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[3bor]

Hey , just wondering if there is a way to control movie clips in flash using your keyboard. I know you can use the arrows and a few other keys but was wondering if you can say, play a movie clip by pressing a on your keyboard and another using s etc.
Any help is appreciated.

 

[plug]

yep. pretty sure you can assign keys to do different things... just let me fire flash up and have a look.

what are you trying to do exactly btw?

 

[plug]

okay. you can...

an example:

say you want a particular movie clip to play when you press "a" or whatever.

• make a movie with a stop(); action on the first frame
• drag it onto the stage
•*highlight the clip, give it the following action

on (keyPress "a") {
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

if you want to play an embedded movie inside that one I guess you could use instance names etc. to target different movies... yadda.

hope this helps!

 

[3bor]

Cool, good to know its possible but how hard will it be to do, my action script skills aren't too flashy.
I want to make something like a sampler to put in an intereactive song type thing. I did something small here
Theres no preloader so u might have a blank screen for a bit.
Its not for a job or anything so theres no deadline , just thought it would be a fun thing to have on the website.
I was thinking of having a photo of a keyboard with letters on the keys and you press the keys to play the notes.
Anyway thanks for the help.

 

[inspector horse]

downloadable movie here that detects keypresses

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/Control/Keypress-Flash_Gu-1269/index.php

 

[3bor]

Thanks ill try that out , I think i may have tried something similar yesterday with the keypress but it say the key was not valid or something.
Ill try that one though , thanks.

 

[3bor]

I'll download that .fla and try it out too. Thanks.

 

[3bor]

Hey thanks Plug that works. Now i just have to build a flash sampler instrument.
That other detector looks interesting but alot more complicated.
Thanks for the help.

 

[plug]

Cool, good to know its possible but how hard will it be to do, my action script skills aren't too flashy.
I want to make something like a sampler to put in an intereactive song type thing. I did something small here
Theres no preloader so u might have a blank screen for a bit.
Its not for a job or anything so theres no deadline , just thought it would be a fun thing to have on the website.
I was thinking of having a photo of a keyboard with letters on the keys and you press the keys to play the notes.
Anyway thanks for the help.

nah, it's very simple really... there are probably a lot of different ways to do it, but the quickest way would be to create a different movie for each key. each movie containing a stop(); command on frame one, and a sound starting on frame 2. plus graphics etc. I suppose... then give each movie clip the code as above, each with its own assigned key. note: don't put this actionscript into the movies; drag the movies into the timeline, select them and assign the actionscript there. I guess the on () command is a way of assigning the same type of control to movie clips as with buttons... I suppose.

this is probably a bit of an antiquated approach to a certain degree; more than one way to skin a cat etc., but it's simple, fast and I assume it'll work just fine. try it out.. any problems let us know!

 

[plug]

Hey thanks Plug that works. Now i just have to build a flash sampler instrument.
That other detector looks interesting but alot more complicated.
Thanks for the help.

rapih. nice wan...

 

[3bor]

Yeah the simplest way is the best and if theres any mistakes it should be handy enough to fix. Just lots of copying and pasting of the same code , i like it.
I'll let you know when i finish it , all i have at the moment is a photo of the keys of my piano.
Thanks again for the help.

 

[dirtyvicar]

 

[paul-]

Anyone have a good link for basic action script in flash 8 actually?
Its driving me a bit crazy at the moment, cant seem to get the most simple thing to work properly.Thanks!