Flash :: Ok, I've Been Beating Around The Bush But I Can't Figure It Out

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Hi,
Apologies for the enigmatic title my request is a simple one. Ive been searching for a flash mp3 player where I can control the mp3 via a simple stop/ start on the song title but to no avail.
I had given up until I came across the site named in the title
http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/listen.php

I was wondering if anyone could help by pointing me in the right direction to find such a creature or failing that a tutorial that approaches this type of control.

Sorry to ask I realise you're all pestered with amateurs all the time like this but I was hoping you would mind me asking.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Pres. GW BUSH Flash Game
I built this flash game a few years ago.. thought some of you may get a kick out of it with the election year (US)

http://www.obuweb.com/jstrebel/whogame.html

Beating The Login
I have a flash movie that starts out with a login. It's purpose is just to give the user a username. I want them to be able to use spaces, but I don't want them to just hit the spacebar a bunch of times. How do I make sure they use some combination of letters and numbers and not just a bunch of spaces and making it look like there is no name?

I restricted what they can input by using:

myText_txt.restrict = "A-Z a-z 0-9";

And, I can use the code below, but it won't help if they hit the spacebar.

if (myText_txt != "") {
//login;
}

Any suggestions?

I Know Im Beating A Dead Horse.....
But someone has to have an idea

Here we go

Ok, I have a flash movie, this flash movie is a map with 52 movie clips, they all have an instance name of "section" with a number after it IE: section0 section1 and so on. Ok, In the main coding of my movie I have XML that passes thru ASP that changes the color of the movie clips depending on the variable that is in my database. I use SQL. Here is the coding in my movie

"

/* function sectorArray(){
var msectors, varColor, sid, ftxt
for(i=0;i<=rcrXML.childNodes.length;i++){
if(this.childNodes[i].nodeValue == null && this.childNodes[i].nodeName =="sectors"){
msectors=this.childNodes[i];
}
}
var msector
for (q=0;q<=msectors.childNodes.length;q++){
if(msectors.childNodes[q].nodeName=="sector"){
msector=msectors.childNodes[q];
sid=msector.attributes["id"];
for(j=0;j<=msector.childNodes.length;j++){
if(msector.childNodes[j].nodeName=="color"){
varColor=msector.childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue;}

}

changecolors(varColor,sid)

}
}

}
function changecolors(varColor,sid){
ftxt=new Color("section"+sid)
ftxt.setRGB("0x"+varColor)
}
rcrXML = new XML();
rcrXML.ignoreWhite = true;
rcrXML.onLoad = sectorArray;
rcrXML.load("zRcrXml.asp?mdsid=2")
stop ();
||||||

That is the code INSIDE the movie. My actual xml/asp file has this

"
<%option explicit
dim cn, rs, sql
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Response.Buffer = true
sql="SELECT * FROM vw_RCR_Mapdata WHERE mdsid = " & request.QueryString("mdsid") & "; "
'Response.Write sql
'Response.End
cn.Open "provider = SQLOLEDB.1;Initial Catalog = OGToolsDb; Data source = Webapps; user id=fsfxsb07; password = "
rs.Open sql,cn
%><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<sectors>

<%
do until rs.EOF%>
<sector id="<%=rs("secid")%>">
<rcr>"<%=rs("Rcr_Value")%>"</rcr>
<secname>"<%=rs("Name")%>"</secname>

<%'Check for runway surface conditions for this secid
'Response.Write rs("secid") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("Rcr_Value") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("Takeoff_Landing") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("WaiverThreshold") & ", "
'Response.Write rs("TaxiThreshold") & ", "

if rs("secid") = 0 or rs("secid") = 5 then
'Comparison between takeoff threshold for the runway and rcr

if rs("Rcr_Value") < rs("Takeoff_Landingcaution") then
if rs("Rcr_Value") >= rs("Takeoff_LandingRed") then
'Assign yellow as the color
%><color>ffff00</color><%
else
'Assign red as the color
%><color>ff0000</color><%
end if
else
'Assign green as the color
%><color>00ff00</color><%
end if
else
'Comparison between taxi threshold for the rest of the airfield
if rs("Rcr_Value") < rs("Taxicaution") then
if rs("Rcr_Value") >= rs("TaxiRed") then
'Assign yellow as the color
%><color>ffff00</color><%
else
'Assign red as the color
%><color>ff0000</color><%
end if
else
'Assign green as the color
%><color>00ff00</color><%
end if
end if
rs.Movenext
%></sector><%
loop
%></sectors><%
rs.Close
cn.Close
set cn = nothing
set rs = nothing
*/
||||||||

My question being, there has to be some way possible, to make a code that allows me to mouseover any of the movie clips, and they display the variable in the database that corresponds to their individual section number

Or am I just not going to get it cuz its not possible????

