I need to dynamically add some movieclips to the stage. I have some drop downs on the stage which will control what gets added. The value of each selection is the name of each movieclip. How can i take this and create a new instance of the appropriate movie clip?[code]...
View 19 RepliesI have a string variable, and based on the value of that variable, I want to create an instance of a class, I can do that with this code:
Code:
var boxType:String = "BigBox";
switch(boxType)
{
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In as simple an example as I can think of, I have two classes: Dog and Cat. Both are subclasses of Animal, in this stupid example... I know how to create instances of both, however I don't know how to dynamically create them by name from a string. It would be something like...
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I have a problem in instantiate a movieclip in the library using a string variable.
Assuming i have the string with the class name of the movieclip like this[code]...
I know I can create instances from a string like this:
var classFromClassPath:Class = getDefinitionByName(classPath) as Class;
var instance:Object = new classFromClassPath()
I know I can call some function with a parameter array like this
var x:Function = someFunction;
x.apply(null,args);
But does anyone know if I can pass parameters like that when I construct a class?
I have a base class I've used on 6 different MC's. Then when I use these MC's my function runs an if statement to check which one to add.
if(id=design) var obj = new design();
if(id=team) var obj = new team();
I want to make it a bit more dynamic and use the id:String to evaluate which new instance to create.
ActionScript Code:
public function loadChapter(id:String):void {
var obj = new instance_of( id )();
}
Does anyone know how to sort an array based on the length of the instance name?
I have an array full of instance names and they are different lengths. I need them to sort based on the number of chars.
I have an instance of button with a dynamic text field which is getting the text from an external txt file. What I am trying to achieve is to have it load from a different text file based on its instance name. The end result i want to achieve is each instance of the button has its own unique name based on its corresponding txt file, i assume this can be done based on its instance name.
The code I am using is below
ActionScript Code:
var button_text:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
button_text.onData = function (src:String):Void {
if (src != undefined) {
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I'm currently trying to load specific XML data as a hyperlink into a button,the hyperlink is saved in the xml-file, and called upon by "childURL", now if I assign this function to the child_mc, which is formed into a menu dynamically within an instance named emptyMC, it will give me the link:
Code:
btnLink.onRelease = function() {
getURL(childURL, "_blank");
};
problem is I want to assign the link, when the child_mc-movieclip is clicked, to a button named 'linkbutton' on the main stage which will then load the page assigned in the xml-file when clicked.How would I load this data inside the button on stage? All codes I tried just open my browser and link to nowhere.
any way to target a specific instance name based on what a variable is equal to? would be ALOT better than having to write the function 36+ times..
View 19 RepliesI have some ActionScript code that splits a string using Regular Expression and lets me add content at the split location.
// AS3 Code
function formatTweetText(tweet:String ):String
{
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I can obtain the number of characters in a string using the 'length' action script command. However, I need to know the pixel width of this 'length'?
View 1 RepliesI create a new object. My new object will always have a labelField because it has to be added to a dataProvider in a ComboBox. The problem is my next property. Each object in the dataProvider has a dataField property that has a string value [eg: 'code' or 'isoCode'].[code]
View 1 Repliesjust a simple example:
var a = new Array()
a["apple"] = "red"
a["orange"] = "orange"
a["banana"] = "yellow"
trace(a.length) //returns 0
get it work?
I am looking at "length" property in the Adobe AS3.0 language ref as I do not understand it. It says: An integer specifying the number of characters in the specified String object. (I understand this). Because all string indexes are zero-based, the index of the last character for any string x is x. length - 1. (I do not understand the "- 1". I understand that all string indexes are zero-based but I cant put this together with the last character for any string being -1 or whatever it is saying.
View 7 Repliesi'm having some problems with as3
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this is my code, i'm trying to set the title value for every child instance of eventChild, as i am new to action script in general, and action script 3 in particular i don't really know what i'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to set the text for ev1.title1, ev2.title2, etc. from values in eventChildren like this : first child, sets ev1.title1, second ev2.title2 and so on.
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I am trying to capture the name of a target and add the letters "hl" on to the end and then set the visibility of another object with this modified name to true. Here is the code. The trace shows exactly what I want. Now how do I take that and set the visibity to true?
Code:
var highLight:String = evt.currentTarget.name + "hl";
trace(highLight);
highLight.visible = true;
I have an array, which are the literal names of class references. Eg. in my main class I have
var page1:PageOne = new PageOne();
var page2:PageTwo = new PageTwo();
var page3:PageThree = new PageThree();
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Okay what I after is how to detect the length of the string populated from array...then auto rescale the height of the title_mc as shown in my AS as well as the dynamic created textfield ..so the textfield will display long string + "newline" for long string...(autowrapper)..
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Code:
//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?
I've got a set of arrays being dynamically generated with paths to nested movieclips. The paths are coming in as strings, and I can't seem to get them to work as movie clip instance variables.as example, a string would be:
siteMC.b1MC.b1f1MC.rMC
(that path works fine outside of the array)
How do I get that kind of nested path from the string to something flash wont spit out as null?
I am sending the instance name (i.e. String)of the MovieClip to a function.From that function I need to access that same instance of MovieClip using that name.I have a MovieClip Instance name Planet_mc. And I am sending it to function abc()
abc(Planet_mc.name);
function abc(s:String):void
{
i am having problems referencing an mc's instance name via a string var. I think the solution would be simple, but i have been trying different things for a while
ActionScript Code:
var hitarea:Array = new Array;
function populatehitareas()
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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]...
temp.MissleArt = team1[h].MissleArt;
temp.MissleArt.visible
i have a object(container) with multiple children and based on the units MissleArt i want the objects Child instance visiblehowever when i do this it assumes that temp.MissleArt is a string even tho temp.Arrow is a child of temp (Missleart is equal to arrow)
I would like to pass the name of a movieclip to a string so my attachmovie method can work. what I m doin is :
function createBlocks(slot:MovieClip)
{
...
...[code]...
when I call the above function on a keyframe I call it like : this.createBlocks(block4);
block4 is the id name of a movieclip in the library. the problem is that the attachMovie method needs a string as a parameter! how can I convert that to a string? so afterwards, slot , has inside the name "block4" (with the quotation marks)
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');
}
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)
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temp.MissleArt = team1[h].MissleArt;temp.MissleArt.visiblei have a object(container) with multiple children and based on the units MissleArt i want the objects Child instance visiblehowever when i do this it assumes that temp.MissleArt is a string even tho temp.Arrow is a child of temp (Missleart is equal to arrow)
View 5 RepliesI'd like to know if there is a way to reference a dynamic text box's instance name through the use of a string.I know that this["the string"] works for movieclips, but haven't had much luck with the text field.Here's a simplified snippet of code I have so far - The goal is to replace txtInstance with txtInstanceArray[k]
var txtInstanceArray:Array = ["txtInstance","txtInstance1","etc"];
var colArray:Array = ["hitsum","hitsum1","etc"];
for (var k:int = 0; k < 30; k++){
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