1009 errors?? What the hell were you doing?

Age is no excuse. I've started scraping the surface of programming at 11, I know someone who at least learned how to to formatting tags in HTML at a younger age (though technically HTML isn't programming).

In any case, you should just study AS and start with this one. You can never hope to just post in a forum and ask for a ready made code/fla to be sent to you. You may claim you'll never steal it, but you'll never be able to prove it, especially since no one here knows you.

Which would only work if you only want to trim the right side.

Sorry, but you're practically asking for someone to do your work by making someone sending you the *.fla file which you'll just modify. Worst of all is that you'd actually enter it in a contest.

Pretty cool. Bookmarking for the future.

Don't have time to read now, but does the API cover unified online scoreboards?

Doubt there's a real good way, unless streaming a music inside a movieclip then let it start at a certain frame counts (horrible way).

Just go get Audacity. It's a free and easy to use sound editor. Google for it.

Well IIRC when you acquire a license, you're given two, and if somehow you couldn't deactivate one (like PC went bonkers, or formatted before doing so), then there's no turning back.

Put the trace function inside the event handler.

So you put an enterFrame even inside an enterFrame handler. . .

Also, try adding _root to the MCs you're referencing to (in code, of course).

Tweening to save time, but I wanted detailed tweening so often I end up editing each frame.

Signed copy of Terrawars: NY Invasion. Around 2.0 from GS I think.

Try tracing its depth. trace(MC.getDepth()). See what you get.

Total noob?

Yours put mines to shame.

That picture is creeping me out.

Wait for price drop.

Though I spent 14 hours on the demo and left wanting to play more, it's a ripoff at $50.

if(_parent.username==undefined || _parent.username==""){
stay;
}

"this._parent" is pretty redundant.

At 11/23/08 02:04 AM, yugimt wrote: my Deagle.

Great job... at using Trace Bitmap function.

Bamboos are meant more for very light and casual casual entry-level users.

Graphires are still Graphires. They're still more for hobbyists and those who just can't afford an Intuos, yet is still serious about drawing.

So I guess what I was doing was a very horrible way to mess around with OOP with Flash. :/

Thanks for the tip! I really find it very strange that giving an MC in the library with the same identifier as a classfile would automatically make it inherit the class' attributes though. Shouldn't it be better if I typed "Toy" under the AS2.0 Class box under Linkage instead? So that I can have multiple MCs in the library be able to inherit the attributes of the class. I've tried using either boxes, and both seemed to work fine. Tested by giving the class a method that returns a number.

STOP.

What's this I'm seeing?

if enemies[i] = undefined

the enemies don't affect the array at all, they die, they leave, and the array ends up pointing to nowhere.

That's why. The enemy doesn't bother trying to update the array when they leave, leaving your array with undefined values. Rather than cleaning up the array once in a while, you should make sure your enemy will do the job himself and find his address in the array (just compare them, like enemy[i] == enemyInstance).

Also, tried comparing an undefined or a null? I've never really bothered trying if Flash considers the two different. >.>

So after all this time, I'm only really trying OOP just now. >_> Just playing around.

I created a class "Toy" (Toy.as). I have my main Flash file (let's call it Main.SWF). I need to be able to place an instance of a Toy on the stage of Main.SWF by declaring an instance and passing the coordinates to it.

Code for Toy:

class Toy{
	private var type:String    = "";
	private var libID:String   = "";
	private var stageID:String = "";
	private var locX:Number = 0;
	private var locY:Number = 0;
	
	public function Toy(myType:String, myX:Number, myY:Number){
		trace("create");
		type = myType;
		locX = myX;
		locY = myY;
		
		if (type == "Teddy"){
			libID = "libToy_TeddyBear";
			stageID = "mcToy_TeddyBear";
			_root.attachMovie(libID, stageID+_root.getNextHighestDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:locX, _y:locY});
		}
	}
}

As for Main.SWF:

var teddy:Toy = new Toy("Teddy", 100, 100);

The problem is with attaching. The attachMovie() will not work, and I was fairly certain it wouldn't, since I "_root" couldn't really mean the stage of Main.SWF. I thought maybe I could pass the Stage, but I don't even know it's data type. I'm sure there's just some tidbit I'm missing here. Help is greatly appreciated.

as the help file explained to me, enemies[i] = newEnemy_mc doesn't actually put anything in the array, it creates a pointer to the MC.

That's what I meant. Anyway, could you post the piece of code that removes itself from the enemy array? On a sidenote, I'd rather suggest thinking Array in AS2.0 as more of a linked list rather than having a fixed length. Apart from making it more dynamic, you wouldn't have to worry much who should occupy which slot.

I noticed while debugging that it's index in the array became undefined when this happened.

I'm guessing it's because you removed the movie clip, but did not remove him from the array. That way, you still retain a pointer to a movie clip that you just removed (ie, pointing to nowhere, hence undefined).

are these nothing areas "void" things that I also have to look for,

A void method means it doesn't have to return any value.

Talk about lazy.

You sure you're removing the enemy properly from the array? I had a similar sounding problem before. Turns out my splicing was wrong and I wasn't referring to the right MC, so nothing got removed from the enemy array.

if (array[0] == something){
do things
}

Didn't seem to mind when you forked several hundred dollars for Flash, huh?

Just assemble a PC yourself, you'll save more money than buying packages.

...buy a new computer?

Joke topic?

Most of the CS3 flank I've read comes from kiddies who hate how much more formal AS3.0 is compared to the allowable hodge podge coding in AS2.0.

Anyways, I've read the review on that AS3.0 book. Doesn't sound good, Essential ActionScript 3.0 sounds like the better choice. But if you'll pursue on AS2.0, go for that Flash 8 ActionScript Bible. Lots of the ActionScript 3.0 Bible reviews I've read were disappointed at how bad the book was compared to their AS2.0 iteration.

Well, the ActionScript Bible gets mentioned fairly often, but I've never held any book on Flash, so I can't give personal feedback. Yes, the link is Flash 8.0. CS3 is hardly any different, the only notable thing about it is AS3.0.