Delay Action Is Beating Me
I have a movie clip that comes to meet the mouse when the mouse hovers over the botom portion of the stage. The clip is scripted to move only along the x axis. When the mouse leaves that bottom area, The movie clip flies off the stage to the left or right, depending on which is closer.

What I want the movie clip to do is wait a few seconds before it flies off the stage when the mouse leaves the bottom area. That way if the mouse wanders from that area for a second or two, the movement of the movie clip won't be annoying. Here is my code:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root._xmouse<795 && _root._xmouse>05 && _root._ymouse>405 && _root._ymouse<445) {
var distance = _root._xmouse-this._x;
if (this._x != _root._xmouse) {
this._x += .15*distance;
}
} else if (this._x<401) {
var homing_distance = -120;
if (this._x != homing_distance) {
this._x += .15*homing_distance;
}
} else if (this._x>400) {
var homing_distance= 820;
if (this._x != homing_distance) {
this._x += .02*homing_distance;
}
}
}

I have been messing with gettimer, but I can only get the delay to work once. I think set interval might be the key. Please help, this is driving me nuts!

Thanks

Beating The Popup Blocker
I have an aspx form that I need to load from a button as a popup but the blocker catches it. We tried to load it with getURL(javascript:window.open()), but the popup blocker(IE and a google popup blocker) caught it. Is there a way to make something popup on a user driven event like this? The thing is is that we could do it with "_blank" just fine but we also need to limit the size of the window scallability menubar and all that other stuff you can do with window.open. What do you guys suggest?

Heart Beating Tween
How can I implement a tween simulting the heart beating.

var myTweenX:Tween=new Tween(myShiningLogo,"scaleX",Bounce.easeOut,1,0.6, 1,true);

var myTweenY:Tween=new Tween(myShiningLogo,"scaleY",Bounce.easeOut,1,0.6, 1,true);

this is almost what I want. But I would like the object to come back to initial dimensions. Should I use other 2 tweens ?

Beating The 16,000 Frame Barrier Without LoadMovie()
Heya folks.

I've been working ona personal Flash project for quite some time now. I was oblivious to the 16,000 frame limit until now. My movie is running at 30 fps and is between 10-12 minutes long, so as it turns out I'll be exceeding this limit by a fair amount. Cutting stuff out of my film or reducing the fps is not an option at this point in development, and this all need to be contained in one SWF. I really want to beat the barrier, and I have an idea, but I wanted to throw it out there to make sure it will work before I go through the trouble of doing it.

I'm assuming 16,000 frames is the limit for the main timeline, but the timelines of movie clips exist outside of this barrier. Could you realistically compile half the movie into an 8000 frame movie clip, put the other half of the movie into another 8000 frame movie clip, and then put these two movie clips on a 2-frame movie? The first movie clip would have actionscript that moved the main timeline to the second frame (and the second half of the movie) when it completed its 8000 frame run.

I've never tried this before. Would this work without defying any of the frame limits? If this idea is even theoretically sound but I'm missing something important, any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Beating My Head Against A Wall Over Mappings And External Data
Ok, here's what I need to do.

I have a set of options, such as eye color. There are a variety of choices.

The choices are based on a previous variable.

What I would like to do is have an external file contain these choices in a mapping, such as eyecolor = (["blue", "green"])

In flash, I'll have a dynamic text box to display the choices (one at a time), and a left and right arrow to cycle through the various possibilities.

What's driving me crazy is turning those externally defined mappings into something flash can use, probably an array. That way I can have the buttons control a function that cycles through the array's indexes.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

XML Resize Thumbs (hope I'm Not Beating A Dead Horse)
Hello everyone! I've been all through these 60 some pages on this subject and didn't find what totally what I was looking for... of course eye strain might be a problem so if there is a thread to something I ask please tell me. I apologize in advance if I do. This is my first ever thread also.

