• Mouse hide, show in Flash
• Mouse Trailers in Flash
• Creating Custom Mouse Pointer in Flash

Mouse hide, show

You can show or hide mouse by using following scripts.

Mouse.show();

Mouse.hide();

Mouse Trailers

Name Trailer

At blank stage place this action script.

Text = "Javed Khalil Hiroshi";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "Verdana";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "10";
spacing = 8;
speed = 3;
for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);
mc.createTextField(letters[LTR]+"t", LTR, LTR*spacing, 10, 20, 20);
with (mc[letters[LTR]+"t"]) {
text = letters[LTR];
setTextFormat(letterformat);
selectable = false;
}
if (LTR) {
mc.prevClip = _root[(LTR-1)+"l"];
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (this.prevClip._x-this._x+5)/speed;
this._y += (this.prevClip._y-this._y)/speed;
};
} else {
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x+10)/speed;
this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
};
}
}

Creating Custom Mouse Pointer

Action on first frame

startDrag("/my mouse", true);
Mouse.hide();

Action on Mouse movieclip

onClipEvent (load) {
Mouse.hide();
}

While my mouse is mouse pointer movieclip name.

Download Custom Mouse Pointer Example

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Mouse Following Objects – Download Examples

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Simple Movie Drag

Create a movieclip and name it d or whatever you like. In movie clip create a button and put actionscript on it.

on (press) {
startDrag("/d");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

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Drag with Parameters and Control

To apply restrictions for specific area in which movie clip is drag able consider this example.

on (press) {
startDrag("_root.window", false, 92, 92, 458, 308);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

92, 92, 458, 308 are left, right, top and bottom parameters boundries window cant cross. Window is movie clip name which is concerned.

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Multiple Objects Drag Example

Movie Properties Control

Move movie clip right, left, up, down, resize, rotate, brightness, contrast etc

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Counting Up Till 100

Take a dynamic text field and name it a or txt etc.Here i took a. Its defining a variable. First frame must be empty. At second frame take that dynamic field and at another layer place actionscript sequence in frames as following:

First Frame

a=1;

Second Frame

a=a+1;
if (a==100) {
gotoAndStop(4);
}

Third Frame

gotoAndPlay(2);

Fourth Frame

a=100;

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Unlimited Counting Up

Same dynamic field but actionscript will be:

First Frame

a=1;

Second Frame

a=a+1;

Third Frame

gotoAndPlay(2);

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Counting Down 100 to 1

Same dynamic field but actionscript will be:

First Frame

a=100;

Second Frame

a=a-1;
if (a==1) {
gotoAndStop(4);
}

Third Frame

gotoAndPlay(2);

Fourth Frame

a=1;

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• Close Browser From Flash
• Without POPUP Alert (browser close)
• With POPUP Alert (browser close)
• With POPUP Alert (browser close)
• Print From Flash
• Add to Favourites From Flash
• Launch Popup or Fullscreen Window From Flash
• For Full Screen in Html Page Containing Swf
• Open Many Popups From Flash (if u have many buttons and which indicate different windows to open)

and more…

Close Browser From Flash

With POPUP Alert (swf close)

fscommands will do the task. Write the following script on button in flash and you are done.
This script will close the swf and not the browser page.

on (release) 
{
fscommand("quit");
}

Without POPUP Alert (browser close)

Write the following script on button in flash and you are done.

on (release) 
{
getURL("javascript:window.opener=self;window.close(); ", "_self");
}

With POPUP Alert (browser close)

on (release) 
{
getURL("javascript:window.close()");
}

With POPUP Alert (browser close)

On Flash Button

on (release) 
{
getURL("JavaScript:close();");
}

In that webpage in body section write the following anywhere.

<a href=JavaScript:close();></a>

Print From Flash

There is print function in flash under printing action script menu, you can use that.

on (release) 
{
print(_root, "bmax");
}

It will print the whole _root timeline. If you want to specify frames (like one frame only put a label on the frame that says #p (hash sign + p) everything else will be excluded.

