It's Gotta Be A Stupid Question....

You Gotta See This
Ok...now..

I've got a movie containing 5 buttons that have tell target commands to open up 5 individual movie clips. My problem is, is that when one of the 5 buttons is clicked, I want whichever movie that is currently opened, to play a closing animation and then open the movie for the button that was clicked. How can I do this?

much respect,
shaggy

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Gotta Be Another Way
Well i posted a couple questions about sound, that no one answered but while ive been on the site ive found my answers for those.. However as i become more familar with Flash, the more i see a serious lack of organization and preview abilities. Maybe im just seeing it wrong or not seeing it at all, but i have more questions....


Is it possible to preview an mc within the main timeline? It sure doesnt work for me.. i have always had to preview them by exporting the entire movie or by finding the symbol and double clicking it and watching it independantly of the movie.

Any way to manage stream sounds so that u can tell an animation when to start and stop so u can maintain perfect sync with the audio file?
(for instance, i have a bassdrum that hits 8 times and words appear each time it hits, but when i set the sound from event to stream, the animated text starts prematurely.

can u actually edit an embedded movie file? For instance, when i import an avi, flash tells me they i have no editing options due to lack of support for its codecs.. or something like that.

is it possible to do something as simple as "cropping" the stage so, you dont have to spend so much time cropping all the mcs and objects seperately and without creating a main mask to position all the clips in?

Markers? no way to create them? no way to organize the timeline other then with a pen and paper and lots of numbers? lol

well yea.. so my flash experience so far has left me less then stoked as u can imagine.. great pros when people can create dynamic interactive applications, but horrible cons when it comes to good old simple non interactive animations...

but maybe some of these problems im having have workarounds??

i want to think this software is amazing when i look at websites like http://2advanced.com, but actually setting out to do this sort of thing is going to leave me with grey hairs and im in my early twenties. lol

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Is This Possible ? Gotta Be
Im currently creating a football cd-rom package as a project of mine. Each drill has a simple flash animation showing how the drill works. I have created the drills but want the flash to stop at certain point which i choose (for example, certain part of drill) then the user carrys on the animation by click a next button. This way the animation doesnt play all the way threw and the user works at there own pace.Yet how do i make the flash work like this with buttons and the pausing ? Any help would be great,thanks.

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Gotta Be A Better Way
What's up all;
I have some thumbnails that when you roll over they load an outside jpeg into the screen; however they were taking a while to load and it's not obvious to users when they put their cursor over and don't see anything because the image hasn't loaded (100k). So I wanted to display a "loading" message. Here's what I came up with:
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on (rollOver) {
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("jim",2);
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("loadpic",1);
loadpic.loadMovie("load.jpg");
loadpic._x=300 ;
loadpic._y=100 ;
jim.loadMovie("jim//travel//jim_travel3.jpg");
jim._x = 300 ;
jim._y = 100 ;

_root.onMouseDown = function () {
stopDrag() ;
}
_root.onMouseUp = function () {
stopDrag () ;
}
}
on (rollOut) {
unloadMovie("jim");
unloadMovie("loadpic");
}
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is there a better way to do this? i tried a couple of different things, but they didn't work.
Here's a working site:
www.angelfire.com/ny5/monastest/monas_test.html

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Theres Gotta Be A Better Way
I'm having a little trouble with a simple intro....the movie is working fine with the looping mc.

What I want is...when the movie has played the clip at least once then it should got url instead of having a button to manually go to url.

I have searched for timer delay or somthing like that but havn't found anything? Can anyone post a code for this or am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there a better way?

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New, Gotta Actionscripting ?
Hey all, Ok this is probably easy but I cant figure it out.

Here is what I got:
Main Movie with 4 "sliding" buttons (i.e. rollover slides out with a pic underneath, rollout slides back in)
About Me
Resume
Portfolio
Contact Me
Those are the buttons, Now I have created 4 different movies, not clips like aboutme.swf etc.. with "doors" that close then it loads the contents (about me writing or links etc..) and then reopens.

