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Poul_G7587782
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March 15, 2017
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Adobe Animate CC and the NOOB (the future of scripting is not for the creatives?)

  • March 15, 2017
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OK im honest here. I have always been an idiot at Action scripting.

I worked with flash since version 5 and still to this day i don't understand enough to type in my own code.

I was a HUGE fan of the point and select action panel from flash 5.

It was killed off in CS6 i think it was. Or at least it was changed.

Now i know im properly outnumbered cause i know having a point and select way of creating actions is for the stupid ones, the smart kids just type in what they want and flash .. Or Animate CC (is it now..) does it. But for me i cant make a god damn button no more.

Thats so frustrating since i made some pretty cool websites in the past before AS3 took over.

In the Code Snippets i can find an minimal selection of actions to use. I wonder if any one out there has made some custom actions they want to share.

It could also be a file with simple samples. All i'm looking for is something i can look at to learn how to make my basic actions work again.

I'm looking for the following: (if they are even is possible any more).

Button actions:

On Press Play target (for movie clips)

On rollover play frame X

ON press get url

On press load movieclip into level X

Frame actions:

Go to frame.

Play frame.

Play movieclip (from a frame via target)

If Adobe is reading, i think if you are a creative person you need the most simple form of scripting tools. I love that Animate CC, and the fact Adobe has not "given up" animation in html.. I do think that scripting is for the "gifted" kids . There is a reason why Adobe always says.. It requires NO CODING AT ALL.. (not that you say that with animate CC. But it shows you know that creatives often don't get coding. So please redesign the action panel and make it more like in flash 5 where you could build amazing stuff without typing code. There could still be the possibility for the coders to type directly in to the actions code field.

But to be honest i think they have plenty of coding tools, and don't really like to use Animate at all. I could be wrong here. But thats my guess.

Sorry don't mean to sound like a jerk. It might come out that way.

Point is i used to love flash and be able to make creative stuff. Can't do that any more. And don't see others do it.. So it might just be me that is

not surfing enough, not finding the right sites on the web.. But i dont see it.

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Correct answer ClayUUID

Thank you. You are what i refer to as one of the smart ones. It really nice of you. However i hope Adobe will listen to what i say, cause there is no way i could learn that. I can copy and paste that but its just to hard for a non coder to replicate.


Sounds like learned helplessness to me. Have you ever actually tried to teach yourself scripting? Signed up for a class or read an introductory book? Or have you just taken it as a given that you can't do it and never challenged that assumption? Because at the level you're talking about, it's really not difficult. Speaking coherent English is an order of magnitude more challenging than cobbling together a button handler.

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sciencegal
Inspiring
March 20, 2017

I have to agree with you. I started with Flash 3 and loved it and still do. It seemed that when code was introduced with 4 that the coders kept wanting more coding ability so it went in that direction rather than toward the average artist/designer who wanted to make animations. I did start to learn AS2 mostly by "borrowing" code and then dissecting and redoing it to fit my needs. I now have to learn AS3 which does seem like overkill. You need 4 lines to do what one or two words used to do. I was looking at getting Animate but I think I will just stick with CS5. At least I can still use AS2 and it will still do what I need to do.

Poul_G7587782
Poul_G7587782Author
Known Participant
March 21, 2017

I did the same thing like you did by borrowing code. And because it was AS2 i could modify it - or make it work by trail and error.

By having simple commands i could do what i needed and make whole sites with video, animations and sound.

The problem with AS2 is that you cant make html5 sites, and no one has flash any more . Or at least you cant count on it like back in the day. So like i wrote im hoping that Adobe will listen to us and make some kind of coding for designers. (AGAIN!)

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sciencegal
Inspiring
March 21, 2017

Yeah, I get depressed sometimes, missing the good old days. Flash was so fun back then. Creating in Flash was like playing music.  I have counted on a popular Flash application that I made years ago to earn income. But, as people abandon computers for phones I have to adjust and produce at least a very watered down version to keep the income coming in. I get so tired of being asked "does it work on a phone?".

I am enrolled in a few online courses to learn Java and AS3 and have stacks of books helping to convert my AS2 thinking to AS3. But, quite honestly telling a target to go to a frame and play makes so much more sense than:

target_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,targetF);

function targetF(e:MouseEvent):void{

e.currentTarget.play();

}

That code is just not intuitive - actually makes no sense at all. At least they brought then word Target back.

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    marjantrajkovski
    Inspiring
    March 16, 2017

    Yes, you are right, on example Edge Animate was more intuitive for designers.

      kglad
      Community Expert
      kgladCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 15, 2017

      all those are in the snippets panel.

      eg,

      for all the mouse interactions (press, click, rollover etc), check the event handlers folder.

      for get url, actions/go to a web page

      load moveclip into level, no longer exists.  check the load/unload folder

      for frame actions, check the timeline folder.

      Poul_G7587782
      Poul_G7587782Author
      Known Participant
      March 15, 2017

      I have and so far i can't get it working.

      You know of any tools to generate basic actions?

      Or a file that was build here you could see some excambles should you not be able to get the snippits to work?

      // POUL

      kglad
      Community Expert
      kgladCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 15, 2017

      for your press/play:

      target_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,targetF);

      function targetF(e:MouseEvent):void{

      e.currentTarget.play();

      }

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