I have the following code nested in a movieclip, how can I reference the stage correctly from that movieclip?
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reactToArrowKeys);
function reactToArrowKeys(keyEvent:KeyboardEvent):void
{
if (keyEvent.keyCode == 37)
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After quite some time I finally decided to pick up Flash again, this time taking the OOP route. I'm a bit rusty though, so I'm stuck on something pretty basic.Here's my Layout of relevant objects and scripts:
Stage > gunAmmo (TextField)
Stage > player (MC) > pistol (MC)
........ > player.as > pistol.as
As you might've guessed, what I'm trying to do is set the gunAmmo.text property from within my pistol class. I've tried using MovieClip(root).gunAmmo, stage, etc., but neither seems to be working. I sort of get why, but I don't know what the correct syntax is. (And yes, the TF's instance name has been set correctly.
This is probably a very simple solution, but I can't seem to find it online. Basically, I have a button that need to change a movieclip's frame in it's parent.So I tried:
ActionScript Code:
_parent.slideshowImages.gotoAndStop(2);
But it's not working! I know I'm getting to the right locaiton because _parent holds a variable, and I can access that just fine. But I for some reason can't access the movieclip at all.
Note: I can't upgrade to AS3 (What I'm used to) as this isn't my file.
I have a MovieClip, that I'm going to add to the display list with my document class at runtime beacuase there will be many instances of it. The MoviClip "box" has 3 more MovieClip instances inside it,and each of those three have two more.It looks like this:
box
circle 0
oval0
oval1
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I am trying to reference a movieclip from the stage which is nested. I really have no idea how to do that.
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for (j=0; j<20; j++) { duplicateMovieClip("letterCont", "Letter"+j, j);}
//this frame is executed only once
on frame 2
for (j=0; j<20; j++) { if (j<MsgLen) {
// remove old clip in a loop sequence _root["Letter"+j]
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frame 3 is looped until all 20 are shown and then it send back to frame 2
The checking the data given in frame 3 is correct
What my couse it not to show? is there a way to debug the clip it self the? _x _y _width _height on the debugger has correct values for all clips as expected but the clip is not on the stage why?
I have a button, inside an mc1 which when clicked it plays
[TweenLite.to(mc2, 2, {frame:1});]
inside mc2 -which located back on the stage.
Currently I get the error of "access of undefined property)".
I have 4 image movieclips nested inside of a "strip" movieclip and want to move horizontally to the next image using a mouse event. It is not centering and I don't understand why the if statements aren't working.
import fl.transitions.Tween;import fl.transitions.easing.*;
var targetX:Number = (stage.stageWidth / 2 - strip.img02.x - strip.img02.width) / 2;
var myTween:Tween = new Tween(strip, "x", Elastic.easeOut, strip.x, targetX, 3, true);
rightbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, right);
function right(e:MouseEvent):void{
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I created a MovieClip and added it to the stage(addChild). Next, I created a Button (exactly BaseButton) and I added it to the MovieClip.The case is it won't show up. When I add directly my button to the stage (my Main class is document class ) there is no problem. But I want it to show up in my MovieClip and I dont know what I am doing wrong =[.The addChild is working because when I
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trace(controls.getChildAt(0),getChildAt(0));
I am getting
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I have created a movieclip (game_container_mc) in the main.as file and I want to add a child (enemy) to it from a different file (makeWave.as) how would I do this?
View 7 RepliesI have an instance of a movie clip that runs and after it runs I want it to call a frame to gotoAndStop back on the main timeline (stage). What is the code for that? When the animation ends, I am simply giving it a stop(); and then I want it to go to the next frame on the main timeline. I think this used to be _root in AS2.
View 1 RepliesIn my flash document, I have a movieclip drawn on the flash stage (put there myself, not dynamically). I want to use this as a holder for an external .swf. I am using a sub-class to run the loading script. I pass the stage reference to it as the variable "theStage". It has no trouble loading things directly to the stage, but it can't find my movieclip for some reason. I have exported the movieclip for actionscript in the symbol properties panel and have given it an instance name.I've tried theStage.myMovieClip.addChild(mySwf); and suchlike, but always get this error message in output:ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property myMovieClip not found on flash.display.Stage and there is no default value.at MethodInfo-206()Some more information: It works from the main class without any trouble.
