Flash :: Not Able To Touch

How To Get The Value Of A Variable According To What You Touch
Hi,
this is simple. I have a few buttons, that play each time a movieclip. I'd like to know how, when I click one button, the current movieclip plays its ending animation, and then starts the next mc.

I tried something like this: I make an invisible textbox that takes values from the clicking button.

on(release){
_root.vari.text = this;
}

and in the mc that is going to end, I add on the last frame :

_root.gotoAndPlay(_root.vari.text + "_mc");

the first part doesn't work.. the question is.. is this possible ?
How do I do it ?

Is there any other way of getting specific mcs to play whatever be the button you click ?

Thanks,
Manojo

One Touch Button
I have an image that I have made a button. I would like this image to start an mp3 file when clicked initially, then stop the mp3 file when clicked again.
All this should happen in one frame that has been held by a stop command in an 'actions' layer.
Sorry if this sounds very basic but my actionscript skills are very basic.

I'm not bothered about volume controls etc. I just need it to stop and start the mp3 file.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks a lot,
Ad.

One Touch Button
Sorry about the ambiguity in the title of this, but I didn't know how else to describe my question. I have designed a gallery, and want to include navigation features for the contents including zooming in and out of thumbnails to enlarge. I figured out a pretty good way to do it, but don't like the way the buttons behave when depressed. What I want is for the user to press and hold the button, and as long as the button is pressed I want the thumbnail to enlarge continuously in 10% increments. Right now I have it set up to where the user must press and release.. press and release .. each time zooming in 10%. I want it to happen in one fluent motion until the button is released. I know this is possible, but don't know how to script my buttons to make it work.

Right now I have this in my actions layer ...

var percentSize:Number=100;
//button to zoom in ...
this.in_btn.onPress=function() {
new Tween(test_mc, "_xscale", Normal, percentSize, (percentSize+10), .2, true);
new Tween(test_mc, "_yscale", Normal, percentSize, (percentSize+10), .2, true);
percentSize+=10;
//trace(percentSize);

};
// button to zoom out ...
this.out_btn.onPress=function() {
// movie will not be reduced below 100%
if (percentSize == 100) {
this.test_mc._xscale = 100;
this.test_mc._yscale = 100;
} else {
percentSize -= 10;
new Tween(test_mc, "_xscale", Normal, percentSize, (percentSize-10), .2, true);
new Tween(test_mc, "_yscale", Normal, percentSize, (percentSize-10), .2, true);
}
//trace(percentSize);
};

Thanks in advance to all.

SWF To Ipod Touch?
this maybe on the wrong section but didnt know where else to put it, does anybody know if it is possible to play a swf on an ipod, it is a really simple app,just an xml portfolio in a grid with a click to makeit large screen.

thanks
Dan

Touch Screen Swf/xml
ok i have a swf/xml flash file , its like a menu and buttons and stuff...
so u think this would work on touch screen ? is like just like a mouse click when u do touch screen? any special events for touch screen?
can we have flash for touch screen?:)
please anyone who have experience with this explain:) thanks

Touch Screens
Hello Forum

I am about to dive into a Touch Screen Kiosk Project. I've never done that before. I have two specific questions and one general question:

- What mouseactions work with Touch Screens? Is it only onMouseDown? Or both onMouseDown and onMouseUp? Does anything else work?

- Is there a way to figure out if there's any activity on the screen? They are hoping to create some sort of screensafer / start screen that should come up if no one is using the kiosk for a while. I guess I could just always reset some sort of timer with every mouseDown action, once the timer goes down to zero I switch to the screensafer. Any better approach?

- Also are there any other advice you'd like to share with a Flash Kiosk novice?

Any advice or insight is much appreciated.

Thank you

Regards

stephan

One Touch Button
I would like to make one button that starts and stops an mp3 file when clicked.
The button is an image called dictaphone, the mp3 file is called tonguetied.mp3

I don't know if this affects it, but all this should happen in one frame that has been stopped by code in an action layer.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,
Ad.

Finishing Touch...
I have almost completed my first flash site, but there is one bug that's still bugging me.

If you go to

http://www.theroost.co.nz

and click on 'Picture This' at the bottom, you notice that the scrolling panel doesn't start until the animation at the top has finished. How can I make it so that the panel is active from the first instance?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to work out right.

