Ye Olde Challenge

"A gentle hand will rule the land"

Ahhh :D Here is MY challenge for any and all!!

Create a Keyboard in SWiSH Max (or use plugins in SWiSH v2)
Have a keyboard at the bottom (84 or any # of keys)
Make a text field (not a text box, just a fake one that will make letters appear)
[ It should be possible using the new keyboard commands in SWiSH max,
but if it sounds impractical, I will change the challenge, what doth ye thinkith? ]

Doth ye think it possible?
Art thou a gent or a jest!?
Find out in: Ye Olde Challenge!

- King Stephen XIII

P.S. No one can export, so maybe I could have some help from Hoosier_Daddy or B.A. :)
Otherwise, people will just look at the SWI's ...? What doth ye thinkith? :( :unsure:

I thinks its a unfair challange because we cant export in swishmax bah :P

And asking them to take our SWI and final it would be aginst the BETA rules

yes.. true true.... but why not have everyone look at the SWI's ???



Ye Olde Challenge
- King Stephen XIII

Looking is fine but you couldnt do it and try it if you dont have the export max :-) ;)

what do you mean...? key commands work WITHIN swishmax, right?

How would you want the challenge to be? with keypress? you can now use a button in Max to say:

letter p:

textbox = textbox add "p";

or do you want it with actual keypress? with keypress you'll just type in the texbox...

Am I misunderstanding here?

You should make some buttons with the autoshape options. I bet it would be pretty neat.

Oh Yes, Vincent26381. Very good question. I didn't specify.

You mean:
1) You CLICK a key and it types it in the box
2) You TYPE a letter and it types it in the box

> You can do one or the other, but having both would be an extra touch ;)
[ ITS ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY! Thats Ye Olde Challenge ;) ]

Thanks for reminding me, Vincent, and nice Avatar ;) *puff puff* (did you add the smoke?)

Karl472001: Thanks, I bet it will be. BUT its all up to whoever takes up: "YE OLDE CHALLENGE!" ;) ;) B)

- King Stephen XIII :)

So how is this going? Is anyone participating? I'd like to see an example so I offer my exportable version to export files for this contest. Email me at jmturnerjr@msn.com with submissions.

~Jer~

I can't because I have no exportable version.

I can't because I have no exportable version.

I am offering to export for you for this competition. Please re-read my last post karl and send your swi to the posted address.

~Jer~

Thank you very much for the generosity, Jer :)

I hope people are up to the challenge..... ?????

Anyone?? :huh:

:unsure: :blink: :(


Karl, please reread :) I hope someone accepts "YE OLDE CHALLENGE"

- King Stephen XIII ;)

Actually, I have one already done, but I'm not sure if it would work because I don't think it works in swf4, but I will upload it and maybe hoosier can export it to swf6 or w.e...I think like a-h work or somewhere(just to get people started)

Thank you fro trying to get this thing started, but I opened your file in SWiSH max Beta 1 (not 2, this could be the problem) and It went crazy.........

- King Stephen XII ;)

Lol, get beta 3(not 2, or 1) because none of them are forward compatible... :) Check out the news section for it.

went completely crazy on me again after i installed beta 3. so i dont know what to do :(

can anyone else see (open) this file?

Jer, do you think you can export Schwalbach's file?

maybe i will try to make something.....

*shrugs*

- King Stephen XII B)

Here is my little crappy example (I was playing around with SWiSH Max, boy do I suck at this! :( )

you can press A or a and then space will reset it.

the challenge here is to make it type like a real program........ hold on why would you want to type? you could just have it type inside a input text....... oh boy!~

i am so dumb..... okay let me see what i was trying to accomplish by starting this challenge. i will add on to this example i am attaching right now....

Okay this doesnt even work now. I wanted it to light up the keys on a keyboard or whatever, and I thought that you could have input text at the same time, but obviously not. :( now im confused.....

here is the 2nd version....... *shrugs*

What do you mean input text to? I will try it if I can understand.

Sorry for the delay. I downloaded Schwalbach's file this morning and selected export Flash 6, but it returns script errors and does not work. I tried various things to help and still nothing. Sorry.

~Jer~

Hmm.... weird...

well thank you for trying ~Jer~

Chase, i just meant you dont have to have the text "appear" maybe you could actually just be typing, but the trick was to have a cool looking keyboard at the bottom that 1) would look like the key was pressed when one is pressed on your keyboard AND 2) you could click the letters as an alternate option to typing, like an onscreen keyboard.....

maybe this challenge is not such a challenge.... :( <_< :unsure:

-Stephen

Jer...I wasn't sure if it would work. It was just off an example by david p, but wasn't sure how to do it because of the point that I couldn't mess with it..SJ, I will try to do a couple things like that...I will just make an input box, and whatever you type will come into a different box since I really don't want to do the keyboard all-together, and hopefully you can branch off with it from there.. :)

Hey, it was too simple for me to actually make a file, so just make an input textbox and a dynamic textbox, give the both names, click target and give them variables. Now click on the scene and add on enterframe - var1 = var2 (Replace the var1 with your dynamic textbox variable, and var2 with your input's) simple as that for the one part.

I did notice in your example that I downloaded that your target was txt as in the following:

onEnterFrame() {
if (key.isdown(Key.A)) {
txt = A;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.B)) {
txt = B;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.C)) {
txt = C;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.D)) {
txt = D;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.E)) {
txt = E;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.F)) {
txt = F;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.G)) {
txt = G;
}
if (key.isdown(Key.H)) {
txt = H;
}
}


however your text was not named txt so it wouldnt have a clue where to place the text. I did name it, but for some reason I was unable to select the target box. Strange. Anyway, I will keep trying different things too.

