Please Help Im Dying Here

Please Help Me, I'm Dying Out Here
Folks, I know I have alot to learn, but here's my dilema.

I want to use a telltarget action.

I have a 3 movies on the main timeline.

I want the movies to play all the way through, then at the end of each movie, to goto and play the beginning of the next movie, and so on.

Does anyone have a sample .fla of how to do this. I'm confused of where to name an instance, confused on _root and/or _level0 (which to use) and so on. Thank you for any help you can give.

If you want email me a .fla, send it to gwana@rcn.com

Thanks

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Just Help Me Man Im Dying Over Here.
I bought a flash template.I've been able to
change text in flash on everything exept the text on the "buttons/links"(you know where it says about us,home,contact,products or whatever).Its probobly very easy,but does anybody know how to i change the text on these. Somebody whispered that it has something to do with changing it inside the group?I dont know, I need to get explained how to freekin do this.

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Pls Help.. I'm Dying..
if i have a game.. and there will be 2 kind of different ball shoting out from a shutter..so.. in root how am i suppose to do it.. pls reply fast thanks

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I'm Dying Here...
I'm really struggling with actionscript this week. Part of the problems I've been having is that I'm doing somthing for a client that wants it to be flash 5 compatible because they have viewers on older computers and they want it to be flash player 5 compatible. So I'm having to find work arounds for some of the scripts.

But why on earth isn't this working? I want the playhead to go to the next part of the movie once the first part has looped a few times. On frame one I define i=0; then I put this actionscript at the end of the first part:

i=i+1;
if (i == 3){
gotoAndPlay(76);
trace ("i "+i);
}
gotoAndPlay(7);

when i equals three it traces i but it goes back to frame 7!?! AAARRRHG!

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[F8] Dying.
in my game you're supposed to only die if you touch the enemy but when you do your first jump you die also. i made sure the actionscript and instance names where correct but it still does this. any tips?

i attached the .fla file.

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Please Help Im Dying
this problem is when i try to load a textfile w. variable
first, when i clicked the button, and try to trace the loaded text, its shows its "undefined", but when i try clicking once more, it works... whats the problem? im really confused... please help! THANKS!

PS:if you got a good tutorial about textfile and string manipulation, please send me some links... thanks!



on (release) {



var files

loadText = new loadVars();

loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
};
loadText.load("test.txt");
var snd = newsBox.getBytesTotal()




var strt = Array ();

strt= snd.split("#");

trace(snd)
gotoAndPlay(2);

//split code: split str on delimeter into an 'array'


//var strt:Array = snd.split("#");

//trace(strt[0])

}

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FMS Edge Dying...
So we've got like 15 Edge servers setup wtih 5 Origin servers. Things seem to generally work for streaming live video. There are problems though where some boxed won't always come up as if FMS has hung.

Currently I'm checking the number of fmscore processes with a script since I can't seem to get the HTTP admin interface to return anything other than NetConnection.Connect.Rejected: Admin user requires valid username and password. Which is odd since it has the correct username and password and the config files say it should work.

But sometimes the servers won't even start correctly. We have all of the logging turned on. But it starts up, says it loads the applications, no second fmscore process starts, and the remaining processes disappear after 5 to 10 minutes. No errors anywhere on the system.

This is CentOS 4 with FMS 2.0.4 and FMS 2.0.3.

Anyone else having similar problems or have suggestions to things that we could trouble shoot? I'm going to resort to straces soon.

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Urgent, Please Help...I'm Dying...T_T
Hi everyone, thank you for your time for reading this message,
I got a Key object question,
I'm trying to make a game for my final project,
and have no idea how to control the character by keys on keyboard,
like if I press"Q", the character will kick and if I released the key, it'll become a meutral pose....I got like 6 poses to control, and one neutral pose when I release the keys....help, I read actionscript the definitive guide and still didn't get the idea about how to do it, any example?...or tutorials?...please help, thank you very very much!!

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Heeeeeeeeeelllp Me....my Game Is Dying
all my textfields are just returning that _level1 bs. here is the code..Please help me. The output window returns no errors.
stop();
K = new Object();
var q = 0;//question #
var r = 0;//# right
var sm = 0;//# wrong
var b = "";//your answer
var a = s;//actual answer
switch (q) {
case 1 :
q2 = "blah";
b = 3;
break;
default :
q2 = "loading.....";
q++;
break;
}
K.onKeyDown = function() {
if (K.getCode() == K.ENTER) {
if (b == a) {
r++;
q++;
} else {
sm++;
t = K.attachMovie(smacked, blah, 1);
q++;
}
}
};

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DYING Rollover Text FX Button PLEASE
Im new and I have MX and Swish. Im trying to have a word, like "Meetings" do a text fx on the rollover state, then when clicked, go to the MEetings page. Please help if you can, Ive been trying all day. Can a movie clip be a button.
Thanks.

