Flash :: Windows User Affected Buttons

Get Affected Cell Out Of DataGrid
Hi,

I'm trying to do the following:

I've got a DataGrid component on the stage and I want to trace additional data (which is assigned to each cell), when leaving the cell.

But when I use the following code, i get an error because e.item is null and I wanted to access its id property.

Can anyone explain to me why this doesn't work?

Code:
import fl.data.DataProvider;
import fl.controls.DataGrid;
import fl.events.DataGridEvent;
import fl.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridColumn;

var dataGrid:DataGrid = new DataGrid();
var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider();

dp.addItem( { label: "hello", id: 234 } );

dataGrid.dataProvider = dp;
dataGrid.addEventListener(DataGridEvent.ITEM_EDIT_END, updateDB);

function updateDB(e:DataGridEvent):void {
trace(e.item.id);
}

Movie Clip Affected By Button
i have a movie clip and a button on the same frame.
what action script would i use to make the button advance the movie clip one frame forward when it is pressed.
lets say the movie clip is called "circlexp".
i need this as soon as possible thanks a lot

Externally Affected Graph/ Chart
I want to create a Flash swf that displays a chart of three different graphs. These graphs are to be manipulated by an external text file. In other words, if a person uploads the numbers 23, 45 and 65 to a text file, the graphs in the swf file will display accordingly.

Any suggestions on how to do this? I either want to use .php or just a .txt file.

Thanks!
Furpants

Text In Movieclip Not Affected By Alpha
Another newbie question. I have done the following:

- Start a new flash movie
- Create a new symbol in the library as a movie clip
- Add a text element to the stage
- convert the text to a graphic symbol
- Swap back to the main movie stage
- drag an instance of the movie clip containing the text onto the stage
- Create a keyframe at frame 20
- On that frame, select the movie clip
- in the properties panel, set the color to Alpha with a value of 0.
- go to frame 1, select the clip again and set the color to Alpha with a value of 100.
- click in frame 10 of the timeline and right click, selecting create motion tween.
- scrub the timeline and the text fades out as I expect.
- test the movie though and the text stays stubbornly solid right the through.

Could someone please help me understand what is going on here? I obviously misunderstand a key concept, but I have no idea where to start in identifying it.

This is all done in Flash CS3. I've attached the project.

Paul

SetTextFormat Affected After Embeding Font?
I have a dynamic text object I am trying to use setTextFormat with. But after embeding the font (so it anti-alias) the formating I have set using setTextFormat does not take affect. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?

I have tested it by removing the embeding so I know it is not my code (as the setTextFormat works on the un-embeded text).

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

Actionscript Anim Not Affected By Layer Order
HI, new to flash, new to actionscript and new to this forum so sorry for the noobishness

I've been experimenting with actionscript and I have created a "window" on a layer and created another layer with a "snowing" actionscript, the idea being that the viewer is looking out from the inside of a house and it is snowing outside. My problem is that the snow animation doesn't care about layer ordering on the timeline and hence i get snow all over the place when i just want it to be "behind" the window frame so to speak.

I suspect it can have something to do with the _root thing but I really don't know. If someone could explain this to me I would be very grateful. Here is the code (from some tutorial).

var swidth = 550;
var sheight = 400;

// movieclip to hold our 'drops'
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("DropClip", 15999);

// setup the screen initially so it doesn't start empty
for(var i=0; i<50; i++)
{
createdrop(random(sheight));
}

// create our interval
var lightstorm = setInterval(createdrop, 100);

// our function which creates a rain/snow drop
function createdrop(y)
{
var clip = "drop" + Math.random();
_root.DropClip.attachMovie("Drop", clip, random(15999));
_root.DropClip[clip]._x = random(550);
if(y != null)
{
_root.DropClip[clip]._y = y;
}

_root.DropClip[clip]._alpha = random(100);
_root.DropClip[clip].speed = random(4);
_root.DropClip[clip].onEnterFrame = fall;
}

// our onEnterFrame function is what makes the drops
// move. we check if we can remove a clip if it's outside
// the stage, otherwise we increase the _y position
// of the drop.
function fall()
{
if(this._y < sheight)
{
this._y += 1 + this.speed;
}
else
{
delete this.onEnterFrame;
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}

And there is a movieclip called Drop (just a small circle) in my library. Any ideas on how to make the "snow" appear behind another layer so that it doesnt cover the entire movie screen?

