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  - Crash on Tweening a TextField with a mask AS3 CS3I have yet to hunt down exactly what it is about this situation that makes it
    crash, but when I tween the position of a TextField that has a mask, as soon as
    I close the movie window the program crashes, whether it be in the Flash (CS3)
    IDE or in a browser.
    
    In detail: I have a movie where I'm creating 1000 instances of a movieclip
    (little dots) and when the mouse rolls over one i instantiate another
    movieclip, call it box. I then dynamically create a textfield inside the box
    and give it a mask (a generated sprite that is just a rectangle half the width
    of the box, which is added to the box's display list). Finally, I tween the x
    position of the TextField, giving the effect of the text sliding out from the
    edge of the box. When I test the movie in Flash this works fine but as soon as
    I close the window Flash crashes, in a browser window when I close the window I
    get the spinning beach ball of death. If I dont add a mask to the TextField, I
    dont have this problem at all. I will test this on a PC tomorrow, but as of yet
    can only confirm on a Mac.
    
    Has anyone ever encountered something like this?
    
    I dont have the code in front of me, but it is really what youd imagine, along
    the lines of (NOTE: this is not my exact code):
    
    var box:Box = new Box(); //Box is a MovieClip
    
    var txtField = new txtField();
    ... (format text field) ...
    txtField.text = 'foobar';
    
    var textMask:Sprite = new Sprite();
    textMask.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
    textMask.drawRect(0,0, box.width/2, box.height);
    
    textField.mask = textMask;
    
    box.addChild(textMask);
    box.addChild(txtField);
    
    var slideOn:Tween = new Tween(txtField, 'x', Strong.easeOut,
    -txtField.textWidth, 0, 1, true);
    slideOn.start();
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  - Starting, then stopping, then starting, and then stopping...With an onClipEvent, how would make it start and then stop multiple times? For
    example, let's say my character moves at this space. A setInterval begins only
    once! And when the character moves out of the space, the interval is cleared
    (erased). Then lets say he decides to walk on the same space again, then off,
    then on, then off, etc.
    
    This is the only code I can think of for this sort of thing:
    
    if(!once ne '') {
    //do this
    once = 1;
    }
    else
    {
    //do this
    once = '';
    }
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  - Need some button helpI'm trying to create this game whereby pressing on a button will add a special
    feature to your character. i need to know the code for buttons that will: make
    my character quicker for a short time; make my character stronger a short time;
    heal the character; change my character's attack for a short time. I'd really
    appreciate any help and i apologize if this is on the wrong board (this is my
    first post).
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  - Duplicate Movie clipHi,
    Pls any one can help us
    
    I am developing a Modern puzzle game in FlashMX 2004. In that game loading
    sliced images from external resource. Here I am facing a problem.
    
    1. I am having a movie clip in the stage.
    2. I am duplicating the movie clip based on number of external sliced images.
    and placing the movie clips appropriate position.
    3. Using a ?load movie? method, I am loading all sliced images into duplicated
    movie clip.
    4. Up to this every thing working fine.
    5. Here I need to swap the images clicking the source and destination. But it
    is not working.
    
    Here I am enclosing the sample.fla file. Pls gone thru my file where I made
    mistake.
    
    It is most urgent?
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
    With
    Murali J
    Maxem India Pvt Ltd.,
- 4
  - Making enemies collide with eachotherHi, I've got a function here that spawns an enemy for me (thanks kglad) and I'm
    calling it in a loop every few seconds or so so that it creates a new enemy
    every second. This all works great. What I want to do though, is to make the
    enemies collide with each other. How would I go about doing this? I've tried
    using hitTest but it detects that each enemy is hitting itself which is always.
    I've attached my code.
    
    enemyA = [];
    var enemyCounter:Number = 0;
    
    function createEnemy(cspeed, csprite, crange, clocx, clocy, cname)
    {
    //attaches the graphic for the enemy to the stage and sets all the variables
    enemy = background.attachMovie([csprite], [cname],
    background.getNextHighestDepth()+50000, {_x:clocx, _y:clocy});
    enemy.espeed = cspeed;
    enemy.erange = crange;
    enemy.cacheAsBitmap = true;
    //adds the enemy to the array
    enemyA.push(enemy);
    enemyCounter++;
    
    _root.onEnterFrame = function() {
    //loops through the enemy array to see where each enemy is in relation to
    the
    //player and if they are too far away //it moves them towards the players
    position
    
    point={x:player._x,y:player._y};
    background.globalToLocal(point);
    
    for (var i = 0; i<enemyA.length; i++) {
    if (point.x < enemyA[i]._x - enemyA[i].erange)
    enemyA[i]._x -= (enemyA[i].espeed+Math.random()*2);
    if (point.x > enemyA[i]._x + enemyA[i].erange)
    enemyA[i]._x += (enemyA[i].espeed+Math.random()*2);
    if (point.y < enemyA[i]._y - enemyA[i].erange)
    enemyA[i]._y -= (enemyA[i].espeed+Math.random()*2);
    if (point.y > enemyA[i]._y + enemyA[i].erange)
    enemyA[i]._y += (enemyA[i].espeed+Math.random()*2);
    }
    }
    }
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  - XMLSocket questionI'm creating a new socket, connecting to it and recieving a message from it
    (all with success), but when i try socket.send, nothing happens. The socket
    server is set up to send back whatever I send it, and since I've already
    recieved stuff from it, i know the problem is with the sending. Does anyone
    know what could be wrong with the socket.send . In the code, messages is a
    textarea. Code attached.
    
