Where Can I Get The Basics Of Actionscript In An Easy-to-read Tutorial?

Could Someone Just Post A Simple Basics Of Actionscript Tutorial?
would it be that hard?

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Could Someone Just Post A Simple Basics Of Actionscript Tutorial?
would it be that hard?

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Basics Of AS Tutorial
Hey guys i am currently writing a tutorial on the basics of AS. At the moment I have:


Event Handlers & Trace

Variables & Dynamic Text Boxes

Ifs and elses

Arrays

I need to know what else would be a good idea to put in.

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Xml Basics Tutorial
GREETINGS! just finished the xml basics tutorial(new to this flash stuff)I was wondering how I could add a masking effect when the pictures load.thanks ahead of time :P

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Flash XML Basics Tutorial
I followed this tutorial to the T. I have everything exactly as the tutorial says. My problem is that the next and previous buttons don't work. I am able to get the first pic and caption to load ok but nothing else...if I edit the code:

Code:

x.onLoad = function()  {
   var photos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
   for(i=0;i<photos.length;i++) {
      urls.push(photos[i].attributes.url);
      captions.push(photos[i].attributes.caption);
   }
   holder.loadMovie(urls[0]);
   caption.text = captions[0];
   whoIsOn = 0;
}

and change:

Code:

holder.loadMovie(urls[1]);
        caption.text = captions[1];

then the next pic will load as the initial page. so that part is working. however the following isn't:

Code:

previous.OnRelease = function()  {
   if(whoIsOn > 0) {
      whoIsOn--;
      holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
      caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
   }
}
next.OnRelease = function()  {
   if(whoIsOn < urls.length-1) {
      whoIsOn++;
      holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
      caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
   }
}


I'm using flash 8...can someone lend me a hand?

[Edited by Mod - Please use CODE tags to display code blocks]

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Lee's XML Basics Slideshow Tutorial
Hi,
I've just practiced Lee's xml basic sldeshow tutorial,
the problem I have is that, when I get to the last picture and I click on the next button , it doesn't jump to the first picture, and vise versa for the first pic,
can anyone help me out on that please ?
Thanks...

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Flash XML Basics Tutorial
Hi

I've followed the tutorial and have a question:
How can I make the slideshow start over when I press 'next' on the last photo in it? Thanks in advance..

-Askholm

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Tutorial - Video Basics Part 2
First of all I would like to say that Lee's tutorial section is wonderful. Thank you Lee.

I am working with this tutorial and can not seem to get the play and rewind buttons to work. I tried searching the forums, but could not come up with any answers. I watched Lee's video about 10 times to make sure I was doing exactly what he did, but I must be missing something. What are some common errors that beginner's make? I have been at this for 5 hours and have yet to find the answer.

thank you for any help. I have attached a link to the FLA.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/aHlUY ... eE41VEE9PQ

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Gotoandlearn Basics Of Papervision3D Tutorial
Hi,

I apologize in advanced if this is in the wrong forum or if this has already been posted. I tried searching but couldn't find anything relevant to my problem.

I'm trying to complete the Basics of Papervision3D tutorial here and I'm running into a compiling problem. I'm fairly new to Flash so I'm not sure if this is just a really stupid error that I'm overlooking or not.

The error is :

InteractiveSceneManager.as, Line 38 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: XrayLog.

I'm pretty sure I've set up my class path right, being C:usersmeDesktopActionscript. Within there is com, livePreview, et al.

Here's my actionscript code just in case.

Code:

import org.papervision3d.cameras.*;
import org.papervision3d.objects.*;
import org.papervision3d.materials.*;

var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
container.x = stage.stageWidth * 0.5;
container.y = stage.stageHeight * 0.5;
addChild(container);

var scene:Scene3D = new Scene3D(container);
var camera:Camera3D = new Camera3D();
camera.zoom = 5;

var bam:BitmapAssetMaterial = new BitmapAssetMaterial("FlashIcon");
bam.oneSide = false;
bam.smooth = true;

for(var i:uint=0; i<50; i++)
{
   var p:Plane = new Plane(bam, 90, 90, 2, 2);
   scene.addChild(p);
   p.x = Math.random() * 1000 - 500;
   p.y = Math.random() * 1000 - 500;
   p.z = Math.random() * 1000 - 500;
   p.rotationY = Math.random() * 360;
}

scene.renderCamera(camera);


Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Video Basics :: Building On That Tutorial
I'd like to build on the Video Basics tutorial and use multiple video clips. I'd to have about 5 buttons that will each load a different video clip when clicked. My question is, do I have to make up 5 different NetSream objects or can I simply load a different FLV url into the command:

ns.play("http://www.mysite.com/myvideo.flv");

(I would have a variable containing the flv url attached to each button and it would load that into ns.play(variableToUrl); or something like that...

