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  • i have a problem in line 4. i can't make it to start appearing from bottom to top. what should i do? thanks

  • function loadProgress(my_content:Progre­ssEvent):void {

    var percent: Number = Math.floor( (my_content.bytesLoaded*100)/m­y_content.bytesTotal );

    loadPercentText.text = Percent + "%"

    briteDotsMask.width = percent * 3;

    }

    function loadComplete(e:Event):void {

    gotoAndStop(2);

    }

    loaderinfor.addEventListener(P­rogressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);

    loaderInfo.addEventLisitener(E­vent.COMPLETE, loadComplete);

  • @Dmilkywayx the last two lines in my code wont go green... loaderinfo doesnt wok for me while addevent is colored tough

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  • I am unable to create line4 (the one from bottom to top). using Adobe flash pro 5. Please help................

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  • i can't believe it man, every good tutorial i find for the page i´m working on is yours, i swear, i almost feel like owe you something

  • Finally a good video tutorial, good job

  • Hmmm Ive done exactly what he said in this tutorial and Ive got error when I want to check my flash site ctrl+enter . It says that : 'Scene 1, Layer 'AS3', Frame 1, Line 5 1120: Access of undefinded property briteDotsMask'. I checked line 5 of 1st frame in my AS3 script but I have no idea whats wrong with it. Any ideas what to do?

  • @sh4ggy exactly the same problem :S

  • amazing!

  • Where do we get the filters? 37:00

  • @callmeLilSparky select the text and in the properties panel you'll see filters at the bottom. At the utter left bottom of the properties panel you see 3 small buttons and the first one should be " Add Filter", then select the filter you want and adjust the settings :)

  • You'r so comprehensive..! I wish you taught at my college..

  • Where can I get the script?! I can't find it on his website?

  • Subbed. You rule, sir.

  • oh and thanx 2 u as well mr flashbuilding! u rock!

  • Thank you

  • A lot of people are having problems, So here is what I did to solve them:

    Some people made the mistake by NOT calling the symbol ''britedots'' , but naming it something else. To solve this, Open up the action code, and change the ''britedots'' into what you have called the symbol.

    Now, If you have this problem:

    1120: Access of undefined property loadPercentText.

    Click on the textfile in the first frame of your intro and make it a dynamic text with the name: loadPercentText.

    Contact me.

  • @JacksonJukebox

    dude thanx! ive been trying to figure that out all wk! i actually had 2 of such errors but fixed them both now that i understand what it was asking for.

  • Hi Adam, Iam getting this error, pls help

    DESCRIPTION: 1120: Access of undefined property loadPercentText.

    SOURCE: loadPercentText.text=percent+"­%";

  • Great video! Set up your ecommerce business for free with our Easy Help Zen Cart Tutorials:

  • my "line 4" aint going from down to up but from up to down :S any help?

  • @darkloller666 Did you find a fix for this as I am having the same problem. I am sure it is something simple but can't work it out.

  • @carlmackenzie83 no sorry :/ still searching

  • I have an error.....infact nearly all comments below say the same thing ....so really its a shite tutorial as its poorly explained and everyone is getting problems. Maybe you should read all the comments below and re do this video.

  • DOTS!

  • I thought there was a download link to work off of that?

  • function loadProgress(my_content:Progre­ssEvent):void{ var percent:Number = Math.floor( (my_content.bytesLoaded*100)/m­y_content.bytesTotal ); loadPercentText.text = percent + "%"; briteDotsMask.width = percent * 3;

    }

    function loadComplete(e:Event):void{

    gotoAndStop(2);

    }

    loaderinfo.addEventListener(Pr­ogressEvent.PROGRESS,loadProgr­ess);

    loaderinfo.addEventListener(Ev­ent.COMPLETE,loadComplete);

  • @airsoftslayer66 is this script just for the flash building blinking that part ? pls reply asap..thx so much

  • absolutely love your tutorials, i love that you keep it simple and you literally explain everything that you do, even when you're just correcting some mistake or small thing like that. however, i do need help help help! i used this tutorial to kinda get the idea abt working within a movieClip "area" and to get nice smooth change from my intro to main page...but when i press ctl+enter it skips the whole intro and main page field fades from white to black....any idea where's the mistake? thank u

  • okay i managed to fix the problem by putting stop action code in the [action] frame where intro is on the main timeline, but now it doesn't go to the main page of the website that i made [in other words - now it's the oposite case from what i wrote that is a problem in the first comment above]:( what did i miss in onnecting these two?

    thank you and sorry for double comment :shy:

  • Hi great tutorial, I have one issue, for my pages I created little animations to bring in the pieces of the page within the timeline of the movieclip but the movieclips of the pages all play as soon as the website is opened up rather than when I click on the link to them and also they don't repeat any adive?

