how do you check whether a certain mc or sprite has any children inside it... does the following do the trick?
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if (mc.length > 0)
{
trace ("mc has children");
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Is it possible to alter the width or height of a sprite dynamically without altering the width and height of its children ?
Even when I add children to a Sprite that had its dimensions altered dynamically, these children have their dimensions changed.
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I have sprites with dynamically created children: combo-boxes, buttons, and textfields. The number of children is variable and they're positioned vertically one under the other. If a sprite contains textfields only, its height corresponds to the joint height of all children + the spaces between them. In the case of sprites containing combo-boxes and buttons however, the sprite height is larger.
I may be on the wrong track here, but it seems that what is responsible is the object bounds. E.g. if my button height is 25 and getBounds returns 100, the sprite's height is larger by 75 pixels.The sprites are loaded into a scroll-pane, and depending on their size, the vertical bar is visible (or not). Obviously the above results in situations where a scroll-bar appears even though the entire contents of the sprite is visible, or one scrolls down to an empty space...Is there a way around this problem? Can object bounds be re-sized as well or can I overwrite this '100' value somewhere in Flash itself?
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?
Code:
popup1.mo.mo1.onRollOver = function() {
popup1.mo.mo1.gotoAndStop(2);
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I am trying to duplicate a sprite that I loaded a bunch of images in from an xml.
I even tried senocular's way of duplicating display objects and it just returned an empty sprite.
I'm trying to add some scroll bars to a Sprite using ScrollRect. The Sprite starts empty and when I add something at 500, 500, it should scroll, as it is outside the viewport. Unfortunately, adding a 10x10 Sprite at 500, 500, doesn't make my Sprite change its size to 510, 510, but to 10, 10 ::- (.
We all know that DisplayObjectContainers resize according to what's put in them. But I didn't know up until today that if you put something at 500, 500, the Sprite / DObjContainer will NOT resize from 0, 0 to 500, 500, but simply jump directly at 500, 500. Annoying, as I cannot put Scrollbars on something whose content fluctuates so. I need 0, 0 to remain 0, 0 and if something is placed at 500, 500, the sprite's height should increase with 500 + that something's height.
I have a Bitmap. Let's say it's 100x100 in size. I would like to display that bitmap on a Sprite that for the sake of this example is 100x50. Since the height of the bitmap is double than the height of the sprite - I would have liked the bitmap to be cropped (and to later implement a "scroll-down" mechanism) - HOWEVER, apparently:
1. The size of an "empty" sprite is defined by the size of its first children(s) - once I addChild the bitmap into the sprite - the sprite becomes 100x100 (If I try to define the size of the sprite to 100x50 before adding the child, and then adding it - then nothing is displayed).
2. If I then try to resize the sprite by modifying its Height property - the bitmap get's "scaled-down", or rather "squashed-in" to fit the new size.I'd like the bitmap to retain its original size (and be cropped at the bottom).Can it be done (without copyPixeling to a different bitmap etc.), and if so how?
btw:(3) If after all that I try to scale the bitmap back up (by changing scaleY) - then the sprite itself is again gets scaled and resized with it...
I'm trying to add some scroll bars to a Sprite using ScrollRect. The Sprite starts empty and when I add something at 500, 500, it should scroll, as it is outside the viewport. Unfortunately, adding a 10x10 Sprite at 500, 500, doesn't make my Sprite change its size to 510, 510, but to 10, 10 ::- (.
We all know that DisplayObjectContainers resize according to what's put in them. But I didn't know up until today that if you put something at 500, 500, the Sprite / DObjContainer will NOT resize from 0, 0 to 500, 500, but simply jump directly at 500, 500. Annoying, as I cannot put Scrollbars on something whose content fluctuates so. I need 0, 0 to remain 0, 0 and if something is placed at 500, 500, the sprite's height should increase with 500 + that something's height.
I'm trying to simulate some fade in/out effects in Action Script 3 programmatically, using Timer class and controlling alpha property of the specified DisplayObject in time. In general it works and looks great. As I was expecting. But after I add some more child DisplayObjects to the parent Sprite it starts to behave weirdly. Children seem to not fade at the same rate as parent object and it visually noticeable, and ugly. There seems to be a short lag after parent already started to fade out and before children actually follow. Are there any additional measures I should take to avoid that? I do alpha manipulation only on parent object. I thought that'd be logical...
View 2 Replieslook at the following codes first
var sp:Sprite = new Sprite();
trace( sp.width ); // the result will be 0
var mc:DefinedMC = new DefinedMC(); // assume that DefinedMC is derived from movie clip, and the width of mc is 100
sp.addChild(mc);
trace( ap.width ); // the result will be 100
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so the size of an instance of Sprite is affected by its children.is there any class derived from DisplayObjectContainer whose size is not affected by its children, or is there any method that could make the size of Sprite is not affected by its children.
If I change some value for a parent sprite, the same value will affect all of its children. So if I set alpha or width on the parent, the child will automaticly get the same value.
View 4 RepliesI'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)
Code:
<root>
<dir name="images">
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Is it possible to resize a movieclip without stretching the contents of the movieclip??? I'm having the most frustrating time trying to do this.
View 5 RepliesMy question is: Set parentSprite.visible = false will make all children in parentSprite all invisible, right? And is there any way to just make parentSprite itself invisible without effecting it's children?
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a SmartVersioning ad using MediaMind using ActionScript 2 (the publisher doesn't allow AS3).
Skipping over how it's implemented - basically what I have is a collection of MovieClips on the main timeline that contain a swappable image (through the Smart Versioning service). You can only define objects as Smart Versioning objects if they are on the main timeline.