Any suggestions?

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Question About The Flash Video Basics Tutorial
I followed the flash video basics up to tutorial 3. It all works great but I need the video to be stopped on the first frame which then needs the user to click the play button (Or even better a big play button in the middle of the screen )

No idea where to start tho! I've attached the file.

Hope someone can help, this is quite urgent!

Many thanks

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Video Basics Tutorial, Scrub Bar Problem...
I'm currently following the Video Basics tutorial and am on part 4, constructing the scrub bar. Everything seemed to go fine, but upon testing the video, the scrub bar doesn't move at all. It just stays on the left side of the loadbar, I can't even click on it.

I bought Sorenson Squeeze to set the keyframes in the video file I'm using, I also went through the file and the code to see what went wrong. I did some searching all over and found that Lee did this tutorial in FlashMX 2004 and that the MetaData command is different than in Flash 8 (which I'm currently using) . I altered it by what I found here, but still no-go. I tried everything I could think of, I'm damn stumped.

It's been hours and it's now midnight, I'm exhausted....which is probably a contributing factor. I will attach my source files and the flash video file I configured the code to call on. I am very antsy to start on the rest of the tutorial videos but will not until I can get this to work, as I need this player I'm making for a web project I am working on. Can someone out there please give my files a look over? I would be extremely grateful. I will post the actionscript below for referrence.... Also, are there any source files I can have for this video tutorial so that I can compare my work?

-thanks

Source Files
NOTE: Be sure to extract all files to the desktop, if you run the .FLA from the archive, it won't be able to run the media files.


var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

theVideo.attachVideo(ns);

ns.play("TireAgingProjectSUSTestP265-75-R16_384K.flv");

playButton.onRelease = function() {
ns.pause();
}

rewindButton.onRelease = function() {
ns.seek(0);
}

var videoInterval = setInterval(videoStatus,100);
var amountLoaded:Number;
var duration:Number;

ns["onMetaData"] = function(obj) {
duration = obj.duration;
}

function videoStatus() {
amountLoaded = ns.bytesLoaded / ns.bytesTotal;
loader.loadbar._width = amountLoaded * 221.8;
loader.scrub. x = ns.time / duration * 221.8;
}

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Bought CS3 But Haven't Read My MX Actionscript, MX2004, Books. Should I Read Them?
I just bought CS3 and I am now debating whether I should read my Flash MX Actionscript bible, Flash 2004 Bible. I should have read them, but It's just hard to fit the time in.

Would I benefit from reading these books when CS3 is Actionscript 3? How much functionality is lost when scripting in Actionsript 2 and 1 as compared to Actionscript 3.

Would it be wiser for me to just learn Actionscript 3 properly and get a book on Actionscript 3 than waste my time on reading old scripting and technology?

Also is MC tween compatible on CS3, actionscript 3.

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Where Can I A Good Tutorial From The Basics To Guru Styles And Ahh..Free^_^( )
I need a SUPER-DE-DUPER tut for Flash 5. Im 13yrs old and damn smart so dont worry about the words it uses and I know 7 diffrent web codings so that doesnt matter either. But I dont have a clue about Flash so it needs to Basics to Advanced...
Thanx

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Migrate ActionScript 1.0 To ActionScript 2.0 , Part 1: The Basics
This is an article discussion thread for discussing the SitePoint article, "Migrate ActionScript 1.0 to ActionScript 2.0 , Part 1: The Basics"

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ActionScript Basics
Hi Everybody~

I'm new to flash and was wondering if anyone can give me some sites for actionscript begginers. I don't want the ones where you pay for. Does anyone recommend any good sites?

