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Bumping this.. sorry I hate bumping threads but this one is important for every flex developer to know

Hey everybody,

I've developed a few flex apps now, and most of the problems I run into all come from the fact that I'm not exactly clear on the order of which databinding, initializing, and...

Ok.. I must be missing something.

Can somebody please tell me why the second line is an object and not a string?



var n:String = "abc";
trace(typeof (n)); // outputs STRING

var n:String...

Thanks for the reply,

The thing about doing it like that though is that I still have to execute the function, which would mean I'd have to directly target and execute it, which kinda defeats the...

Hey everybody!

I've been trying to figure out how to setup a listener to detect a change in a variable. For instance, lets pretend we have a custom component with the code below. The langType...

I just answered my own question..

It should be:


for (var n:Number = 0; n<3; n++){
if(_parent["box"+n].myBoolean == true){
//trace("yea");
trace("I found my box =...

Hey everybody..

Take the following scenario:
You have 3 instances of a box.
Named: box0, box1, and box2.
Each box is a movieclip with a variable inside it called myBoolean.

Now lets say you...

Thx 8)
For anybody who might leave a comment, please let me know if it runs smooth or choppy for you. I want to add a lot more effects, contantly moving animations, etc.. but I seem to be teetering...

Hmm.. guess i didn't have the latest player.. thought I did.
Anyway, very cool site. Nice and smooth, and reflects the music very well.
Although I'd personally add a little more spice to the menu...

Nice site..
My only critique is that it seems to lag a little when the blurs/alpha tweens are happening. I'm not sure if it's because your framerate is too low, or because you're tweening too many...

.. it just brings me to a black page with a dark blue link to "get flash".

And I can assure you I have flash already

WOOT, i'm finally done with this website that i've been creating for our company. When they came to me to design it, they said they wanted something that would showcase current winners of contests...

Hey good to know 8)
Maybe i'll need that someday

Thanks for the reply..
We actually got this fixed last night, but totally forgot to come back here and close the thread.

The Answer:
If you need flash to communicate outside of it's own...

Hey everybody,

Ok.. so i have a huge project i'm working on, and the deadline is less than a week. I have it all done on my hard drive, and the programmers setup a web service, and everything...

Hey you rock man, thx for helpin us all out here.

That works, but it would only work for examples where all the movieclips are actually named like that.

What if you want to click a button to...

Hey everybody,

Ok, i'm wondering if I can simplify and shorten my code.

Currently, I have:


mc1.play();
mc2.play();
mc3.play();

Oh thank god, I thought i was going crazy for a second lol.
I made a stupid mistake. My variables in my real project i'm applying it to were set to

rep_q1.buttonID = "rep_q1;"
rep_q2.buttonID =...

Yea, it's flash 8. Thanks for your help, the first one works.

It was the _root[myVar] that was getting me. I'm not sure what exactly that syntax does though, cause it won't work if I don't have...

I'm trying to use a variable within a command..


myVar = "movie2";
button1.onRelease = function() {
myVar.gotoAndPlay("in");
};

button2.onRelease = function() {
movie2.gotoAndPlay("in");

Woohoo!

Yea it turns out everything that I had exported for actionscript was exporting on the first frame.

That just changed my 1st frame load size from 60k to 3k :)

Thanks!

bump..

Sorry, I hate to bump stuff but I really need to figure this out or my employer will wonder why it's not working yet lol.

Well after the .jpg compression the image is 170k.
On a 56k modem that takes a little bit.

I preload the background seperately because the sites background is specified in an XML file, so each...

nice.. I like slick workarounds like that heh.
I ended up using the MovieClipLoader. This also helped because I could track the bytes loaded/bytes total.. which let me add it into my load bar on...

Hey there!

I'm loading a .jpg into a movie clip using:

loadMovie("_backgrounds/blueWorld.jpg", bgHolder);
when the jpg is done loading, I want it to execute a function, but I don't know what...