Here is a zip of all my files so far. http://marazita.com/funstuff/gallery.zip First here is the link to Scotty's thumb resize that I've put into my .fla. V3_with_thumbs zip Mine doesn't work because what I'm trying to do is make the thumbs replace the mc's that I've added (each with an instance name thumb1, thumb2, etc.). As an artist I like to group images that belong in a group. Sometimes a group can have 3 sometimes 4, etc.. This is what's been wrong with what I've found in the threads so far. They've just been lumped into a certain amount to columns and rows. If you look at my files you'll understand better. I was also hoping that the thumbs would load like this zipped file http://marazita.com/funstuff/gallery_preloadthumbs.zip (which is another nice dynamic loaded one that you don't have control over either). Any help will be greatly appreciated and at the end I'll post my finished file to share with everyone since I've gained so much from this site I would like to also give back. This will help a lot of artists out there I'm sure. Thanks to all that help in advance. I have other questions... but lets do baby steps at first.

-Justin-

www.marazita.com

Help With Loading External Movie Clip(beating A Dead Horse)
Hello folks, I seem to have run into some problem with a project of mine. I have a Main movie which loads multiple external movies. I am using an empty movie clip called contents to load them into.

one of my external movies has a button in it that launches a centered pop up window(kirupa tutorial). This external movie named site works perfectly by itself, but when loaded into the main movie, the button does not work. I'm using:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie("site.swf");
}

any input would be greatly appreciated.

Looking For "dancing Bush Puppet"?
Hi!

I wasn't sure where best to ask this question. About a year ago, maybe more, I saw a little Flash 'thingy' with George Bush as a 'puppet' that reacted to mouse movements and was wondering if anyone remembered seeing it and knew where I could find it again??

Thanks!

"Dancing Bush" With Your Own Face
Hey guys,

I need to do something like this:
http://www.dancingbush.com

But I want the user to be able to upload his own picture into flash, do some masking work to separate his face only from the picture. And then, it will save the picture & mask on a server so people could send personalized webcards.

I'm sure I've seen this before, but I'm having a hard time finding it.
Does anyone have an example of this or could point me to the right direction?

Thanks in advance, guys!

Creating Text File - Or - "Beating A Dead Horse"
Hey Folks,

Please forgive me for revisiting this often-asked question, but...

I just installed Flash MX 2004, and was wondering if there was
any new functionality that allows the developer to create and
write to an external text file.

From what I've read, this is possible using PHP, ASP, etc... Though,
that requires access ta a PHP or ASP web server - something I don't
want to set up at this time. So, I guess I'm asking if there is any
way to create/write a text file without the help of PHP, ASP, or
a web server?

I'm inserting the movie in VB and using FSCommand to communicate
between the two - Flash input, VB create the file. This works, but
is not very elegant, not efficient, can't run it in IE, etc...

Can you do it using XML? Any other suggestions?

Thanks A Lot,

Loading A .jpg Dynamic "I'm Beating My Head Here"
I've done this many times before and suddenly It won't work.

I'm loading a .jpg dynamically during runtime into a MC.

the clip is named "container"
the .jpg is in the same directory

here's the code I'm using..

container.loadMovie("logo.jpg");

The movie clip will disapear during runtime as if it was being replaced with the .jpg, but not image appears.....

any idea?

thanks,

Beating Heart With Variable Heart Rate?
Okay everyone. Put your thinking caps on.

I need to create a beating heart. I need to be able to have control over the heart rate... and therefore, the speed at which the heart beats.

Any clever ideas?

Can't Figure This Out (can't Even Figure Out How To Describe It Lol)
I have a function that is getting the dimensions of a textfield so I know how large I will need to create it later on. Problem is, when loading big blocks of HTML w/ embedded images, the textfield may change size a few times before completely loading. If I trace out the "h" property in this function inside a loop, it looks like this:

1107
1107
1153
1208
.
.
.

until it gets to around 1350. I need a way to return that 1350, not the 1107, as my textfields are being sized to small. Any idea how to modify this function below so it returns the correct values? I've tried do/while, just a while loop, and onEnterFrame, but just can't figure out a way to get those values. Any help would be appreciated.