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Actionscript Basics
I realy want to buckle down and LEARN actionscript... and i want to know where there is any intensive beginner to pro tutes for actionscript 2.0... i don't want a book... i need it online.

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Actionscript Basics
I realy want to buckle down and LEARN actionscript... and i want to know where there is any intensive beginner to pro tutes for actionscript 2.0... i don't want a book... i need it online.

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Basics Of Actionscript Gaming....
I was wondering if you use buttons or animation or what for objects to interact within your movie...I am completely stumped. I can get an object to move at key commands and drag and drop objects as well but I can't get them to interact....Somebody wanna lend a hand?

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Help, New To Actionscript, Having Problem With Basics.
Hi, new to Actionscript, trying to go through some tutorials, having a hair-pulling problem. Trying to achieve an animated menu using any one of the webs many tutorials on Flash and AS. This is supposed to be the 'basic' flyout menu using a movieclip converted from a button, with "on (rollOver){"
and "gotoAndPlay" type statements.

Problem : Im sure theres something Im not getting, but when trying to apply actions to the button inside the clip I get "current selection cannot have actions applied to it". The only thing I seem to be able to apply actions to is frames themselves.
What am i missing?

thanx in advance.

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ActionScript 3 XML Basics Questions
Hi
My name is Guy and I am doing the tutorial "ActionScript 3 XML Basics"
I can load the text, but how would you go about loading images from the RSS reader?


Guy

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Basics Of Actionscript Book
Hi i'm looking for a book that covers the basics of actionscript..
Any reccomendations?

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Having Toruble With XML Basics Actionscript
I'm trying to complete Lee's Basic XML tutorial (photo slideshow). I'm sure I copied the actionscript correctly from the video, but Flash still complains about an error in line 10 when I try to publish - "Unexpected '<' encountered"

Line 10 is: Code:

for(i=0;<photos.length;i++) {
 

See my code on the Actions layer below. I'd appreciate any help or if someone can point me to the correct code.



Code:

var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;

var urls:Array = new Array();
var captions:Array = new Array();
var whoIsOn:Number;

x.onLoad = function() {
   var photos:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
   for(i=0;<photos.length;i++) {
      urls.push(photos[i].attributes.caption);
      captions.push(photos[1].attributes.caption);
   }
   holder.loadMovie(urls[0]);
   caption.text = captions[0];
   whoIsOn = 0;
}

x.load("slideshow.xml");
previous.onRelease = function() {
   if(whoIsOn > 0) {
      whoIsOn--;
      holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
      caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
   }
}

next.onRelease = function() {
   if(whoIsOn < urls.length-1) {
      whoIsOn++;
      holder.loadMovie(urls[whoIsOn]);
      caption.text = captions[whoIsOn];
   }
}

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Please, At Least Read It, Its Short+easy
How do I create an E-MAIL button??? My e-mail button.




Thanks...

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Very Easy Help Question.. Please Read
Need help

ok...

#1. my load time is LOOONGGG and im sure its because of the music i have. How do i solve this problem?

#2. I need help with a preloader.. i know the basic idea behind it but what is the script to make the preloader loop untill its done loading?

Thanks =)

John McCann
(the new guy)

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Probably Easy Answer - But Pls Read All...
i'm trying this forum room in hopes of getting the answer i need. i don't mean to sound like a smart a-- but please read this carefully before you answer it. i do appreciate any help.

i use flash 4. i'm trying to make a presentation in flash similar to what you would do in power point, where the show is presented live and the presenter would tap enter to advance to the next "slide."

so far i have 2 scenes. on scene #1, i have a button that when you hit ENTER, it takes you to scene #2. after i export the movie as a .swf file and also an .exe file, i close flash, then click on the .exe file.

but when it opens up, it keeps looping between scenes 1 and 2. obviously this is not what i want. when i open it up, i want it to just be on scene 1, then i hit ENTER and it will go scene 2. the only way for me to make it work is to go up to the top of the window and uncheck the LOOP option to stop it. but there has to be a better way than this.

is this an action-script problem or what? before publishing the movie, i uncheck the loop option but it still does it.

thank you for your help.