K now what I am trying to do is when all that happens, click button new movie loads in the main movie on release, When a different button is clicked, I want it to be able to close the doors again with the about me(or whatever is open) still there and fade out as the doors are closing then they reopen and fade in the new movie, like if you where on About me, and then click Contact me.

What it is doing now is quite simple as explained above, it just goes to the other clip no fading out or nothing looks good when opening but when closing out it just disappears and looks a bit tacky and unprofessional.

Any help would be VERY appreciated, My head is about to cave in from beating it against the wall.

Thanks,
Justin (Naut)

P.S.
I would give you a URL but unfortantly all I have right now is on my IP (not gonna give that out) so if ya want to go to the trouble and send me an email I will be happy to give ya the URL to it if ya can help me out. Or you can add me to MSN IM with my email addy. Thanks

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Gotta Problem...
I need to make a better navigation for my site without having to completely redo the swf files i have already created. is there a way to have the nav bar still where it's at and load it into the same place like it never changed at all? I'm probably confusing you. Somewhat like frames but not frames. Like for the code to insert a separate html file into an existing html file. I think I'm confusing myself. Theres this one site that I checked out in the flash site check thread. I want to do it like that one but not totally because i don't want to be accused of ripping off or anything like that. here's the link. http://www.aniadesign.com/pages/MainPage.htm

If there's a tutorial on this please direct me to it.

Thanks in advance,

Anita
http://apotterdd.150m.com/

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A Know Am Dumb But I Gotta Ask
this maybe a dumb question but i gotta to ask iam designing my flash site i have the main site and separte swf for the menu system i have loaded the menu system into the main site using the load movie command but what i want to know is how do i get the menu system to load another swf into the main site on a button press been trying for ages all i can say is heeeeellllppppp

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Gotta Be Simple
I'm new to this so I'm looking for answers.

I have a button and text box that the user will fill out a search criteria. The button is acting as a submit that takes the text box information and pushes the variable through using in my case gotoandplay(21). The button is in frame 19. Frame 20 is a check frame that loops back to frame 21 until all the records are found.

Problem is that the first time I hit the button it appears to goto frame 21 then back to 19 with the button. If I hit it again then the program runs through. Why is it returning to frame 19 that one time?

Frame 19:
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
ownerinput = ownerinput;
startnum = 1;
endnum = 20;
loadVariables ("_variables.cfm", "", "POST");
gotoAndPlay (21);
}

Frame 20:
if (_root.Status == 1) {
gotoAndStop (21);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (20);
}


Frame 21:
// depth
depth = 1;
// hide the origional clips
GPIN_Num._visible = 0;
Acct_Num._visible = 0;
Obj_Num._visible = 0;
Taxmap_Num._visible = 0;
// split up the array by looking for the commas
GPIN_array = GPIN_list.split("|");
Acct_array = Acct_list.split("|");
Obj_array = Obj_list.split("|");
Taxmap_array = Taxmap_list.split("|");
// get the length of the array
GPIN_length = GPIN_array.length;
Acct_length = Acct_array.length;
Obj_length = Obj_array.length;
Taxmap_length = Taxmap_array.length;
// set the start y position (x position depends on where you put it on the screen)
yposition = 5;
// looping everything
for (i=0; i<GPIN_length; i++) {
// GPIN Number
duplicateMovieClip (GPIN_Num, "GPIN_Num" add i, depth);
setProperty ("GPIN_Num" add i, _y, yposition);
GPIN_Num.GPIN_Num = GPIN_array[1];
set ("GPIN_Num" add i add ".info", GPIN_array[i]);
depth++;
// Account Number
duplicateMovieClip (Acct_Num, "Acct_Num" add i, depth);
setProperty ("Acct_Num" add i, _y, yposition);
Acct_Num.Acct_Num = Acct_array[1];
set ("Acct_Num" add i add ".info", Acct_array[i]);
depth++;
// Object Number
duplicateMovieClip (Obj_Num, "Obj_Num" add i, depth);
setProperty ("Obj_Num" add i, _y, yposition);
Obj_Num.Obj_Num = Obj_array[1];
set ("Obj_Num" add i add ".info", Obj_array[i]);
depth++;
// Taxmap Number
duplicateMovieClip (Taxmap_Num, "Taxmap_Num" add i, depth);
setProperty ("Taxmap_Num" add i, _y, yposition);
Taxmap_Num.Obj_Num = Taxmap_array[1];
set ("Taxmap_Num" add i add ".info", Taxmap_array[i]);
depth++;
// Set the y position plus 20
yposition = yposition+20;
}

