I'm making a sports roster for my school's website and I want to use actionscript to save me time updating. Is there a way I can use actionscript to "reference" to a value (<td uV="1.000" class="ig_a78ff5c6_6 StatsField"><nobr>1</nobr></td>) on a webpage (http://www.maxpreps.com/michigan/bas...th=,local,team) so that when the value is updated, it would reflect on my roster?
View 4 Replies[URL]I am using a flash movie I crated as a menu, outside of the website the movie works exactly as I want and the push pin follows and stays on the last "button" clicked. However when using this movie on my html site since the flash menu gets refreshed the push pin goes back to where I have it starting by default.Is there any way to reference which html page I am currently on instead of the current button in AS3?Code looks something like this...
var currentPage:SimpleButton = home_btn;
tack_mc.x = home_btn.x;
tack_mc.y = home_btn.y;
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I have a simple horizontal scrolling gallery of 24 thumbnails in Flash, the thumbnail images are loaded into the boxes using actionscript. I would like each thumbnail to link to a html page of my choice. There is a movie clip instance called panel with the 24 buttons inside it and on the first button as a test I've placed the following action script:
on (release) {
getURL("team.html","_self");
}
When testing this movie from within Flash (CTRL, ENT) the button links to the html file (which is in the same folder as the SWF) with no problem. The problem is when I preview the page in a browser and try to click on the first button nothing is happening. I've tried it in both IE7 and Firefox with the same result.
The flash thumbnail clip is placed as a flash object into a html page using dreamweaver.
I'm sure this is something simple such as navigating the timeline but I've tried a few things like _root. but still no joy.
I am designing a web application in Flex 4 and currently facing an issue rendering advanced HTML tags and entities in Flex 4. All I want to do is basically render an HTML text coming to me something like the one given below:-
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hopefully this is possible:
-1 large html (home.html) file houses 2 html files (aaa.html and bbb.html)
-aaa.html consists of 1 swf button
-bbb.html is empty
question: is it possible to click on the button in aaa.html and have the action occur in bbb.html? (for example, clicking the button in aaa.html will load a swf in bbb.html)
I have a varible in my root
Code:
place = "1";
i want to refence it in one of my MCs so that i can run a statement like this:
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basically i was trying to make a program execute on the web, but it needs to load in pictures and since i didnt want to make the file size massive i converted where the images would show into a movie clip and used the loadMovie(pathname) procedure (im using AS2) to link the files, it works obviously when i test run it. in the pathname section i have "images/pic1.jpg" and so on for the different pictures as a tutorial i followed lead me to believe that it would find the pathname the program is running from and add the suffix images/pic.... etc to find the picture.
the problem is when i run it on the web its still trying to find the files on my computer, even though there is no part of the code that tells it to look in my documents/folders etc. even when i tried to link the file exactly, so put in oadMovieMy question is why is it still trying to find my local document folders instead of looking at its own run source on the internet. is there a way of absolutely linking it to the images i have now on the internet instead?
I'm trying to read an XML file with actionscript 2.0
The problem is I can only make my code to read a value of a tag by referencing their position.
e.g.
var currentIcon = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild;
How do I retrieve a value from an XMl file by referencing their tag name?
e.g.
var currentIcon = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.childNodes['icon'].firstChild;
Here is my XML file...
<weather>
<current>
<icon>Partly cloudy</icon>
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I have a process set up to create action script files. They hold functions that are called upon by my flash project. How can i reference these files so that the project knows the functions are there. with asp.net i would simply reference the .js file. Is it the same process?
View 1 RepliesI've got another problem (similar to my last), although this time it's movie clip names, rather than variables.[code]I've created some movieclips as such ^ so for each user there are 2 empty movie clips, and now I'm trying to reference to these movie clips, but am having some trouble in doing that, for example:[code]While the last one doesn't bring any errors, it still doesn't seem to work.[code]
View 9 RepliesHow do you reference and already existing object in as3? My below program draws 2 circles and a line to connect the two. The circles and the line are all individual objects. The line (connector class) has a function called update that should redraw the line between the two circles. It has two variables which I want to be the references to the two circles. The circles (coolcircle class) has a variable which I want to be the reference to the connector. It doesn't seem like my update() function is getting called.