    And thanks again for a great tutorial.

  • 1071: Syntax error: expected a definition keyword (such as function) after attribute fuction, not loadComplete. ????

  • My video wont go to and play (2) (my intro).. it just loads the file content fade in over and over and over.

  • My video wont go to and play (2) (my intro).. it just loads the file content fade in over and over and over.

  • Dude your videos have helped me so much where others don't want to. With that said, I have an issue with the preloader.

    First off, for the loader bar script what is "my_contents" referring to?

    Second, this is the error I am getting:

    TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at Goon_Designs_fla::MainTimeline­/frame1()

  • Your Voice Makes Flash Fun lol

  • I got an question to flashbuilding, im at 14 minutes at part 2 now.

    But if i click ctrl enter it won't load to the mainmenu.

    I cant find the error i think its probably an actrionscript error or something?

  • @Chin9y8302 After Copying The Content, Press Ctrl+Shift+V And Holding This 3 Keys USe The Navigation Keys For Wherever You Wanna Place Them....

  • ctrl+c, ctrl+shift+v doesn't do anything...Barely started this tutorial and I'm stuck already. I can't make the line of circle.

  • Way to write "bright" right :)

  • @flashbuilding can you help me please man, i wrote ur script out and everything and im using Adobe Flash CS5 AS3 and everything is like it should be and all and it still giving me a compiler error and it flashes that white square continuously can you help me out please

    GamingForLife96

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  • was doing good until the getting to the action script part. at this point do we just pause the video and copy those 11 lines of script into CS4? are there no options in that huge list of action scripts that will insert these commands?

  • @fote I have the same problem.. did you find the solution yet :O??

  • Is there something in CS5 that makes this not working? Only get errors and its really not stopping on frame 2 its just looping around. Only tested in the publish view so that could be the problem but I really want a answer before I continue so I dont do alot of hours work and in the end its not working -_-

    Thanks for tutorial !

  • k...Adam u rock...lol...i think u r the one of the best website developer out der.....i think u r better than MARK ZUKKERBURG....seriously

  • good job m8 :)

  • i had error ! the error was something wrong with my loadpercenttext.text and britemaskdots.width, i made sure my instance name was the same already ! please help !!

  • Thanks!

    It really helped me out building my stuff! I'm gonna use this page for everything that I will build and need help with :)

    Thanks alot!

  • Your stuff works.. But I feel you overcomplicate everything. I have a fair knowledge of Flash (though now a huge amount because I taught myself) but it just seems that way..

  • Oops wrong video.. lol but thankssss!!!!

  • YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE. THANK YOU, HOWCAST!!

  • what size do you make it? like when you being

  • u made tutorial go boring -.-

  • Will any of your tutorials work in flash 8?

  • Your tutorials are so well put together. Thanks so much, Adam. On a side note - I don't know if you're a fan of the movie "Clerks", but when I listen to you, all I can picture is Randal..

  • @a0media haha man! nail on the head!

  • @a0media hahaha your not allowed to rent here anymore

  • dude.... so lost

  • uhh why would i buy this video for 5.99? why not watch it online as much as i need

  • Is ActionScript a good language to study for the future or just a waste of time? I think i couldn't be more direct :)

  • @MyPianoSucks - Nobody knows how the future will flow. Actionscript 3.0 is good to learn for today's web industry. You ever play a facebook game? Those guys at Zynga are making a killing... and all thanks to flash. I charge more for full flash sites as opposed to jQuery CSS type sites. Clients expect to pay more for the hotness.

  • @flashbuilding I know the basics of C/C++ and Assembly . Assembly is with no doubt a waste of time, just use it for hacking :S . But now i want to learn something more related with the web, and i was thinking seriouly if ActionScript is the best option. Nowadays we see lots of sites made is flash. . Flash has been contantly expanding . .

    Forget to say that this video is amazing . . i will do this later =)

  • @flashbuilding

    i agree with you

  • @flashbuilding you can do just as much with a javascript/css website as you can do with a flash website, only difference is 100% of devices can run it.

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  • @flashbuilding

    Dude i got a problem i really need you to explain me something

    i am confused with this thing that you did with the load bar...