ActionScript Code:
private function getHtmlTextExtent(mcTest:MovieClip, strHtml:String):Object
{
var w:Number = 0;
var h:Number = 0;
var fw:Number = 0;
var fh:Number = 0;
var objExtent:Object;

_txtTemp = mcTest.createTextField("txtTemp", 100, 10, 1, 530, 400);
_txtTemp.embedFonts = true;
_txtTemp.multiline = true;
_txtTemp.wordWrap = true;
_txtTemp.antiAliasType = "advanced";
_txtTemp.selectable = false;
_txtTemp.html = true;
_txtTemp.htmlText = strHtml;

w = _txtTemp.textWidth;
h = _txtTemp.textHeight;
fw = _txtTemp._width;
fh = _txtTemp._height;

objExtent = {width:w, height:h, textFieldWidth:fw, textFieldHeight:fh};

_txtTemp.removeTextField();

return objExtent;
}

HELP Cant Figure This Out
I am building a site, and bare with me as I try to explain what it is I want to do.

1) There are 5 square buttons.

2) In front of the buttons there is a cross hair or bullseye

3) I want the crosshair to drag horizontally behind the mouse when moving the mouse across the screen

4) When moving the mouse across the screen, the buttons slide across horizontally depending on which way you move the mouse.

5) For an example: Ecko.com the first scene is exactly what I'm trying to do.( I also lam curious to how the buttons slow down when they come to a resting point.)

Please HELP!!! ASAP

Even YOU Can Figure This One Out...
Okay, simple script - not working.

It's a simple preloader that's preloading an external .swf. I want it to start playing the file when it is 25% loaded. But no luck. Here's my script (attatched to a movie clip):

onClipEvent (load) {
loadMovieNum ("sound.swf", 1);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
percentloaded = Math.floor(_level1.getBytesLoaded()/_level1.getBytesTotal()*100);
_root.percentdisplay = percentloaded+"%";
if (percentloaded >= 25 && !initialized) {
_level1.mysound();
initialized = true;
}
}

...But it still waits until fully downloaded to play! That the heck! Much love and thanks in advance for any help!

Can't Figure This One Out On My Own
Hi
If anyone has a clue idea suggestion, as to what I might have missed here please let me know.
Here's the problem:
I have FLASH 5
I put together a small swf menu to embed on HTML page. Menu buttons link to other HTML pages in another frame in the frameset. After putting all the necessary pages together and publishing and testing-retesting gazillion times everything runs fine. But I tried testing it on the other computer and only part of the swf works. And that doesn't always happen either. Some machines display it properly, some give me retarted version of my swf.
Is there something with my, SWF, HTML, or is the cache of the computers to blame.
Has anyone had the same problem before and maybe knows what I'm referring to?
Any advise will be considered an enormous help.
The similar problem I have with another swf of mine. After publishing it, it runs fine on all machines I've looked at except one, my boss's of course. He sees not even a half of the swf.
Thanks

Hopefully Someone Can Figure This Out... =)
ok...i am playing around with actionscript and trying to learn it...so i downloaded this source file...cuz it looked interesting... http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...37/index.shtml

anyhoo...i thought it was nifty how when you go over the ? button it rolls the text up...so i wanted to try it on one of the balls...and for the life of me...i cant get it to work...can someone please try this and let me know if u get it....much appreciated...

Can Anyone Figure This Out?
I dunno if from just looking at this anyone can tell me why it isn't working........

onClipEvent(enterFrame){

cursor_Xdiff = 456.4 - _root.cursor._x
cursor_Ydiff = 69.7 - _root.cursor._y

zoom = 46.3 / _root.a

_root.map._x = _root.map._x + (zoom * cursor_Xdiff);
_root.map._y = _root.map._y + (zoom * cursor_Ydiff);

}

The code should move a map by the right amount governed by zoom, but it doesn't.
Can anyone point me in the right direction??

cheers,
George.

