Flash :: Object Grows When Converted To Symbol?

Swf-file Grows Abnormal Using Copies Of Symbol
Hi,
I'm about to produce a few banners and have come up with a design that uses about 20 copies of a symbol that is a simple triangle filled with white (no borders) - each rotaded X degress to get a shiny look.

The problem is that the swf-file ends up at 60 KB using this. If I only have one instance of the symbol in the MC the swf-file is only 9 KB.

The symbol is optimized to 100% so I can't reduce it more.

I'm publishing for Flash 5 (later version is the same result).

What can I do to minimize the swf-file using the symbol in the way I want?

Please, give me ideas, I'm desperate (again)....

Cheers!

Should All Graphics Be Converted To Symbol
I am somewhat new to Flash. I drew 15 boxes for a gallery display. Should I create each of those boxes into a symbol????

I plan to place an image in each box and will convert each image into a symbol -- because when one clicks onto an image, that image will become larger for better viewing. The box will not become larger, only the image.

Am I correct in thinking that the box should not be converted to a symbol because it is not going to do anything but stay put in its position?

Hoping for a reply.
art.design@adelphia.net

Can A String Be Converted To An Object Name?
- I have multiple mxml elements: " ... id="myName1, id="myName2 ... id="myNameN>
- I want to call a function to act on all these elements such as ...

function doSomethingRepeatedly () {
for ( ... ) {
var thisName:String= ... concatenate "myName" & sequential numbers
doSomething(thisName)
}
}
function doSomething(whichElement) {
... convert the string contained in "whichElement" to an object name "thisElement"
thisElement.someProperties=someData
}

1) Can I convert the string input to an object this way?
2) Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Flash Mx, TEXT Problem: Text Blurred When Converted Into A Symbol
hi. thanx for stopping by. i am working on a flash project and i came across a problem involving texts

when i convert a text(static text) to any of the symbols(button, mc, or graphics) the text is blurred. how do i correct this problem? the text is fine when i type it but it's always blurred when it's converted into a symbol.

the reason i am converting text into a symbol is because i want to just load the text without retyping the code for the whole animation. i am also not using dynamic text because i want to add colors to the add, and i believe i can not do that when i load a .txt file (not sure).

any replies are greatly appreciated. thank you in advance

Motion Tween (fade) Text Converted To Symbol No "motion"
I am using flash mx and my file includes text that is supposed to fade in and out.

I do exactly as I do with images - alpha 0 fades into 100 % etc, and it looks fine on the stage, but when I publish the text simply pops on and off with no recognition of the alpha channel fading in and out.

I create the text as static text - old english font - and then I convert it to a symbol. I tween the symbol from 0 to 100 alpha and back again. Presumably making it a symbol essentially makes it an image, right? no?

I am relatively new to flash so I may be missing something obvious?

(yes I have checked out places like flashkit.com, but not exactly what I am looking for, want more control.)

Targeting An Object/frame In A Symbol MovieClip From Another Symbol MovieClip
I have a base flash file within it are 2 symbol>movieClips I did it this way so that i can coltrol my animations more effectively, but I am trying to have one of these access the other, IE one is a menu the other is a main "page"(set up as a frame. so as I click on something in hte menu I want it to load the correct page/frame from the other movieClip
here is a sample of what I've written:

Zachary Bobo

Attach Code

import flash.display.MovieClip;
fountain_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,fountain_start);
function fountain_start(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop fountain
}

Edited: 03/31/2008 at 05:54:53 PM by boa743

Object From Symbol
I create a graphic on the stage, convert it to a Symbol (MovieClip) named Sym.

How then do I create an instance of it?

var mySym:Sym = new Sym();

tells me: "1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Sym."

Convert Object To A Symbol
does anyone know the key command for this?

How To Find Object's Symbol Name?
I was wondering if anyone know (or if it's even possible) to find the name of the symbol of some object.

So say for example, I randomly spawn 1 monster out of the 10 possible monster in the game and calls it "current_monster". Well, they all shoot differently so I need to find out which symbol actually got spawned.

