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Hi Scholars...
I know nothing about flash, I have a small presentation to do in it...
My presentation is:
A car should automatically turn on its head lights when entered into a dark place and turn off when it is back again into sunlight. I want this to be done in Macromedia flash 8. Can any of u please help me in doing this??? Eagerly waiting for your reply.

Thanking you scholars
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Short answer and a straight path to a working Flash 8 demo (no real ambient‑light sensing — this is a simulation inside Flash).

A reliable approach: make the car and its headlights separate movie clips, make an invisible or visible "dark area" movie clip that marks the tunnel/shaded zone, then use ActionScript 2 (Flash 8 uses AS2) to test collision and switch the headlight clip between "off" and "on" frames. This follows the gist of and — tutorials are good, but converters (PowerPoint→Flash) usually cannot add custom collision logic.

Minimal FLA structure

  • Layer: background
  • MovieClip instance darkArea_mc (shape marks dark zone)
  • MovieClip instance car_mc (contains headlight_mc inside it)
  • headlight_mc has two labeled frames: off (no beam) and on (beam art + glow)

Place this AS2 on the main timeline (frame 1):

car_mc.onPress = function() {
  this.startDrag();
};
car_mc.onRelease = car_mc.onReleaseOutside = function() {
  this.stopDrag();
};

this.onEnterFrame = function() {
  if (_root.car_mc.hitTest(_root.darkArea_mc)) {
    _root.car_mc.headlight_mc.gotoAndStop("on");
  } else {
    _root.car_mc.headlight_mc.gotoAndStop("off");
  }
};

Notes and quick troubleshooting

  • Exact instance names matter; spelling must match.
  • hitTest(movieClip) does bounding-box collision; for tighter detection use pixel-level test patterns (see hitTest(x,y,true)).
  • Use a Glow filter or a beam graphic on headlight_mc for a realistic effect; you can tween _alpha for smooth fades.
  • If the car is animated on a path, the same onEnterFrame logic applies; if you place code inside a nested clip, avoid relying on _root unless you understand scope.

This gives a compact, testable Flash 8 solution without external tools.

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Hello ever students,

I think you'd better learn flash first. There are many video tutorials introduct the operations step-by-step. You can learn it first. Because it's very hard to talk all of the steps here.

Another way, I think you can make the flash on powerpoint, and then use some third-party tool to convert the ppt file to flash file. I remember I have read an amazing article about how to make flash on PowerPoint step-by-step, you can go to http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/how-walt-disney-would-use-powerpoint-to-create-e-learning-courses/ and have a look.

Hope it helps!

Sincerely,
Sabrina

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You should see some video tutorials on internet and may be from that you get some help...

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Thank you Scholar, for your valuable answer.

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You should see some video tutorials on internet and may be from that you get some help...

Thank you Scholar, for your valuable answer.

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