I'm trying to update a series of buttons with a for loop automatically. These buttons will have a somewhat fixed instance names like btn1,btn2,btn3,btn4.My problem is i don't know how to reference the button names with a dynamic variable appended..I have something simple like this, but can someone point me in the correct direction for the syntax please?[code]
View 2 RepliesSeveral months ago I created this, The Halo Galactic Map. After talking with a lot of people on their opinions and such, I wanted to take it to the next level and replicate the map found in Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 shown here.
Based on my knowledge of Photoshop and some... and by some I mean very VERY little Flash... I took it upon myself and another member of the community to create this.
All was going well until the member decided it wasn't his cup of tea. Basically, he didn't like that he couldn't do it well enough.
Ok, so I've installed Flash and tooled around with it for a bit, but I want to get going. I know this isn't the best place to post this thread - I know there are probably better places - but I just wanted to know where and what to begin with. I have the whole thing planned out in levels, layers, and motion...
i'm a newbie to AS3 and i'm trying to update a website from AS2 to AS3. i can't get a for loop to work properly for me. i create the button movieclips initially, name them properly, and drop their titles into a textfield within the button movieclips.i am able to change the textformat on rollover/out and on click to a third state. i want the on click to change all the other button's text box format's back to the base state.so, when i write a second for loop to run through the other buttons, i keep getting an error.
when i test trying to change the text like this: parent.getChildByName("mbtn" + i + "_mc").getChildByName("title_txt").setTextFormat(T extFormats.mmbase_fmt);
i get this error: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getChildByName through a
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I'm just wondering, how would I go about making a counter in ASC3 count more then once?
Because,
counter++ updates once,
but counter+2 gives you some kind of error.
counter+1 also gives you error.
I'm trying to display the current loading/buffering percentage by displaying it in a label.
Somehow, when the for-loop starts, the text wont update. It seems that the app is too busy rendering my frames so that it wont update the text..
This is parts of my code:
ActionScript Code:
for (var i:int = 0; i<=359; i++){
myMovieClip.gotoAndStop(i);
mySWFBuffer = new BitmapData(myMovieClip.width, myMovieClip.height, false,
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i'm running a simple nested for loop (code below) that when you go over a tile makes it change its color, so far so good but i also want to make it so that when you go over a tile you can then continue only on the tiles connected to it
Code:
for (var colum = 0; colum < field_h; colum++)
{
for (var row = 0; row < field_w; row++)[code].....
i think i should be able to do it using arrays but i can't seem to understand how after the tiles are placed and the array updated accordingly to update the tiles with the new array value (enter frame event ? )
I have... ~1300 "Drawing Objects" (read: Shape) sitting on the stage that were Paths in Illustrator and were pasted in as part of one cohesive image. I need to be able to access all of them via ActionScript, but as with my post on the AS side of this problem, they are all stuffed into a single Shape and not accessible independently.
View 2 RepliesI am working on a flash project that has many fla files associated with it. Is there a plug-in that will allow me to publish many flash files without me having to manually open and publish them myself. I know in Photoshop there is a batch processing of actions but was unaware if there was one for Flash.
View 1 RepliesI have an AS3 based FLA that, for various reasons, needs nearly all of the linkages in the library reworked (need to move to a different package namespace).This particular FLA is pretty big, so doing this by hand would be rather tedious.I have considered saving out the FLA as an XFL, and just hand editing all of the XML files in the LIBRARY folder, and then saving out as FLA. Has anyone tried this? I have never worked with XFL files before, so I don't know what quirks I may run across.My problem has to do with loading SWFs and class conflicts because of multiple SWFs using the same package namespace. Without getting into too many details, I know about ApplicationDomain and LoaderContext. I am currently loading into a new ApplicationDomain, but that isn't an ideal situation and is causing grief that won't be maintainable in the long run.
View 1 RepliesAny easy way to mark an entire package/directory and all subfiles as being [Deprecated]? I'm about to separate a large number (500+) of genericly-coded library files from our more app-specific ones, and need a way to notify developers they are using the files that have moved so they can point them to the new directory. In the meantime I'll be opening them all one-by-one
View 1 RepliesI have a folder with a number of photos. In my XML file i have the paths to the and a description. Now i want to preload all the photos in Flash in 1 time. I do to preload the photone, i want to preload them all in one. Does somebody know h
View 1 RepliesI would like to create a mass of images which doesn't have the same size/ratio. The images cannot overlap, but they should be placed as close to each other as possible, so you get a big picture created by a lot of small ones.
View 1 RepliesHow to get mass speed movement like in this intro site. [URL]. How to control the multiple clip mass speed movement....using actionscript.
View 12 Repliesim trying to make a simple BMI (Body Mass Index) Calculator but it doesn't seem to be working
my code is:
on (release) { BMI_SUM = (Number(WEIGHT_INPUT.text) / Number(HEIGHT_INPUT.text * HEIGHT_INPUT.text)); _root.BMI_FINAL.text = BMI_SUM; }
the BMI_FINAL.text box always displays NaN, and when traced it says Undefined and the code looks sound but i cant get it to work.
I have a problem with updating an XMLList object while in a "for each" loop.
I have the following XMLList object called "folders":
Code:
<folders>
<folder1>folder1</folder1>
<folder2>folder2</folder2>
<folder3>folder3</folder3>
[Code]....
Basically, the individual XML objects are updating but they are not updating in the "folders" XMLList object.
What can i do to update them in the "folders" object ?