ActionScript Code:
package
{
[code]......
I wish to pass a reference to _camera.y, but _camera.y is a primitive and gets passed as a value.Here's the code for a little debugging class.
ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.events.Event;[code]..........
If I call watch("Cam Y", _camera.y) I get "0" traced out all the time - I assume because the y position of the camera is being passed in as a value.I want to pass it in as a reference so that this little class will keep an eye on the y position of the camera.
I made the mistake of purchasing one of those flash template sites. I have most of it customized, however I need to flip between gallery images when the user selects the menu item. how to reference one element from another... I need the release event of the menu item (which i already have stubbed out, to trigger a tweenMenu function call... however, I don't know how to get the path of the argument to pass the object to the tweenMenu function call.
I need to make this call (in theory)
tweenMenu2(_root.gall, _root.xkoord[(_root.small-1)] );
however, the path to gall is:
_level0.instance146.gall
how i would make the above call using the correct path to gall?
I am crating a roulette wheel dynamically. It has one movie clip for the numbers around the edge which it duplicates and positions correctly. My problem is that ever other number has a black background on it (on a real roulette wheel)
Is there a to distinguish between an odd number and an even number
Eg
[AS]
if (i = odd )
{
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've created number of "total" movieclips inside "mcThumbnails" using crateEmptyMovieClip function via "for" loop.> their names are as follows: t0,t1,t2,t3,t4,...., t<total-1>> their depth is absolute starting with 500, not using getNextHighestDepth(); now i would like to remove all these created movieclips using a button onPress method
View 7 RepliesI'm confused as to how to reference a movieclip after using the attachMovie method. Here is my code:
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I can get it to display a chosen club name by setting the variable var1, but I need it so users can click different movieclips to select which club they want (ie change the value of var1)Also I realise as it is at the moment this will not be possible as its only calling displayContent when it initially loads up.
Code:
///////////// Get XML Info /////////////
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.xmlNode = findNode(this, "teams");z
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I'm an old C programmer been away from programming for years. Now we have a project requiring Flash and I've been elected. Just installed CS4. I have 16 panels in 4 sets of 4 that rotate left to right. (Big learning curve on that one - fading transitions in the right order...). Each panel must have a unique url when clicked. (16 urls).I've looked through many solutions, most of which seem unduly complex. I think that the simplest short of going to onRelease() with AS2 (Later I have to add mouseover changes in the graphics) is something like this:[code]I haven't found this solution out there. Is there a gotcha because the a#Link vars are accessed as global within the scope of handleLink? It doesn't feel right, but it works fine and 16 global variables doesn't seem too bad.
View 2 RepliesI am having trouble dynamically changing the reference to root in my movies. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a main movie(_level0.mainMovie) that I am loading external .swfs into. However, I want to be able to test the child movie clips without having to load them into the mainMovie(for testing purposes). In such a case, the child clip would be at _level0 or _root. I would like to add some code to the child clips to test whether they are the _level0 clip, if not, then I want to change their reference to _root. Here's what I've come up with, which doesn't seem to work:
Code:
function testLevel(){
//This code goes into each child clip to see if it has been loaded into another clip
trace(this);
if(this == _level0){ //If this is the _level0 clip
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Basically I guess it is a reference problem I do have. (1120: Access of undefined property images) For an image gallery I also do have a few text sprites which may have to much text for one side to display. Therefore I do have a scrollbar placed next to the text which should be able to move my text sprite within its mask. My .fla at one point adds an InfoText (InfoText.as, extends Sprite) to an already existing sprite "images".
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So, how do I point my line of code responsible for moving the textContainer from within Scrollbar.as at the textContainer sprite? Running against a wall since the last 6 hours and couldn't find any proper tips on the web.
How can you get a script on a clip to reference its own clip?'this' seems to only return the path up to, but not incuding the button.For example, say I want a movieclip to delete itself when clicked, but I don't know the name of the clip:(Or self-reference anything in a dynamicaly created MC)
on (release) {
this.removeMovieClip();
}
Obviously, this doesn't work.I've worked around this problem by inserting the script on a transparent MC inside the target clip - on top of any other goodies that happen to be in the clip. This gives me a layer to click that doesn't hide the other stuff, and 'this' refers to the correct item to delete, letting the above script work.But this seems a clunky way to do it, and I think the transparent layers are causing a performance hit.
