I have a button on my main time line root and I have a movie clip that performs an animation inside that I was wondering why I can't access the movie clip with this code I am using mx 2004 [AS]on (rollover) { _root.document.mc_button.gotoAndPlay("up"); }[/AS]
View 9 RepliesAssuming 3 movieclips A, B, C where they are nested in this manner: A > B > C I'm using the following line MovieClip(parent.parent).support = false; (in C). I'm attempting to change a boolean value in A. This is the error I'm getting: ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property support on A. at A_fla::anim_content_45/frame60()
View 8 RepliesThere are a few mc's already on stage that I've attached dynamically to _root. Now I want to take one of them and attach it into some other mc on stage, also attached dynamically. I want to retain the position, width and height of the former mc. Is this possible? some way to manipulate the pointers or addresses? Can I manipulate the ._parent property?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make an onPress function for a MC inside a MC and I have figured it will look something like this:
_root.mc1.mc2.onPress = function(){}
It won't work though. What to do? (Now I see, I have that mc2 on the 2nd frame inside mc1... if I put it also on the first frame it works fine, but I don't want it on the first frame).
Is there or is there not possible to access _global variables between domains? on [URL] i have index.html and index.swf. Index.swf then loads main.swf from [URL].In index.swf i have a _global variable that i want main to use. When calling for it all i get is undefined. The only way to access it is if i call for it using _parent or _root.
I have allowed the domains to communicate using
System.security.allowDomain("http://www.Domain1.com");
System.security.allowDomain("http://www.Domain2.com");
I have also put a crossdomain policy file on both servers..cross domain policys since i CAN access the variables and functions using _parent and _root...or is it?
Let's say I am loading a movieclip from a remote url within another movieclip on another server.
This movieclip now needs to load another child movie clip on the same server as itself.
How can it get its own url and not the url of its parent container so as to load this child ? Because if it refers to "child.swf" it will be relative to the super parent container insted of the first server isn't it ? So it will not be able to load the child correctly if all it can get is the url of the parent.
I'm having problems with the scope of nested functions. I have a movie clip: "MC_clip" inside that movie clip there is a button: "inside_button". when users press "inside_button", I want the movie will jump to play frame 5 (main time line). how do i refer the stage from inside a movie clip?? another question is about the other way: how can I call to a function that is declared inside a movie clip?? is that movie clip have to be an instance on the stage??
View 8 RepliesI don't understand the "heirarchy" of Flash Output Error Messages. For example: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
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This error shows when I preview a SWF that calls en external swf. All the code listed in the Error Codes is contained in the external swf. In the TypeError -- where do I look for the problem code? bBrand_Gallery is a class description for the externally called swf. The externally called swf runs fine by itself. All functions in the package are declared as public functions. I know that the null object reference means that it's looking for the property of an object that is not yet instantiated. How do I find that object? Would it most likely be a variable that is not delacred publicly?
I believe the ArgumentError has to do with the fact that the DisplayObject in question is not "created" by the function startShow which includes the removeChild statement. How do I resolve that issue?? Is there a reference as to the best way to interpret these error messages?
I am playing around with movieClipLoaders and have run into problems. My application wont load my movieClip. I am trying to do it the [URL] way, but it works poorly.
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.fla and check so Im not making any lame fix-it-in-5-seconds errors? I have put the .fla and the .swf in the same directory, so that is no the problem.
I am playing around with movieClipLoaders and have run into problems. My application wont load my movieClip. I am trying to do it the [url]... way, but it works poorly.
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip ("mcHolder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var Loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
Loader.loadClip ("Red.swf", mcHolder);
I m not making any lame fix-it-in-5-seconds errors? I have put the .fla and the .swf in the same directory, so that is no the problem.
I have 2 errors after test movie from a mx 2004 file with Flash Pro 8. Errors : as follows :
"Error" :Symbol=PuzzlePiece, layer=Layer 1; frame=1, Line 1: The class or interface 'PuzzlePiece' could not be loaded.
