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Hi. Having read lots of AS3 preloading articles, I still have a problem. I've done preloading in AS2 for years, and I've done it in AS3, but I can't work out what's going on in my current project....

I think that's your best bet. Flash isn't really designed for dealing with all that sort of stuff - it's supposed to read from elsewhere and communicate with other technologies to store and retrieve...

Hi Cere.

I had a look at your sample.fla, and the reason the variable is showing as undefined when you trace it from the timeline is this:

If a frame (in this case, a frame inside a MovieClip...

I'll assume you put the video object (that's in your library) into a MovieClip. What you could do is, put your video MovieClip on the stage, give it an instance name (let's say myVideo), and put the...

Yup, what happinessSam said would be the best idea. It's a slightly more advanced topic, if you ask me, but it's worth it. There's another trade off, though - memory usage - all the BitmapData...

miraclemaker, this is what I was thinking of, also, but I've kind of lost hope in the whole security issues with Flash. I thought about running a Flash app accessible only via socket server (or just...

The 'normal drawings' you're talking about - in the form of vector graphics - are handled by Flash in real time. The larger they are and more complex they are, the slower they will run. Lots of...

Yup, try something like this:




var initialText:String = "Type your name here.";
myTF.text = initialText;

myTF.onSetFocus = function():Void {
if( myTF.text == initialText ) {

Yeah, ilive is right - in the properties panel of a Graphic or MovieClip, you can alter the blendMode property. This can also be done with ActionScript:



You should check the online help entry...

Hi Blair. You really should treat the missiles as different MovieClips (or Sprites, if you're working with ActionScript 3). I'll assume you're using AS2.

Have you tried attaching a new missile...

Are there other objects in these hotspots? Are you trying to make a sound play when you roll over a certain part of an image?

If you already have separate objects (such as graphics or movie...

Is "allowscale" a recognised argument for the fscommand function? How about trying "scaleMode"? Alternatively, you could try:


Or try exactFit instead of showAll.

I'm actually trying to start writing a developer's blog too (aren't we all?). I would suggest getting Wordpress, a code syntax plugin, an SWF plugin, and letting yourself concentrate on the blogging...

And now I've noticed that I actually misread the join date as the post date. F**k me.

And I notice I've just spent 10 minutes replying to a post that was made 8 years ago. I'm a happy man.

I'm not solid on my CGI scripting, but if you have your SWF in an HTML page, embedded with, say, SWFObject, you could use PHP to send a variable to your SWF.

If your flash movie is located on the...

I did this a while back, is this the kind of thing you mean?

http://shauncampbell.co.uk/2007/11/24/ripples/

It uses the DisplacementMapFilter and the ConvolutionFilter. The problem with this...

Hi folks.

I'm trying to copy the pixels of a MovieClip that's created as an empty movie clip, and has other MovieClips added to it via ActionScript (little blocks which make up an alphabetic...