ActionScript 2.0 :: Creating Instances Of Nested Movie Clip?
Feb 12, 2009
I have a movie clip 'sliderMc' which contains two other clips 'slider' and 'groove'. I've used actionscript to make the 'slider' clip move along the 'groove' and display the value of the at each point in a text field. The idea is to have a slider object that i can use multiple times. I want a situation whereby I can create instances of 'sliderMc' so that I'll be able to move the slider on the individual clips and have each slider update different variables which would then be sent to an XML file or php. Im able tp talk back and forth between php and xml with no problem; The issue I'm facing is that after creating multiple instances of 'sliderMc', I'm not able to give the 'slider' and 'groove' movie clips different instance names without changing the instance names of all other 'slider' and 'groove' instances of 'sliderMc'. Which in turn makes it difficult to distinguish between the different sliders in actionscript.
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clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
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1046: Type was not found or was not compile-time constant: Textline.
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look at the 5th image, that is the script, when i do the publish it gives me this error "Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances"
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