Dave

KEYBOARD TOUCH SCREEN
I need to create a Keyboard using only Flash that will be used in an interactive Kiosk touchscreen. The user will touch each letter then click "Send" (will be used as a search).

I modified a calculator and it works fine, but I can't seem to create a "Backspace" button. Currently, the user would have to erase everything and start over from scratch.

Are there any suggestions on how I can delete letters in a text field?

Or is there a FLA file out there that contains a keyboard?

Thanks.

** Need Some Advanced Coding Touch Here **
I have written a code to create new word combinations from a given word..yes somethin like a brute force program...

yet the code is both long and seems to work slowly...

here is the code...

PHP Code:

word = "abartmak";
StoredLetter = new Array();
DerivedWords = new Array();
word_length = word.length;
WordArray = word.split("");
check3Letters();
function check3Letters() {
    for (i=0; i<word_length; i++) {
        StoredLetter[0] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
        for (x=0; x<word_length-1; x++) {
            StoredLetter[1] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
            for (z=0; z<word_length-2; z++) {
                StoredLetter[2] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
                myString = StoredLetter[0].toString()+StoredLetter[1].toString()+StoredLetter[2].toString();
                DerivedWords.push(myString);
                //trace(myString);
                WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[2]);
            }
            WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[1]);
        }
        WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[0]);
        no_3 = DerivedWords.length;
        trace("3 letter words:"+no_3);
        check4Letters();
    }
}

when it comes to 4 or 5 letter search..it becomes so ardenous..

PHP Code:

//5 Letters
function check5Letters() {
    for (i=0; i<word_length; i++) {
        StoredLetter[0] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
        for (x=0; x<word_length-1; x++) {
            StoredLetter[1] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
            for (z=0; z<word_length-2; z++) {
                StoredLetter[2] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
                for (c=0; c<word_length-3; c++) {
                    StoredLetter[3] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
                    for (v=0; v<word_length-4; v++) {
                        StoredLetter[4] = WordArray.splice(0, 1);
                        myString = StoredLetter[0].toString()+StoredLetter[1].toString()+StoredLetter[2].toString()+StoredLetter[3].toString()+StoredLetter[4].toString();
                        DerivedWords.push(myString);
                        //trace(myString);
                        WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[4]);
                    }
                    WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[3]);
                }
                WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[2]);
            }
            WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[1]);
        }
        WordArray = WordArray.concat(StoredLetter[0]);
    }
    no_5 = DerivedWords.length-no_3-no_4;
    trace("5 letter words:"+no_5);
    check6Letters();
}

I need a expert touch here..

any help is appreciated!

kann_baba

Flash & Touch Screens
Hi everyone,

We've traditionally used Macromedia Director to do all our touch screen development.
Are there any disadvantages to developing touch screen software with Flash?

Much appreciated
Rob

Flash And Touch Screen
is it due to flash that buttons don't work on a touch screen, or is it due to the computer, or do i need special scripts to make buttons work for a touch screen?

XML New Blog, The Finisching Touch
Hello here,

I'm working on a kind of news blog, a flash file that simpy generates a list of buttons out of an xml file and then - when clicking on a certain button - displays the corresponding news item.

Till now, I have the list generator. great: but when clicking on them they now link to another page. And I simply want the .swf to display the link in text in the text field besides.

I've enclosed the .fla. It would be really great when someone could help me.

One forehand thanks,

Yntze

Ps: the .swf won't work when inside the zip folder

Touch Sensative Keys?
is there such thing as touch sensative keys? like to test how hard you pushed a key on your key board?

[MX] Removing Any Of A MovieClip When You Touch It?
Lets say i have some coins and a character. How do i make it that when the character touches the coin, the coin is removed?
I don't want to have to name every coin a unique instance name and write a code for every coin, which is what i have been doing. Before i used:

Code:
if (this.hitTest(_root.coina)) {
removeMovieClip(_root.coina);
}
if (this.hitTest(_root.coinb)) {
removeMovieClip(_root.coinb);
}
and so on. how do i make it so i have 1 code for ALL coins? so i can easily just copy the coins to have more, without having to change the code?

