That?s it! By now you might have a question - why would I do that on FMS, when I can do the same from client part? Well, I agree that weather example isn?t very practical, but imagine that you have a sms voting, for example, in some chat app or in whatever other one, and you want to display results every 5 seconds. So what would happen if you have 200 users and they all request a result from web-service every 5 seconds? Crash, or server slowdown maybe? Instead you can request it just once every 5 seconds from FMS and then spread the result to users.
We will look at how a simple function is build, and how to call it in flash. Then will will build on that function so it can receive giving values. And in the last example we will look at how to make a function return a value to us.
Now we are ready to do some actionscripting, but remember this is for actionscript 3.0, for it to work with previous versions you will need to do some changes and Im not doing it for you. :-)
First off we will need to make two things, and object to move, in this case a ball, then the ground, so with the oval tool draw a ball, right click it and convert it to a movie clip, go to the properties panel and give it an instance name as shown below. I named mine ball.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Currency Converter using ActionScript 3 and Flash Components. The calculations are made in runtime, no button clicks needed!
If you have ever wondered, how Flash and ActionScript websites are structured, this tutorial is for you! We?ll be building a website with three different pages.
Note: This application will not run online without some middle-man that loads the XML file. This is due to the Flash security sandbox. I recommend taking a look at the Loading remote XML in Flash tutorial which will show how to effortlessly create a PHP based proxy loader.
A common technique used in photo galleries is to allow a before and after preview of an image. This is achieved by preloading both images and when the user rolls over the affter, the before is displayed.
Now that we created our Flash file, we can go to its properties by file>publish settings or press control+shift+F12 and select the settings of actionscritp 3 (under the flash tab). If you got confused, here is an image that shows you what i mean: publish settings .
This flash tutorial is about if statements, one of the most used things in OOP (object oriented programming) languages like actionscripting. Once you learn and understand it you will be able to do a lot with programming.
The basic actionscript code for loading XML in actionscript 2.0 var xml:XML = new XML(); xml.ignoreWhite = true; xml.onLoad = function( isLoaded:Boolean ) { if(isLoaded) { // here this refers to the xml object. Instead of this we can also use xml there. trace( this ); //trace( xml ); }else { trace("XML loading error"); } } xml.load( "XML/store.xml" ); Output: Entire xml content.
Previous versions of the language (AS1, AS2) did enable designers and developers to create outstanding internet applications. To say Actionscript 3 takes it to the next level would be an understatement, the language is more powerful than ever. It provides faster performance and the ability to create larger and more complex applications.
If the user closed the dialog box using the 'Ok' button then the 'dismiss' property will contain the string value 'accept' otherwise if the user closed the dialog box using the 'Cancel' button or the close button in the top right hand corner then the 'dismiss' property will contain the string value 'cancel'.
But what if someone doesn't know how to change quality in the above described way? He's certainly not going to have a good time watching your movie, is he?
Conditionals are special tools in ActionScript that allow us to execute a specified selection of code upon the satisfaction of a certain condition. The 'if' conditional is one of the several conditionals available in ActionScript and is one of the easiest ones to use. This tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to start using it in your projects. You are required to have some basic ActionScript knowledge to follow this tutorial.
This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to use the setInterval() method in Flash to execute code repeatedly at given time intervals so that, for example, you can flip a page once every two seconds or move a box a step every one second. You are not expected to have any advanced knowledge of ActionScript, but you must be able to know the basics of ActionScript Functions before you can use the setInterval() method as it needs one to operate.
In this tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell will show you how to create a button that will cause your animations to play in reverse when clicked. It's like having your own rewind button for a Flash cartoon.
In this example assume that we have a variable named 'hungry'. In our if statement, we check to see if hungry is true. If it is true, then we go and play the 'timeToEat' label.
The flash preloader is essentially used to prevent partial loading of the movie while it plays. A preloader is usually made attractive to the viewer to keep him/her occupied while the full flash movie or some external data is loaded in the background. We are going to learn how to create a very simple preloader while concentrating on the actionscript that makes it work.
