Re: Pasting actionscript on the mac Was: Re: FLASH: Mousetracking and rotate related to mouse direction

[Mats Persson]

London,  Friday, March 17, 2000, at 8:02 am



Laura & Cheri,


*THANKS A LOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You two are beyond words !*


I was starting to get worried about my intellectual capacity since I

couldn't get it to work, and you saved my sanity and a lot of time !!



PS. What is "FAST" ??



Regards,


Mats

matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk

>

From: "Laura Mollett" <lmollettmindspring [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:28:36 -0500

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Pasting actionscript on the mac Was: Re: FLASH: Mouse tracking and

> rotate related to mouse direction

> 

> Sorry for the way late response to this... I'm way behind - my mom is very

> sick and so I've been off doing personal type things.

> 

>> By the way, copying and pasting ActionScripts does NOT work on a Mac Flash

>> 4. If they should (Macromedia ???) then maybe someone could explain to me

>> with some screenshots or similar of the list. I spent time trying to achieve

>> it, but has given up !

> 

> Copying and pasting ActionScript *does* work on a Mac with Flash 4. It works

> fine for me both at home (ppc, system 7.6.1, flash 4.0a or whatever that

> update was) and at work on a g3 with system 8.somethingoranother, same flash

> version.

> 

> Try this. Make a little movie with two keyframes. Open the scripting window.

> Write some actionscript (something with several lines of script - not just

> one). Close the window. Doubleclick on the keyframe again. The first line of

> the text is automatically highlighted. You don't want that. Click on the 2nd

> line of text and then click back on the first line again (It's a focus

> thing. You have to have focus set properly in the text box.) Leaving the

> first line highlighted, scroll down to the last line, hit shift+alt and

> click on the last line of the script. The whole thing should now be

> highlighted. Hit Command C to copy it. Doubleclick on the 2nd keyframe that

> doesn't have any script in it yet, and immediately click Command V to paste

> the script in (don't click on anything).

> 

> There's two problems. You have to focus properly and it's touchy about it,

> and also it's sort of picky about what it will and won't copy easily.

> Copying a line of text in the middle of the code and/or pasting into a line

> of text in the middle of the code makes it unhappy and sometimes you have to

> try several times (both on the copy part, and on the paste part) to get it

> to work. Bringing in something externally has similar problems. But if you

> try doing a whole script like above - you'll see that it does work, and have

> an easier time playing around with it. (Sometimes you could type it in

> faster than getting Flash to do it.)

> 

> Note: I wanted to use the FAST thing, but it doesn't work on the Mac. OTOH,

> I also realized if there was some way to make that work, there must be some

> way to make it actually work IN flash (or they couldn't do it). That, and

> the Flash 4 Magic book said it did, so I got stubborner about making it.

> (I'm sure FAST does other cool things and I know people are writing plug-in

> type scripts for it... which if they can, I'd love the scripts too, cuz I

> can actually paste them in :)

> 

> Laura



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