I have a movie clip on the stage with 2 layers, a button on layer one and a semi-transparent blue square on layer 2. Now what I need to do of course is access the button on layer one that is under layer 2. Is this possible, I guess it has something to do with children or something.
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a site and I have 2 movieClips/buttons that I would like to use as use as next frame/ previous frame triggers respectively. Is there a way to set the buttons up once and then access the functionality from the various levels of the site? Note that the prev/next buttons will not always be on the stage.
View 3 Replieswhat I'm trying to do is accessingsnapText = scrollPane.source.textSnapshot;from an external swf. I've tried:
trace("-->: "+scrollPane.source.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
trace("-->: "+myLoader.content.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
trace("-->: "+mc.textSnapshot.getText(0, 1000));
[code].....
Working on an RPG type flash, and I have to be able to control a text-box from quite a few locations. The one that is causing me trouble is the inventory. I need to be able to access the textbox with an instance of "statusWindow" from within the inventory clip (instance name "inventory"), so when I mouse over an item within the movieclip it will change the status window on the stage.In this instance I want to mouse over inventory.invHealth from the main timeline to get the display.itemName and itemProps are strings containing information about the item.I tried the following but it gave me a "possibly undefined" error.
invHealth.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, itemStats);
function itemStats(e:Event):void
{
root.statusWindow.text = itemName+"
"+itemProps;
}
how can i access a movieclip via its instance name in another Movieclip class?
and a nother question how can i access a movieclip via its class name in another movieclip class?
BTW i want to access the movieclip child
I'm creating a menu bar that is a movieclip and inside the movieclip consists of the buttons.Now the menu bar is twice as WIDE as what is visible on the stage.The only part you can see is the text 'menu' on a bar.Then when the mouse hits the bar, it flies across the screen to the otherside of the bar where the menu buttons are.Now the menu bar does its animation over 20 frames - the last frame being the frame where the menu buttons are now visible.
On the last frame i have the 'stop;' code
On the first frame I have this code:
Code:
stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
[code]....
I've got a dozen movie clips on stage, each with 3 children, and each of those have 8 children, as example named u01-u08.
Is it possible to access u01 directly without the parent names? like a wildcard? like the xml way of getting to nodes with a .. ?
sort of like: stage..u01.alpha = .5;
I'm making a fighting game and so far all the controls are good, characters can walk, run attack etc. My problem: The character is a MovieClip, Guy, and is exported to a class Guy. In Guy.as I have a boolean "hitting" which is set to default "false". If the Guy object hitTests an enemy while "hitting" is true, the enemy will take tamage.
In the Guy MovieClip there are about 7 frames, each with its own animation. 3 of those frames are attacking animations in form of MovieClips, i.e, if we click them we get another set of frames. Say one of the attack MovieClips has 10 frames in it, frame 7 of 10 is where the punch actually lands, this is when I want the enemy to take damage, not before (while the character is still moving his hand forward). Seeing as this frame is inside a MovieClip which is inside another MovieClip(Guy), is there a way to access the property "hitting" with this inner frame?
Originally, the client wanted to control "hero_mc" using the keyboard but now they would like to control him with buttons only. Here is the original code on the "hero_mc" which works as expected:
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I have a flash with animations playing one after another. Say animation 1 finishes and i have a button which says Play Next named as playNext when i add the below code playNext.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,functio n(){gotoAndPlay("indexFade");}); on the last frame or the first frame ater stop it says ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable btnChallange is not defined. at FB_index_fla::MainTimeline/FB_index_fla::frame1()
View 5 RepliesI already made some buttons that I was planning on using as a menu for difficulty, easy,medium, hard. The buttons are already made with all the states and graphics, so I wanted to add an event listener so that when you click a button for example easy, if the medium button was at its hit state I would revert it back to up, eg:easyButton.addEventListenere(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(e:event) { mediumButton.gotoAndStop("up") or mediumButton.up
but then I realized there is no propertie or function in the simpleButton class to change the state of the button, I know I can make a movieclip, and do gotoAndStop at the up frame, but is there a way to make it work as a button???
Here is my code:
ActionScript Code:
var sp:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(sp);
[Code]....
How to get through to my MovieClips?
So you are in the menu screen of a game and you press a button to enter a level code. A pop-up menu is created that asks for the level code.
In a situation like this, how can I prevent you from clicking the "start game button" or the "options button" or whatever when this level code pop up is on the screen?
Would I have to temporarily remove all the listeners for the other buttons? That sounds like it would work, but it would require a lot of maintenance, especially if there are a lot of buttons on this menu screen.
I have a group of buttons that are grouped together and animated to move continuously across a MC. This SWF gets dynamically loaded into my main movie. Now, I want to be able to click on the buttons in the loaded SWF, and have the button click cause another SWF to be loaded into a different empty MC.
View 4 RepliesI have 29 buttons, named img1, img2 ....till img29...I need to access them all in a loop. I had asked this question earlier, but at that time the buttons had to be accessed via their holding movieclip, but this time the code is within the clip, so I need to directly access the button.
So originally the code I was using to access them was
_root.folioholdermc["img"+i]._alpha //thanks to Ned Murphy
now I need to access them as
this.img2._alpha //due to a path change
I tried using
this.img[i]._alpha but this is not working.
