How did you get into actionscripting?

[ServentOfShelob]

I want to see how you all got into actionscripting. I will go first.

My Brother wanted me to make somthing on flash for his webste, and I thought that I would be cool to try to do some actionsripting things, so I did the flash tutroial and it ended up making me angry because I did not know the heck they where talking about, that was 6 months ago. I put learning off unteil my bro asked me to do the project that I was supost to do 6 month ago. I googled it and I came up with Actionscript.org, read the turoials and then I stared at it, now I am trying to do scripting but I now understand what I am doing, to a point.
(don't commment on my grammer or I spelling, I am the worst writer in the world)

[CyanBlue]

How??? Somebody put a curse on me and I had to learn it... :p

Nah... I was doing the Director before I get my hands on Flash... It didn't look that interesting in the first place... (It looked like a crippled brother of the Director when it first came out... I still think it is though...) Then, there was the 'web portable' feature which didn't work well in Director... So, I sorta downgraded myself for the Flash... That's all... :D

[stealthelephant]

stumbled across it!

[divarch]

Well, I haven't been long in Flash, since this fall I think, but to tell you the truth I already forgot how I got 'stuck' with it :)

First I tried doing things myself, like tweens, and some drawings, (that looked like s**t)then I found out about AS. That's when the party started I think.
When I figured out how to make a whole site without having a single thing on the stage, I was amazed and even more drawn into.
Then came a thing, which a serious flasher wouldn't miss, called AS.org.
A book right after, still expecting another one, and that's it in a nutshell.

[dzy2566]

I took a multimedia class my sophomore year in college and they sort of brushed over Flash in a day or two of lecture/lab. It looked like it had a lot of potential so I picked up a copy and started playing. I was using it primarily for animation thought at that point, and eventually wanted to learn more. I like to know as much as possible about the things that interest me, and it was clear to me in using the flash 5 beginners AS editor that there was alot more to it than I knew. So I got a book and just started playing. It's been 4 years now and I'm still playing ;)

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by divarch

Then came a thing, which a serious flasher wouldn't miss, called AS.org.

someone should ban this guy for promoting someone elses web site ;)

[ServentOfShelob]

well, we know that this site is better, so I would not worry about it.

[stealthelephant]

did u forget to use ur sarcasm tags there?

[divarch]

Originally posted by stealthelephant
someone should ban this guy for promoting someone elses web site ;)

Yes, maybe someone should,
my mistake :confused:

I never joined AS.org, this was more than enough for me.

[dzy2566]

Did anyone actually check that site out? It's called american singles. I did't let it load, because I was work but I assume it's a dating website. I thought it would be another ActionScript site, not that we need another. :D

[senocular]

2 things for me.

1) Had a lung operation. Spent the whole summer that year in bed. Set up the tv in front, the computer on the left and played my days watching jerry springer and pokemon and surfing the net. While on the net, I downloaded the Flash 4 trial and hacked away. I didn't like AS at that point (F4 AS blew) but it did get me into Flash making animations. I still have them now if you want to see them:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/cat.html
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/fishbowl.html
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tmccau1/flash/sss.html
(the last one is most reflective of my condition ;) )

2) So back to school I go in the hopes of becoming a 3D artist. DEAD SET on it. Problem is, I can't get into any of the classes. Then some jerkoff freshman comes up in one of my classes and says HE got into a 3D class - a FRESHMAN! - Im a junior at this point and still haven't gotten one - let alone many 'art' classes at all for that matter. So as a backup plan, I start taking some computer science classes in case I dont have time to get an art degree. Of course I only got through like 2 before I started getting into art classes so that didnt get me very far. It did at least put me in the state of mind to carry that knowledge over into my art though. So with that, and the fact I couldn't get into any other art classes (that school can suck my...) I proceeded with the Interactive track of the Visual arts degree which focused largely around Director. Now, Director's all well and fine, but I had a lot of online friends at this point (thank you operation) and I wanted to share with them what I was doing. Director wasn't the BEST medium for that, though Shockwave is all good and fine. That led me back to Flash. And with the Introduction of Flash 5 and a more Javascript-esque Actionscript, I was good to go. And there I was, and here I am :)

[Stimpson]

Hmmmm, how did I end up in Actionscripting....

Well basicly I did a 4 year study on Computer science, but always had a big interest in design and multimedia too. So after finishing I looked for the best way to combine them, hence actionscripting. Strangly enough I never bothered to experiment with flash during my study. But seeing my background I absolutely love the way MM is going with Actionscript now, although not everyone will be as pleased with that I imagine :).