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Gotta Question..take A Look Plz
gonna make this real fast & furious:
making a flash movie for the home page of a web site, when you click on a button it loads another swf into the current one, wanna be able to either reclick on the button to unload the movie or have a different button load with the 2nd swf that, when clicked on, will unload it.
any help?

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Gotta Be A Better Way Of Doing This... Please Read
Hi folks, I really hope someone can help me here.

I am building a CD rom so this all needs to be used in projector. (no PHP or MYSQL)

I need to build a database of sorts that needs to be two tiers..

1: list of companies
2: specs on selected company


Now I plan on having as many as 150 companies and the thought of creating a frame for each doesn't sound to promising. Is there a way to send a variable to a frame and include a text file or XML document for the selected company? (frame gets "company_123.XML" and includes the data from that?)

I know in PHP you could send a page an id and get any result you want with only that file and a MYSQL database. (get_data.php?id=123)

What is the best way to get this to happen in flash? Please throw me a bone here...

A huge thanks in advance! Cheers!


-S

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It's Gotta Be SIMPLE But....
I'm working in an html based content management system and I've been handed the happy task of figuring out how to launch an embedded flash file into a new window. Alwqys better to show than just tell, so here's the code I have:

<EMBED pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash align=left src=http://images.bimedia.net/designvideo/wagt_tv_schedule.swf width=150 height=125 type=application/x-shockwave-flash quality="high" bgcolor="444444"></EMBED></a>

The idea here being that when someone clicks on the banner the stations schedule will open up in a new window. And I have no idea whether this can be done or not. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

bphuripan@bimedia.net.

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Gotta Be Something SIMPLE
Hi All,

Been browsing the post, trying the suggestions, and I still can't get the rollover buttons in the attached movie to work ((

Can anyone help??? This is for my own company and I need to get it working!!! LOL... (I've tried {_root.gotoAndStop and _parent.gotoAndStop and neither work...

Thank you for any help!!!

- Jon

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I Know There's Gotta Be An Easy Way To Do This
How can I make individual letters spin. Just like a quarter spinning on the table. I did this years ago very easily, but I can't for the life of me remember what I did. I didn't do any fancy 3D with it either. Just a 2D letter spinning. Of course the effect was slightly 3D, but there was no depth to the letter.
Any thoughts?
MaxHeight

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Uh...gotta Question
Hey, a while ago I bought a version of Flash MX and registered it and installed it onto my desktop pc. Well needless to say a few years have passed since that was new and now I've bought a new laptop. On my desktop that version is working great and well and whatnot, but it uses a dial-up internet connection which is slow and unreliable. This one however has wifi availability. But I can't e-mail the file to myself, it takes too long and like I said, the dial-up wouldn't be able to handle it. Anyway, the problem is that I don't have my installation disk anymore, God knows where that is, but I'd like to have Flash on here so I could use it more often. I downloaded a 30-day trial version of Flash MX 2004 just like the one I had thinking that my serial code would work... well, duh! it says that serial code has already been registered. Any suggestions? Thanks for at least taking the time to read!

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Please Try This - Gotta Be Something Simple
Make a dynamic text field box on the stage and call it my_txt. Make it big enough to display
"Green background with red border"

Now set some properties in frame 1:

my_txt.border = true;
my_txt.borderColor = 0xff0000;
my_txt.backgroundColor = 0x0cfd97;
my_txt.text = "Green background with a red border!";

Now test the program and all appears fine. But when you print what's on the stage using either
the right-click Print command or the Print() commands the background and border disappear.

Can anyone tell me how to prevent this? Thanks.

