I've got some quick code here. Basically, i'm trying to control the visibility of a single movie clip at the click of one button. One Click makes it disappear, the other brings it back again. Nothing i've tried seems to work.
ActionScript Code:
/* logic
make 1 variable
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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 created a timeline with visibility button against each column. The timeline.swf is loaded into two empty movieclips to create a two-screen operation. Everything works fine except, I cannot for the life of me get the visibility button on the first swf to affect the visibility for the column on the second swf.
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I have recently started using AS3 and can't seem to get to grips with some basic syntax for parent/root navigation. My problem is, I have an intro movieclip on the stage that plays first, when that is done i want some code on the last frame that navigates to another movieclip on the main stage to set its visibility to true. i have tried mMovieclip(root).mOther.visible = true; and a lot of other variations. Do i need to set them up as children? or something else.
View 3 RepliesI have a series of movie clips that are named image1, image2, image3, etc. And I need to modify their visibility with a loop (make them all visible=false), but I just can't seem to get it right...
View 1 RepliesHow could I get a bunch of randomly created (AND LOCATED) MovieClips to move away from the mouse coordinates when I click. In a shockwave pattern. From the center to the outside. Clearing a minimum radius of 50 pixels from the mouse click position.
I have no codes to show because I have NO idea how to calculate the movement. So that's my problem. I can get the mouse coordinates when I click, even calculate the radius that needs to be cleared, and detect any MovieClips inside it. But I don't know how to calculate where they would move to start the motion.
When I have a movie clip on stage and assign the peoperty like:mv_mc._visible = true /falset either shows or hide the movie clip. What I have on the stage is just a Graphical Element and Visibility is just an property.
View 1 RepliesJust new to As3. I can't set visibility of movieclip inside another movieClip
ActionScript Code:
player.vidImage.visible = true;
trace(player.vidImage); // shows - [object SimpleButton]
tracing player.vidImage show [object SimpleButton]. But can't set visibility true.
VidImage is physically placed inside player MovieClip.
this concerns flash cs5 and the timeline.Everybody knows the effect you get when you use appendText() to add text to a multiline dynamic textfield, right ? Well, I have a movieClip as a container, and I would like dynamic textfields to populate this movieclip in the same manner as textStrings would populate the dynamic Textfield.
How would this work?I have buttons that trigger addChild() function so as to populate the movieclip with textfields, but how do I make sure that the textfields make up an arbitrary list as a menu user chooses which buttons to click?
Let's say this is the visible text when the swf runs.(I cut away some of the code to make this more to the point):
var buttonTrace:TextField=new TextField;
addChild(TextClip.buttonTrace); buttonTrace.x=0;
buttonTrace.y=0;
buttonTrace.text="Breadcrumbs";
Now for each time I click a button in the menu I've made, a new textfield appears with the name of the button. This is how I want it. BUT......... How do I control the display properties and positioning of dynamic textfields within a movieclip ? How do I control persistent visibility, and how do I make these textfields appear one after the other in the order they were clicked.
i have dynamic buttons in movieclip and i want the movieclip goto 2nd frame once some one click single movieclip while rest remains in 1st frame.the movieclips can be in arrayi have some code here:
Actionscript Code:
var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();for(var i:int = 0 ; i < numberOfButtons;i++){ var btn:MovieClip = new button();
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I am loading an external swf into an empty movie clip by use of a button.The movieclip is a sort of menu that begins with an animation of the menu opening, there are multiple different movieclips I am using with this format.What I am trying to accomplish is this.When another button is pressed, I want the movieclip (regardless of which one is loaded) to either:Go to a specific frame and play a closing animation within the movieclip, BEFORE a new movieclip is loaded. OR reverse the animation BEFORE loading new movieclip.Since there are 4 or 5 buttons all loading different clips, I need all the buttons to work this way regardless of which movieclip is loaded.
View 3 RepliesI have a Movieclip on the Timeline with my all buttons in it called 'Controls'.I want these buttons to control a Movieclip which is in Movieclip in a Movieclip in a Movieclip in a Movieclip.[code]I want to control the Movieclip Hole (The Movieclip's instance name is Hole_View)Movie within that instance is called Hole_Mov.Everything has an instance as per properties panel and labeled correctly, but I'm getting a "1120:Access of undefined property" or "You're a Douche" error on my buttons and the movie itself.Also, is it best practice to load external swfs into a movieclip? - does this help Flash automatically unload the retired movie when another external swf has been called.[code]
View 0 RepliesSo im creating a site for a friend and I have placed the menu inside a movieclip so the buttons are inside the movieclip. This the script i have tried :
Code:
stop();
natural1.onRelease = function () {
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I'm loading assets from a swc and I need to loop through every frame of the movieclip and find a certain instance so I can colorize it. Is this possible? It seems that with a swc I loose the ability to control the movieclips playback. It just plays and repeats no matter what I do.
View 4 RepliesI've few movieclip from library that will add to stage, inside of the movieclip have some mc that I want to control it, here is my script.
if (selectDiffText.text == "Collection 1 Easy")
{
var c1_easy:cartoonEasy = new cartoonEasy();
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let say if c1_medium is added to stage, c1_medium will also randomly added 1 of the movieclip from library on it.
inside of the playGame mc, I've mouseTarget.alpha = 0;...how can I control it from root level? c1_easy also have the mouseTarget.alpha=0 too.
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.