[webguy]

lets see... started designing websites with flash in 99, working with Flash 4. Didn't know much more than html and css and was successful in creating an entire website without using any actionscript :) (and no you can't see it). Put it off for a while, during which time I taught myself databases and PERL, Javascript programming and dabbled with director. Which I feel helped me understand the fundamentals of AS and Flash quickly.

Found AS.org in May of this year (2003) and started asking some rudamentary questions. Got some great insight and printed off every tutorial, rant and code example that I could find. Downloaded any ebooks and printed them off. Got work to purchase several AS books (Colin Moock, Training from the Source, and Flash MX Magic) and read them cover to cover before even putting my hands on the keys. Then read Colin Moocks again and moved the rest to dust detail. Now I'm moving on again, to learn PHP. But I will not be completely gone from AS.org (http://www.actionscript.org), there is no other.

[Stimpson]

Hey webguy, you started with actionscripting may this year and are now moving on already. Did you in fact do anything with it meanwhile ;) :).

[ServentOfShelob]

Is Colin Moock's book that good, I can't find it in any ilbrary out here, is it worth bending a friends arm to get it?

[Stimpson]

Is Colin Moock's book that goodyes
is it worth bending a friends arm to get itMost definitely

Just do an search on Moock and you will get loads of threads handling this book :).

[ServentOfShelob]

I don't want to buy it, I'm POOR (a teen)

[dzy2566]

Well there are a few free chapters on www.moock.org. But if you want to learn AS, I would pick up a copy. It's my bible. You can find it cheap on amazon, possibly buy a used copy. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/059600396X/qid=1072716635//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/104-3550756-5306333?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[senocular]

then use the wonderful world of the world wide web to learn AS instead :D

[webguy]

the 'kick-in-the-ass' that got me moving was the prospect of building a website for the company I work for. Which will probably be a never ending project. www.ifae.com

Right now I'm working on a flash administration system that allows our non-computer savy to control the content on our website. And I just got the equipment in to start doing the quicktime VR's and have been spending time working with that. Also I'm trying to get a webcam setup in time for our upcoming art show, Jan 8. in Palm Beach (want a free admission let me know).

The difference in the time it takes me to learn and the time it takes other people to learn is the fact that it is my job to learn new technologies. So I spend 10+ hours a day working with AS and flash, and PERL and reading books, posts, etc. So my 7 months of routine learning probably equals about 2 years of recreational learning for someone else. Oddly I find it more fullfilling to learn something then to actually use it.

Colin Moock : AS Definitive Guide
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565928520/104-5138215-7535950?v=glance

webG

[ServentOfShelob]

WOW $1.50 for the book, now all I need is to get mom to order it for me, thanks.

[senocular]

I'm a fast learner as well, especially with these kinds of technologies, but ... I just cant remember it all :p

:)

[dzy2566]

Be careful, that's the Flash 5 version for $1.50.

[webguy]

Fast learner? More like bottomless depository of information :) I don't know how much of what I know about AS can be accredited to you, Senocular, but I'm positive its a good chunk. I just want you know that I appreciated your help here in the forums and the time you spent on your explainations and I'm sure there are a mass of others who agree. Your the bestest!

[ServentOfShelob]

I get lost when he posts, but I barly understand flash as it is!
but thanks anyway

[dzy2566]

Senocular has definately put out a few of my fires. So yes, I'd have to whole-heartedly agree with Web.

[senocular]

:D

[ServentOfShelob]

Speaking of which I have a porblem with my loop
for(x=0, x<Number(h), x++)
and I have a imput box named h and all configured for numbers but it never does what I want it to, and when I replace Number(h) with 100 it works, help me.

[splict]

Originally posted by webguy
Oddly I find it more fullfilling to learn something then to actually use it.
Me too. :D ... Unfortunately this seems to seriously cut in to my productivity.

[senocular]

Originally posted by ServentOfShelob
Speaking of which I have a porblem with my loop
for(x=0, x<Number(h), x++)
and I have a imput box named h and all configured for numbers but it never does what I want it to, and when I replace Number(h) with 100 it works, help me.


use semicolons in for loops, not commas

for(x=0; x<Number(h); x++)

[ServentOfShelob]

Thank you

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by stealthelephant
stumbled across it!
well not entirely true,
after spending 3 years as a c++ programmer in ny i came home (split with my SO :() only to find that it was nearly impossible to get work in c++.
i wanted something quick and fast to show some flashy stuff to employers so flash was a prime candidate, didnt know about AS until finished the book (them friends of ed guys). at that stage i was ver y impressed with what AS can do over nearly every other language i know in terms of graphics :)

