I need to draw bounding box surrounding a movieClip with arbitrary registration point with AS3. The movieClip may be of any shape and can have it's registration point anywhere.
View 5 RepliesWhenever I draw a shape with Object Drawing turned on the blue bounding box that appears whenever it is selected isn't aligned properly to the outer edgers of the shape. Like this:
Admittedly it isn't a major problem it's just a bit irritating especially when people I'm teaching to use Flash ask me why it looks the way it does.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Is it possible to make a bounding circle instead of a bounding box?The objects should bounce INSIDE the circle.I have now a bounding box outside the circle, but the objects exceeds the circle at the corners.
I was thinking of making an array of Points on the edge of a circle and when the object is < or > then do something... but that would be a lots of if/else statements.
Anyone know of a method whereby when i click on a movieclip on my stage i can create a bounding box which will allow me to click on any corner and re size the box manually......?
View 1 RepliesI'm making a simple platformer. I have an array holding what my level looks like and my main character is a horse.... okay it's a unicorn... anyways, Whenever I jump to a platform the hittest is saying that he has landed even though his head or his tail is just over the edge... I'm trying to make it so that only his feet will allow him to land.
View 1 RepliesI'm made a map and I want to zoom in and out. The second thing I want is to make a bounding around my MovieClip.
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This is my code so far and I can zoom in and out but I can keep going and going. I want that he stops after 200% or something and when he is 100% you cant zoom out more. Also I want a bounding so I cant move the MovieClip outside his own stage height and width.
I have been trying to display a bounding box (free transform box) for a MovieClip at runtime whenever I click on it but am completely lost. The reason why I would like to display it is to do transformations on a MovieClip at runtime.
View 2 RepliesI've created a drawing tool which allows the user to draw on the canvas, the problem is that if I try to draw over a movieclip nothing happens. Is there a way I can allow for the user to draw over movieclips? For example if I had a background of paper?
Here's the code I'm using for it:
// This code is for drawing the lines on the page
//1.
var drawingLine:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChildAt(drawingLine,0);
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I'm creating a platforming game, and I have a fun little water thing set up. My goal is to be able to drag a water object from the library to the scene, and have the water physics kick in when the game starts.
To do this, I made the water object a black line, because width is necessary to know how wide I'd like the pool to be. Within the class I have a heightmap, so then I can connect all the heights together with lines using the drawing API.
The problem is, I can't get the original black line to disappear while still displaying the new lines and points Setting the alpha to 0 will permanently make everything invisible. I'm kind of new to this so maybe it's a dumb question.
I am making a movie clip and want to draw lines from one movie clip to another to make it look like connectors on a flowchart. How do I use the returned values using a getbounds() method to draw a line from movie clip A to movie clip B. how the xMin, xMax, yMin and yMax values translate to finding the 4 corners of a rectangular movieclip. Can I use these values to draw lines from the movieclip using lineto().
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View 4 RepliesI am making a movie clip and want to draw lines from one movie clip to another to make it look like connectors on a flowchart. How do I use the returned values using a getbounds() method to draw a line from movie clip A to movie clip B. Can some one show an illustration explaining how the xMin, xMax, yMin and yMax values translate to finding the 4 corners of a rectangular movieclip. Can I use these values to draw lines from the movieclip using lineto(). If so how do I do that?
View 11 RepliesI got a europe map designed in flash (1 movieclip, 1 frame, really simple), which contains the map as drawing objects directly inside the scene and in addition some specific countries as clickable buttons. So far it's working fine. What I need now is to make all the other drawing objects clickable without having to edit and script each object. I'm thinking about something like this (pseudo code):
foreach(obj in MovieClip) {
if(obj !typeof(Button)) {
obj.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, genericClickListener);
}
}
I just don't know the syntax how to achieve that.
Is it possible to draw a sprite, on a movieclip, on a specific layer? I have a MC I created in the Flash designer, and it has 3 layers on it, background, some layout stuff, and then some text. In actionscript i've created a Sprite object in code, drawn a rectangle on it, and added it to the stage with addChild (called from within the MC). The problem is, the sprite is always being drawn above all the layout stuff I added in the designer. Is there any way to add the sprite to the MC at a specific layer? In this case the background layer. I tried changing the z on the sprite and no effect.
View 3 RepliesBasically, I have a BitmapData object which is acting as a virtual screen.
I have a MovieClip which I want to render to the bitmap using the same transformation as though the bitmap were the screen. However, the MovieClip is not attached directly to the root
The BitmapData.draw() method takes a Matrix as an optional parameter, which I think I need to set as the MovieClip's localToGlobal transformation matrix. However, I don't know how to obtain or construct this!
