try and help me please? Thanks!

Does Anyone Have Any Idea What Is Going Wrong With This?
What I want to have happen is this.. I want a button that has a square on the left side of my text. When you mouse over the button the text changes colors and the square glides across to the right hand side of the text and rotates 90 degrees. I cannot seem to get this to work.

This is what I am doing
Create the text convert it to a graphic - create the little square convert it to a graphic. Clear the timeline of them and go to insert symbol- movie clip. Go into your movie clip
In the movie clip you will have layer one.
make a new layer name it text and put the graphic symbol text there
make another named squareand put the square graphic in there.
Do the special effects you want those 2 layers to do..
On layer 1, frame 1 add this action- stop();
Click back to the main scene and drag the movie clip onto the stage. Once this is done and in the first keyframe add this action-

button.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (OK) {
button.nextFrame();
} else {
button.prevFrame();
}
};
button.onRollOver = function(){
OK = true;
}
button.onRollOut = function(){
OK = false;
}

- Once I test my movie nothing happens it just sits there on the stage if I put my mouse over the stuff nothing at all happens. But in my library if I test the movie clip it works..Does anyone have any idea without me posting the .fla?

Any Idea What's Wrong With This Code?
ok.. i'm making a gallery with external jpg's...

i load one jpg into an empty mc for the main image and once again for a thumbnail... i'm trying to set "_visible" to false so that the user does not see the images load.

for some reason however, it will not set visibility on the thumbnail image... here is the code...

picaa1._alpha=0;
picaa1.loadMovie("gallery/row_a_1.jpg");

picaa1Thum._alpha=0;
picaa1Thum.loadMovie("gallery/row_a_1.jpg");

is there some kind of magic here i'm missing?? any ideas why it's not working... i've also tried doing the same with setting 'alpha' with the same results.

thanks!

Any Idea Why The Button Leads To The Wrong
I have this scripting

on (rollOut) {
tellTarget ("modrise") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("ProductsPage", 35);
}

The first part is for the buttton to play the parked clip. the second part is to jump to frame 178 of the same scene. However it jumps to frame 1. If I change the scripting to a random frame it seems to play whatever frame it wants???

Is My Whole Layout Just Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
I have uploaded my layout, I am starting to think that this is not how its done, I will explain.

I have one main swf where I have 5 diffrent section where I want to load 5 different swf into, but I also need one of the swf's which would be a button based one to be able to comunicate with the other 4. I totally think now tehre is an easier way of doing this than the way I'm doing it, can someone help me out here cos as you guy's know, the roots of a good page is in the layout at the begining.

I have uploaded my swfs so you know what I'm talking about.

Please, please comment...

HELP No Idea How To Go At It
I decided i was going to try and tackle a scrolling menu this morning. That is i thought i could sit down and code one. So the first thing i did was do some pseudo code to help me do it.

Click on button
movie scrolls to proper picture
smooth stop

in between the pictures i wanted a type of scrolling/moving/rolling/effect like a carousel of pictures until it gets to the proper frame where the image is.

I thought it was simple and all i had to do was just place this coding in my buttons

on (release){
playScrollingMovie()
}

of course that means that my function was this:
function playScrollingMovie(
loadMovieNum("scroller.swf",1);
)

and on the last frame of the scroller.swf MC i had this:

ifFrameLoaded(30){
VariableState();
}

and then my variableState function declares this:

VariableState(
if{

and this is where i am stuck I think i am on the right track, but i'm not sure, so any help is appreciated. I think that the variable state function needs to say that

if
buttonOne is clicked then goto frame _

else

if
buttonTwo is clicked then go to frame_

else

if buttonThree is clicked go to frame_

Any ideas?

HAVE NO IDEA?
Do you??
Well I'm stuck. If someone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
Heres the prob...

I have a main nav menu on the right. ie-about us, people,contact blah blah blah.

