If I want an object to obtain the highest depth onRelease, which method from the following (or any other) would be the best? Using a createEmptyMC at highest depth and then swap to with that hight or use DepthManager.setDepthTo()?
View 2 Repliesputting a movieclip into highest depth without knowing which clip is in the highest depth
View 2 RepliesI'm creating this shooter game. I attached a crosshair mc at the beginning with the depth set to getNextHighestDepth.However I keep adding the monsters mc dynamically when the game progresses, also with getNextHighestDepth. So the monster mc will keep overriding the depth of my crosshair's depth. how to get my crosshair mc's depth always to be on top of everything including the monster mc.I tried getNextHighestDepth()+1000 for my crosshair mc. But it was dumb because the monsters keep getting getNextHighestDepth as well. I assume that monster's depth would be 1001, 1002 and so on...
View 3 RepliesI'm adding a custom cursor, and I need it to stay at the highest depth. Currently, whenever I add new movie clips to the screen, the custom mouse shows up behind the movie clips, which looks terrible. I have to add movie clips regularly during runtime, but I need the custom cursor to stay above them, just like the regular mouse would.
Here's how I'm adding the custom cursor:
Mouse.hide();
var cross= new crosshairs();
this.addChild(cross);
cross.depth = 999999;
cross.startDrag(true);
I'm trying to get a movieclip to appear at the highest depth from the library.
View 1 RepliesI recently downloaded an example of a xml slideshow from here
However I am having the hardest time trying to put another layer with an image, like a border over the slideshow. I have scoured google for solutions however anything actionscript i throw in to try and get the added layer to have the highest depth just does'nt work.
I'm adding a custom cursor, and I need it to stay at the highest depth. Currently, whenever I add new movie clips to the screen, the custom mouse shows up behind the movie clips, which looks terrible. I have to add movie clips regularly during runtime, but I need the custom cursor to stay above them, just like the regular mouse would.[code]...
View 6 RepliesI'm not sure how I would bring my buttons to the highest depth. I just finished the Kirupa slideshow, but the only prob is that the pics keep hiding my buttons.
View 4 RepliesWhen I trace the next highest depth at the initial frame of my SWF it returns 9877. Is this due to the way I setup the objects and layers through authoring? The reason I ask is that this is somehow interfering with my attachMovie and unloadMovie (unloadMovie stops working after another 6 extra depths).
View 6 Repliesi'm workin with some "self created windows" in my flash app. how can i put the window i click on front of the others? I found smth about swapDepth, but there is no swapDepth in as3.
View 3 Replies[code]When I publish it keeps swapping over and over.How can I get it to call only once?
View 2 RepliesThis should be really easy to do, but i cant find anything from searching. It's all tuturials for buttons and stuff. All i want to do, is put a MC called "face" on top of everything. What exactly would be the AS3 for this, and where would i put it?
View 4 RepliesI want to place a MC on top of everything thats also inside the MC it's in.The MC to be placed on top must not be on top on everything on the stage, just on top of everything inside the MC that its located in.Is this possible? what would be the code? because i'm pretty poor with AS3.
View 1 RepliesWe can swap depths of movie clips... ok....what about JPGs? I have an empty MC where I want to load images from an array and then starts swapping thier depths.Here is the script I use for loading them and the script I wans hoping will work for swapping thier depths:
onClipEvent (load){
var image_arr = new Array "1.jpg","2.jpg","3.jpg"....,"7.jpg");
for (var i=0;i<image_arr.length;i++)[code].............
How would I swap the depth of image 6 (image_arr[5].) and have it come to the surface?
I've finally decided to dive into AS 3.0, coming from a design background, It's been a struggle. I'm using the book "Learning AS 3.0 - A Beginners's Guide" and got stuck on Chapter 4 - Depth Management.
I have dynamically layout layout 5 boxes that overlap each other, after that, Im able to target each box with my Event Listener (evt.target.alpha -= 0.2), but I'm not able to swap their depths (this.setChildIndex(evt.target, this.numChildren-1)
Code:
// Layout Boxes - Dynamically
for(var i:Number=0; i < 5; i++){
var box:MovieClip = new Box();
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We can swap depths of movie clips... ok....what about JPGs?I have an empty MC where I want to load images from an array and then starts swapping thier depths.Here is the script I use for loading them and the script I wans hoping will work for swapping thier depths:[code]How would I swap the depth of image 6 (image_arr[5].) and have it come to the surface?
