ActionScript 3.0 :: Controlling Nested Movieclips?
May 18, 2011
I have an animation of a spinning globe made from 2 maps placed back-to-back and a circular mask over them. The animation loops endlessly to simulate a spinning globe. This animation was made into a movieclip (globeSpin) which is nested inside another movieclip ontainer_mc). I want to stop the spinning effect when a user mouses over and start it up again when they mouse out. Code is below:
Code:
container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, stopSpin);
container_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, startSpin);
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Sep 9, 2011
Looking for a way to stop all movieclips both are the stage and that are children of the ones on the stage.
I toyed with looping thru stage's children so I can first target clips on the stage. But I am getting error.
for (var i:int = 0; i < this.numChildren; i++) if (this.getChildAt(i) is MovieClip)
{
this.getChildAt(i).stop
}}
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Oct 21, 2010
I want to test mc animations without having to hit F12 to see if they work correctly. For instance, if I have an animation movieclip and then I make another movieclip and drop that aforementioned movieclip within, and animate [via the timeline or library preview] I'm unable to see on-the-fly what my animation looks like... it only shows the top most nest, unless I F12 it.
So if I have a character blinking eyes (one movieclip) and then I create another movie clip of the face, and put that aforementioned movieclip within, the preview animation within the library does not show how it'll be viewed when F12'n it.,,,, it'd be great to see your animations on the fly.
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Aug 31, 2010
I am trying to control a movieclip nested in a movie clip from the main timeline, but I can't seem to get it to work. I understand the "." dot notation, but it just isn't working.I googled the crap out of it, but nothing really.Attached is just a simple example I'm trying to get to work. The file is CS4 format.
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Feb 27, 2009
I have a movie clip nested in frame 2 (* = movie clip in frame 2), it looks like this:
[1][2*][3]
When I test the movie it skips over frame 2. What type of action script (AS2) do I need either in the movie clip and/or in frame 2 to get the movie to play before proceeding and stopping at frame 3?
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Nov 22, 2011
I am slowly getting back into flash again and I have an MC (lets call it M_sms) that on a rollover has an animation. I have several of these M_sms on the main stage and there is no problem. The M_sms have also been placed inside a MC (lets call it M_big) that has also been placed on the main stage. M_sms for some reason do not animate on rollover. I have a startdrag/stopdrag on the M_big and that works fine. But the M_sms nested do nothing.
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Jul 16, 2009
I have 3 navigation buttons and an empty movie clip on the stage. Clicking each button loads a 'page' into the empty clip, and each 'page' is a movie clip in the library. When the movie initially loads, the 'home' page movie clip automatically loads into the empty clip on the stage and plays to a frame half-way through. When a navigation button is clicked I want to finish playing the loaded movie clip, remove it, load the new 'page' into the empty clip, and play it (also to the half-way point). I have been able to accomplish everything except getting the name of the loaded 'page' clip and making it play to the end. This is what I have in frame 1 of the main timeline with the code for 1 button:
var homeMovieClip:MovieClip = new homeScene();
emptyMC.addChild(homeMovieClip);
gotoAndPlay(2);
bioButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, bioClickHandler);
function bioClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
[Code] .....
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Feb 29, 2012
I've got a play and stop buttons on the stage which are controlling some 3 nested MovieClips, It controlls Well the MovieClip which is located on the first frame, but when I want to stop/play the other two MC's (frames 2 & 3) I get the following error -
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at jukebox_fla::MainTimeline/playMP3()
I know the problem is that I just can't control any other Nested Instances of a MovieClip Unless it is located on it's First frame. How can I stop/play the other 2 MC's (Frames 2 & 3) by coding from the main stage?
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May 17, 2004
I've got different skins on my flash site. the site becomes skinned when a user clicks a skin button and the related MC's in my movie go to the appropriate labelled frames with the .png graphics for that skin.
I pretty much just use go to and stop for that and it works great on static (non-animated MC's). I've got one situation though where my MC is animated (it slides up and out of the way to reveal content underneath).I need to be able to tell that MC to go to and stop on the correct frame and then STAY THERE! I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it stay there. At present it defaults back to its first frame whenever it is tweened (animated).
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Oct 5, 2009
I have a straight forward flash document where the play head plays from start to finish. The client wants a way to stop and start the animation if time is needed to discuss what is happening on screen. Simple buttons can easily do this if those buttons are not nested.
Code:
stopBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onStopClick, false, 0, true);
playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onPlayClick, false, 0, true);
stopBtn.buttonMode = true;
[Code]....
However, if I make a mouse over pop up movie clip button and place those button inside it, they do not work. I can not find the piece of code that will link these nested buttons back to the main time line.
