In the code below, I am loading in multiple images from based on an xml file. I am looking for a way to dynamically place the images depending on how many results are brought back. I have the starting points for the first image in each section in the code, I am trying to basically add about 40 pixels to those numbers for each image
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var xml = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
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is it possible to get an uh... "absolute" X and Y for _root.dropDown1MC.listMC.item? As is stands, I'm placing dropDown2MC on the stage using the following code: [AS]_root.attachMovie("dropDown2", "dropDown2", 30, {_x:_xmouse, _y:_ymouse});[/AS] and that gets it on the stage, but it doesn't function as I need it. In a perfect world, I'd like to place dropDown2MC at the X and Y of item, BUT, there is a mask to only show a certain area of listMC (it's how I'm making a scrollable dynamically populated list).
So, is there a way to get some sort of absolute value, relative to root or something, of item's X and Y coordinates? Sorry if this is a bit complicated... I'm trying to be as clear as possible, but you know how hard that can be when you're connected to Flash directly though a firewire cable to the brain
what I'm trying to do is attach instances of a movieclip on stage, one by one, so they form a shape similar to one of examples below...(each dot would be a movieclip)I know I should do it using loops and probably sin/cos math methods, but am not sure where to even star
View 1 Replieswhat I am doing is making an XML menu for a website. Each button has a background and and over-state background. The backgrounds are 9 sliced scaled movie clips, well the over-state background is set up to mask an animation movie clip that is larger than any button will be. The mask is 9 slice scaled and is always the same size as the regular background. These backgrounds are x-scaled in a function in the Button.as. The title passed in through the XML determines the width. All of this so far works perfectly.
Now a navigation movie clip processes and adds all of the button movie clips based on the amount of nodes in the XML, this also sets the X and Y coordinates as well as sets a "spacer" between the buttons. Here is my problem, every time the function runs to create a new button, it sets the x value at:
Code: Select allbutton.x = this.width;
This is great if I don't use the mask though. What happens since the movie clip I am masking in the over-state background is wider than the buttons are is that there is wayyy to large of a gap. When each button is added, actionscript sees the width of the button with everything in it, masked or not. So I've tried a for-loop in the button creating function to increment a number variable from 0 - the max number of buttons in the XML. I then want to set the x value to:
Code: Select allbutton.x = (button.background.width * i);
This is the background of the button that has the correct width that actionscript should be using. By multiplying it by the i variable, it should move the x right with every button. Unfortunately it's not working.
making an XML menu for a website. Each button has a background and and over-state background. The backgrounds are 9 sliced scaled movie clips, well the over-state background is set up to mask an animation movie clip that is larger than any button will be. The mask is 9 slice scaled and is always the same size as the regular background. These backgrounds are x-scaled in a function in the Button.as. The title passed in through the XML determines the width. All of this so far works perfectly.
Now a navigation movie clip processes and adds all of the button movie clips based on the amount of nodes in the XML, this also sets the X and Y coordinates as well as sets a "spacer" between the buttons. Here is my problem, every time the function runs to create a new button, it sets the x value at:
Code:
button.x = this.width;
This is great if I don't use the mask though. What happens since the movie clip I am masking in the over-state background is wider than the buttons are is that there is wayyy to large of a gap. When each button is added, actionscript sees the width of the button with everything in it, masked or not. So I've tried a for-loop in the button creating function to increment a number variable from 0 - the max number of buttons in the XML. I then want to set the x value to:
Code:
button.x = (button.background.width * i);
This is the background of the button that has the correct width that actionscript should be using. By multiplying it by the i variable, it should move the x right with every button. Unfortunately it's not working.
I'm trying to print an MC that is on screen with a dynamic text field in the MC - its printing just fine but the placement of one of the elements is off. Basically I have a dynamic text field centered on the stage, however when I print it, the text field moves to the very right on the printed page, while the rest of the contents of the MC stay centered. To clarify on the printed page I basically have this nice page with centered text, but the dynamic textfield is moved all the way to the right of the page.
