ActionScript 2.0 :: Control Timeline From External Text File?
May 15, 2009In my externally loaded text file, I want to place a link that will control a specific movie clip in my flash timeline.Is there a way to do this?
View 3 RepliesIn my externally loaded text file, I want to place a link that will control a specific movie clip in my flash timeline.Is there a way to do this?
View 3 RepliesI have a loadMovie function in my timeline that is loading a external swf file. I want a button to control the tim line of the swf file that is loading externally.I know this is wrong, but kind show what i want to do:
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loadMovie("g2.swf", empty_mc)
//button
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I need to contro the timeline of an external swf that i'm loading in a movieclip that is in the main timeline.I have a button inside a MC that is on the Main swf that button has to say to the external swf something like "gotoAndStop(5)" i tried a lot of thinks but nothing works the last think i tried was this.[code]
View 2 RepliesI have a loadMovie function in my timeline that is loading a external swf file. I want a button to control the tim line of the swf file that is loading externally. I know this is wrong, but kind show what i want to do:
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I apologise because I know this has been covered but none of the code I've found seems to have sorted my problem.On my main timeline (_level0 right?) I have the following code:
var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container2",2);
container2._x=28
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I'm having a few issues controlling the timeline within an externally loaded swf.
View 0 RepliesI have a external SWF loading into a target on my main swf. Is there a way to control the timeline from the loaded movie from the main timeline. So , control B timeline from A. I've tried mcholder.gotoAndPlay (2); but it won't work. Also, how can I get the mumbers of frames from the external swf into the main timeline. Will a global variable work?
View 1 RepliesLet say i got two movies: main.swf and moho.swf. What main.swf have inside is only one frame with a couple of graphics. And moho.swf (btw, did in Moho, u know the 2d animation software where u cant use AS.) that have 80 frames.So simple, what i need is to load moho.swf on main.swf. I already did that. But i want to be able to control moho.swf timeline so when moho movie reach its last frame (80) then go to its frame 60 and then again 80, and loop.
View 1 RepliesI have a swf that gets XML of a location of another swf and loads it. It then casts the loader's content as a movie clip and adds it to the stage. I have that working fine, but how can I control the timeline of the loaded swf?
View 4 Repliescan a movie clip which is loaded from an external source control the main timeline? For example I have a set of buttons contained within a movie clip which is loaded externally onto my main timeline...can those buttons direct the swf to a specific frame on the main timeline? Also...is there any way to load an external movie clip into a specific LAYER rather than Level?
View 2 RepliesI've been trying to combine the features of two tutorials I found, one that deals with controlling external swf's from the main timeline and the other that explains how to load and unload multiple external swf's. I'd like to be able to load and unload multiple external swf's, and control these swf's buttons from the main timeline
I asked this same question on the forum of the site where I found these tutorials, and receive only one reply saying that "it shouldn't be hard to do." but they did not elaborate any further. This left me think that I was missing something very obvious and I've spent too much time now trying to work what it is now. I understand pretty much how both pieces of code work, but just can't work out how to combine them.[code]...
Is it possible that we can control external loaded swf sound (on timeline) properties.
E.g:
duration
position
onComplete....etc?
I'm creating a schedule page which has a calendar and a timeline (a graphic timeline not the flash timeline) that need to interact. When someone clicks on a calender date I want it to jump to that date on the graphic timeline. In order to cut file size down I split the calendar and the graphic timeline into two different files which are both loaded into a master page. The calendar is on level 1 and the graphic timeline is on level 5.
Sorry if this question is confusing, I'll try not to mix up the graphic timeline and the flash timeline, but -- Is it possible for a button in the calender file to trigger the graphic timeline file to change frames? What would that code look like? I tried on(release){level5.gotoAndStop(2)}, but that doesn't seem to do anything and I don't get any error.This might be really simple or impossible for all I know..
I have a menu btn that is created via an external class. I want to move the main timeline of my flash file to a frame label but I'm having a hard time referencing the main timeline via my external class code.
How do I control the timeline via this external class.
