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all groups > flash actionscript > september 2006 > threads for wednesday september 13

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Re: need help...
Posted by pwiop at 9/13/2006 11:52:01 PM
Are you able to upload it so that I can have a 'butchers'...more >>

need help...
Posted by dzedward at 9/13/2006 10:08:08 PM
im making a web site...and im using frame names to get different pages..when it comes to a new page, i use the "stop();" function... now on the left side, i was a couple of MC to continuously play...right now, they are affected by the page functions..how can i make them play contiuously no mat...more >>

Trouble with referencing.
Posted by CogDev at 9/13/2006 8:45:43 PM
Here's my issue. In flash, when you say: var myArray:Array = ["one","two","three"]; you make a new array. But when you do this: var newArray:Array = myArray you dont make a new copy, you get an alias. In other words, "newArray" is a shortcut to "myArray" so if I were to change on...more >>

form validation
Posted by Brad8888 at 9/13/2006 8:33:23 PM
How do I get a message to disply when a user has left one or more of the form fields empty???...more >>

color picker
Posted by forumnotifier at 9/13/2006 6:48:29 PM
I am trying to find the color of a pixel. The pixel is at point (200,200) at level0... myPixelColor = _root.getPixel.color(200,200).toString(16); trace(myPixelColor); I have also tried... myPixelColor = _root.getPixel(200,200).toString(16); trace(myPixelColor); but they both ...more >>

TextArea text selected when v scroller at bottom
Posted by Oregon guy at 9/13/2006 5:51:53 PM
greetings.... can't seem to find an answer for this one: i've got a TextArea component that loads its content from an XML file it all works fine, except that when the TextArea spawns a scroller (page_txt.vScrollPolicy = "auto";) and the scroll bar is run down to the bottom... all the text ...more >>

loadMovie buttons do not work
Posted by kingdom29 at 9/13/2006 5:26:08 PM
Hello, This one should be simple. I have a main move (lets call it main.swf) and a text movie (lets call it text.swf). I am using this code: on (release) { loadMovie("text.swf", "area"); setProperty("area", _y, "-454"); setProperty("area", _x, "-30"); } It seems to work, eccept...more >>

Setting up a "random" scenario, but with exceptions...?
Posted by Brett_Archibald at 9/13/2006 4:25:01 PM
I've got a Flash file that, when I press a button, sets a movie clip to jump to a particular random frame using the following code: gotoAndStop(random(52)); which all works fine. Every time I press the button I get taken to a random frame, as expected. But what I want to do is for ev...more >>



Communicating between two external swfs
Posted by ewon15 at 9/13/2006 4:18:08 PM
Okay, I have two external swfs that load into a main movie (at separate times). Currently there is a button in external A that tells the main timeline (_level0) to load in external B to _level1. However, I also need external B to load in a specific thing. How can I do that? I've tried this: ...more >>

hitTest for movie clips within a movie clip
Posted by adam NO[at]SPAM blueapplestudio at 9/13/2006 3:58:38 PM
There are two movie clips, bigMC and targetMC, on the main stage. The movie clip bigMC contains many smaller movie clips (small01MC - small10MC.) I would like to do a hitTest between my target movie clip (targetMC,) and the smaller movie clips embedded in bigMC. How would I go about doing t...more >>

What is wrong with this?
Posted by Goo101 at 9/13/2006 1:30:07 PM
I have the following if statement which is generating an error . . . else if (VoucherNo < upperVoucher) { The value for the VoucherNo variable is "20060913142501" and the value for the upperVoucher variable is "20060914000001" (which is 857500 more than the value held in the VoucherNo v...more >>

problem calling function in attached movie
Posted by s-atoms at 9/13/2006 1:12:46 PM
In my main timeline I'm attaching a movieclip from the library & then trying to call a function defined in frame one of the attached movieclip - however it does not run ? Can anyone see what is wrong with this code... var mcRef:MovieClip = _root.target5.attachMovie("menuBar", "MenuBar" + nD...more >>

refresh flash page
Posted by linchin at 9/13/2006 3:47:08 AM
how can i create a button in flash to refresh my flash? i got no ideal about this......more >>