I want to put this in a loop where I moves from 1 to 29.
I have two layers, one on the bottom (the background) with some buttons on it. The second one, on top, is a movieclip of some smoke that is passing over the background... (to still see the background, I set the smoke layer to Screen - blending mode). So now I can see both layers. but of course the buttons dont work anymore because of the layer that is on top... Now, the question is, how can I disable the smoke layer to access to the buttons? There is a way to do that?
View 2 RepliesI have a group of buttons that are grouped together and animated to move continuously across a MC. This SWF gets dynamically loaded into my main movie. Now, I want to be able to click on the buttons in the loaded SWF, and have the button click cause another SWF to be loaded into a different empty MC.
View 4 RepliesI have a flash project (.fla file) that includes an external actionscript package. Inside the package I am trying to reference buttons and movie clips that are in the main timeline, but it keeps throwing reference errors. [code]...
View 2 RepliesIn my main timeline, I have an image fade in and stop on frame 61. On Frame 61, the code below executes;
Code:
stop();
var placesXML:XML =
<places>
<place name= "Bengkulu">
<frame>63</frame>
[Code] ....
There are no output errors, or compiler errors, yet when I click on one of the buttons, the movie does nothing - it certainly does not gotoAndStop on frame 62, 63, or 64 as I am asking it too. Before this code, there are no other actions at all in the movie - just a simple fade in image.. I have now tried tracing (the objects below), within the click handler curly braces (showData);
'xmlData' produces nothing in the Output
'xmlFrame' produces '0' on each click in the Output window.
Tracing both the above outside of the showData function curly braces produces;
1120: Access of undefined property of xmlFrame, or xmlData.
Tracing the nameBtn[i] produces '[object SimpleButton]' in the Output Window.
I want to access the properties of movieclips inside a movieclip.
Below is a code of how the Parent mc is created. It's looped because it's gets it data from XML. So there is not one parent movieclip but a number of parent movieclips depending on how many items the XML contains:
Code:
function doComplete(e:Event):void {
//create a new variable to store an instance of the XML class. We pass through the data from the XML file.
var xml:XML = new XML(e.target.data);
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After clicking to radio buttons i see next error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at fl.controls::RadioButton/drawFocus()
at fl.core::UIComponent/focusInHandler()[code]....
so, if i choose eagle_rb or tails_rb radio button from start i see error.i click to button whit existing choosen answer (gameScreen_mc.eagle_rb.selected = true;) then all working
I've read through several threads about this error, but haven't been able to apply it to figure out my situation... My flash file is an approx 5 second animation. Then, the last keyframe of each layer (frame #133) has a button in it. My flash file should stop on this last key frame, and you should be able to click on any of the 6 buttons to navigate to another html page in my website. Here is the Action Script that I have applied to the frame in which the buttons exist (on a separate layer, see screenshot at: [URL]
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I have a button inside a MovieClip (instance name: bt_fechar) and I want to refer to it from the main timeline (that's where I want to keep most of the code). It returns the following output error message: "Error #1065: Variable bt_fechar is not defined"
Heres the code:
function retirarCiclo(event:MouseEvent):void
{
[code].....
How is it possible to access another movieclip inside a movieclip, if you have it linked to a class in the properties?
like
Code:
function rotateSubclip_():Void
{
this.subclip._rotation += 1;
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Trying to develop a Monopoly in Flash/as3, I'm now displaying the properties of each player. When a user clicks on the userpanel, a "popup" appears, in wich all cards are displayed with an alpha = 0. My idea is to set the alpha at 1 for all the properties owned by the targeted user.
So, I have a panel called "panelCards", containing movieclips called "property1", "property2", "property3", ... In my code, an object Player has an array "pProperty", wich contains strings referring to every properties owned. I try to access the moviclips using these strings :
[Code]....
Obviously, it doesn't work. Is there a function wich allows me accessing those movieclips with the string reference?
I want to access a MovieClip in another scene than I'm currently in.
More specific I want to set a TextField to a certain value from a "preloader"-scene. This is for handling totally dynamic language phrases. Maybe this is the wrong way.
I'm loading a XML with language phrases that I want to replace the textfields with.
We could do this by altering all MovieClips, but I think this could be a smart solution, if it's possible! :)
Can't access in other movieclips for example I have my sections "home", "about", "contact" and the labels in the sections When I go inside about and call the contact section to set the text for example _parent.instancename(contact).title.text = "TEST"; this I call inside the about section but doesn't work!
View 2 Repliesis there a way to access the maintimeline from within a movieclip?
root. doesnt seem to work
Currently I found this code and adapted it to my document
Code:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var myUrlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("web11.swf");
myLoader.load(myUrlReq);
myLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
[code]....
This works if I wanted to load the class "Buttongroup" but I want to load the movieClip 'clipHolder' which is a new instance of buttonclass (with functions applied to it)
I have a main.fla that contains say 1_mc and a 2_mc.
a1_mc has a button, which when clicked runs a function called say clickedButton.
a2_mc has a marker_mc inside it.
When the clickedButton function runs inside a1_mc, I want the slider_mc to go y=20
I know I can access main.fla timeline by
Code:
MovieClip(parent).gotoAndStop("nameOfLabel");
I tried
Code:
MovieClip(parent).a2_mc.marker_mc.y = 20;
but it doesn't work