Is there any event dispatched in ANY place of the display list if the order of display list items change?Or is there any other way to track that without manually keeping track of all display list order or needing to override all "setChildIndex" and "swapChildren" functions?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to use a SWFLoader to load an Application and add the loaded Application to my Displaylist.
public function onComplete(e:Event):void {
someContainer.addChild((e.target.content));
}
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I am having some trouble understanding the display list. This might sound silly but how long does it take until a sprite is added to the display list?
My understanding is that the root variable is only accessible once the object is added to the display list.In the following code I add the TLSEntry_Text to the display list and then on the next line I try to trace its root variable without luck. The root variable appears only in the enter frame event... I guess a little bit later.
What am I missing here? Is there a way for the display list to "force refresh" itself?
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I'm working on a game for the iPhone using flash, and since memory is crucial i want to clean up displayObjects not needed. All the objects i need to delete is MovieClips taken from some array to another using splice(). Here is the [code]...
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a drag-drop solution, and acting when a item is dropped on the current target (let's say an "intelligent chess-board") is a breeze, as the board fires DragEvents when items are hovering over on dropped on the it.
What I'm looking for is a way to make the board act when an item is dragged OFF the itself. Of course - when the item is dropped somewhere else, I could fire an event there and tell the board that change has been done. But this is what I want to avoid.
I wonder if there is some way to monitor a change in the displaylist of the "board", so it fires an event when a child/element is removed from "outside"?
I am just trying to grasp a simple concept of utilizing loops, addChild, and eventListeners.My goal is to use a loop to create multiple instances of the same type of object from my library (called Ball), and when one is clicked, have it move "above" all other instances on the stage (and eventually drag, but that's easy enough to make happen later).My current code attempt is:
for(var i:uint = 0; i<=10;i++)
{
var my_ball:Ball = new Ball() //new instances of Ball from library export
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I've been working on an application (with ComboBoxes) that requires scaling the entire application based on screen resolution. I thought it would simply require changing the "scaleX" and "scaleY" properties of the top-level application, but discovered that the ComboBox dropdown doesn't appear to scale accordingly, as in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"
applicationComplete="init()">
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which results in the dropdown appearing (sliding down) unscaled until it reaches it's extended length and stops at which point it scales up and remains at that scale until it is closed. I have also found that if you call "invalidateDisplayList()" on the comboBox or the dropdown, then it undoes the scaling, so it appears that whenever the updateDisplayList is called, the dropdown only applies it's parent ComboBox's scaling, and not the ComboBox's parent container's scaling.
I understand that, as a pop-up, the dropdown isn't in the Application's or ComboBox's displayList tree, which appears to be the root of the problem (no pun intended).
I have a library MovieClip Class that consists solely of a dynamic textfield contained in a MovieClip. I want to instantiate this MC, populate the textField with text, get the width of the resulting text and, if the width is less than a predefined MIN_WIDTH value, append more text. When the width is equal to or greater than my MIN_WIDTH value, add this MovieClip class to the display list. My question is, does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the length of text in a textField using Textlinemetrics BEFORE the textField has been added to the display list?
View 2 RepliesI have a bunch of objects with TextFields in them that are added to another object called Field.[code]If it is a player, and I can scale it, why can't I access the textField?
View 1 RepliesI've found myself in a tricky place, I've built an app that loads in swfs as external libraries so they can easily be changed at run time, all works well. I now need to separate the code from the art in these libraries so that external developers can change the art without getting their mitts on the code. Trouble is to do this my new code only library elements will need access to my overall manager class, which is the main document class, so that they can access the library manager class to add the appropriate art assets to themselves.
Now there's a couple of clumsy solutions I've thought of:
1, Store a manager class reference in a static var but that seems like a cop out.
2, Go through a few hundred thousand lines of code and alter every instantiation of a library element to include a manager reference - erm, let's not go there.
3, Have the library element send a custom event to the stage from its constructor which passes a return handler to the event listener so that can pass back a manager reference. Sounded like genius initially up until I realised that at constructor stage the library element won't be on the display list so can't bubble up to the stage
i have two classes:
videoPlayer(Document class) and videoControls(which is added to the stage by videoPlayer).
videoControls put an object on the stage at some point:
dp = new displayEnd();
dp.name="dpe";
addChild(dp);[code].....
Iv'e been slowly moving over to AS3 in the past few months and I think I have learnt quite a considerable amout. However I am completly dumbstruck by the behaviour of the DisplayList. The kind of work I do requuires that the flash movies I make are timeline based (I know spitting in the face of OOP) because of the amount of animation used. However within these animations I also use snippets of ActionScript to have interactive moments such as drag and drops or tabs for the user to select a section. Now in these cases I as you would expect have to redepth some stuff (like the currently active panel of some tabs or currently active drag item etc). Using the display list I think is dead easy and I actually prefer it to the old Depth based system of ActionScript 2. This is where the odd problem starts.
On my stage I have 2 insences of the same MovieClip ("Clock1" and "Clock2") which has a child named "hand", also I have 2 text boxes just to dictate which movie is which. These clips and text are nothing special just author created in flash so no code involved for adding them to the display list.
