i assigned some variables called charstrength and so on but i want to access these variables globaly as the action is on the first frame with all the variables stated and on the second frame i need to access those variables but it just wont let me.
View 9 RepliesI have defined Variables at the start of my script, with _root, to make them valid globally.
Then, in several functions and IF loops, I change the values of these variables, again referencing them with _root.
Then at the end of my script, I want to collect these global variables and send them to a PHP file to late store them in a db.
The problem is that at the end of my script, the variables do not contain any data, I used trace() to test this.
They only seem to contain values inside the IF loops which would mean they are behaving as local variables only?
I also tried replacing _root with _global but got the same results.
I have over 1000 lines of code at the moment so I will only post a snippet here of the general method I used, perhaps some experienced users will spot what I am doing wrong[code]...
I am working with URLLoader and URLRequest in this case.
I have two buttons. One listens for the mouse click event and then runs the following function (less code not applicable to this question):
function loadURL (e:MouseEvent):void {
....
var myRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest("*URL*");
myRequest.method=URLRequestMethod.POST;
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The other button, when clicked, calls another function, say resetAll, that then resets the "session" by clearing out all the current variables and canceling anything currently in progress. Within that function I want to call myLoader.close(myRequest); but myLoader is not accessible from within resetAll.
In this case, should I declare var myRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest("*URL*"); and var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); outside of the function even if I do not need them yet?
The following bit of code outputs that 'myRequest' and 'i' are not defined.
Code:
//Load external asset
function loadfail():void
{
[Code].....
after a bit of reading I find that it is because 'myRequest' and 'i' are defined within functions, and so those variables are not available outside those functions. How can I get around this? Make a class?
The error is as follows:1119: Access of possibly undefined property shiftX through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.shiftX is declared in the first line of the movie clipFirst i check to see if the child doesnt exist and if it does I access it like so:getChildByName("ball"+ccc2).shiftX)
View 4 RepliesHere is a simple example:
Code:
<? session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION["intro"]) { $_SESSION["intro"] = 0; }
// has the intro been played?
// code for including the swf
?>
ActionScript Code:
if(intro == 0){
myclip.gotoAndPlay(2); // play intro
intro = 1;
}else{
myclip.gotoAndPlay(24); } // skip the intro and go straight to the end
I use flashIDE(CS5) to create and organize my assets for flash game. Some movieclips need to have specific params.I am typing them at a MC's first frame:
var shape :String= "circle";
var material :String = "wood";
And then make them Export as MovieClip.For AS3 coding I use Flash Builder 4. When I create new Instance of this MC and trace values I get "null". But if before trace gotoAndStop(1); typed then my values are ok ("wood", "circle").
I have a flash project that involves using glow filters on several mcs all over the site, the problem is, the current way I'm doing it requires me to declare and assign the filter on every MC's container.
Is there a way where I can just declare the glow filter once on the maintime line, and then simply apply the filter on the MCs where needed?
this is what I use for every MC, and it's really tedious and hard to keep track of/change.
Code:
var Glow1:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter();
Glow1.color = 0xFFFFFF;
Glow1.inner = false;
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For examples sake, say I have an 'Icon' class. When you set Icon's 'name' variable, it downloads the image (of the given name) from a server/directory.
The problem however, is that even though the name (of the image) is provided, the name of the server, or even the folder containing the image is not.
Of course, I could explicitly define the full name and location of the file to the class, but if I ever decide to change folder structure I would have to go through and find all references to the folder and change it. It also seems wrong to litter all of my parent classes with arbitrary URL's to feed to the Icon class.
The preference of course would be to 'globally request' the image server/directory on instantiation, but in the world of OOP how is this best achieved?
I was just about to have the Icon class dispatch a bubbling event, letting something at the end of the displayList catch the event/request and feed it the information (a String) it was looking for, but it didn't feel right. It feels like dispatchEvent should only be used to Dispatch Events, not request a string...
Also, I've come up to similar situations where I've needed a similar request structure without being an extension of EventDispatcher (such as just a primitive Object). Is there a best practice for both?
