ActionScript 2.0 :: Shared Assets And Linkage?
Aug 17, 2007
My company is working on an existing project done is AS2. Since this is a skinnable template, they would like to be able to have a choice of approx 20 fonts. Of course this would take a 1/2 hour to compile and be a 5mb download, so we need to load the fonts in dynamically.
So we have 20 compiled fonts, "arial.swf", "verdana.swf", etc And we have our root, "main.swf" At runtime, main.swf needs to load one of the font swf's and then be able to use that font.Here is the trouble: So far as I can tell, AS2 cannot give you access to the linkage ID of an asset you've loaded (using MovieClipLoader). I can place an individual instance on the stage, but I'd need to load the swf for each instance.
I tried creating a MC with a textfield in it and linked this to a class, but this doesn't work.I also tried to run duplicateMovieClip() on the instance that was loaded, but this doesn't allow you to relocate the clip to the desired location.
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Jan 8, 2011
I have a great shared library tutorial BUT I don't like one section. Assets.swf is the shared library with a variable array called availablegraphics on it's timeline where we put in the available assets That is the bit I don't like. Isn't there a better way to loop through to get the assets. Also they use a loop using library.availablegraphics - which I have never seen before and seems a little weird. In conclusion it's great but is there a better post or tutorial on shared library and how to loop through the assets without knowing exactly what or how many there are.
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Apr 16, 2011
I'm doing an AS2 project with a parent.swf that loads many child_##.swf's. they each use identical buttons and other library assets.tried using Shared Library concept two different ways:
1 - created library.swf and used assets from it for child swf's ... no problem when child is played by itself, but when parent loads the child's, shared assets do not work,
2- established parent.swf as the 'library', and followed the common steps of Shared Library setup, but shared assets did not work. of course, using class files works, but still I need a central place for the graphics ( I'm avoiding having my classes create graphics via draw methods ).
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Mar 26, 2009
This is the concept I want to get into code:
1) Have a Document Class attached to the Main.swf
2) Have a Assets.swf that has all MovieClips that set to Export and have been given actual Classes.
3) Have the document class Load the Assets.swf.
4) Once loaded, be able to create instances of the MovieClips from Assets.swf by writing the code in the Document Class of Main.swf
I can get all this to work.. However what I am finding is if I have a public function on the Document class that creates an instance of something from the Assets.swf, lets say var okTest:TestClass = new TestClass(); I have to also import it in the Document Class (import com.test.TestClass). When I compile it, yes it works. If I remove the Assets.swf file it doesn't display. Ok.. But I've noticed that the Main.swf file is including all the imported classes (eg: com.test.TestClass) so the Main.swf filesize is pretty much the same as the Assets.swf file.
I also ran it through a decompiler and can see yes in fact Main.swf is including all those Classes from Assets.swf because I'm trying to access them from Main.swf and had to import. So the biggest question is how do I go about this properly? Being able to load the asset file that has movieclips etc that have custom classes. Then create instances of those classes within the document class but only if Assets.swf is loaded.
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Oct 16, 2009
Flex complains if I want to create an object from a library symbol with linkage: 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method [linkage name]. So to avoid this, I create a class for that symbol, in this case extending BitmapData using Flex's new ActionScript Class feature. Flex create that class for me and the constructor looks like this: public function CustomBitmapData(width:int, height:int, transparent:Boolean=true, fillColor:uint=null)
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Apr 20, 2010
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Mar 13, 2009
I created a very simple experiment to attempt to access the same shared object in Flash Player and AIR.
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Aug 18, 2010
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Mar 22, 2010
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Jul 20, 2011
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Jan 6, 2009
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Sep 22, 2006
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Jan 10, 2007
I have created (or took an already created and modified) an xml drop down menu. I would like my buttons to link with-in my flash file, but I do not believe you can link within flash using xml, but is there something in your actionscript that you could have the buttons link within the flash file. Here is my AS that is on the first frame:
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May 13, 2009
I have a movieclip in the library, Linkage Identifier = "myMC_linkage"
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Sep 1, 2008
Because flash doesn't loop external mps file correctly, there is always a pause in the loop. The work around is to load the AIFF, or WAV, file into the .fla and let Flash compress the audio file, then the loop works without the pause. The problem with this is that when I have many music loops it takes a long time to publish and test, so in AS 2 I would publish .swfs that compressed the raw audio file and gave the audio file a linkage. Then I would load the .swf into the main .swf and access the loaded .swfs linkage file.
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Mar 8, 2010
I have a fla with nested swf's. My question is, can I update a swf in the fla library if I have changed it within its own source fla and re exported to the same swf file name. ( as can be done with graphics in Indesign )
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Jan 21, 2011
currently this is the problem i'm having.i'm exporting a symbol - song1 - from my library to AS ("export for actionscript") and then using it to dynamically create some movieclips (hereafter referred to as MC's) on the stage. each MC contains a text field that is filled by an value in an array....