Thanks

/skerm

Attention Adobe: Button Functionality Affected By ComboBox
Normal buttons (my own or from the included Library) misbehave when a standard flash comboBox component and associated Event Listener for detecting selections in the comboBox is added. The buttons work, but once you've used the comboBox either selecting or just expanding its options flash doesn't register any mouse click within the same pixel space for any buttons for the duration of your flash movie, if I move my mouse a pixel off the last button's click location it then works - what up with that????

Yeah normally people would click for example a 'Next' button to go to the next page and do stuff then navigate back to the next button and it would work, but if someone say uses a comboBox for navigation then clicks 'Next' and then another 'Next' button to skip through a sites content you'd expect the button to work regardless of if the mouse cursor has moved from its last known location or not.

This is a BUG - Adobe please fix!

Buttons And Windows
Can I unload a button from a url (when the window is clicked on)and every new window from the searchpage to a button using flash?

I only have the url to the first window.

Buttons And Windows
How do I make a rectangular button appear when clicked opens a new window. I guess onunloading the new window or receiving a new window to uonload a buttonlike this page
http://www.bonusicon.da.ru

The rectangular buttons show as someone clicks on link from the main page that loads from clicking the treasure chest. So how would I create a flash program from the first window to onload the rectangular buttons that say go to step 1.Step 2 etc.Done How do I pass a function from the window. I only have the first url of the first window. But I need the other buttons from the new windows that will appear to trigger rectangular step buttons.

Please Help.

Windows Buttons
hi,

I need to use windows buttons for my application,ive cut them in Photoshop
and pasted them but when maximized the
buttons look very bad....can i make similar ones in Flash...?????

Ricky.

Buttons And New Windows
I want someone who clicks on my page to brings up new windows and then bring up the buttons in flash.
I want each new window to bring up a new button. So how do I reference and program this in flash instead of the button bringing up the window the reverse.

How do I do this?

How do I create a rectangular button when a new window unloads. I guess onunloading the new http://www.bonusicon.da.ru

The rectangular buttons show as someone clicks on link from the main page that loads in the treasure chest. So how would I create a flash program from the first window to onload the rectangular buttons that say go to step 1.Step 2 etc. Done

Windows And Buttons
How do I program a rectangualr button when clicked opens a new window. I guess onunloading the new window or receiving a new window to uonload a button like this page
http://www.bonusicon.da.ru

The rectangular buttons show as someone clicks on link from the main page that loads in the treasure chest. So how would I create a flash program from the first window to onload the rectangular buttons that say go to step 1.Step 2 etc.

How To Do Windows Without Nav Bar, Menu And Buttons
Howdy all,

Im stuck in the mud with this one, how do I make a link
which;
Firstly - opens in its own window
2ndly - removes the menu, nav bar and address bars

can this be done through flash or is it html code? if so (in html) does anyone have the tag?

Buttons Opening New Windows, Sometimes
This may get a bit confusing to follow but I'll try and make it clear. I've got two Flash Movies that are involved with this issue, FLASH ONE and FLASH TWO.

STEP ONE
Lets start with FLASH ONE. At the end of it, there are several buttons that each open a 2nd window while the original window remains open in the background. The window that opens display another Flash movie that I don't think has an effect on this issue. Everything works fine so far.

STEP TWO
Now lets move on to FLASH TWO. Visible during the entire movie is a button that links to FLASH ONE. When the button is clicked, it opens a 2nd window showing FLASH ONE while FLASH TWO is visible in the background. Everything works fine so far.