~Jer~

That's because it's already a target when it has code applied on it. Text cannot have an onEnterFrame action. It needs to be on the parent sprite/scene.

The text needs quotes too txt ="A";

Im just not getting it. Im following what you said Vincent and made the changes. I cut the script from the txt and placed it in scene. I tried onenterframe and onload and quoted all the text. Also since the txt no longer has script attached I named it and targeted it, but still I cant get it to work.

~Jer~

You don't neccecairly (spelling?) make the text a target. If you con't check target you can just use the name without '.text' or without the variable name.

Vincent why dont you just post the modified file that works so I can look at it.? :)

~Jer~

From Rog Onslow:

For next beta, the internal player support the Key.methods when you set SWF5+ script in your export options

Key.isDown(code)
Key.isToggled(code)
Key.getAscii()
Key.getCode()

So you can write code like

CODE
onEnterFrame() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
moveLeft();
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
moveRight();
}
}

(NOTE: requires SWF5+ .. not supported for SWF4 which cannot do this)

This is already supported isnt it?

Or is he allowing something that required flash 6 export in flash 5? I dont see whats new here, but also saw his post about this.

~Jer~

For next beta, the internal player

thats the important bit, up until now its only been supported in export to SWF

Geez! This has turned more into an issue than a challenge :(
Sorry everyone....

Anyways what I have noticed, is that if you assign an action to a key, you can only have one action.
So you might want to make a sprite and have the action be go to a frame,
then at that frame, the sprite can handle and assign the actions.

- SJ :)

Now SWiSH Max Is out!! Now this challenge is possible... Come on everyone! :) :D

-SJ

:lol: TheSJProject you rock !!!!!!!!

Last post i saw (some while back) i'm sure it said you were a nounce at Swish lmaooooooo

Yet here you are opening a MAX !!!! challenge no less....a MAX not only that a very difficult challenge..... :lol:

And as i got to the last post (yours) its turned out an issue for you....bawwwwwwl
Well i hope you win your own challenge, you deserve it.

Kate....... :)

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Last post i saw (some while back) i'm sure it said you were a nounce at Swish lmaooooooo

Yet here you are opening a MAX !!!! challenge no less....a MAX not only that a very difficult challenge..... :lol:

And as i got to the last post (yours) its turned out an issue for you....bawwwwwwl
Well i hope you win your own challenge, you deserve it.

Kate....... :) [/b][/quote]
:lol: You are tooo kind. You make me feel good.

Seriously! I am a horrible n00bie with SWiSH max. I am so lost and confused. I just thought it would be fun to hold a contest.... But I don't think anyone wants to, or its just not a good topic for a challenge....... *Shrugs*

Millie you are so nice to everyone. Win my own challenge??? :blink:
:lol: lolololol I can't, I don't know how exactly to use SWiSH max, so I was just seeing if anyone could.... :(

And I have learned so much about SWiSH 2 that I feel I know almost everything, but JUST about 2. The reson I feel that way is because of SWISH TUTORIALS! and every member here! I learned 99% of what I know (except clicking ;) ) from here and you guys. I just feel bad that I am not so good at Max...

Er.... uhh Well I dont think I could even do what I'm asking. This competition was UNsuccessful...

Oh well...

Thanks again for your complements! :D :D Always appreciated.... your too nice :)

-Stephen :)

LOLOLOLOLOL i'm too nice eh, well i try Stephen....sometimes it backfires though but never mind, i have one thought each day when i awake, thats to make at least one person smile, hope i did that for you today..... :lol:

So the competition is off is it....bawwwwwwwl thats a shame Stephen.... :o


You try again on another day, never say die Stephen.

Glad you got to know Swish now....now for Swishmax lololololololll

Kate....... :lol:

Kate,

"Now for SWiSH Max!" Ahhhh! im scared! :( :lol:

Im sure ill find some good tutorials around here and in a year ill love the program.... er.... maybe two years ;)

Thanks again, you did make me smile!

Well....... I guess the cometition is off.... er....?

- Stephen :)

I got an idea, that spawned from this. If done correctly, wouldn't it be possible to create a typing tutor with swishmax. I mean, you could have 3 sections on the screen.

TOP: What your to be typing
MIDDLE:Your output
BOTTOM: The keyboard that darkens the letters you are currently typing.

Also it would display a timer, and show your errors in red. This would take forever to do, but could be well worth it, possibly make money off it. "Online typing tutor"

Don't know if this has been done before, but hey, maybe it will spawn an interest with Brian enough that he might up and try it. Let me know what you all think!!

nevermind, I went and looked it up on google. It has already been done in flash :(

i was just about to say waht a great idea that was, and then i read your second post....

MAN! :(

hey can I have link to it? I would like to see this....

but that was almost exactly what i meant when i started this comp.! :)

well ttyl :) -SJ

EDIT: Nevermind - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...0typing%20tutor (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=online%20typing%20tutor)

http://www.flashtyping.com/

didnt see that one

cool... but sadly its been done :(

*shrugs*

-SJ :(

:lol: it was going to be a competition, but apperently it was a bad idea.
reasons:
1) not everyone could do it
2) it wouldnt be much different between designers
3) everyone lost interest.....

however, what the hey...

yeah that would be cool if a character was actually typing. but go to the link above, they already have done this :( :angry: <_<

oh well, -SJ :)

well i know this post i very old but i thought this might help.
Display Keypress (http://www.swish-designs.co.uk/index.php?pageid=82)