Touch Screen Keyboard
I need help in being able to allocate specific keys to certain buttons to fill into a text field. If there is any easy way of doing this it would be most appreciate. All my attempts up to date have been failures. I can allocate variables to to a button to fill in a letter to a text field,
but it needs to be able to tab various fields, and fill it with multiple characters.

In short its a digital form filled in by a touch screen keyboard, all in the same flash movie.

Thanks in advance

Touch Screens And ActionScript
I dont have any touch screen to work with at the moment but i would like to create a swf that can be used on a touch screen.

When somebody is using a touch screen, is it just read by actionScript as a mouseClick event (i.e release,press etc)?

Also are there any extra functions that are available for toouch screen users in actionscript

Thanks in advance.

Touch Screen With Flash
I am looking into developing a touch screen kiosk with flash. After searching the web I have only found vague info. Does anyone have any links to good info on this topic? Also, more in particular:

1. Do I need an extension to do this or are touch events built in?

2. Would i use the on( press ) to script events?

3. Anybody actually done anything that they can tell me about?

Thanks in advance.
Jeremy

Final Touch Ups On Website
There are 2 things I need help with.

1. When you click a button in the menu, the preloader works great, it loads an external .SWF file flawlessly, but there's a brief moment in between the "click" and the preloader where you can see the home page. It's very unprofessional looking in my opinion. If i'm wrong, let me know.

2. When viewed on a 19" moniter, the website looks great, and the bottom of the presentation is visible. When viewed on a 15" screen, I cannot see the bottom of the presentation, and I can't click on some buttons that are down there. My presentation is 1024x768
Here is the web address:
http://www.cleandesigns.net/vega/expertsystem.htm
I have my html reading:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Expert System</title>
<meta name="description" content="Expert System for Students of Homeopathy by Vega Rozenberg">
<style type="text/css">

html {
height:100%; /* fix height to 100% for IE */
max-height: 99%; /* fix height for other browsers */
padding: 0; /*remove padding */
margin: 0; /* remove margins */
border: 0; /* remove borders */
background: #ffffff /*color background - only works in IE */
overflow: hidden; /*get rid of scroll bars in IE */
overflow-y: hidden;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

body {
height: 100%; /* fix height to 100% for IE */
max-height: 99%; /* fix height for other browsers */
padding: 0; /*remove padding */
margin: 0; /* remove margins */
border: 0; /* remove borders */
hide overflow: hidden from IE5/Mac
overflow: hidden; /*get rid of scroll bars in IE */
overflow-y: hidden;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

/*
table {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
*/

</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scroll="no">
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="movie" value="main2.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="scale" value="noscale">
<embed src="main2.swf" width="100%" height="100%" scale="noscale" quality="high" menu="false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>

Touch Screen Application
Hi
I need to create a movie presentation and menu system, exactly like a dvd menu for a touch screen device that is like a DVD player but operates purely by touch screen. I guess like a kiosk really.

Is the Flash 8 the best program to use for this? I need to have the movies play after the button has been pressed. Maybe there needs to be a 'Go back 10 second button, I'm not sure how easy it is to do this in Flash.

I don't mind having either the Flash 8 player or a custom player to handle this:

Does anyone have an answer to my problems?! Maybe Flash MX is easier to configure the buttons with?

Thanks!!

Touch Screen Technology
Does anyone have any experience with designing for Touch Screen monitors. My investigations lead me to beleive that it's relativley easy, just like designing for a pocket PC.

Would appreciate anyone's feedback.

Touch-screen Keypad
Hello all,

so we all know about mini laptops - some of them being slim tablet pcs. This provides a very nice compact interaction. I want to create a quick flash-made keyboard that you can touch with a stylus pen for when you don' t have access to your keyboard. I know how to make the keyboard with actionscript, but I was wondering how to get the text from the flash output box to say...a google search. Is flash able to mimic the ctrl-c and ctrl-v of a keyboard outside of the flash application (ie how does it know to copy from flash and paste into google). I suppose there are programs out there that do this, I just thought it would be fun to try in flash.

Also, anyone who has a tablet pc care to share how they create lettters without a keyboard?

Nick

Flash In Touch Screen
hi!

I was approaced to do a 3-4 page flash animation presentation for a touch screen. I'm worried that there might be scripts i'm unsure off which needs to be put in flash so as to connect to the touch screen mode?