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Hey, I Know I Gotta Redo This But....
I wanted to do several things but got different results. If u see how the little light block passes and reveals the text. I wanted to make it so that a light block inside the text forms the text that is being revealed, instead of an acutally Light block symbol that I made. Does anybody know what I'm trying to say? Also What Can I do also to cut down on the file size. It's 1mb. I'm redoing it from bottom up. Tell me what ya'll work

The Page content in the middle will take a while to load depending on your speed, But please be patient and let it load and you'll see what im talking about

http://www.team-xdi.com/main.html



What do you guys think of how the car rolls in once the page has begun? Do you think its moving weird or too slow? check it out at http://www.team-xdi.com/main.html

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I Gotta Couple Questions
I'm in the process of making a movie for my site, and there are a couple things that are frustrating me. The first is: in my preloader i've used a "Flash Ui Components Set 2" Progress Bar, and i have no idea what action scripting to use from the "methods". Secondly I have a button that supposed to goto a different scene, however it doesn't, I've tried different frame lables and different scene names but nothing seems to work.

Help is extremely appreciated.

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Pop-up Text Definitions - There's Gotta Be A Better Way To Do This...
I have a text box with a ton of text in it (multiple paragraphs). Functionally, what I'd like to do is have it so that I can have people click on (or roll over) certain words, and then a definition pops up in a blue box (kinda like a tooltip)...

I could make one "box" movieclip with a dynamic text field in it, and then just use it as a transparent button over each word that needs to be defined within the paragraph (loading the definition text inside the "box" dynamically), but I wouldn't know how to adjust the size of the box so that it fits each definition's text. (like, some definitions may be a couple words, and some may be a sentence or two, so if the box is always just one size, that won't work)...

That being said, the only thing I can think of is having a separate "box" movieclip (each sized to its separate dimentions) in the library. But with all of those definitions, that will increase the file size huge...

There's gotta be a simple solution to this - any ideas?! Thanks!...

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I Gotta Explain Close, Help Please..
Hi..

I need a mc to pop up in another mc if a mc get hits by my character in main timeline...

Im doing this inventory thing for my game so....

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There's Gotta Be A Way To Make This Simpler..
I'm putting this code on 15 buttons to move slideObject to a different position.

Code:
name = slideObject;
targetx = -458;
name.startx = _x;
speed = 15;
name.onEnterFrame = function() {
name._x += (targetx-name._x)/speed;
Is there a way to make this simpler? a function or soemthing?

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Gotta Love The LoadVars
I'm trying to grab the number of variables I'm loading using LoadVars.

Anybody got a suggestion?

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Tommy_S I Gotta Question
I have a question specifically related to your transition.
Did you make them using multiple swf files? or multiple movieclips within one swf file? I'm trying to make this thing work but I don't know which way is better...
Thank you!

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Gotta Love The LoadVars
I'm trying to grab the number of variables I'm loading using LoadVars.

Anybody got a suggestion?

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Tommy_S I Gotta Question
I have a question specifically related to your transition.
Did you make them using multiple swf files? or multiple movieclips within one swf file? I'm trying to make this thing work but I don't know which way is better...
Thank you!

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Here's The Concept, I Gotta Get This Onto Flash.
Very noobie concept:

http://www.mediahug.com/stuff/concept.jpg
http://www.mediahug.com/ultrashocktests/
(Pencil removed. Too ****ty to be there.)

Hehe.

Now I just need to get it into flash. Any decent page fold etc. information out there?

I just have no idea where to start.

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There's Gotta Be An Easier Way... Looping FLV
I've seen it all over the net... the same question... "how do you get a streaming FLV to loop".

Seen a lot of solutions... and most of them seem complex for the task.

Does anyone have a simple, elegant way to solve the riddle of the "Elusive Looping FLV/Unicorn" once and for all?

Genius's of the world unite!

After this we'll work on world peace. Gotta be easier than this.

Below simple code to play and rewind (add FLVPlayback instance "player")... What will make it play again?