[McGiver]

a friend of mine wrote a flash page, and I said it looked like crap (it looked like crap! some ugly tweens, and that was it)
He told me I would need to learn flash to understand how difficult it was. so I got flash 4 from him, and played around a little bit, and made a lot of ugly tweens to. Then I stopped playing pc games, because a girlfriend forced me to (I forced her to quit smoking, so this was just fair), so I had a lot of free time. I got flash mx, and played around with it. Once I wanted to write a preloader for one of my ugly tweens, and found a nice script anywhere in he web. It didn't work, and I found a workin one here so I started to read the first tutorials concerning strings,... , to find out what the differece between the 2 scripts was (~1 year ago).
well, somewhere inbetween this time and now, I got addicted ;)

[Disjuku]

hmm, I cant atcually remember, I think it started that I was just making animations in flash, and I just started the action script stuff by using "goto" "stop" "play" etc, and gradually caught on :)

[bluegel]

through work

[senocular]

Originally posted by McGiver
I forced her to quit smoking...

Good for you!
:D

[the_unknown_one]

I am into a game called Operation Flashpoint, which has it's wown scripting language, and that is how i bcame interested in programming, then, recently, i became interested in web design, and something called Madness Combat
(www.madnesscombat.com). I knew it was done in flash, and so i downloaded the trial. I wanted to know how to do buttons and things, and worked out some basic commands and stuff from sites i'd seen, like gotoAndPlay() and stop(); and decided i wanted to learn more.

[catbert303]

I started out with a flash 4 trial and a copy of a book called Flash 4 Creative Web Animation (or something similar).
The bit of the book that caught my imagination was the interactivity chapter, when I reached the section on drag and drop I though to myself, "hmm... I could make a drag and drop game using this". so i did. building the game was fun, and then when I was able to sell the game to a kids website it became even more fun :)

[senocular]

yeah Flash 4 game programming was fun :rolleyes:

I had to write a game for kellogs using Flash 4 - it blew (not the game, programming it)
:D

[dzy2566]

Originally posted by senocular

I had to write a game for kellogs using Flash 4

Got a link to that game?

[senocular]

it was a mailer. The best I have is a screenshot (err I think... Id have to find it)

hmm. Ok, I dont even have that. I forgot who I did it for (the company I was freelancing for at the time) too. :P

It was nothing special. I did it in about 2 days. It was tucan sam flying around and catching fruit loops. He was at the bottom of the screen moving back and forth (via mouse) while fruit loops and other obstacles came towards you in a pseudo 3D landscape. Different color loops were worth different points and you had to get so many in a certain amout of time.

[dzy2566]

Oh, cool. Thanks for looking though. I was just asking because I'm into making flash games. Not as a career, just a hobby of mine. Though if I could make a living creating flash mini-games I would. Here's one I made last week. (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=143204) (NOT A GOOD IDEA TO VIEW IN A PLACE OF BUSINESS, mildly inappropriate) It's not very PC, but I meant no harm......just a silly game. I'm half-jewish myself actually.

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by dzy2566
. I'm half-jewish myself actually.
theres no such thing as a half jew, how can there be?
i'm half catholic - see what i mean?

i especially didnt get it the way new yorkers would say their ethnicticy was jewish, i laughed at them and said yeah im catholic or muslim or buddists or something!
it only seems that americans jews think that jewish people have their own race!
practically every other jew i have met says they are english, spanish, german etc etc and they too tought it a little odd to be calling themselves jewish as a race!

[senocular]

Thats a very controversial subject. Are the jewish their own race? Many think so, many do not. It seems to be that the majority here in the US think so. But opinions still differ. But what is a race? Can humans be classified into races? ANOTHER controversial subject. If we can't even decide if we are separable into categories of race, how are we even to dictate the definitions of our races?

Here's a list. Doesn't show jewish as beng a race.