Symbol-->Object--> Behavior?
If I start with a MovieClip in the Library, and create Linkage to a class so that I can now instantiate objects, then how can I next add members?

IOW, I'd like to add a property which stores the direction in which the object is moving. I'd like to add methods to provide motion across the screen, etc. Thanks.

Do I extend MovieClip?

Do I instead create a Sprite and somehow add the image to that? Something else?

Can You Not Distort A Symbol Or Grouped Object?
For some reason Flash MX wont let me distort or envelope a symbol instance or a grouped object.

I am trying to make a grid move to from a 2D perspective to a 3D perspective.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Combining Object Into A Symbol In Code?
What I want to do this this: To rotate two objects as if they were one.

Did that make sense? If I rotate the objects separately I also have to keep track of their position in relation to each other, basically I will have to resort to building a "world" with a camera and rotate the camera for this to work.

So, my bright idea was to combine these to objects into a symbol at runtime and then simply .rotate() the symbol instead.

Any idea if this can be done?

raal

Targeting An Object On The Main Stage From Within Another Symbol
Hello everyone, hopefully someone here can help me with my current dilemma. I have a movie symbol with a button inside of it and I have an event set on the button which checks to see if the mouse is over it. What I' m trying to do is have that event target another movie clip that is on the stage. How would I go about getting access to the instance of the movie clip on the stage from with the other movie clip?

MC's Moving As The Other One Grows
This is basicaly my problem.

I have two MC's MC1 and MC2, MC1 is a square with length of one side 20, they are parallel horizontal and they are mereged in they xMax of MC1 and xMin of MC2.

MC1 grows to 60, so it's not a square anymore

The problem is that i want those two clips allways be one close to another so i use getBounds() to get MC1's xMax and give it to the MC2's xMin.

It's rather complicated to explain what i'm trying to do.

I have 2 frames so that i can update MC1 and MC2 xMin and xMax

But the problem is when MC1 grows the MC2 does not move until MC1 isn't fully grown, only then MC2 moves to my desired position, xMax from MC1 is xMin of the MC2.

It really puzzles me why is that so cause it seems that i've done a good job in defining their position, but the dinamical moving of MC2 is just not working.

I've attached a fla so if someone understod what i ment he can take a look inside to see what's up, and where am I doing wrong.

When Text Grows Button Should Grow
I have an app. where buttons are attached in run time. Button takes the text of dynamic filed through variable. I mean the name of button appears through variable. So the button length should be according to the text length. Please let me know that how can I do that?

Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks
RST

How To Make The Bar Grows To The User Size
if u check my web u will see that the bars grow to an extent, how can i make them grow to the users size, the animation?

Jon

[F8] Random Placement Of Mc That Grows Out From A Single Point
Hopefully I can do a decent job of explaining what I'm trying to accomplish. Currently I'm using this code to duplicate an animated (growing) circular movie clip across the stage to reveal a masked image:

Code:
X = 0; // X StartPoint of the MoveiClip ( Growing Animated MC)
Y = 0; // Y StartPoint of the MoveiClip ( Growing Animated MC)

dupliX = _parent.mcImage._width / 50; // Number of Duplication in X-Axis with respect to the width of the Image
dupliY = _parent.mcImage._height / 50; // Number of Duplication in Y-Axis with respect to the height of the Image

for (i=0; i<dupliY; i++) {
X = 0;
for (j=0; j<dupliX; j++){
duplicateMovieClip("mcItem", "mcItem"+i+"_"+j, this.getNextHighestDepth());
eval("mcItem"+i+"_"+j)._x = X + 15;
eval("mcItem"+i+"_"+j)._y = Y + 55;
X += 50;// X position change with in the line
}
Y += 50; // Line Change
}

I want to introduce random placement. rather than having these masks all in allignment across the page I want them to duplicate and appear in random locations across the stage.

I imagine I'll have to set boundries with variables as to where the mc can be duplicated. Something like this:

Code:
xMin = 0;
xMax = 500;
yMin = 0;
yMax = 280;

How do I then get the placement to happen randomly?

