Is this too processor demanding?

Hi,

Does this make any sense? I'm trying to delete "ind" before each next function call but I can't. Could it be because this is happening too quick?

Code:

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var aFonts:Array = ["Times", "Calibri", "Aparajita", "Times", "Trebuchet MS", "Verdana", "Andalus", "Arial"];
var aFontSize:Array = ["18", "22", "26", "28", "30", "34", "38", "42"];
var aFontColor:Array = ["0xFF0000", "0x003300", "0xFFFFFF", "0x000033", "0x99CC00", "0x6666CC", "0xFF66CC", "0xCC66CC"];
var aBoldness:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "true", "false", "false", "true", "false"];
var aItalic:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false"];

var theX = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.width);
var theY = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.height);

function textFormatter(a, b)
{
    var select:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * aFonts.length - 1);
    var tFormatter:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
    tFormatter.font = aFonts[select];
    tFormatter.size = aFontSize[select];
    tFormatter.color = aFontColor[select];
    tFormatter.bold = aBoldness[select];
    tFormatter.italic = aItalic[select];
    ind.setTextFormat(a, b, tFormatter);
}

var ind:TextField = this.createTextField("ind", this.getNextHighestDepth(), theX, theY, 800, 500);
ind.text = "In... inde... independència!";
ind.antiAliasType = "advanced";
ind.embedFonts = true;
ind.selectable = false;
ind._rotation = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90) - 45;
ind._alpha = Math.round(Math.random() * 100) + 10;

var aAudio:Sound = new Sound();
aAudio.attachSound("critsInde");
aAudio.setVolume(10);
aAudio.start();

var audioPosition:Number;
var audioDuration:Number;

this.onEnterFrame = function() {       
        audioDuration = aAudio.duration/1000;
        audioPosition = aAudio.position/1000;
       
        trace(aAudio.position);
       
        if(audioPosition == 1.022){
                trace("Primera síl·laba");
                textFormatter(0,6);
        }
       
        if(audioPosition == 1.022){
                trace("Segon crit");
                ind.removeTextField();
                textFormatter(6,14);
        }
       
        if(audioPosition == 2.136){
                trace("Crit final");
                ind.removeTextField();
                textFormatter(14,ind.text.length);
        }
};

aAudio.onSoundComplete = function() {
        aAudio.stop("critsInde");
        delete onEnterFrame;
};

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Hi Cap,

I had to test this with a larger sound file as I don't have your independencia file, or your *.fla,

I don't think it's too processor intensive, after all the sound is only about 3 - 4 seconds long if I remember correctly, but you could possibly use a timer or setinterval to slow the function call time, get it working how you want first, then change anything else.

I commented out some things here just to see it working ( alpha, rotation and different x,y values) all replaceable .

Is this what you desire???

PHP Code:

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var aFonts:Array = ["Times", "Calibri", "Aparajita", "Times", "Trebuchet MS", "Verdana", "Andalus", "Arial"];
var aFontSize:Array = ["18", "22", "26", "28", "30", "34", "38", "42"];
var aFontColor:Array = ["0xFF0000", "0x003300", "0xFFFFFF", "0x000033", "0x99CC00", "0x6666CC", "0xFF66CC", "0xCC66CC"];
var aBoldness:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "true", "false", "false", "true", "false"];
var aItalic:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false"];

//var theX = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.width);
//var theY = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.height);
var theX = 20;
var theY = 20;

function textFormatter(a, b)
{
    var select:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * aFonts.length - 1);
    var tFormatter:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
    tFormatter.font = aFonts[select];
    tFormatter.size = aFontSize[select];
    tFormatter.color = aFontColor[select];
    tFormatter.bold = aBoldness[select];
    tFormatter.italic = aItalic[select];
    ind.setTextFormat(a,b,tFormatter);
}

