that was his brother derek they found, duhh

the theory of it is..

the entire screen is hidden by the black box, and a circular mask - the scope - is attached to the mouse, and reveals anything placed behind the black box.

you familiar with masking?

For anyone who comes across this later on looking for an answer to a similar question.. I ended up just declaring my functions globally from the main timeline, then calling them from the buttons that loaded in later on.

To declare a global function:

_global.functionName = function() {
// code for the function goes here
}

Then to call the function from elsewhere, use a simple line of code such as this. No specific path required as the function is available globally:

yourButton.onPress = functionName;

toggle that button to turn off script assist.

what version of flash?

in cs3, in the actions panel, there's a big button that says "Script Assist" in the top right. whichever version you're using though, with the actions panel open, look in the top right; you'll probably see a little help button, then a menu button that looks like a little down arrow with three lines to the right of it. click that to expand a menu with the expert/normal actionscript modes. i think that's right at least.

I'm doing up a simple little game, I'd like to keep all my actionscript on the first frame of the main timeline though.

There's a movieclip I'm using as a button within my main movieclip. That movieclip loads in later on along the main movieclips timeline. When the player clicks the movieclip, I want whatever actions to occur.

Problem is, if I use mainclip.btnclip.onPress from the main timeline, when that line of code is read at runtime the button movieclip hasn't loaded yet so nothing happens.

How can I assign onEvent actions to a movieclip from the main timeline before the movieclip loads, so when it does it makes use of them? Would my best bet be to use functions?

Thanks!

At 5/20/08 11:22 PM, kid-dude wrote: Gotta agree with jade. blablabla

wow what a pussy you are

whoa, dude.. slow down.. what are you trying to say here?

how the fuck do you do the comment thing, damn

they should taste like chips.. to go with the fish down below!

| anyone beat me to it?

wow, this thread is full of some of the most ridiculously one sided bullshit ever. everyone seems to think they know just how things are, and lots of it is backed up by claims of having been to almost every country and being able to speak most existing languages.. you guys realize how incredible of a feat that is right? especially for a 16 year old girl?

of course there are people in canada who dislike the US, and people in the US who dislike canada.. when people fall into categories such as country, religion, etc. they are suddenly divided from the rest of the world, and they will always find some reason they're superior or right over others. lots of people are able to see past this.

i too start to get pissed when i hear my country - canada - or my people put down , but i do my best to get over it and keep in mind we're all just a bunch of imperfect human beings.

At 5/11/08 07:16 PM, Bomshaw wrote: Why didn't Chigurh kill Bell when he went to investigate the apartment where Moss had died?

chigurh wasn't actually there, bell just imagined him there.

after re-watching key parts of that movie over and over, i finally managed to figure out some of the more confusing parts of that movie.. such as the scene where sheriff bell goes back to the hotel room. i haven't read the book, but i think i might.

dude i think its likr all the regular people jerk off on some toast then you eat it or something like that

i didn't even read the entire first post, but seems like the idea here is people can post their ideas for games, discuss them, whatever - and if someone else wants to take one of the posted ideas and turn it into something, they are free to do so - but it would be nice if they let the person who came up with the idea know that they are going to do so.

since i don't think any actual ideas have been posted yet,

an idea i had for a game before was a platformer of some type, and the concept is that the game takes place over the course of about 5 nights. each night, the level begins by a father reading his child a classic bedtime story such as little red riding hood, the three little pigs.. a different story each night. the actual telling of each story though would be played out as a game - you take on the role of say, red riding hood, and you play through the story as a level. the wolf being the boss at the end. twists to the storylines would definitely be encouraged to make things more exciting. take on the role of the lumberjack say, and you have to kill the wolf and save everyone else. hell, you could even play out the story as the bad guy, be the wold and your goal is to eat little red riding hood.

if you want to loop a frame because you want to repeat the actions you have written in on it over and over, use:

onEnterFrame = function() {
//actions
}

if you want to loop an animation, place the action gotoAndPlay(1); on the frame you want it to loop back at.. and replace the "1" with the frame you want it to start over again on.

big thanks guys, that was it - back in business

pretty tired so i hope this makes sense,

i'm trying to make a character crouch using the "c" key. i'm doing so by using a listener. the code is as follows..

