Now how could I removeChild a specific Boxes? Like the Boxes with a name of Boxes0? Or my creation of multiple moviclips is wrong? BTW That works. It creates 3movieclips.
I have a MovieClip that loads other MovieClips. These I refer to as Galleries as they display some of my different web and art work. Each of these galleries has a close button (actually a MovieClip...) which works well enough. However I find that if I close a gallery and then re-open the same one, the close button refuses to do it's job again. The gallery remains open.
I'm pretty sure this is because I haven't used removeChild correctly. I knew I had a problem with this before, but thought I had solved it. Since, when the galleries close button is clicked, it plays a closing animation I couldn't figure how to add the removeChild for the MovieClip. This is what it looks like (including my commented out failure...)
I have a set of buttons on the main timeline that gotoandplays movieclips that reside in different frames. These movieclips are on the stage by using addChild statements. As I click a button and it takes me to that specific frame, I am having hard time removing these movieclips using conditionals when I click on one of the buttons...
I tried to replicate my problem in the attached source file... so it may be easier for someone to understand my specific question. *Again, I have to use addChild statements for these movieclips on each frame... I know this would be no issue if it were just timeline object based...
I am a noob to Flash AS3, having a problem loading animated MC's. I am creating an AS3 file. I have 5 animated movie clips, I want to load a new clip after the previous one is done animating. I would like to load each clip with code. I can get them to load, but not sure how to removeChild after 1 cycle of animation and add the new child to follow.
if you view my project you will see that it is a drag and drop application. You will also see two buttons at the bottom (I plan on adding more), when you click on a box it will add more objects to the menu. Heres where my question comes in, the box then says remove on it, I want the items that were added by clicking on the box to be removed as well as items added to the stage when you click on that same box again, how do I do this?
[URL]I've managed to get it all working though am having trouble extending it more. Basically I've got it set up so that when the used click on another button it loads another xml, basically going to another gallery.It works fine apart from the fact that when i change the gallery, if the previous one has more photos then they are left over in the thumbnails of the new one. So basically what i need to do is remove the created movie clips, when i click on a button then load the new xml file. I can get them using the following code, added onto the end of the tutorial:
Code: image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader(); image_mcl.addListener(tlistener); image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k],"thumbnail_mc.t"+k);
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Obviously this isn't what I want as it removes them just after they are created, i was just trying to figure out how to remove them! I've made this function global etc and had buttons use the function but it still wont remove them!The Full path to the created clips is contentHold.content2.gallery.thumbnail_mc.t[i], where i is the numer of photos in the gallery.I created another movie clip within the thumbnail_mc clip and could manipulte that so i'm guessing it has something to do with them being created dynamically?
Movieclips created on the stage and instanced behave differently from dynamic movieclips in that they are destroyed when you go to the next frame (I have a stop on every frame). If I create that same movieclip dynamically then it will stay on the stage forever regardless if I go to the next frame or not. I understand that it needs to be removed from the display list but I can't find any event that is fired on a next frame basis. I could use onEnterFrame but at 30 fps, that's alot of overhead. The idea is to have all the code contained in my .as file.
I'm trying to remove movieclips created at run time using "createEmptyMovieClip" but I'm having a problem calling the "removeMovieClip" function. The difficulty seems to be that the string that I assign as the instance name of the new movie clip doesn't actually refer to the created clip when I try to call"removeMovieClip".
So the "removeMovieClip" function doesn't work if the target name is pulled from the array. My guess is that this has something to do with the values of the array being strings...and it does when I manually type Apple.removeMovieClip(); in because Apple is the movieclip object name. How do call the "removeMovieClip"function using a var as the target?
I have an application that I am adding movieclips to a container movieclip through a for loop and repeatedly calling myClip.addChild(theNewClip). Now I have a dozen clips in my container and it seems like the only way to access the clip is to use the getChildByName() method and cast it into a temporary clip so I can get at the its properties.
Is this the best and/or only way to do this? Does the old AS2 myContainer["theName"].property not work with dynamically created movieclips? It doesn't seem to work for me anymore.
I have an application that I am adding movieclips to a container movieclip through a for loop and repeatedly calling myClip.addChild(theNewClip). Now I have a dozen clips in my container and it seems like the only way to access the clip is to use the getChildByName() method and cast it into a temporary clip so I can get at the its properties.
Is this the best and/or only way to do this? Does the old AS2 myContainer["theName"].property not work with dynamically created movieclips? It doesn't seem to work for me anymore.
Im creating movieclips based on the items in an xml file. It pulls the data in ok, and loads in an image from the given description, and poisitions the clips ok.
Where i'm falling down its assigning button functions to these clips. I can not reference the clips indivually it always refers to the last clip created.
I am able to dynamically create an object on the stage with a function, but I am at a loss for how to access and manipulate the properties of that object from my Main Class.
in my Main Class I have:
ActionScript Code: NLP_addChild.addObject(stage) // NLP_addChild is the other class addObject() is the function
in NLP_addChild Class appears the following:
ActionScript Code: public static function addObject(stage:Stage) { var myCircle:MovieClip = new circle()
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myCircle displays correctly on the stage, myCircle is correctly assigned an x of 300. But myCircle x property cannot be assigned from my main class.
