AS3 Air High Score Help
Hello everyone, i just came here to ask how to add a high score feature in as3 for android and ios. I want it to display on the main menu of the game. Heres my main file (game.as). I am wondering how i would implement it into that? (as you can see i have tried but failed...) please point me in the right direction on this one I want it to display in a dynamic text field called "bestScore" in a movieclip called "HighScore" the instance name of HighScore is bestScore so idk lol. Im new to as3... My score is in a movieclip called "Score" and the dynamic text field is "scoreDisplay" and the instance name is "gameScore" If that helps. Heres my game.as:
[as]
package
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.ui.Mouse;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.ui.Keyboard;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.net.SharedObject;
public class Game extends MovieClip
static var ship:MovieClip;
static var healthMeter:HealthMeter;
static var score:Score;
static var highScore:HighScore;
static var enemyShipTimer:Timer;
static var gameOverMenu:GameOverMenu;
static var startMenu:StartMenu;
static var startButton:StartButton;
static var pauseButton:PauseButton;
static var playButton:PlayButton;
static var mainMenuButton:MainMenuButton;
public var currentValue:Number;
public var sharedObject:SharedObject;
public function Game()
Key.initialize(stage);
ship = new Ship();
healthMeter = new HealthMeter();
var score:Score = new Score();
var highScore:HighScore = new HighScore();
addChild(score);
addChild(highScore);
gameScore.visible = false;
bestScore.visible = true;
healthMeter.x = 2.5;
healthMeter.y = 576;
gameOverMenu = new GameOverMenu();
gameOverMenu.x = 217;
gameOverMenu.y = 244;
addChild(gameOverMenu);
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.playAgainButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", newGame);
startMenu = new StartMenu();
mainMenuButton = new MainMenuButton();
startButton = new StartButton();
startMenu.x = 151;
startMenu.y = 111;
startButton.x = 93;
startButton.y = 426;
mainMenuButton.x = 656;
mainMenuButton.y = 483;
addChild(mainMenuButton);
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
stage.addChildAt(startMenu, 0);
addChild(startButton);
startMenu.visible = true;
startButton.visible = true;
startMenu.visible = true;
startButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", newGame);
mainMenuButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", mainMenu);
pauseButton = new PauseButton();
pauseButton.x = 896;
pauseButton.y = 63;
pauseButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", PauseGame);
playButton = new PlayButton();
playButton.x = 896;
playButton.y = 63;
addChild(playButton);
playButton.visible = false;
playButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", PlayGame);
static function gameOver()
mainMenuButton.visible = true;
healthMeter.visible = false;
pauseButton.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.visible = true;
enemyShipTimer.stop();
for (var i in EnemyShip.list)
EnemyShip.list[i].kill();
ship.takeDamage(-ship.maxHealth);
function newGame(e:Event)
addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, PauseGame);
bestScore.visible = false;
gameScore.visible = true;
addChild(pauseButton);
addChild(healthMeter);
addChild(mainMenuButton);
enemyShipTimer = new Timer(750);
enemyShipTimer.addEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
addChild(ship);
healthMeter.visible = true;
startMenu.visible = false;
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
startButton.visible = false;
healthMeter.visible = true;
pauseButton.visible = true;
playButton.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
ship.visible = true;
ship.x = 367;
ship.y = 542;
enemyShipTimer.start();
currentValue = 0;
updateDisplay();
function mainMenu(e:Event)
removeEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, PauseGame);
bestScore.visible = true;
gameScore.visible = false;
removeChild(mainMenuButton);
removeChild(ship);
healthMeter.visible = false;
startMenu.visible = true;
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
startButton.visible = true;
healthMeter.visible = false;
pauseButton.visible = false;
playButton.visible = false;
ship.takeDamage(ship.maxHealth);
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
function PauseGame(e:Event)
enemyShipTimer.removeEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
stage.frameRate = 0;//
pauseButton.visible = false;
playButton.visible = true;
function PlayGame(e:Event)
enemyShipTimer.addEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
stage.frameRate = 30;//
pauseButton.visible = true;
playButton.visible = false;
public function Counter()
reset();
function sendEnemy(e:Event)
var enemy = new EnemyShip();
stage.addChildAt(enemy, 0);
addToValue(1);
function addToValue( amountToAdd:Number ):void
currentValue = currentValue + amountToAdd;
updateDisplay();
function setValue( amount:Number ):void
currentValue = amount;
updateDisplay();
function reset():void
currentValue = 0;
updateDisplay();
function updateDisplay():void
gameScore.scoreDisplay.text = currentValue.toString();
function getFinalScore():Number
return gameScore.currentValue;
public function GameOverScreen()
sharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("natdScores");
