ActionScript 2.0 :: How To Load Buttons At Runtime
Nov 30, 2006
I'd like to learn the correct way to design flash sites in the direction of the Kirupa tutorial found here:Although that's a hellava lot more complicated than what I'm doing now, I see the point of minimizing the layers in my movies as much as possible.So, I've begun using attachMovie to load my movies to the stage at runtime. This has dramatically reduced the layers I had in my main movie. Now, the site has just two layers: one for actions and the other for invisible buttons. The invisible buttons sit exactly where the movie clip buttons will appear at runtime.I'd like to know how I can load the buttons at runtime, basically reducing my main movie down to an actions layer. Is this possible or even recommended as good practice?
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Apr 25, 2005
Any way to take the contents of an array, which is full of texttype, and use them to create a stack of buttons. Now the actual text I have in the array will change every time the program is run. For example, let's say my array is ["apples","oranges","pears"]. I want to create three buttons (in this example) so that it appears
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I think I basically get runtime shared libraries, but I have some very specific questions which I have not been able to find answers for anywhere:
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3) When swf "A" instantiates a symbol that is linked to be imported from the runtime shared library, does only that specific symbol load? (true/false)
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Feb 7, 2005
I can't get my text to show in a text field created at runtime within a movieclip on _root. I use a trace statement and it loads into the Output box but is not visible in the textField area. there are no masks in the movieClip.
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Jan 20, 2011
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What I am trying to do is load 2 different swf's using 2 different buttons.
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I've been trying to build an application in flash whereby everything is held on a single frame (the different 'screens' held on seperate layers). My problem is that I want to hide some buttons and other things when the application loads but I can't find anything on it. I have tried an onEnterFrame (AS3 addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME) ) but that didn't hide anything. I tried just having the button.visible = false but that didn't seem to work either. It's probably a stupid question, it's very likely I've missed something in the properties window or something basic, I'm rather new to AS3 and have been working on this for a couple of days now without any success.
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Feb 20, 2009
I am not a strong AS3 programmer but I have managed to get 90% of what I need done for a current project:
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I am having one problem that I am not having much luck with though, I would like to have the two buttons visible set to false when the movie loads, which I hope would stop the initial flash that happens when the movie loads.
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Jun 28, 2009
I have my main SWF into which I want to load an external swf...When I've tried using the following code...
var light:Loader = new Loader();
light.load(new URLRequest("light.swf"));
addChildAt(light, 1);
The SWF loads but the buttons inside it do not show. How do I load the swf and have the buttons inside it work? Anything inside of the external swf that is a movie clip works, but I'd like to be able to keep the up/down/over and hit features of the button.
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Aug 11, 2009
I would like to load one or more buttons at runtime into my main fla. But how? I've figured out how to load an external swf (I suppose that is the way to go for this problem?). But then how do I reference the buttons in the swf?
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Jan 22, 2010
Load an external SWF into a container on a different timeline than the buttons?
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