The problem is that this code is in a frame and when I leave the frame the MovieClips I have created will still be there. I think this is because I'm creating a global MovieClip right? If so then is there a way to declare the MovieClips as local? [code]...
I'm trying to create a photogallery. I read both of the tutorials on the site, but couldn't find the answer to my problem. First, I will outline my methodology.
There is a directory called images, and therein are stored (surprise surprise) the images for the gallery. There is also a textfile that contains the number of images in the gallery.
Flash runs a loop that uses duplicateMovieClip to create instances of each image and set them up into rows and columns.
That's as far as I've gotten.
I want to be able to click these new movie clips, and have the image that was clicked appear in full size at the top of the screen. Basically, I just need to know how to assign actions to these newly created clips. Is it possible to do this when they are being created? Here's my code, thus far. I was trying to work from scratch, and my knowledge of actionscript is limited.
Code: var beam:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); beam.load("/images/imagecount.txt"); row = 1;
So I'm adding these movieclips which have textfields inside them and I'm trying to space each new movieclip. Currently they are being placed on top of each other. _taskX and _taskY are variables which I define down there.
Code: public function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void { _taskX = 300; _taskY = 100;
Can you addChild to a specific movieclip instance i.e. movieclip.name.addChild(movieclip).
I have built a 'for loop' to render a series of 'products'. The idea being to create a movieclip, load an image into this movieclip, assign a URL and later some text.[code]...
I am trying to add evenListeners to movieClips that are created by a method in one of my Classes. Creating an instance of my class from the main timeline and then adding that instance to the stage.:
//MY CLASS var createSlide:AddItems = new AddItems(); var scrollClip:Sprite = new Sprite(); addChild(scrollClip); //ADDIMAGES CREATES 4 MOVIECLIPS createSlide.addImages(BG,image1,image2,image3,image4); //ADD TO STAGE scrollClip.addChild(createSlide);
So how do I add event listeners to the movieClips created by createSlide?
i followed this tutorial: http:[url]....and all has work out great however, then i go onto anouther frame how do i remove all movieclips from the created game arrays?
How do I attach data to a movie clip that is generated dynamically?
In my code below I create 3 green boxes. I want it to trace the sequence number of each box after it's clicked on, but I can't figure out how to make that happen.
Code: for (var i:Number=0; i<3; i++) { var nubox:MovieClip=new MovieClip(); nubox.graphics.beginFill(0x0FF000);
Can you addChild to a specific movieclip instance i.e. movieclip.name.addChild(movieclip). I have built a 'for loop' to render a series of 'products'. The idea being to create a movieclip, load an image into this movieclip, assign a URL and later some text.
currently working on my first AS 3 project. The transition from AS 2 to AS 3 has been tough but rewarding. However, still fiddling with dynamically created objects though (using a database for my site-content). Here's my problem: If I dynamically create a MovieClip I can no longer access the main stage. Since I'm using a mousedrag interaction I need a global MouseUp Listener. If I try to access 'stage' or 'root' or 'parent' from within the dynamically created MovieClip the result is always 'null' instead of what's really there. Is there an easy way to access the main stage from within the created object?
I'm dynamically creating movieclips with dynamically created movieclips inside them and am having trouble with targeting them.
Below is a simplified example of what I'm trying to achieve, in the real file there are a lot more movieclips and I'm creating and naming them with a for loop.
This one is just one Sprite created inside another sprite. I can target the top level sprite named "testname". However when i try target the nested MC it throws an error.
The bottom couple of traces are just test MCs I've made to make sure i got the syntax right, on targeting nested movieclips.
PHP Code:
var holder:Sprite = new test1(); holder.name = "testname"; this.addChild(holder);
I'm trying to build a conditional statement that will addChild and removeChild at different Timer Delays. Before I go any further, I thought, I should mention that I'm usinig TweenMax to ease the alpha of ease Child from 1 to 0 and back during the process to imitate a fade-in/out.
I'm getting issue with only one line - inside a conditional statement.It's running "OK". The movie runs as I want it, but the remove/addChild transitions are not at the speed I want it at. I am getting an error message in the output, but other than that, the movie runs fine.
I am trying to use a for loop, to place 5 instances of the same movieclip on the stage. In the loop I used .name to give each movieclip a unique instance name. But when I try to reference one of those instance names in an event listener I get an error. Here is an example of what I am trying to do:
Quote:
var xPos:int = 120; var yPos:int = 60; for (var i:Number = 1; i<=5; i++) {
[Code].....
This code generates an error saying that the cStar2 property is undefined. In the example above, does the for loop create 5 copies of the movieclip starC_moov, and give them unique instance names cStar1, cStar2, cStar3, cStar4 and cStar5?
I want to use compiled clips to speed up compilation. But I've found following problem: I've got Foo class, which extends MovieClip and is set as 'Class' to one of library's symbol (this symbol is also called Foo). This symbol (Foo) has a MovieClip child, whose instance name is FOO_CHILD. I'm referencing this child inside Foo class constructor like this:
public function Foo(){ childReferennce = this.getChildByName("FOO_CHILD"); }
Now, when I use 'Convert into compiled clip' option on Foo library symbol it complies fine. But when I try to use it on stage, then I've got runtime error (ReferenceError: Error #1056 which says that it is not able to create "FOO_CHILD" property on my Foo class).