Code:

package
{
    import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
   
    public class FLVPlaybackExample extends Sprite {

        private var videoPath:String = "http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/caption_video.flv";
       
        public function FLVPlaybackExample() {
            player.source = videoPath;
         player.autoRewind = true;

        }
    }
}

Thank you all in advance for helping me keep whatever hair I haven't already pulled out.

G

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Gotta Luv The New Flash MX Auto-3D Feature :D
flash pimpage ;p

Haven't been here in a while, but now tahat Im around more than before while I was trying to get into this Digital Media Arts program @t Seneca @t York in Toronto. I finally got accepted about 2 weeks ago, so far Ive learned Pro Tools (Professional Digital Audio Engineering Appplication) and I've especially taught myself soooo much about Flash MX wihtin the past 3-4 weeks (already know photoshop 7.0). While I used to always come here back when i was into swish and the swish betas, back then, the real Flash 5, seemed soo complicated, but now, I luv how the Flash MX tutorials are somewhat better now, plus aswell as the new XML, 3D, and also AAS (Advanced Action Scripting) features, very s3xy & cool

anyhow, before i start boring u guys, here's what i just made today, while I was experimenting to try and achieve realistic 3d vector eye candy, and I was able to do it, by making that cube or 4-dimension box in freehand MX, then directly import the freehand source file into Flash MX, try it out, it works great !

http://cgnation.netfirms.com/CGN3danimation1.swf

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Gotta Make A Scrollbar For Images...
That's right...I've been looking around and most of the scrollers [scrollbars] I've come across work for text. Thing is, I've got some scanned images and they've got a pretty large vertical resolution. So, I only wanna scroll images...does anyone have any idea? URGENT...thanks.

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[F8] Help With Preloading A Huge File, Gotta Fix Now
I've run into a big problem with a project I did for a client. The swf comes out to 15mb which i know is huge, the client has tons of pics and three videos all of which is embedded, which is what the client demanded. The preloader works on my computer, when i do a simulate download it starts at 1% and goes up to 100% like it's supposed to and then plays the file.

Now the client is saying that when they upload it, the preloader doesn't show up til around 30%. What could be the cause? Or is this something on their end? There is nothing on the first few frames where the preloading takes places, absolutely nothing. Please any ideas or advise as to what could be going on would be really appreciated. I'm at my wits end and the client is demanding this now.

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There's Gotta Be A Easier Way Of Writing This Code
Is there a easier way of writing this code?


Code:
bleh.text = _global.contentVar;
if (bleh.text == "slide_sticky1.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story1_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story1_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story1_link[n];
}
}
if (bleh.text == "slide_sticky2.swf") {
trace("shit is on");
for (n=0; n<=_root.story2_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story2_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story2_link[n];
}
}
if (bleh.text == "slide_sticky3.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story3_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story3_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story3_link[n];
}
}
if (bleh.text == "slide_sticky4.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story4_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story4_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story4_link[n];
}
}
if (bleh.text == "slide_sticky5.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story5_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story5_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story5_link[n];
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//NON STICKY
if (bleh.text == "slide1.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story6_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story6_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story6_link[n];
}
}
if (bleh.text == "slide2.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story7_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story7_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story7_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide3.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story8_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story8_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story8_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide4.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story9_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story9_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story9_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide5.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story10_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story10_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story10_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide6.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story11_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story11_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story11_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide7.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story12_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story12_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story12_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide8.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story13_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story13_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story13_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide9.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story14_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story14_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story14_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide10.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story15_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story15_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story15_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide11.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story16_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story16_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story16_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide12.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story17_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story17_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story17_link[n];
}
}if (bleh.text == "slide13.swf") {
for (n=0; n<=_root.story18_text.length-1; n++) {
rfcClip = attachMovie("linkitem", "linkitem"+n, n);
rfcClip._y = (n)*21;
rfcClip.txt.text = _root.story18_text[n];
rfcClip.setURL = _root.story18_link[n];
}
}
stop();

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Jusst Gotta Share Some Weirdness
I've got a project that uses multiple XML files to access data (photos and swfs). For all my buttons, the code is identical, except for the references to the specific XML files. Click the button, and the XML file is loaded, an image is loaded and additional buttons are generated based on the XML.

