Flash :: Rusty Flasher Needs Help

Gotten Old And Rusty Help With This Please...
Hi All,

Been away from flash for a while and have got very (very) rusty. Have a look at this:

www.h*o*w*i*e*s.co.uk (sorry 'bout the stars, just remove them!)

Look at the two photos at the bottom (Features). See how they bring up a bar of info on hover. Probably quite simple and I hope I'm not wasting anyone's time here but can anyone give me a pointer to try to do this sort of thing?

Thanks

Sarah

Basic Var Use (im A Bit Rusty)
A simple use of a variable

I have set the var history_barv in one part of the movie, the var is the name of the instance i want to play

i then want to play a movie clip using that variable so, something like this:

_root.history. INSERT MY VARIABLE HERE .play();

how do i format the code to do this

thanks

ds

Need Some Help With My Rusty Actionscript
Hi guys, it's been a while since I have used AS and I become very rusty, so can someone point me in the right direction?

I have a movie clip that eases when a button is clicked(along the _y). that part I can get. But I'm having trouble wrappng my head around getting it to stop at a certain coordinate.
when it reaches that coordinate I want it to go back to its orginal postion so it appears to scroll endlessly.

this is code I have for my movie clip:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {

this._y = yPos;
yPos = 62.0;

}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (this._y != yPos) {

distY = yPos-this._y;
newY = distY/4;

this._y += newY;
if (textstrip.yPos ==568.9) {
yPos =
}

And my buttons have this:

Code:
on (release){
textstrip.yPos = +50.0;
}

The movie scrolls but just keeps scrolling inifintely. how do I get it to stop?
Make the bad movie clip stop!!!

thanks guys!

Math Is Rusty...
Hello!

Its my first post here on this wonderful forum.
I've got a bit of a problem on my hands... I have a mc, that 'scrolls' vertically, to the coordinates that are passed to it from a different class (_y coord), It works nice and well, by figuring out where it is, and where its gotta go to, and then adding the difference, divided by some constant (speed) to its current location, on the onEnterFrame function.... this makes the movement deccelerate into passed coords.

Now, the problem I'm trying to make it so that: it accelerates smoothly, scrolls, and then deccelerates into position... trying to do with with a sine curve, but it just jumps around like crazy, and then stops if it happens to land in the right spot by some odd chance... here is the 'broken' code:

class Elevator extends MovieClip {
private var oldy:Number;
private var gotoy:Number;
private var notThere:Boolean;
private var sofar:Number;
private var travel:Number;
private var diff:Number;
//constructor
function Elevator(){
gotoy = _y;
notThere = false;
//trace("initialized, "+_x+" "+_y);
}
//setter, getter
public function get goto():Number{
return(this.gotoy);
}
public function set goto(newcoord:Number):Void{
this.gotoy = newcoord;
this.travel = _y-gotoy;
//give it an initial kick, otherwise sine is 0, so no movement at all.
_y += travel/200;
this.oldy = _y;
}

private function onEnterFrame():Void{

this.diff = (_y-gotoy);

if (diff > 1 || diff < -1){
notThere = true;
} else {
notThere = false;
_y = gotoy;
}
if(notThere){
///this is my problem-child!!!!!
this.sofar = Math.abs(diff * Math.PI*2 / travel);
_y = oldy + (travel*(Math.sin(sofar)));
trace(sofar+" "+(Math.sin(sofar)));
}

}
}

Somebody's gotta know a quick little one-liner for this thing! its probably very simple, but I cant wrap my head around it. Is there a better way of going about it?

help?