    1) Why you did a first bar which is black in the layer darkLoaddots

    2) Why you add a brighter bar in the above layer upon the dark bar

    i really don't understand where does this thing help us...

    Will it make some special effects or something when we load

    the flash site ???

    Please answer me as soon as you can....

    Thanks....

  • @MyPianoSucks it's allway's good to learn things but you can never be sure how it will workout, but it does make your work flow a lot faster (thought it's not needet) programs have progressed so much that you really just edit things and your design and it does things on it's own. So it depends on you if you want to finish something fast or if you want something to take a bit longer.

  • @MyPianoSucks HTML5 will advenutaly take over but that wont happen for about 3 years

  • @MyPianoSucks it is a good language to know, even if flash dies in future, you've learned an Object Oriented language which will help you learn other languages, if you are good at it you ll enjoy coding more than copying.

  • If you were on dial up you wouldn't be on able this video... Plus you wouldn't be able to load that page.

  • Well here I sit...I guess FB does not answer his vid emails. Line 4 as others are finding, is not wanting to cooperate by growing in the wrong direction. I have spent hours on this damn thing exausting all options I can think of...and now ...nada...zip...0.... I give up...time to move on.

  • holy crap 40 mins

  • :-( i can't make the line dark load dots. what i making wrong?

  • Thank You sooo Much!! works Great =)

  • hey man,thanx a lot.better than any book...

  • I will set aside 40 mins for you now, but the second part will have to wait for another time. Thank you so much for dedicating you time for us.

  • plz send me the link to get the program cs4(flash animater) plz ill sub if u tell me

  • Hello, I have a question..., I only use Dreamweaver but I took a class for Flash and I fell in love with it lol. It is pretty cool, this software does a lot if you know how to use it well. Ok , anyways... I am trying to use Flash but I am unable to find the key for the moment. My question is, when I design everything from Flash, when you import to dreamweaver, is there anything I should know do you know??

    If possible, can you please message me, perhaps key included if you can..., no biggies

  • how did u make that cool intro? :P

    Is there more than Flash involved? xD

    If so nm :P

  • u should have done a Simulate Download clip on the vid so people would see that their load bar actually works, that way people like GoldenSilence333 don't need to have questions XD!

  • Please help me get this to work!! I love this tut.

    Code:

    function loadProgess(my_content:Progres­sEvent):void { var percent:Number = Math.floor((my_content.bytesLo­aded*100)/my_content.bytesTota­l); loadPercentText.text = percent + "%"; brightDotsMask.width = percent *3;

    }

    function loadComplete(e:Event):void{

    gotoAndStop(2);

    }

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Pr­ogressEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Ev­ent.COMPLETE, loadComplete);

  • @catzgrl10 i could be wrong but i believe you should replace the my_content with your own name that was placed in the property bar such as bed_room or something like that.

  • @YrUlUKkiNAtM34

    hey there, where should i place my own name? except the action script...

  • @lagoren it should be in the properties menu where you should place your unique name, from there just copy that unto your action script and you should be straight.

  • thanx for replaying, where is the properties menu? should i be standing on a specific frame?

  • @lagoren your action script should be on a different layer than your animation, you'll only need one frame for the action script layer, and the properties menu should be under your stage but if it isn't visible just go to windows> properties. in order to bring that up. And no problem at all, im glad i could help.

  • @YrUlUKkiNAtM34 but every other frame the properties menu changes, depending on what frame im on that is...

    or layer..

  • @lagoren yea its going to, thats fine actually, hopefully you've made your animation and then made it into a movie clip, if you did then drag the movie clip from your library onto the stage(this will hold all of your animation together, from there then you can give it a unique name in the properties bar

  • what "my_content" to? @YrUlUKkiNAtM34

  • ive manged to solve it , thank you for tryin to help me. it was a misspell at the action script

  • @catzgrl10

    I have this same issue, did you ever resolve it? thanks!

  • WHAT!? A VIDEO THAT'S ACTUALLY 40 MINUTES LONG :O

  • you had me so confused when i put the action script in cause when you put "brite" i thought that was a mistake for "bright" i spent like a half hour trying to figure it out, im used to the action script stuff now. thanx again for the vid, very helpful and i followed along with you through the whole thing :)

  • ADAM!!!! Can you please tell/show me how to make my image my background?

  • can i ask? what font did you used on the word "FLASH BUIDING?" t.y

  • Thanks, I Enjoyed it ! how do i convert the audio file and with what ?