public function setFinalScore( scoreValue:Number ):void
gameScore.text = scoreValue.toString();
if (sharedObject.data.bestScore == null)
sharedObject.data.bestScore = scoreValue;
else if ( scoreValue > sharedObject.data.bestScore )
sharedObject.data.bestScore = scoreValue;
bestScore.text = sharedObject.data.bestScore.toString();
sharedObject.flush();
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Thanks in advance
-Ben
hello again, i added that code to the updatedisplay function with the currentValue.toString(); because putting a number there would achieve nothing here, and it works, but it doesnt save the highest score. whatever score is the last score it puts it there, becoming like a last score than a high score feature. heres my game.as again with your help
[as]
package
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.ui.Mouse;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.ui.Keyboard;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.net.SharedObject;
import flash.text.TextField;
public class Game extends MovieClip
static var ship:MovieClip;
static var healthMeter:HealthMeter;
static var score:Score;
static var highScore:HighScore;
static var enemyShipTimer:Timer;
static var gameOverMenu:GameOverMenu;
static var startMenu:StartMenu;
static var startButton:StartButton;
static var pauseButton:PauseButton;
static var playButton:PlayButton;
static var mainMenuButton:MainMenuButton;
public var currentValue:Number;
public var sharedObject:SharedObject;
public function Game()
Key.initialize(stage);
ship = new Ship();
healthMeter = new HealthMeter();
var score:Score = new Score();
var highScore:HighScore = new HighScore();
addChild(score);
addChild(highScore);
gameScore.visible = false;
bestScore.visible = true;
healthMeter.x = 2.5;
healthMeter.y = 576;
gameOverMenu = new GameOverMenu();
gameOverMenu.x = 217;
gameOverMenu.y = 244;
addChild(gameOverMenu);
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.playAgainButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", newGame);
startMenu = new StartMenu();
mainMenuButton = new MainMenuButton();
startButton = new StartButton();
startMenu.x = 151;
startMenu.y = 111;
startButton.x = 93;
startButton.y = 426;
mainMenuButton.x = 656;
mainMenuButton.y = 483;
addChild(mainMenuButton);
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
stage.addChildAt(startMenu, 0);
addChild(startButton);
startMenu.visible = true;
startButton.visible = true;
startMenu.visible = true;
startButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", newGame);
mainMenuButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", mainMenu);
pauseButton = new PauseButton();
pauseButton.x = 896;
pauseButton.y = 63;
pauseButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", PauseGame);
playButton = new PlayButton();
playButton.x = 896;
playButton.y = 63;
addChild(playButton);
playButton.visible = false;
playButton.addEventListener("mouseDown", PlayGame);
static function gameOver()
mainMenuButton.visible = true;
healthMeter.visible = false;
pauseButton.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.visible = true;
enemyShipTimer.stop();
for (var i in EnemyShip.list)
EnemyShip.list[i].kill();
ship.takeDamage(-ship.maxHealth);
function newGame(e:Event)
addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, PauseGame);
bestScore.visible = false;
gameScore.visible = true;
addChild(pauseButton);
addChild(healthMeter);
addChild(mainMenuButton);
enemyShipTimer = new Timer(750);
enemyShipTimer.addEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
addChild(ship);
healthMeter.visible = true;
startMenu.visible = false;
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
startButton.visible = false;
healthMeter.visible = true;
pauseButton.visible = true;
playButton.visible = false;
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
ship.visible = true;
ship.x = 367;
ship.y = 542;
enemyShipTimer.start();
currentValue = 0;
updateDisplay();
function mainMenu(e:Event)
removeEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, PauseGame);
bestScore.visible = true;
gameScore.visible = false;
removeChild(mainMenuButton);
removeChild(ship);
healthMeter.visible = false;
startMenu.visible = true;
mainMenuButton.visible = false;
startButton.visible = true;
healthMeter.visible = false;
pauseButton.visible = false;
playButton.visible = false;
ship.takeDamage(ship.maxHealth);
gameOverMenu.visible = false;
function PauseGame(e:Event)
enemyShipTimer.removeEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
stage.frameRate = 0;//
pauseButton.visible = false;
playButton.visible = true;
function PlayGame(e:Event)
enemyShipTimer.addEventListener("timer", sendEnemy);
stage.frameRate = 30;//
pauseButton.visible = true;
playButton.visible = false;
public function Counter()
reset();
function sendEnemy(e:Event)
var enemy = new EnemyShip();
stage.addChildAt(enemy, 0);
addToValue(1);
function addToValue( amountToAdd:Number ):void
currentValue = currentValue + amountToAdd;
updateDisplay();
function setValue( amount:Number ):void
currentValue = amount;
updateDisplay();
function reset():void
currentValue = 0;
updateDisplay();
public function updateDisplay():void
TextField(gameScore.getChildByName("scoreDisplay")).text = currentValue.toString();
