Once an external image is loaded via a loader, how can one name an instance of it? Can I simply do the following[code]...
I need it to associate a tween with it's display object using AS3 addTarget(), method of the AnimatorFactory class.
I want to control some movieclips in the externally loaded .swf from the main stage. How can I do this?
View 1 RepliesI have 100+ of the same movieclips on the stage at the same time, all positioned differently.i'm getting really tired of clicking on one of them, then clicking in the instance name box then typing "i65", then clicking on one of them, then clicking in the instance name box then typing "i66"...
is there anyway flash can fill this information in for you? or a plugin anyone's heard of? this isn't really an actionscript question, I'm not so fussed about selecting the different movieclips based on getChildAt or any of that stuff, I'd just really like a faster way of assigning instance names.
I'm trying to give a button an instance name. The button is situated in the library, and i suppose that's why I cannot give it an instance name (which is really necessary.)It 's in actionscript 2.
View 3 RepliesI'm using this code to load and external swf, now how do I assign an instance name for it?
var eventInitialLoader:Loader = new Loader();var eventInitialURL:String = parent['eventPath'+ie];var eventInitialRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(eventInitialURL);eventInitialLoader.load(eventInitialRequest);eventOdd_MC.addChild(eventInitialLoader);
I've run into an interesting problem while working on a file. Everything was going really well until I got into work this morning, and suddenly I couldn't change any instance names on any existing movie clips. The movie still compiles fine, and everything that already had an instance name still has an instance name. However, I cannot change any instance names, nor can I give any new movie clips instance names. The instance name text box is grayed out and I can't select it. Everything else works fine, and I can give instance names to text fields that I create. I have no problems saving files, exporting SWfs, drawing, or animating.
After doing some research, it appears that this issue is limited only to my computer - everyone else can give instance names to movie clips, using the same files. Also, this problem appears to be affecting every file I open on this computer.
i'm going in trouble with instance names, classes, methods, and addChilded object...
that's my code:
- i have a class that (everytime the function is called by the timer) add an object(class "Monster") to the stage.
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I also tried to avoid the problem changing my point of view; so i inserted the hitTestObject test into the loop for each ( var enemy:Monster in army ) but the same problem occurred, i have a lot of balls that doesn't have an instance name (or they have all the same one).
This is what i created until now [URL]
I want to give a whole mc and instace name. the mc contains multiple moving images.
View 4 RepliesHow do I convert the following into Actionscript 3.0. I want to give each instance a unique name.
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Is there any way to dynamically give a movieclip an instance name? This little process is gonna be spread out to a couple hundred dots, and while it's not really all that hard to type in the variable by hand (in fact it'd "only" take half an hour or so), but the more done dynamically the better, I think.
What I want to do is have a simple movie clip which checks it's own instance name as a variable, and then gotoAndPlay("thatvariable");. For example, say I have a movie clip with instance name "a1". On the clip I'd like to put
onClipEvent (load) {
this.gotoAndPlay(_root.a1); //but in place of "_root.a1",
I'd like to be able to call the instance name so that I can copy and paste the code to multiple movieclips without manually changing the name.
}
_root.a1 is a variable which contains the name of a frame inside of a1, so when you boil it down, it's just telling itself to gotoAndPlay("framename") in a roundabout way. Is this at all possible?
I have a grid with 16 cells, and I want to give each cell a different instance name; like for example, boxy1, boxy2, ....boxy16; how do I achieve that ? Here is the code:
var rows:int = 4;var cols:int = 4;for (var py:int = 0; py <rows; py++){ for (var px:int = 0; px <cols; px++) { var box:Box = new Box(); box.x = 30 + box.width * px; box.y = 30 + box.height * py; addChild(box); }}
I drag the combobox from the library and set the dataProvider through AS.however, I click the combo, the options show, I click an option but the value doesn't change. it's like I clicked outside or something, it simply stays with the same value there.
example:
[option0][v]
*clicks the v arrow*
[option0][v][code]......
I simply drag the object, give it an instance name and set a dataProvider, nothing else.
Something I've been struggling with and can't seem to figure out. What I want for a system is to create several components, BUT each with their own timeline. For instance for a quiz, I want a number of answerbuttons. But each one should have their own appearance, preferably on a timeline. However these should be components, seeing their 'answerbutton'-logic should be the same over all buttons (apart from their answerbutton-index, set in the Component Parameters).
View 5 Repliesgive unique instance names to multiple children of the same object?
I have a sprite that I would like to use action script to create 3 instances of on stage and then control each separately.
I am in the process of making the flash news file. in which im calling the text from external xml file
there are max 4 news which are going to display one under other. also there will be a link to all these items
my question is how to give the hyperlink for the dynamically loading xml text in Flashmx.
View 1 RepliesHow to give image to halo button in flex 4?i am also going to mousrover and mouseout the button that wil change image respectively.and when i click on it it will show alert button.