View 1 Replies1.I have a MovieClip in the Library. There is a named and dynamic text box in the MovieClip. In Frame 1 of the .fla, I construct the MovieClip from the class StatusBoard and add it to the stage. There is one setStatus method in the class to set the text. This works fine.[code]
2.I have a bunch of buttons that I created from a class called LinkButton.as (they are MovieClips, not _btn buttons). FWIW, they are attached to other MovieClips, but they work fine. The trace output is fine. What I am trying to do is have the rollover change the text in the billboard.[code]
3. In lay terms, I used addChild to add a MovieClip with a dynamic TextField to the stagw and I want MovieClip buttons created from an .as class to be able to change the text on a rollover.What I can't seem to do is actually reference the billboard that I added using addChild from the .fla.The buttons work and trace the desired text, I can't seem to send that text to the billboard.
What is the best way to accessing movieClip from a flash stage in AS3 Class? And what if the as3 class it's in a package, outside the Document Class?
View 4 RepliesI have a MovieClip called item with the same linkage set and my first task is to display 10 of these items on the stage nested inside a movieclip called MainItem. I have dragged MainItem to the stage and have the following for loop:
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i've been all afternoon trying to figure out a solution to my problem, and I can't seem to find it, or cannot implement it. Let me lay it out for you: I have an actionscript file linked to a movieclip. (movieclip:skate class linked: generic_skate).I have it set up that way so I can create an array of skates easily (i'm using a for loop to create them), and each skate has its own attributes (name, description, price and the image that is supposed to go on the deck)In the stage, i have three text boxes, one for the price, other for the name, and another one for the description.In the generic_skate class, I'm handling all the mouse events (in this case mouseOver and mouseOut.
What i want to accomplish is: when the user hovers over a skate, the info shows up in the text fields and when he hovers out, the info goes away. My problem: Since I'm doing all the mouse interaction in the class file, my guess is that I have to access the stage to get to the text boxes that are placed there to change its info or somehow create a "middle" man to do all the handling.
I'm trying to organize a presentation using several movieclips as "scenes." The problem I have is related to buttons nestedwithin those mc's--I would like them not to be available until eachindividual mc begins, but if I don't include the buttons on thefirst frame of the mc timeline, the main timeline cannot accessthem (and throws me an error)
View 8 RepliesI would like to rotate the yellow circle mc, w/ it's nested white circle movie clip, and use the drawing API to have a line continuously drawn to the white circle as it moves around.
I'm using the code below. The line gets drawn to a static point, and not to the white circle (smBall) movie clip as I would expect.
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I'm working on an educational game that interacts with randomly selected characters. The names and attributes are imported from xml. I have a mc called characters that contains each character on a frame tagged with their name. The frame label is the characters name and I am having no problem displaying each character as they are randomly called.
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characters = new Characters();
characters.gotoAndStop(characterName);
characters.y = 350;
gameSprite.addChild(characters);
Each charater is a mc with 2 frames one with mouth closed and one with mouth open. Because the characters are accessed using the variable characterName as the frame tag I can't figure out how to tell the movie in AS3 to gotoAndStop on frame 2 of the character mc. I've tried numerous variations and just can't get it to work.
I'm trying to activate a nested movie clip with a button in the main timeline. I want the button to move the nested clip to the 2nd frame, thereby passing over the stop(); in the first frame. I'm not sure how to point the button at the correct timeline, though.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to access some information in XML. I got the first few nodes working, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get to the nested nodes. I've tried everything i can think of. I thought it would have to do with nested for loops, but i couldn't get it to work. What am I missing? I've been pretty successful with simple XML, and this is relatively simple too, but more than I'm used to at this point... If there is a better way to do any of this, I'm all ears (or all eyes in this case )
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I have a movie clip (assigned to a class) with several keyframes. Each keyframe consists of another movieclip, which contains an animation and all use the same name. Lastly, several of the animations contain a third movieclip, which is also assigned to a class and also use the same name. I need the first movieclip to speak to the third, unfortunately, it simultaneously tells me that the clips in the second layer (the ones at the keyframes) exist and do not exist. Namely: second layer "does not exist" in that the primary movieclip has only one child: a null. If I add other movieclips to the primary's frames, they also report back as nulls depending on what frame I'm on. I've tested this in several parts of the code, though I suppose it's possible that I managed to pick five equally bad spots. It's just so bizarre I still don't know what to think about it. However, the second layer of named clips are there, but I can only prove it by deliberately breaking the code in hopes of deliberately getting a reference error (by attempting to make the clip private, which isn't allowed given my setup).
