At 11/22/09 12:44 PM, Yambanshee wrote: thats why i said convert to CS3 first. As i understand (i dont have CS4 though) you can convert a CS4 into a CS3 document, which can then be converted into flash 8 document

You're forgetting to mention that
you'll need Flash CS3 to save it as a Flash 8.
So everybody thinks you're implying that
Flash CS4 can save as a Flash 8.

Which it can't. :3

At 11/22/09 08:18 PM, Version2 wrote: Hmm... maybe I'm not using the right mouse event. How would I change this so that as long as left mouse button is held down, I keep adding bullets?

Use an enterFrame as well, and instead of the click event, use mouseDown.
Use mouseDown to set booleanX to true,
and use mouseUp to set booleanY to false.
In the enterFrame: if booleanX is true, add a bullet.

You can also set up some sort of counter variable
so you can add bullets at intervals not equal to the frame rate.

At 11/21/09 03:52 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote:

At 11/21/09 03:46 PM, Callum123456 wrote: Here

Cheers babe. Do you know I can open .fla with MX?

Should be, but MX is a pretty old version.
You might need somebody with Flash 8 to convert it for you,
or more people if the version is higher than 8.

Just make an account and get a trial, what's the big deal?
And yeah, it costs money. You can get the student edition
for about $250, which is a huge deal.

At 11/21/09 03:57 PM, BabiesAteMyDingo wrote: If you're talking about software used to create flash productions, then no it's not free.

lol, I love how the two non-free alternatives you suggested
were even more expensive than Flash.

More Skill - Toss games? bah, humbug.

At 11/19/09 07:11 PM, Punisher33 wrote: lol a lot of people get that mixed up, I cant draw any more. I lost the will to, one, two i havent drawn anything in years i mean years sense 8th in middle school. so really when i say it would look crapy it really would

I doubt anybody would just draw all the level backgrounds you needed
without you supplying them some cold hard cash, sonny.

It may look terrible, but that's called practice.
You didn't learn to wipe your ass by getting someone else to do it,
you sucked it up and did it yourself. Same thing here, I guess.

Say you have the coolest MovieClip ever, say for instance
an enemy in an awesome Platformer game you're making.
It's completely perfect, coding and everything is done. It's great.
But now you need 9 more of them for that level.
And the next you're going to need 20 more, and
it just gets even worse from there. What do you do?

You can make your Enemy MC into a class.
This isn't as useful I think in AS2 because of duplicateMovieClip,
which doesn't exist in AS3. In AS3 you have to
make it into a class, and instantiate them separately.
Which is more organized, I feel.

As for an example, just use the link
the man above kindly mentioned.

You might need to be more specific when you say 'store' them,
but symbols and bitmap pictures and whatnot are automatically
placed in the Library when they're imported.

At 11/16/09 09:17 PM, Goonie wrote: Wade's birthday is tomorrow.

Nice try.

Montycarlo lives in Australia, though.
Lucky bastard gets to celebrate it early.

Have a good one, Wade!
May your crops be plentiful.

At 11/16/09 08:50 PM, Tobi wrote: I once said "Roast Dick" instead of "Roast Duck" by accident at a dinner party. Boy was it lulz.

"Hey pops, spoon me some of that roast dick."

At 11/16/09 08:06 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: I'd sit with fluffy, k-guare, turtleco, and some other folks.

We all know who'd be doing the most talking at OUR table.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;)

does that really make you angry? i almost feel bad.
you don't have to go see the movies. problem solved.

Does Windows 7 32-bit have that same ~3GB RAM Limit?
Just wondering.

At 11/14/09 12:24 PM, Earthshine wrote: I believed in him.

Until his tragic death in 2000.

Because the real person on that gravestone lived over 160 years.

Tomorrow's actually Scott day.
Be sure to submit your Scott day flash.

That's what you think, but Christmas is
all about the surprise of giving gifts.

The surprise being that you're not getting shit.

At 11/14/09 03:30 PM, Protected wrote: Any way around this?

Hmm, I didn't know that. Interesting!
Instead of emptying it, however, see if adding a single space will work.
If the text isn't selectable, then it'll make absolutely no difference.

Weeeeeeeeeeeird.
I just got this working; I set up a TextField on the stage
with a different font and size, and successfully changed
the TextFormat of it.

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.font = "Verdana";
tf.size = 35;
dtf.text = "aha!";


dtf.setTextFormat(tf);

At 11/14/09 03:01 PM, Protected wrote: Creating a TextFormat and then applying it with setTextFormat doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

Rather strange, thar.
Show some code?
Give us the AS version, as well.

At 11/14/09 02:59 PM, Unquote wrote: Oh, I see.

Says the pessimistic alternate account of K-Guare. Oopsies. :3

At 11/14/09 02:02 PM, doctormario wrote:

shittt, that happened the last time i posted here too. :(

At 11/14/09 01:53 PM, liaaaam wrote: Well, that would be illegal, it's just the same as downloading them.

hulu's got a couple, though.
I hear it's not free for long, though.

*sigh*

At 11/14/09 01:29 PM, K-Guare wrote: This may not be the best option, but it gets the job done:
you can use getters and setters to do the job for you.

Also, getters and setters work just like a normal variable would.
I should have included this:

var savefile:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("GameName");

Array1 = [4, 5, 6];
trace(Array1); // 4, 5, 6

Note that I declared savefile, because I didn't before.

At 11/14/09 01:21 PM, Lifes-a-Bitch wrote: The array's I'm wanting to save are used variables and likewise are changed constantly.

This may not be the best option, but it gets the job done:
you can use getters and setters to do the job for you.

function get Array1():Array {
	savefile = SharedObject.getLocal("GameName");
	return savefile.data.Array1;
}

function set Array1(ar:Array):void {
	savefile = SharedObject.getLocal("GameName");
	savefile.data.Array1 = ar;
}

At 11/10/09 11:13 AM, IamWeird33 wrote: I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Was I not specific enough?

Flash can't pull a real 10 letter word out of its ass,
so you need to make an array of possible ten letter words
to use, and then choose one randomly in the array using Math.random()

Like

var tenletterwords:Array = new Array();
tenletterwords[0] = "absolutely";
tenletterwords[1] = "testicular";
tenletterwords[2] = "indictment";

var randval:int = Math.floor(Math.random()*tenletterwords.length);
trace(tenletterwords[randval]);

At 11/14/09 12:55 PM, K-Guare wrote: I've fixed my code,

Nevermind lol.
Didn't test that one much.

I've fixed my code,
before the domain was only from [0, 180]
I adjusted it to cover any degree value.

function f(x:int):void {
	var ninty:int = 90*Math.round(x/90)/2
	trace(Math.abs((x-ninty)/ninty));
}

f(360); // 1
f(-180); // 1

Before, 360 and -180 would have returned 3 or something.

Just a thinker I guess

function f(x:int):void {
	trace(Math.abs((x-90)/90));
}

f(135);

You could also make an Array of Arrays
and just save that one container array.

And I don't think you have to redeclare the SharedObject to load it.
Then again I haven't really worked with SharedObjects in AS2, so what do I know.

Instead of just doing for the single file in the library, though,
you can easily do it for the entire SWF as well.

Go to File, then Publish Settings.
Under the Flash Tab, look down at where it says
Audio Stream and Audio Event.
From there set them both to the bit rate you like.