I Can't Figure It Out?
Level #0:
Variable _level0.$version = "WIN 5,0,30,0"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.interface"
Variable _level0.game.interface.start = "yes"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.time"
Variable _level0.game.time.reel1 = "yes"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.spinaudiocontrol"
Variable _level0.game.spinaudiocontrol.tune = "2"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.reel01"
Variable _level0.game.reel01.bone1 = "2"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.reel05"
Variable _level0.game.reel05.bone2 = "2"
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.game.rndm"
Variable _level0.game.rndm.reels = "1"

Shape:
Button:
Movie Clip: Frame=85 Target="_level0.game.time"
Text: Value = "timer"
Movie Clip: Frame=89 Target="_level0.game.spintune" Label="SNDreel01"
Movie Clip: Frame=22 Target="_level0.game.spinaudiocontrol"
Text: Value = "ReelSpin Audio Control"
Shape: Mask
Shape:
Shape:
Shape: Mask
Movie Clip: Frame=45 Target="_level0.game.reel01" Label="01-05"
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.game.reel01.strip01"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target=" _level0.game.reel01.strip01.boneflash1" Label="stop"
Movie Clip: Frame=53 Target="_level0.game.reel02" Label="02-05"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=50 Target="_level0.game.reel03" Label="03-05"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=50 Target="_level0.game.reel04" Label="04-05"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=57 Target="_level0.game.reel05" Label="05-05"
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.game.reel05.strip05"
Shape:
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.game.reel05.strip05.boneflash2" Label="stop"
Movie Clip: Frame=17 Target="_level0.game.rndm"
Text: Value = "random"
Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.game.instance2"

if<--------trace action
Target not found: Target="_root.game.reel01.strip01.boneflash1 && _root.game.reel05.strip05.boneflash2 " Base="_level0.game.time"
flash<---------another trace action

Can't Figure This Out
I am slowly consuming actionscripts, but I've ran into a very nicely designed site that I just can't understand (in terms of how they accomplished what they accomplished). Specifically, http://www.pakobrats.com/ and more specifically, the transition effect that happens when a menu item is chosen. @ first I thought this was just a "goto" w/ a few wipes to transition from one pic to another, but no. each menu item has its own "closing" association w/ a mouse over. So, if this is not some type of "on mouse event goto frame" what is it? Does anyone have any insight as to how this effect is accomplished? Am very curious.

I Can't Figure This Out...please Help
so...

i have 3 layers

layer 1 has 2 buttons
layer 2 has a guy walking from frames 1-5
layer 3 has a guy walking from frames 1-10

i want button 1 to do this:
play frames 1-5 then stop

i want button 2 to do this:
play frames 1-10 then stop

how do i do this without having button 2 stopping on the 5th frame? (because for button 1 i had it stop on frame 5)

(the answer can not involve moving the frames around)

i can't figure this out!!!

please help me...

Can't Figure This Out.....PLEASE HELP
4 hours left and if i don't figure this out i am toast!!! please help

is there any way to make this action save??
if you don't know what the action does it simple removes the top name out of a list and moves everyone elses up one
i need to know how to make it so the next time the program is ran it will show the new list!!!

on (release) {
if (Input="")
S=J;
J=So;
So=F;
F=Input;
}
}

Can't Figure It Out..plz Help
hi there,
can't figure it out..plz help
i am working on a navigation which will use the last button clicked
variable.( i know how to set it)
now my movie consists of 4 parts each part is targeted by there buttons.
now when the movie starts the intro plays(skip buttons takes the movie
to scene 2). i.e. intro is scene 1.
now problem start from here the scene 2 is divided in 4 parts. at start of sence2
4 buttons appear at right upper corner whcih will present there till end
currently movie is at stop with stop action.
now i want it happen like this if i press any button it should first
play the ending of current part of movie and if i press any button at start
because currently it is not playing any part of movie so it should go straight
to that part. u can take 4parts as 4 different movieclips or
divide scene2 in 4 parts with each part has some frames at its end
carring some animation which will only palyed when the other button will be clicked

plzzzz help
i have tried my best to explain u what my problem is
adnan
bye

I Can't Figure This Out... :(
can anyone help? i'm lost

this is my problem:

i have 2 layers

on layer 1 there is a button
on layer 2 there is an animation

there are 13 frames

there is a stop on frame 7 and 13

depending what frame the current animation is on, i want the button to do different things,

so the actionscript for the button would be something like:

on release
if on frame 7
go to and play frame 8
else play frame 2

how do you write that?

I Can't Figure It Out... Can Anyone Help?¿?
I cannot figure out how to do this...I have buttons that change a MC different colors

Code:
on (press) {
colorTarget = "guy";
input = "000000";
newcolor = new Color(colorTarget);
newcolor.setRGB(parseInt(input, 16));
}
this is the action on the buttons...now I am trying to put an action on a button that if 3 is pressed it will use if "that MC" is blue(for example) goto frame 5..but if 3 is pressed and the MC is green it goes to frame 6...can anyone help????

