I'm doing a simple navigational menu and the idea is that when you rollover certain buttons, a linked movie clip appears in a certain spot and any other linked movie clips disappear off the stage. I heard about a bug with AS3 in CS4 and tried the following method but it's not working. All the movie clips stay on the stage. Nothing disappears. Where am I screwing up?
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I have two key frames on the Stage. The first one is empty; the actual movie starts from the second frame. Under some circumstances I have to clear everything on the stage and reload the movie. I remove all the movie clips and go back to the first frame. Unfortunately, it doesnt work with components. Can somebody tell me how I can remove everything from Stage? I tried btn.destroyObject(btn._name) but it seems it doesn�t work (the object cannot remove itself). And after several times I move back to the first frame, the components go broken
View 3 Replieshiya all, i was wondering if there was a command to clear everything off the stage.
View 1 RepliesI am making a flashcard game with five subjects. It has buttons for moving forward and back,and buttons for switching to another subject The card instances for each subject are stored offstage, in separate frames (five in all), and their names are stored in arrays (five in all) Each time a button is pressed, the appropriate card tweens onto the stagepoint were still visible (not sure why, since the menu's on it's own frame), so I wrote a function to clear everything offstage whenever the menu button is clicked.My problem is weird: if you are in the math subject, switching to geography returns this error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at flashcardapp1_fla::MainTimeline/frame3()
at flash.display::MovieClip/gotoAndStop()
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I am making my first website in flash based on frames. When you go to an other frame the Stage fades out. When you enter the frame you see nothing at all. So how can I clear the stage when entering the frame or even better it fades into the frame with clearing the objects & code of the previous frame.[code]...
View 1 RepliesI have added some movie clips to the stage using addChild method on Some Mouse Events.Now on an event say Mouse Double Click I want to clean the stage.I checked the Stage class from reference it does not have any method called clear.Neither I have stored the references of the objects, so that i can clear them using removeChild()
View 1 RepliesI am making my first website in flash based on frames. When you go to an other frame the Stage fades out. When you enter the frame you see nothing at all. So how can I clear the stage when entering the frame or even better it fades into the frame with clearing the objects & code of the previous frame.
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/*buttons naar frames*/
homehome.mouseChildren = false;
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This would be done upon click of one of the buttons I have on the stage. That button also needs to execute a different class I have programmed. You can even just tell me what to search under to find out this data.xplanation: I have 2 different classes. Buttons class and Videos class. Buttons class loads the stage with 9 different buttons. Each button is supposed to lead to its own video. (I have the buttons ready with programming to load the video and all of the programming works). The Video class loads the video onto the stage and has the controls for it to play, pause, stop etc (works pretty much..).
View 2 Replieshow to clear the stage of everything I have loaded it with. This would be done upon click of one of the buttons I have on the stage. That button also needs to execute a different class I have programmed. You can even just tell me what to search under to find out this data.
Explanation: I have 2 different classes. Buttons class and Videos class. Buttons class loads the stage with 9 different buttons. Each button is supposed to lead to its own video. (I have the buttons ready with programming to load the video and all of the programming works).
The Video class loads the video onto the stage and has the controls for it to play, pause, stop etc (works pretty much..).
Now, I am not sure what code to put under each of the buttons to clear the stage and load the Video class.
I'm making a OSX-finder-type file browser in CS4.The Structure for the folder and files is being generated by a PHP in a XML, heres an example:(sorry the xml is not sorted, but the command i'm using in php doesn't sort it)
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<root>
<dir name="images">
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I'm working on a game whose background has many layers that each scroll at different speeds.
Inside each layer I have a Sprite, I've started using graphics.beginBitmapFill, but what I've found is that the graphics.clear() function doesn't actually clear the contents set by the previous call to graphics.begin.BitmapFill. Each frame, I adjust the matrix to shift the layer as needed. Then, I call graphics.clear() and graphics.beginBitmapFill() with the adjusted matrix. Since my layers have alphas in the bitmap, I can see the contents that was drawn the previous frame.
I have two symbols. player and wall. The player symbol has a custom made class.For some reason a player object on the stage is a child of the stage but the wall objects are not. Why are the wall objects not children of the stage?
View 3 Repliesim making a game and it has enemies randomly spawning at the top of the screen going down to the bottom, so far it all works fine, except for when i try to remove the enemies I get this erro.[code]
View 1 RepliesI am trying to addChild(displayObject) via a class, and nothing appears when I add it to the stage.
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I have been using a lot of swapChildren, setChildIndex,addChild, removeChild on stage and also a lot switching children when buttons rollover and rollout. I want to know is there a method to trace or keep track of all the depth of children in the output panel??
View 2 Replieswhat could I write to display how many/what children are on stage and it be displayed in the output window in a trace statement?
View 3 RepliesHow do I get a list of all the children (Sprites) on the stage of my Document Class OR how can I get a list (length) of all the children (Sprites) of a parent (Sprite)?
View 1 RepliesWhat I'm trying to do is just iterate through stage children and trace out what the child is and the index. Here is some code.the problem area seems to be the actual recurseStage() call at the end. As well as the if statement before that. I know not all children will have the property .numChildren but I'm not sure what to use instead. This should be an easy fix but my brain just isn't helping me out right now.