That is step 1, but then I'd like to figure out how I could incorporate everything I just described and tweak it so that the duplicated mcs would grow from a certain point on the stage.

This process would have to happen over time and continue to grow. For example, if you use x=50 & y=120 start point, the first 3 duplicated mcs would apear within lets say within 100px from the org. start point and that would happen within the the first 1/2 sec. Next, the duplication would happen again but this time within 200px of the startpoint duplicating 6 more mcs and again in a 1/2 sec. this would continue until the stage was full and the image was fully revealed. Is this even possible?

ScrollPane Problems W/ Content That Grows At Runtime
I'm having a problem with the ScrollPane component. I have a ScrollPane containing a MovieClip from my library. The MovieClip grows in height during runtime as the user adds additional UI components to the MovieClip.

Unfortunately, when the MovieClip's height exceeds the visible area in the ScrollPane, the ScrollPane doesn't seem to recognize it. The scroll bar doesn't appear, and I can't scroll down to see the rest of the MovieClip (the vScrollPolicy property is set to auto). It seems like the ScrollPane only checks the dimensions of the content MovieClip when it is loaded, and doesn't recheck it at runtime.

Anyone have an idea about what's going on and how I can fix it? Is there a way to get the ScrollPane to recognize that its content has grown in height? Can I force it to recheck the dimensions of the content MovieClip somehow? Using the refreshPane() method doesn't work, because it causes the content MovieClip to be reloaded, which loses all of the UI components that were added at runtime by the user. Any help would be appreciated, as I'm pretty baffled at this point.

Cheers,

Jesse Jenkins

Perfcentage Moving From Left To Right As The Percentage Bar Grows
Hello guys!

How can i move the percentage text like here:
www.internetics.ro

Thanks a bunch!

Regards,
Dragos.

Target Grows/shrinks To Loaded Movie Size?
Hi,

I am trying to build an interface where a movie clip (which is used as a target) grows and shrinks to the size of the swf that is loaded into it - e.g. a movie which is 100x100 loads in and the target clip grows to that size, a 200x200 movie clips loads and the target clip expands to that size.
I'd like all the animation to be achieved using actionscript.
Does anyone have any advice or tips on wher to start with this? Any help appreciated!
(something similar to the content here http://www.herosion.com)

Thanks for your time,

Tim

Creating Textfield That Automatically Grows In Height OnScroll
Hey, i am having problems making my textfield automatically grow in height when the text is taller then the area.

here is what i am doing

Code:
/*
* push the text so that the first line is visible
*****/
txt.scroll = 1;
/*
* loop as long as the maxscroll is > 1
*****/
while(txt.maxscroll>1){
/*
* increase the size of the textfield height by 1
*****/
txt._height++;
} // loop
all that happens is i go into an infinite loop. When i put in a panic counter (kills loop at 1000) and trace out each incrament, i see that the maxscroll stays at 2... Any ideas what i might be doing wrong?

Echo

Target Grows & Shrinks To Loaded Movie Size?
Hi,

I am trying to build an interface where a movie clip (which is used as a target) grows and shrinks to the size of the swf that is loaded into it - e.g. a movie which is 100x100 loads in and the target clip grows to that size, a 200x200 movie clips loads and the target clip expands to that size.
I'd like all the animation to be achieved using actionscript.
Does anyone have any advice or tips on wher to start with this? Any help appreciated!
(something similar to the content here http://www.herosion.com)

Thanks for your time,

Tim

.exe Converted To Swf?
Hey guys,
Is it possible to convert a .exe file to an swf?
I need to do it for one of my files but am unsure as how to do it. Thank you for any insight that you can provide.
Don

F6 To F7 / Can't Get It Converted
found an old file and tried to publish it in f7 - as you expected it wouldn't work
checked for case sensitivity and all
i suppose it's the 'with' line in the code but my as talents are very limited
maybe someone could help me

