ActionScript 2.0 :: Keeping Randomly Moving Elements Inside Frame?
May 30, 2005
I have gone through the tutorial on this site regarding random movement. But I need it to be kept in a frame. This is the code(from this site)
Code:
function getdistance(x, y, x1, y1) {
var run, rise;
run = x1-x;
rise = y1-y;
return (_root.hyp(run, rise));
} function hyp(a, b) {
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//special thanks to Suprabeener for the code function getdistance(x, y, x1, y1) { var run, rise;
Currently the problem is that the label actually do not leave borders of the first canvas (I see scrollbars instead of it).I think this is related to globalToLocal conversion problems, but do not understand how to use it.Also another question is how to animate the movement corretly, because move function performs movement without any visible action.
I am creating a banner with a "moving target", but the target keeps moving under the copy text of the banner, making it illegible.
here is my random movement code (Swiped from kirupa if I recall ) :
//special thanks to Suprabeener for the code function getdistance(x, y, x1, y1) { var run, rise; run = x1-x;
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The above code is in my Ship class so I can easily make the bullets achieve the correct rotation. And to continually update its position, in the bullet's class:
x += Math.cos(rotation / 180 * Math.PI) * speed; y += Math.sin(rotation / 180 * Math.PI) * speed;
So that all works well. But I have another class, EnemyBullet, which randomly generates and uses similar code to set its direction and movement. In my ship class:
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My teacher told me this isn't possible but in case of 10+ images, I can't imagine doing it for every image separately. There has to be a better way to do this, no?
I've been using this code to try and stop a main movie clip and all of the movie clips inside it. My problem is that this code only stops the main movie "elements" but none of the nested clips, can anyone spot a glaring mistake.
function stopAllClips(clip) { clip.stop(); for (var i in clip) { if (typeof clip[i] == "elements") { if (clip[i] != clip) { stopAllClips(clip[i]); [Code] .....
