I am trying to change the visibility of an mc but it is nested within another mc... i am not sure how to reference the parent mc from the root...ex:AS on main timeline (_root):
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function coolNess () {
myMC2._visible = true;
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How would I write a loop that cycled through all the movieclips within a container clip and did something to each one?
For example say i have 6 movielcips in holder_mc, and I want to change each one's visibility? I need it to be dynamic so it will still loop through all clips whether 2 are in there or 20.
I have and add button (last row) in one column of the AdvancedDataGrid. for the row having the add button the rest of fields are not visible. On click of the add button a new row is added to the grid for the user to add. After that this button becomes delete button (label becomes '-' and a new row is added at the bottom for adding another row). When i click on the delete button (label '-'), the last row gets the add button('+' label) but the fields of the row become visible.
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I am making an animation with subtitles (separate layer) but at the menu I have made a subtitle button that should change the visibility of the second layer, but I can't get past that bit.
View 1 RepliesI currently have a scene in Flash CS4 that consists of an image layer1 (converted to a motion tween), image layer2 (converted to a motion tween), an actionscript 3.0 layer, and a hotspot layer. Let's say the animation is 10 frames long for simplicity. At frame1 I want the visibility of image layer 1 turned on and the visiblity of image layer 2 off. Then, I want to spin image layer 1 and 2 simaltaneously (I know how to do this with motion tweens of course) but mid-spin, say at Frame 5, I wish to turn on the visiblity of image layer 2 and turn off the visibility of image layer 1.
How do i change the visiblity properties of my image layers with actionscipt? I assume there is a class I need to load and then change the properties of the image layers in the actionscript layer at the corresponding frames I wish those properties to change.
I am working on a application in Flash AS3 with MDM ZINC 4 and I have to dynamically change the window property to be from a standard window in a transparent style with no border, and from there in a masked style window.
View 1 RepliesI am using Flex with papervision 3d and tweener and i have a 3D spinning earth and on its surface i have some hotspots which are planes. On the mxml file i have a Panel which has the visibility set to false, i have added an eventlistener for the hotspot so that when i click it the Panel should become visible, but i have no idea how to code that function so that it works, i don't know how to adress the Panel's visibility property, i don't know how to change it from there.
View 1 RepliesI have a mc tracking as a button with a working on(release) statement. Within the on release statement is this code that doesn't work for me:
_root.playbtn.pause_mc._visible = true;
_root.playbtn.play_mc._visible = true;
The first layer of the button has a mc with instance called play_mc
And the second layer of the button with a mc instance called pause_mc
The button instance on the stage is called playbtn.
I'm dragging a movieclip that has the visibility set to false. I can trace the x and y of the clip and it is definitely where the mouse is. However, when I toggle the visibility to true, occassionaly it flashes on at the last location it was visible, just for a brief instance, before teleporting to the mouse location.
View 2 RepliesI've attached a source file below, I'm kinda stuck. Basically, its an FLA that has a variable that changes (smscounter) based on whatever number is read in from an XML file (on my server). There is a big movieclip called "rewinder" on frame 1 of the main stage. There are left and right buttons that navigate between frames within that movieclip "rewinder". What I'm trying to do in theory is:
if(frame != 2) {button_right.visibility = true};
if(frame == 2 && smscounter > 5) {button_right.visibility = true};
if(frame == 2 && smscounter < 5) {button_right.visibility = false}
I've been told that won't work simply because once a variable (visibility) is set, it's not going to just continually check it, so I have to dispatch an event? I've tried 3-4 tutorials and I can't get any to work. Now a few things: I would LOVE to avoid anything super complicated. All I need is on frame 2 for the button to not be there IF smscounter is below 5. Other tutorials required another class and document class, but I couldn't get them working The buttons are currently outside the rewinder movieclip. I put them inside and on each frame, but then I couldn't get them to react to a rollover. The code is about as optimized as if a first grader wrote it, mainly because I'm a designer and I've been having help along the whole way with this.[URL]..
I have created a timeline with visibility button against each column. The timeline.swf is loaded into two empty movieclips to create a two-screen operation. Everything works fine except, I cannot for the life of me get the visibility button on the first swf to affect the visibility for the column on the second swf.
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I have a Flex repeater that has a complex item template. When a checkbox is clicked, I need to toggle the visibility of a sibling button contained in the same repeater template. Since I can't add binding expressions to event handlers, I can't pass in the repeater item's index.
How can I access sibling components inside a repeater item?
I have a project in Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3.
I have a movieclip symbol (referred herein as "background" with scripts on various keyframes inside of that symbol. I need to hide or show another symbol (referred herein as "object") sharing a stage with "background".
To put it another way, I need "object" to be hidden when "background" reaches a certain internal keyframe. However, as "object" and "background" are both children of the same stage, how do I do this?
I'm a long-time Flash animator who is somewhat new to AS3. I have created a set of buttons to control the actions and the color of a movieclip on the main timeline. I gave all buttons and movie clips instance names for proper control via Actionscript.I can control the start and stop of my movie clip (which contains animation) and I can change the alpha of the entire movie clip. However, what I really want to change is another movie clip which is nested within the main MC. When I try to apply a color change to the nested clip instance, that instance changes color but freezes in place, while the other elements of the clip keep moving. It will behave this same way if I try changing the alpha, rotation, anything of the nested clip.The nested clip is a separate movie clip symbol and a separately named instance from anything else in the movie, so there should be no conflict there.[code]
View 0 RepliesI have a master MC named "bodynews" with inside some texfields and loaders without instance names
Then i want to manage the color of every TexField nested in it. I don't know their positions and instance names, then i've wrote[code]...