I Can't Figure This Out ->
OK. Here's the thing...
I made a Movie Clip called "PopMenu 1". Now in this movie clip there's a banner, 3 menues and a rectangle on the side.

Now's the problem... I put this code in in the news button:

On (release)
Go to ("News")
End On

Now at the News label I put a Movie clip called "News Play". This clip is the news window that slides in.

When I play my movie the News Window slides in right away, even before I click on the news button (meening the "News Play" Movie Clip plays since the start). I want to know why. Also when I click on the News button another News window slides in over the one already there. I don't understand why the Window slides in at the biggining before I click and ask it to. Plz help me ! Thx... L8r

I Can't Figure It Out
See.. I see these banners all the time, made in Flash 5 that are cooooooooooooooooool! Like the text bounces and swings etc... I can't figure it out, all I can figure out is how to make the text come in..

Can't Figure This Out.. Please Help..
Whenever I insert a shockwave file within a html table cell, it creates a white space below it and makes it look detached..

The only was I can disguise it is by using the background color for the cell similar to the shockwave movie background. Why does it happen so. Is it possible to remove that..

Can You Figure Out?
what principle the menu of this sites operates on:

http://netstudioz.com/english/flash/intro.html

what do you think that is? i tried a number of simple roll over goto scenes and frames and even sliding the clip into place by moving the x y positioning using the with action.

all of those didnt seem right.

i think the menu is launched based on the x y position of the mouse.

could someone tell me how to do this? i am really just two weeks into all of this stuff; thanks so much.

Can't Figure This Out
my site opens in a custom window, however, in Explorer the content does not go all the way to the right and bottom edges (where the scroll bars would be).
In Netscape this does not occur.

can't fiture out how to alter this.

site is http://www.invisible7.com
goto either "theater" or "video" to view the prob.

thanks for any help that you can provide.

osiris
osiris@invisible7.com

Still Can't Figure This Out?
i know i posted this yesterday, but i'm stumped.

when my custom window opens, there is a space on the right and the bottom where a scrollbar would be. I didn't want a scrollbar, so this is a good thing, but the movie does not go all the way to the right or to the bottom. my movie matches the frame size (800x500) and i've gone over the javascript again and again.

would someone look at the code??? i'm not sure if i'm exporting the html incorrectly when I publish or if there's something goofy about the javascript.

osiris
http://www.invisible7.com

Cant Figure This Out
Im creating a flash site. All I have in the movie so far, is a movie clip on the main timeline. When I test the movie it doesnt play!! This has never happened to me before. All I did was drag the MC on to the stage and tested the movie and its a no show!! There are things going on in the clip, it works fine, Ive tried over and over and cant figure this out!! Its driving me insane. Any help?

Can Anyone Figure This Out?
I hate to do this, but I posted a question at actionscript.org, but no one has replied for quite some time. here is the link:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...threadid=13642

download the .fla and see what you think....
thanks....

<< neMec >>

I Can't Figure It Out...
Question...

I'm creating a portfolio site for myself and I have my work on one movie clip called 'art'. Then on the main scene I placed 2 runners telling the 'art' clip to go + and - X cordinates. Then I have 2 buttons telling the runners when to play.... This part all works fine. I can scroll left and right with no problem. But now I want the 'art' to scrool across quickly to a certain picture on the movie clip after another button is placed. So instead of having to scroll through all images, you can just click on a button to go directly through all images before it quickly, and then stop on the image chosen. Help?

GL

Figure This One Out...
#### This thread is not to be taken seriously ####

According to Flash:
1/0= Infinity
(1/0) is a number
Infinity is a number
/*TRUTH: Infinity is NOT a number*/

This one's even better...
0/0=NaN
(0/0) is not a number.
NaN is a number

LOL (NaN is a number!!!)

btw NaN stands for "Not a Number"

Code:
trace("1/0="+1/0);
trace("(1/0) is not a number: "+isNaN(1/0));
trace("Infinity is not a number: "+isNaN(Infinity));
trace("0/0="+0/0);
trace("(0/0) is not a number: "+isNaN(0/0));
trace("NaN is a "+typeof (NaN));

I CANT FIGURE IT OUT
why is it that if yo go to my page... http://www.paddlenut.com/gallery.htm
my flash doesnt start up in the preload screen, in the swf file, scene "preloader" is above the Main scene.
is there a special code i need to put in my file?