Now I have the menu set up so when someone presses a link it plays an exit animation from the one it is currently at and then goes to the new area that was justed clicked.

The problem lies in the exit animation. everything works fine but on some areas within a section I DO NOT want people to be able to press certain buttons in the nav(hence would play the exit animation at an in appropriate time and kill the smoothness of the site.)

What I need to know is how can I disable a button?

I have tried to nest it in an MC and do an _visible = false but it would work with the scripting Im using on the menu. I think the button MUST be on the MAIN (_root) timeline for it to work properly.

Can you set a _visiable fuction to a button???? how???

Heres some more info...
http://www.artofdesign.f2s.com/menu.htm

NOTE!!Download it and save the file as menu.zip
http://www.artofdesign.f2s.com/menu.piz

plz any ideas????

[Edited by kitchee on 08-24-2001 at 12:28 PM]

Any Idea?
hello,
I needs some Idea for my Intro. so anyone can help me out?

Any Idea.....
hello i whant to know if any one can help me r give a clue on how can i make flash transmit live froma aradio station

thanks.........
could it be using real audio....???
but how...?

Some One Have Idea?
Hi...
i wanna generate dynamic bar graph for flash by send parameter or read from text file....if you have experience or .fla sample tell me...
Cheers...

I Have No Idea How To Do This...
Hi everybody! I'm new to this, so just bear with me please!

Anyways, I just joined and made a little something under the flashtyper link, how do I use it as a signiture in this forum??? Please help! Thank you!

Have You Any Idea How.......................
one can extract flash media from a standalone application in a browser? I visit a site often and would like to save the animation to my hard drive. The URL contains so many confusing codes that I think that this might be IMPOSSIBLE but I'd thought I'd ask anyway............

Thanks!

.:::::..:::. NO IDEA .:::..:::::..
Layer 1: 2 buttons (zoom in and zoom out)
Layer 2: actions (stop actions on each keyframe - 2)
Layer 3: mask
Layer 4: image (masked)
Layer 5: borders

This is what I have / what happens:

I have two frames. (frame 1 is labelled "Normal" and frame 2 is labelled "Zoomed") In frame one (which has a stop action), an image of a map is displayed within a mask. There are two buttons below the image / mask. (zoom in and zoom out) The zoom in button has the following action:

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay ("Zoomed");
}

So, upon clicking the zoom in button, the framehead moves to frame 2 or the frame labelled "zoomed" (which also has a stop action on it) Frame 2 is exactly the same, however, the image of the map is about 4 times the size of the one in frame 1 - but where it is masked, you still only see the same amount of map - this one just has more details.
As the map is about 4 times the size, if not larger, than the mask itself, you obviously can't see all of it - so I've made this image a MC so that it can be dragged by the user, within the masked area / constrained to a rectangle , so you don't drag it too far and just see white space. The actions for this map MC (called map_zoom) are:

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
startDrag (this.map_zoom, true, 113, 308, 440, 77);
}

Firstly, my dimensions are wrong, but that's ok for now. (the two buttons - 'zoom in' and 'zoom out' are also in this frame and clicking the zoom out button SHOULD just gotoAndPlay frame 1 (Normal)

BUT NOOOOO!!.... (said in her best homer simpson voice)

My problems:

1. It all looks fine untill clicking the zoom in button and then clicking the map to begin dragging it within the mask to see more of it. I can only drag it so far to the left, right, top and bottom - and see some white space when I drag it too far - I know this is simply because I haven't chosen the correct dimensions when constraining it to a rectangle. How do i get it exactly the same size as the mask though?

2. Even though you can drag it (despite it not all fitting properly within the mask) the functionality of the 'zoom in' button is lost - as soon as you click the map to drag it, the zoomin button loses it's functionality - a hand doesn't even appear when you move the mouse over the button - so you can't go back to frame 1. This only happens when trying to drag the map though, if you click the zoom in button and then immediately click the zoom out button, without clicking the map to drag it, then the button works, but they don't work if the map is being dragged, despite the fact that the zoom in button (on frame 2) has the following action:

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay ("thisNormal");
}

I've tried inserting a stopdrag action on the button prior to the gotoandplay, but that doesn't work also - it's as though the buttons aren't even there and you can't stop dragging the map.

