Short version : Im confused on the difference between the two when accessing something on the stage from a package. Longer version: I passed in a ref to the stage to the constructor on a class, and was unable to use it to access a dynamic text on stage. I pass in this instead and am able to access it.
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I have managed to load an external text file in one place one the maintimeline. I would like to do the same thing on other frames. When I go to duplicate the same thing that I did on the first one I get a duplicate textReq request. Do I need to give the textReq a more specific name for each section? When I did this the movie wouldn't even recognize and of the code that was working before.I am attaching link so you can see sections I am talking aboutAlso you will notice that the swf file I loaded won't go away. That's another problem...ugh.Here is code on maintimeline:
stop();
import fl.transitions.*;import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;import flash.display.Loader;import flash.events.Event;import
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I'm trying to access a text input that I've already placed on the stage (inside a movie clip) but with no luck.I've defined an instance name for this dynamic text field which is currentUserCount.I've got something like this set up in the document class actionscript file:
package {
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;[code].......
What am I missing? When I run this I get:
1120: Access of undefined property currentUserCount.
1120: Access of undefined property movieClipName.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property movieClipName through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.
1120: Access of undefined property currentUserCount.
I need to access an array that's on the maintimeline from with in a movie clip im having issues with it.
The variable has all its info on the maintimeline but doesnt show up when i reference it in the movie clip So i tried referencing to the array var thumbURL:String =parent.thumbs ; and var thumbURL:String =root.thumbs ; but got an empty variable.
is there a way to access the maintimeline from within a movieclip?
root. doesnt seem to work
I have a .as class which calls an event function. When the event fires, I'd like the MainTimeline to play..
View 9 RepliesI want to define a function on the maintimline and then from inside a movieclip I want to call a function.
In AS2 simply doing this could achieve the resuly _root.callFunction() but this is not possible in AS3
i have a MainTimeLine.as Document Class using as3 in flash cs4.it beginning looks like:[code]where the as file is declared in the Document Class of the primary fla file. under this primary fla file, i have a MovieClip symbol which points to another fla file. well this file declares a Class Linkage and i can access the properties and objects of the embedded symbol fine from the MainTimeLine.as script file.however, i have the above public player variable defined, as shown above, in the MainTimeLine.as code.i am having trouble accessing the player properties/methods from the embedded symbol fla file. how do i do that?
View 5 RepliesHere's the scenario: We have a creative team that operates in Flash CS5.5 and produces SWF assets which have both graphics elements and actionscript code in them, and an engineering team which authors .as files and builds "code SWFs". The code SWF files must load or embed the creative assets and interact with the code therein for our apps to function.
For iOS mobile development, there is another consideration - it is not possible to load runtime code in an AIR app packages for iOS because of Apple TOS (see related question). Hence, it is not possible to use a Loader to load SWFs in an iOS environment and retain their code.
Embedding a SWF into an ActionScript file the standard way results in a Loader that loads the embedded SWF directly as bytes. This results in access to the top-level, main timeline as follows:
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I keep getting the #1009 error coming up, i checked that everything was on my stage and was named correctly.This is the error message that comes up:TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.at Videogame_fla::MainTimeline/loop()Here is my code:
var carrot:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * 460) +0;
var carrot1:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * 460) +0;
var carrot2:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * 460)+0;
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I am running a script in a movieclip that captures date and time but the actual fields are on the _root or the stage. How to I access my dynamic fields? I put the prefix stage. in front of the instance name but I am getting the errors on all the places where I am trying to access the instance name "Symbol 'date-time', Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 14 1119: Access of possibly undefined property ampm2 through a reference with static type flash.display:Stage." Here's the code:
flash.display.Stage
//==== TIME ==== //
// This line puts the date object into a variable we can use more easily
var nowate = new Date();
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I have 2 input textfields on the stage and 1 dynamic textfield.
-input1 is for quantity
-input2 is for page count
When a user enters a number into the page count it makes a calculation and places the outcome into the dynamic textfield. This textfield is for the individual price.All of this so far works. What I want to do now is create another dynamic textfield for the total. So the individual price is multiplied by the quantity and this result is put in the new dynamic text field. I have the code for that working but here is where it gets tricky (for me anyway).The total price is to start off invisible. When I roll over the individual price the total price is to appear (For a test lets just say when I roll over an area the total price appears).To stop cursor flickering this should be done inside a movieclip. So... I have create a movieclip and placed a dynamic textfield inside it. They all have instance names BUT how do I reference it in script?I need to tell the resulting calculation to be placed inside the textfield which is inside the movieclip. If it isn't inside a movie clip I can do it. But how to I reference it when inside one?
I am confronted with a simply yet annoying problem: I manually created a row of MovieClips inside another movieclip container_mc on the stage in the Flash CS4 Editor. The MovieClips are named in the same convention (eg. target_1_mc, target_2_mc, ...target_200_mc).
When I try to access a property of it via AS3 during runtime of the SWF like this, it works:
container_mc.target_0_mc.alpha = 0; But how do I access the MovieClip dynamically? During runtime, a script will determine of which MovieClip i need to access a property. I will get the ID number of the MovieClip I want to access. So I need to be able to to something like this:
var mc_ID:int = 2; ["container_mc.target_"+mc_ID+_mc""].alpha = 0;
Obviously, that doesn't work. When I would create all the target-MovieClips dynamically at runtime, I would simply put them in an array. But in this case I need to work with the existing MovieClips manually created in the Flash Editor.
