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Skewing A Dynamic Text Box
Hello,

I'm using a PHP counter on my site which works fine until i try and angle the dynamic text box using the free transform tool. This results in the text box displaying nothing. Apparently dynamic text boxes can't be distorted or am I doing something wrong?

I'm just trying to have a counter angle on a sign but it won't work.

Any suggestions?

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Skewing Dynamic Text
Am I crazy or is it impossible to skew dynamic text?

Anyone know how?

Thanks,
WARD

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Skewing Dynamic Text?
I am rather new to doing anything in flash that involves anything besides animation but.... here is my problem... i am loading some dynamic text via XML ... The design that I have requires that I skew the text after output... the text prints fine into the dynamic box when it is not transformed in any way...

my question is... is there a work around to make this happen... is it possible ... if so how do i do it...

thanks much

-s

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Skewing Dynamic Text With Perspective
Hi All

I am trying to skew a text field not only so it appears side on but with the the left hand side narrower than the right to give the appearance of perspective (see attached pic)

Is this possible without haveing to break apart the text ie still have it dynamic, I know about the embedd font issue, this is not that.

Any help mucho appreciated

Cheers

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Difficulty Transforming Dynamic Text Fields In MX2004
I know its gonna sound very amateurish but its frustrating. I know, at least I am pretty sure you can distort dynamic text fields using the free transform tool,just as you can static fields, but whenever I distort or rotate the dynamic fild in the slightest on my new site the text disappears. Can anyone tell me why and/or tell me if I how to distort these fields. I am looking to create a laying on the table (perspective) effect. Thanks alot for any help

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Warping/Skewing Dynamic Text Field
I want the user to be able to enter text and have it warp/skew...is this possible? if so, how? do you have to convert text to shapes programmatically? suggestions???

I see text effects similar to what I want in Swish Max2, but I don't know if Swish can be sent dynamic data (ie. my text input) and manipulate it dynamically?

thx in adv.!

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Big Problem With Transforming Dynamic MCs
I have 'sectionMC', which is loaded into a dynamically created MC with the following code:

Code:
_root.Container.createEmptyMovieClip("form", 501);
_root.Container.form.attachMovie("Contact", _root.Container.form, 501, {_x:20, _y:20});
then within the sectionMC, there is this code:

Code:
txt.textColor = 0x000000;
Box.colorTo(0xFFFFFF, 0);
Boxtween('_width', 60, 1, 'easeOut', 0);
(uses the Zigo tween component to change the Box MC to white)

The text colour changes to black.
But the Box MC colour remains unchanged, however the width tweening works!!

If the sectionMC is placed directly on the stage, it all works.

is it a path issue ?
How can i resolve this?

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Dynamic Skewing?
Is there a way to dynamically skew a movie/image, or to flip horiz/vertically?

I may be missing something but cant find anything

Anyone?

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Dynamic Skewing
Is there a way to dynamically skew a square symbol for example ?

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Transforming A Static Symbol Into A Dynamic One
hello guys (me = total flash noob)

I bought a flash template from Template Monster for a client.

I'm a seasoned developer but completely new to flash, or mostly anyway.

After hours (and hours) of browsing thru the .fla file, i got a understanding of how it works and how it all ties together but still find myself dumbfounded when i try to make anything else than a light change.

Here's the thing, the website ill deliver needs to be bilingual and the template is in english only.

Fortunately, its a dynamic template so most of the text is in an external file and all i had to do is create to separate instances, one in french and one in english. That part works.

What doesn't work is those parts of the template that were static and changed to dynamic text.

i put the variable name in the .fla, I put the variable in the text file. render the movie but flash doesn't take it.

I'm guessing that the part where the player reads the file doesn't bind the new dynamic text but...

I think you understand whats my problem...

Can someone briefly indicate me the steps for transforming a static symbol to a dynamic one please ?

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Skewing A Dynamic Textbox
I have created a dynamic texboks, and skewed it using the transform panel, but when I opened the .swf file, nothing appeared.
I even tried to make a similar textbox inside a movieclip, and then skewed it, but when i opened this the text was still missing.
Is it possible to skew a dynamic textbox and keep the text visible????

->:::sviig:::<-

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Dynamic Skewing Of MovieClips
Is it possible *IN ANY FASHION* to skew a movie clip through action script ... i need this done for a rectangle based movie clip.. i think its possible for a square..

please help, thx.

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Transforming Text
Hello and thanks in advance for anybody's input..

What I'm trying to accomplish is something that I'm sure is rather simple, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. Here is what I want to do..

I want the user to be able to click a word, sentence, etc. And have the text's color change from one color to another, let's say black to grey. After the user has clicked the black text to turn it grey, they could click the grey text to change it back to the orginal color, black.