What I'm doing with this is using BitmapData to use the assets on the main timeline as a source for the graphics throughout the animation.
Should be as easy as:
import flash.display.BitmapData;
var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(143, 230, true, 0);
bmd.draw(_root.person1);
attachBitmap(bmd, getNextHighestDepth());
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I have this flash timeline with an empty movieclip in it. And i have some button that attaches an 'actionscript-exported' movieClip from the library..[code]Now...each time i press that button, the 'some_mc' loads. Is there some clever way of checking if the movieclip has already loaded, so that it doesn't load if it's already loaded.[code]
View 6 RepliesI have a series of movieclips placed on the stage, that I have all given the same base class. When a movieclip is clicked, they scale up to 100%, and when clicked again, they scale back to their initial scale.What I would like, is to make it so that if another movieclip has already been scaled up previously, that movieclip will scale back down to it's original size, before the other movieclip that has just been clicked on, scales up. This is the basic code I currently have for all my movieclips:
Code:
private function fullImage(event:MouseEvent):void
{
parentX = MovieClip(parent).x;[code].............
when I have one movieclip mc1, mc2 is child movieclip in mc1. How can i copy mc1 to mc1_1 with all children movieclip ? if i use attachMovie or duplicateMovieClip, i only copy mc1 without mc2.
View 3 RepliesHow can i check if a click was on the stage (not on a other object in front of the stage - just on a place where no other object is - directly on the stage) OR on a movieclip (name "mcSlideHolder") like i'm trying here?
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How can i check if a click was on the stage (not on a other object in front of the stage - just on a place where no other object is) or on a movieclip (name "mcSlideHolder")?
function onMouse_Down(e:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("MouseDown occured");
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My Problem is, that e.target.name is null, when clicking on the stage. When clicking on the mcSlideHolder e.target.name is "instance235".
The reason I am trying to check to see if a movieclip is on stage or not is to remove it when someone clicks another section of the navigation. say they click work_mc, then they click a button in work_mc, this launches workss_mc. I want to check on the navigation is workss_mc is on the stage or not, if so remove it. This is what I have so far but it doesn't seem to be working..
Code:
nav_mc.skillsbtn_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick3);
function buttonClick3(event:MouseEvent):void{
var workss_mc:mc_workss;
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I got a very short question but I can't seem to find it on the internet (might be because I'm using the wrong terms). Is it possible to listen with a listener when a movieclip has been resized? I know there is a listener to do this with the Stage object. If this is not possible: do I have to make an interval that constantly checks if a movieclip is resized?
View 4 RepliesHow can I check if my mouse is hitting a movie clip...
View 4 Repliesif you have a movieclip nested inside another clip, and you scale the parent clip, how do you see what the nested clips new sizes is?
so i have a circle(50x50) movieclip nested inside a container clip.
i scale the container clip, and then trace the nested circles width and still get a width of 50, the question is.... how do i get the size of the scaled circle, and not its original size?
I'm trying to make a Flex Tree Component display the children of a sprite in a hierarchical way. Moreover, dragging the items on the FlexTree would resort and reparent the items. I have special Elements set as Folders. This would allow other elements to be added there as a children by dragging an element on the tree and dropping it there. I have a failed attempt which works, but breaks when I try to add folders. Basically, it fails at reparenting the items by dragging and resorting folders and that Does anyone know of a component or something which can do this, has anyone have created any of this or could anyone give me a clue?
View 1 RepliesI have an movieClip Container and I want to move all its children into an Array.i think about the method I used to delete all children of a container by using while and removechild at 0, but I think it wont work in this situation.
View 2 RepliesIs there a way that I can obtain the name of a clip's children just like I can obtain the name of it's parent by using _parent?
Basically, I have a whole bunch of MovieClips that I have created through a function that parses an XML file. Basically, it's a custom-made Tree.
I have them all set up in their proper horizontal and vertical positions, but the one thing I'm having trouble doing is closing a branch on it. I've tried storing values in arrays to help me sort all the MovieClips on the Stage, but I must confess that I'm not good with arrays at all, so is there some sort of obscure function somewhere that can return the child clips, so I can do something like:
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myMC.onRelease = function():Void {
if (myMC.hasChildMovies() == true)
for (var i:Number = 0; i < myMC.childMoviesArray.length; i++){
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Pausing, stopping and playing movieClip (MC) children. I am making SWFs that an interface will load and control (pause, re-start, stop, etc.). Then the interface is paused, the main MC will pause but not it's child MCs. I didn't write the interface, I am just supplying SWFs that are loading into the interface. The developer of the interface willn't allow me to use animated MCs in my SWFs since he can't control them with the interface. So all my animation need to be on the main time line, which is no optimal to say the lease.Can I provide him with some code to allow him to stop the child MCs or is there an Event Listener I could include in the child MCs that would pause, stop, restart, etc when the main MC changes?I currently do not have a fix at this time and since all my animations are on the main timeline, is there a way to select multiple objects (on difference layers) and move and resize them across multiple keyframes?
View 1 RepliesI have a MovieClip that I dynamically add other MCs as children to. Now I'd like to have a function that removes ALL children at once. I tried a loop with (i < mc.numChildren) but somehow it will only remove even-numbered children, the odd ones stay on stage?
View 12 RepliesI use swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2) to switch depth between 2 movieclips from the root level. Everything work just fine....
but when I create a container_mc and place the two movieclips into it then the 1120: nullobject reference error occurs?? container_mc.swapChildren(mc_1,mc_2);