A few more questions:

1. Does it matter if my image itself, is bigger than the dimension of the movie?

It would be so much simpler to see if you had the .fla - if anyone has a spare moment, I can email it to you immediately - it's much more easy to grasp when you see it in front of you.

[Edited by Beckstar on 01-31-2002 at 01:04 AM]

Anyone Got An Idea How I Could Do This?
i've been playing about with this all day and have got absolutely nowhere,
basically i am trying to get a character to walk to a set target
avoiding an obstical (a car) and not through it, the other part of the
problem is the rotation of the character - it needs to be as
realistic as you would expect in the real world: and.... this needs to work
in the same way no matter where the character is on the screen

i just can't seem to get antwhere with it [3 hours fooling with the idea has
got me nowhere so i thought i'd turn to you]

to help explain it better i have set up a animation of what i am trying to
accomplish at http://www.ringway77.freeserve.co.uk/problem.html

thanks in advance

_michael

Help With An Idea
I am trying to emulate a NewsPro type interface for my site made in Flash. For those that don't know, NewsPro is a Perl news update package of scripts.

Now, I dont want ALL the functionality, but some of it. Namely the ability to log in (which I know how to do) and post news (which I dont).

Heres the basic idea:

1. Be able to post a news header and body to some sort of external file.

2. Have Flash read off that file to create the headers/content for the main news movie.

My thought was to have Flash somehow iterate the text file and generate text boxes on the fly for each header/content pair. A text box for each. You can spawn text boxes like that easily in Flash MX, but Im not sure how I would go about making sure the right info gets into the right box, etc.

I will accept "it can not be done" from someone who knows this stuff. Or, hopefully, someone has done this already.

AT THE VERY LEAST: I need an idea for updating news without having to update the .fla file every time.

Thanks.

ps. the barebones version of my site is here: http://www.pixagen.com

Need An Idea
Hey,

I have been using Flash for about a year now and like it a lot, but recently I just can't think of anything to do with it. I created a site a while back that I want to redo, but I can't think of how to do it. It is http://www.karigerconsulting.com. I know how to use Flash, Swift 3d and Swish, but I'm not sure how to use them all integrally. I could use some tips if anyone has some.

Thanks,

bulldog

Any Idea How They....?
Hi All,

In flash mx if you go to new from template then yo ugo to prsentation, then to style one..

How do they make that background work? ie. if I copy just the back ground frames and paste them in to a movie no matter what color I choose to make my stage the template changes with it? Kinda like transparent like..

Hope this is not to vague..

Best regards,

Help With Idea
Hi-
does anybody have any ideas for an intro or logo called http://www.younghistorians.com

I want it to grab kids attention.

A copy of my site is at: http://www.younghistorians.com/indexsliqua.html

Also, what do you think of my site?

A Little Idea To Do This
Hi!
is there someone that have a little idea to do this, or similar:
HERE .
sorry for my bad english.
Many thanks

An Idea
Hi every one..

i have an idea please help me to do it

1- let's imagine that we have 16 images in 4 rows and 4 columns and one button.

2- we see only one image.

3- when we release the button the 16 images fill the background .

4- when we click any image the 16 images regroup in any corner and the selected image enlarge .

that's the idea .

how can we make it.