Also, the client requires that if the selected page is left 'alone' for a number of minutes, it will automatically go back to the main menu. Any ideas if there is a timer or script to solve this? Thanks very much!

Flash For Touch Monitor
Hi Friends,

Want to devleop a FLASH presentaion for PC using touch screen monitor. Instead of playing with the mouse for normal monitor I want to use touch screen monitor to play with hand. I want to know whether the actionscript commands will workout for touch screen monitor.is there is need any spl devices.... Please help me to know the fact.

Thanks & Regards
Binyl

On Touch Goto And Play?
How can I make it so that when an object touches another object the main scene will goto the next frame?

I already know how to make another object go to the next frame but I cant seem to figure out how to make the main scene do it o.O?

Help plz ?

Flash For Touch Screen
How possible is it to create a flash exe to run on a touch screen monitor. What would be the differences and what should be taken into consideration? Thanks in advance.

Animation Like IPOD Touch
http://www.apple.com/chfr/ipodtouch/gallery/index.html

How hard would it be to create an animation like the album list on the Ipod Touch? I am pretty new to flash. I am a programmer, but for client-server app. Flash is new to me. I tried the carousel tutorial but I the number of items you can put are pretty much limited to 10-15. With the album list you can put as much as you can. It would be great for my project.

Should I start on the same bases of the carousel? Except that it is not going to go round. It would have to skew and move to the left or to the right.

BUG TOUCH - Graphical Debugger Preview
[swf width="550" height="430" background="#000000"]http://www.pose.ch/bugtouch.swf[/swf]

This is just an early preview, but there is a lot of functionality.

So first try this one:
-First in the list of MC's click on "test"
-Click on the MC "tweened"
-Hold down Shift and click on "instance2"
-Now the detail view of this MC is open.
-Click now on the zoom button for the _x propertie (the middle of the three buttons on the right side of the propertie values)
-You are watching now the values of _level0.test.tweened.instance2._x, this is the circle animation on the upper left corner.

Try it out. Not all functions are implemented in this version and it's only for MC properties for the moment.

Good ideas for extra functions are welcome.

Thx

Flash And Touch Screen Applications
Does anyone have any info- or know where I can get some info on using flash to create touch screen applications for a kiosk?

thanks

Dynamic Text Fields - Touch And Go..
Hi,

Anyone else having problems with dynamic textfields in mx2004 (registered 7.0.1)? I keep finding that sometimes they simply dont work, for no apparent reason, i have rechecked and rechecked but in the end i have to copy a textfield that definitely works and paste it in its place. This is so annoying, cos i know what i'm doing in flash, and i end up wasting time reexamining my code just to find that its the dodgy textfields fault. I never had this problem with older versions of flash!! Is this a bug?

I've got the problem on my latest project, it just wont cooperate.

Maybe i'm missing something, so any advice would be great.

Steven
-------------

Kiosk Touch Screens In Flash?
Does anyone know how to make my buttons work by
touching them on the screen?

Your generosity in this matter will not go unrewarded$$$

Kiosk Touch Sceens In Flash
Does anyone know how to make my buttons work by
touching them on the screen?

Is it possible?

[help] Spiders In Game Can't Touch Eachother
I am busy creating a game at the moment. This game is similiar to "Snake".
But it has a completely different character and objects that need to be collected.

In this game on the playing screen a "spider" will randomly appear while you are movie along the screen. I have done this ok using a random function and duplicateMovieClip. But the problem is that I don't want these spiders to overlap ever....so they must always appear on different parts of the playing screen. When they appear they must NEVER touch or overlap. I tried using a HitTest, but it doesn't work and I'm not sure where to put it, ect...

Does anyone know how to help me? Please. I am desperate for Help. I would really appreciate it.

Flash MX Crashing When I Touch The Stage
I hope someone can help...
Everytime I open Flash it crashes as soon as I move my cursor over the stage.
I've reinstalled, uninstalled, installed, rebooted, kicked, screamed, even tried the trial version of number 8, and it does the same thing!

Why is this?
Please help...