"Error": Symbol=DropZone,layer=Layer 1:The class or interface 'DropZone' could not be loaded.What cause the errors ?
create a variable that represents the number of frames in a movie clip? I thought maybe something like var = getProperty(my_mc, frames); might work, but it doesn't. I'm trying to make a "last" button for a template that goes to the last frame in a movie clip, and as we'll be updating and changing the number of frames in the movie clip quite often, I'd rather just have it find the last frame rather than have to update the actionscript every time.
View 2 RepliesI need to make something that mimicks The Dancer over at[URL]I've created all the movie clips but I don't know where to start with the loading and unloading of the dancing bits The buttons at the bottom scroll through movie clips with different movement. So the "arms" button would load arms01, then when it's clicked again, it would load arms02, clicked again it would load arms03, and then repeat when it reached the end.
View 2 Repliesi am working on a flash portfolio that is supposed to be fed from a MySQL database. Until early today everything worked just fine, but then i had to change the structure of my database. initially i had just 2 tables, news and work... now i added links, photo, digital etc, and dropped work... and it just doesn't work anymore... it's strange as i did nothing to the news section for example...i have included the fla, the php scripts that send the XML to flash as well as a query of my database in the following zip archive... [URL]
View 2 Replieswhat I'm trying to do is accessingsnapText = scrollPane.source.textSnapshot;from an external swf. I've tried:
trace("-->: "+scrollPane.source.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
trace("-->: "+myLoader.content.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
trace("-->: "+mc.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
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Working on an RPG type flash, and I have to be able to control a text-box from quite a few locations. The one that is causing me trouble is the inventory. I need to be able to access the textbox with an instance of "statusWindow" from within the inventory clip (instance name "inventory"), so when I mouse over an item within the movieclip it will change the status window on the stage.In this instance I want to mouse over inventory.invHealth from the main timeline to get the display.itemName and itemProps are strings containing information about the item.I tried the following but it gave me a "possibly undefined" error.
invHealth.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, itemStats);
function itemStats(e:Event):void
{
root.statusWindow.text = itemName+"
"+itemProps;
}
how can i access a movieclip via its instance name in another Movieclip class?
and a nother question how can i access a movieclip via its class name in another movieclip class?
BTW i want to access the movieclip child
I've created some classes for a nav menu and I'm having some trouble dealing with the click. The bottom class of the chain gets the click, but I need to pass that event up a hierarchy of classes to the very top so it can get handled.My hierarchy looks something like this:
AllMenus
- MenuBar
- - MenuItem
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I have
level 1: <Element>
level 2: <a>some content</a>
</Element>
<a> is nested in <Element> and I need to delete <Element> without deleting <a>. So basically I want <a> to be the parent element of itself.
Like this:
level 1: <a>some content</a>
Where do I place a function, at the lowest level, so I can call it from any other container above it? For example, I have 3 frames and they all need to use the same function, called "myFunction()". Do I really have to create it in each frame? There has so be a lowe level where this can be placed? Is there a good simple description of AS3 Hierarchy somewhere? Also, how do you specify global variables in AS3?
View 2 RepliesI'm currently working on a tower defense game and am in kind of an odd situation. I've programmed it in such a way that a large class hierarchy is in place. It's like this StartScreen class ---> BaseLevel class ---> GUI class ---> TowerPlacer class(towers are stored in an array in this class) ----> etc.My problem is that i need to access an array in BaseLevel from my GUI class, is there any fancy trick for doing this? or have i screwed myself over.
View 2 RepliesI have a menubar as such:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<node label="Road">
<node label="Madone">
<node label="Madone 4.5"/>
<node label="Madone 4.5 WSD"/>
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When I click on a menuitem, I wish to print out the selected item, but in the form of (for example if I were to click Madone 4.5) "Road > Madone > Madone 4.5".