I. Capoid or Khoisanid Subspecies of southern Africa
A. Khoid (Hottentot) race
B. Sanid (Bushmen) race
II. Congoid Subspecies of sub-Saharan Africa
A. Central African race
1. Palaecongoid subrace (the Congo river basin: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Angola)
2. Sudanid subrace (western Africa: Niger, Mali, Senegal, Guinea)
3. Nilotid subrace (southern Sudan; the ancient Nubians were of this subrace)
4. Kafrid or Bantid subrace (east and south Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Natal)
B. Bambutid race (African Pygmies)
C. Aethiopid race (Ethiopia, Somalia; hybridized with Caucasoids)
III. Caucasoid or Europid Subspecies
A. Mediterranid race
1. West Mediterranean or Iberid subrace (Spain, Portugal, Corsica, Sardinia, and coastal areas of Morocco and Tunisia; the Atlanto-Mediterranean peoples who expanded over much of the Atlantic coastal regions of Europe during the Mesolithic period were a branch of this subrace)
2. East Mediterranean or Pontid subrace (Black Sea coast of Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria; Aegean coasts of Greece and Turkey)
3. Dinaricized Mediterraneans (Residual mixed types resulting from the blending of Mediterranids with Dinarics, Alpines or Armenids; not a unified type, has much regional variation; predominant element [over 60%] in Sicily and southern Italy, principal element in Turkey [35%], important element in western Syria, Lebanon and central Italy, common in northern Italy. The ancient Cappadocian Mediterranean subrace of Anatolia was dinaricized during the Bronze Age [second millennium B.C.] and is a major contributor to this type in modern Turkey.)
4. South Mediterranean or Saharid subrace (predominant in Algeria and Libya, important in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt)
5. Orientalid or Arabid subrace (predominant in Arabia, major element from Egypt to Syria, primary in northern Sudan, important in Iraq, predominant element among the Oriental Jews)
B. Dinaric race (predominant in western Balkans [Dinaric Mountains] and northern Italy, important in the Czech Republic, eastern and southern Switzerland, western Austria and eastern Ukraine)
C. Alpine race (predominant element in Luxembourg, primary in Bavaria and Bohemia, important in France, Hungary, eastern and southern Switzerland)
D. Ladogan race (named after Lake Ladoga; indigenous to Russia; includes Lappish subrace of arctic Europe)
E. Nordish or Northern European race (various subraces in the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium; predominant element in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Finland and the Baltic States; majority in Austria and Russia; minority in France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary; outlined in detail in The Nordish Race)
F. Armenid race (predominant element in Armenia, common in Syria, Lebanon and northern Iraq, primary element among the Ashkenazic Jews)
G. Turanid race (partially hybridized with Mongoloids; predominant element in Kazakhstan.; common in Hungary and Turkey)
H. Irano-Afghan race (predominant in Iran and Afghanistan, primary element in Iraq, common [25%] in Turkey)
I. Indic or Nordindid race (Pakistan and northern India)
J. Dravidic race (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka [Ceylon]; ancient stabilized Indic-Veddoid [Australoid] blend)
IV. Australoid Subspecies
A. Veddoid race (remnant Australoid population in central and southern India)
B. Negritos (remnants in Malaysia and the Philippines)
C. Melanesian race (New Guinea, Papua, Solomon Islands)
D. Australian-Tasmanian race (Australian Aborigines)
V. Mongoloid Subspecies
A. Northeast Asian race (various subraces in China, Manchuria, Korea and Japan)
B. Southeast Asian race (various subraces in Indochina, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, some partly hybridized with Australoids)
C. Micronesian-Polynesian race (hybridized with Australoids)
D. Ainuid race (remnants of aboriginal population in northern Japan)
E. Tungid race (Mongolia and Siberia, Eskimos)
F. Amerindian race (American Indians; various subraces)


and how about this. Do I care? No.
:D

[dzy2566]

Good lord. I only mean that I've grown up exposed to the Jewish culture and am by no means for or against it. My father's parents raised him Catholic and my mothers parents raised her Jewish, though neither she nor her sister had a batmitzvah (while their brother did). My brother and I were raised without any religious affiliation. That's not to say that I was raised by agnostic or atheist parents. I have always been free to go to church and explore any religion that I chose, which I have done. So I don't consider myself half-jewish in the sense that I'm picking and chosing from different religions. What I meant was that my mother is Jewish, and if you know any Jews, that means you're all Jewish because that's what the Jews like to tell people. "Well if your mom is Jewish, than you're Jewish", which is a falacy because I wasn't brought up Jewish and short of having attended so many barmitzvahs, I don't do the faith any justice. So it's unfair to call myself Jewish, because I certainly haven't earned that right. Perhaps I should have said, "I'm related to Jewish people and hold no distate for them or any other Jews out there". Better?

Man, you just can't bring up religion anywhere without someone deciding that it must be strictly defined.......which is ironic because how can you ever define something so personal. Even when people follow a religious set of rules to the letter, what it means and does for them will always vary. So why force everyone to declare one way or another? Can't I just be a good person? Besides, a Jewish person might consider me Jewish because my mother's parents were, but I don't consider myself Jewish because I don't practice nor have I studied the faith. People study and pracitce their whole live only call themselves Jewish, not super-Jewish. So how dare I group myself with the devoted Jews when I only share the quality of having been born into a family that has Jewish people in it somewhere further up the family tree? Not half-Jewish maybe.........so what am I? How about a person, more specifically a person who love actionscript. :) My friends call me Sean and that's good enough for me.

