This has been bugging me for a couple days now and I can't seem to figure it out. I'm passing a string variable as a parameter in a function and want to convert that variable to a movieclip. I thought I had the proper syntax but the trace keeps returning null. I've dumbbed down the function for simplicity's sake.
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Building a dynamic map that displays State Senate districts for a US State. Each district is a movie clip that I want to manipulate from a ColorTransform perspective on the flash map. The data that drives the map is being pulled from a php/mysql script. I have built out the actionscript up to the point of being able to trace the name and desired highlight color of the Senate district passed from the php (the passed name corresponds to the movie clip instance name of the district on the flash map). The traces work fine as far as the values of the data passed, one field is the district and the other is the color for the transform. The .as file compiles on the test, but will not treat the variable name used for the passed district as anything other than a String. I get an Error #1069: Property transform not found on String... Have gone through adobe reference pages and have tried every method of type conversion I could find to no avail. I get coerce errors on most attempts to force the String to be an Object.
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I've got a problem with a function i'm using to dynamically move movieclips around - its like this at the mo:
function wjump(number) {
_root.content.aboutus.webwizard.targetY = startPos[number];
}
where startPos is an array with numbers.
I want it to be like this:
function jump(target, number) {
target.targetY = startPos[number];
}
so any clip can be moved as long as it has a targetY variable. But it won't work for some reason. Is there some sort of special syntax i should use like [] brackets? I tried this around the target in function body but it did not work.
I'm parsing out a greensock easing function as a string from an XML (as in "Strong.easeOut"), but then I need to store that in a variable as a Function type to call later. how is this done?
everything else i've found has been how to call a function from a string, as in this["functionName"](). i don't even know if using "this" is the correct scope for a static function in another class?
I'm working on a function that replaces an existing movie clip with a symbol from the library and then designates an "updater" function for the new instance. I have the first part working as intended, but I'm not sure how to approach creating the "updater" function.I've considered using event listeners, but I'm not sure if that is my best option.The following is a excerpt from my code. This code is on the timeline of a movie clip. The movie clip is on the main timeline with an instance name of slideUpPanel_mc.
ActionScript Code:
var window_mc:MovieClip = window_mc; //window_mc as it exists on the timeline
var windowUpdateFunc:Function; //reference to updater function in window_mc
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I have been trying to create a die that acts as a 60 second timer in Flash CS4 using Actionscript 3.0. This involves creating a die and a dynamic textbox that counts from 60 to 0. Both of these parts of the project are fine, however I need to animate the textbox in 3D space to coincide with the die rolling. I believe it is not possible to animate a textbox (from online reading and also trying to do it myself by playing about with Flash) so I have loaded the textbox into a movieclip. As I'm having issues with this I thought it would be good practice to split the project into sub-projects in order to identify the problem. Here is the actionscript 3.0 I have used for the timer/countdown clock:
var newTime:Loader = new Loader();
newTime.load(new URLRequest("SWFs/timer.swf"));
clock_mc.addChild(newTime); //clock_mc is an instance of movieClipContainer which is a new
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I need to instantiate them as instances of a custom class I have created. This is giving me an error, and I know I'm probably missing some simple concept somewhere, doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is.Here is my code:
In the main timeline, I have (simplified):
var puzzleAL:GeoGroup = new GeoGroup ("AL", "Alabama", 1, false);
puzzleAL.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_BEGIN, geoTouchBeginHandler);
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I really have two questions: How do I affect both a movie clip and its child movie clip in the same function? and how do I pull info from one component into a function for another? My basic setup is a movie clip of font choices, one on each frame: "bodyText_mc." Each of these frames has a child clip "bodyText_mc.bodyText" with alignment choices for the font. For instance, the user picks "Script" in the first ComboBox and then picks "Align Right" in the second. (All of this text is static because I need more design control that I can get with dynamic text.)
First of all, I have a combobox "cbBodyFont" that I use to go from frame to frame on movieclip "bodyText_mc." This works nicely:
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The question is, How do you apply a function to a movie clip inside a movie clip inside a movie clip. So there are three mc and I need to apply the function to the inner most one.
