when I have one movieclip mc1, mc2 is child movieclip in mc1. How can i copy mc1 to mc1_1 with all children movieclip ? if i use attachMovie or duplicateMovieClip, i only copy mc1 without mc2.
View 3 RepliesFor my project I need to copy the graphics of a Movieclip with all of its children without copying anything else into a second Movieclip. I cannot use the Bitmap classes because I need the graphics to be displayed as a vector and I cannot use a method that simply copies the clip by calling the instructor ie:
var copy:MovieClip = clip.constructor. Is there any way to copy only the display portions of a clip into another Movieclip without turning it into a bitmap?
i have two movieclips container.
MovieClip_1
MovieClip_2
now MovieClip_1 contains one child _child_1. now by pressing button i want to add that _child_1 of MovieClip_1 to MovieClip_2 without removing from MovieClip_1.
i tried following code in button press event but it removes _child_1 from its past container.
var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(MovieClip_1.getChildAt(0));
MovieClip_2.addChild(mc);
Is it possible to resize a movieclip without stretching the contents of the movieclip??? I'm having the most frustrating time trying to do this.
View 5 RepliesI want to have a rollover effect of a movieclip (mo1) inside a movieclip (mo) of another movieclip (popup1).Is it possible to do that? I try calling it using this code in the frame 1 of my flash, am i doing wrongly?
Code:
popup1.mo.mo1.onRollOver = function() {
popup1.mo.mo1.gotoAndStop(2);
[code]......
Is there a way (in AS2) to copy a layer into movieclip?
View 2 RepliesHow does one select layers then bring them into a new MovieClip with their artwork and functionality etc intact.
I have a load of layers which together form a map with animations that run on it. A static key with a few buttons runs the animations on the map. I need to pan/zoom this map and as such need to package all these layers that form the map up into something that can be referred to in the coding for the pan and zoom functions.
I created a new layer in my timeline, called it MapPanZoom, then went Insert>new>movieClip.
I now need to remove the maps layers from the timeline and into the timeline for the movieClip I just created. How is this done ?
Leaves behind the static key that sits outside of the map, when a button in the key is clicked, I hope to see it run the animation on the map, and have a user able to zoom and pan the map whilst it runs.
I tried selecting the layers then edit>copy, then opening MapPanZoom movieClip from Library and edit>paste, nothing happened. Planned to delete the layers if it had worked out of the original scene1.
I know there are a million and one posts about how to copy a MovieClip object, and I'm fully familiar with the method of[code]...
For this reason I can't use the original.constructor job as flash obviously thinks it's a straight MovieClip, so I just get an empty MovieClip. So far I've been getting by with creating a Bitmap, but in future these swfs will contain animations too.
I have a question: I want to duplicate a movieclip 10 times, with different variable names. So they are named: Main1, Main2, Main3, etc
View 1 RepliesI've download a flash template from:[URL]I just wanted to use the menu, so I copy the movieclip and paste it into my stage then use AS 3.0 to control it.It's working fine when I only have 1 item on the menu.But when I paste more than 1 they all seem to share the same attribute, when i edit the text of 1 the rest get edited too.
View 3 RepliesI am working on a character that I will animate with bones. I painted the parts (left them as vector shapes), kept them all separate from each other on different layers and not touching. Added bones to each part. Flash made the armature layers each time. This is all inside a movie clip.I now want to copy and paste each part with bones/armature into a new movie clip so I can make mini animations, like a walk cycle, for example with out having to keep redoing all of my work. Somehow - I did this once.
I selected, copied, switched into the empty movieclip pasted it and there is was - armature layer, bones with object. All there. Moves fine When I tried to do it with the next part on a new layer, it just copied the vector shape with no bones. It is making me crazy. How do I copy and paste or duplicate an armature? I did it once, so I can be done...I included screen shots of the parts and the new movie clip - the body went with the bones (automatically made an armature layer when pasting) the leg did not.Attachments:creen shot 2010-01-01 at 2.51.20 PM.png (38.1 K)
I am developing a Paint Application is AS3. What I am trying is to basically mimick the MS Paint. I am using vector graphics to implement tools like pencil,line,curve and bitmap to implement bucket tool,spray and eraser. But I faced a problem. While its possible to draw bitmap over vector its not possible to draw vector over bitmap if every drawing is in the same layer.
