Questions tagged [adobe-animate]

Adobe Animate is an app (the next generation of Adobe Flash) to create animation for the web and also support the old format .swf

Adobe Animate is part of the Creative Cloud suite, and as of this has been renamed Adobe Animate CC 2018. Its latest update was on October 18th 2017.

http://www.adobe.com/il_en/products/animate.html

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TextField switches to original default text format on focus, even after I change default text format

I'm testing a couple of things in preparation for some localization changes. Right now I'm trying to change some default text formatting at run-time, and running into a problem: the text formatting reverts when I click into a textInput or…
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Function repeats on mouse action

I'm setting up an introduction to using Javascript in Adobe Animate HTML5 Canvas for a course I teach. Honestly I haven't done any work in that myself but I've done a bit of Actionscript gaming as well as some Javascript programming outside of…
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sync external audio with html canvas animation

long story short, i want an html canvas animation to behave like a video, I want to add play/pause button and skip forward or backward buttons that jump number of frames/seconds. the problem is this, if I imported the audio into animate cc timeline,…
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Adobe Animate (Flash): Security Sandbox Violation in Debug (Ctrl+Shift+Enter), but not Test (Ctrl+Enter)

My Flash project retrieves data from the Internet through a PHP webpage. It works fine in Adobe Animate when I Test the project with Ctrl+Enter, but when I try to Debug it with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, I get a Security Sandbox Violation. I believe I have a…
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Adobe Animate CC, HTML5 Canvas - capture instance names as dynamic text?

Forgive me, I'm not a proper JS programmer and still getting my head around a lot of concepts. Suppose one had a group of similar, 2-frame/2-state rollover movie clips nested inside a containing clip, which has the instance name "Map". Each clip…
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HTML5 Canvas/CreateJS stop all nested movie clips?

Working with Adobe Animate/Canvas, I have one large movie clip containing dozens of small clips nested inside. I'd like to make sure all these clips are stopped at runtime, but I don't want to go through each one manually. Is there a way to stop all…
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Adobe Animate/CreateJS - this.myMovieClip.stop(); not working - no error in console

I'm just getting started in Adobe Animate/CreateJS. I'm trying to control the timeline of a movie clip ("myMovieClip") on frame 1 on the main stage, preventing it from playing. According to the documentation, this should…
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Disabling mouse detection on child but remaining on parent

I add a movieclip dynamically. At some point I draw the movieclip and place the bitmap within a MC inside the MC and add an Add filter to it. Later I give Drag functionality to such parent movieclips. I want the mouse to detect everything but the…
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Syntax error: excepting identifier before this ActionScript 3

I am planning editing someone else's fla project (I do not have contact with them, trust me. And no I'm not trying to steal their code.) The project ran fine as a swf, but when I load the fla and try to test it I get an error that don't really…
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How to set dynamic text to a variable?

Im trying out adobe animate for school and until now ive been following a cool rpg game tutorial. but the tutorial ended quicky and now im left on my own browsing the internet. i wanted to add a little star collector feature but the tutorial i found…
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Adobe animate and ie8, can it work together

For one reason or another my application have to support internet explorer with document mode 8 (I will call that IE8) and we also want to add some interactive animations that are done with adobe animate. The animations are exported as canvas. It…
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Use beginBitmapFill with existing movieclip/shape? (Animate CC)

All the tutorials for using beginBitmapFill seem to center around dynamically drawing an object. Is it possible to simply apply a bitmap fill to an existing shape that's inside a movieclip? I know I can do this manually by selecting the shape and…
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Adobe Animate CC Canvas (CreateJS) vector graphics becomes blurry on scale up

So I am new to this next-gen Flash application they call "Adobe Animate CC" and I am trying to create an interactive map scene... very basic. If you click on the USA it should zoom in. Click again it should zoom out. The issue I am having is that…
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Create tooltip on symbol with Adobe Animate CC HTML5

I've create a couple of symbols(buttons) in HTML5 Canvas project in adobe animate, each button triggers an action, i want to create tooltips for these buttons so they would describe what will happen if you press them. For symbol with instance name…
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Adobe Animate Canvas Parent Arrays?

I have a game I'm making in adobe animate HTML canvas. In my code below Is there a way to combine all of the stateItems[].stateplace1 =this.state so I don't have like 50 different variations? I tried make the state1s the child of the StateItems but…
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