Thanks for your answer. I have used this size on several other games with no problem. I guess this time it must have to do with the way it is used.

I do educational games.

This game has math questions. The user goes to a random place in a mall. The stage/window is 600 x 400 and the long image has 9 shops (600 x 9 = 5400) . The questions are randomized and the image slides to a different shop/position depending on the question. There is a visual effect seeing the shops slide by in either direction depending on the question. I use liteTween to slide the image.

So I cannot use the tiled background because of it. I guess I could cut the image into 9 pieces and pin them to a container. I'll try that.

There are lots of other things going on too since the user has to choose several things and input text in boxes, etc...

I have a game that has a background scrolling image that is 5400 x 400

The image slide to different places depending on a click event.

On 32 bit windows system the image does not show at all.

On Mac does not show

On Windows 64 bit systems show without any problem.

Is this a bug?

Is there a way to make it show?

Does the resolution/size have anything to do with it?

AllanR

Your response is great too. I will try to implement your answer sometime soon and see how it works. But just reading it seems very promising.

Thank you guys for your answers and yes the solution is to use families and instance variables. Diego, a friend gave me the idea of using instance variables. Below is the description of the example. Not sure what this forum system is to post examples. Let me know and I can post it.

Example:

Set up:

The stage has the following elements:

musicBtn - code toggles music and changed the frame image of the button resetBtn - code resets the layout helpBtn - code sets the Y of the help screen to 0

family is called pointables - the instance variable is cursorStyle = 1

Above the stage and therefore hidden are:

help screen

closeBtn - the button is pinned to the help screen - the instance variable is cursorStyle = 1

Code:

1- if mouse is over over pointables and pointables instance variable is 1 then set cursor to hand

2- if mouse is NOT over pointables then set cursor to normal - set closeBtn instance variable cursorType = 1

3- helpBtn click event - set pointabled instance variable cursorType = 0 - set help screen Y = 0 set MUSIC BUTTON group Deactivated set RESET BUTTON group Deactivated

4- closeBtn - set help screen Y = -500 - set pointables cursorType = 1 set MUSIC BUTTON group Activated - set RESET BUTTON group Activated

So with lots of buttons it is more complicated but you get the idea. There is also the idea to add global variables to set and reset the instance variables.

I suppose this is a strange question but this happens to me all the time. I make education games for charter schools online programs.

All my games are set up the same basic way:

1- intro screen with a button to go to an help screen/layout

2- a helpscreen before game that goes to the game screen/layout

3- the game screen that contains 3 buttons - help, reset, and music. as well as other navigation buttons depending on the game.

All buttons are made in a family for which I set the mouse cursor to hand on mouse over.

Now when the user clicks on the help button, the help screen copy now on the HUD layer slides in.

My problem is that even if I disable the buttons by disabling groups, there is still the problem of having the button cursors showing through which is a no-no. I have tried to move out buttons off the screen but sometimes it is very difficult when there are lots of elements with hand cursor.

Is there another way I should approach this which is always happening in all the games?

imhotep22; Thank you. This is what I thought. Will do. Thanks for your input.

could anyone let me know if this has to do with image size limitation? Maybe FF does not like a large image.

Could someone test this to be sure it is universal? Please check on another browser first to see what you are looking at.

The background long image does not appear in FF on Mac but does on all browsers on windows and others on Mac.

Is there a known bug?

see here: http://mjpagedesign.com/test/MEGAMALL/

Note: The next button on the intro screen is slow to bring the next layout especially if clicked several times. So, click only once and wait. Maybe due to the fact that the next layout is heavy in graphics.

Thanks for your answer Ashley. I guess you are right. It must be a FF problem.

I just saw your answer. So I guess it does not work when you are using one event sheet for all the layouts.

You will always need to have an event sheet for each layout for some code that is very specific like go to layout and on start of layout.

Needing some help. I have a game in which I have questions that need to be answered.

These are graphs on which students need to read data and then click on dots to show the points on the graph.

The dot sprite has an instance variable and I assigned the instance to each dot on the graph.

I have a variable (answer) that increments to count the number of correct dots. Then when all the correct dots have been filed and the answer = 5, I have a feedback screen that tell them "good job".

If they choose a wrong dot, they get the feedback "incorrect" even if answer<5.

I have the same code to check each question. However the feedback screen appears only for the first question even when their answer is correct. This is driving me crazy.

I use tweenLite to move the feedback screens in an out. I do not believe this is where the problem is since it works for the first question.

Since there are 5 dots that are correct, I check if answer= 5 and then get the "good job" feedback. There are several things happening at the some time and only the feedback screen is the one that does not work on the other questions whether it is for the correct dots or the incorrect dots.

Any idea?

Note sure why the dropbox link is not working.

Here is the same as URL

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rkngd96dihsceju/feedback.png?dl=0

Unconnected:

[quote:19edmqtx]I was meaning a new object with a new name and no variables.

hat's a clone. It uses new memory since it is a new object as Newt said. Copy does not use new memory since it is an instance. At least it is how I understand it.

For a copy:
on stage
ctrl drag right-click copy select copy/paste
in project window Object type
NA
For a clone:
on stage
right-click and 'clone object type'
in project window Object type
right-click and clone