I was curious to how gotoAndStop really functioned, so I ran a few tests. Results are highlighted for easy skim reading.On each frame, I placed a trace statement, saying which frame is currently displaying.Then, I messed around putting different kinds of code on frame 1.
Example #1
Code:
stop();
gotoAndStop(5);
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I have a very specific AS2 parent/child movie clip issue, I have a main Character movie clip which contains as nested frames each profile of the Character (front,back,left,etc). Within each of these child profile MC frames, animations for those profiles are further nested in frames.
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The problem is that when I try to Character.gotoAndStop('Front'); after key release, flash thinks, you're already on the Front frame (because the walk animation is a child of that MC and is already playing).Therefore the walk animation just keeps playing after the key has been released.Is there an easy, one-off way to fix this?
I'm using gotoAndStop(); for my buttons within flash using the following method:
myButtonInstance.onRelease = function() {
gotoAndStop("frame5");
}
however, I've come accross a problem where in for some reason the application will sometimes move frames when I don't want it to. For example, given the code above it would sometimes go to frame 5, but then instantly move somewhere else from there despite the code saying only to do so when a button is pressed.
I am creating a point and click game.In the bottom corners of the screen there are two arrows for changing the area. When these arrows are clicked, the only thing that is supposed to happen is a frame change. For some reason, objects are being carried from the frame they are supposed to be on to the frame that is changed to and they stack up each time the frame changes. I don't even see how this is possible without writing code specifically for it. Here is the code in one of the objects being transferred:
Code:
onClipEvent(load)
{
var DepthCorrection = 0;[code]...
Nothing in that could possibly make it move to a different frame and it has no instance name so nothing can reference it to bring it to one.Here is the code for changing frames:
Code:
onClipEvent(load)
{
var Frame = _global.Area + 1;[code]...
I've had problems with gotoAndStop() before where it went to the wrong frame and only displayed certain objects on that frame.
I have a very specific AS2 parent/child movie clip issue. I have a main Character movie clip which contains as nested frames each profile of the Character (front,back,left,etc). Within each of these child profile MC frames, animations for those profiles are further nested in frames. Then, essentially I have movement code as part of the key listener:
Code:
switch(Key.getCode()){
case 87:
Character._y -= 10;
Character.gotoAndStop('Back');
Character.gotoAndStop('walk');
break;
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And later code to reset to the character's resting frame after key release:
Code:
switch(Character._currentFrame){
case 5:
Character.gotoAndStop('Back');
break;
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The problem is that when I try to Character.gotoAndStop('Front'); after key release, flash thinks, you're already on the Front frame (because the walk animation is a child of that MC and is already playing). Therefore the walk animation just keeps playing after the key has been released.
I'm trying to target labeled frames using a simple gotoAndStop command but for some bizzare reason the code doesn't recognise labels only frames.
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I've recently had a problem in my application's flow. I was sending an event from one of the frames of a movieclip and the issue was that it was being sent over and over and over when I wanted it to be sent only once. I assumed that placing a call to stop(); at the last frame of the clip would prevent it from looping. This was not the case however. After that I tried calling gotoAndStop(0); to reset the movieclip and stop it from looping. This did not work either. Then I went through my code to make sure nothing else was causing it to play.
I solved the problem by adding an extra frame to the end of the clip and calling gotoAndStop to that frame instead of 0. I've looked around the forums and google for information on this phenomenon but have only found cryptic answers. I was wondering if someone could explain the divine purpose that drives MovieClips to play regardless of whether they are told to stop or not when they get to frame 0 or 1.
I have a movie clip on the stage and have given it the instance name "team1". inside this movie clip there are two states. at frame1 it says one thing, then at frame 10 has an image. team1 stops at frame 1 and what i want to do is when the main time line reaches say frame 50, i want the team1 movie clip to gotoAndStop at frame 10, thus showing the image and not the text. i tried doing it by putting this on the main timeline at frame 50: team1.gotoAndStop("team");
View 2 RepliesI read a lot about accessors or getters/setters, but to date I cannot really understand what they do. The language describing their use is just beyond my comprehension, not being any type of developer nor an advanced AS3 user.Can someone provide, or point me in the direction of, a VERY SIMPLE getter/setter example that includes WHY it would be used as well as HOW to use it? something small that doesn't use just comments within functions (like "// here is where you do xyz"), but actual code (the actual doing of xyz). That way if I want to play with it and build on it I can.