However, in these two themes we are only going to see a small introduction to ActionScript that will serve to set the bases that will allow us to begin working with ActionScript. Teachinfg programming with ActionScript would require another complete tutorial. Refining the understanding of this language is up to the reader. We recommend to follow the wonderful Help included in Flash 8.
This is the first part of the ActionScript for Newbies series of tutorials. In this tutorial we'll be covering the basics of ActionScript. Stuff you'll need to know before you use ActionScript.
One of the misconseptions of programming, is that even though if a piece of code get's something done, it isn't allways the right way. In this series we're taking a look at the efficiency of scripts. The more efficent your scripts are, the faster they are executed in the Flash player. In small projects this can only be a few millisecons faster, but in projects where a lot of calculations need to be calculated per frame, this can really give a boost to the frame rate. For example: a badly scripted 3D engine (a project where LOADS of calculations need to be made) can get a framerate of like 10fps. While a optimised 3D engine, based on the same mathematics can get a framrate of 80fps.
So, how do you go about embedding an image inside a Flash Movie in Actionscript 3 you might ask? and then how do you get a BitmapData object for that embedded Image? Well im going to show you because these questions seem to be coming up alot of late.
Since the good old days of Flash 4 it has been possible to loadVariables into a Flash Movie using actionscript. So, if you ever need to pass variables into a Flash Movie from a JSFL script, heres how you do it.
Flash CS3 allows you to create either an ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 document. There are a number of ways ActionScript 3 is different from version 2. One of the first changes designers is no longer being able to attach a script to a button instance. In the following steps you'll learn how to control buttons using ActionScript 3 while creating a guide for selecting perennials.
We are going to show the most characteristic uses of code ActionScript in the different objects existing in Flash 8. This way we'll understand it better and why not: we'll save much effort having many of the already prepared codes here to use in our movies (and with the guarantee that they actually work). We'll show the code and next, its explanation.
To export Flash file choose "File" > "Export SWF File". Type the file name and click OK. To insert Flash in your web page choose "File" > "View HTML Code". Select entire HTML code, right click mouse button and choose "Copy" from the popup menu. Click Close. Paste the code to your HTML page.
The ActionScript is a programming language oriented to objects (OO), and therefore has similarities with languages such as the used in Visual Microsoft BASIC, Borland Delphi, etc... although, evidently, it does not have the power of a language purely OO derived from C or Pascal like the previous ones, each version approaches more to a language of this type. The version 2.0 recently released in Flash MX 2004 is more powerful and "is more OO" that its previous version 1.0
17. If you select gotoAndStop without selecting the parenthesis and click on the Help button (A Question Mark, or a book in older versions of Flash) you will get a small tutorial showing you how to use that function. This can be very useful if you are unsure on what a function does or how it is used.
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash. You may get Flash Designer here.
Next, highlight and copy the script below, then right-click on the frame (not a rectangle) and click ActionScript in the context menu. Paste the script into the dialog and change the Sprite number to match yours (Change "Sprite5" to "Sprite3" for example) if needed.
If you're just getting started with functions, you should keep in mind that you will absolutely need to write a function to handle events, such as mouse clicks or data loads (more on this later). Beyond that, you should remember my golden rule for knowing when to write functions:
I know people are saying AS3 is more complicated then the pervious versions, but I bet when you get to understand the basics you will like it even more.
Let's explain the Flash side. We can send data trough GET or POST methods. Since GET is suitable for little packets (less than 255 characters), POST is better, since we don't have a length limit. Here's a summary example in how to send the content of a variable named title from Flash to some back-end script:
We first create a new TextField object that'll give us access to all the properties, methods and events of the TextFields class. We'll call this TextField object textInput.
Inside the parentheses you'll notice two equals signs. These equals signs essentially mean "is equal to?" So the above test is asking if the siteName string is equal to Flash Essential, which of course it is therefore "the site name is correct" is traced in the output window. if statements are about finding the truth in your code, these type of equations if you will are known as Comparison Operators below are a list of other Comparison Operators.
Naturally things have changed somewhat in Actionscript 3. There are no longer Linkage Identifiers and there is no longer attachMovie. Everything is created using the new operator.
