ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamic SWF Menu - Loading Variables
Apr 12, 2011
I have 2 files.. new_men_beta.fla and its class file, (the one below) which is called menu.as. In the new_men_beta.fla, are all of the necessary movieclips. What I am trying to do, load variables from flashvars, and depending on the 'rank' variable, a different menu will load up. for example, admin rank = 30. if the variable 30 is submitted via flashvars, then the menu items would have an extra 2 options, each with their own submenus. the guest rank (0 or unset) has only one menu options (with submenu), and each movie click is exported to flash. So far, the blow code, puts the background for the menu options, info_bk_mc, in the right place, when the cursor is placed over the button. However the removechild statement, after TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE has come into action fails to work.
I was wondering if I can point to a variable of a .txt file.My .txt file has four variables:&main= text here&&title = title here&&main2= text2 here&&title2 = title2 here&I load the first Variable on my dynamic textfield successfully.What I want to do now is, to display the second variable on the same dynamic textfield when button "next" is clicked.ctually I am using this code: (where "main" is the first text variable and "title" the second one).
Code: var myLoadVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars; myLoadVars.load("mytext.txt");
I have created a sliding menu. But that is static( the number of rows are fixed). i want to create a menu with the number of rows dynamic.I have attached the fla file here.
i have a problem with my flash menu. It's simple menu that contains one MC at start that works as button, u can edit size of the menu from external .txt file by changing the value of menu length. All that works fine , my problem is that every new duplicated mc contains dynamic text area as a label. Labels are also loaded from that .txt file , but that works only for the 1st mc because the newly created text areas in mc's dont have Instance Name set. How can i assign them from as?
picture: [URL].. I am making a boardgame in flash Action Script 3 each position on the board is a buttons like this: button_1_1, button_1_2 etc. Whenever a character is selected you want to move it so the script has to add event listeners for positions around the selected unit
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In the rest of the code I have:
function userClickedPosition(position_x:int, position_y:int) it selects or deselect a unit function selectUnit(position_x:int, position_y:int):it uses the listentoButton(1) function to add 8 listeners (the positions around the clicked unit)function deselectUnit(position_x:int, position_y:int): it uses the listentoButton(0) function to delete 8 listeners (the positions around the clicked unit)
My question: adding eventlisteners is no problem but removing them dont seem to work? What did I do wrong?
I found what I am looking for when I list all variables. I want to cut out the rest of the menus that create a fan of pages.I removed the SWF's from showing up. But I am still having issues with changing the nMenus = "14" which is the number of menus to show. I want to change the "14" to "9" so there are no spacing in between my 3D Pages.
So basically, I have a navigation.swf file with a large menu. I've set up a product_viewer.swf so that once a couple variables are defined, the viewer displays the correct images/descriptions.
I want a button in the navigation to set 4 variables and pass them to the loaded product viewer
This is what I THOUGHT would work:
Code: //FROM THE NAVIGATION.SWF on (release) { _global.cat1:String = "hom";
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So.. I was thinking I could set up each button so that they set these 4 global variables. If the variables are global, then shouldn't the product_viewer.swf read them? Do I need to add in any special code to the first frame of product_viewer?
i need to load a series of variables into a menu. seems easy, i've done many times. the thing is, i have to get them from an asp who asks for a parameter.So i tried this:
I can't get the code to "know" which of the dynamic thumbnails has been clicked (by "know", I mean return an index value, say 0 through 7 if there are 8 projects, that I can use to access that particular project in the array of 8 projects in the rest of the code)... So if the third movieclip thumbnail were clicked, I'd like "2" to come up somehow... I've tried this code, which is kind of lame, I know, based off of the idea of each of the thumbnail movieclips' names ending in their index number:
Code: //"this" is the button that was pressed; would return a string ending in //thumberMC_<number of whichever movieclip thumb was clicked> var: testString:String = this;
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Lastly, there's a dynamic textfield I'm trying to create that never shows up for some reason. Again, you could see in the FLA (in the "createDrawer" function around line 424).
i want to create a menu like one in this tutorial. but my xml file is little bit complicated to me. i don't have any attributedsin my xml. this is my xml file
I have a nice looking dynamic menu but only one menu with submenus. Will someone with better Actionscript knowledge than me help out to create menus and submenus below?I am attaching the exported .as file.
For the life of me, I can't get it to work. All I want to do is roll over and change the background color of the cell. I've tried adding it in as a behaviour in the submenu movie clips. But when i try to trace the onRollOver, nothing happens.This is how the XML looks.
I'm using a class to dynamically populate menu items based on arrays. The menu has to allow individual chapters and lessons to expand/contract to display the slides within.
