FlashEff Forum - FlashEff 2 Beta (Beta phase only)

Looping Text (no replies)

peter119 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:10:05 -0600

Hi all,
New'ish to Flash and new to FlashEff2. Can anyone tell me or point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to loop text. I can see some on slideshows and that looks a little complicated for what I want however I guess I am looking to do something similar.
All I want to do is apply a show effect to a word, that to then hide and then another word to show and hide. I guess I would like this to happen with about four different words all with the same effect, can anyone help with this please.
Remember I'm new to Flash and not to geared up on code ;-)
Thanks, Pete.

Suggestion (1 reply)

Liquidus — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:11:56 -0500

1.) I wish I could design my effect using your great custom panel and then have it optionally display all the code require to accomplish the transition in AS3. It would save me a great deal of time.

2.) Greensock just came out with a new version of their tweening engine that emulates timelines called timelineMax. I would like to be able to tell my effect object gotoAndStop(timeInSeconds) or gotoAndPlay(timeInSeconds). This feature doesn't seem that hard to add.

Thanks

button _SELF (1 reply)

tania — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:06:21 -0500

Hi everybody,
I having a problem and I couldn't find an answer here in the forum, so here I am:
I created a button and I added a "nagateToURL" command, added the url and changeed the browserTarget to _SELF cause I want
the page to be opened in the same window.
What am I doing wrong? Cause it still opens a new window when I click the button!
Thanks

apply filter (1 reply)

eyalgever — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:39:28 -0500

Hi, my name is rony, i'm from tel aviv, israel.
I'm trying to create an effect in action script using the setXml api. The effect xml data contains a filter in it. I understood that i have to run over the filters list and apply each one of the filters for them to work.
When i apply the filter, the effect with its target dissappears.
Does anyone is familiar with this issue?
tnx, rony

Movieclip position bug (no replies)

juniorwifi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:59:44 -0500

Hi, i have a function in Document Class for align a movieclip in center of stage, but its happens a bug when is applyed a FlashEff2 animation.
And it´s works fine when i remove the instance of FlashEff.

Source: jbjr.zip

Sorry for bad english.

Cannot find com.jumpeye (1 reply)

Quoling — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:19:06 -0500

I have setup a simple button with an onClick event and now wish to add a ROLLOVER/OUT Event listener in AS3
But for some reason my import does not work - the samples do but the code doesn't work in a new project.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Pete

FlashEff2 Suggestions (3 replies)

TerryG — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:20:59 -0500

Hi,

I just bought FlashEff, which came with a beta of FlashEff2. In reading through the documentation for FlashEff2, I was wondering if it's too late to submit requests. For example, the preset property takes a number, which doesn't tell you what the preset actually does. I think it would be preferable to make these values either strings or enumerations, because they would be easier to remember, it would be easier to understand the code, and you could get code hinting. So instead of:

showEffect.preset = 7;

You would have:

showEffect.preset = "WipeDown";

Or:

showEffect.preset = FESAlphaPreset.WipeDown; // this would give you code hinting and eliminate magic strings

Another suggestion: if you change the name of the FLASHEFFEvents class to FlashEffEvents it would be easier to read and faster to type. Making it mostly upper case seems unnecessary.

Terry

Problem with groups of words in Alpha text pattern (1 reply)

viewfax — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:52:34 -0500

Groups of words in Pattern: Alpha Preset: Wordsdown

I can get words in a paragraph to appear one by one but cannot get a phrase to appear despite entering it in the selected strings

I have a paragraph saying: Cola, Lemonade, Sprite, Bitter Lemon, Hot Chocolate, Orange and Cherryade

How can I get the "double" words to appear together - also, the commas do not seem to be recognised as part of a selected string.

Very pleased at the reliability so far of this beta - it seems more rugged than many "finished" apps I have bought from others in the past!

My FlashEff panel is empty (1 reply)

ronduq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:02:16 -0500

Hi. I've just installed FlashEff panel , opened flash , opened the panel and it's empty . The only things that apear in the panel are the header and the "upgrade" button that doesn't work . How can i get acces to the effects? Thanks.

my fla went crazy (1 reply)

tania — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:26:51 -0500

I made this banner with 3 different images that I transformed into movieclips. I added a timer, the effects...I did this before and it always worked.
But from the second time that the swf plays it goes crazy: doesn't show the effect anymore, goes from the first image to the third, repeats an effect endlessly.
I tried to make it "brand new" but it still gives me these problems.
What could it be?

this effect is only available on Flash player 10 (5 replies)

tania — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:34:59 -0500

I do have flash player 10 installed but I still view this on some effect, does anybody know why?