View 0 RepliesLet's say I have Class Holder linked to a MovieClip holder_mc. holder_mc has a child held_mc that has a Graphic Symbol pic_gr. pic_gr has multiple frames.
From the Class file of Holder, how would I change the frame of pic_gr? I also didn't see a way to name the instance of pic_gr, is that right?
I made a movieclip (map) with nested instances (cities) in IDE and I want to access them from non-document class.
But the class can't access them until it's added at the stage too.
If I add the class at stage, class can see and access only map, but not cities inside of it.
Both class and map are children of document class...
I have a dynamic text field, which I then converted to an object and instanced. Both the text field and the object have a instance.I tryed both:
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//startbtn being the object, text1_txt being the text field.
startbtn.text1_txt.text = "lol";
And
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text1_txt.text = "lol";
I found the ladder to be more logical, but neither worked. Anyone have a way to get at these nested text fields?
How can one class access a nested function in another class.Examplish.
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main class{
public function main(){
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I am having a newbie problem here. I am loading an external SWF with embedded movieclips (all clips are set to export in the original file). However, I can't figure out how to access those embedded clips in my new, parent, flash file. Here is my code:
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var container:MovieClip=new MovieClip()
var house_Loader:Loader = new Loader();
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(Actionscript 2 btw - and actually cs4, not that it really makes any difference?) I have a class that instantiates a movieclip from the library, e.g.:
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debugbar:MovieClip = thing.AttachMovie("debugbar", "debugbar_mc", 999);
So attaching it to the where ever "thing" is - could be movie clip or level0 or whatever, doesn't matter as "debugbar" is a private variable of the class. Now the important part - debugbar in the library is a movieclip that contains some components - buttons and textInputs. The problem comes when trying to access these components.
I would have thought that this would work:
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debugbar.input_txt.text = "hello";
In order to set the text of "input_txt", the instance name of a TextInput component on the timeline of the movie clip (put there in author time). However, this does not work. Infact, I cannot access any specific "component" properties - they come back undefined. I can however set and retrieve MovieClip properties for the "input_txt", such as _x. However there is one added strange thing with this too - setting _visible to false doesn't seem to work (however perhaps a component by default overrides this).
I also appear not to be able to add event handlers to the component - at least for the usual component events. I tried casting it to a component, such as:
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var temp:TextInput = TextInput(debugbar.input_txt);
trace(temp);
which gave "temp" as null.
However if you trace the thing itself without casting to what it is, it gives the path to correctly. It almost seems like the components are somehow broken when trying to access them this way - or that they cannot be accessed this way?
The thing is, I was able to access all of this before, when the code to do it was placed on the timeline (frame 1, the only frame) of the debugbar itself, where the components were child instances. This meant I could just reference them directly too - so input_txt rather than debugbar.input_txt , although that is probably largely irrelevant. I need to have it in a class though, as I need to pass in certain objects that need to be accessed by the mc.
private var myObject:Object = new Object();
private var myArray:Array = new Array();
myObject[dynamic_name] = true;
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I was trying to access some nested movieClips from the main time line but it was giving an error. What I have is a movieClip on the stage called "dog" and inside this movieClip I have two nested movieClips called "dogLH" and "dogRH". The movieClip "dog" was brought to the stage using actionscript 3.0 and when I tried to move the moveClips inside "dog" it gave me an error.
This is the code I have:
var dogog = new Dog();
dog.x =200;
dog.y =150;
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What is strange is that if I add the movieClip "dog" to the stage manually and try the same thing it works. Any idea why it doesn't work when it is brought to stage with actionscript, but it works if I bring this manually?