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Targeting a symbol within a symbol

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:37:27 GMT

In Edge Animate 3 on the Mac, I have created a symbol called "card" which has two timelines inside it, one containing a symbol based on a text field ("TextSym"), the other containing a graphic. The text field currently just as a blank character in it. I want to change that to "Hello World". I can do this successfully when the text field is on the Stage with code like this:

sym.$("TextSym").html("Hello World");

I have tried several things unsuccessfully to target the text inside the "card" symbol:

sym.$("card").$("TextSym").html("Hello World");

sym.$("card").getSymbol("TextSym").html("Hello World");

sym.$("card").getSymbolElement("TextSym").html("Hello World");

I have also tried variations of:

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("card").getSymbol("TextSym").html("Hello World");

I have placed each of these within the creationComplete event for the Stage.

For the last one, for instance, the Chrome Developers Tools says:

Javascript error in event handler! Event Type = symbol

Files available here:

http://www.yellowtechroad.com/yellowtechroad/cards/cards005.zip

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Mike

Media server or peer-to-peer for Edge Animate?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:44:10 GMT

In Flash, if you want to develop a multi-player game, you would generally use either peer-to-peer communication or a media server. Any advice on how this could best be approached in Edge Animate?

http://tv.adobe.com/videos/multiplayer-games/

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2010-develop/building-p2p-multiplayer-games/

Overlapping audio in Edge Animate 3.0 ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:06:14 GMT

Using the new Edge Animate 3.0 audio capability, I created a project in which a sound plays when an element on the stage is dragged. My experience is that if I perform drags too quickly one after another, the second drag doesn't trigger the audio. I have to let the sound complete on the first drag before performing the second drag. I'm not sure if this is inherent in the way audio works in Edge Animate, or is related to something else about the way my project is constructed. There is a ten-minute video at http://www.yellowtechroad.com that shows how I constructed the project, and you can download the project files there, too.)

I have found some information relating to HTML5 audio which makes me think that I would need to use multiple elements pointing to the same sound files:

"The key is knowing that for short sounds that need to repeat, and might overlap, you must use a pool of elements instead of trying to play the same one twice at the same time."

(http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2011/9/17/revisiting_html5_audio/)

"If your scenario needs the same audio file to be played several times concurrently (that is, with overlapping sounds), you can achieve this result by creating multiple audio tags pointing to the same file."

(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh550087.aspx)

I'm not sure what the best way would be to do that.

I'm currently using this code at the Stage level:

sym.$('circle').draggable(

{

drag: function ( event, ui ) {

sym.$("soundeffects")[0].play();

}

);

Wondering if anyone else has encountered this audio overlap issue (or, more precisely, non-overlap) or has any more info on it?

Mike Hurwicz

http://www.yellowtechroad.com

https://www.youtube.com/yellowtechroad

Using jQuery UI in a timeline trigger

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:33:07 GMT

I am successfully using jQuery in timeline triggers, but something is going wrong when I try to use jQuery UI.

I am loading jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.js and jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css using yepnope in the creationComplete event for the stage object ("Symbol"). The same code that works in the "complete" function of the yepnope does not work in a timeline trigger. The code is:

sym.$("main_st_classic").hide("blind", { direction: "horizontal" }, 2000);

So this is what it looks like bound to the default timeline:

Symbol.bindTriggerAction(compId, symbolName, "Default Timeline", 0, function(sym, e) {

// insert code here

sym.$("main_st_classic").hide("blind", { direction: "horizontal" }, 2000);

});

BTW, in the picture below the display property is set to Always On, but I have tried it with On and experienced the same problem.

Any thoughts will be much appreciated.