[URL].. lines a lot in our files to set up AS Tweens. Is there a way to import these globally on one frame of ActionScript instead of having to put it in AS for every time an MC is being tweened?
View 1 RepliesI have been trying to get this right for a few days now, but I am stumped. This code runs on the first frame of my movie:
Code:
_global.headingText = new Array();
_global.captionText = new Array();
_global.contentText = new Array();
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I'm trying to control different sound attached in different frame. I want a button to turn on/off different sounds separately and globally. I mean after I've press one button in, let's say, Frame 1, it can turn off/on one sound attached in Frame 2 but another sound is not affected.
Right now, I've create 2 buttons for each sound to turn on/off the sounds sounds by setVolume() but I can work only when I entered that frame and press button in the frame. If I've press the button in Frame 1 and go to Frame 2, it did not take effect.
Here is my code for attaching different sounds in Frame 2:
Code:
infoSound = new Sound(infoSoundMc);
infoSound.attachSound("info");
alertSound = new Sound(alertSoundMc);
[Code]....
Is there any other command to turn on/off sound besides setVolume()?
I was wondering how and what the best way to access a supers variables.Here's an example of what I'm trying to do.
PHP Code:
public class Major { var instance:Main; public function Major() { instance = new Main(); }}public class New
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What I am trying to do is pull data from an XML file so that I can store paramaters for my FLV player (i.e. flv link, dimensions, video name, etc) I can get the data from the XML file and story it in a dictionary but I am unable to access the data from my main class. I know it has to be something pretty simple but I think i have been looking at it to long to see it.
// Main.as
package includes.action{ import fl.video.FLVPlayback; import flash.display.*; import flash.events.*; import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.utils.Dictionary; import includes.action.XMLData; public class Main extends Sprite[code]..........
basically with all my traces this is what I get back...
// Trace dataVIDOEXML COUNT: undefinedELEMENTS: nullMAIN:LINK: nullWe are in LoadXMLname - no get: mortgagename - get: mortgage
The trace for Elements and Main:Link should give me back the name of the video but as of yet its either returning NULL or undefined.
I'm new to actionscript 3 and I'm trying to get a few simple things going, such as setting variables in other movieclips... So let's say I have an "apple" movieclip on the root/stage, and I want to access other variables on the root, or in other movieclips. How would I do that? In actionscript 2, I would use something like
_root.thisVar = 1;
_parent.thisVar = 1;
and with other movie clips I would use
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I have a couple of textfields on my stage named "turist_box_inf" and "hotell_box_inf" (a couple more to come). These are located in a mc with the instancename "former". To fill these with text in code, it would be former.turist_box_inf.text = "nice text" and so on. The thing is I want to fill these with info from an XML sheet and therefore do it through a loop. [code]...
View 2 RepliesSo in AS2.0 I would use _global.variableName to create and refer to a variable that was maybe created on the stage and then needed to be referenced to inside of an instance. That doesn't seem to work anymore. Are you expected to not want to do that, or is the code just changed now?
View 9 RepliesI'm trying to create an XML class to load some images on a stage, but my problem is that I can't access variables in my XML class(which I need to load the images) from the main timeline after I've created a new instance on the XML class.[code]...
View 1 RepliesIm working on an Actionscript 3 program where i will click through a tree structure of buttons and use the values of the particular set of buttons, to access its corresponding value in an XML file.As i click each button, I start forming a string eg.
[code]
Click1 = unit1
Click2 = lesson3. etc
xmlString = "myXML."+ Click1 + "." + Click2;
Everything works perfect up to this point except that xmlString contains the incorrect value.I want xmlString to contain the particular value within that particular element in the XML but instead it only displays the concatenated path. (myXML.unit1.lesson1)is how would i be able to use that "xmlString" value to refernce the particular elements value.everything else works perfect and if i have to pass that XML path directly, "myXML.unit1.lesson1" it functions correctly, thus it must be an issue with the concatenated string not being registered as an XML path.
how do I access the variable from another MovieClip and frame? That's about the structure of the clip:
Layer1:ActionscriptA(Frame)
Layer2: MovieClip1+
-----------------|_layer2: BoneColor(MC) +
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I tried to do this differently, for example
var clr:BoneColor = MovieClip1.BoneColor.ActionscriptB.clr
I have 2 MovieClips, each with code on their timelines (I don't know if this is frowned upon).One of the MovieClips moves constantly in a biased random walk, influenced by a variable in its personal code. The other MovieClip has no specific instances, because it appears on mouse click, expands, then disappears after a certain amount of time.