I have used a similar approach to update all of the attributes of an XMLList object and everything worked ok. I am not sure what exactly causes the differences between the attributes and the elements.
I am deploying Updates via SCUP and SCCM to hundreds of Computers. Fortunately Adobe provides an SCCM Update Catalog for both Adobe Flash ActiveX and Adobe Flash Plugin. But now my Problem: After publishing the Update via SCCM, the client is not supposed to be interfered with the Update Progress (which is working) I figured the Updater works like this: First SCCM checks if a Update needs to be deployed, if this is the case, The Flash Updater begins. First the old Flash Version is beeing uninstalled. But now: if the Client has a Browser Window (IE, or Firefox) open, the Updater is not able to install the new Flash Version and quits with an Error. This leaves the Client PC without any Flash (because its being uninstalled before) How can I prevent Flash being uninstalled due to the Update progress not working while a Browser window is open?
View 1 RepliesI've got a movieclip, which has got a dynamic text element.The movieclip uses a package for its codeThe package if obviously derived from the MovieClip classI've got a timer, that updates the dynamic text field every second.When debugging the code, I see that the timer works well. Its updates the value of the dynamic text field.
View 2 RepliesI want to create a loop for 20 buttons:
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the code within the rollover/rollout function doesn't work. It does work when outside of the function or when the code doesnt use "g".Is this because once inside the rollover/out function it always brings back the last value of "g" ... in this case 20?[URL]
I created a menu of invisible movieclips (from a library item with the class name Invis) with buttonmode set to true so that I can have them send the playhead to different labels on the main timeline.I could use some help with determining which button is clicked and then placing code that executes depending on which button is clicked.Here is what I have so far on frame 1 of my timeline:[code]
View 1 RepliesI don't have an incredible amount of experience with flash, but I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here. I have about 10 buttons here (although I only show two in my code), and rather than listing out long lines of code, I figured it should be relatively straightforward to put it in a for loop...but its not working for whatever reason.
Rather than do
ActionScript Code:
hide = function () {
account_btn.enabled=false;
account_btn._alpha = 0;
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this loop business is giving me a headache, i can't seem to get flash to recognize functions with a variable in itHere is me doing it the long way and i'm trying to figure out how to do it with a loop.I have 4 buttons going across and i'm trying to create another row of buttons under it, a total of 8 buttons.I also created a sprite called squareBtn
ActionScript Code:
//displaying buttons
//the difference in X is 34
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I have been trying to figure out how to distribute buttons with a loop and I did it but now I don't know what the instance name is to target it.i tried using dog and that doesn't work I tried to set the instances names as _1 _2 _3 _4 but its registered as undefined.
ActionScript Code:
var dog:squareBtn;
for(var i:int = 1; i < 3; i++)
{
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i call my disable button function that is inside a for loop? it only ever disabled the last button but i want it to disable them all. Below is my code:
PHP Code:
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
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create a multidimensional array which will pull text, swfs, and/or images from an xml file based on which button is clicked.What I don't understand is how to pull the swf or image file from the file like I have with the text. Truth be told, I'm completely lost and could really use some help fixing this. I need to pull text and images or the swf file from the xml depending on which button is clicked and I tried to put this together, but I've given myself a headache trying to understand where I went wrong.
ActionScript Code:
var pageXML:XML;
//Load the XML file.
var pageXMLLoader = new URLLoader();
[code]...
What I'm trying to do is create a multidimensional array which will pull text, swfs, and/or images from an xml file based on which button is clicked.
What I don't understand is how to pull the swf or image file from the file like I have with the text. I need to pull text and images or the swf file from the xml depending on which button is clicked and I tried to put this together, but I've given myself a headache trying to understand where I went wrong.
Code: Select allvar pageXML:XML;
//Load the XML file.
var pageXMLLoader = new URLLoader();
pageXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("scripts/xml/content.xml"));
pageXMLLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, xmlIOErrorHandler);
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I have several buttons on stage (8), and I want to add a slighty different action for everyone of them. How do I do that, All the buttons always get the last past of the "FOR"..
Code:
function loadThumbs(eventoUrl:String) {
for(i=1; i<=9; i++) {
temp = this["thumb_"+i];
with (temp) {
image = "fotos/"+eventoUrl+"/thumbs/"+i+".jpg";
loadImages(image, temp);
temp.onRollOver = function() {
this.play();};
temp.onPress = function() {
this.loadImages(image, image_big);
};};};};
loadImages() is a LoadMovieClip type function I created.
I had the following script which worked fine for my buttons which were sitting on the stage and are called 'btn1', 'btn2', etc... However I wanted to animate all the buttons so have put them all into a movie clip called buttons, but now my script doesn't work, I have tried changing all the this targets to _root.buttons.this,
Code:
numOfBtn = 5;
stop();
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i tried to use for to control all the buttons i have but i get this error:1083: Syntax error: dot is unexpected.
Code:
var btnNum:Number = 6;
for (var i:Number = 1; i <= btnNum; i++) {
["L" + i + "_mc"].buttonMode = true;
["L" + i + "_mc"].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onOver, false, 0, true);
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i have this from as2, where i can create many buttons on stage and loop. then create a function that applys to all the buttons
Code:
for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++)
{
bt = this["button" + i];
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If I have 16 buttons inside a for loop, how would I trace back the number that was pressed.
NumPageButtons = 16
for(i=1; i<=NumPageButtons; i++){
tempMC = eval("page"+i+"_mc")
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when I do a trace it gives me 16 not the number (current button ) that was pressed