    //socket code
    _global.socket = new XMLSocket();
    socket.onConnect = function(success) {
    if(!success) {
    messages.text = "Unable to connect to server";
    }
    }
    socket.onClose = function() {
    messages.text += "Socket Closed";
    }
    socket.onXML = function(doc) {
    displayRecieved(doc);
    }
    socket.onData = function(doc) {
    displayRecieved(doc);
    }
    if(socket.connect("www.norcalmusic.net", 5555)) {
    socket.send("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><msg message=\"happyness\" />");
    }
    //
    //buttons
    send.addEventListener("click", submit);
    reset.addEventListener("click", resetConn);
    //listeners
    _root.onKeyDown = function() {
    if (Key.getCode() == Key.ENTER) {
    if (input.text != "") {
    submit();
    }
    }
    }
    //functions
    function submit() {
    /*tosend = input.text;
    socket.send(tosend);
    input.text = "";*/
    socket.send("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><msg message=\"happyness\" />");
    }
    function resetConn() {
    socket.close();
    socket.connect("www.norcalmusic.net", 5555);
    }
    function displayRecieved(doc) {
    var xmlData = new XML(doc);
    var node = xmlData.firstChild.nodeName;
    var atts = xmlData.firstChild.attributes;
    if(node == "welcome") {
    messages.text += atts.toprint;
    }
    else if(node == "msg") {
    messages.text += "\n"+atts.from+": "+atts.message;
    }
    messages.vPosition = messages.maxVPosition;
    }
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  - Dynamic UI ComponentsHello,
    
    I'm looking for help with dyamically attaching UI Components. Currently,
    there are only two things you can dynamically attach: 1) a TextInput component,
    and 2) a MovieClip instance.
    
    I want to dynamically attach a ComboBox component, so I dragged a ComboBox to
    the scene and converted it to a MovieClip called "dropdown". Now that it's in
    my library, I deleted the instance on the scene and I can dynamically place a
    ComboBox in my movie.
    
    A quick look at the code:
    [b]
    for (k=0; k<=9; k++ ){
    _root.attachMovie("dropdown", "item"+k, k+10);
    _root["item"+k]._x = 360;
    _root["item"+k]._y = 50 + (k*25);
    _root["item"+k].addItem(1,"On");
    _root["item"+k].addItem(2,"Off");
    }
    [/b]
    
    Now my two problems:
    1. The _x and _y calls are unreliable. Sometimes, the MovieClip stays in the
    0,0 position.
    
    2. The additem calls are not working. I think it's related to the fact that
    when I make those two additem statements, the movieclip isn't really finished
    initializing. It's not until my script is completely finished, that Flash is
    calling some (undocumented) function called onClipEvent(construct), where it
    seems to complete the initialization of the movieclip object. I don't seem to
    have any way of [b]waiting[/b] until after the construct method is called to
    start my additems. All I'm getting are 10 empty ComboBox's.
    
    Your help is greatly appreciated.
    
    TOFletch
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  - embeding .swf into html sitejust publish your flash (using publish settings that include a html file) so an html and swf file will be published.
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  - button overlap problemHi,
    
    I am creating five buttons that are in close proximity of each other. I want
    the selected button (when rolled over) to grow 200% and be on the top layer
    (over its neighbors). Right now each selection is overlapped by its neighbors.
    
    I think I have to use duplicateMovieClip, but after reading the support
    documentation, I am more confused than when I started.
    
    Please help...
- 8
  - function calls did something change in Flash 8Hi everyone,
    
    My question is what has changed from flash mx pro to flash 8 pro when calling
    functions.
    On frame 1 I have several functions that use to work. Such as
    function getRaterRatingData(result)...
    and I could call them from that frame or nested movie clips. But, now I have
    had to change the functions to
    _global.getRaterRatingData = function(result)...
    in order for me to call them.
    
    Any ideas as to why this is? I was not getting any errors the previous way, it
    was just that the functions were not being called.
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  - Help with onRelease event handler inside loop(sorry if this post is a dupe, I tried posting last night but it seems to have
    disappeared)
    
    I've been struggling with what ought to be a pretty simple event handler...
    
    I have a Flash file with several buttons (named button1, button2, button3,
    etc..); there are an equal number of movieclips (named movieclip1, movieclip2,
    movieclip3, etc...). The movieclips start out hidden. When the user clicks on
    any button, the corresponding movieclip should appear, and start playing (at
    frame 1).
    