Frustrated

[CS3] Codes For Touch Screen Buttons?
I am writing a flash interface for a touch screen LCD panel for presentation. As for the buttons, I used on(press) and on(release). It works okay but sometimes I need to click it a few times before it senses the action. Should I put another code on the buttons to fix this problem? Like on(rollover) or something else? What are the best scripts on the buttons in my situation?

Thanks,

Ka-ka

[F8] Making Two Movieclips Fall When They Touch
Alright, what I am trying to do is have four movieclips bounce off the sides of the screen and when a certain two of them touch they will stay together and fall to the bottom of the screen. I have been able to make the movieclips bounce off the sides of the screen but I do not know how to get the movieclips to fall when they touch.

This is the actionscript I'm using to make the movie clips bounce:

onClipEvent (load) {

speedX = 4;

speedY = 6;

}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

this._X += speedX;

this._y += speedY;

if (this._X>=525) {

speedX = -speedX;

} else if (this._X<=4) {

speedX = -speedX;

}

if (this._Y>=380) {

speedY = -speedY;

} else if (this._Y<=6) {

speedY = -speedY;

}
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

HTC Touch Diamond Effect In Flash
Hello everybody,
I'm wondering if anybody can help me with obtaining spining cards effect (links below) in flash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fetcaQIaA
from 0:40 to 0:44

or
http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/...ch-diamond.jpg

Generaly I'm having difficulties with setting up perspective using Movie Clip.
It is no problem with shape but it's impossible to me with MC.

I can make this 3d effect using two MC but when i try to animate them...they don't do the "trick", each one moves in difrent dirrection.

So please, if anyone knows the sollution right it in here

best regards!

Mp3 Player For Website, Needs Coding Touch Up
Ok, I just started using Flash MX like 3 weeks ago and I am really putting myself into depth by adding a MP3 player I found on the net for my new site.

test link

Problem:
I have noticed that once my player is open and I click on my play button I need to wait a couple seconds (maybe 1 minute) before the song can start playing, BUT the song will only play if I click on the progress bar after a minute (if you look at the link i posted you can see the progress bar is out of place because this is for temp use only)

Help:
If someone can help me with the coding to fix this up that would be great, I tried myself but my knowledge for coding is really bad.
I would like to have the song playing as soon as the site loads or by pressing the play button. If someone wants to see the fla file please email me at steve@fullspectrumottawa.com, I'm willing to send some money.

here is the code for the progress bar:

on (press) {
dragging = true;
startDrag(this, false, 0, 0, 100, 0);
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
if (_parent._parent.playing == true) {
newPos = ((this._x/100)*_parent._parent.music.duration)/1000;
stopAllSounds();
_parent._parent.music.start(newPos, 0);
dragging = false;
} else if(_parent._parent.pause != true){
this._x = 0;
}
stopDrag();
}

here is the code for the play button:

on (release) {
if (playing == undefined or playing == false) {
music = new Sound(this);
music.loadSound(tracks.firstChild.childNodes[nodeNum].attributes.path);
title = tracks.firstChild.childNodes[nodeNum].attributes.name;
if (pause == true) {
pausePos = ((slider.dragger._x/100)*music.duration)/1000;
music.start(pausePos, 0);
pause = false;
} else {
music.start(0, 0);
}
playing = true;
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
on (release) {
this.uvbar.play(2);
}

any help is appreciated, thanks.

Touch Screen With Flash Problem
pls answer this question as soon as possible for i need this for my thesis. can you pls post codes that i may use even sample codes that i may use in order to use flash in touch screen monitor.like pressing a button using your the user's touch instead of the mouse cursor.pla do help me.as soon as possible. it would be a great help.thank you.
- tsong1037

Need Really Big Combobox For Touch Screen Useâ€¦
Iâ€™m something of a Flash noob trying to convert an old Director project to Flash/AS3 for touch screen and web deployment. The project makes extensive use of comboboxes but the default style is entirely too small for use on a touch screen. I found (and mostly understand) the following tutorial for setting the font size and various other text attributes but the UI elements: scroll bar, thumb slider, scroll arrows, even the text containers donâ€™t scale with the text content. Do I really need to resize every graphic component of the UI independently? Is there no way to just take a combobox as is but make it bigger? Thanks.

Changing text attributes in an AS3 combobox: http://www.rockabit.com/2008/04/15/combobox-text-formatting-in-as3/