View 2 RepliesI asked this question yesterday but I found out that my problem is using fullscreen my goal is 2 mc 2 buttons : if btn 1 is clicked mc1 fullscreen and mc2 appears at the right bottom corner on top of mc1 if btn 2 is clicked mc2 fullscreen and mc1 appears at the right bottom corner on top of mc2 stage.swapChildren or setChildIndex is the way but with the fullScreen I had this error appears
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im having some trouble when trying to implement the swap depth function to movieclips that have the setmask function implimented to them. the problem is that i can get the swapdepth to work but when the setmask is implimented at the same time the movie clips will not swap depths.
the code that i am using to set the mask is _root.bgmasked.setMask(_root.dragger); this is on frame one in the action/code layer bgmasked is the imaged being masked by dragger.
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Code:
moviclip.swapDepths(movieclip._y);
and it worked perfectly.
but I decided that I wanted to continue the development of the game in AS3 (so that it will be more up to date and I could learn the new syntax), and I found the equivalent to swapDepths is setChildIndex. so I followed the new rules and came up with this code:Code: setChildIndex(character_mc, character_mc.y);but, sadly it does not work the same. the game becomes extremely laggy and almost unresponsive, but becomes normal again if I remove the code. So, my question is how can I add a similar code for this to work properly.
trying to on mouse over set the parent of the moused over text field to the highest depth child of its parent i tried both of these: [code] private function
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i've got a question which i don't know exactly what my problem is. So i don't know what to search in threads search. i downloaded bookflip from iparigrafika.hu, some of you might know. and the book requires you to fill "page" symbol in library with pictures.
now, i want the page to be created using xml. i got thumbnails of pictures, when you click the thumb, you open the thumbnail xml you click (e.g. thumb 1, clicked, then you get 1.xml) the xml is successfully called.
book pages have to be called from library, so they have identifier each of them (e.g. page1 have name page1)
the question now is: how to write the script, since i can't put the symbol (page) on stage and must call the function in a row? what i want: to make empty MC then load pictures from xml then call the function
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I have 3 movieclips and inside them loads external txt.files .To MovieClip number one loads 1.txt, to number two loads 2.txt and to number three loads file 3.txt.Allright everything works, but......what if I wantet to load the txt-file that has the highest number to the first movieclip example 65.txt, and to number two the 64.txt, and to movieclip 3 txt-file 63. And when there is txt-file called 66 in the folder it loads to movieclip one, and 65 loads to movieclip 2 etc... I think everybody gets the point.Is it possible, that Flash look up the txt file that has the highest value?
View 8 Repliesi have 3 variables and im executing a block of code depending which on has the highestow do i determine has the highest and the execute the code which ever has the highest
View 3 RepliesI have a shape and I want to find out what the highest y value is for an x value.Example: I have an oval, and with width 200 px. I input an x value like 78 px from the left and I want to know what the highest y value is that matches the x value (the top of the oval at point x)
View 3 Repliesi had to remove the flash built form and place an iframe over the top of the animation with an html form! (my reason was that the exported flash file always recognised keystrokes as that of an american keyboard and the @ sign came out as this "when you hover over the icons at the bottom which bring up information contained in a button, it falls behind the iframe.is there anyway in which i can make that particular button that contains a movieclip get the next highest z index to go above the iframe?FYI:-i have tried this on the button instance but does not work...
on (rollOver) {
this.getNextHighestDepth();
}
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on this page .i had to remove the flash built form and place an iframe over the top of the animation with an html form! (my reason was that the exported flash file always recognised keystrokes as that of an american keyboard and the @ sign came out as this hen you hover over the icons at the bottom which bring up information contained in a button, it falls behind the iframe.is there anyway in which i can make that particular button that contains a movieclip get the next highest z index to go above the iframe??FYI:-i have tried this on the button instance but does not work...
on (rollOver) {
this.getNextHighestDepth();
}
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I'm trying to set the MovieClip I MOUSE_DOWN on to the highest index using
var mcToMove:MovieClip;
mcToMove = this[e.target.parent.name][e.target.name];
trace(mcToMove is MovieClip); // "true"
setChildIndex(MovieClip(mcToMove), (this.numChildren - 1));
but I think it's only giving me the e.target.name and not the whole path that includes the parent mc as well.
ok so in actionscript using xml I can find all the nodes of the same name using
xmlList.descendants("nodename");
and that returns me a XMLlist of those nodes that exist within the xmlList I provided all well and good but now I want to only get the one node of the returned value that has the largest value.
Do I have to loop through the resulting nodes or can I get that node without a loop maybe some other xmllist function I'm not aware of ?
How would I go about returning which object in an has the highest (numerically) of a particular variable? The variables are randomly generated.
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I have an array of image width values pulled from XML. I want to simply look at the array and return a value that is equal to the highest number in the array. e.g. the array might end up like array [250,600,350,375]and I just want something that returns the highest value (in this case the 600).
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