I don't have a clue what you're trying to do but it's stage.stageHeight not stage.height (same for width)

AS2 or 3?

This covers quite a lot in AS3, or at least leads you into what sort of stuff you should be looking up.

At 10/9/09 08:45 AM, UnknownFury wrote: for (var i in _root) {
if (typeof (_root[i]) == "MovieClip")
{
_root[i].useHandCursor = false;
_root[i].tabEnabled = false;
}
}

Urgh. Didn't mean to post. "MovieClip" might have to be "object" as they're buttons.

for (var i in _root) {
     if (typeof (_root[i]) == "MovieClip")
     {
          _root[i].useHandCursor = false;
          _root[i].tabEnabled = false;
    }
}

At 10/6/09 03:10 PM, trig1 wrote: Derren Brown

What'd everyone think of the hour long program at how to loose £5,000 on a roulette wheel? I just laughed for like 5 minutes straight :D Quite a few conspiracy theories going round, but I don't believe them.

If he was right people would just say it was faked in some way, anyway. It wouldn't be a massive surprise if it was on purpose to make it more believable, although it didn't really have that effect.

The reason the addChild didn't work is because your class wasn't a display type, not to mention you're doing it all wrong. If you want a class with code and the image of MovieClip from the library. Right click your MC in the library and click 'Linkage'. Then click export for actionscript and put the class name as Star. Then your code would look something like this.

// Document class
package
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip;

	public class DocClass extends MovieClip
	{

		function DocClass()
		{
			var star : Star = new Star();
			addChild(star);

			addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterframe);
		}

		function enterframe(e : Event) : void
		{
			star.move();
		}
	}
}

// Star.as
package
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip;

	public class Star extends MovieClip
	{

		function Star()
		{
			x = y = 50;
		}

		function move() : void
		{
			x ++;
			y ++;
		}
	}
}

This should, haven't tested, put an instance of your star on the stage at (50, 50) and slowly move it towards the bottom right. Hopefully you can see what I'm doing. Rather than having a class with the code in which then controls a class in your library you do it all in one class.

Eh? I sitll don't have a clue what you're on about. You make a seperate class for your stars :/

package
{

import flash.display.MovieClip;

public class Star extends MovieClip
{
    // stuff here

}
}

Something along those lines. Was that even what you were asking?

Stick the MCs to be sorted in an array and the use some sort of sorting algorithm.

This should work, although I haven't tested it and there might be a better way of handling it:

var inside : MovieClip = outside.inside;
addChild(inside);
inside.x += outside.x;
inside.y += outside.y;

This will essentially grab 'inside' MC from 'outside' MC and insert it onto the stage.

At 10/5/09 10:39 AM, hdxmike wrote: Also if you dragged them into scene ( if they were there when the movie started ) you cant get rid of them otherwise Coin_3.removeMovieClip(Coin_3) or what you did cant remember

Yes you can. You just have to give it a positive depth (using swapDepths()) before removing if you didn't add the MC via code as it will by default have a negative depth. His function was right. If you do Coin_3.removeMovieclip(Coin_3) then you're looking inside Coin_3 for an mc called Coin_3 which isn't right.

Javascript
Java
Javascript

Java and Javascript aren't the same thing...

At 10/1/09 10:09 PM, elementell wrote: c is speed of light, m is mass, v is volume, d is density, e is energy.

Thats all I've got.

No. Capital V is volume (v is usually (final) velocity), capital E is energy. %u03C1 (rho) is density.

Math.round(x * 100) / 100

By multiplying by 100 you're only rounding the digits past the 2nd decimal place. Then by dividing by 100 you're putting the decimal place back in the right position.

At 10/2/09 04:03 PM, Yambanshee wrote:

cant remember if its _currentframe() or _currentFrame()

_currentframe - It's a property; not a function.

At 10/1/09 02:57 PM, Diki wrote: for(i = 0; i < theArray.length; i++)
{
if(!dude.hitTestObject(theArray[i])
{
thing.x += 8;
}
}

That's a horrible way to do it. Use hitTestPoint, or other form of more accurate collision detection than hitTestObject, and put all the platforms in one MC.

At 10/1/09 12:21 PM, Hi5er wrote: Actually my version of maths is a subcourse called D1 or decision which involves algorithms and functions and stuff like that... any good? :l

That's just 1 module of the A-level. For the whole A-level you'll be doing 6 modules (including the 4 core modules). D1 is of relevance as it's about following algorithms which is somewhat important as you'll come across a lot of them. One of the most important thing though if you want to learn C++ is the ability to teach yourself. Read articles on the internet and just pick stuff up like that as well as sit down with a problem and work out how to tackle the problem.

Firstly, get rid of all the rounding; it serves no purpose. Secondly, restrict the _rotation by something like:

if(_rotation > max) _rotation = max;

30 Day Trial.

"New to flash? Read this first!"

5. If you look around the audio portal for stuff you like you can try sending a PM to the author. Remember to include 2-4 in your PM.

At 9/30/09 02:54 AM, Yambanshee wrote: I did say that i shouldn't have included the thing about gravity due to it being more opinion, but you can take it or leave it, its a god damn tutorial on another method of doing things, not nessacery the right method, but the method i prefer and wanted to share with the rest.

"Although this works, it is unlike real gravity's acceleration (9m/s^2)"

You were telling people the first code isn't like gravity, when it is, hence suggesting that your method was right/more realistic.

At 9/29/09 11:37 AM, Yambanshee wrote: Although this works, it is unlike real gravity's acceleration (9m/s^2)
Its not that complicated, simply put, you need a second gravity variable.

grav ++
yvel += grav
char._y += yvel

Firstly, gravity on earth is 9.81 so closer to 10 than 9. Secondly, what hell is that code about? Gravity should be constant. You're increasing the acceleration when acceleration due to gravity should be constant.

g = 1.5;
// ...
vy += grav;
char.y += vy;

And your use of a for loop is silly, what's wrong with a while loop?

Why would you want to actually rename the files? What's wrong with leaving the filenames as they are and loading them in?

You don't need them to run the swf as it all gets compiled.

I smell epic fail. I'm betting this is complete bullshit seeing as you didn't even know what a rendering engine was. Explain to us how you're going to go about coding your virus scanner, if you're serious?

You've been given the solution. Either:

this._x=_root.gun._x + _root.gun.arm._x;
this._y=_root.gun._y + _root.gun.arm._y;

By adding the position of the MCs parent you're getting its position relative to the stage. The other option is to use the localToGlobal function.

There is no 'pause code'. Use a boolean variable.

var pause : Boolean = false;

function enterframe(e : Event)
{
    if(!pause)
    {
        // Code
    }
}

And add a keylistener or whatever to get whether the pause key is pressed, and set the pause variable accordingly.

var colour : Number = 0xFF0000;
var r = colour >> 16 & 0xFF;
var g = colour >> 8 & 0xFF;
var b = colour & 0xFF;

>> is the bitwise right shift operator and & is the bitwise and operator.

There's probably a better way than this, but this is certainly better than your do.. while loop:

Math.random()*-50 + (stage.stageWidth+50)*Math.round(Math.random())

Check out the Voice Actor Wanted thread over in the audio forum.

Put all of the platforms in one movieclip and then use a shapeflag hittest against that:

if(ground.hitTest(_x, _y, true))