The OR - || operator on the other hand lets you supply alternatives to your conditional, so that the code will be executed if any of the supplied conditionals is satisfied. In the example below you will only see the message "You Lost!" if the number of lives equals zero OR if the time equals zero:
The basic usage of the display list involves displaying objects on the screen and removing others from the screen. These two tasks require using the .addChild() and .removeChild() methods.
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter connection must be non-null. at flash.net::NetStream/construct() at flash.net::NetStream() at videoplayer_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
So first we have to prepare some movieclips, the first one will be the movieclip containing the object we want to animate, so make some object on the stage, I just made some weird object, right click it and convert it to a movie clip symbol.
In the previous tutorial I talked about how simple it is to draw a simple rectangle and change values to give it other properties like width, height and positioning.
I made this animation using our Spring Time vector pack. It's about 360Kbs, but once it's loaded click Play to get it started, then you can press the Left or Right arrows to control the little bunny.
Prepare a good-looking background for your clock (in Flash, Photoshop, Corel, Fireworks or what do you want) with 300x300 dimensions. If you don't have a background take the picture below:
So in this Flash tutorial you will see how to draw stuff using Flash actionscript 3, it sounds scary, and I thought so too, I have been use to actionscript 2.0 for a while and found actionscript 3 quite intimidating, but this might be the first thing where actionscript 3.0 seems more simple then 2.0 so try to follow along.
Now you need to remember in which order we type in the code to draw lines and fills, so we dont need to change the depth of the graphics, just to make things easier.
So we need to make a ball, I did it quite easy, just found an image of a ball. Now you need to convert it into a movieclip and give it an instance name, I named mine ball_mc.
2 Download the sample images for this tutorial that you'll use to quickly create a set of nice button symbols. Unpack the zip file and place the images someplace where you will easily find them.
Flex is basically flash, but meant more for online applications. Supports the exact same actionscript 3 as Flash 9. If you have flex, you probably already know that you can compile AS3 with it, if you don't you can always get it. It's $499 though
The usual problem with players is that the netStatusHandler does not wait for “NetConnection.Connect.Success” before making the stream connection and trying the nsStream.play() command.
What are Fractals?
That?s it! By now you might have a question - why would I do that on FMS, when I can do the same from client part? Well, I agree that weather example isn?t very practical, but imagine that you have a sms voting, for example, in some chat app or in whatever other one, and you want to display results every 5 seconds. So what would happen if you have 200 users and they all request a result from web-service every 5 seconds? Crash, or server slowdown maybe? Instead you can request it just once every 5 seconds from FMS and then spread the result to users.
Now we are ready to do some actionscripting, but remember this is for actionscript 3.0, for it to work with previous versions you will need to do some changes and Im not doing it for you. :-)
First off we will need to make two things, and object to move, in this case a ball, then the ground, so with the oval tool draw a ball, right click it and convert it to a movie clip, go to the properties panel and give it an instance name as shown below. I named mine ball.
Notice that properties themselves are always instances of a particular class.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice image presentation using Flash CS3 and few lines of ActionScript 3 code.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Currency Converter using ActionScript 3 and Flash Components. The calculations are made in runtime, no button clicks needed!
If you have ever wondered, how Flash and ActionScript websites are structured, this tutorial is for you! We?ll be building a website with three different pages.
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
12 Free Online Quiz Creators for Teaching Online Last post by: Sunnyme Date: 01.10.2009 06:26:27
Note: This application will not run online without some middle-man that loads the XML file. This is due to the Flash security sandbox. I recommend taking a look at the Loading remote XML in Flash tutorial which will show how to effortlessly create a PHP based proxy loader.
This flash tutorial is about if statements, one of the most used things in OOP (object oriented programming) languages like actionscripting. Once you learn and understand it you will be able to do a lot with programming.