P.S. Assuming I subscribe to the school of thought that would allow a phrase like "I'm half-jewish" to be a valid statement, coming back with "I'm half-catholic.....see what I mean" is a very attempt at supporting your view. Because I would say that you can be half-catholic. Ever stolen anything? Ever cheated on something/someone? Ever longed for another's significant other? Tally up the 10 commandments and you're probably about 5/10, maybe worse. Go to church every Sunday, or just on Christmas and Easter? There's plenty of people who fall short of what the religion they subscribe to by doing what's convenient or what makes sense to them, but they still consider themselves all one religion. Think you'd still be on the team if you were a wide receiver and only attended half the games? Only played for your team occasionally? Played half of the games by baseball rules? And would you continue to play if the team decided you should only get half of your paycheck each week? Nope, you'd probably quit the team if they did that. But religion can't cut you, so you get to do what you feel like and continue to call yourself devoted. (note: I'm using the general you, I'm not directing this specifically at stealth.....just making a point)

(this could be rough, where's Warrior :) j/k)

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by dzy2566
Good lord. I only mean that I've grown up exposed to the Jewish culture and am by no means for or against it. My father's parents raised him Catholic and my mothers parents raised her Jewish, though neither she nor her sister had a batmitzvah (while their brother did). My brother and I were raised without any religious affiliation. That's not to say that I was raised by agnostic or atheist parents. I have always been free to go to church and explore any religion that I chose, which I have done. So I don't consider myself half-jewish in the sense that I'm picking and chosing from different religions. What I meant was that my mother is Jewish, and if you know any Jews, that means you're all Jewish because that's what the Jews like to tell people. "Well if your mom is Jewish, than you're Jewish", which is a falacy because I wasn't brought up Jewish and short of having attended so many barmitzvahs, I don't do the faith any justice. So it's unfair to call myself Jewish, because I certainly haven't earned that right. Perhaps I should have said, "I'm related to Jewish people and hold no distate for them or any other Jews out there". Better?

Man, you just can't bring up religion anywhere without someone deciding that it must be strictly defined.......which is ironic because how can you ever define something so personal. Even when people follow a religious set of rules to the letter, what it means and does for them will always vary. So why force everyone to declare one way or another? Can't I just be a good person? Besides, a Jewish person might consider me Jewish because my mother's parents were, but I don't consider myself Jewish because I don't practice. So what am I?

(this could be rough, where Warrior :))
ok, the reason i said race was cos i'm not sure how to spell ethnentisity (errrr :rolleyes: thats still wrong! :()
i have nothing against the jewish religion or any of the people practising it, it Urks me the way most refer to it as if its like being irish or english or german or whatever!!! its JUST a
religion is all.
god knows my x (wife) and i used to get into such fights when she claimed she was half-jewish

[senocular]

hey dzy2566, where do you store peanut butter?

[dzy2566]

Where mama keeps the cookies, top shelf :)

The only reason I have such strong opinions on this, (see long-standing signature) is that I feel if you're going to do something, do it right. So I don't appreciate when someone unrightfully claims rights to something they didn't earn. Since I don't feel I do justice to the Jewish faith, I would never claim to fit under that umbrella. Which is why I loosely associate with them.

No hard feelings Stealth, that wasn't at you. I'm just getting tired of Jews telling me I'm Jewish when I'm not, and everyone else needing to what I am.

I am what I am and that's all that I am. - Popeye :)

[stealthelephant]

ahhh, i misunderstood what u meant when u said half-jewish, makes more sense the way u use it, others including my x would mean it as they are 1/4 irish 1/8 jewish 1/3 german blah de blah de blah
another thing that urks me is a computer asking me if i want american english or english english! there is no such thing as american english, its english for gods sake! different spellings for the same words a different language does not make! :eek:

i have a religion for u if u want to join :p
the brotherhood of stealth elephants > B.O.S.Es
only costs everything u own to join, & theres a big space ship coming to collect us all next year too

[ServentOfShelob]

I bet I am jewish some where, and this went from a good topic to a contaverisal one just out of 1 small line, doint you just love the power of just a cuple words

[dzy2566]

Gotcha. I missed the whole race thing. I though you were using it interchangably with religious affiliation. Wow, how confusing.

Sounds good. It'll only cost me everything to board your ship? Such a deal. Where can I ship my empty tin can, 9 buttons, twinkie, and George Clinton rubber mask? Oh wait, no more twinkie.