Code:
Movieclip.prototype.repel = function() {
var maxDistance = 150;
var power = 80;
var friction = .2;
var ratio = .20;
var maxD = maxdistance*maxdistance;
var a = power/maxD;
var distancex = _root._xmouse-this._x;
var distancey = _root._ymouse-this._y;
if (distancex>0) {
signx = -1;
} else {
signx = 1;
}
if (distancey>0) {
signy = -1;
} else {
signy = 1;
}
var forcex = 0;
var forcey = 0;
var distance = (distancex*distancex)+(distancey*distancey);
if (distance<maxd) {
force = (-1*a*distance)+power;
forcex = (distancex*distancex)/distance*signx*force;
forcey = (distancey*distancey)/distance*signy*force;
}
var speedx = ((speedx*friction)+(this.basex-this._x)*ratio)+forcex;
var speedy = ((speedy*friction)+(this.basey-this._y)*ratio)+forcey;
this._x = this._x+speedx;
this._y = this._y+speedy;
};
with (mask) {
mask.onLoad = function() {
basex = _x;
basey = _y;
};
}
with (mask1) {
mask1.onLoad = function() {
basex = _x;
basey = _y;
};
}
with(mask2){
mask2.onLoad = function(){
basex = _x;
basey = _y;
};
}
with(mask3){
mask3.onLoad = function(){
basex = _x;
basey = _y;
};
}

onEnterFrame = function () {
mask.repel();
mask1.repel();
mask2.repel();
mask3.repel();
b1._x = mask._x
b1._y = mask._y
b2._x = mask1._x
b2._y = mask1._y
b3._x = mask2._x
b3._y = mask2._y
b4._x = mask3._x
b4._y = mask3._y
};
stop();

Scene -> Object? Turning A Scene Into An Importable Symbol For Other Projects
Okay I made a scene with movement and everything, but when I convert it to a symbol I lose the movement frames.
I want to be able to import it as an object so that the animation loops for as long as I need it to in the other project.

How do I do this?

Importing Converted MP3 ?
Hello, recently i downloaded a software that converts music from a cd to mp3.
but when i try to import the .mp3 to either MX or FLash 5, they both give me an error saying that:
"one or more files were not imported becuase there were problem reading them"
MX does however let me import every other mp3 i have except the one i have converted.
I have compared the properties and there are no differences.

Can anyone please help me or suggest what to do?

thanks in advance,
Aphrodite23

Converted Content: What Would You Do?
Background: I have a pdf document that you can fill out online and send it to an email or a database. This will become all flash.

What would you do to place that pdf into FLASH MX only and allow that converted pdf (a flash form now) to be able to print after filling it out and or email it to a specified address.

Specs: The form must be printable without having to send through email because the movie is going to be strictly on CD-Rom.

My solutions and pitfalls:
I will create a form (all flash) that will be allowed to be filled out by a user. The user will print out what he just filled out plus the form area. I dont see how I would be able to create a 10 page form to be filled out, because the scroll text bar does not take input fields inside of it. How do I fit all of that text and input onto one flash movie. 800by 600 pix

Am I going about this the wrong way? Do you have a solution?

Thank you in advance

Chrisitan Seus
Gainesville, Florida

Converted Avi To Swf, Still Can't View
Hi there, I am new to this..I hope someone can give me help. I have converted my avi file to swf format, imported to may outline, but from there i tried inserting on timeline but cant view... I want to add the video after a set of still picutres. I tried embedding as a sprite; but still doesn't seem to work. I really need a beginners tutorial on this....anyone can help? If someone can chat with me live; someway that would be great.

hope to hear from you soon...

XML, Getting Converted To HTML?
Hi,

I've got an xml file that has a single quote: '

Flash keeps converting this to the html code (something like &pos and my text field display the &pos;, not the '

What is converting this and how can I stop/fix it? I've tried add the html code to the xml file instead of the ' but that does not work. Any ideas?

-matt

Can An .exe Movie Be Converted To...
Hello flash gods,

I have a shockwave flash movie (v7) that I made long ago and I've been carrying it around as an .exe. Now I want to stream it using YouTube. Can the .exe file be converted to any of these file types?: .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, .MPG

I wonder....