So the idea that I have is to make it into two layers
Top layer where the vector drawing is done.
In the bottom layer layer after each vector drawing on MOUSE_UP a bitmap copy of the top layer is made and kept on the bottom layer. Keep the top layer fully transparent so that bottom layer is always visible.
Things like flood-fill(bucket tool), spray and eraser will be directly applied to bottom layer.
After each vector is drawn on MOUSE_UP the top layer will be cleared but everything will be visible because it has been re created in the bottom layer and the top layer is full transparent.
My questions are: Is there any flaw in my logic. How to make a bitmap copy of the movie clip on top. I tried but maybe I am stupid it does not work. The name of the MovieClips are topLayer_mc and bottomLayer_mc. What is need to have is to have a function to create a bitmap copy of topLayer_mc on every MOUSE_UP of pencil,line and add it to bottomLayer_mc. I mean create a bitmap copy of topLayer_mc on every MOUSE_UP of pencil, line and add it to bottomLayer_mc. A function will do.
How can I make full copy of movieclip?
View 5 Repliesim makin an arkanoid game where you have to destroy bricks with a ball. I tested the game with a single brick on the screen, and it works fine (the brick gets destroed when the ball hits and adds to the score as well).
But as soon as i try to multiply the movie clip to have lots of bricks on the screen, the ball does not recognize the movie clip and goes straight through it.
Further more, after hitting a particular brick, they all disappear at once!
I'm having a bit of a problem here. The following code, it seems to me, should print '2'. However, it prints a '1'.
[code]...
Am I missing something? I came from a VB.NET background, where a call like this would update the value of 'a'. And, on a related note, if I have a variable in my document class that I stick in a MovieClip, then I update the variable from my document class, the change is not reflected in the copy in the MovieClip Is there a way to overcome this?
I have a movieclip on my stage and I have to dublicate into stage.
View 5 RepliesI've just started looking at adding ctrl-left-click and shift-left-click copying of movieclips to my project (so for example the user can click on a clip, hit ctrl, and a duplicate MC with a new name is created).
I think I can work out a way of doing it, but before I create something that contains unnecessary code, I was wondering if there is a standard way of doing this using as3 and AIR?
I have a movieclip with an image that has transparency and filters applied to the movieclip.I know I can use "draw" to copy the movieclip to a bitmapdata object, but it doesn't seem to copy the filters and the transparency of the image. How can I copy these so the bitmapdata matches the original movieclip in appearance?
View 5 RepliesI am still sort of new to using Flash and AS3, When you click on a specific movie clip, i want to generate a copy of that clip right on top of it so that you can drag that where you want it. For example, you click a square and hold the mouse button down, move your mouse, and a copy of that square is being dragged under your mouse. I want to be able to drag out as many copies of one movie clip as possible.
View 9 RepliesI have a custom menu with moviclip inside, I want to click in movieclip, and send to my custom stage a copy of movieclip: [URL]
ActionScript Code:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.utils.ByteArray;
import flash.text.engine.EastAsianJustifier;
[Code] .....
But I have this error:
TypeError: Error #1007: Tentativa de instanciao em um no-construtor.
at testeMenu_fla::MainTimeline/teste()
Here my .fla: [URL] My question is: how to convert a e:Event in MovieClip?
If I have a movieclip on the main timeline, is there a way to put this movieclip inside another movieclip on stage (ofcourse during runtime) ? I know that one of the methods of doing this is using bitmapdata class to capture an image of the movieclip (draw method), then attaching the object it to another movieclip that can be anywhere, but this will make the movieclip lose it's interactivity behaviour, and vector quality.