[dzy2566]

Oh, and Jewish is not an ethnicity. So I see, now, what you meant with half-catholic.

[senocular]

Originally posted by dzy2566
Where mama keeps the cookies, top shelf :)

Its a first!

Refrigerator: 9
Shelf/Cupboard: 1

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by senocular
Are the jewish their own race?
i think putting people into categories of race is probably the most stupid thing anyone can do! we are all the same, how can we be different?

[annexion]

Then all dogs are Jack Russell Terriers. :p

[stealthelephant]

different bread does not a different doggy race make!! yeahhhh, go yoda!!

wow this thread has taken a turn!

[dzy2566]

That it has.

Seonocular: Were you looking for a specific answer? And who keeps PB in the fridge, honestly. :)

[senocular]

turn? Nah. Racial discussions go hand in hand with learning actionscript :D

[dzy2566]

It seems that way, doesn't it?

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by senocular
turn? Nah. Racial discussions go hand in hand with learning actionscript :D
racial discussions and cookies!!!
cookies go with all debating actually, look at all those fat guys on capital hill :-)

ethnic backgrounds and cookies actually (as thats what i was actually talking about ;) )

[dzy2566]

clever, stealth

BTW - I know you're steal-the-elepahnt, or at least I think I remember you saying that. You mind being referred to as "stealh"? I like shortcuts. :)

[xxlm]

Ok.
I was at school, and look for the web technologie. And I found something. A new software: FLASH 4.
So i start learning by myself since. Haven't got much time, but always doing some little stuff to stay in the course.

BUT NOW... Things will change... Héhéhé. My proffesionnal life is starting and I hope I'll use Flash as often as I want (always??)...
C ya

[stealthelephant]

Originally posted by dzy2566
clever, stealth

BTW - I know you're steal-the-elepahnt, or at least I think I remember you saying that. You mind being referred to as "stealh"? I like shortcuts. :) :mad:
i've been in hiding from "steal the elephant" he trying to get me, is why i am in stealth mode :)

[senocular]

its funny because whenever I look at the name I get

stealth the elephant

:D

[Timmee_3Styler]

btw senocular... you cant take down your site, the stuff on that is very very educational :) just browsed it again this morning ;)

[dzy2566]

Oh, my fault. I'm all confused about the origin of your name :D You're stealth, and that's final!

[senocular]

Originally posted by Timmee_3Styler
btw senocular... you cant take down your site, the stuff on that is very very educational :) just browsed it again this morning ;)

Someone is offering me some web space. It'll live on. ;)

[Timmee_3Styler]

that is awesome

[McGiver]

Hehee
stealth the elephant
I think I never should have mentined that name ;)

[FormerSwinger]

I started using ActionScript a year a go (trying to push the thread back to the original direction. Allthough converstations about peanutbutters and ethni***** and religions was refreshing...)

Like my nick hints I used to work with Java (javax.swing.... Get it?) and I needed to make this cool looking photo site. I had allready come to the conclusion that Java and cool graphics don't mix. So I thought why not give as a chance. (apart from the poor documentation it's been well worth it)

[newblack]

I started programming almost 2 years ago with Processing (http://processing.org/) and switched to Flash for its ubiquity.

[senocular]

wow, has it been 2 years? I can't believe they're still in beta. I think google must own them.

[Design2Conquer]

Did anyone actually check that site out? It's called american singles. I did't let it load, because I was work but I assume it's a dating website. I thought it would be another ActionScript site, not that we need another. :D
HA HA :p yeah I saw that too.

Well I actually went to school for digital media. My entire CD portfolio was in flash. About half of it was actionscript. That is how I got my hands dirty.

[xxlm]

-- Out of topic --
A user is spaming this thread. Couldn't a admin ban him/his IP?
(Msg have been deleted for normal user reading this post)
-- End Out of topic --

Otherwise, I remember looking at processing and never really get into it.
Maybe it was the right choice as they are still in beta lol ...

[CyanBlue]

Um... Who's spamming??? What's the username???

[senocular]

There was someone I tagged earlier and deleted all his posts. Not being a supermod like some people ;) I really couldnt do much more. I forget the username now.

[CyanBlue]

Oh, are you talking about the fermanaziz guy???
I saw you deleted his post and I banned him after that...

I did warn him last night and he did not care about it obviously... :D

Um... Supermod... Ask Jesse and see what he has to say about it... ;)

[Flash Gordon]

[ off topic or maybe on topic I'm not sure at this point ]
I got into Flash after I grad with MM degree. I saw several sites that were devoted to selling "music websites" to musicians for crazy prices. I figured I could do better than that, so I bought a book and a computer and here i am.