View 14 RepliesFor example, I have a function that is triggered by a button click This function loads an external swf.I then set a global variable swfLoaded to true, with the idea of having an if condition that executes removeChild(loader) if swfLoaded is true.When trying to execute removeChild(loader), I get an error telling me that it must be the child of the caller.I've seen the code below, which loads a default swf, but I don't want a default swf - I just want one loaded if the button is clicked, and then if another button is clicked, the original one to be removed before the next swf is loaded.How do I make this code work without loading a default swf, just loading one once someone clicks a button, and then removing it?
var Xpos:Number = 110;var Ypos:Number = 180;var swf:MovieClip;var loader:Loader = new Loader();
var defaultSWF:URLRequest = new URLRequest("swfs/eyesClosed.swf");
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What I get is that you can pass a function to another function as an argument so that the function that you pass to can "call back" that particular function.
All good. However, I'm unclear about a couple things: Why exactly is this beneficial? is this the same thing that the addListenerEvent method does when you pass it a function as an argument for when the event fires?
I have been reading Learning Actionscript 3.0 for about 1-2 months now on and off and i have stumbled across a paragraph that I don't quite understand concerning the position of a navigation bar buttons.
Code:
var btnNum:int = 5;
var spacing:Number = 10;
var navBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(navBar);
var btn:SimpleButton;
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The current button is positioned horizontally (line 10), offset by the spacing set in line 2, plus the width of the button and another spacing gap for each button in the loop. Therefore, the first button is positioned only 10 pixels to the right of the container's registration point (spacing, plus zero times the sum of the width of the button and spacing). The last button is positioned 10 pixels to the right of the container's registration point plus 4 times the width of the button and spacing. The vertical position is also set, moving the button down 5 pixels. From the above quote, I understand that the button the first button is placed horizontally, but i don't understand what is after it. What the paragraph means and how it does it's position.
people I am a newbie here, I need help and explanation in making a scrollbar like the one in[URL]... I know a slider and a textbox is needed but I need to know the trick behind it.
View 1 RepliesI just can't seem to figure out how to use them and what they're used for.
View 2 RepliesI'm a relative noobie struggling to understand object registration points / center points. For example, in this image of an empty movie clip from an XML gallery I'm customizing for my site, there is a circle with a cross and an empty circle.
Can someone point me to a thread or article that explains object registration points, how they relate to each other and how (and why) to move them (or not)?
I try to understand this code ( taken from a tuto). I am learning empty mc and AS... I catch it until a certain point, however some terms are still very very dark for me :So as far I see, there are only 2 objects in the file :An empty mc called Menuholder and a mc called menuitem ( a picture for example)I can track back those 2 objects in the code, however I can not understand what is the object "menu" doing there ???I highlighted it bellow your explanation :align = bottom;centerx = Stage.width/2;width/2;menuitems[i]._x = xpos;}};
View 4 RepliesI have some movie clip with two different childs on it: "instruction" and "back_anim". They have the same structure, except one thing: "instruction" have classic tween, "back_anim" have "shape tween". I'm running it on Adobe Air 2.6 for Android. On each of this childs are two labels: "show", "hide". All stop frames present. And I have such a code to controll them:
protected function fadeOut(event:Event):void {
line_mc.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,fadeOut);
if (line_mc.hasOwnProperty('back_mask_anim')){
line_final_anim_count++;
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But!!! "instruction" - plays well, "back_anim" - enters to endless cycle on stop frame.
When I do : (line_mc['back_mask_anim'] as MovieClip).gotoAndPlay(7);
Next frame after stop frame - all ok.