Should this be approached as two different button symbols that get switched from one to the other? Should it just be one graphic where the color values change? What would be the simplest solution?

Much thanks..

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[F8] Transforming Text Boxes
Hi there. It's been quite some time since I've been on here, but the help I have received on here has never failed to be helpful, quite an impressive communtiy here. Anyways, here's my mini problem...

I am working for a client that had an older program whipped up in Director. I'm basically just doing a screen for screen translation and having the info posted online for her students (she's' a professor). One area features a "brainstorming" section where the students enter text in a series of text boxes and submit it via a "next" button. The next screen now has boxes for every text entry they made, but they can drag the boxes with the content and arrange/organize them in groupings which they see fit. I'm pretty much a noob with action script, but does anybody have any suggestions as to what direction I should be moving in to accomplish this? Any help is most appreciated.

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Dynamic Image Skewing/moving Corner Points
Hi guys,
Just a question of possibility....after I load an external image into a movieclip, is it possible to dynamically skew it? For example I'd like to be able to set X,Y coords for each of the four corners of the movieclip... thus taking a square movieclip and dynamically changing it to a parallelogram or whatever I need.
Hope this makes sense...

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Bending Text Without Skewing
I'm a bit new at Flash but I decided this wasn't a noob question seeing as I can't find how to do this anywhere. What I want to do is make some text I have, conform to the inside of a circle without skewing it. I have broken it apart to do this, but it usually doesn't come out perfectly even. Seeing as flash is so awesome, I figured it'd have an easier way to do this. Anyone know how?

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Transforming A Text Field And Resetting The New Size To 100%?
I'm trying to precisely size up a text field, and for the life of me can't figure out a proper way to do it. You'd think as soon as you click the canvas with the text tool, you'd be able to input the height and width, but you can't. It just snaps back to whatever size it is unless the size you specify is less than the origional size.

This issue gives me problems because I'm using dynamic text to load a .txt file with html properties - and I use this .txt with the IMG tag to load images - well, as I found out, no matter what size your text box is, if it has a distorted aspect ratio (I.E. anything that's not a square) your image will be distorted with the same aspect ratio of said text box.

So the question is: Once I resize my text box, is there any way to have the transformation applied to the text box in such a way that it will accept the new size as 100%x100% as opposed to 153%x235%? Unless I can figure out how to do this, images will load distorted.

This is a very stupid and angering issue that really shouldn't be this damn annoying

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Skewing Text Like In Star Wars?
Can someone/anyone please tell me how to skew text as was done at the beginning of Star Wars. I need to skew text to give the illusion of perspective (like if you were standing at one end of a hallway and text written on one of the walls and it gets smaller and smaller as you look further and further down the hallway) and I have no idea how to do it. Thanks in advance.

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Skewing A Matrix = Skewing In The IDE?
Hi,

I need to skew a movieclip dynamically using a matrix. In the Flash IDE I would just set the values for skew transform to 56 and 34 degrees and it looks correct (isometric). But If I try to use the values with a matrix I get the same rotation but the result seems to be scaled up, especially on the y axis. Here's the code I use ...

Code:
var degX:Number = 56;
var degY:Number = 34;
var radX:Number = (degX / 180) * Math.PI;
var radY:Number = (degY / 180) * Math.PI;
var skewX:Number = 0 - Math.tan(radX);
var skewY:Number = Math.tan(radY);
var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix(1, skewY, skewX, 1);
wrapperMC.transform.matrix = matrix;
... Anyonw know why this scaling-up happens and what I can do to get wrapperMC into exactly the same scale and skewing like it would be in the IDE when using the transform panel?

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Transforming
hello out there

..how do you transform an object so that only one side of the shape is altered?

i.e if i wanted to give a square some perspective & make the far side shorter than the near side what should i do..? (preferably without going back into the source symbol & making a permanent change)

helpful hints much apreciated,
cheers

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Please Help With Transforming This AS2 Into AS3
Could somebody please revise this short AS2 code to AS3 syntax so that the swf file can keep its interactivity when loaded into AS3 main swf.

This swf gallery (a free template) in its current (as2) state, can be loaded into as3 swf, but only as a plain animation, without 'click on pic' interactivity, and even with wrong size. (i have scaled it down from original size, via AS code)

Thanks a lot in advance

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Transforming With Actionscript
Hello.

I am loading some images into a .swf but I want to make sure all the pictures fit in the frame. How can I set the Transformation with actionscript?

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Transforming Colors On MCs
If i do a color swap on an MC with maybe 4 frames, will all frames be effected?

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Transforming All Objects
i have a project im working on take up too much room on the working area. i try to select the whole thing, and only one set of keyframed tweens want to change, in this case, resize.

i want to take the whole set, begining to end, and shrink it, without loosing the tweens and the like.

also, the same idea with moving the whole thing around a page without screwing the tweens.