FLA Converted Into HTML
Hello,

I am new to flash, and I had a flash website designed for me. I have the original FLA file for the site.

I would now like to make a "mirror" site that is non-flash. I do not have the HTML pages that make up the flash site.

Is it possible to somewhow convert the Flash Website into individual HTML pages?

I have CS3, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc.

Thanks!

SWF Converted To AVI (or Video)
Hi I'm working on a project and I need serious help!

I've made a .swf flash movie which I need to convert into regular video. Preferably something raw or uncopressed so I can do further editing and some audio in After Affects. I've tried a bunch of shareware swf > avi program things but they all suck. Some take a long time to render and then the video is only the first frame of a 2400 frame movie. Another skips frames, doesn't render movie clip symbols... I found out after I made the video that the flash export to avi ignores all action script and symbols and that everything must be placed into a gigantic, hugely layered file.

Does anyone know of a way or program to convert an swf to video? I can't publish as a .mov either because that only allows flash 5 and that sucks. If I can't find a way to export the movie clips and everything at a consistent speed then I'll have to create the movie all over again. Which will be not fun. Any help is appreciated.

The programs I have tried are listed below. If you know of any really good software for this I might be able to buy please let me know.

Thanks, goodapollo

Sothink SWF to Video Converter
SWF to Video Scout
WinAVI Video Converter
Swf2avi
Swf2video Pro

Flash5swf Converted Into Flash4swf?
This is kinda an emergency,
I have done a piece for a client and they negelected to tell me that it had to be a flash4 swf. Their reasons are better useability(whatever that means).

HOW DO I CHANGE THE ACTIONS SO THAT THEY WORK, FOR EXAMPLE USING A TELL TARGET TO TARGET THE _root DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHEERS KAPHKA

.qt Converted To Traced Frames?
For some reason, I can't remember how to get a quicktime animation converted into a series of traced outline frames. The trace bitmap option is greyed out when I select my .qt movie.

Also, assuming I don't trace the movie frames, I can see this quicktime movie when I hit return in my movie clip I've created, but when I export to .swf, the place where the movie should've been is blank. ???

I know this isn't hard, I've just been out of the Flash loop for a few months and now I'm rusty. Forgive me if I should be demoted back to the Newbie page. I'll be happy to post there if I can find the answer. ...maybe I'll go ahead and post there as well...

Thanks.
Greg

Can Javascript Be Converted To Actionscript?
Hello,

I have this javascript game that i want to convert to flash, is it possible to take javascript and convert it to actionscript?

thanks

Converted Publish From 5 - MX Got This Error
Hi-

I have updated an old file of mine from flash 5 format to MX so that i could use Mx's new functions etc...

strangely the file no longer works! Also in the outpu window i got this message:

Symbol=FUNCTIONS, Layer=ActionScript, Frame=1: Line 58: Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.

I don't know how to rectify this problem. any help would be appreciated...

tnx

Mp3 Import Error? Mp3 Converted To .swf?
Hey guys I only use flash mx but every time i try to import an mp3 no matter what bit rate it's at it says it can't load it... Also i found a tutorial on the site about a small little mp3 autoplayer. one that auto starts when the site starts, but the song is kept in a "data.swf" file... I t never said how to make the mp3 known as the data.swf file... I can't seem to figure it out. I figured you just import it and let that be it but i can't figure it out. All tutorials ive seen on the subject start with ones that you have to click play or load the mp3 seperate.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Error In Converted Images
Ok, started to "play" with flash again and wanted to make something for a website.

I converted some jpeg files to symbols to let them fade away, but when I export the movie and when you look close enough, you will see that at the middel of the flashmovie something of the picture is moving aside some pixels. The strange thing is that only a piece of the picture moves, and not the whole one.

I've attached the movie so ya can check it out. If somb got an Idea how to solve this prob?

Thankx

source file can be found here..

http://www.greyson.be/test.fla
http://www.greyson.be/test.swf

Variables From Txt File Need To Be Converted?
Hi!

I've imported a variable from a txt file. Although when I try compare the value to what seems the exact same value in flash in returns false!