Array.sortOn()
Posted by SherwoodClark at 9/13/2006 3:02:34 AM
I have a private function in a class file in which I want to sort an array called "numbers". The array has 5 elements each of which are objects with the fields "n" and "h". When I try to use the sortOn("n", Array.NUMERIC), the option field is completely ignored. The array is sorted but usi...more >>

LoadVars() problems
Posted by Michael Lunsford at 9/13/2006 1:57:45 AM
myvar = new LoadVars(); myvar.onLoad=function(result) { trace("loaded"); trace(myvar.myaudio); } myvar.load("soundstatus.php?status=true"); Now, I put the full URL in front of the "soundstatus.php" file. All this is supposed to do is load a variable from a PHP file. The PHP file...more >>

flash image progress bar and fade-in and fade-out image
Posted by hoachen at 9/13/2006 1:30:07 AM
I am working on the user click on the thumb image and it will bring the big image up but i want it to show the progressBar before the image bar, right the progressBar is not real nice and not really working. I would like to use the precomponent in flahs ->Windows->Component ->ProgressBar (much...more >>

Controlling Clips
Posted by F3 Cycle at 9/13/2006 12:59:36 AM
Hello! I'm a pretty new actionscript user and have run into an obstacle which is likely not that complicated, hopefully one of you masters can help. By necessity I've created a rather large .swf with a main timeline around 17 frames long. A series of buttons on the first frame advances the ...more >>

Storing data out to external file...?
Posted by Brett_Archibald at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
I have a question I'd like to put forward to anyone who can help me. It's a bit vague, perhaps, but any help would be appreciated... I need to make a Flash application into which you can INPUT data, and then have that data STORED somehow / kept in memory - probably in an external file of s...more >>

fscommand("exec","file.exe") doesnt run why?
Posted by Burak Delice at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
hello my projector movie include singel button and that button has below code. on (release) { fscommand("exec", "file.exe"); } after I published EXE, and run it, the file.exe doesnt work(it stads same folder with FlashEXE projector file) how canI run exe? regards Burak ...more >>

variables between two swfs
Posted by rohai at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
I have a main.swf (level0)and a news.swf (level1). News.swf is loaded because main.swf tells it so :-). If I have a variable in news.swf, does it become part of the main.swf? I want to send a variable from news.swf to main.swf, so the main.swf knows which swf must load after event in news.swf....more >>

How to not load movie only if same movie already loaded?
Posted by forumnotifier at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
How to not load movie only if same movie already loaded? for example: loadMovie("clip.swf", myclip); //only if clip.swf is not already loaded. if clip2.swf is loaded then go ahead and load clip.swf I would really appreciate your help! thanks! ...more >>

Shared object functionality not working for flas version 7
Posted by chan_cabin at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I have created one functionality regarding shared object. I make a login screen. When I submit information it stores the data for the respective users. I have stores the data only after clicking the submit button. The main problem is that when I use flash version 7 in public settings dur...more >>

Problems with flash game, hitTest
Posted by Lim? at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi! I have tried to create a simple arcade game in Flash 8. I saw a tutorial at (http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/GAMES_AT-mark-1169/index.php, i followed it but when I came to the part with walls, page 10, it didn?t work. Here is the code I used, from the tutorial: [Q] onCl...more >>

.dll
Posted by Goo101 at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi There, I need my Flash front-end to hook into a .dll file to help pass instruction/call functions which help run my back-end software. Is it possible to do this directly fron Flash without using some 3rd party software, such as Zinc? I have been reading a bit about C-level extensibi...more >>

How to not load movie only if same movie already loaded?
Posted by akhunaton at 9/13/2006 12:00:00 AM
How to not load movie only if same movie already loaded? for example: loadMovie("clip.swf", myclip); //only if clip.swf is not already loaded. if clip2.swf is loaded then go ahead and load clip.swf I would really appreciate your help! thanks! ...more >>


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