Hi list...
[finally migrating to AS3]
What would be a good way of going about having many sprites move across
the screen at different rates? I have a random number (0-5) that I want
to use as a coefficient for each sprite's speed. My thought is to base
the movement off of Timer events
Hi there, I'm passing a variable to my swf through a query string like
this:
htp://www.mydomain.com/index.html?passedPage=180
I have my main AS2 class that is the root class and have tried to
access the variable like this:
trace(PASSPAGE SET:+this[passedPage]);
I think you're passing the vars to the html page, but not the swf.
You can use flashvars or just append a querystring to the swf url and you
should be able to trace them
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano.
2008/12/16 Ali Drongo alidro...@googlemail.com
Hi there, I'm passing a variable to my swf
http://www.mydomain.com/index.html?passedPage=180
This won't pass into flash as a flashvar. You have a few options though.
- Use Javascript to grab the query string and then write it in as a
flashvar or query string to the swf. (ex: MySwf.swf?passedPage=180
- Make an ExternalInterface
Why use a timer?
It is not necessary to do it on exact time because you use a random.
So in this case Event.ENTER_FRAME would do the trick for you.
HTH
Cor
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of
On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote:
Right. I recreated everything slowly in a new file, introducing
things one
by one and here's the culprit - Advanced Anti-Aliasing.Now I really
would
like to use advanced, because text looks dramatically better, but
there has
to be a
Without getting too technical, you don't want to use timers move things.
You want to use frames instead of timers. Save yourself some headache and
don't use timers for movement. (unless you're using them to invalidate
properties and such, but that's a more complex topic)
Now if you want the
Hi there,
can anybody tell me why the second line of code given here, loads the
image perfectly into the holder-clip, and the other method won't work?
ActionScript Code:
_root[clicked_Button].picholder_mc.loadMovie(getPlayerInfo(surname,
_root[this._name].name_txt.text).toLowerCase() +
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);
function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void
{
ball1.x += Math.round(Math.random()*5);
ball2.x += Math.round(Math.random()*5);
}
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You can also use SWF Object to embed the movie... I believe you have the
options or grabbing vars form the query string.
Makes it quite easy:
The SWFObject script also comes with an extra function which allows you to
pull variable values from the url string. An example is you have a url that
In AS2, I would have made a component with a parameter for speed. I'm
just not sure how to do that in AS3, so I was guessing with a timer, I
could add and event listerner to dispatch an event to the target, but I
guess not. Thanks!
- MM
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Hey that's cool, I didn't know that existed. Thanks whispers!
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Cheers,
Nate
http://blog.natebeck.net
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, whispers whispers...@hotmail.com wrote:
You can also use SWF Object to embed the movie... I believe you have the
No problem.. SWF Object is a GREAT way to embed your flash movies into HTML
(or whatever).. It allows for a lot for other stuff as well..
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nate Beck
Sent:
Have you tried tracing out:
_root[clicked_Button]
And see what it returns to ensure that it is correctly giving you the data
you need?
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Alexander
Böhm
Sent:
Hi,
You can still make a component to do this. I would recommend
extending the Sprite / MovieClip class as your custom component.
Add a variable called speed and add an Enter Frame handler to your
code, then in there, work out your next position based on the speed.
It would be a
Wow, AS3 is different, even after reading Moock's book. I'm sure this
is an easy question:
How do you reference sprites within a sprite in an event listener?
I have a child allcolumns within a sprite. Within allcolumns are 50
columns (sprites), each named column1, column2, etc.
Allcolumns has
Hey Michael, seeing as you can't create Sprites on the timeline, the
following won't work because your sprites don't have instance names.
Thus when you are creating your sprites, you have to add them all to an
array.
i.e.
var columns:Array = new Array();
for(var i:int = 0; i = 50; i ++){
var
If each of the columns has .name='column1' etc:
e.target.getChildByName(column10).gotoAndStop(5);
should do it.
But personally I'd at least do some type-checking on all that, and
would probably create a method inside an AllColumns class to handle
changeChar(). (Obviously I don't know what
isn't getting a child by name very slow?
Ian Thomas wrote:
If each of the columns has .name='column1' etc:
e.target.getChildByName(column10).gotoAndStop(5);
should do it.
But personally I'd at least do some type-checking on all that, and
would probably create a method inside an AllColumns
Thanks Ian. That's the method I'm looking for, but can it work two
levels deep? I'm really looking to change one MovieClip within each
of these columns. Here's the code:
private function changeChar(e:Event):void {
var newFrame:uint = Math.random()*50;
var whichColumn:uint =
.currentTarget ?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ian Thomas i...@eirias.net wrote:
Yes.
However, it was the simplest answer to Michael's question.
I'm afraid I didn't (and still don't) have time to answer the question
with a long 'here's how I'd actually do it and why it's a good idea
So as a general question, what is the preferred method if you're
trying to get, say, dynamically generated children, eg
image1image20 etc, from a container?
.m
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ian Thomas i...@eirias.net wrote:
Yes.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Anthony Pace
I use the method I gave you earlier, adding elements to an array and
accessing them that way.
Also, you can use getChildAt() if you know the index of the children, which
it sounds like you do if you have them named as you do... i.e. column1,
column2, column3
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Matt
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote:
I use the method I gave you earlier, adding elements to an array and
accessing them that way.
As do I.
Ian
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I'd say look into TweenLite, it supports tween delay and tween length which
I think would solve your problem and also wouldn't entail having to deal
with a bunch of ENTER_FRAME event listeners.
- Taka
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Glen Pike postmas...@glenpike.co.ukwrote:
Hi,
You can
Wow. Thanks. I wouldn't have thought rotating a text field would make it
better. Whenever I need to rotate text I usually render it to a bitmap and
rotate that.
Help is much appreciated.
Ashim
2008/12/17 Jon Bradley jbrad...@postcentral.com
On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote:
I think I know the solution
It's quite a different approach... but a lot of times text has shifting
problems on hovers and whatnot when their x,y's are not set at exact pixels.
Maybe try changing the positioning on the stage so that the elements use an
exact x,y value, or do a Math.round()
p.s. make sure all of the textfield's parents also have their x,y values as
whole pixels.
-Taka
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote:
I think I know the solution
It's quite a different approach... but a lot of times text has shifting
problems on hovers
Sorry I think the URL to the original method and subsequent posts about my
problem was alittle messed up..
appreciate it if ANYONE could get this working..or at leasttell me its not even
possible in Flash.
Thanks
correct url:
Yes.
However, it was the simplest answer to Michael's question.
I'm afraid I didn't (and still don't) have time to answer the question
with a long 'here's how I'd actually do it and why it's a good idea
not to refer to nested clips like this' email, unfortunately. :-) It
was a quick fix for
I wasnt actually the original question-asker, but thanks :)
I was just curious about the actual performance hit from getChild.
.m
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote:
I use the method I gave you earlier, adding elements to an array and
accessing them that way.
I always round everything I place. That was one of the first things I
checked. Rotated bitmaps and text often have this problem, which is fair
enough because half pixels don't exist.
Cheers though.
2008/12/17 Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com
p.s. make sure all of the textfield's parents also have
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