Actionscript Rusty
ok, I got a few problems...mostly cause it's been a while since I done any actionscript or work with flash, anyway

here is the code:

var alphabets = new Array();
alphabets[0] = "A";
alphabets[1] = "B";
alphabets[2] = "C";
alphabets[3] = "D";
alphabets[4] = "E";
alphabets[5] = "F";
alphabets[6] = "G";
alphabets[7] = "H";
alphabets[8] = "I";
alphabets[9] = "J";
alphabets[10] = "K";
alphabets[11] = "L";
alphabets[12] = "M";
alphabets[13] = "N";
alphabets[14] = "O";
alphabets[15] = "P";
alphabets[16] = "Q";
alphabets[17] = "R";
alphabets[18] = "S";
alphabets[19] = "T";
alphabets[20] = "U";
alphabets[21] = "V";
alphabets[22] = "W";
alphabets[23] = "X";
alphabets[24] = "Y";
alphabets[25] = "Z";
stop();

function getF(){
var ltimes,lnum,lpick;
ltimes = 8;
lnum = 0;
while (lnum < ltimes){
lpick = Math.random()*25;
lpick = Math.round(lpick);
firstletter.text = alphabets(lpick);
lnum = lnum + 1;
}
}

What I have in the movie is a dynamic text box called firstletter and a button. Clicking on this button calls the getF function...

now I get different error messages depening on the contents of the function. If it's as above I get an undefined error message....

if I change the firstletter.text to equal something like lnum, then it will change the first time round the while loop but not the next time

some help would be appreciated here, thanks

Help Very Easy Problem But I'm Rusty
Hi people,

I've creating a website from a flash template that i bought see
example of flash

however i've used some images taken from flickr.com and have the permission of the photographers. However I need to code in that when the user's hover over the images a small panel slides up at the bottom of the image and reveals a line of text with the photographers name and also a link to their own website or flickr page.

I'm o.k. with flash not great at action scripting but know enough to get by. However i'm rubbish at best practice. So far I've double clicked down through the movie clips till I get to one that has the 6 images in.
I then proceeded to select and image and converted it to a movie clip.
Then I placed an invisible button above the image on it's own layer and then above that I created a layer with a animation of the panel sliding up onto the screen. However I tried to code on the invisible button movie clip, that
on enter, goto and play the animation but it's not working please help.

the fla file is 9mb so if you want it let me know.

If(commands) Question I'm Rusty.
I don't know which Actionscript number this would be best for so I guessed.

Anyways I used to know some basic actionscripting but haven't messed with it for a few years so I've forgotten everything.

First question is... How do you do an If, If Not thing again?
Example:
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(homepressed == true){
prevFrame();
}
}
There's the if kind of thing I want to do. It's for a button. Basically if the button is pressed a drop down menu pops down (another movie clip) and it makes "homepressed" true. With it being true that means the next time you click that same butt it sucks the menu back up and makes it false. With it being false you can press it again which in turn makes it true and dumps the menu out and visible again.
Basically an expandable menu. I've seen lots of tutorials and they all tend to go way over the top with what you actually need to do. I've done this before but again, that was years ago and I've completely forgotten how (plus my old harddrive died killing all my old work).

So again...

Basically when you click this button (which is actually a movie clip) it turns "homepressed" to true and drops the menu down via starting up it's animation (which is another movie clip).
I use code something like this:
homebutton.onMouseUp = function(){
homeanim.gotoAndPlay(2);
homepressed = true;
}
Somehow turning "homepressed" to true makes the button do a different thing. It makes it so next time you click it the menu reverses (prevFrame();) and becomes hidden again plus turns "homepressed" to false to start the cycle all over again at the click of a button.

I'm having real trouble translating this into code. I've forgotten 99% of the stuff I learned. HELP!

EDIT: Whoa my name is "DumbFudge" here... lol doesn't seem like something I'd do.

Edited: 04/22/2008 at 02:11:32 PM by DumbFudge

I'm A Little Rusty...why Isn't My Swf Loading In My Html Page?
I created the page in Dreamweaver MX 2004 by dragging the SWF into the page. The HTML page and the SWF are both uploaded. Not sure why its not loading in IE.

Any help?
http://www.brazosportinfo.com/_webwork/gpa/map-test.htm

Im So Rusty...Help With Image Slideshow For Website Header.
Hi Dev Shed Crew.

