FLASH Motion/Events (6)

1. How to make hotspots?
2. How can you jump to another page or scene when you click
something?
3. Loop animations?
4. Timing animations with triggers (e.g. a loading bar
lasting only the duration for loading)
5. Mouse hoover effects
6. How to make objects disappear or appear upon clicks.
I've messed with HTML & PHP for sometime now, but today
though I messed with flash for the first time. I ran into 6 issues.
I figured out keyframing, motion, and fades. Any help on
these?

I suggest you begin by reading the wealth of information on
these basic concepts in the Flash Help Manual (F1) where you will
find these answers and much more than you will be able to read over
the next year or so...
1) read about movieclips and buttons
2) see #1, understand the timeline and the gotoAndPlay()
method
3) all timelines loop by default, and see #3
4) read about the Tween class ...
4a) preloaders are a whole other animal, you will need the
basics before working with external loading
5) see #1, an infinite number of ways only limited by your
imagination
6) see #1, again, many methods to achieve this type of
action

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Mouse motion events

For some reason my custom JComponent or cutom Jpanel do not detect any mouseMotion events. Does anyone know why that is?
I have a class like the following
public class GeometryPanel extends JComponent implements MouseInputListenerin my main class (the frame class) I have the following
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     JPanel p = new MyPanel();
     JComponent geometryPanel;
     JComponent buttonPanel = new ButtonPanel(this);
     public MainWindow()
          geometryPanel = new GeometryPanel(this,600, 600);
          setupGUI();
          displayFrame();
     public void setupGUI()
           p.setBackground( Color.white );
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           p.add( geometryPanel );
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           frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          frame.setContentPane(p);
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          frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
          frame.show();
     }For some reason all of the mouse pressed events are caught, but not the motion events. They are not fired.

Ah I got it, thank you. Forgot to add the mouse motion listener next to the mouse listner

How to deactivate mouse (motion) event coalescing (by EventQueue)?

Hello everybody,
I would like to know if it is possible to deactivate the event coalescing for mouse events. I refer to the following method found in "java.awt.EventQueue":
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        EventQueueItem[] cache = ((Component)e.getSource()).eventCache;
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            return false;
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        if (index != -1 && cache[index] != null) {
            cache[index].event = e;
            return true;
        return false;
    }                                                                              As I can see, all necessary method for modifiing the EventClass class are private. I did not found any method where I can explicitely deactivate the coalescing of mouse events.
Other "interesting" methods are:
- java.awt.EventQueue.coalesceEvent(AWTEvent, int)
- java.awt.Component.coalesceEvents(AWTEvent, AWTEvent)
But unfortunately, I did not manage to deactivate it.
For some background information: I would like to build a drawing panel for a Tablet-PC application to draw with a digitizer/pen on it. As an optimal goal, it should be as smooth as the Windows 7 handwriting panel (don't know the official name). The trivial implementation is not fast enough - drawing quickly produces too few points (round lines with edges). And I think one reason for this is, that some mouse (motion) events get coalesced/skipped while drawing - hence this request for support.
I'm greateful for any hint you may have
Thanks a lot!

if (whatever) {
    // (MouseEvent e)
    e.consume()
} else {
    // some usefull, but not EventQeue.push()
} you can consume Key and Mouse events
you have to check JComponentHierarchy because each of JComponent have got implemented KeyBindings (e.g. F2 edit JTable cell ...),

Problem with flash in events packaged application

Hi,
I´v installed the Events packaged application.
On page 24 you can show some flash-reports. But I get an error: xml loading failed (flow_flash_chart_Rxxxxx).
What can be the reason? serverside or desktopside?
Any reaction will be appreciated.
Leo

Try the following
close all browser windows and open Windows Explorer
in the address bar type %appdata%\Adobe
delete the 'Flash Player' folder in there
in the address bar type %appdata%\Macromedia
delete the 'Flash Player' folder in there
Now try again to change any Flash Player settings.