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Easy Help, Surely Please Take 1 Second To Read.
hi guys, this must be something easyily sorted. i just cant figure it out!

basically my .swf is all complete and everything works fine apart from one thing.

when hosted online, and you go to veiw the .swf, it is just a white area (a white square) until its completely loaded and then plays from frame 1. However i have a prelaoder and it works fine when tested within flash. I thought it was the preloader so ive changed it a number of times and its still not loading from frame one but still works fine tested in flash.

its literally loading the whole .swf until it plays anyhting at all. any ideas why?

also im sure i saw a setting somewhere about how the .swf is streamed over the internet? maybe its that. Please help!

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PLEASE READ EASY But Hard
here is my script, what i want to do is delay the script on this button by say 5 Seconds so it gives the computer time to load the image

on (press) {
if (_root.caliper.pad._height == 0) {
trace("no image");
} else if (_root.caliper.pad._height>=1) {
trace("image seen");
}
}

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ActionScript 3 XML Basics - SelectedItem On ROLL_OVER?
Is there a way to modify this tutorial to execute selectedItem on ROLL_OVER instead of click?

I changed

lb.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,itemChange);

to

lb.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, itemChange);

but when I rollover a list item I get:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at as3xml_finished_fla::MainTimeline/itemChange()

Thanks!

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ActionScript 3 XML Basics Doesn't Load The XML
Hey!
I have tried to follow Lee's ActionScript 3 XML Basics tutorial and everything works like a charm when I test it from within flash; the xml data loads and is displayed. But when I publish the files, upload them to my webserver and try the very same files the page stalls. I look in the activities panel of Safari and it says that the following file can't be found:

http://theflashblog.com/crossdomain.xml

Any explanations why this is?

br,
Thomas

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Easy To Read Action Script Books
Are there any suggestions for Action Script books that might be a little easier to read? Something that would flip the light on a little faster then those big Action Script bible books that do nothing for me?

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Embedded Video Object In Video Basics - Part 1 Tutorial
I am a total newbie at Flash, so please bear with me. In Lee's Video Basics - Part 1 tutorial, one of the first steps is to create a Embedded Video object in the library. Flash Professional MX 2004 is being used in the tutorial and I am using Flash Professional 8, so maybe that is the reason I'm having a problem. The tutorial shows that by clicking "New Video" in the library panel, the embedded video object is automatically added to the library. When I click "New Video", I get a Video Properties dialogue box that defaults to "Video (ActionScript-controlled)". When I check the Embedded option, the OK button becomes disabled...only Cancel and Import are enabled. Clicking the Import button gives me an open dialogue box for a *.flv file. I'm not sure what to do here. Am I supposed to select the .flv file that I am going to use? I was under the impression that the tutorial was creating a generic object that I would be able to reuse whereas selecting a .flv file would make it specific to what I'm working on now. Can someone that is using Flash Professional 8 clarify what I should do?

Thanks,

Pat

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Question To Tutorial: "flash Xml Basics"
hi
I'm new to this forum. thanks for the really good tutorials - very helpfull
I did the tutorial "flash xml basics" - all is fine except one thing:
in the xml file there are 4 jpeg: lost1.jpeg up to lost4.jpeg.
in flash I could only see lost2.jpeg - lost3.jpeg - lost4.jpeg NOT the first one
What am I doing wrong ?
thanks and greetings from munich

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Scrolling Text Tutorial...READ :-)
Hello,

I asked how to do this in another forum, and eventually figured out a way to do it myself, so I thought I would post it here for anyone interested.

This tutorial will allow you to scroll a mc back and forth, say for instance you want to scroll a text tween up and down like a scrollbar would do, without the scrollbar... with up and down arrows for instance. The most unobvious part of this,and the part I was asking about originally, was how to scroll the clip backwards. I have attached a file below for anyone to download if they want.

I realize there are more elegant ways to accomplish this with actionscript, but for those not very versed in actionscript this tutorial will give a functional workaround. Thanks for reading.

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First create the text you want to scroll and hit F8 to convert it to a mc. Name the clip “textMC”, and make sure it has movie clip behavior selected. Go to the properties panel and name the instance "text". On the main timeline, create a new layer and call it "mask". Then create a shape on that layer and place it over the text where you want the text to be visible. Right click on the mask layer and select "mask" from the drop-down menu. This will lock both layers, so unlock the text layer and hide the mask shape by clicking the column under the eye.