Im getting my rusty web developer gloves back out after a slight change in career. In in the process of developing a new website for a London Hotel.

I would like the main header image accross the top of the homepage to have various glamarous shots of the hotel fading in and out of eachother. Even having a slide show with the addition of thumbnails at the bottom of the flash movie to skip to the other images in the slideshow would also be a nice feature.

What im asking for is direction to good tutorials that you may be aware of, or good websites that offer a ready made service for this type of thing.

Thanks a bunch.

Please Help A New Flasher.
Hi Everybody,
I am just starting out in Flash and have found a lot of cool information here at Kirupa. I based my first Flash project on the Flash 8 Creating a Simple Animation tutorial but I am having trouble with a couple of things. I am including the link to a test version of the home page of my website. At the bottom of the page is the simple animation I have made.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/default_flash.htm

Now here is my problem. As you can see from the animation it starts out with no letter on the page and then they appear. When I was making it I just moved the letters off of the page on to the stage and using the timeline they appear and do what I have them doing. OK when I close the fla and reopen it the letters are gone from the stage and there is nothing in the timeline except Layer one. I can go up to control and play the movie but I no longer have all of the letters or the motion tweens in the timeline. I have another animation that is very similar except the letters are already in the document. If I right click on one of the letters and then click Edit In Place all of the letter layers show up and so does all of the motion tweens and what not.

I hope this is making sense. Any way, I know there is probably a very simple explanation on how to get all of the information back but I have skimmed through the Flash 8 Bible and Friends of Ed’s Foundation Flash 8 books and I cant find the information I need. It would kind of be like closing a Photoshop file as a PSD file and when you re-open it you have all of your layers and layer styles and such back. I will include a link to the fla so if you think down loading it will give you a better idea of what I am talking about here it is.

http://www.albeysreptiles.com/images/logo_letters2.2.2.fla

If after looking at what I have done no one can understand what I am trying to figure out I will include screen shots next time.

I thank you in advance,

Albey Scholl
Albey’s “Too Cool” Reptiles
http://www.albeysreptiles.com
E-mail
albeysreptiles@mindspring.com

Looking For Flasher
I'm constantly looking for good Flash Programmers and Designers
Three musts:

Reliable
Good :-)
realistic about prices...

...If you are contact me

Roteck

Expirenced Flasher Needs Help Please.
I can't get FScommand to execute other programs.
yeah, pretty weird. Here's my "simple" code:

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec","c:\Program files\Microsoft Office\Office\winword.exe")
}

That simple. Yet it does not work. The path is correct and I tried many other applications with no avial. So if you can help out, it would be most appreicated.

Flasher Needed
Yes, I know that title came out wrong, but I'm looking for somebody to become a "Flasher" for my site. The site is titled "The Pixelation Station" and will be a site dedicated to pixel art and sprites custom-made and from video and computer games. The URL is www.pixelnet.net, and it should be up within the next 2-3 weeks, because I'm still working on a few scripts and the forums. I basically am trying to recruit someone w/ good ability in the movie/intro field. Anybody interested?

Flamboyant Flasher
please re respond to the last post of mine.i deleted the post that you posted at and i cant get it

please answer thanks

-largefry

Please Advise...new Flasher Here
Hi all,

I am a contract flash developer. My client wants me to make up a movie like the one on "www.buydomains.com"

He loves that mouse over effect... I have been trying to duplicate it but its not as clean as it is on that site.

I am new in flash... could u help me what i should be doing exactly...

Thanks for all ur help...

someone6767

Help Me I'm A Lost Flasher
How do we call another program from flash? For example, I am making an .exe out of my flash presentation. Now I want to click on a button and execute an installation of another program which is in another folder? I tried looking for a way but I couldn't find anything. I know it can be done 'coz I seen it before. Please help!

I'm using Flash 5. It is for a CD.

