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HUH. what are you talking about.

AHH NOT THE _ROOT !!!! ... how can you make a prototype and use _root ???? What is the point of a component then ? It wont run if you load it externally....

use:

this._parent...

Hmm interesting, did the page FLIP ? or nothing happened ?

"Cool sites is a forum designed to showcase what's out there, the new
and the innovative. " I read THIS and posted the site... i am not promoting! This is a site i made for someone else and its...

Thats rather silly... ok then its not my site. satisfied ?

WHo said anyone is promoting...

I just finished this up. This is a magazine for Princeton Alumni, current issue is dedicated to a DNA topic. Great page curl effect is beeing used through out which encourages a feeling of a real...

Your livepreview can trace stuff inside flash. Just make one simple live preview and try it out, all you need to put is

function onUpdate() {
trace(this._parent[this._targetInstanceName]);
}

As one of the people writes:

"I haven't figured out how to detect or make the component lock onto a particular edge of the component."

And that is exactly what I would love to know how to do......

Nah, there is no such tutorial that tells you how the scrollbar component automatically aligns with the textfield, how it knows which side of the text field we dropped it on...

Arseniy

Wait, you mean inside flash environment you can do something like :

this._parent[_targetinstancename]._width and get the width of a movieclip where you dropped your component ? and i Mean INSIDE...

Problem Solved. Check it out... If my component is empty movieclip it does not display it, but if i drop something into it, it works just fine :(

The following is when i run a function init inside of it, it creates a bubble and attaches all the movie clips you see after line.

Variable _level0.instance1.bubble.iScalePrev = 100

As you see,...

thats what i am saying, NOTHING SHOWS UP. I attached movieclips into it etc... and none of them show up ! Its in memory, on stage in swf, working... but things wont show ! thats ONLY if i drop it on...

I found a bug, if u know what _targetInstanceName is, then ull understand the following. I have a component works fine when i drop it on a stage and not on any movieclip. As soon as i drop it on a...

Hey guys, I am pretty good at this component stuff and I can not figure out how the hell does Macromedia scroll bar component knows where to align itself when you drop it on a text field. It must be...

How can i pass my CURRENT FRAME on the Stage inside flash to my component's livew preview or custom UI. That would kick lots of butt. No more keyframes for a lot of things !

I am pretty advanced...

Ok...

you can store your stuff in a text file... or have backend script generate that code, doesnt matter... use loadVars.. look that up in reference...

so you load ur titles with loadVars...
...

You have to do it by script...

the same way you check to load one movie...

movieclip.getBytesLoaded() and movieclip.getBytesTotal()

instead of checking for one movieclip you check for many....

Flash kit has a tutorial for a preloader, id suggest using it...

I dont think you will ever get a response for something that you are asking for. People read... and if their answer is 5-10 sentences long you will most likely get an answer. What you are asking for...

I have worked with Japanese, build a few exercises... I would have people build XML inside Word... then i would copy and paste the content into Note pad... then you SAVE AS and choose UTF-8 in the...

THANKS YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN GREAT HELP. WOW !!! SO MUCH HELP I HAVE RECIEVED.

TO understand my code in the reference go to Operators / Miscelaneous Operators / ?:

check it out, its pretty cool.... i love that function its a short way of writing code...

see where it says this.iFlag=this.iInterval=3;

just change 3 to whatever interval u want...