I'm trying to set it up so that when the user hits the Chapter or Lesson item, it rebuilds the menu with the appropriate Chapter/Lesson expanded. I've got that part working, but I need to remove the elements that were previously added using addChild, but I'm not sure how to clear all the elements from an object?[code]...
Lets say i hava category and some articles in it (one article - few photos and description). I want to make a thumbnail menu in footer each thumbnail linking to an article. The question is how to make this menu to load automatically? If i put articles in category/article1, category/article2 (and so on) folders, I want to see two thumbnails linking one to first article, second thumb to secont article. If i add one more article, i want thumbnail to be loaded to site automaticaly
I got the first part to work. The only problem is when I click any buttons it produces errorTypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.at resume_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()not sure what I have to do. All it's supposed to do is when you click a button the target movie clip plays frames 2 - 10 and the previous movie clip plays frame 11 - 20. Not sure what's the problem here.
Link to site: [URL] I've been trying to create a flash website menu that updates the menu text via an xml file. The problem I'm experiencing is that when I update the dynamic text in the menu, it doesn't seem to go through. I know I am referencing the dynamic text correctly as when I run the swf for the first time, I briefly see the correct text for about half-a-second before it is replaced by the default dynamic text. There is something that is overwriting the new text with the default values but I cannot see what is causing it.
I am changing the dynamic menu text in _root although the dynamic text exists in nested movie clips i.e. '_main.menu_mc.menu_panel_1.menu_button_1_1.menu_b utton_text'.
I guess that my problem is really simple, but I have no idea, how to do it.. The idea is simple: I need to make dynamic menu with mouse over effect. Button and hover are from library. When I go with mouse on button i want to make hover visible, but I have no idea how to get to the hover, because there is no e.target. Look into the code:
Lostinbeta utilises a sliding menu system with a delay so that the section head follows after the content. I have been looking around for a tutorial but haven't found one to date
I'm trying to create a dynamic menu where the menu items are coming from an ASP page. I'm passing a string to the flash movie containing the menu headings, the flash script then creates the appropriate number of copies of a menuitem sub movie. This works fine. The problem however, is that I can't seem to dynamically set the onPress event for each movie.[code]...
I want to load the menu horirontally and have the buttons resize to the width of the text with a margin on each side. I need the margins to equal the remaining width of the menu stage divided by the menu items(nodes) divided by 2.I have spent hours on this and now have very choppy actionscript code in my source.
menu.fla
Code: var linksXML = new XML(); linksXML.ignoreWhite = true; linksXML.load("menu.xml"); linksXML.onLoad = checkLoading;
There is a fantastic mouse sensitive merry go round 'menu' within the kirupa site via the link:http:[url]....
It's situated under the first example, named basic camera panning.This is very hard code. I understand the principals, but personally am new to actionscripting, and therefore cannot piece together my own example from the code supplied, purely by not understanding the placing of the actionscripting.provide a *.fla file from the example that is explained in the link above?
[URL]i want to create a menu like one in this tutorial. but my xml file is little bit complicated to me. i don't have any attributedsin my xml. this is my xml file
I've been trying to create a flash website menu that updates the menu text via an xml file. The problem I'm experiencing is that when I update the dynamic text in the menu, it doesn't seem to go through.I know I am referencing the dynamic text correctly as when I run the swf for the first time, I briefly see the correct text for about half-a-second before it is replaced by the default dynamic text. There is something that is overwriting the new text with the default values but I cannot see what is causing it.I am changing the dynamic menu text in _root although the dynamic text exists in nested movie clips i.e.'_main.menu_mc.menu_panel_1.menu_button_1_1.menu_b utton_text'.The code in _root is:
Code: function myFunction(val0,val1,val2){ trace(this["val"+0); trace(this["val"+1); trace(this["val"+2); } myFunction("hello","test","hi")
All i get is undefined. If i just put "trace(val0)" i will get "Hello" -- so i cannot work out how to get the value of the dynamic variable inside hte function?
How am i to get the variables zombData.zomb0, & zombData.zomb1 from inside the "for loop"
I want this trace command dynamic
Quote: trace(zombData.zomb+i);
it works when i put zombData.zomb0 (a variable sent from a PHP script)but if i want to make it dynamic how it is; It fails & outputs NaN How do i make it dynamic for the loop?[code]...
I've inherited a website with a huge (2.5MB) flash menu system and would like to know if there is an elegant way to load it in the background from maybe an intro page that redirects to the home page after a certain amount of time - or possible when the menu is done loading.
Basically I have a primary navigation and secondary or nested menu on one menu item. The following load movie script works fine on the primary menu on the root:
I have a sliding menu. As one of the movies inside the contentHold i want to load an swf. I do this by going into the movie content2 and adding the following code:
The swf file works perfectly if i launch it separately, but when i try to launch it from the sliding menu all i see is the background of the clip and not the actual content.