Next, create a new layer in the main timeline, name the layer "arrows" and create your arrow shape on that layer. Convert the shape into a mc with the button behavior, and then copy and paste another instance of the clip onto the stage. Place the buttons where you need them. Now select both arrow buttons and hit F8 to convert them to a mc. Name the instance “arrows” in the properties panel. Double click the mc, and create a new layer. Call the layer “actions” and put a stop action in frame one. Click frame two of the arrows layer and hit F6. Select the down arrow and hit F9 to open the actions panel. Delete all of the actions for the down arrow in the second frame of the timeline only. We’ll come back to why later on.

Now we're going to create our text tween. Double click the text mc, click frame 20 (the closer to frame one, the faster your text will scroll), and hit F6. On the last frame, move the text to where you need it so that the last line is visible under the mask. Then right click on frame one and select "Create Motion Tween". Create a new layer, call it actions, and put a stop action in the first frame. Then go to the last frame and put a stop action there as well.

It’s time to start making this all work. Double click the “arrows” mc, and select the down arrow instance in frame one, and hit F9. This will open the actions panel. Place this actionscript on the button:

on (press) {
_root.text.play();
}
on (release) {
_root.text.stop();
}


Test the movie. The down arrow should scroll the text until the last frame, and then stop. You will notice however that when you release the button and then click it again, the text jumps back up to the first frame. Remember when we created the second frame with our arrow buttons in it and deleted the actionscript for the down arrow? That will fix this small but annoying problem. Go to the last frame of your actions layer inside of the “text” mc and hit F9 to open the actions panel. Put this actionscript below the “stop” action for that frame:

if (this._currentframe == 20) {
_root.arrows.gotoAndStop(2);
}


This code says that if the current frame of the mc you are inside of, “text”, is at frame 20, for the mc “arrows” to go to frame 2 and stop. And remember, we put a down arrow with no actionscript on it in frame 2 of the “arrows” mc, so there is just a functionless button in frame 2. Test the movie again and when you reach the end of the text, the down arrow should no longer cause the text to go back to frame one when it’s clicked. Then select frame 19, hit F6, and put this line of actionscript on the frame:

_root.arrows.gotoAndStop(1);

That will cause the “arrows” clip to go back to frame one once you click the up arrow, otherwise the down arrow would stop functioning if you scrolled back up after the first time you reached frame 20.

Ok, all that’s left is to get the up arrow working, which is a little more complicated than getting the down arrow to play the text tween forwards, because the up arrow must play the text tween backwards, but we’re almost there.

Let’s start by creating an empty mc. Hold ctrl and click F8. This will bring up the new symbol dialog. Name the mc instance “controllerMC” and make sure you select the movie clip behavior. Click ok and you will be taken inside the newly created mc. Click frame 2 and hit F6, then click frame 3 and do the same. Click frame 1 and hit F9 and insert a stop action. Click frame 2, then F9, and put this actionscript on that frame:

_root.text.prevFrame();

Then on frame 3 put this actionscript:

gotoAndPlay(2);

This will keep the empty clip on a continuous loop between frame 2 and 3 until a command tells it to go back to frame 1 and stop. Also, as there is a stop action on frame 1, this loop will not start until it is told to do so as well. We’ll take care of that now.

Go to your text tween mc and create a new layer and name it “controller”. In frame 2 of the controller layer, drag an instance of “controllerMC” onto the stage. It can be placed anywhere on the stage, as it’s an empty clip and invisible.

Double click your “arrows” mc and select the top arrow and place this actionscript onto it:

on (press) {
_root.text.controller.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release) {
_root.text.controller.gotoAndStop(1);
}

This is the command that tells the controller clip to go to frame 2, and that loop we created continuously moves “text” back one frame over and over again as it loops. The third and fourth lines tell the “controller” clip to go back to frame one on release, which stops the loop. All that’s left is to select the up arrow on frame 2 as well and paste the same code in.

Test your movie.
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Please let me know of any errors. Any questions or comments are welcome.

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Read / Write Text Files Tutorial?
Hi There--

This appears pretty basic, but I've been searching tutorials for a while and haven't been able to figure this out.

I'm on Flash MX. I want to make a simple form that my client can use that will write text to a text file.

I would like to read the text file into a dynamic text field. I would like to not make the text a variable because I'd like to use the same text as a server side include into a straight html file as well.