Help Out A Fellow Flasher
Hey all.
Volkswagen just recently had a "buckle up" video contest. the contest was to make a 30 second seat belt PSA. a buddy of mine spent hours upon hours on his. he did it all in flash (the only of the finalists) and made the finals. there are three videos now, the artist of the winning video will win $10,000.

his video is called "cool and convenient" the video can be seen at http://www.vw.com/vsa/seatbelt.htm?movie=movie4
It would be great if you could help him out, or at least let me know what you thought of the video. thanks a lot!

-nick podges

Firsttime Flasher
Hello,

I am new in her. And actually got this Adobe 30days tryout of Flash. Because I saw this site http://www.disneyweddings.go.com/site/gate/index.jsp
Select Disneyworld resort and then select skip movie

and if you done this you actually will get to this kind of picture

The actual picture can move if you get your mouse to the photo's.

I really want to know is this made by adobe flash.
I am really new with flash and creating things. I know working with photoshop cs3 and like to get some more out of it.

For a newbie. Is this kind of photoflash result for a website hard to make. I am looking for tutorialsites with google to start a little reading. But before I actually spend more time to it. I need some help and answers from you here.

Anybody can help me along for a start. It really looks 'flashy' and I hope I can do something for my site too.

Thanks in advance

New Flasher / Portfolio
i would love if someone would come check out my portfolio site. I'm just starting in flash and am thinking about web design as a full time job. This is pretty much my first site. I would love some feedback. But, i ask that you keep in mind my experience level.
Even now theres a lot more things i would like to change and alter but, i'm sure the site will change always. It's also a work in progress.
Thanks
D.

Portfolio site

News Flasher
Hello I was reading on the headladnews flasher in the tutorial section,
theres no action scrip with it, did anyone ever try this one before?
Im looking for a news flasher where I can just add links to other sites,
anyone no where to find one thanks.

New Flasher Component
I embedded a News Flasher Component in mt Fls.File. When I stuff the file with component and email it to someone, it does not work on the other end. Any insight?

News Flasher
i was wondering if there was a tutorrial for news flasher in mx 2004. i was given this link (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm)but in this one the text stops in the center, i was looking for one which has a continous flowing text like the ones you see on news channels " breaking news" kind of stuff. thanks for the help.

News Flasher
Hey

im working on a tutrial called News Flasher

that says:
Select Apply HTML tags.
Then, drag and drop the component into the textfield
first step i get

The second step i dnt get :s

Wot is a component ?

Greets BangaLord

News Flasher
hallo! i have read the tutorial about the news flasher estension for flash mx (that i have installed in flash mx pro 2004)

the link for downloading does not work anymore...so i found the smx somewhere else on the internet
unfornately i noticed the is
-- AlphaANIMATION ON/OFF parameter

is not avaible... why?? where can i find the complete script?

News Flasher
does anyone know how to create one in flash....one that stops so people can read it. kinda like the one in the tutorial section of flash. but not downloading any components
thanx in advance

Headlab Flasher Help
I followed the tutorial with the headlab flasher, isit possbile to get the text to only fly inside the dynamic box, my text flies acroos the whole scene?

News Flasher ?
umm.............mines doesnt work......

i test inside flash and it works, i export it as mov and when i click on the actual swf it works fone. it reads from the txt file and all but when i preview index it doesnt work. i uploaded to site server and it also doesnt work

any help plz?

News Flasher HELP ME
Steps to Create the News Flasher
The following steps will help you to create the animation you see above:

Create a dynamic textfield and give it an Instance name, label it myText.

Align to center the textfield ( so the text loaded into it will be centered).

Select Apply HTML tags.

Then, drag and drop the component into the textfield
[[[[ Whats the component?? ]]]]

Now, modify the component parameters and publish your movie.

Open notepad and use this format to add news:
content=<.......

News Flasher
urms.. hi guys. i'm here with a question (once again =.=")

i was tryin out the news flasher tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm).. but it only showed my first "news" and is looking through it..

the content of my ticker.txt looks something like..
content=Assignment...
|Class...
|Group...

or is there any specific parameters i need to edit to make it work?

