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- poss
i knew years ago i knew flash 5 back to front, but my career turned and i haven't had to use MX or MX04. but i'm well aware of what it's capable of etc.
Q1) in flash 5, for example if i had a button: i could choose a piece of actionscript from the left bar (let's say mc.gotoAndPlay(),) and it would automatically add the
'mouseUp' brackets around the action. there used to be an 'expert/beginner' toggle which would do this.does mx no longer have this feature?
- ********0
make in old flash and open in new flash.. than export
- poss0
that doesn't solve my problem does it?
i want to start using mx to create my flash file, i just don't want to type 'mouseup' or 'onClipEvent(load)' etc, all the time, i want it to go in there automatically..
- ********0
start learning new syntax than
there is no easy way out.
it wont do it automatically for you
- Timson0
try shortcuts:
esc gp == gotoAndPlay
esc oc == onClipEventetc.
- imakedesign0
get a book and learn some AS2
its really very easy, much more logic than the old version.
good luck
- ingolfr0
try the new "behaviors" thing
shift+F3
they made it really easy with that.
- fate_redux0
fyi, this is MX2004Pro that does not have the little side panel. MX still has this.
- CyBrainX0
MX2004 won't do Normal mode anymore. It was very painful to learn, but after more than a year, it's not so bad.
On the bright side, you get code hints on anything when you type ( after anything action script recognizes.
For example onClipEvent( ....
- jkosoy0
In Flash 5, you would use a command called tellTarget() to tell a specific button or movieclip to do something. In Flash MX/MX 2004, we use dot syntax.
Think of it like DOS but in Flash, and using dots instead of slashes to access directories (or instances in this case).
_root.movie_clip_1.button_1 // accessing a button 1 inside of movieclip 1 inside the root timeline.
Dot syntax is the foundation of which everything is built now, so start there.
- ********0
for me, hope of catching up to it has given way to despair
- Nematoth0
I can't remember exactly how flash 5 loooked now.. but on my version of Flash MX2004 Pro (7.2) I can see all the AS functions and methods and I can double click on them and they appear where the cursor was in the actionscript window.. meaning you don't have to type them .. don't you see this when u open the AS window?
- fusionpixel0
buy "Learn Flash 2004 in 24 Hours", if you knew F5 from head to toe, you should be up and runing with FMX2004PRO.
Remember, everyone had to made the switch from F5 to MX
;)
- bedenken0
Poss... FMX04 does not have Normal and Expert mode in the AS window like previous versions of Flash. I don't know why they changed that.
Is this what you are referring too?