Questions tagged [flash-cs3]

Flash CS3 is the version 3 of Adobe Flash Professional tool, part of Adobe's Creative Suite.

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AS3 How do I stop sound and video when clicking a menu button to go to another frame?

I have a problem with my slideshow script. I have embedding a flash video file into my website with this slideshow called monoslideshow, and everything seems to work perfectly. Trouble is, when I am clicking on another menu button that should jump…
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Flash Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object referencee

My flash professional cc is showing error just for simple Alert code. I have tried to solve this by reading previously discussed on this website but unable to solve it. Error is : TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null…
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Movieclip.width returns higher value than Movieclip stage on Width

I have a Movieclip on stage with nested movieclips inside. All referenced at 0,0. None of the child movieclips load any dynamic content, animate or have Masked Layers. It does have an input textfield in one of the child MCs. The parent MC shows 280…
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In Flash Actionscript 3.0 how do I create smooth keyboard controls for player movement?

I am a beginner in Flash Actionscript 3.0 programming. I am trying to create smooth keyboard controls for player movement in a game. I'm currently using addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN) listening for a keyboard key press and then within the…
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What is the differences between .as and .fla

First of all, I have to say that I've just a couple hours experience with Flash and AS3 so, if it is a bit easy question,sorry about that. I wonder the differences between .fla and .as files. I've already read that .fla file can contain bouth…
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Serializing an array in Flash AS3

I need to serialize and unserialize (is that even a word?) an array in AS3, so it can be sent as a string. The only problem is that it doesnt just contain text, it contains objects. Is it possible to serialize and unserialize arrays in AS3 like you…
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How do disable a SimpleButton including changing it's appearance

Here is the premise: I have 10 buttons each with on normal state image (buttonX.png) and a mouseover state (buttonXglow.png). The buttons are created manually in flash, but referenced in my as3 main class. I need to add different states to the…
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How do you resize a movieclip without affecting the scale?

I have a movie clip object with a width of 306 and height of 194. I need to change the dimensions of the movie clip and still have the x and y scale set at 100. Currently when I change the movie clip width to 352.8, the x scale increases to…
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Myriad fonts not showing up in Flash CS 3

I am opening a .fla (CS 3) file to make some text update to an old file. It has Myriad Pro fonts, but i cant see the text at all in the fla file, it is not a matter of the text being buried in a deep movie clip and it is not a dynamic text. I…
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Flash, ActionScript: Load assets from external SWF

We have a widget (SWF) that needs to be broken into two SWFs. The main SWF will contain all the programming and business logic and it will also load a second SWF file which will contain the assets, fonts etc. I have limited experience in Flash but I…
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FLA won't publish in CS3, previously compiled swf is gone!

I have had this problem a few times lately. When I try to update & publish files that previously published fine in Flash CS3, the "Exporting Flash Movie" bar comes up, but no movie compiles. When I go to look for the swf in the Finder (Mac OS…
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How do I amplify sounds by a specified number of decibels in AS3?

A few days ago, this was my question, and I found the answer. Maybe this will help someone else. A. The first part of the problem: can you amplify sound using Flash? The AS3 documentation for SoundTransform says this about the volume attribute: "The…
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Flash 10 Debugger flashlog.txt

I have installed the Adobe Flash Player 10 debugger for Firefox 3 and I am unable to locate the flashlog.txt file or use the debugger features online, other than to show redraw regions. I have installed the FireFox extension "Flash Tracer" which in…
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stop object referencing in as 3

I have an object and a temp object now if i do tempObj = obj and change stuff in tempObj they changes have an effect on obj is there a way i can stop it from doing this? Regards Mark
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Possible to control movieclip components from another movieclips?

I want to control movieclip "A" components from movieclip "B". movieclip A : function click1(event:MouseEvent):void { // I want to change text of button which is inside movieclip "B" in here. } btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK ,…
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