STEP THREE
When I come to the end of FLASH ONE --- after having accessed it through FLASH TWO, I still have the buttons mentioned in the first paragraph above. Each of the buttons work BUT ONLY SO FAR..... they open a window, BUT it is not a new window, it is the same window that FLASH ONE was in.

My question is this: How can I make the buttons in STEP THREE open a new window as they do in STEP ONE?

Thanks

New Windows And Flash Buttons
I have a url to a searchpage. With a click on this window another window.

Can I unload flash buttons with each new window. Is there a way I can do this in flash.

Ui Component Windows/buttons
Hey everyone, i'm new to the UI Components and i need help with making a quiz using these components. i have the layout how i'd like it... but i dont know the necessary coding. If the user were to click on the window labeled "Question 1", and drag it around, the radio buttons stay where they are. how can i group them together so that they move on top of the window?

also, how do i get the button labeled: Next to play on to the next scene? is this possible? or shouldnt i be using ui components for this?

thanks

Flash Buttons + Windows
how can I make that, when I click on a button in a flash movie that it opens some directory in Windows?

tnx

Open Pop Up Windows From Buttons
i want to have several buttons on a page that open small windows
i cannot find out haow to do this in mx2004
can you explain clearly
nothing seems to work
faith

New Windows And Flash Buttons
I have a searchpage and I want to onunload a button from this.

I have the url to the searchpage and I want onunload a button. And with every new window, I want to onunload a button. Is this possible with flash.

New Windows And Flash Buttons
Can I unload a button from a url from a search page and every new window from the searchpage a button using flash?

Popup Windows From Several Buttons
Hai, I'm opening a popup window from a button with:
on (release) {
getURL("JavaScriptop();");
}
//and in the html <head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function pop() {
window.open("popup.html","","height=240,width=320,left=0,top=0");
}
</script>
but this only works for a single popup. I would like to open different popups from severals buttons in a same swf. Thanks for the help

Buttons Lead User To A Different Label Than The One Specified
I'm using flash 8 for Mac. I've been building an intermediate-level flash site for the design company I work for. I'm stumped by this seemingly simple problem: certain buttons on the site will direct the user to the wrong frame. This happens even though other buttons on the site use the identical actionscript, and those work fine.

I'll just focus on one example. First to put it into context; the site has a large portfolio section with 10 categories, and each category having up to 12 sub-pages. Here's a screenshot of how the portfolio section is divided up (the marks in blue are my own notes):

SCREENSHOT

"intdesign", "corp-id", "printdesign" etc., are the main pages for each category. All the little labeled frames immediately after are the sub-level pages. They are given code names in a numbered sequence. So if we're on "intdesign", the 3rd level labels would be named int1, int2, int3 and so on. The screenshot above shows I'm currently looking at one of those sub-level pages which is labeled "int1".

That's just the context. Here's the problem. The button circled at the bottom left has been given the actionscript written below.

quote:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("corp1");

}

That's it. Novice stuff, right? Once we release the button it should take me to "corp1" (frame 235). But instead, it actually takes me to "corp-id" (frame 234).

The same is true for every bottom left button found throughout the portfolio. They always send the playhead to the main page for that category, instead of the sub-level page specified. If the button said 'gotoAndStop("print4");' it would go to "printdesign" instead. If the button said 'gotoAndStop("dis12");' it would go to "display" instead. I just don't get it.

I've checked for any conflicting goto frame actions, but I see none. I've also checked for duplicated label names, but found none. I tried fixing this by telling it to go to the fame number [gotoAndStop(235);] insted of a label, and it still behaves the same way.

This only seems to happen once my flash site is exported as SWF. If I try it when Frame Actions/Buttons are enabled in Flash, the buttons work fine.

If it only happens after export, is this a bug? Or am I overlooking something else?

...

Even if no one on the forums can help directly, can anyone suggest how to find professional help to debug it? I don't know anyone else personally who does flash, so I'm at a loss when I can't solve a problem myself. My company is willing to pay for help, but we're a small business so cost is a concern.