Flash & Motion

Might be a dumb question but i'll ask anyway.
I build my DVD menus in Motion for DSP and was wondering if in Motion if i keyframe a button getting bigger when you click or even hover would be better for it to get bigger but have that function work in DSP. I have done simular projects in DSP but i was using layered menus from Photoshop where if you hover i had a box with a description come out and desrbibe the what that button will do. Been through DSP and sence you can't really layer menus with motion i might have already answered my own question, but i thought i may as well ask the pros. Thanks Charles

I suggest you begin by reading the wealth of information on
these basic concepts in the Flash Help Manual (F1) where you will
find these answers and much more than you will be able to read over
the next year or so...
1) read about movieclips and buttons
2) see #1, understand the timeline and the gotoAndPlay()
method
3) all timelines loop by default, and see #3
4) read about the Tween class ...
4a) preloaders are a whole other animal, you will need the
basics before working with external loading
5) see #1, an infinite number of ways only limited by your
imagination
6) see #1, again, many methods to achieve this type of
action

Flash motion menu problem

Hi,
Ive made a dvd with the first play as a motion menu containing a small video clip. Ten seconds, plays once then moves to a static menu. There is nothing else in the menu (no buttons etc) and all it contains is the locked background layer that encore generates plus the movie linked through the motion tab.
I used a menu to do this other than a time line because I was getting a weird scaling thing when it jumped to the static menu. Not a 4:3 - 16:9 issue, just a slight scaling. Both are set to 720x576 WS PAL.
Anyway, this menu shows up fine when I preview the dvd in encore but when I make a flash version for the client to preview, the motion menu is just black. Audio plays but no video. The rest of the dvd works fine in the flash version.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.

What is the AV format of the Motion Menu Asset?
Can you post a screen-cap of the Layers of your Motion Menu?
When one has a Scaling issue, and the pixel x pixel size matches, it is often a mis-match in PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio), and is often square pixels in one case, and non-square pixels in the other. IIRC, with PAL, that would be 1.0 vs 1.4 for the PAR's. To correct that Scaling, I would carefully check the PAR of all Assets in that Menu.
Good luck,
Hunt

Flash motion presets

I've been working with Flash CS3 for a little while, and just
noticed that in the newest release (CS4) they have motion presets
you can use - which I think is great! However, my employer is not
going to upgrade me to CS4 just for that! Does anyone know if
there's a way to use presets in CS3? Is there a site or anything
where you can grab some free preset animations? Has this ever been
done before CS4?
Thanks!

I have not seen anything for animation presets prior to CS4.
I know in CS3 they introduced the ability to copy and paste motion,
which is just one step down from having a preset. I believe you can
also save motion out to XML, but that is for use in Flex projects.
As for convincing your employer to upgrade you to CS4, there
are more than a few options that make a CS4 upgrade not only
tantalizing, but necessary (in my opinion), and well worth the
cost. For starters, the ability to work in 2.5D (that means 2D
planes in 3D space). The highly customizable object-based tween
model (key frame-less!!). These are just a couple of the basics,
each one independently worth the upgrade, and when you bundle them
together, it is an upgrade that is quite irresistible.

Flash builder Event metadata not recognized

Hello,
Can someone explain me why my event isn't recognized in the code below (it is not proposed as a property for my TestButton and if I try to force it I get an error)
Test application :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><s:Application
xmlns:fx=http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009
xmlns:s="
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
xmlns:local="
minWidth="
1024" minHeight="768">
    <local:TestButton/>
</s:Application>
TestButton.mxml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Button
xmlns:fx=
http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009 xmlns:s="
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"xmlns:mx="
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">
     <fx:Metadata>
Event("testEvent", type="flash.events.Event")]
     </fx:Metadata> </s:Button>
There is no more or less code than that. I'm using the beta of Flash Builder 4.
Thanks. </s:Button>
There is no more or less code than that. I'm using the beta of Flash Builder 4.
Thanks.
</s:Button>
There is no more or less code than that. I'm using the beta of Flash Builder 4.
Thanks.