News Flasher Help
I was wondering if someone could help me with the News Flasher. I was following the tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm) and I do not understand what to do at step iv. Someone please help.

News Flasher For F5
Hi guyz, I need a news flasher as shown here - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.asp

But i need something similar for use with Flash 5 as i have not got MX yet

Thanks

Kev

New Flasher Component
I embedded a News Flasher Component in mt Fls.File. When I stuff the file with component and email it to someone, it does not work on the other end. Any insight?

News Flasher...
hi everyone,
i would like to have a news flasher in my movie clip. there is a turorial for this at kirupa.com but it dosnt seem to clear to me. and i cant find the actionscript. maybe its me. can anyone tell me how or where to find something that will help me!

thanks tristan

Master Flasher..Your My Only Hope
Is it possible to set an arrey to do a loadMovie function? I got this code from a tutorial 3d depth in the book New Masters of Flash 2000 annual. (Chapter 5) I have a MC called "viewer", in ti... first key frame I have this code;
-----------------------------------
linklist = new Array();
linklist[0] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl'>multimedia</a>";
linklist[1] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>web design</a>";
linklist[2] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>fine art</a>";
linklist[3] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>graphic design</a>";
function openurl (murl) {
murl = ""+murl;
getURL (murl);
}
--------------------------------
keyframe 2 I have:
//
fl = 300;
cx = 0;
cy = -80;
cz = 150;
//
maxt = Math.PI/60;
deacc = .9;
r = 1;
//
targetr = 120;
//
items = linklist.length;
//
for (i=0; i<items; i++) {
this.attachMovie("dot", "dot"+i, i+1);
var me = this["dot"+i];
me.txt = linklist[i];
}
//
function buildcircle () {
twist = twist+speedt;
for (i=0; i<items; i++) {
var me = this["dot"+i];
var ang = 2*Math.PI/items*i+twist;
me.x = cx+Math.cos(ang)*r;
me.y = cy;
me.z = cz+Math.sin(ang)*r;
me._alpha = 100-Math.sin(ang)*50;
}
}
function trackmouse () {
var sw = 290/2;
var sh = 200/2;
var mxr = _xmouse/sw;
var myr = _ymouse/sh;
var inside = (mxr*mxr<1 && myr*myr<1);
if (inside) {
mtrq = mxr>0 ? mxr*mxr : -mxr*mxr;
} else {
mtrq = 0;
}
}
function setspeed () {
var acct = -maxt*mtrq;
speedt = (speedt+acct)*deacc;
}
function plot3d (me) {
var scl = fl/(fl+me.z);
me._x = me.x*scl;
me._y = me.y*scl;
me._xscale = 150*scl;
me._yscale = 150*scl;
}
gotoAndPlay ("grow");

Master Flasher... Your My Only Hope
Is it possible to set an arrey to do a loadMovie function? I got this code from a tutorial 3d depth in the book New Masters of Flash 2000 annual. (Chapter 5) I have a MC called "viewer", in ti... first key frame I have this code;
-----------------------------------
linklist = new Array();
linklist[0] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl'>multimedia</a>";
linklist[1] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>web design</a>";
linklist[2] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>fine art</a>";
linklist[3] = "<a href='asfunction:_parent.openurl,www.somewhere.com '>graphic design</a>";
function openurl (murl) {
murl = ""+murl;
getURL (murl);
}
--------------------------------
In this case we have wesite addresses... instead of the URL being handeled to the browser, they've defined an ActionScript function to handel it.

Is there a way to change this code to make it open an .swf file (loadMovie function)onto my main movie? and then replace the loaded .swf with a diffrent one?

I have this project due on Monday and I'm very desperate!!!

Here's an example of the url;
http://home.cfl.rr.com/degencourson

click on the portfolio section....

Feel free to take this code.... I don't mind sharing

Your help is greatfuly appreciated,
Damaris

Advanced Flasher Needed......
This must be possible - but its above me! If anyone could help me id be really grateful.