Here is what I have. The 'a' is in 'spin_4' wich needs to be in 'portal'.
ActionScript Code:
for(var i = 1; i<=12; i++){
this.spin_4['a_'+i].onEnterFrame = function(){
if(this.hitTest(_level0.man)){
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I'm trying to simulate the coriolis effect and have managed to create a drawing application that lets the user draw on a rotating movie clip. However, I would like to now create an animation that automatically draws a line onto the movie clip which ends up being curved, but I can't figure out how to convert the x, y coordinates of the pixels on the stage to the corresponding x, y values of the movie clip. Here's what I have so far:
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AS3 Movie clip does not have .setMask() method, but it has .mask property. What is the syntax to set a mask on movie clip A (mcA) using movie clip B (mcB) mith .mask parameter in AS3?
mcA.setMask(mcB); // does not work in AS3 (no setMask() method any more)
mcA.mask = mcB; //does not do the job either
I want to loop through a movie clip and assign a function to each of the clip's child movieclips. when i do a for...in loop and then do a typeof() trace I get "string" and obviously it won't let me assign lets say 'onRollOver' functions to the children.
View 6 RepliesI have a fla with an array of radio buttons in it. named rb0_0, rb0_1, rb0_2 ..... etc. up to rb7_4. have the following code.
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I get the following error "TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.at Function/<anonymous>()"
I am sure this has to do with the fact Flash is reading radioButtonName as a string and not the instance name of the movie clip. How do I tell flash it is to treat it as the mc instance name?
I've been reading about this issue on the forums today, but I still don't understand what i'm doing wrong here:var theMC:String = "mcMenuItem1";var myX=[theMC];trace("myX = "+myX);myX.gotoAndStop(2);From what I've read, this should cast theMC string into a movie clip that exists on the stage, but I still get the error:TypeError: Error #1006: gotoAndStop is not a function.What am I doing wrong here? Or what is it that I've missed?
View 4 RepliesBasically instead of var thing_mc:test_mc=new test_mc I want to somehow do thing_mc:String=new String, where String is defined by an array. I've tried several methods and searched all over, but I can't find out how to do this. I don't know if I'm not searching for the right thing or what, but I just can't find an answer.
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I know what's obviously wrong, but I don't know what's right and that's the easiest to understand example of what I'm trying to achieve.
i'm looping through and wanting to store button names for use with an onRelease function. my code is this in the loop: var invis = "gallery_mc.thumbs_mc.invis" + i + "_btn"; however, if i try using this: invis.onRelease = function() { it doesnt work. i'm almost positive its because the invis variable renders out a string. if i hardcode it, it does work. so my question is, how can i convert the invis string into a movie clip or button so i can use it with the invis.onRelease function?
View 4 RepliesI thought this would be a simple one, but i am stumped. So I resulted to using this less than optimal solution, just to get it working...
if (lobby.gamemap.selectedItem.label == "Map1") map.AddMap(new Map1)
else if (lobby.gamemap.selectedItem.label == "Map2") map.AddMap(new Map2)
//Map1 and Map2 are movie clips in my fla library, with linkage Map1 and Map2
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I have an xml file titled config.xml that looks like this.
<textChanges> <change id = "22833" whatToAdd = "
" whereToAdd = "Front"></change> <change id = "22843" whatToAdd = "
" whereToAdd = "End"></change> </textChanges>
I'm processing this code inorder to automatically add to the front or end of a line found in an xml file titled textXML.
Here is the processing code:
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This traces the correct line of code from textXML, but the shows up in the text and doesn't add the carriage returns. The crazy thing is, it works if I replace textAddition with "
". I figure this is happening because of some weird formatting issue. So I've tried many ways of formatting the textAddition var to a string. Each time has had no effect.
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//declare variables and create arrays
var initx=80;
var inity=80;
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Alright, what I am trying to do here is get 15 buttons arranged on the stage in a random order. The buttons are all named "butt1" "butt2" etc. First step, getting the numbers 1-15 in a random order in an array (successful). Then I concatenate "butt" before the number so the array contains the button names.