TextField(bestScore.getChildByName("bestScore")).text = currentValue.toString();
function getFinalScore()
return gameScore.currentValue;
public function GameOverScreen()
sharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("natdScores");
public function setFinalScore( scoreValue:Number ):void
gameScore.text = scoreValue.toString();
if (sharedObject.data.bestScore == null)
sharedObject.data.bestScore = scoreValue;
else if ( scoreValue > sharedObject.data.bestScore )
sharedObject.data.bestScore = scoreValue;
bestScore.text = sharedObject.data.bestScore.toString();
sharedObject.flush();
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structArray(0).highScore = score;
FILE *fout;
fout = fopen("highscore.dat", "wb"); //should create/rewrite data file from scratch
for (i = 0; i <= ii; i++) {
fprintf(fout, "%s %d\n", structArray(i).name, structArray(i).highScore);
fclose(fout);
*CODE END*
As far as I can tell by commenting out different portions of the code, the problem appears to be somewhere in here:
*CODE START:*
if (fin != NULL) { //if the data file exists proceed here
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (fscanf(fin, "%s %d\n", structArray(i).name, &structArray(i).highScore) != EOF) { //if data exists for this iteration proceed
*CODE END*
...but it baffles me that this works with one structure in the data file, crashes with two structures in the data file but correctly processes/sorts them and writes the file properly, and crashes with three structures in the data file without doing any additional work.
Jesse Widener
www.artandstructure.comActually I've found online material to be adequately, and sometimes more than adequately, elucidating in learning the language. When I decided to take a stab at this I spent about 40 hours of my spare time the first week reading 2 or 3 different "takes" on the C/C++/Objective C language in addition to Apple's docs on their implementation along with the iPhone SDK. As I mentioned, I've thus far found the language quite clear and concise. I began my application the second week and this is the first time in 7 weeks of coding where I've felt the need to ask assistance. Every other problem I've solved, leaving no errors, warnings or leaks in my software and accomplishing every task I've set to this point.
I find reading several different "takes" on a subject helps fill out an understanding from different perspectives. In this case, one perspective might lead the reader to believe or misunderstand the full use/context of a particular syntax, while reading from multiple sources can show the same syntax used in different contexts, broadening the understanding of its use, and that understanding can be user further to interpolate uses in a variety of situations.
I am new to C/C++/Objective C and the iPhone SDK, but I am not new to programming. It may have been some time (other than hand-coding my website the last few years) and my language experience may be limited to BASIC, HTML, PHP and Javascript, but from my view learning a new language is relatively easy once you know one...even if it is BASIC. The general logic structure remains the same. The overall software design concept remans essentially the same. Both are going to use variables, arrays, subroutines, memory allocation/management, input and output of data, runtime logic, etc. I am 80-90% sure I know exactly how I want to attack a coding problem every time...I just need to know how to "say it in C".
I don't remember when I first started coding, but I know by age 7 I wrote a karaoke style "Happy Birthday" for my great aunt with music playing through a Commodore 16 via "beeps" figuring the particular vibrations per second of the speaker (the hertz values) and durations for each note in time and pitch perfectly along with "lyrics" printed to screen with the music. To me, learning C is like learning a new foreign language. I took 2 years of French in high school and had to study at it but aced it nonetheless. I then opted to take Spanish but after a semester I opted to stop because the pacing was too slow. Learning Spanish after learning French was a piece of cake. They are in the same general language family and the syntax construction is very similar. I only needed the raw data of the words to fit to the rules I already knew. I didn't need to learn the same rules a second time.
The C/Objective C language seems no more complicated than it need be, which is to say it seems simple in doing what it needs to do and I am impressed with that simplicity thus far. I am also impressed with Apple's implementation with regard to the iPhone. Being able to provide music via 4-5 lines of code using AVAudioPlayer is transcendental compared to "beeping" every note monophonically.
Apple's explanations are very clear and concise. It is just, sometimes their examples are sparse or too narrow in scope to get a rounded context. However, their docs are very good and there is a wealth of information here on the net. My biggest complaint with Apple's docs really stems from the fact they seem to want to shove Interface Builder at everything and provide the code to do so but leave the reader stranded if the reader would rather stay within XCode exclusively and do more programmatically rather than leave that much "behind the curtain" work to Interface Builder...but it is a minor complaint.