Modify Buttons So That The User Knows They Are On That Page.
I first started by creating all of my navigation buttons for each page in my website. I created these navigation buttons using the button symbol as I was taught. Everything works as it is suppose to, but I soon realized that more needs to be done with these buttons. That is, each button has to reflect the page the user is on. I know that creating my navigation buttons with a button symbol limits my flexibility, so I changed them to movie clips.

I respectively labeled each frame for the states I want, _up,_over,_out. As I mentioned, the idea is to show the user that they are on a particular page. Basically, if they were to click let's say....contact, then the button for contact should go to the frame where the _out state is located, while all the other buttons remain in their _up state.

I hope I made myself clear. Any suggestions are links to tutorials will be most appreciated.

Javascript Pop Up Windows From Buttons In Flash
i am wondering if anyone knows how to have a button in flash take you to a javascript pop up window that is a specified size.
thanks, gabrielle

Sizing My New Windows When Buttons Clicked
Okay, this is the problem I've been trying to tackle for a while.

My main page is the most important page and I never want it to be fully covered when visitors click on any of my links to my other pages. How do I set the browser demensions to MY OWN specifications? My preference would be the top left corner of the screen, but any demension which didn't cover the whole screen would be great!

your help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you

[F8] Using Buttons Inside Component Windows
hey guys,
Heres the problem, i want a button in my site so that the user can click it and up pops a component window with a library of our ebooks. I've set it up like this:

catalog_content < containing buttons for each book
catalog_browser < containing a scroll pane that links to catalog_content
preloader < containing the button to open catalog_browser in a component window.

the window opens fine, but theres 2 problems,

(01) The buttons dont work (wont open links/new windows etc)
(02) The background from catalog_content doesnt show, only a white background....

...yet if i preview the catalog_browser page the background shows ad the buttons work.

heres the link to the page (testing site)
http://www.schoolofcolor.com/testing...preloader.html

Any ideas? cheers
yoda84

[MX04] Simple Buttons/Windows Help
I'm trying to make a simple window appear when a button is clicked. This is pretty much what I'm trying to create: http://acegoulet.com/clients/dan/ When a user clicks on the links, a window with text appears. Anyone have any ideas on where to start?

New Windows From Buttons With Size Designated
im having a real hard time
nothing seems to work
i want to have a series of buttons in flash that open small pop up windows on click
can anyone help me , please explain simple and clearly
thanks
faith

Problems With Buttons Linked To Pop Up Windows
I am currently piecing together my personal website. I have read the tutes on how to launch centered pop ups. If I create a blank .fla and make buttons with added actionscript to each button, when its previewed it works fine, and it will load the specified link in the actionscript. If I try to this in my current .fla movie which is going on the web, the buttons do nothing at all. Ive tryed everything I possibly could: putting all the buttons that are in the movie together in one movie clip and placing the clip on the stage, re creating the .fla from scratch, putting the contained pop up buttons directly on the stage, deleting everything in my main movie that Im trying to affect, and just placing the contained pop up buttons. There are four buttons on the stage in one layer, each button linking to an html document in my site. They work fine. Then three buttons which each have links to 3 separate pop up windows which will load three separate html documents fit to the size of the pop up windows.

Can anyone help me with this?

[F8] Action Script For Buttons(3) To Control Windows(3)
hya guys,

im running into some trouble... i've attached my flash project file... basically i've got 3 buttons, every buttons opens a seperate window... i need to make it so that when one button is pressed, whichever window that was already open will have to close automatically and allow the right window to open...

what i mean is that when you press one button a window will open. but i want that same window to close when a differnt button is pressed? you get me?

Opening Browser Windows With Flash Buttons
Please could anyone help? I am trying to insert a Flash button into a HTML page which will open a when browser window with no toolbars, no status bar, no menu bar, non resizable etc..

Basically the browser window needs to have the web site in side and that’s all. At the moment I have used one of Dream weaver’s stock buttons and am able to open a browser window with toolbars and scrollbars but need the window without scrollbars etc. I have tried adding a behaviour to the button and specifying 'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrol lbars=no,resizable=no' but the window still appears with all the things I don’t want it to have.