View 1 RepliesThis is my first post as i m just beginner in Flash JavaScript. I want to prepare a FLash Movie in which all the images r dynamic and the images should change after a time say every 30 secs the image changes.
View 1 RepliesI'm getting crazy with this error and found no solution until now. Well, the issue consist in create dynamic movieclips and external jpgs into a for loop through xml nodes and add the respective image into that movieclip.
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I have an array of 10 buttons 2 rows of 5 buttons each.
I was wondering how I might randomize the button placement,each time a randomizeButton function is called.What I mean is keep the rows but how they are lined up and showing will be different each time.
what i m trying to do is load a image form xml and resize it to fixed height and then to centre the image on stage...however the following code is not resizing the image and neither is it centering the image...i used trace commands to check its width but i get the output as undefined also on load the images r coming rotated 90 degree.
here's my code
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var slidexml:XML = new XML();
slidexml.ignoreWhite = true;
var currentIndex:Number = 0;
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I managed to make some code that works perfectly which, when the flash game is launched it randomly inserts a picture from the list you give it (word1.png, word2.png etc.)It works fine! But the problem is the place in which it appears, when i start the pictures appear in the top left corner of my flash game, but I want them to appear at preferably the location of a symbol or the x & y coordinates I specify (In actions obviously, i dont want to type these coordinates in game :P).Btw here is the code
var _loader:Loader = new Loader;
var _pictureArray:Array = ["word1.png", "word2.png", "word3.png"];
var _whatPicture:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*3);
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When you make a movie clip, and have it open, does it have a physical 'place' on your pasteboard or main timeline?
For instance, when I test my 'scene' (as opposed to movie) my clip will be out of whack and off to the side of my movie viewer.
Then when I place the clip in my main timeline, i have to monkey around with it to get it to line up. I get a circle and a blue line at the top, but not sure what that space corresponds to.
Is there a good tut out there for movie clip creation and placement? It feels really sloppy the way Im doing it.
looking for the correct way to arrange this. So this below works. But instead of using the y coordinate of the wst, wsa, and wsm, is it possible to have it equal the mc itself? so wsa1.y==wsablank3(mc)
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I would like to be able to specify the placement of a legend for a linechart. Currently, it continues to appear to the right of the chart. I have tried playing with the width/height of the chart to no avail... Putting the legend before the linechart in the mxml causes it to appear to the left. I can't seem to get it appear at the bottom though. I can't seem to find any good examples for this. They don't seem to specify anything but the legend usually shows up below the chart, I can't seem to do it.
View 1 RepliesMy flex app has various Custom components. I want the tooltips for all of them to show at the top-right corner.Is there a Application setting that I can do this with? Or do I have to do this at the component level.
View 1 RepliesI need to have an object randomly appear on the stage, but only controlling the "y" to be random, "x" is not needed.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to find out how to set the placement on the stage for an external swf or flv.oh and i've tryed to loop an external flv with a listener object but i can't seem to get it to work.
View 2 RepliesI have the following code below hard-coding the x/y coordinates of 8 movie clips. I am trying to write some code that will generate this so that it will accomodate any number of content clips so that I do not have to go back in and create new x/y corrdinates for additional clips.[code]
View 3 RepliesPicture the scene, my trees are grown, the sun is in the sky and the birds are singing, as you move the mouse over one of the empty fields, tiny pretty flowers begin to grow where your mouse has been.
View 1 RepliesI need to "arrange" an array item by using the up/down arrow keys. Each item in the array is represented by a movieclip on the screen, and the idea is to select one, and then move it up and down through the array. For example say you have 7 items in your inventory and want to move item nr 6 ( array[6] ) to the top of the visual representation list ( array[0] ). So it would move through the array and when you hit the top it jumps back down to 7 again. one jump for each keystroke.
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to test something out in flash with XML and waswondering if anyoone could point me in the rght direction of atutorial.I'm working on a project where I need to be able to pin pointseveral shots that were taken on a golf course. I Need to be ableto load in several jpegs and then on these plot the points at whichthe ball landed.I know this can be done using XML to load in the images buthow do I go about then ploting points over the top of the image
View 2 RepliesI'm looking to create an AS3 utility that will place frame labels (about 200), on the main timeline, to save the time it takes to do it manually. The label would be very simple like "page" + i. Is there AS3 code that addresses utility methods of this sort?
