I can do removeChild(instance); to remove a class instance that I add with the addChild() method... How do I delete a class instance which I just did a new Class()?[code]...
View 9 RepliesI'm encountering something a bit bizarre, but maybe someone else came across this before.
I've got a base class, that doesn't extend anything. Let's call it...
public class FooBar {
//...
}
But I want to bind EVERY single one of its exposed properties:
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I was wondering when you guys extends EventDispatcher in your class. It seems to me that as long as we have import event package, we can dispatchEvent without problems....I saw sometime people extends EventDispatcher in their clas
View 1 RepliesFor example, I have the class Bullet, with a constructor: Bullet(start:Point, target:Point)constructor
But, if this Bullet class extends the MovieClip class, how do I pass start and target into it? Right now I am using attachMovie to create instances of the class. (They behave correctly with the static properties set by the constructor, but to be useful it needs arguments.)
i came across this problem and i have no clue why it's happening. basically, consider 2 nested movieclips on the stage, something like stage -> main -> filler. both movieclips have instance names (main and filler).
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this throws an error 1119: Access of possibly undefined property filler through a reference with static type A. can anyone give me a hint on that, as it works with class A, but not B extending A? i understand it was meant to work?
I have a class called Unit. When I use this class in a .fla file, I create it by saying:
var unit00:Unit = new Unit(...);
So then it creates a gfx representation of the screen for me. I would like to have a method like this:
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So how do I get this to work? I know that delete this will not work when defined inside the class. How do I target the .fla's instance name when I don't know what it will be called?
How can I delete an instance of a class?
I have a function that creates a class, and at the end of the function I would like to delete/remove/destroy the instance. How do I do it (if it is possible)?
deleting class instances. say i have a bullet class. say the bullet class checks when the bullet hits an enemy. how to delete the bullet when it hits the enemy.
View 5 RepliesI have a class which loads images for one photoalbum category
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dynamic public class Submenu extends flash.display.MovieClip
{
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Does creating a new instance of an Object that uses an identical name to an older instance, delete the previous instance? Or should the original instance be deleted first? The code uses a ridiculous amount of XML vars. Isn't it less memory intensive to parse the XML and save the properties to an Object, and then delete the XML Object, rather than keep the XML Object around and reference it's child nodes directly? Is it better form to break up a huge XML file (>600lines/3200vars) into smaller chunks?
View 1 RepliesIf I have a Document class that extends MovieClip, and I want to use it as the basis for another Document class, is it possible to create a subclass that extends the main document class and use that for a different FLA?
For example,
fla1.fla has a document class of MyMainClass:
public class MyMainClass extends MovieClip
fla2.fla has a document class of MySubClass:
public class MySubClass extends MyMainClass
I've tried, but now I'm getting errors that all of my variables that reference stage instances aren't being found.
I'm not really asking how. What I'm asking is, is it possible? And I ask because I thought it was not - certainly it didn't work in AS2 - and yet that's what I appear to have done. Am I going crazy? Structure: A SWF (#1) with a class NewActivity that extends class AActivity. Another SWF (#2) with a shared library of code in it, including AActivity. A third SWF (#3) which loads the library followed by SWF#1. Here's what happened: I didn't expect AActivity to be able to be shared. I mean, it should be compiled no matter what in SWF#1, as SWF#1 includes a class that extends AActivity. I had added some properties to the AActivity class, ran the project, and when SWF#3 tried to set those properties I was told they couldn't be applied. "Of course", I said, "I need to recompile SWF#1, because the code is now out of date. The version of the class there doesn't include these new properties.".
However, that didn't work. I got the same problem. Maybe, I thought, there's a definition conflict between SWF#1 and the library, so I removed the AActivity class from the shared library in SWF#2 for the time being. Only SWF#1 uses it, and it should already be compiled into SWF#1 as, like I said, it is extended by another class there. But when I ran the project, I was then told that the AActivity class could not be found at all! Looking at SWF#1 in a decompiler, there is in fact no mention of AActivity (I had up to this point assumed it was implied). So this left just one option: I needed to recompile the library in the first place, not SWF#1. I added AActivity back to the library, recompiled, and it worked.
To check I wasn't going crazy: I added a test property to the AActivity class and recompiled the library. The containing project - SWF#3 - then set this property on SWF#1, which had NOT been recompiled, and then read it back out. No errors. I should point out that the getting/setting of this property is done through an IActivity interface - AActivity is not being accidentally compiled into the main project (SWF#3), and the decompiler indicates this also. Am I going nuts? I really didn't think having a runtime shared super class was possible in any way. If it is, that opens up a whole new world of awesome, even though I've created this project on the basis of that being impossible.
I'm trying to load a RSL library into a flash animation developed with Flash CS5 IDE, that extends a custom class and implements an interface. I have reduced the problem to the simplest setup and find that I can have my main class extend another class or implement an interface, but not do both at the same time if I want to load an RSL.I have a very simple class to extend:
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class MySprite extends Sprite
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but if I want both I get the VerifyError: Error #1014 with MySprite not found and ReferenceError: Error #1065.
I am trying to dispatch an event from one class to be received by another another class.The second class has a function that shoud trigger when the event is caught.When I compile I get this error:1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type flash.events:MouseEvent to an unrelated type String.
Here is the class that dispatches the event:
package{ import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.events.Event; import
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If I can create dynamic variables on a MovieClip.. why would I not be able to create dynamic variables on a class that extends MovieClip?
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I created from a mc symbol in the library. it works fine, except for adding the custom variable.. .. which I need to be able to do.
How do I create a class that extends the String class?
Lets say I've created an 'exString' class that extends String.