I'm showing a flash CDrom/website in an exhibition. It consists of an intro/homepage and 8 analytical tools (on 8 pages). I want people to interact with it but I don't want it to stay on one of the 8 tool pages after they finish. I want it to go back to the homepage after a period of inactivity (say 5 minutes).

I think id probably need to put a piece of script on each of the 8 pages, but im not sure (in fact i have no idea!) how to do it.

Thanks in advance to anyone who even trys

Can Someone Smart Flasher Bring Me Some Help?
Beginner help?
Hi all, first time post here. And a first time user to flash.

I have this movie, I want a mouseover effect on it. When I go on mouse over, I want the scene1 to get the animation in movie clip (named movie) to start, when I have mouseleave I want the animation to reverse, hope you understood that!

So how can I make this, Shall I press the first frame in the movieclip (movie) and actionscripted stop. And then returned to scene1, how shall I make the button to be the starting trigger in movieclip, and then reverce.? What actionscript shall I type in?

Hope you understood that and sorry all for my bad english.

Heres An Easy 20 For The Right Flasher
It worth $20 to me two have someone help me code THIS

Okay Ive been working at this for like a week or two and just want to invest in one of my flash gurus. I will gladly send 20 PayPal points for code that does the following using the provided text box, movie clip and buttons.

1) Needs to load images from the provided .xml file and text from provided .txt file in to the areas specified in lookhere.jpg inside the .zip file

2) Images and text should be preloaded somehow.
3) Would like image window to enlarge when clicked, like the component(ImageBoxV2)

http://www.flashcomponents.net/compo...m?nav=2&per=10

allows the user to click to the image once loaded and seems)double the size only on button click. When released it retuns to normal size.
4) Create the movie so that it has 6 instances of the origional menu. In otherwords I want there six of the same menus each referencing different variables.

It sound like more than it actually is I have been working on it awhile with no luck and need it asap. Most of the script is already coded, Im just have trouble and would be glad to pay to find the answer.

attached is the folder shanescrollerver6.zip in includes the following files

text.txt
scrolltemp .fla
pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg
pic3.jpg
pic4.jpg
pic5.jpg
pic6.jpg
pic.txt
lookhere.jpg

Thanks for the help in advance

The .swf file NeedsTextLink.swf also is close to what I need but I also need the text to generate in a text box on the button event.

Freelance Flasher Needed
I am looking for a freelance flash programmer here in the states. Near OK if possible...

I have alot of projects and no one to do them. All of which are past do.

If interested either reply here or email to jmoskowitz@cox.net.

Thanks,

J

News Flasher Prob
I don't get the news flasher from the tutorials working. It seem's to be easy but i don't get it ;-(

The Problem is point 4: Then, drag and drop the component into the textfield

I try to drag it in the textfield, but it don't works. Is there a trick, or what am I doing wrong?

HELP NEEDED News Flasher
I dont know what sort of thing i am missing -

Where do i get this component from ????
*****Then, drag and drop the component into the textfield ****
What sort of Component is it ?

Steps to Create the News Flasher
The following steps will help you to create the animation you see above:

Create a dynamic textfield and give it an Instance name, label it myText.

Align to center the textfield ( so the text loaded into it will be centered).

Select Apply HTML tags.

Then, drag and drop the component into the textfield

Now, modify the component parameters and publish your movie.

Open notepad and use this format to add news:

PHP Code:

content=HEADLAB NEWSFLASHER V1.1.2
|NEW: HTML Support!!!!
|<a href="http://www.kirupa.com" target="_blank">You can add Hyperlinks</a>
|Get up to date with this Shortnews-flasherdistribute and read news just like ..
|Kirupa, the best flash learning source!!
|Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX Arrived!!
|No news today :-P 
|Windows XP Media Center Edition Anounced 
|or whatever you desire
|simply place a *.txt-file somewhere..
|..and set the "Pathto.txt".
|Just try it!!!!!..
|If you want do add more news
|Just edit the txt :D 
|Thanks Headlab!!