I've having huge problems trying to control a internal SWF from my main movie.Here is how it works,main movie (loads swf1 and swf2)I need to make the button on SWF control de swf2 timeline.
View 2 RepliesJust wondering how to control the timeline of an external swf loaded into the root of your main timeline, from within nested movieclips on your main timeline?I can successfully control it once it's loaded from within the function that assigns the external swf a MovieClip var, but I want to control it from deeper in my main swf.1. I've loaded an external swf into the root of my main swf.2. After loading, I assign the external swf a MovieClip var, and then set up a button to control the timeline of the external swf:
function dataOnLoad(evt:Event): void {
var myClip:MovieClip = evt.target.content;
function updateSwf(evt:MouseEvent): void{
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I'm having a bit of time getting this to work.
Setup like this: Main mov:
Nav1 is clicked and loads in external swf. In the swf that was just loaded there is button to call another external swf on the main movie's timeline. I'm trying make a "lightbox" effect. Where you click on the external swf and the screen darkens and a swf is loaded on top of it. Above the loaded swf. Of course on a new layer.
PHP Code:
This is handling the swfs that get loaded in
EXTERNAL SWF LOADER
_root.page_mc.preloader_mc._visible = false;
_root.page_mc.preloaderText_txt._visible = false;
var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
mcLoader.addListener(myListener);
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I am very new to AS3. I have not wanted to migrate to it, but have been forced to do it for a current project which uses AS3 components. I am creating a slideshow (full screen) and will be creating each slide as a separate SWF file. I have been successful in loading and unloading the slides (SWF's). I need to use the arrow keys to move through the slides. I have that working, but want to load the slides without hard coding everything in each frame of the main timeline. I am using a var to get the currentFrame value. All is well exept that if the left arrow key is pressed and the main timeline is on FRAME 1, the playhead seems to think it can go backward to frame zero and then into negative numbers with each press of the left arrow key. I need to be able to stop the timeline from advancing backward at frame one. I have tried several methods that either do nothing or cause the right arrow key to work unpredictably and keep returning to FRAME 1 no matter what if statement and evaluation I perform. Here's the current code on.[code]
View 2 RepliesMain_mc has a movie with a button movie and an animation movie. I want the button_mc to control my main_mc timeline. I want a btn when rollover play up to frame a and stop. Rollout play to end. If btn is clicked play and stop at frame a.
View 5 RepliesI have a flash movie emmbedded in my web page. I what to be able to go to certain frames using html. Can this be done. If so how?
View 1 RepliesI am creating a Flash program that consists of a "master" movie file that will call in individual chapters (*.swfs) as needed. I want to create a single (page) navigation structure that will reside in the master - yet allow the user to go to the next/previous screens in the movie currently being used. I have created the master movie and have placed an empty movie clip on one of the frames. From the main navigation, I have been successfully able to load the individual *.swfs into the empty movie clip when called from the menu using the following command: _root.emptymovieclipname.loadMovie("external.swf");
I have been unable to figure out the action script that will allow me to control the navigation within the external swf from the main timeline. Also - is it possible to determine the number of frames within each clip as they are called so I can turn on/off the fwd/back buttons when appropriate?
I have this following class attached to some of my buttons to simply control the roll over and out states, as well as the click event. But i want to use the same class on my buttons but would like to control a movieclip outside of the button somewhere else on the stage etc.
put simply: Clicking my button 'moveLeft' will move a movieclip left let say:
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Well, I have a project where I would need a XML with a % range from 0-100 to controll a timeline. The concept is to fill a bottle. So the timeline would animate from empty to full. But must be controlled with a XML number and its all in AS2...
View 18 RepliesI never seem to get any answers on these forums lately but surely someone can answer this. I've loaded an AS2 based SWF in to an AS3 SWF. I want to gotoAndPlay a frame in the AS2 SWF when a button is clicked thats inside the AS3 SWF.
View 2 Repliesif its possible to control a movieclips timeline a bit more than the simple play, stop functions.
I was hoping by pressing a button, it would make the MC's playhead not just jump to frame 20, but play to it.
So if the movieclip's timeline is on frame 60, I press a button and it scrubs all the way back to frame 20. Click another button and it scrubs to frame 40, etc..
I have a MC in my movie. I want to control it's properties in different frames in the main timeline. For instance
at the 1. frame change it's position
at frame 50 change it's alpha
at frame 100 change it's scale
until now I have done all this by motion tweening but I know AS is the best way.
i have forward/back buttons to control the timeline. what happens in the following code is that if the button is clicked while in the < or > range of frames, it gets buggy. heres the code.
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this doesnt seem to go to the exact frame i need if i click while the current sample is still animating in. It would be much better if i could tell flash to a specific frame instead of asking flash to determine a range. that way, if a button is pressed during an animation it wont just advance one frame, it would jump to a specific frame.
I wish i could just do this:
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i thought about creating a var that would be a string. i could then add a number to the name of that string each time the button is clicked. then i could make frame labels the name of the string. but i couldnt get my head around it. also, i didnt know how to make the button stop adding to the string name once it reach a certain value (6 in this case). or how to make it play the last sample animation if the user kept clicking the advance button at the end of the samples.
