ActionScript 3.0 :: Calling Object With String?
Feb 15, 2011
my library is filled with a movie clip for each letter in the alphabet (26 movie clips). I also have a blank symbol on the stage. When the movie starts, it generates a random 8 letter string from an array of letters. The next part is supposed to take the first letter of the newly generated string, pull the corresponding movie clip from the library, and display it in the blank symbol on the stage. After that, it moves to the 2nd letter, and so on. Ultimately I'm trying to have 8 random letters from the alphabet array set the corresponding movie clips on the stage.
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Nov 29, 2011
var myvar = "this is the value of myvar";
var notMyvar = "this is some other variable";
var thirdVar = "this is some third var";
var nameOfVarToCall = "myvar";
//print the content of the var name specified, in this case "myvar"
I have a string which contains the name of a variable I need. What I want to do is find out the name of var (in this case "myvar") and use the name to access the value of the var (in this case just print out the value). Is this feature available in Actionscript. I know it's available in PHP and can come in very handy.
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Jan 13, 2005
I'm creating a CMS(Content Management System) tool so that users can change text and the changes be reflected in a text window in flash . The text that the user enters in the CMS tool will be stored in the database.
In flash I want to parse the string that I get from the database and look for URL strings that start with http "http://www.someurl.com" and parse out that substring.
For example the string could be "Please vist my site at http://www.site.com". I would want to parse out the http://www.site.com
If I find this url string I want to pre-pend the a href tag <a> and append the closing </a> tag to the string so that this link will be clickable from the textfield.
Does flash have an object that deals with Regular Expressions? I've looked at the String object in flash but not sure how to achieve this task
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Jan 13, 2005
I'm creating a CMS(Content Management System) tool so that users can change text and the changes be reflected in a text window in flash . The text that the user enters in the CMS tool will be stored in the database.In flash I want to parse the string that I get from the database and look for URL strings that start with http "URL..." and parse out that substring. For example the string could be "Please vist my site at URL...". I would want to parse out the URL...If I find this url string I want to pre-pend the a href tag <a> and append the closing </a> tag to the string so that this link will be clickable from the textfield. Does flash have an object that deals with Regular Expressions?
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Dec 1, 2010
So I'm having trouble calling my movieclips that I created and assigned strings to their names.So I'm trying to create 3 movieclips with 3 different instances and add them to the stage.here's the code:
for(var i:int = 3; i > 0; i--){
var myMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var myMCName:String = "MCName"+String(i);
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Feb 23, 2011
I'm parsing out a greensock easing function as a string from an XML (as in "Strong.easeOut"), but then I need to store that in a variable as a Function type to call later. how is this done?
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Jan 19, 2010
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I'm working with a web service and am returning an array to a field (that I set the data type as an Array). The result thus far is "[object Object]". How can I get the array values back out as a string?
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May 17, 2005
Allright, i receive a string and want to convert it to object. here a test that i have made:
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this work pretty fine... but i am receiving the object property as follow: "{a:'test',b:'testAgain'}" How can i easily convert it to object properties?
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I think i am lost with basics itself. What is the difference between these two. String object is an instance of String Class.
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Mar 17, 2009
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Feb 13, 2012
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Oct 27, 2010
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Dec 14, 2011
I am trying to create a custom object which will display particular graphics at a particular time (when the movie tells the object to show something). Well I made my object (the way I thought it would work) and I encountered a problem when I called graphics functions from the main movie.
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ActionScript Code:
import com.experimental.DynamicSprite;
import flash.display.Sprite;
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Oct 6, 2011
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Feb 15, 2010
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May 14, 2009
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the code works fine , but actually i want the "Object(parent).showHighScores();" to be load automatically without clicking the button (auto call the function once the page loaded), i tried use Event.Enter_frame but it wont stop running,
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We have an Adobe Flex client talking to a .NET server using WebORB. Simplifying things, on the .NET side of things we have a struct that wraps a ulong like this:
public struct MyStruct
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at header_text_fla::MainTimeline/loaderComplete()
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var myParams:LoaderInfo;
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Apr 19, 2010
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