OR

on (release) 
{
printAsBitmapNum(0, "bmovie");
}

Printing can be customised and you can define area and other options for that i.e.

Check out following instructions

Add to Favourites From Flash

Following is the example of how to add to favorites from flash movie. You will have to add some actionscript at some button in flash and also some javascript code in webpage head section inwhich that flash movie is beingcalled.

On Flash Button

on (release) 
{
getURL("javascript:AjoutFavo()", "_self");
}

In Webpage Head Section

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> 
function AjoutFavo() {
if ((navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft",0)>=0) && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>=4)) {
window.external.AddFavorite("http://www.websiteurl.com","web site name" );
} 
}
</SCRIPT>

Launch Popup or Fullscreen Window From Flash

Popup From Flash

Script For Flash Button

on (release) 
{
getURL("javascript:openWin();");
}

For Html Page that Contain Swf with Button

<script language="javascript">
function openWin()
{
window.open('http://yahoo.com', 'win_ranking', 'width=320,height=400,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,left=0,top=113,screenX=0,screenY=100,scrollbars=no');
}
</script>

For Full Screen in Html Page Containing Swf

<script language="javascript">
function openWin()
{
window.open('http://yahoo.com', 'win_ranking', 'toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,left=0,top=113,screenX=0,screenY=100,scrollbars=no,fullscreen=yes');
}
</script>

Open Many Popups From Flash (if u have many buttons and which indicate different windows to open)

Add following scripts to your flash buttons.

on (release) {
getURL("JavaScript: OpenWin('1.htm');");
}

on (release) {
getURL("JavaScript: OpenWin2('2.htm');");
}

on (release) {
getURL("JavaScript: OpenWin3('3.htm');");
}

and so on…

Add this script in the head of your page inwhich this swf is embedded.

<Script Language="JavaScript"> function OpenWin(fileName){
window.open(fileName,'mNew',"width=270,height=179,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,left=0,top=113,screenX=0,screenY=100,scrollbars=no");	
}
function OpenWin2(fileName){
window.open(fileName,'mNew2',"width=172,height=268,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,left=0,top=113,screenX=0,screenY=100,scrollbars=no");	
} function OpenWin3(fileName){
window.open(fileName,'mNew3',"width=411,height=270,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,left=0,top=113,screenX=0,screenY=100,scrollbars=no");	
}
// and so on ................................
</script>

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By just looking at the image, I think you will not get the whole idea about the function. You will have to download it to see working example. This is an explanation of how to animate different sections of a movie smoothly. When some button is clicked, the previous animation restores its original state or disappears in a smooth way and after that new movie appears or gains the new position.

For example we have two movies, lets say a and b.
these are at states 1.
When we click at button a for movie a, it animate in some way and goes to state 2.
When we click now at button b for movie b, then two actions are performed.
Firstly animation state of movie a which is 2, will be back to 1.
Secondly after first move, animation state of movie b which is 1, will be changed to 2.

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Old Way Of Embeding SWF In Web Pages

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="200" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<embed src="mymovie.swf" width="200" height="100" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
</object>

We had to go to Flash Global Settings Manager to set settings to stop that pop up window.

New Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 provides a way to embed flash files in web pages via javascript by using AC_RunActiveContent.js file.

Suppose I have swf movie named as mymovie.swf. I will embed it in web page by using following method. You will need AC_RunActiveContent.js file which Adobe Dreamweaver provides while you embed swf in web pages.

For Head Section Of Page

<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Embeding SWF Via Javascript

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','200','height','100','src','mymovie','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','mymovie' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="100">
  <param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf">
  <param name="quality" value="high">
  <embed src="mymovie.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="100"></embed>
</object></noscript>

* For above example, you will have to change the movie name at four places. Two times it appears as mymovie.swf and two times as mymovie in code above and movie’s height and width three times too.

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