BTW, i now (1.5 years later) program and design better than that "music site" i'm referring to above ;)

[xxlm]

Cyanblue, Senocular> Yeah it was him...

[MichaelxxOA]

Interesting thread...

Um, I started programming about 5-6 years ago. Java/C++/Python... did some smalltalk and some lisp, but just for learning OO, nothing production. But before all of that I did HTML (w00t) and Javascript, once I decided to go back into web programming I looked into Flash and Actionscript and decided it was what I wanted to do... it's been a good 4-5 years now I guess, bleh.. that long. Anyway It's great to hear all of the different stories :P

Michael

[MichaelxxOA]

Newblack is the next big Actionscript start ;) He just won't admit to it.

Michael

[Xeef]

i was starting programing 23 years ago :D whit a ZX80

not realy programing it was prety hard whit out any english knowledge (absolute 0) to read the english help book (and internet wasn't exist at that time)

but it was fun to write something and then see a big black box on screen
by a max resolution of 40x25

then a break for 3-4 years
then a bit basic on a comodore 128K (or what was it name ?) NOT a C64

then on an amstrad 6128 (also Basic and a bit CPM)

then amiga (not realy programing but playing)
oh my first and last experience whit assembler was on amiga
(leting the status LED blick on mouse press and stop it on an other press)

then basic, pascal, C+, visual basic on a PC

then for 2-3 years nothing and know since 2 and a bit more years Flash

and i think in the last 2 months i have learned more then in the 22 years before !

where by i always program for fun and never realy have learned it
so i missing many aspects of proper programing


Edit

nearly forget 3Dmax scripting !

[MichaelxxOA]

you would :) lol Xeef.. I haven't even been alive that long.

Isn't English like you're 3rd language!?? That's insane, what is your first.. and what other languages do you know!?

Michael

[Xeef]

a was born in hungary (speak it fluid)
and living there till my 11-12 year
then moved to germany (also fluid)
till i was 26 (or so)
know live in spain since 5 years but not speak the language at all :p
ok i can get cigaretes and bread

[MichaelxxOA]

ah I speak Portuguese (very little) although I am portuguese.

How do you like Spain?

Michael

[Cota]

I speak 2 languages, english and bad english...

[Xeef]

i like it as else way i woudn't by here

BUT

ibiza != spain (even if it's in spain) as it's a smale island people are diferent from the main land

[senocular]

I speak 2 languages, english and bad english...

And you're a Bruce Willis impersonator ;)

[Cota]

ahahaha...you are the first person to ever catch that...

[newblack]

Newblack is the next big Actionscript start ;) He just won't admit to it.

Michael

mxxoa ficking pwns HARD

[Ruben]

Actionscript? Was it a programming-languages what this community was about then? I merely registered to hijack all of these threads, but I reckon you guys did a pretty good job, so no need for me to spit out more nonsense..

know live in spain since 5 years but not speak the language at all ;p
ok i can get cigaretes and breadXEEF YOU ROCK! AHAHA, dude I'm not even gonna explain how badly my day has sucked, you're rocking balls man! Thanks!

As for religions, I'm a devoted cruddist, hull yua (go tell 'em cota)..
As for languages, I speak dutch fluently, I understand frisian fluently (although anyone familiar with the dutch culture will be laughing his/her ass off reading this ;)), i knaw an bit off englis an reed it to, I think I can cope saying dirty words in german.. but that's about it.. I used to rock in french, but my 2nd teacher wasn't all that great at teaching.. sorry xxlm ;)
As for peanutbutter, you should really get yourselves a housemate that licks it off of his finger, that'll teach you..

Oh, and regarding actionscript.. I saw some flash content about 4 years ago, and I thought it'd be cool if I were able to do stuff like that. So I got meself a copy from a guy from another class in highschool.. I first started to do 'awesome' tweens (of course including the predefined radial gradients from #00FF00 to black :p), which sucked ultimately..
After that I began to include some basic gotoandplay's and stuff, but of course I craved for more power (and world-domination), so I started to ask people if they knew of any resources.. Needless to say most of the people in my contact-list didn't even know what flash was. Eventually I stumbled across as.org, I went through all of the tutes and about a year after I had gone through all of what there was in the tutorials-section at the time I began to post at the boards.. and that's when things got really messy ;)

- Ruben

[icemart525]

I started actionscripting at school, they only taught us the goto and stop statements... I speak Ilocano, Tagalog, English and a little bit of Japanese. I want to learn french and italian. anyone interested to teach? :D

[senocular]

I'm sorry, the only language we teach here is ActionScript ;)

[Incrue]

ah I speak Portuguese (very little) although I am portuguese.

