Comments on: Website with ActionScript 3

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:13:26 +0000

Hi
I did the tutorial and everything works fine but the problem it’s when I load a new swf
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at lafogata_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:09:44 +0000

Hi,this is great tutorial..and i wonna thanks for this..but i must ask hoe to implement in your code something to disable button when its cliked..it is litle annoying to every time you click on the button the swf loaded again )

tnx in advance ))

By: Gabe

Gabe — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:14:45 +0000

I’m attempting to use this code in a existing project and found a couple of things that fall short, or perhaps there’s something that I’ve not added to fix it (?) I’m new to flash design. And this is ALMOST exactly what I need and I really do appreciated it.

1) Apparently the BUTTON can’t have dynamic text and can not be an animated movie clip. (having a tween applied anyhow)

2) I can’t control which layer the loader loads the movie into. I’d like it to be under a mask.

Am I wrong about these assumptions? Is there a fix in the code that would allow this?

Any Help would really be appreciated.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:26:06 +0000

Thank Smonte for this very awesome tutorial.

I have a problem, I did the same as the tutorial and everything work fine.

The movie (page1.swf) that i tried to load on to the mainpage.swf is an animation with 30 frames with action script.

(page1.swf) files, On the first frame with [ stop(); ], I made a button, so whenever you click on it, it will go to frame 2 and play the rest of the animation, and it works fine itself.

The problem is, when I loaded it (page1.swf) into the mainpage.swf, the button on the first frame is not go to frame 2 and play the rest of animation when you click on it. Seem like the mainpage only display the first frame of page1.swf.

Can anyone able to help me with this problem? I tried my best to explain everything.

Thanks!

By: Art_Frick_Design

Art_Frick_Design — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:57:02 +0000

//I have a question, how can I make a preloader to these swf to load them in the main content? Where should I put the lines to preload them? Help, learning AS3 :/ //

yogiii:

I would put the preloader in the swf being loaded. Meaning, if you are calling x, via a page01button, put the preloader on that swf (x) so that after it tweens in, the loader will start.

Since it is calling an external file (via URLRequest), I don’t think flash will preload that content as well as part of the site. From a programming point of view, it’s not loaded in to the main document till the button is pressed.

hope that helps.

By: Jose Cicero

Jose Cicero — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:01:28 +0000

Hey i was just trying to use this effect on a portfolio project for school. I modified it and made it so there would be more buttons, but I dont wanna use static info, like not text or images or anythign. I Actually wanted to have other SWF projects coming in, but i need to have the windows sliding be in, be totally seperated form the main page. its complicated, but can anybody help?

By: yogiii

yogiii — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:56 +0000

ups… sorry I got it

page01Button.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK));

I have a question, how can I make a preloader to these swf to load them in the main content? Where should I put the lines to preload them? Help, learning AS3 :/

By: yogiii

yogiii — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:43:20 +0000

How can I make a page (1,2,or3) to appear after after running swf?

By: ar0ma

ar0ma — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:08:25 +0000

Please check you have created “static text fields” not “dynamic text fields”.
I had the same Problem

By: Nireve

Nireve — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:15:41 +0000

Hello,

to align the mc buttons in the main i have :

stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;

import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.events.Event;

function resizeHandler(e:Event):void
{
page01Button.x = 5;
page01Button.y = 5;

page02Button.x = 100;
page02Button.y = 5;

page03Button.x = 200;
page03Button.y = 5;

}
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);

stage.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RESIZE));

but if i try to align the mc for the external swf, the flash give an error 1009.
This error basically means that you are trying to reference something that isn’t there yet. That something can be a variable, data from the server, or even a movieClip or other display instance.

Do you know a way to align an mc in the external swf ?

Thank you for your time,