The basic actionscript code for loading XML in actionscript 2.0 var xml:XML = new XML(); xml.ignoreWhite = true; xml.onLoad = function( isLoaded:Boolean ) { if(isLoaded) { // here this refers to the xml object. Instead of this we can also use xml there. trace( this ); //trace( xml ); }else { trace("XML loading error"); } } xml.load( "XML/store.xml" ); Output: Entire xml content.
the second line is loading the image into the movie clip img_container (remember to place the image file in the same place as the flash file.
1. A basic preloader contains 1 part with a small animation that runs while the rest of the flash movie is loading.
The ActionScript code is executed before the frame is displayed.
phone:"956-8596-5243"}, {name:"Ana", phone:"127-25485-6695"}];
If the user closed the dialog box using the 'Ok' button then the 'dismiss' property will contain the string value 'accept' otherwise if the user closed the dialog box using the 'Cancel' button or the close button in the top right hand corner then the 'dismiss' property will contain the string value 'cancel'.
But what if someone doesn't know how to change quality in the above described way? He's certainly not going to have a good time watching your movie, is he?
The flash preloader is essentially used to prevent partial loading of the movie while it plays. A preloader is usually made attractive to the viewer to keep him/her occupied while the full flash movie or some external data is loaded in the background. We are going to learn how to create a very simple preloader while concentrating on the actionscript that makes it work.
However, in these two themes we are only going to see a small introduction to ActionScript that will serve to set the bases that will allow us to begin working with ActionScript. Teachinfg programming with ActionScript would require another complete tutorial. Refining the understanding of this language is up to the reader. We recommend to follow the wonderful Help included in Flash 8.
For this we go to the Flickr API documentation http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
right-click and choose Insert Keyframe (F6). Insert here the bigest picture you have on the
If you're just getting started with functions, you should keep in mind that you will absolutely need to write a function to handle events, such as mouse clicks or data loads (more on this later). Beyond that, you should remember my golden rule for knowing when to write functions:
This is what we will be creating:
I know people are saying AS3 is more complicated then the pervious versions, but I bet when you get to understand the basics you will like it even more.
The basic usage of the display list involves displaying objects on the screen and removing others from the screen. These two tasks require using the .addChild() and .removeChild() methods.
It's a very easy one:
Drawing with Flash AS3 part 1
// first variable holds the value of how many objects we want.
How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing? Last post by: style197 Date: 21.08.2009 04:20:28
How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing? Last post by: style197 Date: 21.08.2009 04:20:28
How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing? Last post by: style197 Date: 21.08.2009 04:20:28
How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing? Last post by: style197 Date: 21.08.2009 04:20:28
How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing? Last post by: style197 Date: 21.08.2009 04:20:28
So here we go, its quite easy to the function looks quite messy so try to follow my explanation comments for each line of code..jpg)
iii. Select the first frame of the Timeline and press F9 for the ActionScript window to appear. Type in the following code:
I made this animation using our Spring Time vector pack. It's about 360Kbs, but once it's loaded click Play to get it started, then you can press the Left or Right arrows to control the little bunny.
Prepare a good-looking background for your clock (in Flash, Photoshop, Corel, Fireworks or what do you want) with 300x300 dimensions. If you don't have a background take the picture below:
First we need to make the cannon, here is how I did it, just make some graphics for a wheel.
So in this Flash tutorial you will see how to draw stuff using Flash actionscript 3, it sounds scary, and I thought so too, I have been use to actionscript 2.0 for a while and found actionscript 3 quite intimidating, but this might be the first thing where actionscript 3.0 seems more simple then 2.0 so try to follow along.
Now go to the filters panel and add these two filters as shown below.
Now when you have imported the phone image to the stage, right click it, and convert it to a movie clip.
So we need to make a ball, I did it quite easy, just found an image of a ball. Now you need to convert it into a movieclip and give it an instance name, I named mine ball_mc.
Right click and convert it into a movie clip, then go to the filters panel and add a blur filter with these settings
In Frame 51 move the match off of the right side of the Stage. Select Frame 41. In the Properties panel select Motion from the Tween menu.
45 Select Window > Actions or press F9 to open up the Actions panel.
The usual problem with players is that the netStatusHandler does not wait for “NetConnection.Connect.Success” before making the stream connection and trying the nsStream.play() command.