var ind:TextField = this.createTextField("ind", this.getNextHighestDepth(), theX, theY, 800, 500);
ind.text = "In... ";
ind.antiAliasType = "advanced";
//ind.embedFonts = true;
ind.selectable = false;
//ind._rotation = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90) - 45;
//ind._alpha = Math.round(Math.random() * 100) + 10;

var aAudio:Sound = new Sound();
aAudio.attachSound("critsInde");
aAudio.setVolume(10);
aAudio.start();

var audioPosition:Number;
var audioDuration:Number;

this.onEnterFrame = function()
{
    audioDuration = aAudio.duration / 1000;
    audioPosition = aAudio.position / 1000;

    trace(aAudio.position);

    if (audioPosition >= 1.022)
    {
        trace("Primera síl·laba");
        ind.text = "In... ";
        textFormatter(0,ind.text.length);
    }

    if (audioPosition >= 1.022)
    {
        trace("Segon crit");
        ind.text = "inde... ";
        textFormatter(0,ind.text.length);
    }

    if (audioPosition >= 2.136)
    {
        trace("Crit final");
        ind.text = "independència!";
        textFormatter(0,ind.text.length);
    }
};

aAudio.onSoundComplete = function()
{
    aAudio.stop("critsInde");
    delete this.onEnterFrame;
    ind.removeTextField();
}; 


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Good morning, Fruit,

thanks, at least it's closer to what I want to do. I had been testing different ways and it worked randomly, skipping syllables and responding weirdly. This is the result of the code. I wonder why the "e" in inde is always a larger format. I think I am calling it with the correct parameters.

Hi Cap,

You dont really need to pass the text lengths over if the text is changing each time, so here with a few alterations.
You did not embed some the fonts correctly so I am surprised you even go it to publish.

Tahoma and Andalus do not have bold or Italic options so no good for embedding for this project.

Hi Cap,

If you use the *.fla I sent with this code instead.

PHP Code:

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var aFonts:Array = ["Times", "Calibri", "Aparajita", "Times", "Trebuchet MS", "Verdana", "Trebuchet MS", "Arial"];
var aFontSize:Array = ["18", "22", "26", "28", "30", "34", "38", "42"];
var aFontColor:Array = ["0xFF0000", "0x003300", "0xFFFFFF", "0x000033", "0x99CC00", "0x6666CC", "0xFF66CC", "0xCC66CC"];
var aBoldness:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "true", "false", "false", "true", "false"];
var aItalic:Array = ["true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false", "true", "false"];

//var theX = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.width);
//var theY = Math.floor(Math.random() * Stage.height);
var theX = 20;
var theY = 20;

var pointA:Number = 1.022;
var pointB:Number = 2.136;
var select:Number;
var tFormatter:TextFormat;

function textFormatter()
{
    select = Math.floor(Math.random() * aFonts.length);
    tFormatter = new TextFormat();
    tFormatter.font = aFonts[select];
    tFormatter.size = aFontSize[select];
    tFormatter.color = aFontColor[select];
    tFormatter.bold = aBoldness[select];
    tFormatter.italic = aItalic[select];
    ind.setTextFormat(tFormatter);
    //trace(select);
}

var ind:TextField = this.createTextField("ind", this.getNextHighestDepth(), theX, theY, 800, 500);
ind.text = "In... ";
ind.antiAliasType = "advanced";
ind.embedFonts = true;
ind.selectable = false;
//ind._rotation = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90) - 45;
//ind._alpha = Math.round(Math.random() * 100) + 10;
ind.setTextFormat("Arial",16,"0x000000");

var aAudio:Sound = new Sound();
aAudio.attachSound("critsInde");
aAudio.setVolume(10);
aAudio.start(0,1);

var audioPosition:Number;
var audioDuration:Number;

onEnterFrame = function ()
{
    audioDuration = aAudio.duration / 1000;
    audioPosition = aAudio.position / 1000;
    //trace(audioDuration);
    //trace(aAudio.position);
    
    if (audioPosition < pointA)
    {
        //trace("Primera síl·laba");
        ind.text = "In... ";
    }
    if (audioPosition >= pointA && audioPosition < pointB)
    {
        //trace("Segon crit");
        ind.text = "inde... ";
    }
    if (audioPosition >= pointB)
    {
        //trace("Crit final");
        ind.text = "independència!";
    }
    textFormatter();
    //trace("Sound playing @ " + audioPosition); 
};

aAudio.onSoundComplete = function()
{
    delete onEnterFrame;
    trace("Sound stopped...");
    ind.removeTextField();
}; 