How do you like Spain?

Michael
Diz aí PÁ!!!!!
Flash é fixe!!(not fish)

[Incrue]

. I want to learn french and italian. anyone interested to teach? :D
Dont worry my friend,i dont know these, but i can teach you ELVISH!!!!

//start of first lesson:

say it:NAKA TAKA DAIA

means:EVERYONE WILL DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

//end of first (and at the same time last)lesson

[Ruben]

Cool, I've been wanting to be able to say that in elvish for a long time now..

- Ruben

[senocular]

Cool, I've been wanting to be able to say that in elvish for a long time now..

- Ruben
Actually, thats the only elivish I've ever known. Why would you even need to say anything else?

[Ruben]

..is that why there haven't been any elves around for quite a while now?

- Ruben

[icemart525]

Dont worry my friend,i dont know these, but i can teach you ELVISH!!!!

//start of first lesson:

say it:NAKA TAKA DAIA

means:EVERYONE WILL DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

//end of first (and at the same time last)lesson

nice, NAKA TAKA DAIA TODAIA!
EVERYONE WILL DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TODAAAAAAAY!! :eek:

[CyanBlue]

NAKA TAKA DAIA TODAIA!
EVERYONE WILL DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TODAAAAAAAY!! :eek:
Anybody who wants to die, let me know and I'll kill your account...
Other than that, let's get back to the ActionScript talk??? ;)

[icemart525]

Xeef must be very old, I should call you grandpa. :D :D

[Headshotz]

As for religions, I'm a devoted cruddist, hull yua (go tell 'em cota)..


Spread the word of Cruddism.

[Ruben]

Wurd up!

:p - Ruben

[tg]

Anybody who wants to die, let me know and I'll kill your account...
Other than that, let's get back to the ActionScript talk??? ;)


cb, dude. you are gonna wear yourself out trying to keep threads from being hijacked.... especially in this forum.

maybe as well changed the forum name from general chat to generally hijacked.

[CyanBlue]

Yeah... Maybe I should... What the hell was I thinking??? :D

[Ruben]

i was starting programing 23 years ago :DYou started programming at the age of 8!?

:eek: - Ruben

[Xeef]

corect

one of my uncles was brought a zx80 (or something in this direction) from germany and i was siting the hole sumer holydays in front of a 12-14 inch B&W tv
making big black dots on screen whit something (if e remember corect)
plot(1,24)
as i then have discovered that whit line numbers in front they aren't executed streight
and my nice picture out of big black dots isn't destroied as the dots was scroling whit the command text
happynes was big :D

[Ruben]

Hahaha, well I guess that's programming in a certain way of speaking then..

:p - Ruben

[icemart525]

Programming @ 8? Cool! Xeef is a genius. I started @ 21. 8 year old kids here are only starting how to write connected words... :D

[FormerSwinger]

Funny! You have a finnish name icemart525.
Not common in the Philippines, eh?

[jjbilly]

So there are lots of icemart525s in Helsinki, right? :)

[newblack]

So there are lots of icemart525s in Helsinki, right? :)
i think he was just referring to the 525 part. ha.

[icemart525]

Funny! You have a finnish name icemart525.
Not common in the Philippines, eh?

it's actually like this: ice is the name of my girlfriend. mart is my name and 5/25 is my birthdate. :p Do you really have names with numbers in Finland? :rolleyes:

[FormerSwinger]

but ofcourse :)

my favourite is 176-761 ;)

[Ruben]

Not only finland, they told me there's this guy in the underworld who's name is 666..

- Ruben

[FormerSwinger]

Not only finland, they told me there's this guy in the underworld who's name is 666..

- Ruben
I tought that was only his nick name :D

[tg]

i heard his real name was bubba.

[Grant B]

I got into actionscripting up to intermediate level at most - thanks to Lynda.com video tutorials.

And Flash MX 2004 Actionscript - Training From the Source (Book).

I'm otherwise not that great at clever scripting and mostly use the same old script for most projects.

[icemart525]

but ofcourse :)

my favourite is 176-761 ;)
i don't get it. :confused:

[FormerSwinger]

i don't get it. :confused:
There is allways someone trying to get Scrooge McDuck's money ;)

Don Rosa rules!

[icemart525]

Yeah the richest duck in the world. :D what's the connection of scrooge to number names?

[FormerSwinger]

The Beagle Boys

[Ruben]

Beagle Boys boys and sugar-cake sandwiches, don't forget the sugar-cake sandwiches..

- Ruben