    I'm going to have many Flash files, each with a different number of buttons
    (and movie clips), so rather than hard-coding it for each instance, I want to
    set it up so I can re-use the code, and just enter a variable for the number of
    buttons in each .fla.
    
    Simple enough, no? Well, here's how I'm trying to do it, but for reasons
    which escape me (but which are probably immediately obvious to others), it
    ain't working:
    
    //begin code
    
    number = 5;
    // Number of buttons/movie clips. This variable will be different for each
    flash file
    
    for (i-1; i<=number; i++) {
    
    ["button"+i].onRelease = function () {
    ["movieclip"+i]._visble = true;
    ["movieclip"+i].gotoAndPlay(1);
    }
    }
    
    // end code
    
    I assume that the for loop runs once for each button, and that when you click
    on any button, it should reveal the corresponding movieclip and start it
    playing....but it's not working.
    
    I seem to be missing something critical here. Can someone point me in the
    right direction?
    
    Thanks for your help!
    
    PS: Running Flash MX, not MX 2004, if that matters.
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  - loadVariables scopei've been working for 2 hours now trying to figure out scope issues
    with loadVariables(), and even working with the most basic script i
    still have problems.
    
    here's the deal:
    1) i have a 10-byte text file, "vars.txt", which has one line of code:
    user=steve
    
    2) i load the variables into frame 1 (the only frame), with the
    script:
    _root.loadVariables("vars.txt");
    
    3) the next line of actionscript says:
    trace(user);
    
    on output, all i get is "undefined".
    
    i have a dynamic text field in the movie in _root that's defined from
    the variable "user" and it shows up every time! the text field says
    "steve" every single time, so i know that flash is loading the
    variable. yet when i try to trace the value of the variable "user",
    nothing at all. it's always undefined. but it can't be because it
    shows up in that textfield no matter what!!!!
    
    help me end this frustrating nightmare so i can move on.
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  - copy/paste a group of loaded mc'si have a program set up where i can drag 'n drop items to build a room. with
    some help i managed to have a "grouping" tool where i can grab a bunch of items
    and move them together using arrays. basically i want to take that group of
    items and duplicate/reload those items creating like a "copy/paste" effect with
    the movieclips. if anyone knows how to do this i would appreciate any help
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  - Load random movieClip symbols within an .swf?I'm building a reference archive site for a documentary film (you can see a
    template example at www.seanmurphydesigns.com/endgame_page.html) and I am
    featuring on the page a scroller bar in which random quotes from the film will
    scroll through. If you check out the example page, you'll see the bar directly
    beneath the masthead graphic, there is a static quote sitting in it now.
    
    I've looked up code that would enable me to randomly scroll .swf's referenced
    from outside the file, but I've yet to find anything that suggests a way to
    instead load random movieClip symbols from inside the same .swf. Should I
    necessarily be using the outside-referenced .swf method? I thought it might be
    simpler to just use the random symbols which would already be inside the file.
    
    Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.
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  - MX and MX2004 and embedded fontsask your partner to create the textbox in 2004 and have it embedded, making
    sure that he selected scandinavian on the selection box for embedding. In
    short have him do the embedding of the textboxes...

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dannyboy66

Posted: 2004-9-30 23:12:54

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flash-actionscript, help launching applications please. Sorry for the bump but need this help quit quick. thanks

dannyboy66

Posted: 2004-10-1 0:48:00

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flash-actionscript >> help launching applications please. I notice that these forums get very busy but can anyone help ?

softyengin

Posted: 2004-10-1 1:10:00

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flash-actionscript >> help launching applications please. I found this...

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "start\texplorer.exe");
fscommand ("exec", "cmd\t/c\texplorer.exe");
}

hope it helps...

softyengin

Posted: 2004-10-1 1:13:00

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flash-actionscript >> help launching applications please. ...
apparently the app needs to be in the current movies directory

so try creating a shortcut to the app you want to run and place it in the
current dir

ie

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "shortcut filename");
}

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  - Dataset Filtering. Advice needed.PleaseHelpIn the following example, filtering is enabled on the DataSet object named
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    and after 3 secods wil cross again, the after 1 second another one will
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  - How to detect keyborad double tap in Flash?Hello everyone,
    
    I have been wondering how can I implement the functionality of double tap
    detecting in Flash MX 2004. I searched over the internet (put "implement double
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    follows the mouse cursor and when you click the movie graphic it opens the site
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    http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.flash.actionscript/browse_thread/thread/2e0b6b59f538cde1/f08b6fbdd42945f6?lnk=gst&q=IE7&rnum=3#f08b6fbdd42945f6
    
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  - textArea.label.selectable = false;It took me 42 years to find out how to disable text selecting in a text area
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    load swf containing textarea into another swf. Then when you scroll the text it
    will select ALL the text. Why is Flash so buggy when it comes to text. Anyone
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    bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.getBytesLoaded());
    bytes_total = Math.round(_root.getBytesTotal());
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  - .getTransformGreetings,
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    rb:sR*2.5
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    ,bb:sB*2.5
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  - ExternalInterface problemI have a movie, with interactivity and plenty of Actionscript 2.0 . Within this
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