View 9 RepliesI have buttons that load movie clips when you mouse over them and unload the movie clips when you mouse out.[code]the problem is that the movie clips aren't necessarily playing from the beginning when you mouse over, since their timeline is independent.How can i specify that I want to add the instance of the movie clip to play from frame 1.I've tried using the gotoAndPlay method with the frame number/ label in parenthesis afterwards and got an error message..I've looked through multiple tutorials on controlling symbols using AS, and i still can't get this to 'click' for me.[code]
View 3 RepliesI am using start drag to control an mc of a map which all works fine, this MC can be zoomed using a slider which also works fine. I have defined a bounding box in the usual way.
map_mc.startDrag (false, new Rectangle(0,0,500,500));
But when map_mc is zoomed in its size go beyond the bounding box's limit and obviously reacts unpredictably. I would like to put the rectangle size in a var which I can then scale with the map so that the mc is never bigger than the bounding box.
Code:
Select allvar rectangle;
number = (0,0,1000,1000)
I am having trouble controlling sound instance on the main timeline from with a movieclip.
On the main timeline contains the following code:
root.createEmptyMovieClip("beat_mc", 100);
beat = new Sound("beat_mc");
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The main timeline will render the sound at the volume 10 value. However, I anticipated the volume to be set at a 100 from the Jukebox's controller.
It would seem logical that the jukebox code should respond to the instance "beat", but it doesn't.
I have Flash 8 set to Actionscript 1.0.
On the main timeline I have a graphic of a hill and tree that darkens when clicking a button. I also have a movieclip called "creature" that has a little creature walking from one end of the stage across to the other. I need a script that will control the brightness of the "creature" movieclip at the point where the main timeline animation goes dark because the "creature" movieclip sticks out like a sore thumb at that point and needs to be darkened.
Is there a way to capture what movieclip that have been clicked so I don't have to wright a new "nextFrame" function for every clip
myClip_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overMyClip)
myClip_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, overMyClip)
function overMyClip(event:MouseEvent)[code].....
This one works:
Code:
SomeNumber1 = new Number(1);
SomeNumber2 = new Number(3);
object1_subObject3._alpha = 50;
And this one doesn't:
Code:
SomeNumber1 = new Number(1);
SomeNumber2 = new Number(3);
this["object"+SomeNumber1+"_subObject"+SomeNumber2]._alpha = 50;
If I try to trace the "movie clip" in the second code I get "undefined"....
I'm trying to build a simple slideshow with AS3 consisting of one movie clip which should be controlled backwards and forwards using simple buttons. I can get the slideshow to play forward once but, apart from getting slide 2 to go back to slide 1, I can't get it to work with the remaining slides.
View 11 RepliesI've just swiched over from FL8 to FL CS4 (3 days ago). I'm learning AS3 at the moment but am on a deadline with a project (a bit over it actualy) which uses AS3
I have a movieclip (container_mc) on the main timeline which holds all the animation and a timer (timer1_mc).When container_mc reaches frame 2 it stops and a timer (timer1_mc) starts running.When the timer finishes, container_mc should continue to the next frame.The code I have to do that (from the timer1_mc) is:
if (d> 260) {
parent.container_mc.nextFrame();
trace("blabla");[code]....
This doesn't work, it gives me the error 1119: Access of possibly undefined property container_mc through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.
I'm using the new 3D tool in flash to let pictures rotate around there center. To not let it look distorted I will have to adjust the vanishing points for these images separately, however I can't find an option to control them separately. The seem linked for all my 3D movieclips. This will result in having only 1 moviclip animated right. So the question is: how do I control the vanishing points for each movieclip separately?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to controll my movieclip with my buttons in Actionscript 2. I have a loop in my movieclip, it goes frame 1-20 over and over again. I want the button to move it to frame 21 and play it onwards from there. How do I do this?
View 1 RepliesI 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{
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I have four buttons currently set up to do all sorts of stuff in a flash file. What I'd like to do is have them all point to the currently displayed movie clip on my main timeline.
At the moment they're set up to test the addChild and removeChild functionality I've written and it seems ok. I would like to trigger removeChild and addChild by the last frame in a movie clip and have my buttons send a play command to my movie clip. That way the clip plays to the end before removing itself and adding a new movie clip.
The movie clip that I would like to trigger the addChild and removeChild functions is actually one of four movie clips so I need to declare play(); and send it to the current movie clip regardless of which one is on the stage. I was thinking about declaring a variable to contain my movie clip so that I can just say play(awesomeMovieClipVariable); and awesomeMovieClipVariable will be equal to the currently loaded movie Clip. I can't figure out how to declare a variable and send my movieClip in to the variable.
if(sceneTracer = 2);
variableName = mc_copy1
if(sceneTracer = 3);
variableName = mc_copy2
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I have added frame labels to the final frame of each instance of mc_copy1 mc_copy2 and mc_copy3 to allow a conditional statement something like... if (current frame of that movie clip = frame label) but I don't know how to set that up...
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?
I have a text movieclip (service_mc) on the stage for which I need to control 4 different _xpositions (_x = 0, _x = -700, _x = -1400, x = -2100) with 4 button mc's (btn_one, btn_two, btn_three, btn_four).
For these four buttons I already declared the Over, Out, Release and Restore stage in a function:
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What I like to accomplish is to control the _x positions of "service_mc" with the same buttons. I mean when btn_one is pressed service_mc should go to _x = 0, when btn_two is pressed the _x position from service_mc should change to _x = -700 etc, etc
How to integrate this possibility in the existing function?