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Will an uncompressed sound start to play more instantly than a mp3? I am working on a reaction test so every millisecond count.

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I then converted the animated mask to a movieclip and set it to mask the original movieclip with code instead, i.e., shapetween_mc.setMask(mask_mc)

Now everything works like it should so the...

And only a few minutes later I discover another quirk - when I copy and paste frames, shape hints are somehow left behind so that the once tidy shape tween turns into mess.

Apparently a keyframe in the mask layer will always cause a masked movieclip to start over from frame 1.

Trying to learn Flash's authoring tool drives me nuts...

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For example. I have a movieclip with a ten frames long shape tween. Keyframe 10 has a stop() action. This movieclip is placed on frame 1-10 of the stage. On stage and on a layer above, I create...

I am not a fan of this type of indirect control. In this case it is especially frustrating when your ball is close to the edge of the playing area as you lose all control if the mouse pointer happens...

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Tailtag is my first completed Flash game. A simple but enjoyable arcade game.

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The discus thread...

Thanks all! I am pleasantly surprised that this little game went down well.




Thanks. I guess there's too little content for the portals liking though. But it certainly would be nice to have...

Tailtag is my first completed Flash game. I started another game before Tailtag but decided to put that game on hold to instead start on a really simple game that could be completed in a couple of...

I think it’s a brilliant game. When the last staircase at level 15 wouldn’t appear despite the three buttons being pressed, I thought I had to destroy all the pyramids. This made the game quite more...

Aha, that makes sense - the for-in loop is really meant to be used for MovieClip properties. Thanks!

I wasted several hours yesterday while trying to change the depths of a couple of MovieClips stored in an array:
for(i in bug)
{
bug[i].swapDepths(4000+i);
trace(i + " depth " +...