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May 17, 2004
I've got different skins on my flash site. the site becomes skinned when a user clicks a skin button and the related MC's in my movie go to the appropriate labelled frames with the .png graphics for that skin. I pretty much just use go to and stop for that and it works great on static (non-animated MC's). I've got one situation though where my MC is animated (it slides up and out of the way to reveal content underneath). I need to be able to tell that MC to go to and stop on the correct frame and then STAY THERE! I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it stay there. At present it defaults back to its first frame whenever it is tweened (animated).
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Jul 12, 2010
i've made a drop down menu that works fine as it goes for dropping down when moused over the button which triggers is menu. but when im trying to add functionality which is triggered by the nested buttons that drop down i cant control the frame position of the main timeline does anyone know how i can do this.
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Nov 20, 2009
Using Flash CS4 - AS 3.0
how to control a movie clip using a separate movie clip.
on scene 1 (2 frames long), i have 2 movie clips.
-bFind (24 frames long)
-textEffects (14 frames long)
i want to jump to frame 7 of the textEffect movieClip when i hover over bFind
i have my AS code in the first frame of the movieClip called "Bfind"
Code:
stop();
addEventListener(
MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,
[Code].....
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May 5, 2010
I'm using flash MX 2004 Professional. What im trying to is the following: I have 9 movie clips, each has a "closed" and "open" state. Basically, when I click no.1 I want it to animate open, and then, when I click no.2, it must first check if any of the other clips are in their "open" state and if so, close them. I've worked with the following, but it doesnt seem to be working:
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Nov 18, 2009
is there any way to control the brightness of a movie clip or button on mouse roll over so that it gets brighter when the mouse is on it? I could only find things for earlier versions of AS and i couldnt figure out how to change them..
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Feb 4, 2011
I have a movieclip on the main timeline with instance name "rpm_display". Inside that movieclip I have another movieclip with instance name "dial_graphics". My actionscript is on this timeline. The tween that uses "dial_graphics" drives "rpm_digital.rpm_counter.text" to compute a value based on the tween position of "dial_graphics".
I need to move the movieclip "rpm_digital.rpm_counter.text" outside of movieclip "rpm_display", but it will not work when its on the main timeline. I have tried having it on the main timeline and putting the actionscript there too using "rpm_display.dialgraphics", but this did not work...
should i use _parent? Not too familiar with AS3.
My CODE:
stop();
import fl.transitions.Tween;import fl.transitions.easing.*;import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
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Jul 15, 2009
I am trying to figure out how to control 3 movieClips on the screen via XML. I can successfully control one, but I want to control all 3 if the XML has the values.
Here is my code:
var ducks:Array;
var myLoader:URLLoader;
var i:uint;
var xPos:int;
var yPos:int;
var myXML:XML;
[Code] .....
I think I would need to create some sort of list for each specific node (arrayPos, xPos, yPos, isvis) and then run a for loop so that each movieClips values get assigned properly. I have uploaded the .fla and XML for anyone who wishes to view it.
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Jan 14, 2009
I have a beginner question, apologies for rusty language and incorrect references.I have 3 movie clips on the stage. Their identifiers are 'dim', 'bright' and 'source'. What I want to happen is when the user clicks on the 'dim' movie clip, the alpha of the movieclip 'source' is set to 20. So I tried to write the following:
onClipEvent(mouseDown)
{
_root.source._alpha=20;
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May 14, 2010
How do I control the timeline from a movieclip from within itself?I made a menubutton for a school assignment. To make it, I created a movieclip of the button's graphic, with on the second frame the button again but with the menu open (haven't added anything in it yet).Opening the menu is as easy as
Code:
menu_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,openMenu);
function openMenu(evt:Event):void{
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Dec 6, 2003
I have created 3 movieclip buttons which have a total of 3 states eachUP, OVER and Pressed.What i am wanting to do is create a fuction that will change the state of an already pressed button back to its UP state. For exampleButton one is press and will stay in its state untill button 2 or 3 are presses then it will revert back to its up state.My way of tackling the problem was to target a frame in the movie clip that I wanted to change such as this:
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay("ee");
}
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Aug 5, 2010
I'm building an event calendar as part of a website .The calendar is divided into two sections, "calendar" on the right with the actual calendar displayed, and "calendarContent" on the left, where information about the evnts is supposed to show up. The different frames in "calendarContent" are all labeled. Within "calendar" I have different movieclips for each month, and inside each month I put the buttons that open the event descriptions in "calendarContent."
Now, for some reason it's not working. The function I'm trying is the following:
MovieClip(root).pages.calendarContent.gotoAndStop("artsundays");where "pages" is the name of the parent movieclip that "calendar" and "calendarContent" are both inside, and "artsundays" is the label for the frame in "calendarContent" I want to go to. The function is placed within one of the month movieclips. I get the following error:TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.I've also tried usng MovieClip(parent) instead of MovieClip(root).pages (since "pages" is the parent), as well as a few other variations, but the problem remained.
