So I have a movie clip that will be composed of a few photos (one on each frame). And under that movie clip on the stage I will have arrow buttons. When a user clicks on the arrow button I would like the next frame) to show up. How can I point my actionscript3 to the movie clip to control the timeline in the MC file?
View 4 Repliesi have a movie clip of scissors cutting. 2 instances of it on stage, "scissorsRL" and "scissorsLR". i have the following code attached to the left scissors:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x = _x + 10;
if (this._x>=920) {
stop();
}
}
and similar code on the right.what i am trying to do is to get the 2 scissors instances to "start over" when the start over button is released. but, if you look at the attachment, you see what it is doing (the scissors are not animating, just increasing or decreasing _x values - i don't understand why.
the code i have on the start over button is this:
on (release) {
setProperty("scissorsRL", _x, "100");
setProperty("scissorsLR", _x, "700");
}
I am loading a MC in frmae 3 of the main timeline. In the MC, there's a button which I would like when pressed to run the main movie at frame 2. Below is the code.[code]I cannot get the gotoAndPLay bit to work. I;ve tried sooo many combinations (parent, _parent, this._parent etc etc) but to no avail.
View 7 RepliesI have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
View 1 RepliesI have an emptyMovieClip and a button on my stage. I'd like to control the alpha of the button depending on whether a movieclip is loaded into the emptyMovieClip or not. I'm just a beginner at Flash and have little programming experience.
if a movie is loaded in the emptyMovieClip, button alpha = 100%
else button alpha = 0%
I have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
View 1 RepliesBasically what I'm trying to do is have one button move two objects, each at different speeds. My first object is called "bg" the second is called "test." I have two buttons, "left" and "right" and when they are clicked on, only the "test" object moves. Here's the code I'm using:
function onRollOver():Void {
if (bg._x<gLEFT) {
bg._x = gLEFT;
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I am wanting to create a button that, when pressed, will make an image move along the X axis. However, I want several other buttons to move that object along the X-axis to other locations regardless of where it is currently.
I want the object to move from one spot to a second spot, stop, and then move from that new location to either its previous spot or a new spot.
Basically having multiple buttons controlling where 1 or more image goes. I have seen banners that will scroll horizontally when you click different Menu buttons. The banner slides along the X-axis and stops to reveal the name of the new page on the banner (i.e. Home, About Us, Contact Us, etc.). When another menu button is pressed, the banner slides again to reveal the new title page name (ie. Home, etc).
I'm working on a picture of cell phone, which I want users to be able to click on the number pad and have the numbers appear on the screen. Seems simple enough but I'm having trouble making the numbers appear in order just like phones in real life do. For instance, the screen starts with four *'s until "1" is clicked, then when the next number is clicked(let's say 3) I want the screen to display "13**" and so on.What I have is a movieclip with 11 frames (* and numbers 0 to 9), and 4 copies of them are each named p1,p2,p3,p4. They would be on the cell phone "screen" and display numbers clicked by the user. Then I have buttons acting as number pad with actionscript as follows:
ActionScript Code:
//for button "1"
on (release) {
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I made an empty movie clip and named it "container" and then I made a button.. Here's the code for the button in main movie..
on (release){
container.loadMovie("movie1.swf");
movie1.play();
}
Then I put stop(); on the first frame of the swf to be loaded. What I want is to play movie1 by pressing the button in the main movie..
How do I create and control a line of text that i turned into a button. I want to have a selected state built into the button. is that possible? Previously I created a light next to the text that changes color or highlights when the button had been selected, but I would like the text to change color when it is selected and have script that I can use to reset the button state when another button is selected.
Current button:
Actionscript Code:
S1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,click_S1);
function click_S1(evt:Event):void {
Truck.gotoAndStop(16);}
I'm in the process of designing this site as a portfolio for my art and am in the process of creating and laying out the galleries. My idea was to create movie clip animated buttons that would react to the roll over stuff. I got that part to work the way I wanted it. But now, I can't seem to figure out how to put a "Gotoandplay" type of code on the buttons so that the timeline would jump to the appropriate frame and play. (I put an "on(release) gotoandplay" on it the way I would put it on a button but it never responds. I have a couple of buttons that work fine with a "geturl". so I thought a "gotoandplay" would work fine. If this can be figured out in a way that I can easily use it for all buttons with just the frame number needing alteration, that would be best. After you click the splashpage door jpg, there will be a piece of paper on the floor. That is a button which should trigger the animation that starts at frame 114. When clicked, the page lifts up and spread open to two pages. But it never reacts
[URL]
But how should I adapt such to control a movieclip called mcGlider from a button on the main timeline.
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click);
function btn1Click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var url:String = "http://www.awebsite.com/awebpage.html";
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What I am trying to achieve is have one movie clip containing a button control the timeline of another movie clip.I know how to get a button to control the timeline of it's current movie clip, however, getting a button to control the timeline of a seperate clip seems to evade me.
View 6 RepliesI have a main timeline and on frame 6 I have a game1_mc to be controlled from the main timeline, that has start drag on it. The cursor changes to a hand but the movieClip won't drag. Could someone tell me how to get this to work? After trying many things, I currently have on a frame on the main timeline:
game1_mc.purpleTri.onPress=function() {
this.startDrag();
}
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I have 7 buttons on my stage (buttonA, buttonB, etc) all MC's. I would like to control the RollOver, RollOut & CLick with AS3. At first I thought I could just tell my button Listener where to go
i.e. gotoAndStop(2) which is RollOver state.
or gotoAndStop(3) which is Click state.
and gotoAndStop(1) which is RollOut state.