Does Anyone Have An Idea How To Do This?
Hi there!
ok ive started working on this photographer site.And well if you look at the attached picture you will get an idea about how i want to do the layout.
It will be very simple, but what i need is to have the little thumbnails at the top and when you click them you will see a bigger version of the pic.Anyways my problem is this.I need to be able to fit 27 thumbnails across the page and they will not all fit.I need them in one row.Now if you look i have 14 on there.So what im looking for is some sort of script.What i would need the script to do is after you have viewed say the 14th pic at the very right, then a new set of pics would slide on and you would be able to continue viewing the rest of the thumbs.Does anyone have any idea how to do this.It would need to be some kind of script i think where once you have seen the 14th pic that a new slide of pics would shuffle on top of the old ones..and then vice versa..when you move your mouse back to the left or something then the first 14 pics would slide back on.
I do not want to use a vr type scroller, or slider.The pics must remain still at all times..but only change once to view more.
Hope i made some sense here..can anyone helps me out!!
Many thanks!

Chris

Any Idea How To Do This?
Anyone has idea how to do this...(actionscript method preferred)

I've drawn a diagram and pasted along with this thread.

million thanks
dee

Hey 2 All ,anybody An Idea.
situation:
you have point A
you have point B
between point A and point B you have a line that connects the two points.

What i want 2 do is move the points over the stage but keep the line between the two points,
I haven't got an idea, if someone could shed some light on this i would be very very happy

Greetz deamothul - the script keeper -

Any Idea How To Do This?
Basically, i want a text box with a send button next to it. You enter text into the text box and when you push the send button, it sends that to a certain email address...

Any ideas???

A Idea
I have a Flash Site Idea but i am not advanced enough in flash to make it. So I ask for someone to team up with me and we can produce a site that I think would be one of the best I have ever seen. I am graphics designer and will design all or most of the graphics for the site, I am looking for a partner just to design the site, and get there name and mine out in the graphics/internet world. I will buy the domain and host the site on one of my servers. I will not mention the site to anyone unless they Team up with me to build it. The person must be good in action scripting and flash animation. My Idea might be to hard to build I don't know sence I am new to the flash scene. Anyone Interested please reply with your email or AIM name and I will get with you..

Thanks

410

PS This will be a fun project and could result into more.. Hosting and domain name will be paid for by me as long as we keep the site active.

Can Someone Help Me With This Idea I Have...plz
Well...I have this on my mind but I dont really know how to do it...so here it comes....there is an image of a sexy woman but the image has a black mask...so it cant be seen...well then this hole opens, and its like the light...so you can see by this hole BUT in this hole there is a guy in stick...just a little drawing and the hole follows him.....like he go to the right the hole goes to the right...etc wherever he go...just following him at the same time...

PLEASE...anyone have an idea? what i can read to learn this...plz

Idea Help
ok i have a ruff city of chicago skyline drawing, just in white lines, precisely like the one of seatle that opens up "Frasier" - however instead of spending an hour+ shape tweening it all to make like frasier, anyone have any cool ideas for it? would bem uch appreciated - i considered a mask of the lines, then just having a box motion tween up into it, or down into it, but makign the lines "bubble" proved hard this late, so i moved on.

any help D:

thanks

Help With A Idea
Here is my idea my idea is that there are four buttons each which i want to go left right up and down. I want to know how to make them go in the dictricton when you click on one of them.And when you get the slection you want you click on another button and it goes to the right place not the wrong place. Can anyone help me?

Need Any Idea
Hello...

I know this is not the place to post this kind of question, but if any body will help, that person will highly appriciated.

I want to make a logo for a company named "The Cerebral". Basically this company is a multimedia, Web, and eCommerce solutions providing company. i am not understanding that what put on logo that represent Cerebral. Cerebral means "intellectual", "Brainy", "Clever" etc etc.
If any body helps me in this regard then i will extreamly thankfull to him or her.
Certinly i don't want to put a Brain, or a bulb or some thing like this to represent Cerebral.

thanks

usman mumtaz khokhar

Any Idea How To Do This?
http://www.som.com

I'm rusty at Flash and was wondering how to put together a site similar to this. I'm thinking tell target action, can anyone shed some light?? Much appreciated...