Perhaps the form could write two documents? One that has the variable and one that doesn't? Could it write an xml document that could be read by both the html page and the flash page?

I don't want the client to have to type the file more than once.

I'm also confused about whether I need to use PHP or XML or both.

This _has_ to be possible. I'm guessing that the reason that I haven't been able to find any tutorials on it is because it's so obvious to everybody else.

Any help will be greatly appreciated and you'll have terrific luck for a week if you do.

Thanks,

Lee

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Amfphp Tutorial Problem - Can Read But Can't Write
I can't get the tutorial's bulletinboard sample code to work. It reads from http://www.amfphp.org/amfphp/gateway.php just fine. I can page through all the messages. But I can't post new messages.

The Netconnection Debugger (details below) helpfully tells me the doPost call returns "fail".

I can write new messages on the Flash bb imbedded in the tutorial page.

In the Flash Player Settings Manager Global Security Settings I added a path to the swf file in the "Always trust files in these locations" list.

I am obviously overlooking some security setting. Help would be much appreciated.

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DebugId: "0"
EventType: "Call"
MethodName: "BulletinBoard.doPost"
MovieUrl: "file:///C<blah blah>/sample code/BulletinBoard-flash8.swf"
Protocol: "http"
Source: "Client"
Time: 1140584600487
Date (object #1)
....."Tue Feb 21 23:03:20 GMT-0600 2006"
Parameters (object #2)
.....[0] (object #3)
..........email: "@"
..........message: "yo"
..........name: "me"
..........theurl: "http://"

DebugId: "0"
EventType: "Result"
MovieUrl: "file:///C<blah blah>/sample code/BulletinBoard-flash8.swf"
Protocol: "http"
Source: "Client"
Time: 1140584601034
Date (object #1)
....."Tue Feb 21 23:03:21 GMT-0600 2006"
Result (object #2)
.....status: "fail"

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Read The Flash, PHP, And MySQL Integratin Tutorial
A great tutorial with more or less with the idea of I would like to do with a project in mind. Great info with fairly decent explaination but all things considered good none the less. The only issue I am really having is making it actually work.

You see I 1st tried to do it by hand as I read the tut, but it didn't work so I took the time to actaully copy and paste the information indicated in the there and I yielded the same results. So as a final move of chance I download the included file and tried to run it and I still got nothing. So I tried to see where the problem could lie.

I ran the included sites.php file and it fully yielded all the proper information it should have given the nature of the echo function in php. So the only thing left to really examine is the sites.as file and the actually sites.swf. Problem no matter how hard I try I can wrap myself around it to make it work properly. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

The Tutorial I read.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti...ntegration.htm

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Writing Tutorial/example For A Single Page Flip. Read This Please
Hi,
Could any of our flash masters here write a tutorial/example for a single page flip please?
I know there are already a few .fla files for book flip, but the whole structure makes difficult to understand the point (which is page flip).
I think there is a lack of such a short and simple tutorial for a single page.

Thanks

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Writing Tutorial/example For A Single Page Flip. Read This Please
Could any of our flash masters here write a tutorial/example for a single page flip please?
I know there are already a few .fla files for book flip, but the whole structure makes difficult to understand the point (which is page flip).
I think there is a lack of such a short and simple tutorial for a single page.

Thanks
mx-guest2004

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Writing Tutorial/example For A Single Page Flip. Read This Please
Could any of our flash masters here write a tutorial/example for a single page flip please?
I know there are already a few .fla files for book flip, but the whole structure makes difficult to understand the point (which is page flip).
I think there is a lack of such a short and simple tutorial for a single page.

Thanks
mx-guest2004

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I Just Read The Kenny B Soung Object Tutorial However It Didnt Cover
Load external .WAV file

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Any Easy Tutorial On XML?
Hi all,
Hi, I am a XML newbie. Would anyone suggests some tutorials on how Flash MX works with XML. I have already read a tutorial in the web site of macromedia, but it is a bit difficult to me. I would like to know how we can pass data from a XML file to Flash MX. Hope there will be some easier tutorials coming up. Really thanks for that..