But when I "Click" and then rollout, I need the button to stay "clicked" until some other button is "clicked".
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.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to control Speed of timeline with button or Slider?
View 2 RepliesWhat I am trying to achieve is have one movie clip containing a button control the timeline of another movie clip. I know how to get a button to control the timeline of it's current movie clip, however, getting a button to control the timeline of a seperate clip seems to evade me.
Re: Question: AS3 Button controling timeline of movie clip.
here is the coding I am using too:
but_shows.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown);
function onMouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void{
_root.mainContainer.gotoAndStop(2);
}
it says that I have an error:
Symbol 'ribbon_menu', Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 20 1120: Access of undefined property _root.
but_shows is located in a movie clip called Ribbon_menu that is trying to go to and play x fram in a movieclip called mainContainer.
Both Ribbon_menu and mainContainer are located on the root timeline.
I wonder since the button scripting is located in Ribbon_menu and not the main timeline is the _root command confusing itself with the root of the stage, or the stage of the ribbon_menu movieclip!
how to control the visibility of certain buttons from an external file (like scroll bars). I have been able to do this with button function using a loaded variable and if statements on button release, but I have been unable to replicate this with visibility. I really need the button to be visible or not from the initial load of the .swf file. Any suggestions? I currently have to open flash and change the action script within the flash file and export a new .swf, and I want to be able to do it by changing a .txt file.
View 1 RepliesI have a spreadsheet represented with three bitmaps within mcs. I'm using an mc with four directional buttons to allow scrolling (x and Y). The complication comes when I want the header to move on the x axis, but not the y axis. Also, I've got an mc with the row title column and I want that to move on the y axis, but not the x axis. This should be easy, but it is not for me. I've tried using an array, but with my onEnterFrame/incremental movement, how to break out of the onEnterFrame. I've also tried a function call as seen below. I can get things to move, but not quite right, tweaking only makes things worse. This one will move both of my mc's on the y axis, but only after clicking three times. The on the reverse trip, the mc moves jumps up and then increments correctly, only with that initial jump offset.
Let me show you my code (these variables are supplied by the loaded MC):
Code:
_level0.maxDown = -271;
_level0.stepY = 140.334;
_level0.maxUp = 150;
_level0.maxRight = -323;
_level0.maxLeft = 0;
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I've got a relatively simple problem with controlling the appearance of a radio button after it's selected. I'm using Flash CS5.5 and AS2. I've got a radio button set up as a two-frame mc, the first frame labeled "on", the second "off". When put on the stage with this code on it, it functions properly:
onClipEvent (load) {
answer = false;
}
Whenever I add additional code to the radio button mc (in this instance, telling an invisible mc in the same frame to gotoAndStop (2)), the radio button stops changing appearance. I've been using the syntax
on (press) {
tellTarget ("_root.OtherMC.OtherMC_2") {
gotoAndStop (2);
I have this following class attached to some of my buttons to simply control the roll over and out states, as well as the click event. But i want to use the same class on my buttons but would like to control a movieclip outside of the button somewhere else on the stage etc.
put simply: Clicking my button 'moveLeft' will move a movieclip left let say:
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I have a movie clip on the main stage- inside that movie clip is a button- I want that button to contol a function on the main timeline-
example: Button Script
closeAll_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, goCloseAll);
function goCloseAll(e:MouseEvent):void {
****don't know what to put here to activate "closeAllOpenMovieClips" function on main stage****
}
example: Main Stage Timeline Script
function closeAllOpenMovieClips():void { trek_mc.gotoAndStop(1); lost_arts_mc.gotoAndStop(1); rain_mc.gotoAndStop(1); vintage_mc.gotoAndStop(1);}
***don't know if I need more script on Main Stage Timeline that just "function" ***
I seem to be getting this error message when I click on any of my button which are controlling the sound in my animations.
ArgumentError: Error #2068: Invalid sound. at flash.media::Sound/play() at Conventional1_fla::MainTimeline/pSound()
My sound is working and all the buttons are working as wel but this error message keeps popping up in the out frame.
stop()
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
var loadSnd: URLRequest = new URLRequest("");
var Snd:Sound = new Sound();
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the method for stopping/playing sound in 2.0 don't work for 3.0. i can stop the sound by going to a different page/frame on the site.but i want the buttons.
1. play button?
2.stop button?
3.mute button?
Note the button at the top called portfolio, on mouseover this button should loop through the "mouseover" label section, and when the user takes the mouse off of it it should continue to play through what it has started, and stop at the begining of the mouseover labelwhen the user clicks on the button it should play through the "trans" label (only once) and begin to loop at the label section "current" when the user goes to another section, for example, clicks another button besides portfolio, the animation should stop on the label "visited" my code for it to loop looks like this (on the invisible button over the movie clip)
on (rollOver) {
portfolioBtn_mc.gotoAndPlay("mouseover");
}
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I'm just trying to find the right action scrip for instance on my button to control the movie clip it is within.I have currently tried..
on (press) {
mc_lexisnexis_main.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
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i have two MC with two swf files loading into them on my main file. what i am trying to do is have buttons in one MC move something in the my 2nd mc. i know that the _root. will work for controlling my main file but I'm don't know how to go about controlling anything inside of other movie clips.
View 5 RepliesI have 4 buttons in a mc (go to frames and then call up individual swfs (one, two etc)) and play within mc eg.
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A person can start any swf by clicking a button and then change the swf by clicking another button.
Is there a way to check if a .swf is running and only work when none are running?