View 2 RepliesI'm looking to create an AS3 utility that will place frame labels (about 200), on the main timeline, to save the time it takes to do it manually. The label would be very simple like "page" + i. Is there AS3 code that addresses utility methods of this sort?
View 4 RepliesI've made a image slider Class and works fine up to the position of the mask. In my Home Class I make an instance of the image slider Class and position it accordingly. The images in the slider Class are position at 0, 0 as well as the shape I use for the mask. Here is the problem the mask placement is at stage.x = 0 , stage.y = 0 rather then the slider's Class x:0, x:0. Why is the slider instance showing the in right position but the mask in the instance isn't?[code]
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create a system for a Tower Defense that detects if an tower or some structure can be placed on the grid.
The conditions are that the grid must be free of any structures and within the area that allows structures to be built (not on enemy path). I've seen many games do this already, so there's probably something out there. I just can't find it, although I understand the logic.
My move is getting dynamically resized to whatever the computer's screen resolution is set. I'm placing a button in the lower left hand corner that always needs to be flush left and bottom. Now on my computer, I can get it there just by putting in
ActionScript Code:
minimizebtn.y=(stage.stageHeight)-220-(minimizebtn.height);
Clearly, this bit of code will only work for my computer's resolution: 1440x900. I've tested it on other machines and if they, too, have 8:5 ratio like mine, they look pretty good. Not so much on a say, 4:3 ratio display. I know I need to get the aspect ratio and then place my minimize btn's y coordinate.
One thing I'm not clear on: why I set my button to x=0; and it will sit flush left, but won't place my button in the right spot with:
ActionScript Code:
(stage.stageHeight)-(minimizebtn.height);
Currently stage.stageWidth=Capabilities.screenResolutionX;
and stage.stageHeight=Capabilities.screenResolutionY;
This thumbnail loader has been the bane of my existence for the past several days. I finally have the images loading in correctly from the XML through an Array.
However, I can NOT for the life of me get them to load with equal distance from one another that corresponds with the varying image widths. I have set up a contentLoaderInfo in order to trace the widths of the images, but can't figure out how to associate them with their respective images in the array to appropriately define the x location.
ActionScript Code:
//XML Load in XML
var XMLURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
XMLURLLoader.load(new URLRequest ("ggcelebrity.xml"));
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I've been using sen's flash/xml drop-down menu tutorial, and I have been able to create the following for (mt):url...If you rollover the first item, you will notice that the submenu loads to the right side. What I would like to have is something similar to the following attached image. Also, the code I am using can be found in the attached FLA.I know how to make the menu appear directly below the parent node, but the problem is that I am unable to shift the menu items down so that the menu items don't overlap over the existing menu items. You can see an example of what I am trying to do in the attached image.Does anybody have any insight on how to accomplish that. I tried finding the name of each movie clip and shifting them downward, but it seems that none of the movie clip names correlate to the actual menu item - therefore, I am unable to shift them downwards in order to make a space for them.
View 14 RepliesI just found an interesting script, supposedly I heard it is used for image showing. Using thumbnails but the main mc is showing an enlarged version of the thumb you click on. In this script, is it an xml file that loads the images or do they lye in an external folder? if so what are the name of the folder, and is there a system of what the image names are?
Code:
function noCache() {
var __reg1 = String((new Date()).getTime());
__reg1 = "&nocache=" + __reg1;
return __reg1;
} function init() {
numImgs = ImgData.bildarkiv.images.image.length;
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I have an array with 8 items, and I want them to be randomly placed on the stage with each load, or when a "shuffle" button is pressed. Just a simple puzzle where the pieces are to be scrambled and then dragged and dropped by the user.Current code that isn't working:
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var myArray:Array = new Array();
myArray[0] = puzzle1;
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