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Im Dying - Please Preloader Percent Counter
Frame One
total = this.getBytesTotal();

Frame Two (With A PercentBar MC Under It)
loaded = this.getBytesLoaded();
// optional code to calculate percent loaded follows
percent = Math.round((loaded/total)*100);
display = "Now loaded "+percent+"%";
if (percent>0) {
_root.percentbar.gotoAndStop(percent);
}
// end of optional code
if (loaded == total) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

Frame 3
gotoAndPlay(2);

Frame 4
My Main Site Animation Begins

Whats wrong? The thing hangs up in frame one. The bar wont activate, the percent counts off, but it wont say "Now Loaded" , in the dynamic box. Please Ive been up for two nights. I got the idea off of FlashKit download. I got to be done by tomorrow or Im in trouble. See http://www.gregmcgann.com to watch it fail.

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I'm Dying Here...java..html..dreamweaver
ok i have been searching for hours for the way to do this and CANT figure it out and it has to be SIMPLE...i have this page that someone made in dreamweaver and just need the button to load a flash file in a certain part of the screen...i am sooo lost

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Brush Tool In Flash 8 Keeps Dying On Me
hi,

Sometimes when i use my brush tool in Flash 8.. At times it'll work perfectly and draw my lines out.. but sometimes! It just dies on me! And Whenever i click and drag to draw.. It comes up.. but once i let go of the click.. it dissappears!!

I have to draw a full touching circle with the brush tool for the drawing to appear.. But if i wanted to draw straight lines with the brush tool, then i'm screwed! lol

Does anyone know a solution to this?

Also, I've checked my brush modes and it's always on normal!

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Won´t Work Online -- I´m Dying Here - Levels?
hey hey!

ever had a problem that a flashsite you´ve made works perfectly on your computer, music and everything, but when you upload it 2 a server, listen to this, the music won´t work and changing movies in flash itself takes about 30 sec-5 min depending on the server (the movies r small, about 30 kb and i´m sitting on a 12mb/s line)
can it have something to do with the levels? i´m only working with one level.. (i don´t think it´s the servers i´ve tested on 3 different ones)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!

thanx

/Moses

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Formatting ActionScript Created Dynamic Textboxes... DYING HERE
I have tried several ways to format the text without embedding fonts. There should be no need to embed "arial" but I still cannot change what looks to be default "times new roman".

I can't change the size of the font either.... help plz

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loadVariables("testSwitchworx.asp", this);

var fieldHeight = 150;
var myFormat;

myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.bold=true;
myFormat.font="arial";

function makeTextBox(i)
{
var txt = this.createTextField( "myText2"+i, i, 50, fieldHeight*i, 0, 0);
this["myText2"+i].autoSize=true;
this["myText2"+i].border=true;
this["myText2"+i].bold=true;
//this["myText2"+i].font="arial";this does not work
this["myText2"+i].html=true;
//this["myText2"+i].setTextFormat(myFormat);this does not work either
this["myText2"+i].variable="product";
}

for (var i=0; i<=2; i++) {
makeTextBox(i);
}

stop();

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Old Frame Based Habits Dying Hard - Any Tips
I'm about to begin building a site and although every time this comes around I think i should learn how to do 'that' with actionscript the work is there and the time isn't. I invariably use frames and make things work but feel I'm only lying to myself. damn!

anyhow - i want to have several, maybe 20 MCs on the stage (colored speech bubbles). Each MC will expand when clicked to reveal content. Now I can do this in my ye olde fashioned way. But want a simple code - or relevant tutorial, I'm not afraid of graft honestly - that will position all the MCs on the stage. When each is rolled over (or some clicked) I want it to expand and reveal it's content while all the other MCs shrink and move around the expanded MC??. Then when closed all MCs move back to their size and space.

Alternatively if you click the other smaller MCs when they are small they will expand and so on... ? I think I'm confusing myself.

If anyone can point me to an idiot proof tutorial or give some pointers i'll buy them a pint in the Dog n Duck in ye olde town square

ta

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