TWO PROBLEMS: THE FIRST ONE: I have one Button instaced botao01 Inside this button i have a animation, with to words alternating in a mask, each one word is a MC with instace names:
txt01_bt01 and txt02_bt01 This two MC have ONLY the text "home" inside, with one frame... its only a MC of a static text All flash have some objects, and this objects change the colors with some variables.... and this works fine. I want to change the colors of this static texts too. BUT when i put the command to change the color of the movie clip txt01_bt01, he really change the color BUT he lost the animation, the movement, he dont have more the movement!
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How can I replace text loaded from an external file with text from another external file? Using setInterval and calling the .load from a function or something? In the example below I'm calling an external text file, could this also work with an .xml file with cycling through the children?
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I've managed to piece together a flash website with my limited as3 knowledge. The text is loaded from external text files and styled with an external css file.
It's working perfectly in Firefox and Explorer but it only works SOME of the time in Safari (on my mac).It's hit and miss. Sometimes it styles the text sometimes it doesn't.
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I'm loading a external text file to flash and according to the number present in the text file i'm trying to do a IF - ELSE command. It's not working coz the value I load from the external file is string. How can i get this as intiger.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to control a external swf file with a pause function. The main idea is loading an external file and when I want, pause it and its childs. The loader object is "introStage"
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im loading an external swf from my parent swf:loadMovie("external.swf", 4);now, on external.swf i have a dynamic textfiled, which should be updated from the PARENT swf:
this is on PARENT swf file:
this.onRelease = function() {
_level4.mytextfield.htmlText = "some text";
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i have one text field named "priyan" in the fla file. I want to control that text field from the external class. In the time line i can easily put:
var letter:String = "hi priyan";
priyan.text = letter;
if i use class, what i have to do?i tried,
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.TextField;
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i got error...
I have a dynamic txt frame in my main swf. When buttons are selected, text from an external txt file loads into the text frame. This all works fine. What I would like to do is be able to load an external swf into an empty MC and then be able to dictate what the buttons on the external swf do (such as load text). The last line of the below AS is my attempt to path to a button that is on an external swf
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I'm using external text files in a flash project. I have them linking out to external websites fine. My question is, can I use external text to jump to another spot in my flash timeline?[code]
View 0 RepliesIn trying to keep file size down for download time... I have a SWF file that I have placed using the "UILoader" component (not sure if this is the correct thing to do)... what I would like to work out is how to make a preloader within my main timeline for this SWF file when it comes in. I hope that makes sense - I am very new to all this and struggling with terminology etc. I figured Actionscript would be what I need - but no clue right now...
View 10 RepliesI have an external as file.I was wondering what I put in it to update a textField I have manually drawn on the stage? so what I'd normally put in the timeline is:
myField.text = 'tester';
what would you put in an exteranl as file, and do I need to include:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Stage;[code]....
is there a way to communicate (transfer variables) from the timeline in flash9 to an external .as file? ive tried making a movieclip symbol in flash and making a external class file for it(and then linked the 2 together) but when i try to get code from the first frame in the timeline to work with variables in the actionscript class file, it doesnt work.specificly what im trying to accomplish is a menu that i can access to change variables while my movie is playing.
View 5 RepliesI am using flashmx 2004. I am creating a presentation where the main (suppose "main.swf" )movie has seven "lebels" on the timeline. I am require to link to external swf files for each lebel which I can do by using the button script :
on (release) {
loadMovieNum("externalmovie1.swf", 0);
}
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I have just started using external AS3 files to try wean myself off using code in the main time line.I am importing an XML file using an external as3 file, but cant return the values to the main timelineIt worked when I used the trace option, but I need these values to dynamicly populate a movieclip on stage (another problem I cant add movie clip to stage even though I have the linkage etc)AS3 Code ----------------------------------
package com.teamSelection
{
import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
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I have a few external audio clips in MP3 format that I bring in to my SWF by creating different Sound Channels for them. However what I would like to do it when the end of the MP3 file is reached, it will dispatch an event to make the playhead on the main timeline move to a certain frame.
View 2 RepliesOn my main timeline, I load a mc from the library with:
text_content.attachMovie("text_content", "text_content", 10);
There is a marker inside this mc called "news". I need a script in the main timeline that will gotoandStop "news" within the "text_content" mc.I have tried, amongst others
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