Well, for some reason, one button failed to load any buttons in. The XML loaded in fine. Rewrote the XML file, and no change. Change the reference to a different XML file, and the issue remains. No other button exhibited this oddity.

After pounding my head against this for about an hour, I decided to change the reference to the photo that is initally loaded. And then everything worked fine.

You can't tell me half of what we do is voodoo.

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Gotta Problem, Needa Answer : )
OK, I am making a simple row of buttons and am putting text on them.

When I test the buttons the "hand" that appears over the button gets shakey over the text portion and when it is directly over any graphical part of the text I get that text edit brackit look.

It is not a solid hand over the entire text. How can I fix this. I have the text as dynamic.

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Gotta Question About Dynamic Text And Inputs
I'm using MX and I'm trying to make it so you can type in a name, hit the button, then the name shows up underneath an MC. The name shows up just fine, it's making the name follow the MC around when it moves that's the problem. I've already tried placing the dynamic text within the movie clip of the object that moves, that didn't work very well either. Then I thought I could do a reverse method where the dynamic text in the MC tries to read the Input text but appartenly neither know the other exists unless on the same timeline. Any suggestions?

Wattsman

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Flash Beginner Here - Gotta Figure Out How To Put A Site Together
I'm starting out with Flash, and at this point I know how to make a simple flash site with a menu and different sections, by making different content on different frames along the timeline and then programming buttons that jump between frames. But now I need to make a site with this kind of functionality: http://playdigital.ca/

What I don't know how to do here is:

How do I put together transitions between different parts of the site, like when the user clicks on a menu item, have the current content fold in or scroll out of view or whatever, and then have the selected content come in? I know how to animate things along the timeline, but not how to get flash to play through an animation of one section closing while another one opens. Is there an actionscripting way of saying "whichever button just got clicked on, play through this part of the timeline that shows the current section disappearing, and then go to the sequence for the button that just got clicked"? Or am I thinking about this wrong?

If there's a tutorial on this that somebody wants to link me to that'd be rad, any help would be appreciated big time!

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PEDAL SPEED Gotta Help Me (preloading Attach)
well the problem is, i wanna attach a scene which takes care of the preloading part of the below entered code :

In scene 2, frame 1 :
createEmptyMovieClip("empty",depth++)
loadMovie("http://prash.8m.com/test.jpg","empty")


i tried using this code for preloading which isn't workin':

In scene 1:
total_bytes = empty.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = empty.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percent_done);
ifFrameLoaded ("Scene 2", 1) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}


can u or anybody else help me regarding this?????

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PEDAL SPEED Gotta Help Me (preloading Attach)
well the problem is, i wanna attach a scene which takes care of the preloading part of the below entered code :

In scene 2, frame 1 :
createEmptyMovieClip("empty",depth++)
loadMovie("http://prash.8m.com/test.jpg","empty")


i tried using this code for preloading which isn't workin':

In scene 1:
total_bytes = empty.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = empty.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percent_done);
ifFrameLoaded ("Scene 2", 1) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}


can u or anybody else help me regarding this?????

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PEDAL SPEED Gotta Help Me (preloading Attach)
well the problem is, i wanna attach a scene which takes care of the preloading part of the below entered code :

In scene 2, frame 1 :
createEmptyMovieClip("empty",depth++)
loadMovie("http://prash.8m.com/test.jpg","empty")


i tried using this code for preloading which isn't workin':

In scene 1:
total_bytes = empty.getBytesTotal();
loaded_bytes = empty.getBytesLoaded();
remaining_bytes = total_bytes-loaded_bytes;
percent_done = int((loaded_bytes/total_bytes)*100);
bar.gotoAndStop(percent_done);
ifFrameLoaded ("Scene 2", 1) {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}


can u or anybody else help me regarding this?????

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Amazing Photo Gallery - Gotta Try To Make Myown
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/photos/This photo gallery is great, the way it loads in thumbnails and large images, the way a thumbnail is highlighted when viewing the larger image and the way you can scroll the thumbnails should there be more than what can fit on a page.