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Easy Question On Tutorial,
Hello all,
I was following the "photo album vs.2" tutorial(http://www.actionscript.org/resource...v2/Page1.html), knowing that it was above my ability but trying none the less. I learnt alot about dynamic actionscript from it but for all my efforts I cant work out how to replace the numbers with small thumbnail images. I wont bother posting any of my failed efforts, but it would be ace if someone could show me how! I gather its this part i need to change:

var posX: Number = 200;
var posY: Number = 200;
var posZ: Number = 200;
var angle: Number = Math.PI/ 12;
//~'~'~' The text format
var theFmt: TextFormat = new TextFormat() ;
theFmt. align = "center" ;
theFmt. size = 40;
theFmt. color = 0xFF0000;
//~'~'~'
for (i=1; i<24; i++) {
var theAngle: Number = i*angle;
_level0. attachmovie ("holder_mc", "h" +i, i, { _x osX+posZ* Math.cos (theAngle), _y osY+posZ* Math.sin (theAngle)});
this [ "h" +i].holder. _alpha = false ;
//~'~'~' The text thing
this [ "h" +i]. createTextField ("t", 1000, 1, 1, 70, 70);
this [ "h" +i].t. border = true;
this [ "h" +i].t. text = i;
this [ "h" +i].t. setTextFormat (theFmt);
}


As it is currently writing dynamic text where I want the photos to be.
If anyone can help me with this it would be of great help,
Thanks in advance

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Would Anyone Like An Easy Mp3 Player Tutorial?
Hey guys,
im just finishing up on an mp3 player i am making in flash and am wondering whether or not i should make a tutorial. First up ill explain a bit about it.

It has these features;
Changeable balance w/ display of the current amount of balance to each side
Multiple songs
Play/Pause with one button
Stop
Song Name
Song Status
Changeable volume
Song duration display
Previous Button
Next Button
Current duration
Volume display as percentage
Image Display of current volume w/ volume status such as Mute, Normal etc..
Repeat

If you think i should make a tutorial for this, please post up here..

Please note, that if, and i probably will write a tutorial it may NOT be the only way to do these effects, though it is an easy way.
Also, using this method is only recommended for personal use, unless, you externally load your sounds.

Both of these are very possible, so i wouldn't let that affect you opinion too much

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Easy Flash 5 Website Tutorial
I am looking for a small flash website tutorial that covers biulding a flash website from begining to end. I have a tons of flash 4 and 5 books but they keep making my head spin. It seems none of them actually show you how to make a simple flash website from begining to end. I just want the basics of a easy flash website which tells how to do it.

Every time i begin a flash website something goes wrong or i get stuck so i read pages apon pages of flash resource material and end up giving up!

SO ANY ONE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! SOMETHING SIMPLE WITH A COUPLE BASIC THINGS!!

ANYTHING WILL DO!!

thanks
adam~

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Any Easy Tutorial For Flash Mediaserver?
Hi ,sorry if I ask in wrong thread ,but I need tutorial about FMS (flash media server)
My project is to capture and stream cam. pic via FMS.
I have my own linux server .old RH 7.3 box
Regards

Kijakarn

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Nice Easy Effect Tutorial Coming Up Soon
Hi all,
Ive solved my effects problem about the electricity effect i was looking for like on http://www.robzombie.com it really simple i sat down 3 days ago and thought and thought on how i could do it. then i tryed it and it worked i will post a tutorial if any would like, i would say most of u know how tho.

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Easy Tutorial For Writing Custom Classes In AS3
At least, I *hope* it's easy. Hey, everyone, sorry to be such a troll... this is my first post here, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I've written a tutorial for newbies on how to write and use your own custom classes in AS3.

I cover concepts such as packages, classes, and filepaths, inheritance, protected and private variables, etc. I tried to make it very straightforward, and I'd love to hear some feedback on it.

If you'd like to give it a shot you can find it at: http://www.cenizal.com/?p=13

If you do try it out, please let me know if you found it helpful! Thanks!

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Actionscript 3.0 Video Basics - Video Allways On Top Layer
Hy!

After doing the "Actionscript 3.0 Video Basic" Turorial, i'm facing some troubles with the video layer!
The embeded video is allways shown in the top layer so that i can't add any buttons for example...
how can i get the video zu a lower layer or the other layers to top? or what other ways are possible to solve my problem?

thx
Kam1kaz3

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