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DuplicateMovieClip Not 'transforming'
I'm using the TransformManager together with a my script to duplicate a movie clip with a textfield inside it but it is not working out as well as I hoped.

I manage to duplicate the clip but it is not completing the imported script functions as the duplicated clip keeps being dragged...unless I get rid of part of the function itemHandler (_root["text_ti"+i].startDrag(false); etc) but that just leads to only the MC being duplicated without the textfield... I hope this makes sense?

This is the script I'm using
code:
import gs.TransformManager;

var manager_obj = new TransformManager({targetObjects:[test_mc, test2_mc, test3_mc, text_ti.text_ti], bounds:{xMin:0, xMax:550, yMin:0, yMax:365}, forceSelectionToFront:true, eventHandlernAnyEvent});
manager_obj.addEventListener("move", onMove);

function onAnyEvent(event_obj:Object):Void {
trace("Action: "+event_obj.action+", MovieClip or TextField: "+event_obj.targetObject+", transformed?: "+event_obj.transformed);
}

function onMove(event_obj:Object):Void {
trace("Moved mc: "+event_obj.targetObject);
}
root_cm = new ContextMenu();
root_cm.hideBuiltInItems();
root_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Add note", itemHandler));
function itemHandler(obj:Object, item:ContextMenuItem) {

i++;
text_ti.duplicateMovieClip("text_ti"+i,i);
_root["text_ti"+i].startDrag(false);
_root["text_ti"+i].onPress=function(){
this.startDrag(false);
}
manager_obj.addItem(_root["text_ti"+i]);
}
_root.menu = root_cm;

Could someone help please?

Also see attachment for ease.

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Transforming Questions
Hey all,

I have a question about skewing objects in Flash. Is there an easy way, (I.E. - a way that doesn't require extrusion matrices or seriously advanced math) to control a timed skew to give a 3d rotation effect with actionscript? I know you can just keyframe it, but It's always smoother to make things mathematical and do it all with AS.

Any ideas?

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Color Transforming Help
I am stuck on a program I'm trying to make. What I want to do is use input text fields to read two HEX codes from a use then perform a transformation on these two HEXes. The transformation is what I am stuck on. I want to take a random % (just raw Math.random() at the moment) and apply it to the difference between the two colors, so that a random point in between is chosen. My current method is to try and find a way to sift out the individual red, green and blue values of the two colors and to try and work with those. But I can't get it to work. I can get the input fields to apply directly to a movie clip and I can apply a totally random color to the same movie clip, but I can't get the parts in between to do what I want them to. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could work this or should I scrap my current method?

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Transforming To Mobile
Hi all,

i want to transform some desktop based flash games fro mobile.is there any tool that transforms for mobile.so that i can do easily.

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Transforming A Shape
Hi

I have an irregular shape (a square with on of the corners extruding).

What i would like to do is to have the point that is sticking out to anchor at a cordinate. When i drag the item, i would like to have that point to remain in the same position.

Im not sure how i would do this. Would i need to use a Matrix?

thanks

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Transforming Bitmaps
I am thinking about a movie that will allow me to transform bitmaps. If you use adobe photoshop you can move an image from a flat view to horizontal or any angle you want with the transform tool.

Does Macromedia let me do that within flash? I would like to create a motion tween that pulls a screen shot off of an image and turn it into the start of a movie. Any suggestions? I will have to load a swf within fla to do this. Thanks.

Brandon

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Envelope Transforming
Hey, for those of you who use this. Is there a way to create an envelope tween, through frames or even actionscript? I've tried with frames, but when I create the tween, the shape turns into a global graphic symbol. When I try to modify the shape at the last frame of the tween, it applies the modifications to the entire tween. Hope that made sense. Cheers.

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Box Transforming Question
Hi guys.Thanx for all the replies on my last post,they both worked .Ive been lookin thru kirupa and ive yet to find a shape transform tutorial .Does any1 know were i can find 1?.Also,i dunno if u call this shape transforming,well im not sure wot u call it.If u go here,click studio then watch the intro,u will see how the boxes "unfold" if u will.Any tutorials on this?.Many thanx in advance for ppl who are kind enuff to reply.Peace,Tec

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What Is Skewing, Actually?
hi all!
ok. I'm making this litle experiment right now. i re-scale and rotate objects. the scaling and rotating depends on 4 buttons around my objects. works fine. Now let's say i would like to 'skew' what kind of 'rescaling' would that be? example: a rectangle. left side does not move. right side goes down. I'm thinking but cannot figure it out. it does have to do with _xscale or _yscale but even in the program it goes with 'rotation'.... but... heeeeeelp!
gparis

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Skewing A MC
A while ago there was a discussion of this topic in the following thread:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=183126

The descriotion of how the manual skew was achieved was a bit too glossed over for me to understand. Something about placing a MC inside another and rotating and scaling them both?? Can anyone explain exactly how to achieve this. I've been playing around and I'm not getting any kind of skewing effect popping out.