My apologize for my post layout but I definitly can't get my post to look like what I write in the text field. I don't know why it has repeated the last line (maybe because it's some Adobe stuff). It's difficult to be confident in the reliability of Adobe developping tools when a simple web page doesn't work correctly.
Sorry for being nasty but I'm starting to get rid of spending hours on ununderstandable problems.
(To be more nasty, the best this morning : I start a new Flex project in Flash Builder, make a few things, and when I tried to launch it, surprise : "This file cannot be launched" and that's all, no more explanation, imposible to find answer on the web. I finally had to restart the project.)

Listen to Flash Player events

Hi all,
I hope this is the right forum for this kind of question, if no i apologize for the spam and could you please redirect me to the right one.
Is it possible to write a sort of plugin to the Flash Player that can listen on events like:
- the player is loading an FLV video
- the user is pausing the FLV video
- the user is seeking the FLV video
and so on.
This is to develop an application that can control which videos are being accessed by the player and validate against a list of allowed URL.
I have seen that the Action Script3 allow to interface with external API so that for example a Javascript program in the webpage embedding the player can access some methods of player:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9 b90204-7cb1.html
however i'm not sure what type of APIs the Flash Player can export to implement what i need.
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Giovanni

r035198x wrote:
endasil wrote:
Are you sure you aren't interested in a [static initializer|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/classes.html#8.7]?
That's if they have access to the class file being loaded. Problem with static initializers is that they'd also have to write code in every class. (There is no way of specifying an initializer for a group of classes e.t.c)
I think the OP needs to simplify their requirements.e.g The class which would contain the code that sets this class loading logging capability would not itself be able to be logged.I was just guessing at the OP's requirements, having none. Often people come here and say "I need this," instead of saying "I need to +accomplish+ this..." which presupposes the path to take--a path that is often unnecessary or just plain wrong. So it was just a shot in the dark, saying that if the underlying requirement was to be notified of a single class being initialized, then that would be an alternative.

How to capture Flash SWC events?

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to capture an event from a Flash SWC in Flex?
Scenario:
I have an animated gameboard that I built in Flash. Nothing fancy, just a simple tile game where you select a tile, click it and it flips over to reveal something.
I've managed to export a SWC, and get it to display just dandy in my Flex project, but I cannot figure out how to get Flex to capture and respond to any type of event... custom or predefined (such as MouseEvent.CLICK) when clicking one of the tiles in the swc.
I've done quite a bit of googling but I'm cross-eyed at this point and could use some expert direction.
Thanks in advance.
JL

Hi Alex,
After further research, I've found some answers to my questions, but I've encountered a related obsticle.
I finally stumbled upon the Flex 3 Component Kit documentation, and on page 9 of that document, it describes in detail an example of adding custom events.
To summarize, my related obsticle this:
I created a simple MovieClip symbol in Flash (named "My Circle").
I created a simple external class mimicing the example code in the Flex 3 Component Kit documentation (named "MyCircle.as") which extends mx.flash.UIMovieClip
The .fla containing the MovieClip symbol "My Circle" and the external class "MyCircle.as" reside in the same directory
In Flash I convert the symbol "My Circle" to a Flex component and verify that the class is "MyCircle" and there is no base class
I export the now converted MovieClip as a .swc file
In my Flex project, I add MyCircle.swc to the Library path
In my Flex project source I add an instance of MyCircle as <local:MyCircle id="my_circle" />
Switching to Design view in my Flex project I don't see anything. I refresh design view and still do not see a graphic representation of my .swc file. There are no errors or warnings
Using the Outline, I select the instance of MyCircle and discover that it is indeed on the stage, but it's bounding box dimensions are essentially zero. It seems there is no image in the swc.
Returning to Flash, I duplicated the MovieClip symbol, renamed it to "My Circle No External Class", and converted it to a Flex component. I also verified that this new component had a class name of "MyCircleNoExternalClass" and had a base class of mx.flash.UIMovieClip.
Following the above proceedure to correctly link it to my Flex project's Library path and adding an instance of <local:MyCircleNoExternalClass /> to the source, the .swc file show's up beautifully.
So, why would adding an external class file (with the ultimate goal of being able to dispatch custom events) cause the contents of the MovieClip itself to not be included in the .swc?
Again, I'm following the example on page 9 of the Flex 3 Component Kit documentation and using the Flex 3.3 SDK.