View 5 RepliesI have an movieClip Container and I want to move all its children into an Array.i think about the method I used to delete all children of a container by using while and removechild at 0, but I think it wont work in this situation.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to copy frames from 6 different layers along with the objects (action script, tween motions, buttons, graphic elements) from one movieclip to another. But once I do that, everyhting seems to be shifted and if I try to reposition the items in the new clip, it seems like I would have to repeat after every keyframe for each layer.
So my question is A. Is there a way to duplicate a movie clip but give it a instance name (an entirely new movieclip with the same frames and layers in the same position as the previous)?
B. How can I move mutliple objects across layers and keyframes?
Is there a way that I can obtain the name of a clip's children just like I can obtain the name of it's parent by using _parent?
Basically, I have a whole bunch of MovieClips that I have created through a function that parses an XML file. Basically, it's a custom-made Tree.
I have them all set up in their proper horizontal and vertical positions, but the one thing I'm having trouble doing is closing a branch on it. I've tried storing values in arrays to help me sort all the MovieClips on the Stage, but I must confess that I'm not good with arrays at all, so is there some sort of obscure function somewhere that can return the child clips, so I can do something like:
Code:
myMC.onRelease = function():Void {
if (myMC.hasChildMovies() == true)
for (var i:Number = 0; i < myMC.childMoviesArray.length; i++){
[Code]....
Pausing, stopping and playing movieClip (MC) children. I am making SWFs that an interface will load and control (pause, re-start, stop, etc.). Then the interface is paused, the main MC will pause but not it's child MCs. I didn't write the interface, I am just supplying SWFs that are loading into the interface. The developer of the interface willn't allow me to use animated MCs in my SWFs since he can't control them with the interface. So all my animation need to be on the main time line, which is no optimal to say the lease.Can I provide him with some code to allow him to stop the child MCs or is there an Event Listener I could include in the child MCs that would pause, stop, restart, etc when the main MC changes?I currently do not have a fix at this time and since all my animations are on the main timeline, is there a way to select multiple objects (on difference layers) and move and resize them across multiple keyframes?
View 1 RepliesI have a MovieClip that I dynamically add other MCs as children to. Now I'd like to have a function that removes ALL children at once. I tried a loop with (i < mc.numChildren) but somehow it will only remove even-numbered children, the odd ones stay on stage?
View 12 RepliesI use swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2) to switch depth between 2 movieclips from the root level. Everything work just fine....
but when I create a container_mc and place the two movieclips into it then the 1120: nullobject reference error occurs?? container_mc.swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2);
I've few movieclip from library that will add to stage, inside of the movieclip have some mc that I want to control it, here is my script.
if (selectDiffText.text == "Collection 1 Easy")
{
var c1_easy:cartoonEasy = new cartoonEasy();
[Code]......
let say if c1_medium is added to stage, c1_medium will also randomly added 1 of the movieclip from library on it.
inside of the playGame mc, I've mouseTarget.alpha = 0;...how can I control it from root level? c1_easy also have the mouseTarget.alpha=0 too.
How can I reliably iterate through a MovieClip for every child?
I'm working on a game and a great way to lay out my levels is inside a MovieClip, with each frame being a new level. The problem is that when I move on to frame 2 or 3 and try to iterate through the MovieClip's children, I'm getting a different number (less) than is actually on that frame.
I think it's because the instances from the previous frame are being carried over to the new frame.
A simple solution is to create a new MovieClip for every level instead of a new frame inside each MovieClip, but this isn't the most scalable solution (say I want to remove a level or add a level between other levels, etc).
I am having a container mc with 5 children mcs. children names mc0,mc1....mc4.
cont.getChildByName("mc"+Number(cont.numChildren-1)).x =
cont.getChildByName("mc0").x - 20 *1.2;
after this re-position process.. I want to set the last item position as 0 and so on. How can I do this?My target is to attain a circular movement.like
[mc0][mc1][mc2]
[mc2][mc0][mc1]
[mc1][mc2][mc0]
[mc0][mc1][mc2]