In my project file I do the following
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var test:exString = new exString();
test = "Hello World";
text.someExStringFunction();
I get a type mismatch in my "Hello World" assignment because Flash sees it as a String and not as an exString.
i have a class called "RandomErrorClass" that extends Error:
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public class RandomErrorClass extends Error {
public function RandomErrorClass() {
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my understanding is that the second class, the one that throws the error, will have to extend the EventDispatcher class. is that right? but it already has to extend the MovieClip class. my questions: Does the movieClip class already inherit from the EventDispatcher class? if so, i won't have to implement the IEventDispatcher interface, will I?
I want to create a complete (and real) 2-dimensional array. In order to use a maximum of Adobe code, I want to use ListCollectionView which can manage sort and filters. But to use a second dimension, I need to override getProperty method, like following code.
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In AS3, I'm trying to check whether an object is an instance of, or extends a particular class. Using something like if (object is ClassName) works fine if the object is an instance of ClassName but not if it's an instance of a class that extends ClassName.
Pseudo-code example:
class Foo {}
class Bar extends Foo {}
var object = new Bar();
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What I want to do is to dispatch the click event when the component is clicked. (The class is essentially some text in a textfield that needs to be able to do certain things, and it needs to be able to respond to a click). Sounds easy enough... I want the event dispatched when that portion of the text is clicked. But uh...how? it's not like a button where I can just go myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myClickHandler);That's clear, because some component is going to be listening for the Click event dispatched when myButton is clicked. It is built into the AS3 framework that a button knows how to listen for a click event.
After the import statements I've got:[Event(name="click" type="mx.events.Event")]How do I dispatch the event when the component is clicked, when the component doesn't yet know how to respond to a click event? I've tried adding an event listener in the textfield which contains this custom class of text, but nothing's happening because the Click event hasn't been dispatched.
I have a base class which is being created via remote_object [RemoteClass alias] from the server.I have other specialized classes that are derived from this baseclass, but serialization with the server always happens with the base class.The base class has meta data that defines what the derived class is, for example
[RemoteClass (alias="com.myco...')]
public Class Base
{
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I have a custom event that is dispatched when a slider is moved but I receive no event from inherited dispatcher class I created whereas I followed the same syntax as solution for My flash custom event doesn't trigger
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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 to admit I pretty much ran away from Flash when AS2 came along and only used it for animation purposes over the last 5 years.So I'm having a major crash course in AS3 in Flash CS3 and I'm not enjoying it one bit. I'm getting maybe 10mins of finished work per hour as I try to figure out the limits and rules of AS3. Quite often it seems that AS3 simply can't do what I want it to. Anyway: Characterchecks.as is the main class and it loads a bunch of XML into four arrays. The file starts like this:[code]If I trace the value of, say, cc._Categories from the main FLA, it's empty. I'm guessing that the next line of AS in the main FLA doesn't wait for the previously called function to complete? (This may tie in to my next problem)My next step is that I want to display various things based on the data in the array. I have another class, Display.as which will hold all the functions to create the items on display. I thought it would be best for these to be a separate object. I wonder if I'm right?
So I declare an instance of Characterchecks in the main FLA and call it cc, and then run the functions to populate the arrays... Now I create an instance of Display and call it cd. How can I get functions in cd to see the values of the variables in cc? And if the main timeline can't tell that the functions aren't finished filling the arrays, how is cd supposed to know?I might be asking dumb questions, or maybe I'm doing things ***-backwards, I don't know. I'd appreciate any help, I really would. This whole thing has me at the end of my tether... being the most technically advanced person in my circle of co-workers and web design friends means I have no-one to explain why things need to be done a certain way or what the best way is.
I am trying to work with the EventDispatcher class to dispatch a custom event to stop a video from playing. The video plays inside a MovieClip with an attached class file called PlayerProfile. I want the video in the PlayerProfile MovieClip to stop playing when the user clicks on another MovieClip called ScrollBox. I'm getting no compile or runtime erros, but the code is not stopping the video. I have seen use of a public static constant to represent the custom event. Is that what I am missing here.
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in human.as:
class human extends MovieClip {
function onEnterFrame() {
_x += 10;
}
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in my fla:
Object.registerClass(skin1, human);
_root.attachMovie("skin1", "User1", 1);
so i have an attached movieclip on _root now, i can see it but the onEnterFrame function doesn't work. Why??
Okay, actually it extends DisplayObjectContainer, but anyway...I want to be able to use this class in several different applications, even applying it to library items. It also overrides several of DisplayObject's methods, which is very important.Basically, it works (or will work) just fine extending DisplayObjectContainer, but how do I allow other classes that extend DisplayObjectContainer to use the features of my new class. For instance, here is how the class looks now:
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public class DockContainer extends DisplayObjectContainer
{ ... }
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what code should i add to show my startMenu MovieClip when I hit
ctrl + ENTER
I already tried
addChild(this);
parent.adChild(this);
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I'm trying to have a class that is an Object to hold details about the movieclip that it is attached to.
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and two others of this nature. I didn't think you had to declare the 'key' of the object as a variable before setting it in the Object. So my guess is that it is angry about the class itself, somehow. (syntax or the like)
I am trying to create an AS 3 class that extends DopDownList (Spark) but behaves differently than your classic DropDownList. The difference is that when a user selects an item from the list, he cannot just click on the item. The user must "mouse-down" on the item, drag it over to the right, then "mouse-up" and then the item will be selected. The purpose of this is to act like a safety feature so the user doesn't select the wrong item. I am new to AS 3 and I am stuck on how to do this. I've been playing around with different events and methods for the last few days, but to no avail. If anyone could give me an idea on how to implement.
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