  • Thanks, I Enjoyed it !

  • hi, great tut.. everything is working fine except for the loading part. It does not appear until its about 98% done, before that, its just a blank square (where the .swf will appear) then after it "loads" the loading little circles apear already in about 98%... and then 1 second after, the intro begins and everything else runs fine.. anyone know why? appreciate your time. thanks once again.

  • Shit! I can not afford this awesome program, so I had to crack it. SHIT! This is nothing for me, I use FL8. Boo. Thanks for wasting my time for a flash version mine is not compatible with. Hiss.

  • Hey dudeee! please do a tutorial for advance flash website like the ones you see on fashion sites like PRADA Armani.com and Versace! Pleaseee! i need to know how to be able to do them for the futureee!!

  • woot 40min tutorial!! :D cant wait to watch it until I die of old age and carpel tunnel!

  • where are the source files for part 1 and 2?

  • function loadProgress(my_content:Progre­­ssEvent):void{

    var percent:Number = Math.floor((my_content.bytesLo­­aded*100)/my_content.bytesTot­a­l);

    LoadPercentText.text = percent + "%";

    MaskLoader.width = percent * 3;

    }

    function loadComplete(e:Event):void{

    gotoAndStop(2);

    }

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Pr­­ogressEvent.PROGRESS,loadProg­r­ess);

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Ev­­ent.COMPLETE,loadComplete);

  • function loadProgress(my_content:Progre­ssEvent):void{ var percent:Number = Math.floor((my_content.bytesLo­aded*100)/my_content.bytesTota­l); LoadPercentText.text = percent + "%"; MaskLoader.width = percent * 3;

    }

    function loadComplete(e:Event):void{

    gotoAndStop(2);

    }

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Pr­ogressEvent.PROGRESS,loadProgr­ess);

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(Ev­ent.COMPLETE,loadComplete);

  • @Dakcora  CHANGE THE MaskLoader.Widtch to whatever you called your mask

  • @flashbuilding what would I do if I wanted to upload a custom vid i made instead of the animation you had?

  • Hey, quick question. If I used Sony Vegas for my intro instead of the design you used, would there be any difficulty besides putting it in the correct spot?

  • Excellent tute, Thanks.

  • i love you man! finally a good tut : )

  • hi

    thanks for all your videos have you made a video of how to import flash templates in cs4

    and add them in your existing website made

    thanks again

  • i cant find the source files in the site.. any suggestions? thanks

  • i cant find the source files in your web page, any suggestions? thanks.

  • I can't get it right:(

    1152: A conflict exists with inherited definition flash.display:DisplayObject.ma­sk in namespace public.

  • This is such a great help! Awesome video. I have a problem though, I typed in lines 10 and 11 of the loader script just as you did, I've check it like 10 times, and it tells me there is an error in those 2 lines when I hit ctrl+enter. 1120: Access of undefined property loaderinfo. Any ideas?

  • @xEllerochex Dont know if youve fixed by now but you were supposed to capitalize the I in info

    loaderInfo

  • on the intro MC u drew 4 lines, each of which motioned to form a continous line or some sort .. im having trouble with the 4th line as it won't move vertically from bottom to top .. i tried all the 9 points of registration but still nothing .. can u help me ? im stuck in that part of the tut. thx.

  • 2long

  • You can simulate a much slower download then you test the movie , inside Flash

    and then you will have the needed time to see the preloaded content. enjoy hope that's' helps...

  • At 8.55 you do an action to get back to original layers as keyboard short cut but don't explain how???

  • Thank you very much from Brazil!!!

  • thanksss sooo much. I couldn't find any like that!!!

  • Hey man this is sooo cool!! It works!

    had a few problems but those were typing errors!

    KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!

  • Wow dude thank you so much. This is the most decent tutorial I have found on this

  • Yeah he didn't explain anything, he just did it and we watched. Hence the errors.

  • Great, easy to understand video.

  • Thanks for putting these up! Very helpful.

  • this was my output.. TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

    at dbarkadz_fla::MainTimeline/fra­me1()

  • hey, pls help me out with my flash cs4 file,.. some buttons do not function well,, pls help me out..

  • hey, great tut, only problem i have is when i preview after creating loader and frame 2, the video keeps looping even though i placedthe stop(); command as well as gotoandStop(2);

    also i get the errors:

    1120: Access of undefined property loadPercentText. loadPercentText.text=percent+"­%";

    and,

    1120: Access of undefined property progressEvent.

    loaderInfo.addEventListener(pr­ogressEvent.PROGRESS,loadProgr­ess);

    plz help!!