However, when I try to place them I get the following message:
ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property x on String.
at numbersgame_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Flash is interpreting my array values as strings rather than the buttons they are supposed to be, and failing as a result. How can I fix this?
My code is below. I have an external Class AS file doing most of my code but I need some of the moviClips to highlight areas (other movieClips) when they're rolled over. I've kept instance names the same + an H for their highlights to lessen the amount of code and be able to use array's and for loops.
My code is below and brings up this error:
Actionscript Code:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert "areanaH" to flash.display.MovieClip. at EnterpriseZone_fla::Layer1_1/end()
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I have a string that stores an object's instance name: var instName:String = e.target.name; and now I need to use its information to do something like this: instName.alpha = 0.3; but since it is a string it causes this error: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property alpha through a reference with static type String.
View 1 RepliesI'm having some trouble converting a string to an integer. Here is my code:
var str:String = e.currentTarget.name as String; // Getting values like "song1", "song2"
str = str.replace("song", ""); // Changes it from "song1" or "song2" to "1" or "2"
var num:int = str as int; // SHOULD be converting the "1" to 1 and "2" to 2
trace("num:" + num + ", str:" + str);
The trace is always outputting:
num:0, str:1
num:0, str:2
etc..
The str value is there, but when it gets put into num then it zeros out.
I have this bit of code. The highlighted area (I think) is causing "TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. at firstStep_fla::MainTimeline/placeDef()" The error appears when I go through the "match" section.
import flash.display.MovieClip;import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var numRight:Number = 0;var originalX:Number;var originalY:Number;var box:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0,0,450,380);
makeInvisible();
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I have a string which is ultimately the id of a CheckBox.
What I need to be able to do is to access the CheckBox's properties from the string
var myCheckBox:Object;
var myString:String;
myString = "checkbox_1"
myCheckBox = Object(myString); ?!?!
... and then I'd need to get to myCheckBox.selected, and myCheckBox.label etc
I'm trying to convert a string to number and no matter what I do, get strings still.
var lastDigit:Number = Number(e.target.name.charAt(e.target.name.length-1));
trace ('lastDigit is number = ' + lastDigit is Number)
And this traces false. I also tried parseInt and get a type coercion error.
Which way is the right way to convert a number to string?
ActionScript Code:
var aNumber:Number = new Number(25);
var aString:String = new String();
///////// THIS ///////////
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I have a reference to a dynamic movieclip that I am trying to access from another movieclip, but I think the problem is flash sees it as a string rather than movieclip. Basically in a movieclip I have the following:
var changeMe:MovieClip;
var changeMe = "_root.scrollerClip."+_global.currentlySelecte d; // (_global.currentlySelected is the name of a movieclip i know exists, but adding the
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I had an old AS2 trick that I named "menuStatus" that I would use to for a file where I had several buttons. Each button would have it's over state, off state, and "current" state. When the button is in it's "current" state, it moves to a 3rd frame in the respective button (for this example - a basic color shift). I'll also eventually remove the listener when it is in this state. But first things first: I can grab a button's name using the "event.target.name" and assign it to a variable. But when I try to tell that variable to gotoAndStop(3), I get an error:[I]1061: Call to a possibly undefined method gotoAndStop through a reference with static type String.
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stop();
var current:String = new String();
var myBtns:Array = [one_btn, two_btn, three_btn, four_btn, five_btn];
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I am trying to get numbers from a string and have tried number(), int(), parseInt() BUT....it all works fine but they all seem to accept as a number which appears throughout the text which then messes up the calculations. Is there anyway to force it to only accept 0-9 digits?
View 2 RepliesI have an mc.instance name is Twentysecond it has a text box called label When clicked Twentysecond populates a text box and I want to use this code Flash will not let me use an instance name of 22nd.
TwentySecond.label = _name;//(I want this to show 22)
onRelease = function(){
myTextBox = _name; // (I want this to show 22nd
}
I should know how to do this, but memory is failing.