FLASH: Making screensavers on Mac - Flash 4 on MacOS 8.5 - ActionScript blues

[Toon Van de Putte]

Hi all,


I have a few questions for which i haven't found an answer yet, so you all 

are sort of my last and final hope ;-)


1) Is there a good tool for creating Mac screensavers from Flash 

projectors. We've already investigated Screentime from Macsourcery, but 

that isn't nearly as flexible as we want it to be. For Windows, we use a 

prog called 'Bitbull' (http://www.wanpatan.com/bitbull/download.htm), which 

does exactly what we want but isn't available for Mac... Are there any 

alternatives at all for Screentime? Please help help help!


2) Does anyone know if virtual memory settings can cause problems with 

Flash 4 on MacOS 8.5? We've noticed that, when selecting something on the 

stage, the area outside the bounding box of the selections turns completely 

black. It does this every single time, which is quite annoying. The program 

otherwise seems to be running normally, and we weren't running any other 

progs at the time. Sound familiar to anyone?


3) I have been working on our all new bliep.com Flash site for a few weeks 

now (http://www.bliep.com/test), and i seem to have stumbled upon a very 

stubborn ActionScript problem. The main navigation of this movie is focused 

around four small TV screens, which the user can click as buttons, to 

navigate from scene to scene. Now, to create smooth transitions between the 

scenes, i've let the buttons set a variable 'selected' to a value ("tv1" 

through "tv4"), so the movie can play a transitional sequence without 

losing information about which button the user clicked. Now, this doesn't 

seem to be working. I'm wondering if i'm setting the variables in a way 

that is incorrect. The buttons each contain the following ActionScript:


On (Roll Over)

       Begin Tell Target ("/titles")

             Go to and Stop (2)

       End Tell Target

End On

On (Roll Out)

       Begin Tell Target ("/titles")

             Go to and Stop (1)

       End Tell Target

End On

On (Release)

       Begin Tell Target ("/ctr")

             Set Variable: "selected" = "tv1"

       End Tell Target

       Play

End On


The rollover and rollout are used to control a movie clip that contains the 

titles of all the different sections of the movie, the movie clip "/ctr" is 

an empty clip in the main timeline that i use to store the variable 

'selected'. I tried setting it in the main timeline, but that didn't work. 

In fact, nothing has worked so far. Anyone know what i'm doing wrong? The 

code that, later on in the movie, checks the 'selected' variable, is this:


If (/ctr:selected = "tv1")

       Go to and Play (diensten en tarieven, 1)

End If

If (/ctr:selected = "tv2")

       Go to and Play (wie en waar, 1)

End If

If (/ctr:selected = "tv3")

       Go to and Play (portfolio, 1)

End If

If (/ctr:selected = "tv4")

       Go to and Play (help en support, 1)

End If

Stop


This code is a frame action, and is not attached to a button. You can find 

an swf of this movie on http://www.bliep.com/test


I'm really desperate on this last one, i've tried almost anything i know 

of. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!




--

Toon Van de Putte -

toonkatdesign [dot] be

 - http://www.katdesign.be - 

http://www.bliep.com


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