Didn't get any takers on the last question so I thought I would try again. I am getting a compiler error when I try to use a gotoAndStop function in a static method in one class that is being activated by a button in another class.Line 33 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method gotoAndStop.Here is the code for the Main Script
package scripts
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.utils.*;[code].....
gotoAndStop() doesn't work. I am using Flash CS3. My code is simple:
on(release) {
_root.gotoAndStop("menu");
}
I put that code into a button. The menu frame is three frames behind the frame that I put the button on. If I replace the "menu" with "game", it works. The game frame is one frame behind the frame the button is on. What happens is instead of going to the menu frame, it flickers to the menu frame, then reloads the lose frame, which is where the button is. I know that it reloads because I have a dynamic text field that throws a random insult when you enter that frame. I can assure you. I have already double checked and triple checked that the frame label is correct. And the menu frame has stop() in it. I'm not that stupid, alright?
i have never actually got the flash-actionscript code execution order.in flash pro i have an instance of a moveiclip on stage in frame one named tree1 and on frame 3 i have on the stage tree3.in the document class i have this code:
stop();
var scaleFactor:Number = tree1.scaleX;
gotoAndStop(3);
tree3.scaleX = scaleFactor;
while this works when testing on the desktop, this app will go mobile at the end.is this the correct way to go or should i register for a frameComplete event before accessing instances on a certain frame
I can't seem to figure out how to change the timeline's frame from inside a custom class.
package {
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
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I am trying to make sprite sheets for rotation of DisplayObjects, and it seems that the gotoAndStop() calls are not working.Here's an example of what's going on:
function createRotationalSpriteSheet ( displayObject : DisplayObject )
{
findMaxTileDimensions( displayObject );
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I'm trying to achieve is this: when you roll over one of the citymarks on my map, it drops up/down depending on the mark and where it is with three buttons for tourist sites in the area. Well, I'm using timeline animation and gotoAndStop() to go forward and backward nice and smoothly. I've got a mask applied for the menu, and that works fine, but when I compile I get this error:
Code:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::MovieClip@10ac6b01 to flash.display.SimpleButton.
at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndStop()
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I have tested with frame number it works, it doesn't with label name. Is it possible ? In main.as:
public function gotoTab1(target:MouseEvent) {
gotoAndStop(1);
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of course I give tab2 as label name to the frame at position 5.no error shows up.
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property gotoAndStop not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value. at AS3RPG_fla::MainTimeline/switchToFHero() Im still new to As3 eventho i have some decent experience in As2, i understand the problem im just not sure how to correct it since As2 buttons obviously didnt need this.
View 7 RepliesReferenceError: Error #1069: Property gotoAndStop not found on flash.display.AVM1Movie and there is no default value.at Shell_fla::my_playbtn_43/pauseAll()I am getting error for the following code
pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, pauseAll)
function pauseAll(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
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I see where i was going wrong however when i change the instance name like you said i 1120: Access of undefined property snakePart. all of this code btw is at document class level and the movieclips are in the library not on stage
View 3 RepliesI want to create a preloader that plays a certain amount of frames as it loads the rest of the frames. So, I have labels on the frames basically and need a preloader to play the "loading" frames as it is loading the "content" frames. Does that make sense? I have no idea how to even start this one... p.s. I am using AS 2.0, but if it can be done in 3.0 easier, I can switch over its no biggie
View 4 Repliesthere seems to be no accepted method of playing multiple flv using buttons. My latest attempt has me putting multiple instances of the flvPlayback component in different frames and using buttons to navigate to those frames. It works but nothing anyone has posted anywhere will result in removing the flv when you go to a different frame and instance. This was simple in AS2. Load movie to a traget and each time you load a new movie the other one goes away. REALLY goes away.
View 7 Repliesbasically im making a quiz on my main timeline ive got my questions and answers and on the last frame i want it to say how many answers the user got right. ive made a movie clip on this last frame. in the movie clip ive got 11 frames with the posible totals so frame one would be 0/10 frame 2 would be 1/10 etc what i want to do is when the user clicks the correct answer on the other frames i want flash to make the frames within the movie clip to go 1 step forward.
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