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Dec 22, 2010
I made a series of nested movieclips, and to stop all motion i wrote this code:
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This code works fine, but can somebody explain how to write this in a more compact way?
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Feb 20, 2011
I am having the following issue with this navigation I am building. I am trying to build a 3 tear drop down navigation, where each buttons sub menu is placed inside that button. My buttons are actually just movieclips, so I have nested movieclips structured something like this:
Button_1
-> Button_1_1
-> Button_1_2[code]....
Each one of the buttons has their own class with it's event listenerens inside it. What happens now, is that when I click for example Button_1_2_1, I get it's event, but also, the event for Button_1_2 and Button_1. Initially, I fixed this, by attaching the events to a hitArea inside that movieclip, but now I am running into other issues and was wondering if there was a way to turn this off, so if movieclip for Button_1_2_1 is clicked, I only get the event for that one, not it's parents?
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Mar 12, 2011
How do you access a nested movieclip? how do you access stuff in mc2_mc or mc2_mc itself from within mc1_mc or maintimeline?
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Dec 19, 2009
I really get stuck with problem, that nested movieclips always scaled when parent movieclip is scaled. Is it possible to disable somehow this?
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Jan 29, 2010
In a application I have a menu MC that slides out nicely from the side as the mouse is over a hotspot. It pops out and stays out as long as the mouse is over the menu.The problem is that in this menu I have child MCs that I want to click on to
do stuff... However when the mouse pointer slides into one of the icons the menu interprets that as a MOUSE_OUT event and slides away.I got it to work with the icons as Bitmap objects but you can't add Mouse events to bitmaps...I could do that by checking if I click inside a bitmap object but that seems ineffective.
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Aug 8, 2010
I'm making a game in which a character walks along a motion guide to the point on the guide nearest the users click. Easy enough.This motion guide is contained within a MovieClip named Sc1.Now, within the motion guide MovieClip the character is a combination of various MovieClips contained in a single MovieClip, which is placed at the beginning of the guide and tweened to the end of the line. This tween and the MovieClip's component's timelines are controlled based on the point of a users click. Furthermore to add a level of 'realism' the character turns to face front, back or sides, based on the gradient of the slope at which it is travelling, giving the illusion of walking towards or away from the screen.All this works fine. The character instance (SWJim) will walk from left to right, turn and stop at the correct point. The character itself behaves too, moving arms and legs as it should.
However, in order to get the character to walk back from right to left, i have used a boolean to flag the timeline as in 'reverse' mode and the prevFrame() function. This raises an interesting problem with the character in which it will move as planned, but won't turn to face the appropriate direction and the character MovieClip won't play (i.e. arms, legs etc. will remain in their default positions). In order to turn, the character has a series of 5 frames in which it faces different directions. A gotoAndStop(); is used to change the direction of the character.I did a bit of searching and it seems that prevFrame() may have been causing the animations to stop because it was in my onLoop() function, called by the ENTER_FRAME event listener. In order to combat this I used a timer instead to call the onLoop() function, but that produced pretty similar results.[code]
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Oct 29, 2010
I'm having problems getting my interface to work. I've set up a simple animation inside a MovieClip, and at one point it diverges into two different paths (like a Choose Your Own Adventure). Trouble is, I need people to be able to click on different nested MCs, and none of them work because I think Flash takes every click as being on the parent clip. The nested clips are on the top layer of the parent clip.
How can I get Flash to recognise these clicks and react accordingly? It should be so simple, but it isn't!
I've tried putting the buttons outside and on top of the parent clip so they override it, but it stuffs up the rest of the animation, because they're visible on the stage the whole way through and I've got everything on one frame so I can't make it transparent until needed. (Even if I could, they take up most of the screen, so you'd constantly be clicking on them accidentally.)
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Dec 12, 2011
I'm having a really hard time trying to get my nested movieClips to align. I have 1 major movie clip called 'game' and inside of it, is a background MC called 'bg' and a box mc named 'box'. I want to get a newChild from the library named 'circle' to attach inside the bg clip but align with the box clip.
set up : game.box - I want my newCircle to align to this MC coordinates. game.bg.newCircle - a newChild will be added to this bg MC and I want it to align with the box MC
Code:
import flash.display.*;
import flash.geom.Point;
var newCircle:MovieClip = new circleClip();
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Nov 3, 2009
Let's say i have a 3 movieclips which are nested one in other like this:A-> B-> CAnd i would like to find out C movie clip (which is in B mc and B mc is in A mc) coordinates relative to global stage, how can i accomplish that?
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