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I am trying to create a graphical representation of the DisplayList of a flash site that is loading many external swfs. I want to be able to filter what is displayed (ie. Show only textfields, or show only images, or show only whatever). I have not been able to find a way to distinguish or select only the swfs. I would like this to be able to list ALL the swfs that are used in this projects and nothing else..
View 2 RepliesI am creating an order form for my flash site. I have never done this before in flash but I have in visual basic. I have a few questions:
1. Is assigning variable names to checkboxes and radio buttons the same as in visual basic? I mean i know that you probably assign them in the properties. ex..say i name a radio button 'radio1', to run a check in my actionscript whether radio1 was checked or not would it be something like if(radio1){}
2. After the person fills out the form I would like to have the results of the order sent to a pre-specified email adress in a certain format. What would be a good way to do this?
sorting number Ascending Order and Descending Order tutorial with out useing sort property[Array sorting like 91,3,5,4,6,8,3,6,1,0]
View 6 Replies[code]how to do Ascending Order and Descending Order this array merge(don't use sort property)
View 1 RepliesI have an array, and I add info dynamically into it. I need some way to re-order the array into ascending order.
Another thing. How can I add a value in the first position of the array pulling keeping all the other values jumping to the next position.
how do i detect the end of flv .. or when it finished playing?
View 7 Replieshow to detect the end of an flv playback. I am loading in a flv to a webpage, using the FlvPlayBack component. Everything is working fine as to be expected. How do I insert a credits image to display once the flv has finished? Users would need to be able to restart the flv playback too. I have been looking at cuePoints etc...
View 3 RepliesI have embedded a swf into a another swf using Loader & URLRequest methods, which work fine.
To detect whether the swf has ended I define it as a MovieClip. Then I check (using an ENTER_FRAME event listener) if the current frame is equal to the total frames. This works fine for a swf with a simple animation in the timeline (what I was testing on). However:
If I use the same method for a swf with a streaming flv inside it, it gives me a runtime error: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Play_Intro@20d71b51 to flash.display.MovieClip.
If I define it as a Sprite- it plays without any errors, but then how do I detect when the swf is at the end?
if I am playing a sound using start like this:
mySound.start();
is there a way to detect when the sound is done playing? i want to make something happen but only after the sound is done playing.if i know the length of the sound, can I just wait that many number of seconds, or will it not synch up on slower/faster computers?
I am trying to implement paged recordsets in a datagrid and since I've not been able to find a way as a standard feature of as3 (recordset type was not provided in as3) - I'm cooking my own.The only problem I have is knowing when additional records should be requested. I need to be able to tell when the scroll bar or other method is used to scroll the datagrid down to the end (or near the end).
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to make this fluid preloader that uses tween classes to change the size of the bar instead of just using something likegotoAndStop(percent)I have the tween class working but need a way for it to detect the change of the percentage variable. Here's what I'm trying to get it to do:Current percentage is at 55, this is set as the "currentPercent" variable. It suddenly jumps to 65%, the "currentPercent" variable would change to 65 while the "prevPercent" variable would stay at 55 so the tween class could have a beginning and ending value.
View 3 Repliesis it possible to detect if flash is installed using PHP. My aim is, that if it is installed it will play a flv file, and if not it will use another player eg; quicktime?
View 5 RepliesSo for a site I would like to have 2 swfs, mainContainer(just has preloader) and index(contains all assets)
This will allow me to have a nice, 0%-100% preloader.
However during development I will just be publishing index. So to start my chain of functions, I have my document class for index like this:
ActionScript Code:
public class index extends MovieClip
{
var path:MovieClip;
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However, this will fail when index is loaded in to mainContainer, because the code gets run before I addChild on to the mainContainer displayObject.
So I need a way to detect whether index is loaded or not in another swf. How's that possible?? There doesnt seem to be an easy way.
Basically it's a browser window scaleable flash movie, that most of it's elements move position to each RESIZE event. But a part of it is pretty cpu heavy, so I want that to only update when the user have stopped resizing.
I have not found anything about this in the forums and the solutions I've tried are not working.
- tried MOUSEUP event on stage, but the mouse is off the stage, so it doesn't register.
- tried a timer that measures the stop of movement of the mouse, but mousX/Y is not measured when mouse is off the stage.
UPDATE: mouseX/Y might not work, but stage.stageWidth is updated. But still not a very nice solution
Im having a problem with some rollover code im using for a movieClip, basically if the mouse runs over to fast the rollover animation is played but not the rollout as the mouse has left the SWF area. Is there anyway of telling where the mouse is on the screen so i can run a check to see if its in the swf or not and then run code accordingly.
View 2 RepliesIm creating a flash projector that opens some other projectors with the fscommand exec command. Is there a way of detecting when the mouse is over one or another to change some values of variables?
View 1 RepliesHow can I detect if the variables are EVEN or ODD? The if statements will depend on that.
View 3 RepliesHow do i detect the IP address of the one that's visiting my web-site? Is there a way?
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