Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
Figure A.1 Developing the boxes interface
If you place a ‘put’ in the code you will see that each time that Flash sends a
‘getURL(“event:myeventName”)’, Director catches the event within the function. ‘put’ is the
Director equivalent to ‘trace’. In the current example the function ‘addBox’ is used to create a
new box and initiate the physical behaviour; ‘removeBox’ is used to delete the last box that has
been added.
The movie can be published suitable for the Internet by setting the appropriate values in the
Publish Settings dialog box. Director creates a compressed file with a ‘dcr’ extension. This file
contains the Flash interface; you do not need to have a version of the swf file available on the site.
Sometimes you will want to pass on the ‘event’ to the 3D world. Director uses the same layereddesign
as Flash and in the next example, ‘Examples\AppendixA\road.dir’, you will find that the
3D world is on layer 2. In this example the arrows are Flash buttons, each button sending a different
event to Director. In addition, Director sets two variables in Flash that display the current position
and orientation. Each event is handled in the same way:
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on turnleft
sendsprite(2, #turnleft)
end