Can anyone help me out??

I Have A Group Of Buttons To Open New Windows At Different Sizes, Please Help
I have a few buttons on the page that I wish to open new windows which contain solely an image.

The buttons will need to open windows of different sizes.

Could someone paste some code here that demonstrates how each 'open window code' differs for each button?

Help much appreciated.

Thanks

F

Flash Menu Buttons And User Defined Variables
Okay--maybe somebody can help me on this bugger. My brain is fried over it. I will email the fla file and a giant cookie to anyone who can help. I have two issues for a flash navigation menu that contraols a non-flash page:

1)I want to show the current page as "active" by altering the corresponding MC. I am trying to reference instance names of seprate mc's (totally seperate, not duplicates) in order to change their appearance according their state (active, as in the HTML page it is pointing to is active VS. inactive). I have 12 mcs named mc1-mc12. Each mc has a button inside. The code for the MC is:

Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
skal = 0;
}
OnClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (skal ==1){
_xscale = _xscale+(150-_xscale)/3;
_yscale = _yscale+(150-_yscale)/3;
}
if (skal ==0){
_xscale = _xscale+(100-_xscale)/10;
_yscale = _yscale+(100-_yscale)/10;
}
if (skal ==3){
_xscale = 150;
_yscale = 150;
}
}
The code for the button in the mc is:

Code:
1 on (rollOver, dragOver){
2 skal = 1;
3 }
4 on (rollOut, dragOut){
5 if (Active ==1){
6 skal = 3;
7 }else {
8 skal = 0;
9 }
10 }
11 on(release) {
12 Active = 1;
13 GetURL("help.htm","_self");
14 }
Basically, the buttons expand and contract as you roll over them and link to a specific URL. I would like to address the problem of indicating which page on the nav menu the user is currently visiting. My idea was to insert these lines between line 13 and 14 of the button:

Code:
tellTarget(mc1){
Active = 0;
}
//repeat for each button instance name
Each button would have to be addressed so that when you click on a button, it sets the variable "Active" to 1 for the button you clicked and 0 for the rest of the buttons.
Basically, the button is supposed to freeze at _xscale = 150 until another button on the menu is pressed.

It's not working. Is there a beter way to do this? I just want the button to stick out to make it pbvious that that is the page they are looking at.

2)My bigger problem arrose when I was told to nix the frames on the website. Now when a button is clicked, it goes to a new page with the same swf file on it, but it reloads the file. Is there a way to prevent reload and allow it to maintain it's state whil the even when the page changes?

The beginings of the menu are on (The page is in SERIOUS overhaul mode, so pardon the ugliness) this link still uses frames. I have not uploaded the non frames version yet, but the problem is easy to visualize...the movie retarts when you nav to a different page:
http://www.themitchellcentre.ab.ca/T...e/testpage.htm

Thanks for any help.

PS--I tried everything to make the individual buttons stick out, I tried making the text dymanic and chaniging the color, I tried stopping th emovie, I tried, all I could think of, but nothing worked while maintaining the rollover movement. Thanks.

http://www.taigraham.com

Email my personal account

A Control To Check If User Chooses The Correct Buttons
Hi,

I have an attached flash file with 5 movie clips there.

Each movie clip acts like an on/off button. Such button-like movie clip is blue in any time, otherwise they are red when people choose them.

I would like to show a message say for "Congratulations" when people choose only the 2nd and the 4th button. How can I do that ?
Please give me some hints thanx !

Disable All Buttons From User/ Forcing Button States
I'm new at this so i dont really know if its possible. But if it is i appreciate your time.

Ok...
I have 5 buttons. Each of which have different movie clips in the up, over and roll out state. To be more specific, each button looks like a window. on the up state curtains cover the windows. on roll over the windows open. on roll out they close again.

What I want to do is ON PRESS force the button to go to its roll out state and then cut off all user activity from all the buttons until the transition to the next page takes place.