View 1 RepliesI added children to the stage on frame 1, however they still exist on frame 2 even though there is no code there. Can I erase the stage? Or do I have to throw every object into an array and use removeChild in a loop?
View 2 RepliesI am creating an AIR nativeWindow. I am adding two children, an HTMLLoader and a Sprite. The child Sprite has two children, a TextField and a Sprite that will be used to draw. I have set stage.scaleMode = "noScale" and stage.align = "TL", which the HTMLLoader seems to respect. However, the child Sprite scales its children whenever I set a height.
public function BaseWindow(){
var winInit:NativeWindowInitOptions = new NativeWindowInitOptions();
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How do I prevent the distractor Sprite from scaling its children?
I am trying to trace stage.name in child view after addChild:
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextField;
public class TestView extends TextField {
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I am trying to add children to a dynamically added swf file, using AS3, before I add it to stage
Here is the code I have thus far,
AS3:
var mLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(glo.bal.base_url+"videos/vid_1.swf");
mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler_one);
mLoader.load(mRequest);
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Inside the vid_1 swf there is a movie clip called box_one, I would like to append a image to box_one, and only have the swf added to stage after the image file has been added to box_one.
I am working in on a Flex / Air application (using PureMVC) written virtually entirely in ActionScript 3 (i.e. we use very little of Flex). View components are added to a Canvas object in the main application window and these Views then load other movie clips, images files, etc.When I remove a View from the stage, I do so using application.canvas.removeChild(). This fires an event in my PureMVC mediator for that View, which removes any event listeners that were set up and everything appears to be dandy.However, the movie clips are still playing in the background. They are not causing any trouble on screen but they are simply there, playing somewhere in memory (e.g. I can see trace statements from them) and I want them gone. I suspect the View that was removed from the Canvas is still there too, but I can't prove it.
Setting the View to null doesn't do anything. I'm surprised that AS3 doesn't include any method to simply and effectively destroy a Display Object and all of its children.Is the only way to do this to tediously unload all of the movie clips, etc. and then hope that Flash will clean them up?
I have 9 movie clips which are all of the same object, they get larger or smaller as the mouse gets closer to their respective centers. The functionalilty for this is in an AS3 class file that extends flash.display.MovieClip.How do I go about swapping depths so that the largest one is in the foreground, I am new to AS3 and dont seem to be able to find a way of getting the depth of the movieclip I am currently inside (this) and if I try to access the stage to call swapChildren I get the following runtime error:
View 6 RepliesI have 2 swf files. One is loaded and loading an externally loaded swf into it.Here is the code in the first loaded swf: #1
var logo:Loader = new Loader();
logo.load(new URLRequest("images/Logo.png"));
logo.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadLogo);
function LoadLogo(e:Event):void
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EDIT:I am having major SANDBOX issues now when I make the clip load from an external URL. I am also coding for an ANDROID using FLASH CS5.5. Its not allowing me to use Security.allowDomain("*");
In this game attached I need the old Children (rats) to hurt the character when he walks into them, however only the most recently added Child is active in that way... also the rats seem to appear above the character instead of below, is there any way to resolve these issues??
View 4 RepliesI have a Sprite called pageContent. Inside pageContent are 12 more Sprites with unique names, a couple of Buttons, and some TextFields. Inside each of the 12 Sprites I have either one or two TextFields and one TextInput. My question is, since they are children inside a child of pageContent, how can I access them? Here is how I am trying to do it:
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In my mind, this should totally work. But surprise, surprise, it doesn't. I have debugged it and it works fine for the first two lines, but when it tries to get numChildren of a Child of pageContent (line 3), I get this error: PHP Code: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property numChildren through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.
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doesnt clear the line when mc1 moved ? How solve tihs problem?
I want to have a rollover effect of a movieclip (mo1) inside a movieclip (mo) of another movieclip (popup1).Is it possible to do that? I try calling it using this code in the frame 1 of my flash, am i doing wrongly?
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popup1.mo.mo1.onRollOver = function() {
popup1.mo.mo1.gotoAndStop(2);
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I'm slightly new to Flash CS3 + AS3 combo, so its more of a lack of practice question. My question stems from the problem described here http:[url].... . Note, its not the same problem, its a new one.The Problem ,So I have multiple library assets (which are on teh stage) and I want to assign similar functionality to all of them.
Attempt 1: So I create the n assets, create a custom class in AS3, link them to Flash CS3 and obviously enough it gives me the error that multiple assets can't be linked to the same class.Obvious enough to understand (well not completely, because from a programmers background it doesn't make sense).
Attempt 2: Same as attempt 1, but instead of linking all the assets to the same class I make the base class the same class, and let the derived class be dynamically created by Flash on compile time.So the linking works, but the problem is, in my base class I have a method which does something (say an tween) on a child of the library asset. So if the assets on the stage/library are called asset1, asset2, asset3 (same name for asset name, class name, id name), each of them has a sub-movieclip called ... say 'foo'. now if I manually wrote a class for each asset, I could do 'this.foo' to play with the sub-movieclip. However since this functionality is in the parent class, I'm unable to do it.
P.S. If you're form a programming/OOP background, its basically a abstract class problem. My Base class knows how to doSomething(), but it needs aSomething, which is defined in the Derived classes. However I found out that AS3 classes don't support virtual(C++ )/abstract (Java) in the true sense of the word (unless I missed some obvious documentation).