Can GRADIENT MESH be moved in a Flash MOTION TWEEN?

I have been animating with Flash Pro for a while and just started using Illustrator. It has a really neat tool called gradient mesh. My question is can I export an object with a gradient mesh into Flash Pro and tween it to say rotate it or move its surface colors?

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Flash 8 asset Xtra update - component event workaround

Sorry to post so much about this. Lots of us are having major
headaches because after the Flash 8 asset Xtra update Flash
component events in Director don't behave as they once did.
BUT I've discovered you can use a combination of
addEventListener() and setCallback() to respond to events, at least
with the button component. Fortunately this works with the new
Shockwave player too. It’s a little convoluted, but at least
clicking a button makes stuff happen now.
It’s easier to let you look at it yourself than try to
explain it, I’m getting brain dead from experimenting with
this all evening. Click
HERE
to download the zip file.
Please look through the code and see if you can come up with
anything else to add. Hopefully smarter folks than me will be able
to work more of this out. It doesn’t seem like we’re
getting any help from Adobe on this. I posted a question on Tom
Higgins’ blog today and got an auto response saying
he’s on vacation until April 24 and won’t be checking
email. He’s usually good about communicating with developers
about Director, so with luck he’ll be able to help out.
Optimally they’ll fix the durn thing. If you have time please
post anything you discover regarding components after installing
the new asset Xtra.

I had a look at your file, and I noticed:
function buttonClick(me,passedObj)
// unfortunately this don't work
for (var objProps in passedObj)
ember("infoText").text += objProps;
two things:
First, I think what you're trying (getting info on the object
properties) might only work in lingo.
on buttonClick(me,passedObj,eventObj)
--put a break point in here, and inspect the objects
member("infoText").text = "label property: " &
eventObj.target.label
member("infoText").text = member("infoText").text &
RETURN & "toggle property: " & eventObj.target.toggle
end
Second, I was playing with this, and discovered through the
function's (undocumented) arguments array that the third argument
is the event object which is another place to test for variables.
An event object has a 'type' property (in this case "click"), and a
'target' property which is the button. Hope this helps!

Animated Gif over Flash document?

Hi folks,
Quick question here ...
Is it possible to overlay an animated gif on top of a flash banner?
I have an html page, where I want to re-work our main banner with flash elements, but would like to place our existing animated gif over the right hand part of the background banner.
Hope that makes sense?
Kind Regards,
Cal

... thanks Ned!
Just knowing that it's possible is encouraging, so I'll be sure to dabble with your suggestion over the festive season, otherwise, I'd have to learn how to combine several flash motions in flash at one time, where that could certainly fry my brain "cell" lololol
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Video Tracking in Flash

Does anyone know how to do video tracking in flash? I want a
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commands to an object in Flash. Is this even possible?

Doable. Yes.
Easy. No.
http://incomplet.gskinner.com/index2.html#camwriter2
http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewforum/33/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html
http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/project/flash-motion-tracking

Motion Guide + AS3

I'm designing a game in which a player rides a bike around a
track. The game needs to show a "lap indicator" that displays the
player's progress along an irregularly-shaped course.
I'm guessing the best way to do this will be to copy the
layer that has the course outline and use that as a Motion Guide,
then move the indicator along that guide? Should I use the
flash.motion.Animator class to do this?
I also would really like to have the position indicator
"turn" as it goes along the route, i.e. a triangle that always
points in the direction of travel. I think I can do it like this:
* determine the indicator's x and y before moving it,
* moving to the next frame,
* finding the new x and y,
* then figure out which direction it moved horizontally and
vertically, the ratio between the two, then convert this to a
rotation angle. So if it moved to right horizontally, but didn't
move vertically, that's 90 degrees; if it moved equally down and
left that's 225 degrees, etc.
Or is there an easier way to do this?

OK, it seems I was a bit confused, "orient to path" is what
I'm looking for here. I thought that option merely indicated that
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