Natural Born Coders
a little offtopic:
just curious, how many of you guys were born
with coding in blood? i mean... have you ever had moments like im having right now, when i feel like i dont understand a damn thing from this actionscript language, and i feel like pulling my hair out? or is it just me, that im having a problem, and all of you are simply viewing thru the code like its in your blood?
how long did you guys took to learn all of this?
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Posted on: 2004-08-03
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Born Again Newbie Needs Help
I need a push start here... It's been at least 4 months since I've done anything serious in flash and havent even dug through MX since I upgraded. Now that I am almost done with my site in HTML I want a complimetnary flash site and am hitting a wall on where to start with it. I have attached a quick draw up from my HTML site of what I want the flash site to do and have an idea on how it should be programmed, only I have a few detailish questions since I know I will be using scripts that are common and simple but I have never used. All the stuff I have done in flash has been pretty unscripted or scripted by someone else.
So here are the questions to start with...
[list=1][*]I have 4 buttons at the top of the movie horizontally next to one another, each is 150px x 35px and links to one of the four main sections in the site. When one of them is clicked, I want it to slide all the way to the left top corner and the other three to slide down to the right 150 pixels. Then I want it to drop a sub menu out of the bottom of it and slide out the main portion of the secttion. I think the submenu and the main portion of the section can be in its own movie and can load when the button itself gets in position.[*]I think the best way to get each section to load is with the load movie commands but I have never used this and plan to start to learn it today... any tips/pointers/tutorials anyone knows abnout this? What about the unload movie command when a new section is clicked?[*]Any other pointers or tips for basically a newbie would be much apreciated.[/list=1]
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i look forward to your positive response
many thanks !!!...
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( I also opened this topic in the game forum, i opened it here too, since it is adressed to coders, not nessecarly posting in game forums )
Once again, a topic about Two Kingdoms, but i hope this one will be more productive than the last one.
Resettling in France took me quite a long time, but now, for real this time, i have my nights and week-ends back for Two kingdoms : today, i started to work again on the third cutscene, and i will work on it all day tomorrow
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- Please be motivated AND available : by this, i mean, think hard before joinning : students or workers that know that they will have exams, projects that will need all their time soon should privilege this : it is too much a loss of time and energy to have to re-contact people, organize deadlines following the availabitity of everyone
- When i say that i REALLY want to see the game finished within three months, i mean it : i am currently interviewing coders that i know to hire one for the project - when i mean hire, i mean money - since it is a personnal project, i cannot spend too much, but if paying someone garantees the seriousness and the involvment, i am willing to
Though, if i am paying for coding service, it seems obvious that the weight the coder will have in the credits will be lowered : it is up to you and on how much you believe in the project. join for free and be a full actor of 2K or make your price
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I remind you that i'm not a company, nor representing one, so the "contract" that i'm proposing will certainly lack a lot of things : if there are specific points to be discussed, i'm ready to discuss them
Understand me : i would prefer to have partners with whom i could share the adventure, instead of having to pay someone : i'm not rich, and i think these type of projects should be done by a strong team that is willing to risk some personnal time, but, even more than that, i want to see the project finished !!!
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-> Done
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Sorry Tomsanson, but i have been waiting the final version of your generator for so long now that i've decided that keeping mine will save a lot of precious time and involvment for the project : i want to give priority to additions to the game, and not changes anymore.
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I will finish with the usual links for you to check the state of the project:
(Watch out, content is quite heavy, so for broadband only)
the site so far (including forums) -> http://grafikdezign.free.fr/
When the game will be finished, i will put up together a much nicer site !
the alpha version of the game -> http://grafikdezign.free.fr/game/game.htm
the first cutscene -> http://grafikdezign.free.fr/teaser.htm
the second one -> http://grafikdezign.free.fr/teaser2.htm
For those interested, please reply in this topic
Thanks,
LUX
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hi there!
My team and I are recruiting coders for a strategy RPG game already undeway...our main coder had to leave the team for certain reasons and we are looking for new talent. If you are interested, please send an email to
dfteam@darkflaredigital.com
The prerequisits are as follows:
Have played Strategy RPG's before
Very good knowlege and coding experience with Actionscript.