So im creating a site for a friend and I have placed the menu inside a movieclip so the buttons are inside the movieclip. This the script i have tried :
Code:
stop();
natural1.onRelease = function () {
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This time I'm attempting to make a timeline, that should control what frame of a movie clip on the root timeline is displayed. So relevant to where the user slides the slider bar, the appropriate information will be displayed inside that movie clip. Now I really have NO idea where to start the coding that will attempt to convert the slider's location on its on slider bar, to what frame is shown on that movieclip.
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I can't use the normal MovieClip methods on my imported swf.
Code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
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I've tried waiting for the swf to finish loading
I have buttons that load movie clips when you mouse over them and unload the movie clips when you mouse out.[code]the problem is that the movie clips aren't necessarily playing from the beginning when you mouse over, since their timeline is independent.How can i specify that I want to add the instance of the movie clip to play from frame 1.I've tried using the gotoAndPlay method with the frame number/ label in parenthesis afterwards and got an error message..I've looked through multiple tutorials on controlling symbols using AS, and i still can't get this to 'click' for me.[code]
View 3 RepliesI have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
View 1 RepliesHow do I control the timeline from a movieclip from within itself?I made a menubutton for a school assignment. To make it, I created a movieclip of the button's graphic, with on the second frame the button again but with the menu open (haven't added anything in it yet).Opening the menu is as easy as
Code:
menu_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,openMenu);
function openMenu(evt:Event):void{
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have a MovieClip that's called 'enemy1'. It is using a class called 'Enemy'. Is it possible to control my enemy1 MovieClip's timeline from the Enemy class?
For example I want to run an if check and see if current frame inside my MovieClip is currently 15. (I have animation inside my MovieClips)
When I do something like this inside Enemy.as:
Code:
if(this.currentFrame == 15)
{
this.stop();
}
I get error messages like: Line 271119: Access of possibly undefined property currentFrame through a reference with static type Enemy. Line 291061: Call to a possibly undefined method stop through a reference with static type Enemy.
I have a huge timeline with photos, each photo on a different frame, and several buttons, one for each picture on the first frame. My idea is to make a unique action for the buttons that tells the timeline to go to the frame number that is the same as the button instance name.
View 1 Repliesi've discovered that the only way to sync loops adequately in flash is to put them together on the timeline.
is there any way to change the volume of each layer with actionscript? i'd like to dynamically mix between loops.
Is there a way to have a button click change the main time line frame rate?
View 4 RepliesI have a simple swf called site.swf that loads a menu with UILoader called menu.swf, from menu I'm able to navigateToURL but I also need that it goes to frame 50 in menu.swf.
View 1 RepliesI am slowly getting back into flash again and I have an MC (lets call it M_sms) that on a rollover has an animation. I have several of these M_sms on the main stage and there is no problem. The M_sms have also been placed inside a MC (lets call it M_big) that has also been placed on the main stage. M_sms for some reason do not animate on rollover. I have a startdrag/stopdrag on the M_big and that works fine. But the M_sms nested do nothing.
View 1 RepliesOn my main timeline I have two movie clips sitting side by side in frame1. They are called content_mc and content_mc2. Those are their respective names in the library and as instances. Now, I have a button in content_mc in which I am looking for the following behavior. When I click it, I want the timeline inside
content_mc2 to jump to frame2. MovieClip(parent).gotoAndStop(2); This code would be just dandy if I wanted to go to frame 2 of the main timeline, but I cannot find, for the life of me, how to go up one level (parent) and then specify down a new level (content_mc2). In other words, where do I put "content_mc2" in this syntax?
I've just swiched over from FL8 to FL CS4 (3 days ago). I'm learning AS3 at the moment but am on a deadline with a project (a bit over it actualy) which uses AS3
I have a movieclip (container_mc) on the main timeline which holds all the animation and a timer (timer1_mc).When container_mc reaches frame 2 it stops and a timer (timer1_mc) starts running.When the timer finishes, container_mc should continue to the next frame.The code I have to do that (from the timer1_mc) is:
if (d> 260) {
parent.container_mc.nextFrame();
trace("blabla");[code]....
This doesn't work, it gives me the error 1119: Access of possibly undefined property container_mc through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.
I have a loaded swf file that is a short animated intro I am using he addChild method. I wold like it to simply move the timeline to a label "menu" after it has played. This is the cde on my main Timeline:
stop();import flash.display.*;import flash.events.Event;import flash.media.SoundMixer;
var Xpos:Number=0;
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I recently bought an mp3-player coded in Flash and it works great, except for the fact that I do not want it to appear constantly on the timeline.
The mp3-player is generated throught code, so I was wondering if there is a way to control the alpha of a variable named mp3playerContainer and set it to 0? I have navigation points on frame 25 and 55 where I want this mp3player to not be visible. Could it be an idea to use "currentFrame", so that if currentFrame equals 25 or 55, then alpha of the variable mp3playercontainer will be set to 0?
concerning controling the timeline playbacks' direction (of an MC)... Using AS, I would like the time line to play - and then reverse and then play etc .. rather than looping the frames onEnterFrame.
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