I'm trying to reference the stage from my view class(AsteroidSuppyView). The view is a child of the document class. I'm tryng diffferent ways to do this but i'm getting the error:Code:1152: A conflict exists with inherited definition flash.display:DisplayObject.stage in namespace public.my view class is:
Code:
package
{
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I am crating a roulette wheel dynamically.It has one movie clip for the numbers around the edge which it duplicates and positions correctly.My problem is that ever other number has a black background on it (on a real roulette wheel) Is there a to distinguish between an odd number and an even number
Eg
[AS]
if (i = odd )
[code].....
I'm having issues trying to reference a movieClip after attaching it. What I have is:
Code:
btn_instructions.onRelease = function() {
instructions = true;
attachMovie("parchment", "mc_parchment", getNextHighestDepth(), { _x:280, _y:280 });
} mc_parchment.btn_close.onRelease = function() {
instructions = false;
trace("close");
removeMovieClip(mc_parchment);
}
The first is creating it on top of the other items that are created during the game. I can't have the instructions on the timeline and just change the visibility of it due to all the assets this game is making. The instructions variable is used in an if statement elsewhere in the game to lock the user controls so they can't create anything else in the game while your viewing the instructions. The second function is the one that should close it. The movie clip that's attached has a button in it, with the instance name btn_close. The trace doesn't even pop up so it's not targeting it correctly. Yet when I go to 'debug' and 'list objects' both mc_parchment and mc_parchment.btn_close are listed as being in the scene after clicking the instructions button.
In As 2 you were able to reference a linkage ID using a string.Example
Code:
var strName = 'home';
attachMovie(strName+'_mc', strName, 1);
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Does anyone know of an easy way to use the data from a combo box to either search or reference the XML tags? I have an xml document formatted like this:
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Ultimately, I would like to use the data from the combo box to find/reference the information contained in the Brand tags so I can display the information in the remaining tags (stuf1, stuf2, stuf3 & stuf4) in separate text fields.
I created a movie, which is some form of a a code generator. In that movie i save a a generated code using sharedobject.
(code in code generator movie)
var myaccess:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("Lesson1");
myaccess.data.mycode = pass.text;
myaccess.flush();
Here is my problem, i want to use this created sharedobject on another, separate movie clip, is that possible?Or are sharedobjects just work on their original movie clips?
(code in separate movie)
var myaccess2:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("Lesson1"); // declared a variable for holding the data from
sharedobject to see if it will load the data
txt.text = myaccess2.data.mycode // Load failed, txt.text displays undefined
Is it possible to make a reference to a MovieClip in an XML object. It doesn't seem to be working with this code.[code]
View 2 Repliesvar xBoard:Number = Math.floor(mouseX/cellSize);
var yBoard:Number = Math.floor(mouseY/cellSize);
if (board[(yBoard-1)][xBoard] == 0)
{
root.getChildByName("b"+(yBoard-1)+xBoard).alpha = .7;
}
I want to be able to call various movieclips I have arranged in a grid from these two variables (xBoard and yBoard). They get new values every time I click on my gameboard.
Basically I check if they space ahead of the unit is empty. If it is I want the alpha of that space to change designating you can move there. The movieclips are arranged in a grid and named b00 (top left) to b77(bottom right).
This is the error message:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getChildByName through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.
If I take out the getChildByName... root.("b"+(yBoard-1)+xBoard).alpha = .7;
This is the error message:
TypeError: Error #1123: Filter operator not supported on type Game_fla.MainTimeline.
at Game_fla::MainTimeline/test()
OK. I have an empty MC sittin on the stage named "M1_mc".
In the first frame I have:
Code:
var movieOne:Loader = new Loader();
M1_mc.addChild(movieOne);
movieOne.load(new URLRequest("movie1.swf"));
At this point, the external swf is playing.
How do I control the child SWF playing? Let's say i wanted to stop() or gotoAndPlay(x) within its timeline?