View 1 RepliesSuppose position of MovieClip is
x=400,y=600 height=550,width=100.
My problem was that the When I apply the zoomIn effect of image,It is not actually inside the MovieClip.Image is coming out from the MovieClip during the zoomIn effect.
I want to apply a zoomIn effect for the image in the MovieClip only.
I am running a for loop that loads swfs onto the stage. _componentData is an XMLList.
private function loadDevices():void
{
for each (var d:XML in _componentData.device)
{
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Inside onDeviceLoadComplete i want to be able to set the instance name of the loaded swf. Can i send extra parameters to the event handler function?
I have successfully loaded an external swf. When load is complete, I add the loader target content to a movieclip but I've got problem accessign it after.
ActionScript Code:
// siteLoaderComplete
function siteLoaderComplete(e:Event)
{
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The only problem is that it that right now, it add a child with a instance name of 'instance5' in site. But how can I change 'instance5' for another term like 'myContent'??
I need to be able to access content from the loaded swf.
I have a navigation button that loads an external SWF. In this loaded SWF are more buttons (two, to be specific). Right now the goal of these buttons are just to take you to external URLs, but eventually I may want to control the timeline of the loaded SWF with them.
I have successfully loaded the SWF, but I am having trouble getting the buttons in the SWF to work. I have given each button an instance name, but I cannot add an EventListener to either of them. I can add an EventListener to the loaded SWF, but that doesn't really help me.
Here is the code I'm working with:
portfolioNav.pWebNav.addEventListener(MouseEvent.C LICK, pressWebNav);
function pressWebNav(event:MouseEvent):void {
var webStuff:Loader = new Loader();
webStuff.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event. COMPLETE, finished_loading);
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As you can see, my button pWebNav loads the SWF called webPortfolio.swf. When the SWF is done loading I am making the content of the SWF a MovieClip instead of a DisplayObject. I remove the EventListener that detects when it's done loading, assign it an x and y possition, and then add it to the stage.My troubles start when I go to add an EventListener to an instance in the loaded SWF. My thinking is because I've cast the SWF as a MovieClip, I can then access the instances within it. Obviously, that's not the case.
Some images I load dynamically are too big so I would like to scale them to fit the stage.
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this returns 0. Why does it return 0 when the image loaded is obviously much larger then 0 pixels. How do I change the width and height of imgCont to a specified dimension.
I am loading an SWF file into another parent SWF. I remove the loaded SWF using the unloadAndStop() method and set the loader to null. But the instance of the loaded SWF still remains there in the memory.
View 2 Repliescan anybody tall me how to access mc instance of externally loaded swf? in my as3 file i am trying to stop the animation of externally loaded swf. for that i have loaded the swf into mc sau current mc and i am trying to stop the swf by
currentmc.ballmc.stop();
where ballmc is the mc animation of the externally loaded swf.
I have an FLA with a 'close button' on the stage, which is given the instance name of btnClose and runs from this class file[code]...Stage Instance Name lost when loaded
View 3 RepliesHow to access mc instance of externally loaded swf? In my as3 file I am trying to stop the animation of externally loaded swf. For that I have loaded the swf into mc sau current mc and I am trying to stop the swf by
currentmc.ballmc.stop();
Where ballmc is the mc animation of the externally loaded swf.
I have a "MainSWF", that loads and places other SWFs "LoadedSWF". The LoadedSWF has buttons that are supposed to make some layers in the MainSWF visible/invisble. These layers are in a placed navigation bar that is defined as a symbol, was placed on the Main Stage and given the instance name "FlashStageMainNavigation". I have a hard time figuring out how to address the layers in the MainSWF, because it seems I am missing something.
When I use a loop to trace all the child instances on the stage of the MainSWF with:
this.getChildAt(i).name
I get the following info:
instance1 this.name=0
FlashStageMainNavigation this.name=4
When I trace stage.getChildByName(this.name) in MainSWF I get "FSMain", which is the name of my main Class
My assumption was, that I could (from the LoadedSWF) address the Navigationbar in the MainSWF by using something like:
stage.FSMain.FlashStageMainNavigation.visible = false; //or
stage.getChildByName("FSMain").FlashStageMainNavig ation.visible = false; //or
stage.getChildByName("FlashStageMainNavigation").v isible = false;
neither of that worked.
To sum up/rephrase my question: How can I find out, which object instances are placed on the stage and how do I address them from the LoadedSWF?
I have my main swf (swf1), that loads another swf(swf2). At some point, swf2 loads an external image. What's the best way for swf1 to align the loaded image from swf2??
View 2 RepliesHow should I go about cloning an image loaded form the server and adding it to the end of the first image loaded? Would I use bitmap clone? My attempts with this failed[URL]
Code:
//Creates new image loader
var imageLoader:Loader;
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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?
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