SOLVED: Confusion re: GoToFrame (9 replies)

BruceND75 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:58:04 -0500

I am confused. I noted that the latest download (5/19) supposedly fixed the missing GoToFrame command option. I downloaded and installed it, saw the inclusion of the GoToFrame, and assumed everything was fine. However, whenever I tried to use it, I got this error: "FLASHEFF2 ERROR: Unknown eventType. Available events are: rollOver, rollOut, press, release, doubleClick, showTransitionStart, showTransitionEnd, hideTransitionStart and hideTransitionEnd." I got this no matter what event was selected.

I reported this with a ticket. The ticket was closed with a statement that this was a beta problem, but was given no way of knowing when there might be a resolution.

Then, I noticed that, in this Forum, dipopeters seemed to feel that the 5/19 release solved the problem.

Is there a problem? Do I just need to correct something in how I use this feature? Am I waiting around for nothing, or something?

adding filter (6 replies)

tania — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:42:59 -0500

Hello,
I just updated my Flasheff2 to the new beta version and I was trying to do one thing but didn't figure out how to make it.
What I have is a stage with 3 movieclips, each one in a different layer, 1 frame. The first one is an image and I want it to show, and it does.
the second and third one are texts but transformed in mc. I want that the image stays in the background and the 2 other movieclips show and than stay in the stage with a filter, the flag one. Everything goes fine until I add the filter. Then the 2nd and 3rd mc don't show up anymore. What could it be? How can make it?!Thanks for your help.
Tania

MXP File is Crashing Extension Manager--Issue Resolved (no replies)

dakotahgirl — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:40:54 -0500

When I was working on my project today, the Beta2 panel forced me to do an updated download. However, every time I tried to install the extension, it crashed the extension manager. I've tried rebooting and redownloading the zip file; I also tried reverting to the beta mxp I got about 2 weeks ago, but of course, it triggers that forced download again. So now all the beta2 effects I've got in my project, I'm having to revert to Version1. And I was really enjoying my Beta2 version....but I have to get this project ready today, thus having to revert to the version1 effects.

~~Has anyone else run into this problem?~~

UPDATE: Nevermind, I guess it took my posting in the forum to make this work. I finally got it installed. Now I can reupdate my effects back again to beta2! Yippee!

I really love the new version.

CS4 Error (1 reply)

ghitacostas — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:17:58 -0500

Hey guys I'm getting this error on CS4 when I try to apply any pattern from FlashEff2 Beta:

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

FEFRefleciton Missing (1 reply)

ihayesjr — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:38:32 -0500

FLASHEFF2 ERROR: The filter pattern 'com.jumpeye.flashEff2.filter.reflection.FEFReflection' is missing from library.

Button effects (1 reply)

beon — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:33:13 -0500

What happened to the cool button effects like FEBFlip and FEBParticle?

The button effects in FlashEff2 look so simple.

Version Chart (4 replies)

ihayesjr — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:06:37 -0500

The chart showing the differences between the 3 version shows that the premium version only has 500+ Effects Presets but the information below it shows that it comes with 1000+. This is in the Complete Manual PDF.
Which is correct? The chart or the information under the chart?

Irvin

Very Important Missing Button Command (4 replies)

dipopeters — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:36:45 -0500

Flasheff 2 is fantastic. But after playing around for a while I noticed that the command 'GoToFrame' is missing. This is the command I use the most. Please dont take this away.

I will also like to suggest a feature which I've seen in Flashloaded's TextFX; after an animation plays it would be nice to have a feature that allows one to select a command that happens e.g. after a hide animation -> go to next frame. This will really allow the ease of creating banners or slideshows without writing code to check for the end of the animation...with this one will be able to create a slideshow in minutes.

The second phase, May 13th (no replies)

raul — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:37:52 -0500

We've just launched the FlashEff2 Private Beta second phase, designed for those that have ordered FlashEff1 in the past or starting from now.
In the meanwhile we're building official free invitation lists on various blogs: http://www.flasheff.com/fe2beta/