How would one being to make something even remotely like this.

I'm guessing an ingenious combo of XML, arrays, masks and dynamic thingie mejigs! Daunting tasks...

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Stupid Question Coming From Stupid Newb...
Yeah, I know this is probably the stupidest question you're ever going to here, but I'm desperate and I can't find out anywhere, so as embarassing as it is, this is my last resort.

How do you increase or decrease the thickness of lines in Flash MX?

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Stupid Workspace Changing After I Save It (Or Stupid Me)
I have a dual-monitor setup and I have my timeline, stage, and properties panel on one monitor. That's all fine.

On the other monitor, I have the actions panel in one group and about 3 panels grouped into another group. The actions panel takes up the left 2/3 of the screen and the other panels take up the right 1/3 of the screen. That works fine.

I want to switch the actions panel with the other group of panels, so that the actions is on the right 2/3 of the screen and the other group of panels are on the left 1/3 of the screen. Problem is when I save my workspace layout, it somehow defaults the actions to the left side of teh screen and the other panels to the right side of the screen! It's driving me crazy. Anyone have any tips? Run into similar problems?

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Stupid Question,,, But Feeling Stupid
why wont " ' " show up in my text which is dynamically imported from an html formated text file.

i know that " means " but what is a single quote?

helllppp

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Stupid Employer, Stupid Question
hey there. my current employer currently has a header on an html page with a banner inside it. it looks like crap but his "web guys" have told him that the banner must stay in the exact place that it is otherwise it will destroy his flux capacitor or something along those lines. so im stuck trying to design a flash header for this guy with an animated gif banner inside of it. kinda like the gif banner is the hole in the donut. i guess my question is how do i leave the hole in the donut blank for the gif to be tossed into it without having to make 8 "sliced" flash movies that work together? sorry and i know theres an easy way to do this, i just havent touched flash in a few months and im rusty as all tarnation. thanks in advance

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Stupid Question Hopefully Not Stupid Answers
I have put a trace on a variable that i use as a counter in a loop.
Everytime the loop in initialized it shows "undefined" before counting.
Can I ignore this or will it have some future impact on my work????

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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Question
But I need to know.

I'm learning actionscript.

How come sometimes the script is placed in ( ) and sometimes in [ ] what does each mean?


ex. (if move ==1)

or _root.Array [_root.arraysize]

thank you

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Set Variable Stupid.user="stupid Question";
right... i got a bit of help with this yesterday but i need some more now....

lets say i have 1 button with 10 instances of it in a movie.
when you point to each instance, i want different text to hover over it.

with help from someon on here yesterday, i have now set up a dynamic text field on the 'over' frame of the button, and i have done the set variable lines saying:
button1.text = 1 banana
button2.text = 2 bananas
button3.text = 3 bananas
and so on, but i don't know how to tell each instance of the button what button it is.... so in other words, how do i tell button 1 that it is button 1 and button 2 that it is button2, etc?

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Deep Trouble - Gotta Find A "databinding Using Actionscripting 2.0" Tutorial Quick..
Hello Guys,

This bomb was simply dropped into my lap and I got just about one day to develop a rich media application that will use the new databinding classes, but since it is dynamically drawn, I will have to use AS 2.0 to bind and manipulate the data at runtime. I've seen a few tutorials online that use the data components, but at authoring time only.

Do any of you have a tip to a link for a tutorial that uses just actioncript to do that?

I'll have to load a complex xml file with all the configurations and probably use a dataset component (since there are many dynamic UI components - Data grids, labels, text areas, combo boxes, loaders, etc).

I really appreciate any help you guys can provide. Feel free to look for me on ICQ (45669734) or msn (himself@nighthiker.com)

Thanks in advance!
NightHiker

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Stupid Says As Stupid Does (variables)
I have an actionscript question::
I need to pass variables from html to flash but have run aground......
in the html :
username='ted'
in the flash movie
button action: http://www.happy.com/username

(obviously the username is equal to 'ted')

How do I do this????

please respond w/ a solid answer - 'cause boy it looks easy , but man am I stumped!!

Thanx

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