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Hi,

Actually I fixed the font issues, you should be able to see what I've done

Hi, Fruit,

thanks again. At least, now I see what you meant by embedding the fonts properly. (That, I'll change)

I'll use this last example to work on it applying it to an attached movie clip so I can call it with setInterval. This is how I really mean to do it and that's why I was asking how to use the getTextFormat as I started the post. I need each frame maintaining the same format. Do you simply create the next piece of text and format it equal to the getTextFormat method? Like: inde.setTextFormat = my_fmt from the previous piece of text??

my_fmt:TextFormat = ind.getTextFormat();

Hi Cap,

I'm getting slightly lost here, so you do not want the text to change format at all, if you do want it to change why do you need the previous format.

Do you want the text to be in the same position and only rotate or in different positions each part.

You still need to embed the fonts properly, if you look in the library you will see that they have no font family associated with them, I keep saying that Tahoma and Andalus have no italic or bold italic settings so therefore will not show up if randomly chosen

i undrstand about the fonts now. Got the message on the underground... It's keeping the same format as the starrting text what i need

so do you need the format to change at all, perhaps make a picture of how you want the text to go and go back to

well, I do want the coming frames keeping the same random format as the first one. Was that the way to use getTextFormat? I'm on a bus right now

please make an image when you get home of how you want the text to start and how you want the following text to start and finish, it will help me enormously to figure out what you actually want

adobe:

my_txt.getTextFormat()
my_txt.getTextFormat(index)
my_txt.getTextFormat(beginIndex, endIndex)

yes, I will. Thanks. Sorry for my confusing posts

HI, got home for a while...

Attachment 74837Attachment 74839Attachment 74841

Hi Cap,

so you want the text to change, but keep whatever format it is all the way along

same format from start to finish, whatever random font,colour,size it has at beginning, keep it the same until the end

Hi

I think this??

Hi, Fruit, thanks,

it's no more no less than what I wanted. Only thing I am transposing or passing the code to Flash 8 and some fonts do not seem to show like you were saying. Thanks so much though. I do have some work to do from here.

Oh nice!

When I was doing AS2 stuff, I didn't use attachMovieClip. I duplicated movieclips so I could design the "original" clip on stage then duplicate it. Here's some code showing duplicating clips, populating the data, placing it, etc.

Code:

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for(var i=0;i<aFeaturedVideos.length;i++){
        mcItemHolder.mcItem.duplicateMovieClip("mcItem_" + i,100+i);
        var mcNewItem = mcItemHolder.mcItem["mcItem_" + i];
        mcNewItem._y = i * 90;
        mcNewItem._x = 0;
        mcNewItem.mcPlaying._visible = false;
        mcNewItem.mcTitle.text = "Featured Videos Number " + i;
        mcNewItem.sItemType = "featuredVideos";
        var nTextHeight = mcNewItem.mcTitle.textHeight;
        mcNewItem.mcTitle._y = Math.floor((80 - nTextHeight)/2);
}

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Put all your clips inside clips - put a mcThumbsHolder empty clip on the stage and load the mcThumb clips into it.

Thanks Moot, but the content like the runtime created text will not be duplicated, will it?

I have a little issue now. I've changed my mind and I want to duplicate my first text and I've asked Fruit so much I hate to post using his work but I need to finish this job urgently.