keytracker = new Object();
keytracker.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == 67 && crouched == false) {
crouched = true;
} else if (Key.getCode() == 67 && crouched == true) {
crouched = false;
}
}
Key.addListener(keytracker);

that doesn't do anything though. strange thing is, if i change the ascii code to 51 for the "3" key, it works fine. even stranger is that if i try using the same ascii code, 67, in an enterFrame key checking statement like this:

onEnterFrame = function() {
if (Key.isDown(67)) {
//actions

it works fine too. and strangest, just to test things i used the getascii method to trace ascii values upon keystrokes, and a bunch of keys don't return any value.
going with key.isDown is not an option for me, the listener works better for checking when a key is toggled. anyone know what's up?

actually, i think the this.gotoAndPlay line is a problem if it's placed on a keyframe rather than your movieclip. try using mymovieclip.gotoAndPlay instead.

try..

if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
// action
}

keep in mind though, this will only check one upon entering that third frame. if you want it to constantly be checking, throw the if statement within an onEnterFrame method/function/whatever. ie,

onEnterFrame = function() {
if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
// action
}
}

Out of curiosity, do you still have this problem when you do Control > Test Movie? I've had problems with things not displaying correctly in the standalone player, but working fine within Flash.

i've never even heard of oregon trail but it looks like a wussies game, real men played zork

At 4/30/08 03:21 AM, AlexTomkins wrote: clearly you've never left America... in England all the schools are having to employ interpreters cause of all the immigration. it gets kinda annoying

i have left america actually, and i've even been to england. i know there are similar situations in other first-world nations around the world, but i think america is probably one of the worst cases.

take a look at australia though, while they are open to immigrants, they expect that the people that come there adapt to their way of living.

At 4/30/08 01:13 AM, pigeonmaster88 wrote: We have to learn english if you didn't know. Or what? Are you scared of spanish because mexicans speak it? or is it too hard to you to learn?

i already backed you up in my other post on that, the copperchaos guy though says english is only mandatory in schools in the northern part of mexico, unless i misread his post.

and fuck any of you who are offended, stereotypes hold truth and that goes for any race or religion, that's how they come to be in the first place.

and for the record, i'm not an american. also, i do plan on learning spanish, thank you.

Done, finally. Result is here - http://dustinshadoe.com

At 4/30/08 12:54 AM, CopperChaos wrote: Well, almost every school forces English as an assignment here, and we have to learn it because of the USA being next to us. It would be cool that the USA did the same, but with Spanish. But fuck, I doubt they would. They are so fucking racist with us to actually give a shit.

Meh.

they're probably just making sure you're ready to fit in seeing as most of you will end up hoppin the fence anyway :P

no i actually think that's wrong too, i don't think they should force the english language in mexico.. it's like taking away a country's identity in a way, but it seems to be happening in a lot of places.

At 4/30/08 12:32 AM, pigeonmaster88 wrote: Then learn the language! I'm mexican and I had to learn english!
Why don't you do the same? learn spanish!

¿Qué te cuesta aprender español?

assuming you're in the states, doesn't it make sense you would learn the english language? why are americans now expected to learn spanish in return? you wouldn't see this kind of thing going on in any other country.

you should of told the kid "this is what happens in these kind of games" and then taken a bat and beaten his mom down then taken the floating money that popped out of her and left, you'd only have 1 star so it'd be an easy getaway.

At 4/29/08 01:44 PM, Dark-Muse wrote: Also, i know how to do the looped walking thing... it just dusnt work for me

haha, you sure you know how to do it then?

in theory at least, i think what you want to do is have two frames inside your player movieclip; first frame he's standing, second he's walking, just the looped animation of course. on your main timeline, have the onKeyDown and onKeyUp code tell the player movieclip to go to the second frame when the right/left key is pressed, and back to the first frame when the key is released. set the _xscale property of the player mc to positive or negative to flip him around so he faces the right way when walking.

anyway, yea - theory. you'll have to conjure the code yourself.

At 4/28/08 12:47 PM, GustTheASGuy wrote: Gtfo.

i've noticed a trend among your posts, that being you're quite a dick.. helpful, but a dick.