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• Challenge: Can you composite a Class with a stage MovieClip

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Assume for a minute that I know there are several ways to get around what Im about to ask you to do, and there is a method to my madness. Lets imagine that I have a movieclip on my stage with an instance name of "Dog". It is just a plain ordinary MovieClip object from the Library. It has several frame labels such ...
  1 hour ago

• Making an External Preloader

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  In order to learn the ins and outs of preloaders in ActionScript 3.0 Ive been working on a program in Flash CS4. The problem Im having is that the preloader is not throwing/recieving the Progress and Complete events. I decided to make the preloader an independant class and put it in a seperate package from the ...
  2 hours ago

• Arrays best practise

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Hi Ive been using the code listed below for a few projects now. I got the code from the help of this forum but I remember at the time the guy who helped me said it was more of a hack. Because its worked for me Ive just continued to use it but on a recent project when Im using it to provide the paths to a URLRequest ...
  2 hours ago

• RSS Feed - Resize Images with CSS?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  I am loading an rss feed into a dynamic textfield. I would like to resize the images from the posts so that they fit nicely within my textfield. Is this possible with css in Flash? i tried this but no luck... var css:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet; var img:Object = new Object(); img.width = 100; css.setStyle("img", ...
  3 hours ago

• full screen mode trouble

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  I have set my flash to full screen mode. It has a menu with several different flv movies. When I click on the flv it then goes full screen and I no longer see the custom buttons I created for it and at the end of the movie I have to hit the esc btn to get out of it. but when it is not on full screen i have it ...
  3 hours ago

• Way of an Idea Box2D prototype – Step 2

  
  Emanuele Feronato — Authority: 124
  It’s time to apply the concepts seen at Pausing a Box2D simulation with Way of an Idea Box2D prototype to create a paused Box2D simulation that will start only when you’ll press SPACE, and meanwhile you can draw paths, just like in the original game . The only problem with this technique is you can’t use ...
  8 hours ago

• Reverse movieclip timeline

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  I am trying to play and reverse a movieclip using the following script: Code: my_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, forward);   function forward(Event:MouseEvent):void { var backAmount:Number = my_mc.currentFrame + 1; my_mc.gotoAndStop(backAmount); }   my_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, ...
  11 hours ago

• Help! at wits end.

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  The following loads from a text file and updates map tiles. My problem is remove the map tiles i have added to the container MiniMap when the level updates. I have two buttons on the stage for next and previous levels. Any way i remove them or tutorials i follow return strange errors or event handlers being called ...
  14 hours ago

• Preload sound files before movie starts

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Hi All, I have an SWF which requires the loading of several external sounds (MP3 files). I am able to load and play these files just fine when testing locally, by way of creating a new Sound() and playing them as needed (streaming). However, I worry that the larger sound files will eventually fall out of sync with ...
  14 hours ago

• Splicing?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Can someone please explain splicing to me? I have been reading a bunch of things to try to understand it but I am currently having some intelligentcy difficulties...:block: Thanks in advanced!
  17 hours ago

• Splicing?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Can someone please explain splicing to me? I have been reading a bunch of things to try to understand it but I am currently having some intelligentcy difficulties...:block: Thanks in advanced!
  17 hours ago

• Pausing a Box2D simulation

  
  Emanuele Feronato — Authority: 124
  There is a Box2D feature easy to implement and capable to add interesting gameplay that I haven’t found explained anywhere: the pause . I want to stop a Box2D simulation when I click the mouse, and to play it again with another click. The core function of this feature is Step . Normally is called this way: ...
  1 day ago

• Change movie clip colour randomly in AS3

  
  ilike2Flash — Authority: 117
  I previously wrote a post called change movie clip colour in Actionscript 3 where the movie clip changed colour by using the colourPicker component. In this tutorial the colour of the movie clip will change randomly using the ColorTransform class and the Math.random method. Some knowledge of basic buttons will be ...
  1 day ago

• Please Help ComputeSpectrum and Particle System

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Im new to these forums and quite new to AS3, I understand it when someone explains it to me but coding from scratch I cant do. But Im desperate :(. What I would like to do is a simple game, you control a character around the screen, and using computespectrum I would like objects to sprout up from the floor to the ...
  1 day ago

• load an external swf using this method?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  A weird question: Ive always used URLRequest and Loader to load external swfs but today I tried this method: theres main.fla/swf/as and asd.fla/swf/as asd is of the asd class and main is of the main class in main.as, I used addChild(new asd()) and in asd.fla I drew a random square on the stage but when I run ...
  1 day ago

• Why does text in a dynamic text box look different than text in a static box

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Does anyone know why text put into a dynamic text box would look different than the same text with the same font, size, etc in a static text box. The dynamic text looks jagged and pixel-y, while static box looks normal.
  1 day ago

• Return value from an event?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  In my main i am trying to return the value of what is inside the text file applied to the value terrainArray. Code: levelData = l1.GimmiData(); If i try to call the method it will return the value i first declared of the Array. I have wasted a few days of reading trying to figure out ways to get this value ...
  1 day ago

• FLVPlayback - isPlaying function

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  I need to tell whether my FLVPlayback instance is playing or not. The obvious thing seemed to be VideoState property. However it returns all of the following: VideoState.DISCONNECTED VideoState.STOPPED VideoState.PLAYING VideoState.PAUSED VideoState.BUFFERING VideoState.LOADING ...
  1 day ago

• Tutorial: Building a Flash Video Player in ActionScript 3 powered by JavaScript through ExternalInterface

  
  Jeffrey A. Haines' Blog — Authority: 92
  This tutorial stems from the frustrations I recently encountered creating a Flash video player for a website, and I hope it will help others solve issues including: Having ActionScript 3 code in Flash pass variables back and forth with JavaScript using ExternalInterface in a way that works across multiple ...
  1 day ago

• Using functions in other classes?

  
  kirupaForum — Authority: 167
  Hey, so Im having this problem where one of my classes cant locate a function. The function its trying to use is in another class, so I was wondering if there was something special you had to do. This is what Im basically doing: One class Code: package { ... public class whatever { ... public function dothis { ...
  2 days ago

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