Code:
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void {
songList_XML = new XML(xmlLoader.data);
var songNodes:XMLList = songList_XML.song.title
var songTime:XMLList = songList_XML.song.time
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Now all this works without a hitch - all the trace statements produce what they are supposed to and the MC's appear on the stage where they are supposed to and with the proper text (song name song time).
BUT - here's what i don't understand - *how do i REFER to the INSTANCES of each clip*?because they are created dynamically they don't have instance names and there is no way to assign them instance names via AS (right?).i tried to use the Display List to access them by assigning each one a name (last line - commented out) and then using the getChildByName() method - for ex. getChildByName("nameSong1"). but that didn't work either... i have a few other ideas but they all seem ridiculously complicated - i believe there's GOT to be a *simple* solution for this but i've checked all the references i have (O'Reilly, AS Bible, and others) and found almost nothing. just the display list trick above which didn't work.
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Mar 15, 2008
Is there anyway in ActionScript 3.0 to assign instance names to movieclips in the library without assigning linkage id? I said that because I have over 1000 movieclips in the library that I need to be able to manipulate at runtime. I hope I don't have to Right Click -> Linkage... a thousand times to assign the linkage IDs. How can I reference to the library movieclips without having to name 1000 times?
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Jul 31, 2009
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Aug 25, 2005
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Dec 13, 2006
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Now maybe this is just stupidly obvious but when ever I set a library element to link with the class (i.e. linkage = MyClass), all my script fails to work. If I remove that linkage and work from a purely data perspective it works as expected.I have the project settings to Flash 9 and AS3.0 so that shouldn't be an issue.
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Dec 21, 2006
How if you load one swf into another, you can access the others library items by linkage? How would this work for fonts? (it doesn't seem to). I am working on a project with 5 languages and depending on a language variable passed into the main swf, it'll load that specific language swf with font linkage set in it's library. I'd hope to be able to access that languages font from the main swf like I could if it were linked up in my main library.
Here's what I'm working with currently :
Code:
loadMovieNum('_fonts/font_japanese.swf', 10000)
headlineMc.createTextField('txt', 100, 0, 0, 400, 38);
var head_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
head_fmt.color = 0x35549E;
mat(head_fmt);
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Mar 12, 2007
First off, Am i blind or is there no designated flash 9 forum here? There should be. So heres my question. I'm trying to get a MovieClip linked to a class in flash 9.
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Dec 4, 2008
I am working on a game, and I am using MP3s within the SWF file to load at certain times. In order to make them loadable, I have set up the Linkage properties to : -Export for ActionScript -Export in first frame The problem is, that it loads all the MP3s before the preloader even shows up, so there is a lot of time of blank screen. But when I take of "Export in first frame", I am not able to load the MP3s during runtime. Is there a way to access the MP3 files without exporting them in the first frame?
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May 27, 2009
i have embedded all of my different fonts in the library - (ie Regular, Bold, Semibold versions)When I try to call those fonts via their linkage name from my CSS file, they just don't appear at all.. NO test appears in fact.I can only get them to appear when I refer to them by their "real" name ie NOT: ChapProSemBold - Only: Chaparral Pro Semibold I can only get the variations of the font appearing together when embedfonts = false, but then the text looks crappy - even with "antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED".
When I set embedfonts = true, the type looks good - but I don't get the variations anymore! I just get the standard font - not my bold or semibold.
My CSS is:
Code:
p {
font-size: 14px;
font-family:Chaparral Pro;
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Oct 19, 2009
If you try to add an object out of an linkagename in Flex you get errors. Like:1180: Call to a possibly undefined method [linkage name].If I don't want to create classes for every library symbol I'd like to add, is there any other way/praxis of doing this besides using 'getDefinitionByName', so that I won't get errors in Flex?
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Oct 31, 2009
How can I set linkageID for a movieclip from actionscript? Can I?
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Oct 10, 2011
I'm creating an interactive time line, which for our purposes now will consist of flags and poles. The flags will just contain information like "December 2004" for example. The flag MC has a linkage name of ABFlag, and for each instance of it dragged onto the stage, the pole is dynamically drawn.The problem that I'm having is that I would like to be able to target all instances of the flag that are on the stage from an external class (not the document class), and I don't want to add instance names to all the flags. Is there any way that I can target movieclips that are on the stage using their linkage name instead of naking instance names? I do not have the option of placing these flags on the stage dynamically.
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Jan 4, 2004
I am using the following code to goto a frame when two movie clips come into contact. I will post the .fla in a second. But, I have a trashcan (object), and a skateboard (container), which i want to decrease the score and show the frames in the framename sketchy.
My problem is that I have a container, which gets different movieclips loaded into it by linkage. I want to use the container as the skateboard, alowing whatever is currently in the container to be what is coming into contact with the trashcan.
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