Pop up window & Load text

[silverbitz]

Heyas!

I just switched from FlashMX to Flash8 and I'm having some trouble figuring out some stuff that has changed. I have a file that I'm trying to update, that I originally did with FlashMX and that I'm working on now with Flash8.

Here's my 1st problem:

My java-script pop-up window thing doesn't work anymore, when I try it my browser gives me a window saying that my Flash Player has aborded an unsafe operation.

Here's my original code that used to work with my old Flash player:

on (press) {
	getURL ("javascript:openWin('img9','Photo','bio/kat_kick.jpg','500','544');");
		
}

Is there a new way to put that?

My 2nd problem.. My loading text from a .txt file doesn't work anymore, Flash tells me that:

**Warning** Symbol=content news, layer=Layer 1, frame=10:Line 4: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
     loadText = new loadVars();

**Warning** Symbol=content_portfolio, layer=Layer 2, frame=10:Line 3: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
     loadText = new loadVars();

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 	 Reported Errors: 2

I guess the problem is with the loadVars(); command.. but I don't know what to change it to. My code is:

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("texts/news.txt");
//creating the loadVarsText function
loadText.onLoad = function() {
	

for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
	
	
	newstext.htmlText += +this["date"+i]+"<br>"+"<br>"+this["text"+i];
	
}
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Scottae]

Originally Posted by silverbitz

My java-script pop-up window thing doesn't work anymore, when I try it my browser gives me a window saying that my Flash Player has aborded an unsafe operation.

It looks like you are not specifying correct parameters for the window.open method. That's probably part of your problem. Check out How to create pop-up browser windows in Flash (getURL:javascript). Also check out A comprehensive list of supported Macromedia Flash features, specific to each browser

Originally Posted by silverbitz

Is there a new way to put that?

Instead of having a defined JavaScript method on the html, you could just call the window.open method directly like this:

// One way
getURL ("javascript:window.open('bio/kat_kick.jpg','Photo','width=500,height=544');void(0);");

// Another way
getURL ("javascript:void window.open('bio/kat_kick.jpg','Photo','width=500,height=544');");

Originally Posted by silverbitz

My 2nd problem.. My loading text from a .txt file doesn't work anymore, Flash tells me that:

**Warning** Symbol=content news, layer=Layer 1, frame=10:Line 4: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
     loadText = new loadVars();

**Warning** Symbol=content_portfolio, layer=Layer 2, frame=10:Line 3: The identifier 'loadVars' will not resolve to built-in object 'LoadVars' at runtime.
     loadText = new loadVars();

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 	 Reported Errors: 2

Flash is case sensitive now (since Flash MX 2004). You have to use an upper case L (LoadVars)

[Scottae]

You can also use the ExternalInterface class which is new to Flash 8.

[silverbitz]

thank you so much!!! the text loads in, i didnt know Flash was now case sensitive..

i'm having another problem though, i had a menu working just fine with FlashMX but it's kind of dead now

Maybe someone can tell me what's wrong with it. It might something stupid with capital letters again, but I have no clue...

dedans1.loadMovie ("gallery-0.swf", 1);
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("texts/portfolio.txt");

loadText.onLoad = function() {
		

_root.content_portfolio.createEmptyMovieClip("Button_Menu", 1);
_root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu._x = 0;
_root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu._y = 85;
button_Amount = 6;

for (i=0; i<button_Amount; i++) {

///////////////MENU
	
_root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu.attachMovie("button_mc", "Button_No"+i, i+1);
	var currentButton = _root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu["Button_No"+i];
	currentButton._x = i*120;
	currentButton.button_Id = i;
	currentButton.num = i;
	currentButton.button_Text.text = this["cat"+i];
	currentButton.onPress = function() {
				
	dedans1.loadMovie ("gallery-"+this.num+".swf", 1);
	
	}

///////////////ROLL OVERS
		
currentButton.onRollOver = function() {
			this.gotoAndStop("over_state");
			
		};
		currentButton.onRollOut = function() {
			if (this.button_Id != currentlyDown) {
				this.gotoAndStop("up_state");
			} else {
				this.gotoAndStop("down_state");
			}
		};

	/////////////// NO REPEAT
	
	currentlyDown = 0
					_root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu.onEnterFrame = function () {
     if (currentlyDown != null && _root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu["Button_No"+currentlyDown]._currentframe != "down_state") {
          //checks if a button was pressed and if that button is in the down state
          _root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu["Button_No"+currentlyDown].gotoAndPlay("down_state");
          //if that's not the case, set the right button in the down state
     }
	 }
	
	///////////////ON RELEASE
	
	currentButton.onRelease = function() {
				
	
		this.gotoAndStop("down_state");

		if (this.button_Id != currentlyDown && currentlyDown != null) {
			_root.content_portfolio.Button_Menu["Button_No"+currentlyDown].gotoAndStop("up_state");
			message_Window += " Button no. "+currentlyDown+" is no longer selected.";
		}
		currentlyDown = this.button_Id;
	};
	
	}

};

[Scottae]

I don't know either......what errors are you getting?

[silverbitz]

I don't get any error message (so yeah, i guess it's not a spelling thing). But my buttons don't work anymore.

This code used to generate buttons with text from a text file. By clicking on those buttons I could load an external clip into my animation. Actually you could see it working online:

http://silverfragments.com/

If you click on portfolio, you see the sections (design, websites, drawings, etc.): those are the buttons. When I open that same file with Flash8, that menu doesn't work anymore.

[flashead]

Is it just the buttons that don't work, or does it not even build the menu?


EDIT:

I got this error:
Type mismatch in assignment statement: found Number where String is required.
for (i=0; i<button_Amount; i++) {

I'm not sure why I got it, I don't understand why it would be expecting a String.
But it was fine after I changed that line to:

for (var i=0; i<button_Amount; i++) {

[Scottae]

The menu is working for me. I have Flash player 8.5

[silverbitz]

OMG it works! I just added the "var" as you did and it works!! ^^

thanks a lot!

EDIT: Actually, it only works when i look at the swf file by itself.. when i look at the whole thing inside my html page, the menu doesn't work still! I mean, the buttons appear as they should, the only thing that doesn't work is the onPress command: no clips are loaded as they should! Although they work in the swf file.. how can that be? I checked like a thousand times to make sure that i was loading the correct swf file into my html page.. o.O

[Scottae]

Try checking out these links....

Setting publish options for the Flash SWF file format
About publishing secure Flash documents
Other improvements