  • did any1 solve the line 4 problem?? what a waste of a video:/

  • @GoldenSilence333

    If you hit ctrl+enter+enter it will show the loader bar

  • ramirocks reat tutorial, all thumbs up but i have one error when, my swf file keeps flashing extremely fast and saying there are errors with this: loadPercentText.text= percent+"%";

    keep up the good work

    rami

  • reat tutorial, all thumbs up but i have one error when, my swf file keeps flashing extremely fast and saying there are errors with this: loadPercentText.text= percent+"%";

    keep up the good work

    rami

  • how should the action be if I want the mask to go up, i want my logo to appear from bottom to top, so I'm using the mask below the logo and on the actions I'm changing width for height but it doesn't work. Any help please!!!

    myLogoMask.width = percent * 3; for

    myLogoMask.height = percent * 3

  • Hi ! I'm facing some problems for the myIntro's line 4 : you tell us to keep line 3 settings when converting to symbol but I can't find out how to registrate it. I mean, when I keep the same settings, the line grows from the top while it should be growing from the bottom. (I tried to set the registration on bottom center but it's even worse...) Thanks for helping...

  • What size should a regular website be?

  • Nice tutorial but did anyone have problems setting the registration points for lines 3 & 4? My lines move to the left and right Oo

  • I went to the website and I cant find the fla file anywhere.. I already screwed up by not making the circles extend 300 pixels..

  • why is your code red and green and blue while mines only blue where yours red....

  • It says:

    1120: Acceso a una propiedad briteDotsMask no definida.

    wich means:

    1120: Acces to a property briteDotsMask no defined

    HELP! thats the only error that appears...

    :(

  • I did everything you said

    But i get a whole bunch of errors if i publish..

  • for all who's getting this message:

    Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

    you have to put the code... stop(); in the actionscript where loadProgress function is.

  • Great vid, could someone create a professional site for me??? I ne4ed it for my business

  • yeah for 75 dollars a hour

  • Nice tutorial, but please stop moving your cursor around when you are not using it. it's annoying.

  • @sorenanker i agree

  • hey, so i understand all of this, but how would i make an intro to play and when finished go to a non-flash site that i make in fireworks?

  • Amazing tutorial. Only parts I'm having trouble with are (a) in the script for:

    loaderinfo.addEventListener(Ev­ent.COMPLETE,loadComplete);

    it gives me this wonderful little message:

    "Access of undefined property loaderinfo."

    And my loading mask won't go forward and reveal the actual loading part.

  • so what size should it be to be compatible with everyone?

  • 800x600

  • haha waisted

  • Hi, please help me also, i got same problem with "daveleek7" when I re size 4th line it is also from top to bottom, pls how to reverse it...............

    Thank in advance..........!!!!

  • Hi, i have tried following this tutorial however when i come to draw the left hand side line, i.e bottom to top I can't make it grow from bottom to top, only top to bottom, i have changed the registration point to all possible ones and this still happens. Help me please so frustrating.

  • I'm having the same issue. I've tried to just reduce the line then change axis Y but the doesn't work. Please explain how to get it to work... I wish that part of the tutorial wasn't skipped, seems like worth while information to go over.

  • Thank you for tutorial. I needed the goto PARENT code, you have solved my frustration, thanks again.

  • great tutorial n helps alot

    but i have trouble when i Ctrl+Enter

    it said my action frame at intro layer have problem on word i wrote MovieClip(parent)gotoAndPlay(3­);

    can anyone help me ?!#$%^

  • (parent)gotoAndPlay(3);

    copy and paste that, there shouldn't be the space after the three.

  • great tutorial. was a great hlep. highly appreciate the efforts behind the scenes.

  • very simple actually! even puting the constrain reference at the bottom, i had the same problem as you guys, i fixed very well, after u creat it, just highlight the object and put the constrain point where it should be, and everything will work fine!!!

  • you are cool buddy.

    Thank you

  • hey i keep getting this erroe : AS3 Error: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant can anyone help me out?

  • To solve the line 4 issue, i did the following.

    Before reducing the height, make a note of the Y figure above the height. Then reduce the height as per tutorial and then type in the noted figure into the Y setting and that should do it.

    Not sure that is the best way, but it worked for me ;-)

    Let me know how you get on

    Cheers

    Paul

  • thanks man, u rly helped me