Thank you!
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Hey everyone
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Mp3 file # 1: C
Mp3 file # 2: C#
Mp3 file # 3: D
Mp3 file # 4: D#
Mp3 file # 5: E
Mp3 file # 6: F
Mp3 file # 7: F#
Mp3 file # 8: G
Mp3 file # 9: G#
Mp3 file # 10: A
Mp3 file # 11: Bb
Mp3 file # 12: B
Mp3 file # 13: C (in a higher octave)
Mp3 file # 14: C#
Mp3 file # 15: D
Mp3 file # 16: D#
Mp3 file # 17: E
Mp3 file # 18: F
Mp3 file # 19: F#
Mp3 file # 20: G
Mp3 file # 21: G#
Mp3 file # 22: A
Mp3 file # 23: Bb
Mp3 file # 24: B
Mp3 file # 25: C (in yet a higher octave)
What I want flash to do, is to select 2 files to play: 1 random MP3-file between #1 and #12... and after that it has to randomly select one of the files that is between the number of the first selected file and the following 11 files. Flash must not play for example file # 1 and then play file #24, because the intervals are too far from eachother. It has to be an interval of no more than an octave (that is from C to the following C, 11 tones higher). So if flash selects file # 3, the second file has to be from file #3 to file #14
What is teasing me even more is that the user has to be able to select which intervals he wants to practise. So if he chooses that he only wants to practice the second and the third tone in a scale, flash still has to select a random number between file # 1 and #11, and then when it has to select the other file, it has to randomly select between the 2 files that he has choosen to test himself in...
Are you following me? Help would be much appreciated....
thanks - from Ronze
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The xml file:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<name>WORKS</name>
<submenu>
<name>BONET HOUSE</name>
<loadname>bonet</loadname>
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<submenu>
<name>GYM</name>
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</submenu>
<submenu>
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2- A VARIABLE for each MAIN MENU called "mainX" (where X is the number of that MAIN MENU) that contains a number showing the number of submenus in that MAIN MENU tag.
3- An ARRAY VARIABLE called "mainXsubmenuY" (where X is the number for the main menu and Y the number of the SUBMENU) holding the data for the SUBMENU (the values in the 3 tags)
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But so far I couldn't do any of the previous, so any help on the matter will be really appreciated. Thanks so much for your time and advice.
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I get this error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property visibleMC3 not found on com.amatrol.int.template.Visible and there is no default value.
at com.amatrol.int.template::Visible/::startOff()
at com.amatrol.int.template::Visible$iinit()
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MCArray.push(this["visibleMC"+i]);
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The problem is that the changeStyleClass() is malformed or the selectBook() isn't working. I really don't know. I've ripped over and over this, even re typed it twice. I'm sure I spelled something wrong.
Let me know, please.
Josh
files
http://www.joshspoon.com/class.rar
Problem Areas
TextUtilities class
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var sText:String = tField.htmlText;
var nStartIndex:Number = sText.indexOf("class='");
var nEndIndex:Number = sText.indexOf("'", nStartIndex + 7);
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var sFollowing:String = sText.substring(nEndIndex);
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Book4.as
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mcBook.onRelease = function () : Void
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var nID : Number = Number (this._name.substr (6));
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//trace ("nID is " + String (this._name.substr (6)));
}
}
}
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nSelectedID = nID;
tDescription.htmlText = "<span class='description'>" + lbOnlineBranch.collection [nID].toString () + "</span>";
var tBook : TextField;
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A solution
Call the function with the onChanged event.
The problem part 1
The onChanged event only fires for TF.type = "input", it doesn't fire at all for TF.type = "dynamic".
The solution part 1
Use a listener to catch the changes and fire the onChanged function.
The real problem part 2
The listener has to return the value for the property in order to work. Therefore, it calls the onChanged function before the value changes. This means, that resizing the textfield always lags behind. (Eg: For resizing to add a new line, the textfield resizes on the second change after the new line.).
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