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Oh man, talk about nostalgia hahah. Thought I'd log in for old times sake and look at this. Good to see you RipX, Marmotte, and MadSci! Still remember you guys taking the time to help me out when I...

Hey everyone. I am new to CSS and have been making some very simple sites to improve myself. For my most recent messabout, I've been working with this expandable sidebar menu -...

Hello. I'd like to know how I can achieve this in AS3. The code would work fine in AS2, but as I am very new to AS3 I am not sure what the equivalent would be in AS3. Thanks!

humanNum = 1;
MC =...

Hello again. I'd like to draw a line from pointA to the mouse position, and trace along that line and return the x,y position every 5 pixels.

If I could get any help on this it would be most...

I use Camtasia Studio 7 and it records anything I throw at it -perfectly-, and that includes SWF files in and out of Flash's IDE.

^pretty much

It's not Valves fault that you play 5 hours of games per day. If you don't think it's worth it, then don't buy it. But don't go around saying that it's crap and not worth the money...

Ahhh! That worked a treat. Thanks a lot!! :)

Hmmm.

If I have to use the set method the way you have it above for every key, then that would require each key getting it's own function, which I could have done already. The whole point of doing...

Solution is in ImprisonedPride's post - Thanks again!

Hey guys. I've hit a little snag with my project and Im not sure how to proceed.

I have a function that is used to customize the users...

definitely "Moon with stalking" lol

I'm starting to get the hang of AS3 and its crazy craziness, but I've hit yet another roadblock Im hoping someone can help me with.

I'm adding movieclips from an external .as class called GUI. But...

I appreciate you taking the time to help, but the code you supplied isn't adding anything to the stage, and being the complete newbie I am at AS3 I'm kinda flying blind here.

PreloaderGUI is just...

Hmmm, thanks its all loading properly, but it still doesn't seem to be working. I ran a trace for "myClip" and it comes up with [object PreloaderGUI].

PreloaderGUI being the Movieclip containing...

Ok I'm pretty positive I get it now. Passing stage from Main.as to Preloader.as through the function and then grabbing variable and putting it in to a private variable to use in the class. Thanks!
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Ahh thank you, it works!

So DisplayObjectContainer is literally the container that is displaying the movie, and you're referencing it through myStage.

What I don't understand is why another...

Hey guys. I'm trying to wrap my head around AS3 and it isn't going well. I'm getting stuck on the most basic of problems it's making me pretty angry. I'm trying to do something as simple as reference...

It's a common misconception that you need to know objective-c to program for the iPhone. You can program an app just fine using a variety of languages, from C++ to Java, but you require objective-c...

Hey guys, I've been trying to google this for a bit now but I still can't seem to find the site I'm looking for. I stumbled upon it a while ago, and they offer $1000 for unique, unreleased flash...

I traced the heros x and y and they were whole numbers the entire time, no decimals at all.

I also had another attempt at rewriting the hitest function, and included a for loop to test from the...

Ok so I'm trying to make my hero stop when he hits the walls of the ground MC, named "g". So I wrote this up:



if (Key.isDown(Left)) {
if (!g.hitTest(this._x-(hXbuff+xSpeed), this._y-20,...

Just found this thread and wanted to say amazing work! One of the best 3D engines I've ever seen in Flash.

I started at the first page and saw the character model, and the Link and was like "Wow,...

Hey guys. Some old timers may remember me releasing Barbarian Bob back in 2005, but I wont blame you if you don't remember such a subpar game. Anywho, I always said that if it was popular I would...

Thanks for all of your help guys!!!

I mean that, I never would have figured it out otherwise.

After over an hour of trying out a few different methods I went through every bit of code relating...

Yeah, I've tried replacing my ground movieclip with a completely new mc with a smaller ground area, made it white and then tried, and it still wont display a color unless you are in that damn spot;...

D'oh! I can't seem to get it working, sorry.

I used tonypa's advice and used attachBitmap (thanks btw) to see what was being drawn, and as it turns out it's drawing the ground perfectly. But for...