I hope that is clear. Thanks again.

Buttons In To Open Html Full Screen Windows
i dunno if i m in the right place to ask this quesiton... if not, pls direct me... thx

i've just seen "Launch Full Screen Window" tutorial in this tutorial sectioin... it just teaches me how to open 1 window with 1 button... and it works fantastically...

and now i want to open another full screen window with another button... ..
so in total ,

i want to open 2 full screen windows
i have 2 buttons... 1 for each full screen window...

so how would that code be??

Making Buttons Link To Pop Up Browser Windows In ActionScript 3
I am trying to figure out how to make buttons on my flash file link to URLs that appear in a window of fixed dimensions (with scroller bars) next to my Flash window.

I am aware that Adobe has instructions for creating pop-up browser windows through Flash (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14192)

However, what I'm trying to do is a bit more complicated, since I want to have multiple embedded invisible buttons in the Flash window that each take you to a specific URL when you click on them. Alternatively I'd be happy if any button click resulted in a link to a random selection from a pre-programmed list of URLs.

Any suggestions? This is for ActionScript 3.

Making Buttons Link To Pop Up Browser Windows In ActionScript 3
A week or so ago I posted this message and the solution suggested didn't work, so I thought I'd try again to see if anyone else was able to pitch in:

I am trying to figure out how to make multiple embedded invisible buttons on my Flash file that EACH link to specific URLs that appear in a window of fixed dimensions (with frames) next to my Flash window, when you click on them.

I am aware that Adobe has instructions for creating pop-up browser windows through Flash (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14192) and I have repeatedly tried navigateToURL without success--the trouble with this method is that it navigates away from my Flash window and I do not want this. Instead, I want these windows to be contained by Flash, so that the viewer can see both my Flash project window and the URL window (in frames) at the same time in the same browser window (not a new tab/window).
Is this possible? This is for ActionScript 3.

Making Windows Style Close And Minimize Buttons
Hi

I have delevoped a flash cd-rom application and would like to provide the user with a close button that quits the app and a minimise button that sends it to the taskbar. I know that flash player already provides these buttons but I want to include them in the app also.

Thanx Chrissie

Flash Site Problem: Buttons Point User To A Different Label Than The One Specified.
I'm using flash 8 for Mac. I've been building an intermediate-level flash site for the design company I work for. I'm stumped by this seemingly simple problem: certain buttons on the site will direct the user to the wrong frame. This happens even though other buttons on the site use the identical actionscript, and those work fine.

I'll just focus on one example. First to put it into context; the site has a large portfolio section with 10 categories, and each category having up to 12 sub-pages. Here's a screenshot of how the portfolio section is divided up (the marks in blue are my own notes):

"intdesign", "corp-id", "printdesign" etc., are the main pages for each category. All the little labeled frames immediately after are the sub-level pages. They are given code names in a numbered sequence. So if we're on "intdesign", the 3rd level labels would be named int1, int2, int3 and so on. The screenshot above shows I'm currently looking at one of those sub-level pages which is labeled "int1".

That's just the context. Here's the problem. The button circled at the bottom left has been given the actionscript written below.
on (release) {
gotoAndStop("corp1");

}
That's it. Novice stuff, right? Once we release the button it should take me to "corp1" (frame 235). But instead, it actually takes me to "corp-id" (frame 234).

The same is true for every bottom left button found throughout the portfolio. They always send the playhead to the main page for that category, instead of the sub-level page specified. If the button said 'gotoAndStop("print4");' it would go to "printdesign" instead. If the button said 'gotoAndStop("dis12");' it would go to "display" instead. I just don't get it.

I've checked for any conflicting goto frame actions, but I see none. I've also checked for duplicated label names, but found none. I tried fixing this by telling it to go to the fame number [gotoAndStop(235);] insted of a label, and it still behaves the same way.

This only seems to happen once my flash site is exported as SWF. If I try it when Frame Actions/Buttons are enabled in Flash, the buttons work fine.

If it only happens after export, is this a bug? Or am I overlooking something else?