I'm attaching one clip from the main timeline and as soon as the sound called from that clip I need to attach it more times, but without me removing it from the stage, if I call the function in the main timeline, the text I finally managed to place in my holding clip disappears. Besides the randomness I'm trying to achieve only works once and the rest of the texts all appear in the same place even if I get different random traces. (Perhaps the traces are not related because I'm very confused with levels)

Do you think you could lend me a hand?

I'm attaching it to clarify my question.


Attachment 74867

I'm not sure what you're asking about duplication but the code I gave you is what you are trying to do. You can use attachMovie to create instances of the clip in your "library," or you can make duplicates of a clip on stage. They are exactly the same other than where the original clip is located.

Here is the same code using attachMovie instead

Code:

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for(var i=0;i<aFeaturedVideos.length;i++){
        //  mcItemHolder.mcItem.duplicateMovieClip("mcItem_" + i,100+i);
        mcItemHolder.attachMovie("mcItem","mcItem_" + i,100+i);
        var mcNewItem = mcItemHolder.mcItem["mcItem_" + i];
        mcNewItem._y = i * 90;
        mcNewItem._x = 0;
        mcNewItem.mcPlaying._visible = false;
        mcNewItem.mcTitle.text = "Featured Videos Number " + i;
        mcNewItem.sItemType = "featuredVideos";
        var nTextHeight = mcNewItem.mcTitle.textHeight;
        mcNewItem.mcTitle._y = Math.floor((80 - nTextHeight)/2);
}

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I think this is the code you want. No worries at all if you don't want to use it now.

Good day,

thanks for the reply. I am sure you do want to give me a hint here, but I don't exactly know how to start off. I can't make it work...

I need to create a aFeaturedVideos array plus a mcItemHolder clip with a nested mcItem in it?

Hi, i meant to post again but my internet connection is down so I'm using the cell phone. I have attached a ball clip on stage like in Fuit's exmple and it is placed in the proper random position along with the text from the attached clips named ""+i. Can someone see why the rest of my clips stay in one place or point me the way to trace their names? I' lost again

Quote:

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Originally Posted by capdetrons

Good day,

thanks for the reply. I am sure you do want to give me a hint here, but I don't exactly know how to start off. I can't make it work...

I need to create a aFeaturedVideos array plus a mcItemHolder clip with a nested mcItem in it?

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lol no. It's example code.

Your arrays can be whatever, your clips can be whatever. The example show how you can create instances/copies of a clip, place it on stage, set its vars, etc.

You previously said that it wasn't the code you need. The only thing I could see that you were doing differently was attachMovie instead of duplicateMovieClip. So I swapped them to show you that they're the same.

God! I didn't want to give up... I was encouraged not to do so in some forum, maybe here. I try... But I keep cracking up. I sort of understand your code, Moot. It makes sense, but isn't mine similar somehow? I' using a clip to attach others when an event is fired. I don't think I could possibly create any loops to rename my attached clips. I' increasing a variable each time my clip with the onSoundComplete fires, then I rename my clips and there's when I get lost. If you've previewed my fla, you'll have seen it runs alright the first 2 times... I don't know if I,ll ever see why. Can you clearly see why it's always attached at the same coordinates after that?

Finally ! :)

It's because you have code IN the clip. That code should be in the main as. All these mystery problems you're having will clear up when you get your code in one place.

Got it, or at least something close to what I want to achieve. Thanks. Yes, I realized the code was running from the wrong place.

I need to keep experimenting because I now want to fade out my clips again and I wasn't sure whether the text object was treated individually or the clip's alpha would take care of its alpha (the text's).

In fact, I'm still not... but I'm on it.

thanks

Yes, whenever you start to wonder, remember all the natural rules apply.

The clip is an object. If you move the object, everything in the object goes too. If you move a box, the contents also move. Like the natural world, the objects in the box don't move in relation to the box, it's the box that moves.

So the book inside the box has an x of 100, the box gets moved 1000, the book still has an x of 100. Just like it still has an alpha of 100 but the box's alpha is 0.

If you use your imaginary wizard skills in the real world and render a box invisible, I would expect your spell to include the boxes contents.