I'm working on a Flash project in which the user can choose to draw on the stage. To indicate to the user that it's possible to draw, I'm changing the default cursor to a pen image. I'm doing this by attaching a movieclip to the cursor, then hiding the cursor:
ActionScript Code:
on (press) {
penOn = true;
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All this works great, with one problem. The line users draw appears on top of the custom cursor, so if they go back over something they've already drawn, they can't see the cursor anymore. I've tried a bunch of fixes, but nothing has worked. FYI, that first block of code I pasted is attached to the button that turns the pen on, while the second block of code is in the bottommost layer of the movie.
I have a program that dynamically draws a polygon wherever the user clicks on the screen. (using lineto, moveto) However this polygon is always behind the other symbol objects on the screen even though its added last in the childlist. Is there an issue with depth when drawing symbols vs. drawing with lines? How can I ensure my dynamic object will display in front?
View 3 RepliesSo I've got problem with some drawing objects inside movieclip in my flash file... Setting width and height of flash to match browser's w&h got my movie clip to get correct values, but unfortunately drawing objects inside of it are not scaled as movieclip. Those object are just random stripes that got some tween on it acting as somekind of preloader... All graphics are pulled from ai file, so no AS was used to manipulate them, just pure tweening in design mode...So if my stage w & h are lets say 720 x 50, graphics inside movieclip are 1600 x 900 which match my monitor's resolution.
View 1 RepliesCan someone tell me how to command it to retrieve a movie clip in my library instead of drawing stuff by code and working with that? The movie clip I want to get is called "float1".[code]
View 9 RepliesHow can I Tween drawing a line mc.graphics.lineTo(); ? I just see tweener has an onUpdate property awesome.
View 0 RepliesI have a map of isometric buildings that the player walks around. in the image I have 1 and 3 working fine. I find the corner points of the building and test it against the players location and sort out their depths. easy.but 2 and 4 are the trouble makers. the left and right side of the building.because its isometric there is that diagonal line making up the sides.my only idea so far is to draw a line box around the building at test collisions against the "feet" of the player. but to do that I must draw a box and make it invisible but still be testable against only the bottom portion of the player, the players feet.
View 5 RepliesI made a movieclip with 5 frames inside. Well, outside, when i push a button stop, runs the code: this.movieclip_name.stop(); , but, doesn't stop.Inside these frames there is a enterframe function that call drawing api functions.
View 1 RepliesI've almost got a bit of flash finished, The .swf so-far is here: [URL]. For some reason the file won't attach but the important bit of code I have so-far is below. I need to make a line to literally 'connect the dots', each of which is one end of a movieclip, I know it needs to boil down to ' line x,y, to (movieclipname)x,y, but cannot work it out!
time.onChanged = function() {
if(time.text.length == 4) {
var hours:Number = parseInt(time.text.substr(0,2),10);
hours *= 60;
var minutes:Number = parseInt(time.text.substr(2,2),10);
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I have a little snippet of code that allows the user to create a line with the mouse, and clears the line if they end up touching the hitbox with the mouse, while they're drawing the line. It works fine when it's just thrown onto the main timeline. However, when I try to encapsulate it within a movie clip, it suddenly doesn't work. At all. Are there any suggestions as to why this is happening? Here's the code.
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I have noticed when setting a bounding box on a drag object, if you go outside the bounds of the box you have set, the mouse won't let go of the object unless you go back inside the bounds and click on it again. Is there any way to force the stopDrag if you go outside the bounds while dragging? I have tried this bit of code:
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I am currently in the middle of creating a project which essentially uses Flash as a type of augmented reality system. The idea behind it is that a webcam input will capture a users hand which is placed on a white pedestal (esstially creating a complete white backbround in contrast to the hand). Create a bounding box around the hand so that objects will only move in the space taken up by the hand.
The problem I am having is wondering which functions i should use to create a bounding box that will select the space that the hand is taking up in the webcam input. I have seen the function GetColorBoundsRect but it only seems to focus on one colour and it seems to be a static function instead of one that will need to constantly create the bounding box if it moves. This isn't just a motion dection but will need to detect the hand even if it isn't moving.
i've tried to simulate a pencil tool, for drawing above a imagem, but the drawing is below the picture. How fix it?
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This PNG image is rather large, and only a small portion is filled with pixels. Most of the image is transparant.I want to apply the effect only to the part with pixels, so I'd like to create a boundingbox around that part of the image. I need to know 4 things to do this (the way I see it...): The position of the top-most non-transparant-pixelThe position of the left-most non-transparant-pixelThe postition of the bottom-most non transparant-pixelThe position of the right-most non-transparant-pixel
View 1 RepliesIs there any simple code that will make a hittest not work of the bounding box in flash, because I've been looking for something for a while now, and can't find anything about how to do that.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create buttons on a 45 degree angle. They are simply text. I have tried drawing different hit areas for the button, but when I publish the swf the hit area for the button is always its bounding box (so there is a huge space in the upper left and lower right corner which activates the button).
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