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//I want to access the button "myButton1" here. How would I do that? the example below does not work myButton1.label = "something else" I have created a set of x number of buttons with the code above and added them to the stage. My question is now do I access the button again if I want to change something like the label?
I have button to set the visability property to a movie symbol called spec2 to 1
which is outside of the movie on the main stage in its own layer.
on (release) {setProperty("spec2", _visible, "1");}
That part works. I am trying to nest a button inside the spec2 movie to set its own property
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Can I set label visibility in Flex ?
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Is there a better way to do use a use a boolean with visible? I'm setting up animations that have conditions for visibility, and I don't want to use something that performs poorly. This animation blinks 30 times and stops. It works without error, but takes a moment to load. I would like to learn other ways of using visibility with conditionals.
This is what I used 'waits before playing'
if(condition=5){
box.visible = !box.visible;
This works fine 'no pause'
if(condition<6){
box.visible = !box.visible;
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I'm using external XML to set flash vars. Alpha works, but not Visibility. How do I get my swf to respond to visibility?
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SESSION>
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I have recently started using AS3 and can't seem to get to grips with some basic syntax for parent/root navigation. My problem is, I have an intro movieclip on the stage that plays first, when that is done i want some code on the last frame that navigates to another movieclip on the main stage to set its visibility to true. i have tried mMovieclip(root).mOther.visible = true; and a lot of other variations. Do i need to set them up as children? or something else.
View 3 RepliesI'm currently working on a site that is a mixture of Dreamweaver and Flash. I have some Flash movies that are in DIVs in DW. I need to have some links in those Flash movies that can control visibility of other DIVs. In other words I need a link in the Flash movie to work like DWs Show-Hide Elements feature. Is this even possible? I'm using DW CS3 but Flash MX 2004.
View 2 RepliesAs the title says, i would like to have an object which is nested beneath another objects depth set higher than that of one the is NOT nested. Is this possible if so how, may be real easy and im just over-looking it but
View 1 Repliesi have button which open specfic movie clips from my library and locate them on the stage.This all works well and good, but i would also now like a button to remove all of them except one when the user is finished playing around.i got the follwong code working, but it only works on movieclips that are already present on stage. when i export the file i get errors because the movie clip im trying to hide isnt currently on stage i think. i identify the hidden movieclips by their class name.
startover.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, removeallFunction);
function removeallFunction (event:MouseEvent):void
{
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so i have some thumbnails for a gallery and im trying to make them only appear if the user has loaded a thumbnail for it. i will let the code speak...
if (_root.mainarea.six.galleries[thumbnail].blank.myBytes <= 100) {
_root.mainarea.six.galleries[thumbnail]._visible = true;
} else {
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i cant seem to get the operator or the measuring correct. is there some glaring error in the "<=" or something ?
I have 11 images i need to _x slide (left and right ) using 2 buttons. ( next and back )my goal is to show two images at a time ( contained inside img_MC..consisting of all 11) inside a 748 x 419 mask. I have accomplished this but the next button and the back button need to disapear when img_mc is at a certain _x position...so that if you are at the last frame you can only go back...and if you are at the first frame you can only go next.
so far going forward I can get next to show...and going back I can get back to show...but in the middle when I need them both to be there I only have one or the other.
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I've got several layers in the timeline and I'd like to know the most effecient method to toggle the visibility of any one of the layers when a user clicks a button I have on the form.
The layers are all simply graphics that have been imported and the only functino they have on the time line is that they each come in at different times during the playback of the movie. I'd like to have the ability to toggle the individual layer when a user clicks the button.
I am working with visibility of handCursor on text-field instances(textfield instances are created using "TextField" class) using Flash and ActionScript 3.0. But, here, I am getting a small problem in my code, which is as follows:
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I'm having trouble testing for an object's visibility on the stage without using an event listener. I know this is pretty basic, but I can't seem to find anything online and none of my flash friends are around eitherowing code, what is it that I need to do to activate the function? I thought you could write a function without having an event listener.
function test (e:Event) {
if (square_mc.visible==true) {
trace("square is visible");
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I have this website with a white fade in / fade out menu. I'm trying to get the menu to be a little more visible. Because the menu is in white font, and the images it pops over occasionally have a white background, this creates a bit of a problem.
I created a large movie clip that fits the stage width and height. I'm calling it 'bg'. The idea is when one rolls over the 'projects' menu, the bg movieclip fades in to dim the whole file except for the menu. I'm setting the alpha of bg to 0 intially, so that it can fade in using TweenLite when the projects mc is rolled over, and fade out when projects is rolled off. I would just do this all using alpha if I could, but here's the problem: in order for the screening to work over the entire file, it has to also work over my externally loaded swf and it's gallery buttons. When the bg mc fades in and tints everything, it gets infront of the buttons and you cannot access them. So... I need to combine the alpha fade thing with turning the bg visible on and off. Is there anyway to do this both at the same time? Right now I either get nice fades, and the visibility not doing anything, or nice fade ins of the bg, and then an abrupt change when visibilty goes to nothing on roll over. [code]...