-Scott

I Have No Idea
ok this is my problem:

i need a preloader that preload a external .swf-file. @ www.domroese-diesel.de can you see the site. the first sit is at the moment a logo, it must replaced with the external preloader. i hope anyone can help me.

bye

Any Idea Of How To Do It?
hi guys and merry christmas to you all

Any 1 here have an idea of hoe to implement this flash effect?!

thanx for any help

I Have No Idea
ok im interested in flash but i have no idea what i need or how i do it. so here are my q&a's. what program do i need and is there a free one. well lets just leave it at that for now.
please help

Anyone Got Any Idea?
Hi,
(using MX)
anyone got any idea why sendAndLoad would stop working, if its inside movie clip, thats been loaded into another clip with the use of loadmovie?, does sendAndLoad (in a clip) stop working if loaded in, by another movie using loadmovie??

thanks
boombanguk

Why Nobody Has Any Idea
Hi All!

I have a slideshow player placed in an ASP file which updates the images, title and other information from an external text file.

The problem I was facing earlier was that it used to pick up the file from cache all the time even after if I modified the text file with new information.

I solved that problem by using the following code :

var rnd = Math.ceil(Math.random()*10000);
getURL("http://anshul/mytext.txt?rnd="+rnd, _blank);

Now the problem is that, it opens a ""mytext.txt" in a new browser window. Is there a way that I refresh the text file and close this window but not my main browser window where the flash file is running.

I tried doing this thru loadVariables() but it is not working.

I tried the following codes :

1.
var cKiller = new Date().getTime();
varReceiver.load("http://anshul/mytext.txt?cKiller=" + cKiller);
mySlideshow.loadVariables("http://anshul/mytext.txt?cKiller=" + cKiller);

2.
randomNum = Math.round(Math.random()*9999999999);
loadVariablesNum("http://anshul/mytext.txt?"+randomNum, 1);

3.
var rnd = Math.ceil(Math.random()*10000);
loadVariablesNum("http://anshul/mytext.txt?rnd="+rnd, 1);

None of them solved the problem.

I am testing it on PWS. Do I need to upload the file on any server???
Will that make any difference???

Please HELP!

What's The Idea Of..
http://home.wanadoo.nl/dayenvandijk/sp-test/

i wanna know how to make this, i hope someone could start me with it, it's a color painter, you can select colors or mix em yourself.. and then you can paint the parts.. i wanna make something like that too so can anyone help me plz?

msn: swindos@hotmail.com

tnx in advance

Does Anyone Have And Idea How To Do This?
Hey everyone,

I have a project where i need to raise and lower a skirt size on a fashion model. I have sliders up and down to raise and lower, and i will use a mask over the MC to help keep the shape. I have to idea how to raise and lower the MC.

then

I have to widen the and squeeze the width of the skirt with a left/right slider.
i am lost on how to go about this.

my problems are the sliders..... how do i make it slide up to a certain point and down to a certain point?

the shirt how to i raise and lower the x position

the mask.... how do i use the slider to make the mask expand and shrink.

any help would be..... lets just say i will be in a great amount of debt to you.
i'll by you a beer .

thanks
-Rick

Any Idea
hi
i want to concept an application using mx 2004 that reconstitute a section of a web site this mean
i have 3 section in the first one page in the second key words and in the third many pages and there are links between mc in the first section each one points to a page of the 3rd section
all the information are placed in txt files
conclusion :
how to script a swf that will read from txt file and create section url etc btw i know how to read how to ipmort external swf but i don't know how to add frame using action script
any idea is appreciated

Any Idea?
Hi,
Does anyone have any idea on why my clock is displaying different fonts and sizes on different browsers? The clock works perfectly. I am using an asp script and using a loadVariables in my Flash movie.

The asp script is as follows:

body=<% =hour(now) %>:<% =minute(now) %>

The flash movie is displaying the variable in itself. I am unable to specify the size or font. Its seems to be set at whatever the browser chooses to display.

