ActionScript 2.0 :: Find The Closest Value In An Array?
Dec 20, 2007
So if the value of myVar = 50;..and the array holds the values 25, 100, 150, etc.I want to write a function that will be able to find the array element that's closest to myVar, which would be the first element in the array (myArray[0]), since 25 would be the closest value to 50.
I have an array filled with hundreds of numbers.I want to write a function that gets passed a number and searches my array for the closest value in the array to that number.
I've got a grid of sprites.Now I would like to drag an image on a grid-element.Therefore I need to know which x/y of the grid-element is the closest point to the mouse-position.
I'm not sure what this is called, so have Googled but am struggling.Imagine a line of 5 movieclips, user clicks one, it moves +10 pixels in Y. Then, the next two closest movieclips move +10 in Y, then the next two closest to those 2 move, etc etc.
That's what I want to achieve, but I don't know why to start researching. I could get it working in a very ugly way with mess code, but I'd like to make it as clean as possible.
How would I go about finding the closest instance to a certain spot? I was thinking about using the distance formula and looping through all the instances on the stage, but I don't know how to find the shortest distance between all those measured.
I want to find a script that compares colors in a given region and gets the closest websafe color.I found the color sampler class that returns the average color. So now I just need to learn how to get the closest websafe color to the average color. how to compare color values and get the difference?
I'm trying to make it so that there are a bunch of instances (let's say 20) that move around about the stage. There are also 5 other instances (let's call them followers) that move and rotate towards the nearest of the 20 moving instances. I achieved this with this code in an ENTER_FRAME event:
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This code is placed in the class file for the follower objects. The problem is that I don't want more than one follower following the same movieclip. I was thinking that after the for loop I would remove c (the closest movieclip and the one it is following) from _root.eArray[0] and put it in _root.eArray[1] so that the other followers would not count it when searching for the closest.
I want to prevent users from using webcam emulators, I have done that in AS2 by using senocular's function, but I can't make it work in AS3,so, here is the old version by senocular , and I would like to do the same in AS3, tried using indexOf but doesn't work, I need to find at least the first 4 characters of the string and compare them to the item inside the array in AS3![code]...
Following code removes duplicates from an array. But the problem is, it modifies the original array. Can we create a new array which does not have duplicates and keep the original array intact?
i am tring to check the values imn my array but for some reason the hit is never trace. So is the value o0f cat not found in the array. if not what do i do to find the value cat
ActionScript Code: var numbers_array = new Array("cat"); for( i =0; i < numbers_array.length; i++){
I have an array of objects, I separately have a reference to one of the objects in this array (in particular, the object dispatched an event and its reference is the event target, which is what I have). How do I find this object in the array and remove it from the array?
I have a big array which contains words and sentences. I want to find certain specific words to replace with other words. I know about the string replace(), but from what I can understand, that only works with strings. I'm looking for something similar to the str_replace function in PHP where you can search both arrays and strings, and change words in them. Does something like that exist in actionscript 3, or do I have to build some kind of loop myself, to loop through the entire array, and use the string repace() on every single string in the array?
way to find the highest number in an array? umbersArr(314,2613,221,103,77);is there a way to loop though this, compare all the numbers to each other and find the highest value while keeping the array in order?
Is it possible to call a function to tell me if a var string is in my array. And if so, what position it is in?I pictured it to look something a little like this:
Code: var pages:Array=['index','services','about','testimonials','contact']; var pageName:String; pageName="services";
i've been working on a problem for a while now, which involves targeting the closest movieClip in relation to the x y coords of the mouse, I've attached a nice little acompanying graphic.Each mc added to the stage has it's own sub-class (HotSpots) which uses Pythag to measure distance from mouse. At this stage i can determine the closest value from my Main class but can't figure out how to reference it back to the movieclip... hope this makes sense. Below are the two Classes.My Main Class which attachs the mcs, and monitors mouse movement and traces closest value.[code]
how do you find an object's index / position within an array in flash actionscript 3? I am trying to set a conditional up in a loop where, if an object's id is equal to the current_item variable, I can return its position within the array.
in my program the user can create multible movie clips so i stored them in an array. now the problem is i need to find the ._x of all of them. so i have tried to create a for loop that will go through at a certain amount of times (pending on the number of created movie clips)
If I have an array like: Code: var newArray:Array = ["a","r","r","a","y"]; how can I loop through it so that if I were to make a typer effect it would find the middle letter of the array, and then added the letters to the right then left of the middle letter one after another until the entire array is typed out?
I'm working on a project where I have an array of coordinate points (4 of them) and a menu system that, when clicked, rearranges the boxes so that they all move around. The problem is that the values I pull out of the array are not always unique so some of the items end up not moving (or sometimes it ends up moving two to the same spot because the last one didn't move and one of them moved to a spot that is already occupied).
Here is the code I was using which for the most part works, except as mentioned, sometimes the check for the last one in the loop sees that the conditional is not equal so it doesn't do anything because there is no other values to loop through and it just leaves it in that spot.
Code: private function checkCoordinates($item:MenuItem, $coords:Array):Void { var numItems:Number = $coords.length;
But of course, "this" doesn't work, so I need to find out what number "this" is
Of course, it would be easy to remove the MC that I am checking "this" for distance with, it would just be splicing array[a], but it's "this" that I am just not sure how to splice.