I have a Flash poetry project in which I have 49 separate dynamic text boxes on stage. Each has a separate instance name - "cell_1", "cell_2", "cell_3" etc. I use the following code to store instance names in an array -
var j:int;
for (j = 1; j < 50; j++) {
instances.push("cell_"+j)
[code].....
I'm slowly climbing the AS3 learning curve, I had a query about converting data stored in an Array:
My flash file contains six movieClips arranged into a grid, each movieClip is named with an instance name, increasing sequentially like so:grid1, grid2, grid3 ... etc
What I'm trying to achieve is to have one of the grid items randomly selected to play a contained animation every 2 seconds.[code]...
i have several button that should navigate to frames in my movie. the button have the same name as the frame's labels i need to convert the buttons' instance names to strings
stop();
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
this.Label1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN ,gotoLabel);
function gotoLabel(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop('label1AsString');
}
Is there a simple way to convert an instance variable to a String?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to turn an string into an instance name.
stage.focus = ["box_"+[i+1]];
this gives me back = box_2;
but I need it to be an object not a string.
In as2 I could use eval. How do I do it in as3?
so here's my problem. I've got an array (wall_inst[]) containing instance names of 3 objects (for now), however they are stored as text strings. I've got a moving 'ball' object too. The problem is, the values contained in the array are text strings and will not behave as instance names, when I try to get object properties off them etc. Eg, I can do this:
[Code]...
how can I convert String to Array(Instance Name)?The code below works fine.
Code:
var gridArray:Array = new Array(sq1_btn,sq2_btn);
gridArray[0].visible=false;
[code].....
I have multiple buttons, I would like, when the user presses a button, the name of that button is displayed as text on another frame.[code]
View 14 Replieshow do convert the myString var which is a string to the class name?
var myString:String = "movieClipInTheLibraryClassName"
var t:myString = myString()
I'm using a library that has a function that returns an instance of some class Engine.
I'd like to tack on some interfaces to Engine, so I subclass it class InterfacedEngine extends Engine implements AwesomeInterface. but when I change the code that uses the classes from this:
var engine:Engine = generateEngine();
to this: var interfacedEngine:InterfacedEngine = generateEngine();
It gives me a runtime error (elision mine):
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert ...::Engine@1bc2bf11 to ....InterfacedEngine.
What about AS3 classes am I misunderstanding?
I have 40 movieclips, with the instance names p[1-40] (for example, p14 or p32). I want them all to do something in order, so I'm using a 'for' loop. In simplified psuedo-code, it looks like:
for 40 {
variable = variable + 1
p[variable]
[code].....
I want to take the following information, which I have as a string in Flash, and convert it into an XML object in AS3:
// information
<list>
<a>
[code].....
var txtI:TextField=new TextField();
txtI.text="Germany";
txtI.gotoAndPlay(2); // so this should mean Germany.gotoAndPlay(2)
I'm trying to convert an variable that contains XML data to a String. Anyone have a clue on how to achieve this?
My main problem is that the XML data is formatted nicely, but I need to store it in the database without the linebreaks and tab stops and whitespaces.
I think converting it into string would work with .toString();, but that doesn't get rid of the XML formatting...
Code:
function f_choosePhoto(photoNum)
{
var photos:Array = ["photo0","photo1","photo2"];
[Code].....
I've cobbled the AS together from a couple of seperate tutorials, and if I replace "new this[path](560, 380);" with "new photo1(560, 380);" it works.
I want to simply some repetitive code like this:
letter1.gotoAndPlay(Math.round(Math.random()*letter1.totalFrames));letter2.gotoAndPlay(Math.round(Math.random()*letter2.totalFrames));letter3.gotoAndPlay(Math.round(Math.random()*letter3.totalFrames));
I want to store letter1... into a string array. so I can call all of them with a loop.
Been searching for a simple way to do this but it's not out there, or is it?
I simply need to convert a sting to an int. The string will be a number, that is a given.
So I am trying to take an XML document, load it in, then organize the elements into an array of Objects with the elements nodes as the properties of each object.All of that I am able to do so far.What is the real problem here for me is when I try to take one of the properties and try to assign it to a dynamic Textbox's .text property.I can trace the object property, but it will not go into a textbox.[code]Also, I noticed that when the code hits the first output error, it never executes the rest of the code in the changeQuestion function; or else I would have gotten more than one output error.
View 3 RepliesIs there anyway to convert an XML to string(whitout the tags) ?
View 5 RepliesI have an array of string values that represent accessors to another array. I need to be able to use those to access the secondary array, so I need to find a simple way to convert the string to the actual array accessor.[code]...
However, it seems like there should be some way to cast the string into AS, that Flash can use to access the proper array, without having to do the complex string.slice statement.
Something like: var str:String = ActionScript(arr3[i]); would be much easier to type, as many times as I'm going to need it, than the .slice statements.
It is possible to converta string to a name?want to make a text to speech project that plays the sounds by name and i use the charAt function to split the text.[code]...
View 9 Replieshow to convert a string to an int...here's the thing when I use Number(myVar) it returns NaN. The string that I am trying to parse has a leading number followed by because I'm using loadVars and in order to make it more readable I'm trying to make a new variable on everyline....how I can do this I just need to remove the
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Is there a way to write a UTF-16 string into a ByteArray in Flash/AS3? Basically I have a string (var test:String="allan"; for example) and I would like to write that into a ByteArray with UTF-16(LE) encoding. In this case it would be "61 00 6C 00 6C 00 61 00 6E 00".
I've tried using utf16le.writeMultiByte( clipText, "utf-16" ); but it just comes out with what appears to be UTF8 (or just straight ASCII given the test string).
I need to convert a string such as "x*y+2" (from an input text field) into an expression x*y+2, so that it can be evaluated normally, eg f=x*y+2. The variables x and y are already defined and can have various values; I need to evaluate the strings as expressions.
I have tried f=Number("x*y+2") but it seems to work only when the string is actually a number such as "1.2e-4".
Is it possible to convert a string to hexadecimal? For instance I have a string that says "Hello World" I want the output to be 48656C6C6F 576F726C64
View 2 Repliesi have a simple dynamic textbox and want to store the TotalTime-property (= seconds of the video) of my video (flvplayback component) into this textbox. how can this super-easy thing be done?
View 1 RepliesIs is possible to convert a string (i.e. "+") to an operator which I can use for a mathematical statement?
View 4 RepliesHow can i convert CDATA string to AS3?For example,
<![CDATA[
trace("String");
function Execute()
{
mc.stop();
}
]]>
i need to execute the trace and Execute function in Flash AS3?
how do we convert string which we get by reading a XML into date type instance value???
so there is a XML which has modifiedDate as an atribute on one node of the XML and how i do put that value into a variable of date instance??
the timeformat in the XML is: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss => 12/31/2010 23:57:46
i choose this time format because i want to use the .parse() method which still cause some error but this is for another topic..
I want to convert a textbox value to numric value and i use a code like this :var n:Number = Number(myTextbox.text);when i trace the variable (n) it gives me 0. although when i trace myTextbox.text , it gives me the right value.
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