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Skewing With As
just wondering...
is there anyway to skew using actionscript?

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Skewing MC
is there a way to skew a MC? Like making one side of a rectangles box smaller than the other side?

thx

Al

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3-d Skewing
I am looking at taking a mc and giving it a 3-d skew. I have tried this with the matrix class (affine transformations) and i can tranform the mc's, but i can't get 3-D depth with it. Any thoughts?

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Transforming Color Over Steps
I am doing a multimedia CD for an upcoming confrence and the main informational part is set up like a web site and I trying to set up the AS so that when you click on the buttons for the different sections it will make the background image MC change colors, ie. blue tint picture to green tint.

So far I can get the color to change by adding to each button a variation (depending on the color) of this:
//myBackground is the target
on (release) {
myColor = new Color (myBackground);
myColorTransform = new Object;
myColorTransform = { ra: '100', rb: '50', ga: '100', gb: '40', ba: '0', bb: '-255', aa: '100', ab: '0'}
myColor.setTransform(myColorTransform);

}

But what I want to do is make the color change over several steps. I am compleatly clueless on how to make it transition over steps to the new color.

Please help.

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Unexplained Shape Transforming
When I run my movie, two symbols which are both black boxes inexplicably rotate and skew themselves. In live preview they look normal, and there is no actionscript that even references them. When I run the movie in debug mode they are rotated and skewed before I even let flash run the first line of code.

Has anyone encountered this before?

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Transforming A Movie Clip
I have a bunch of short movie clips that i need to transform across the stage one right after another. when i try to apply the transform effect to the movie clip on the stage the preview just shows it spinning around all distorted.

Can i even do this or am I doing something wrong?

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Problems With Scenes' Transforming
hi, I am newer to actionscript. I have some problems with scenes' transforming.
I want to know how to transform one scene to another scene by release a button.

I know it's code: on(release) and next scene but I dont know how to make them together.

The button's name is "ONE"

pls help.

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Component For Transforming Textboxes?
Hi,

Is there a component available where users can extend an input text box to suit the length of their writing which is also draggable?

I've been looking for a way to do this in flash but cannot solve the problem.

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[F8] Perspective Transforming Tool
hi guys,
is it possible to scale a symbol *perspectively* using the 'free transform/distort' tool?

i tried it on a symbol and it seems to only work if i break down the symbol all the way.

anyway to work around this?

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Transforming A Movie Clip
I have a bit of a problem, after reading a couple of good actionscript articles here on actionscript.org I managed to create a countdown from 12:00 to 00:00 in a movieclip. ( http://nieser.net/flash/countdown.swf )

Only thing I need to do is to slightly distort the movieclip so it aligns better with the background image. However when I drag the Movie Clip from my Library onto my Scene the "Distort" button on the toolbar is greyed out. All I can do is scale, rotate and skew.

Another problem which might be related is that when I skew or rotate the Movie Clip the Move Clip dissappears when I export the movie to .swf. Scaling works fine though.

Click here for the .fla file. (Flash MX 2004)

Click here for the font I used in the .fla above.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Color Transforming / Tinting
I love using the manual tinting feature plus tweens to transform from an mc's current color to another. I would like to switch to a scripted method of doing this. I have found that the color matirx filter or ColorTransform might be the best options= for this. I would like to be able to control how long the tween from the current color to new color is when I press a button. Which method is the best for achieving this. I'd just like toi tell it the new hex color and the amount of time it should take to transform to it. Will I need to implore both the transition class and something else?

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Transforming A Drop Shadow
Hey there reader,

Does anyone have a clue how to transform a drop shadow? I want the effect of light coming from above a ball, and a skewed shadow on the "ground" below it. I can't apply the transformation matrices to filter objects, and i don't know a way to place the filter effect in its own Sprite to transform.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks!
Jesang

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Double Skewing
I would like to make such the Star Wars Intro Test at
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...76/index.shtml .
I have tried to make one by myself but I'm unable to find
double skewing to give the perspective effect to the text.

I would be grateful if you can help me, I need to do such an intro
for the starting of an animation.

Thx for your help

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Skewing An Image
i want to skew an image in an animation like this site

http://users.belgacom.net/chiro.haro/begin.htm

in this site i made the animation with a drawing not an image

help me please

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Skewing Skew'll
zipper'll

i have a mc that i want'ta skew on the go from a user-imputed var.

i was told to rotate then duplicate then scale, but i don't understand how that can work...

does anybody know the code for such beast?
or is there a mac extention for la function?

thanks-thanks

thrill,
-lloydmannes

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