On pointers...I do understand the use of pointers, perhaps not to the nth degree as I am just starting out, but the concept makes sense to me. I understand they are not "content" but a memory address location of the "content". I also understand why pointing to a location which is undefined or unprotected is damaging to whatever may be in that location already and to the data being pointed since it can be inadvertently overwritten my some other memory using item.
{quote}No. The (i < 9) condition is critical. Writing to structArray[10] will crash, since structArray[9] is the end of the array. In practice such a crash might not happen right away, though. If our program's data allocation actually ended at the end of the array, the crash would be immediate. But what usually happens when we write past the end of an array is that the beginning of some other data is overwritten.{quote}
I need to slap my forehead on this one. I know better than that. I don't know why I missed that. Too many late nights I suppose.
{quote}(NSString*) is called a type cast in that context.{quote}
Yes, which is why I used it to deal with the incompatible type error I thought I had at that point, but I shouldn't have assumed by appeasing the compiler I was necessarily solving the problem.
{quote} The best I can do for now is to caution that an enquiring mind, like all virtues, can be taken too far. I think it's important to compromise and copy good models sometimes. This isn't just to avoid reinventing the wheel. Sometimes it's good to remember we only have a limited time on Earth.{quote}
Agreed...and I don't expect to understand every nuance the first time around. I expect to at least understand how each successful line of code works in its context, but I imagine some processes will take a few times through before it "clicks" how it works in a greater context than its own, and I am all right with that. I also understand deadlines are deadlines whether they be software development or otherwise and a broad eye needs to be kept to remaining on the track forward.
Anyway, off to my day job.
Thank you again...I began reading up on NSDictionary and NSUserDefaults last night. Will post soon.
Jesse Widener
www.artandstructure.com -
AS3 AIR accessing Android expansion file
Hello, I have AS3/AIR application for deploying on Google Play. The app has an expansion file attached to it. Expansion file is named "main.1000000.air.com.mycompany.myapp12.obb" and it is downloaded along with the app properly.
The problem is I cannot access the file with any way I tried, like:
File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('Android/obb/main.1000000.air.com.mycompany.myapp12.obb');
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The Aplication can't see the obb file after install - it can find it only after device system reload
but I can see it on such directorys
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storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb/
storage/emulated/0/Android/obb/
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Hi I recently made a game(dosen't really matter what kind) in which the user gets a score and saves the score to my high score table.
I do this by connecting to a .php page and passing the score and name variables on to it. (www.random.com/blablabla.php?name=bla&score=676) The page then opens the mySQL table and saves the high scores. THe page is opened from within the applet and the user dosen't see the page opening.
The problem I am having is security, and i'm trying to make it so that nobody can access that php page from their browser and input whatever score they want and what not. THis was brought to my attention by my friend who put images(none rude) and hyperlinks allover my high score page. He was nice enough to tell me so now I am trying to fix it.
THe first steps I took were to not package the source code with the jar(which he downloaded and extracted). But even then I could decompile the class file and search the file for ".php" and easily know what url to type into the browser to input any score for my game. I then tried using an obfuscator, ProGuard, which didn't help me much. It only renamed all the classes and variables, but the String I open for the high score I still very easily visible. Also from other people I got the general opinion that they(obfuscators) aren't much good as they only make it slightly harder to people to get the information, not make it impossible.
Basically what I want to do is to make it as hard as possible for people(namely my friend...) to find out the page which saves the high scores, and type it into their browsers so they can input whatever high score they want. Obfusticating didn't help much and now I am running out of ideas. I was thinking about:
Making sure the thing that oppened the page is an applet, but I'm not sure how to do this. This would be my ideal solution as I am not too worried about people who would go out of their way to make an applet with the same name as mine just to "hack" my high scores which aren't even worth hacking. But how would I go about doing this?You could do this using a client/server system comminicating using sockets, rather than simply a HTML request sent from the client. This way the client could be required to provide some validation before the server accepts score updates from it.
The trick is to decide how the validation is done; you need to be able to differentiate between genuine clients and a client your friend has decompiled and changed so he can cheat.