I also tried specifying the font and size in the asp script but it displayed the font info as text.

body=<%="<font face='arial' size='2' color='#c3c3c3'>" + hour(now) + "</font>"%>:<%="<font face='verdana' size='2' color='blue'>" + minute(now) + "</font>"%>

Ive run out of answers.

Please help.

check it out at:
http://www.bandwidth.co.za/clients/s...angefilms.html

Thanks
Vanessa

Looking For An Idea . . .
I have a few pictures I have to place on a website. That is easy and plain. I am trying to work out an eye catching, new transition to bring the picture into focus/view. My ideas so far have turned into disasters. My Flash skills are novice, but I am willing to try anything new. If you can shed some light on my situation, I would be very appreciative.

Help I Have No Idea What This Is?
I am working on a site for someone. I have a basic knowledge of flash, nothing amazing. I helped to fix her messed up site but i am stuck on this. I was originally getting tons of giberish from the bottom of the page until forever. After re-publishing i now only get a small amount. check it out here, www.kyah.net Thanks in advance if anyone can help me.

~Dallas

Any Idea?
Ok, this is the problem:

I'm trying to make a slotmachine with 3 reels. First i must have a button that blink on and off until i press this button. Then the button must be in on-state until the third reel is stopped. If there is no win situation the button must be going to the blinking on and off state. If there is a win situation then the button must be in the off-state.

Anyone who can help me with this?

Thanks.

I Need An Idea?
Here is a "problem" I have a area where I need to place an object I drag. That area should be somehow a smart place. Smart like this, when I place that draged object it should do the snap of it. It should to stop it for the momment when that draged object get over it..

I hope you understand me

Help With My Idea
Hey, if anyone could help me with this, I would really appreciate it...I have around 50 photos, and I need to have them slide in to the stage, stay for about 25 seconds and then slide back out.
I was thinking maybe I could give the pictures names 1-50. And then make a placeholder which would slide in and out, how I would want the photos to do. Then make a kind of loop which would call for the next numbered photo to load in the placeholder once it goes to repeat. So after each rep loadMovie would +1 to the name of the photo it's loading.
Does anyone have any ideas if this is possible or how i could do it. Thanks...

New Idea
i am seeking a software how develop the flash movie in text format
idea behind it there is no images just text moving and creating effects.
are you know any tool who work this type ?
thanks for help
tahir

Is This Idea Possible?
I'm thinking about creating an effect where a pen nib writes some text.
I have seen a tutorial of this and it was very complicated.
I had the idea of using collision detection to control the colour of the pixels within a movieclip and woundered if it was possible to do.
In effect I want to say when my 'nib' symbol hits a pixel change it's colour to x.
If this was possible i would then create a motion path that the nib symbol follows thereby writting the text.

Is it worth persuing this method?

No Idea How-To...
Hi everyone!
I've problem with Actionscript which I've no idea how to solve.
I'm currently building an application in Flash 8 which is a really weird form av 5-in-a-row.

It's a grid, 4x6 cells with symbols in. Each symbol is a movieclip. When you press the mousebutton, I've built an invisible movieclip that "zooms" to the pointer, and then do a hitTest on the "dragThis"-movieclip and the symbols in question. If the pointer is "dragged" over the symbols - they light up.

Now, so far - so good. The problems comes when the user releases the mousebutton. I want to evaluate which symbols have been dragged over, and if they match a certain sequence - execute some code. I've a solution for it - but it doesn't realize if any symbols other than the ones in the sequence has been "touched". If that is the case, then the sequence should be false - but since the symbols that's actually in the sequence has been touched - it says that it's true.

So, to break it down. If any symbol that's not in the sequence has been "touched" - the sequence should be false.

After the evaluation has been done, I want the whole application to restart - and reset the movieclips that has been "touched". No idea how to do that either.

I'm sorry if my description is hard to grasp, but I really can't explain it any more clear. And english isn't my primary language either, so please forgive any mispellings.

//Daniel