I would like to change the value of a variable on the timeline of the first MovieClip, so it is more likely to turn when it hits the expanding circle. (Eventually influenced by the alpha of the circle, but just any effect is fine for now). My problem is that I can not access the variable from the main timeline or the circle's timeline, and all collision actions that I try end with error 1067, because I have not imported all of the necessary MovieClips and variables.[code]...
In my previous topic whitelynx_nivla gave me a code, which I edited. I'm using it to set variables when a certain key is pressed.But the loader can't access the variables and change them.[code]
View 0 RepliesI have a movieclip that is exported for actionscript and has a class linked to it.In the actual movieclip I have two dynamic text fields ex: tf1 and tf2. tf1 is on frame 1 of the movieclip and tf2 is on frame 2.In the constructor I pass two strings as arguments ex: s1 and s2, one for tf1 and one for tf2.So in the constructor I am trying to assign these values to the textfields i.e:tf1.text = s1;tf2.text = s2;But, because tf2 is on frame 2, I cannot access it.I think I read something somewhere that all variables and objects that are on frame 1 are global. But this is not what I am working with, I need to access tf2 which is on frame 2.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to embed an SWF in my ActionScript project (Flash Builder 4.5). I need to have access to variables inside that SWF, but for some reason, embedding it strips it from all scripts.The solution I found on the web was to embed it like this:
ActionScript Code:
[Embed(source="sprites.swf", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private var Sprites:Class;
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I am just writing this test code in AS1.0. Now the problem, I am not able to get access to my class variables. I am doing this stuff for learning As1.0. Although in 2.0 I get through those using static variable. But in As1.0 I don't know how to do this.
Code:
function main(){
this._xml=new XML();
this._arImages=[];
this._xml.ignoreWhite=true;
this._xml.onLoad=this.LoadData;
} main.prototype.showImage=function() {
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I have an MovieClip on Stage with instance name main_mc. I am loading an external game.swf in that main_mc. I want to access variables of root through game.swf. I have used loadMovie() to load the external swf.
View 5 RepliesI have a class called Butterfly that extends MovieClip and exists as an asset in my Flash CS4 library.
The timeline of Butterfly consists of different wing flaps for different segments of its behavior. One of the animations is the wings opening up. Once the wings are open, dynamic text is shown on the wings of the butterfly.
Code:
//Butterfly.as
...
private var _textForWings:String = "Text For Wings";
I don't seem to have access to that variable from frame 159 inside of the clip.
What is the right process for accessing variables defined in the class by the frames inside?
Currently I'm using a getter for the _textForWings variable and using
Code:
//getter inside Butterfly.as
public function get textForWings():String
[Code]....
In this instance this works, but this things that i specify in the class are not avaiable to me within the timeline where i need them issue is really causing some headaches.
I just started developing flash recently and I need to globally mute the audio in an swf by javascript ... I've got the following functions in my AS3 already.
Code:
function mute():void
{
var st:SoundTransform = new SoundTransform(0);
SoundMixer.soundTransform = st;
[code]...
Do I need to use addCallback() somehow to trigger this through javascript?
Is it possible to limit globally the bandwidth usage of FMS 3.5 ? I don't want FMS to use all the bandwidth available via our ISP.I want my coworkers and other servers to be able to continue using Internet while sending/receiving data from/to FMS. I know it is possible to limit various bandwidths per Applications, but it seems there is no easy way - using the xml config files - to globally limit the server bandwidth.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to adjust the frame spacing for all layers?For example, I have my stuff (graphics, text, etc..) spaced at 24 frames. Is there a way to globally adjust everything to 48 frame spacing? or 12 frame spacing?
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