Remember that your friend can see exactly how the client works, but cannot see how the server works. Maybe you could send a copy of the client class object to the server and then the server could checksum it? -
High Score Table: Writing a Simple Text File with Flash and PHP
I am having a problem getting Flash to work with PHP as I need Flash to read and write to a text file on a server to store simple name/score data for a games hi score table. I can read from the text file into Flash easily enough but also need to write to the file when a new high score is reached, so I need to use PHP to do that. I can send the data from flash to the php file via POST but so far it is not working. The PHP file is confirmed as working as I added an echo to the file which displayed a message so I could check that the server was running PHP - the files were also uploaded to a remote server so I could test them properly. Flash code is as follows:
//php filewriter
var myLV = new LoadVars();
function sendData() {
//sets up variable 'hsdata' to send to php
myLV.hsdata = myText;
myLV.send("hiscores.php");
I believe this sends the variable 'myText' to the php file as a variable called 'hsdata' which I want the php file to write into a text file. The mytext variable is just a long string that has all the scores and names in the hiscore. OK, XML would be better way of doing this but for speed I just want to get basic functionality working, so storing a simple text sting is adequate for now. The PHP code that reads the Flash 'hsdata' variable and writes it to the text file 'scores.txt' follows:
<?php
//assigns to variable the data POSTed from flash
$flashdata = $_POST["hsdata"];
//file handler opens file and erases all contents with w arg
$fh = fopen("scores.txt","w");
//adds data to file
fwrite ($fh,$flashdata);
//closes file
fclose ($fh);
echo 'php file is working';
?>
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated - once I can get php to write simple text files I should be ok. Thanks.Thanks for your help.
I have got Flash working to a certain extent with PHP using loadVars but have been unable to get flash to receive a variable declared in PHP. Here's my Flash code:
var outLV = new LoadVars();
var inLV = new LoadVars();
function sendData() {
outLV.hsdata = "Hello from Flash";
outLV.sendAndLoad("http://www.mysite.com/hiscores/test23.php",inLV,"post");
inLV.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//sets dynamic text box to show variable sent from php
statusTxt.text = phpmess;
} else {
statusTxt.text = "No Data Received";
This works ok and the inLV.onLoad function reports that it is receiving data but does not display the variable received from PHP. The PHP file is like this:
<?php
$mytxt =$_POST['hsdata'];
$myfile = "test23.txt";
$fh = fopen($myfile,'w');
//adds data to file
fwrite($fh, $mytxt);
//closes file
fclose ($fh);
$mess = "hello there from php";
echo ("&phpmess=$mess&");
?>
The PHP file is correctly receiving the hsdata from flash and writing it to a text file, but there seems to be a problem with the final part of the code which is intended to send a variable called 'phpmess' back to Flash, this is the string "hello there from php". How do I set up Flash and PHP so that PHP can send a variable back to Flash using echo? Really have tried everything but am totally baffled. Online tutorials have given numerous different syntax configurations for how the PHP file should be written which has really confused me - any help would be greatly appreciated. -
Hi can anyone help please -
I'm currently making a game for an assignment, which is
pretty much finished however I have to include a score recording
system which will record name, score and number of hits for the top
10 players. The scores should be held in an external text file . I
was wondering if anyone could explain a simple way to do this, i
know i should use getpref and setpref to create and load the text
file, and also use some sort of list. If i use a property list i
can have a property 'name' and its value 'score' but how would i
add a third element, the hits. Alternatively if i use a linear
list, one for each of name, hits and score, how would i link them
and sort them so that the correct name hits and score display
together. Also i should probably mention that the game currently
has name, hits and score held in global variables.
If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be
great, I'd really like to understand how to get this working first
instead of just the usual trial and error.
thanks
MarkThe general tool for reading and writing text files is the
fileIO xtra,
implementing it involves some learning curve.
The easy way to store user settings like high scores is the
setPref,
getPref functions which store text in a predefined location
and works
with shockwave, unlike fileIO xtra.
The larger effort might be involved in getting the scores
from the
stored text version back to whatever variables scheme you
store them in.
value(somestring) converts a text representation of a number
back to an
integer or float.
you can even store list variables as text
x = [["bob", 123], ["Jim", 567], ["Sally", 778]]
savePref "scoreFile", string(x)
-- retrieved with
x = value(getPref("scoreFile")) -
Hi guys,
I was wondering how I could implement a high score list into a java applet game i wrote. The logic isnt what im worried about, its writing to a file that is on a server that i dont own. It's my school's webspace...do i have access to do this?
If I dont have access, how would I do this, there are tons of online games with high score lists, so how do they do it?
Appreciate the help,
BrianOnly you would know if you have the permission to do this!. BTW you cannot write to a file from an Applet unless it is signed.
What I would do if I wanted to do this is, Create a webpage that has access to write to a file or database, then inside my applet use a HttpURLConnection to call this webpage with the paramaters passed along the query line:
http://www.yourHost.com/TopScores?name=Gary&score=12345
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