Txt file:
registration=1

The above value seems to come into flash perfectly ie. 1

but if I do a
if (this.registration == 1) {
trace("condition is true");
}

it never returns true.

Do I need to convert the data type? Im not very familiar with converting data types.

Please help!!! AAGH!

Flash 8 Converted To MX Issues
I have a movie that was first developed in Flash 8 and then converted to MX. It appears that if I add any components inside this movie, they dont function properly. I'm curious to know if anyone who has a lot of experience in flash has seen issues with movies that were developed in Flash 8, and then converted to MX?

Thanks.

Button Not Working When Converted From AS1 To AS2
I had this simple code on a button. I am updating all of my projects to AS2. When I converted it from AS1 to AS2, this button stopped working. Can anyone tell me why this is or suggest a work around.

ActionScript Code:
on (keyPress "<Left>") {
_root.prevFrame();
}
on (keyPress "<Right>"){
_root.nextFrame();
}

AVI Converted To FLV Shows Up As White
I'm trying to convert a short avi file into a flash video format for use on a sign language video website, and the test video (test.avi) is showing up as white with no navigation controls. That's the same whether I view it with flash viewer, import it into flash 8 or embed it as media in dreamweaver. I can view the avi file fine normally. The avi is 1.5MB and the flv is .5MB. What could the issue be? Flash Video Encoder was able to see the file and I was able to scrub and clip it.

Thanks!
Scott

Problem With Converted Flv File
I have never run into this before so I'm not sure what to do. I had to convert all of our training videos from wmv to flv. I know, double compression and all that yuck. Unfortunately the people who originally recorded these videos didn't keep the source files so I had no choice. Anyway, what's going on is that when it loads in the player I cannot use the seek bar. If I click anywhere in the seek bar to try and move the playhead, it resets back to the beginning. These were all converted with the flash cs3 video encoder. Any ideas what would be going on? Thanks.

Protecting Swf Content Converted From Ppt
A customer has MS PowerPoint content that he wants to (a) present as an swf file and (b) prevent users from downloading the content and reposting it elsewhere.

He has obtained a third-party ppt-to-swf product (FlashPoint) and generated swfs, but apparently he can't protect the content in this format.

The files are quite long (over 100 slides apiece). Any suggestions?

FWIW, I'm running Flash CS3 on XP Professional.

Converted Photogallery To Portfolio
Hey, I have tried to convert the photogallery from kirupa (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...otogallery.htm) to a portfolio. I figure most of the things out, how to add new categories in the system, but I've got two large problems:

- I can't get the newsfields correctly filled in in the edit system (on the web of course). For some reason it just shows one of the categories in all fields.

- The other problem is that I want to show all the titles in a list, where the viewer should have the possibility to click at each one of them.

Download my files (fla, swf, xml, php) at http://www.mrcurrent.se/herrstrom/main5.rar

Best regards, herrstrom

Converted Swf To V8, Very Strange Problems...
Has anyone had problems after converting an old swf made with MX2004 to the new version 8 ?

I have a kids colouring board app which has been running live for months.

Here's a version you can play with: http://www.evynco.com/wboard_resized3.html

Customer wanted a couple of small changes, during which I decided to convert to V8 - as I wanted to use the Drop Shadow feature of V8.

The customer has had components disappearing when he runs on his pc or mac, e.g. one time the pen won't appear, but it's shadow will, or a button will be missing. I've had other people test this and they've occaisionally had things missing too. I've tested with Player Versions 5,7,8, & 9.

I know it sounds crazy, a swf is pretty much a black-box, how can it have bits missing when run on other computers ?

Baffled I am. Any suggestions ("take up bricklaying") will be most welcome.

Object Grows When Converted To Symbol?

hello everyone,i have a grid and i want every 'square' to be a button, but when i convert it to a button, it grows and it covers the lines. check the screenshot to make this clearer.thank you, joris

hello everyone,
i have a grid and i want every 'square' to be a button, but when i convert it to a button, it grows and it covers the lines.
check the screenshot to make this clearer.

thank you, joris