ActionScript 2.0 :: Defining A Function Dynamically ... From A Different MC
Nov 20, 2004
I'm building a script that adds a textfield to a movieclip. I need to add an onkillfocus event to that textfield that will make it call a certain function, which is located in the movieclip where the textfield will reside. The trouble is that I'm creating the textbox in a script in a completely different movieclip, and I'm having trouble getting the event to find the function.
I am trying to define a CSS style dynamically. how to get around hard-coding the values this way:
code: var styles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet(); styles.setStyle("mainBody", {color:'0xff0000, fontSize:12});
I tried something like this, but it isn't working:
code: var styles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet(); styles.setStyle("mainBody", {color:colorVariableFromParentMovie, fontSize:sizeVariableFromParentMovie});
this is my first attempt at defining a function all by myself and surprise it don't work! I'm sure you can see from below what I'm trying to create.
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Basically dependent on the hour the text displays a relevent welcome message. Once I cracked this I was going to use the same code to alter an animaton of a scene to reflect the time of day.
this is my first attempt at defining a function all by myself and surprise it don't work!
I'm sure you can see from below what I'm trying to create.
stop(); daytime = function () { myDate = new Date(); var h = myDate.getHours();
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Basically dependent on the hour the text displays a relevent welcome message. Once I cracked this I was going to use the same code to alter an animaton of a scene to reflect the time of day.
Is it possible to define a variable inside of function where the actual variable name will change based on what parameters the function is called with? Take a look at this code:
Code: //define the function function attachVid(nc, ns, curVid, vidFile) {
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I am trying to make the net Connection and net Stream object unique each time the function is called because I am trying to play like 5 flv's on stage simultaneously. As far as I know, each video stream needs a unique net Connection and a unique net Stream object. But it doesn't seem to be working.
So say I have a function that has some number of optional parameters but I don't like to write the function more than once. Instead just use for loop or such to iterate the parameters through and give them to that function.
Here's a raw scetch:
ActionScript Code: // stylesheet for lines var params1 = { thicknes: 1,
I am trying to get a dynamic text box embedded in a button to populate on (XML) load but am having trouble with the path. The text boxes not embedded populate just fine. I have attached my FLA and my XML is below.
I posted a problem recently and I think I was asking too much too soon, I apoligise for that one. I want to try again with my problem. Basically I am making an interactive circuit builder in flash mx for 8-10 year olds (does anyone remember crocodile clips?).
I've dynamically created a grid of buttons which are going to modify a 2D array, but I can't work out how to create a unique function for each iteration of the loop with a dynamic function name. Probably just a stupid syntax error by me...
I'd like to be able to dynamically access objects from with in a function. In javascript I might say something like window[objectName] and assign it to a temp var or call a method from it. How can I do this in AS3?
Use case:I have a currentReport var that holds the name of the currently active report. When a new report is called I want to unload the current report then load the new one and finally set the currentReport var to the new value.
i have an array of coins that are layed out on a map for a character to come pick up.i have the coins displaying on screen but i cant get a simple hit test to work. it only seems to work on the last coin created, i presume because the 'i' value hasnt been appended to the name. i knew how to do this in as2 but dont know the syntax for as3. ive attached the file for you to have a look at.
I have a movieClip in which by default it does not have an 'onPress' function applied to it. However, I have a button on the stage that the user can press to 'unlock' that mc, and when they unlock it, it sets a 'locked' variable to false, calls a function which checks the 'locked' status, and if it is false, it that sets the onPress for that movieclip (which makes it draggable)If that button is clicked again, 'locked' is set to true, and that same function is called again, and then the status is recognized as locked...but I need it to somehow remove/delete the 'onPress'function. I know the first thought would be to just set 'enabled' for the mc to false...which I tried at first.... but the problem is that some of the mc's are transparent in the middle, and there can be other items below them...and those items below need to be 'clickable'. Even though the top mc is not enabled, it still recognizes that it has had an 'onPress' function applied to it, and thus won't let anything below it be clicked. (When the movie first launches, the function setting the onPress has not yet been set, and so the items below it are therefore clickable).
I know that might have been a bit confusing, so let me know if you have any questions to further clarify. need to make a movieclip that was clickable (through an onPress function) onClickable, but also treat it like it has never had an onPress applied, so that any items below it can be clicked.
I'm using a timer on a keyframe to auto refresh mcs every 10 secs. This is working correctly but when I click on a button from a dynamically loaded mc I want it to stop the function from running.
[AS] function movieDelay() { choice = Math.round(Math.random()*2); switch (choice) {
I am using a movie clip with graphics as a cursor.
However, it appears that the actual 'hit' area of the movie clip is related to specifically the normal arrow cursor.
I would like to be able to define an area of the graphic, in this case it's a hand holding a billy club so I'd like just the tip of the billy club the 'hit area.'
pretty much just saying there is 10 elements in it. I define each function as "land", for example. Then in the same function I redefine a random element as "water".
(It is a bit more complex, this is simplified!)
Upon executing this I get the error:
ActionScript Code: TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
if I put the second bit in a new function (the random water part), there is no problems and it executes perfectly. Obviously I cant define an element twice in the same function.
var cColor1:Color = new Color(mcBut1.mcFill); var cColor2:Color = new Color(mcBut2.mcFill); var cColor3:Color = new Color(mcBut3.mcFill); var cColor4:Color = new Color(mcBut4.mcFill); var cColor5:Color = new Color(mcBut5.mcFill);
What I'd like to do is write a loop to handle all that code in less code. So, how do I define variables using variables?
Something like:
for (var i:Number = 1; i < 6, i++) { var cColor+i = new Color(eval("mcBut"+i).mcFill); }
I have drawn a rectangle area in which I want to drag a copy of a MC instance from outside the rectangle.
1. I want to be able to define the rectangle as a boundary so that I can drag and drop a copy of the instance from outside the rectangle to inside the rectangle. If the MC instance is dropped outside the rectangle then the MC instance snaps back to it's original position.
2. Once the MC instance has been dragged and dropped inside the rectangle it can be dragged and moved around BUT only inside the rectangle and not outside it.
