I want to be able to press any key on my keyboard so as to appear to be typing my specific
text. No matter what key is pressed, the same scripted text appears, letter by letter(one per keystroke)/frame by frame. Can anyone help me here? As it stands, my animation just continues to loop unless I hit enter (then it stops until pressed again.)
stop();
var keyList:Object = new Object();
keyList.onKeyUp = function () {
nextFrame();
}
Key.addListener(keyList);
stop();
Using Flash cc-thanks
Your code appears to be AS2 rather than AS3?
If your looking for AS3 functionality, you'll want to do something like listen to the stage for keyboard events, and then have an event handler that progresses the frame.
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,_handleKeyboardPress);
function _handleKeyboardPress(e:KeyboardEvent)
{
nextFrame();
}
Your code looks as though it would work if you are publishing to AS2 though?
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I would like to know how to create in Adobe Flash CS3 a button that will execute a function (like gotoAndPlay(51) but ONLY when playhead hit a defined keyframe from timeline.
Here is a drawing that does explain better what I want to do
So after I click the button, it will wait until the playhead hit the closest defined keyframe, only then it will execute my desired function.
Any help is appreciated.
There are a few ways to accomplish this. The most succinct way is to use an undocumented* feature called addFrameScript
What you can do with that method, is place code on a specific frame at runtime.
So, you could do something like:
//listen for the click on your button
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler);
//which frame should the gotoAndPlay run on?
var targetFrame:int = 19; //this is actually frame 20, since frames are 0 based in script
//this function will run on the above frame
function goto51(){
//goto frame 51
gotoAndPlay(51);
//remove the frame script
addFrameScript(targetFrame, null);
}
function btnClickHandler(e:Event) {
//use addFrameSCript to run the function goto51 on the target frame
addFrameScript(targetFrame, goto51);
}
*-one should point out that using undocumented features of a language comes with risk of the feature being taken out on a future version, however given the current life cycle stage of AS3, this is very unlikely
I'm Super New to Programming in general and very New to Actionscript 3. It's been a rough but fun ride.
Anyway For the work I am doing I have my animation Play up to a certain point and it asks the viewer a question, The viewer has 3 choices, and each of those choices are connected to a button on the keyboard. A B C or D.
After searching for someone with a similar problem, My solution so far is this:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, cNote);
function cNote(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
trace(event.keyCode);
if (event.keyCode==67) {
gotoAndPlay(21);
}
I have this repeated 4 times each for the different Keys.
This works and allows me to move the viewer to the Frame with their response, however Any time during the animation they can press the button and it will move them to the Frame of the corresponding button (in this case Frame 21). How do I set it so that the keypress will only respond and move them to Frame 21 when they are on Frame 20 for example? (I suspect it has something to do with the "stage" part in the code but I cant get it to work without it.)
I also have the audio for the animation on a separate Layer and even though the visuals change as it goes to the correct frame, the audio continues as if the key was not pressed. Is there also a way to connect the key to make it stop the current audio and then play the new audio? Or is there a better way to do this?
Sorry if this is confusing. Thank you for your help :)
It has been quite awhile since I touch flash. From what I remembered, you can click on the frame at your movieclip, insert a keyframe by pressing f6, and press f9 to insert the listener at that frame and that frame only, after an input has been pressed, you remove it. for example:
if (event.keyCode==67) {
gotoAndPlay(21);
stage.removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, cNote);
}
For the audios, I usually plays them using code, but I'm quite sure there's a way to drag and drop the audio from library to the movieclip. so I can do sound1.play(), when a button is pressed, I can do sound1.close() and sound2.play()
For more reference:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Sound.html
I have a button which I want to use to mute audio, which will change to a un-mute icon when it is clicked, and toggle back and forth.
The thing is, its still visible in the stage after my code. The weirdest bit is that if I trace the visibility after I call the function, it actually says that its hidden: but its clearly visible on the stage.
play_pause.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, change_sound);
function change_sound (e:MouseEvent):void{
fl_NS.soundTransform = muteAudio;
e.target.visible = false;
trace(play_pause.visible);
muted = true;
}
Here are some other things I've tried which didn't work:
play_pause.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, change_sound);
function change_sound (e:MouseEvent):void{
fl_NS.soundTransform = muteAudio;
play_pause.visible = false;
trace(play_pause.visible);
muted = true;
}
Another version:
play_pause.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, change_sound);
function change_sound (e:MouseEvent):void{
fl_NS.soundTransform = muteAudio;
play_pause.gotoAndPlay(2);
muted = true;
}
No visual change again. Just to state some key points:
my movieclip is definitely called play_pause
it traces that it is visible before the click, and invisible after the click (the trace statement comes back false) but there is no visual change
the function definitely fires
I haven't used AS3 for a while, I'm guessing I'm making a really noob mistake? Full code: http://pastebin.com/RirGdS1w
Link to .fla file: http://db.tt/51DD0Fbl
Perhaps someone else could fully explain this, but I found that once the SWF was embedded into an HTML page it worked as expected. It was when it was being run in Flash CS5.5 that it wasn't working. This will now be a nightmare to debug but for the purposes of the project tonight I have it working.
Try e.currentTarget inside the listener function
target is the deepest element, like a moviclip inside another movieclip
currentTarget is the one associated with the addEventListener method
I am creating an app where when a button is pressed a very large picture is added to the stage (it is larger than the screen but can be dragged around by the user)
When the button is pressed the picture (well, movieClip) does come up and it able to be dragged fine, buttons inside it work.
The problem though is that there is a pause of about 6 seconds between the button press and the image appearing. I am using one .fla file for publishing and compiling (let's just call it Main.fla for now), and another one to hold all the graphics. The graphics are then added with this embed command:
[Embed (source = "assets/graphic.swf", symbol = "Content")]
private var Content:Class;
private var _content:*;
I have these lines where all the variables are declared (in between the class definition and the constructor function) I was under the impression that embedding it like this was equivalent to loading it at compile time. Is this true? What could be causing this lag when the button is pressed?
If I can't cut out the lag, another idea I had was to make some spinning circle or something to tell the user, "hey, don't worry. It's loading!"
If the slowness is at addChild you can add the asset to the stage much earlier and set it's visiblility to false, then when the button is clicked set it back to true. Obviously this is a small hack but might be sufficient for what you are doing.
var asset:MovieClip;
private function init():void
{
asset = new Content();
assset.visible = false;
addChild(asset);
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onMouseClick);
}
private function onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
asset.visible = true;
}
Embedding your SWF is probably not what is causing the delay.. or rather it would not likely be better if you imported the SWF into your FLA. Is this on a device? Chances are you would either have to devise a different way of loading your asset, or be satisfied with a loading animation.
If the main K size is coming from a large image, you could consider loading it in segments, starting with the part that is initially visible.
Here is my problem: I've got a swf loaed inside my loader an in that swf I have a keylistener:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, this.__onKeyDown, false, int.MAX_VALUE);
Now I'm adding a TextInput to this stage and I would like this input to catch all keyboard events while I'm focusing it. Is it possible to do so that native __onKeyDown will not fire until my TextInput has lost focus?
Thank you for your answers and sorry for my bad english.
You could give your listener higher priority (which you are), and stopAllPropogation in your handler. I've never tried this with an embedded swf so if it doesn't work right away, you could also try listening to the event in the capture phase (third parameter in addEventListener).
function __onKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void {
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
//rest of you handler code here
}