Can Anyone Figure This Out?
Is there some trick to this? I use a redirect service for my url. When a client clicks on add bookmark, the default security settings within Windows IE6 SP1 don't allow a client to add the bookmark.
If you go to http://www.informationtechnologysolu...t/testmain.htm -
and click on the CSD - it does nothing but the original SWF-
http://www.informationtechnologysolu...t/testmain.swf
works fine. For some reason going through an html to get to my swf disables the button.

I use an http forwarding service - I do not have sufficient bandwidth for my own web sever.

The call in Flash I made was:

on (press) {
getURL
("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http: //home.attbi.com/~completesys
temsdesign/main.swf','Complete Systems Design')");
}

Thank you.

Can't Figure It Out...
Hey everyone. I need some help here.

I am kind of a begginer at these things but decided to experiment with making a movie to get more familiar with things. I was making a movie about my dads work, Jewelery. This is how I wanted the set-up:
1.The background fades in.
2.My dad's name fades in after background.
3.The "kinds of things he makes" fades in after name tag.
4.A long "banner" slowly moves across the screen showing jewelery.
5.After the "banner" leaves, the "kinds" fades out.
6.After the "kinds" fade out, the name tag zooms in while the background fades out into all black.

I have many problems with this. Such as that the name tag doesn't fade in, but instead pops up. The same problem with the "kinds". And at the end when my dads name zooms in, it kindof shakes into a large form. Theres a link near the bottem of this post to download a zip file with everything I have so far. If you can please look at it and maybe e-mail me or leave a messege here that would be great! Also, don't hesitate to make any changes to the file, it's just a copy . And if theres anything I can do to lower the work I did, or make it better, please share it with me Thanks everyone.

-Edgar De Loa

http://us.share.geocities.com/homie94063/Francisco.zip

I Just Cant Quite Figure It Out....
I am doing a website for my High School FBLA Chapter (Future Business Leaders of America). It is for a competition that is more conservative so I am not trying to go real flashy, just more simple and elegent. But, I have run into a block. If you view of the sections, they are blank. I just dont know what would be best to present the information. Any idea's? I would really LOVE any.

http://www.chasebrammer.com/fbla2/index2.htm

Trying To Figure Out A Way To Do This
I'm trying to figure out a way to create an expandable content page.
The flow would be like so:

Title of Content
Content for this item goes here. This content may
be long and be mulitple lines.

Title of Content 2
Content 2 for this item goes here. This content may
be long and be mulitple lines.

Title of Content 3
Content 3 for this item goes here. This content may
be long and be mulitple lines.

--------------------------------------

Think of this as an expanable Q&A page.
This may have many lines (questions).

When you click on the title (Question) the full content expands to display the full answer.
All questions are collapsed by default and expand to the answer when the corresponding question is clicked.

I also want to load the content via an xml or text file.

Any help on getting me started on this would be great help.
Thanks in advance.

Figure This One Out
ok figure this one out. I sure as heck can't. I'm currently working on a webiste which has a form in one of the MC's which users can type in information in some input fields and right away the calculations tell them the information they need.

Here's the weird part! I've created an MC with a base layer containing a simple background graphic and another layer on top with an input text field and have labeled the variable 'text'. I've laid down 12 instances of this MC with 8 of them in one column in my movie and 4 in another column. In my action script of the movie containing all these instances of my input field MCs, I've constructed an array containing the instance names of all my input MC's. The code all works, however.... Whenever you click in an input field, the cursor will start blinking like normal, but after a few times of it blinking every other intance of my input movie's cursor starts blinking too. But only if those instances are in the same column as the that was clicked in. Now at first I just thought well ok they must all be blinking because they're all instances of the same MC. But if you drag one of the instances away from the others, it won't blink with the rest. It's just when you have 2 or more on the same _x value.

I just can't explain it. No idea at all why this is happening. Can anyone else figure it out, or even have a theory of what could be happening? Any help is greatly appreciated. Please not I'm using Flash 5.

~ XSDamaj - Multimedia Developer