To give a brief background of what's going on here.I am building a personal site where I have a navigation, and I have other subnavs inside of certain pages.Such as if I go to "work" inside of work i have "motion", "web" & "print".Here is some example code of one button on the navigation:
nav_mc.personalbtn_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick2);
function buttonClick2(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("personal");[code]...
It seems to me that actionscript will not read all the way down to the bottom when looking for objects.For example: The first if statement where it's asking if workss_mc exists or not, that will work if it's at the top, but if I move it down to the bottom it will not work.
I have two components being absolutely positioned within a container (they are MapSymbols on an ILOG Elixir map, if that helps). Each component is a VBox with an Image and a Label. Images have functionality tied to the Click event; labels do not.
The problem is when 2 items are positioned so that the label of one is above the icon of another in the z-index, so that the label eats any mouseOver and mouseDown events. Bubbling doesn't help since it bubbles from the label to the vbox to the container, never hitting the lower element. I can't set the vbox to mouseChildren="false", since that keeps the image from getting clicked, as well.[code]...
I have some FLA/SWF assets which are hierarchies of bitmaps.They have timelines which page-flip through different bitmaps.I'd like to scale these assets down in pixel-size, including the bitmaps they're composed of.I'm not a Flash Animator, but the artist i'm working with doesn't know of an automated way to achieve this. ie, that it's a long a laborious manual process.Does anyone know of a tool which can simplify the re-scaling of bitmap-based FLAs ?
View 1 RepliesTo give a brief background of what's going on here. I am building a personal site where I have a navigation, and I have other subnavs inside of certain pages. Such as if I go to "work" inside of work i have "motion", "web" & "print".
I'm having a problem with remove child in certain areas.. One would be when I load one page from the navigation then go to the "WORK" link, work won't show. Also..when I remove a movieclip elsewhere(this is under the same circumstance) then click on a link it does not remove that movieclip that is loaded again.
For example, click personal, click a thumbnail,(this adds workpersonalss_mc) then click back(this removes work personalss_mc then adds workpersonal_mc back), the click a navigation button it still remains..
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I am confused as to why on your C Drive the folder structure in regards to classes in flash does not seem to resemble the hierarchy/structure when you are actually using them? For example, I kind of expected there to be a Classes folder with Top-Level Classes, then two sub folders, the fl. folder and flash. folder, and in them, packges...etc...
Instead there is a "FP7" folder, "FP8" folder, "FP9" folder, "FP10" folder, an "mx" folder, and a toplevel.as class. FP7 and MX seem to hold a lot of the primary classes that I am most familiar with...but how do they relate? I thought I would find the Sprite class in a display package/folder...but have yet to locate it (my search feature is weird at the moment, I am not sure why it can't really even find anything, even though I know that that thing exists).
How does this relate to the hierarchy / structure of classes when you are using it? I am basically trying to visually things but am confused. I may need to explain a bit more later... how to put into words at the moment...
I have a class1 in which I create a child from a class 2. Of course I can access class2 properties, fields and methods from class1. But is there a way to access class1 fields and methods from class2? Like to go a step back in the hierarchy?
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to organize data into a hierarchy within a listbox?I would like to have a parent-child list with the parent always being bold.I'm not asking someone to do it for me, I would just like to know if it can be done and maybe some direction.
View 1 RepliesI have a class called Bike.as, linked to a movieClip in the library. The class essentially tweens a bike graphic across the stage. At the end of the tween, I instantiate a new class called Slideshow. Slideshow loads an image. The image loads(I get no loading error, and I can trace info about the loaded content)... I just can't seem to see it. In attempting to debug, I wrote the loading code(in Slideshow) into the Bike.as file(replaced the code that instantiates Slideshow), and it worked. Did it work because Bike is linked to a movieclip, and Slideshow is not(Slideshow is called in Bike.as)? I'm attempting to transition from AS2 to AS3. Here's my Slideshow class:
public class Slideshow extends Sprite {
private var container:Sprite;
private var loader:Loader;
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