I have a static text in a swf file... Now i want to access that static text and convert in to a dynamic text during the run time... How to access the static text availbale in the swf file.... And then after accessing how to convert the static text to a dynamic text in flash AS 2.0.. Is it possible to do this one.. If yes means then give me a idea to do this one...
View 5 Repliesam setting up a webpage with Flash MX. On the homepage I have a dynamic text box with links to the left (currently the links are just typed words). We want it to setup so that when a user clicks a link (such as "HOME") it will access text from a .txt file and load it into the dynamic text box. We want all of the links ("HOME", "PERSONNEL", "RECRUITS", "CONTACT US") to load their text from a seperate .txt file into that same dynamic text box.
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I have an external class in a .as file, my problem is that I can't access text box elements on the stage. Code like stage.txtfield.text or this.parent.txtfield.text does not work. The txtfield is the instace name of a Dynamic Text field.
View 4 RepliesI have a dynamic text field on my stage, instance name: "lives_txt"
I want to populate this field from my Document class "Ball.as"
So in my Ball.as class I have tried: parent.lives_txt.text = String (lives);
where: public var lives:int = 3;
I get an error: access of possibily undefined property lives_mc through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObjectContainer.
i have a text field on stage called "txt" that i would like to access from a sub class but i get this error: 1120: Access of undefined property txt.
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I have a dynamic textbox that receives a value from a table in ms access. Currently there is a dataset linked to an xmlconnector which populates fields on other screens for some reason I cannot get the textbox on this screen to populate. There is also an answer text box which is some number. This value is then sent back to the original table
View 3 RepliesI have a movieclip created in CS4. I export that into my Flex Project's /lib and then try to access the text. All the textfields have ids, embedded text, and show up in intellisense. But when i run the project, the textfield is blank. What is going on?It appears to only not work when the text is embedded. Non embedded text works fine.
View 1 RepliesI have been trying to work out for a few days how to access a dynamic text field that is within a movie clip that is within a movie clip.
highScores1>showScores
ShowScores contains 10 dynamic text fields name1, name 2 .... name 5 and scoe 1, score 2 ....score5.
I then attach the movie during runtime using:
_root.attachMovie("highScore1","HighScore1",88);
I can populate and display the scores from a web based database using a PHP script and the following in my flash code:
_root.attachMovie("highScore1","HighScore1",88);
HighScore1._x = 260;
HighScore1._y = 150;
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What I want to do is be able to access score5 within the movie clip so as to compare against the score of the current game to work out if the player has scored a top 5 score. However, I try I can not access any of the scores within the movieclip.
I have a movie clip working as a button that is disabled after click. I need to add a scoring option, so that on click it also adds to the score. When I add the scoreGame function, it says the text box is undefined. Ideas?
Here's the code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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what i tried to do is the following: i created a dynamic text, gave it a name and converted it to symbol (Button; together with a shape). then i created an instance of it and gave this one a name as well.i tried to access the dynamic text using the following as 3 code:
[symbol instance name].[dyn. text name].text = "asdf";
however, that doesnt work, and the following error shows up: "TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."its interestion that all that works for the symbol being a movie clip instead of a button.is there a possibility to access the dynamic text inside the button as well? is there a reason for the difference between the button and the movie clip?
Using CS3 Flash Pro, AS2 or AS3Once the dynamic TextField is converted to a Movie clip symbol,access to that TextField is lost / broken.Could this be a "Class" issue?How do I enable the dynamic text to be passed into the Movie clip symbol?
View 2 RepliesI have what seems to be a simple task, yet I cannot seem to figure it out. I am busy creating a project in ActionScript 3, and while I am fairly fluent in ActionScript 2, I am being stumped a bit here.
I have a simple dynamic text field inside a button object. This text field has the name of txt_title. I have attached event handlers to change the alpha of the buttons when they are hovered over, however I also want to change the value of the text field within the button, when hovered over. My event listener looks like follows:
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I have a custom component which contains many promptingTextInput controls. When i click a button, I want the text field of all the promptingTextInputs to become blank. (Note: I have around 60 promptingTextInputs) How do i access the controls dynamically ? I am looking for a flex equivalent of $('input[type=text]') (like in jquery).
View 1 RepliesI've managed to put a text field onto the stage using AS2 but now I'm trying to make it stay in the center of the stage. [code]...
View 1 RepliesText is placed on stage dynamically with a MouseEvent. This is functioning correctly. I want to create a tween for the text once it displayed using the same MouseEvent but can't get it to
work.
Here's a sample of what I have (Bold is what is not functioning) :
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonsEffect);
function buttonsEffect(evt:MouseEvent):void {
evt.target.alpha=1.0;
if(evt.target == D) {
sndD.play();
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I'm having trouble adding a text message dynamically on stage using as3.I have an animation that the user interacts with and when a variable reaches a certain value I want to display a message to the user. How can I do this ?[code]....
View 3 RepliesI have a DynamicText movie clip call mcShotsText. In my .as file I'm creating an instance via:
private var _mcShotsText:MovieClip;
_mcShotsText = new mcShotsText();
_mcShotsText.x = 300;
_mcShotsText.y = 300;
addChild(_mcShotsText);
If I make the symbol so that it starts with text, it displays that fine. I want to alter it in code throughout the course of the game. I was hoping this would work:
_mcShotsText.text = "I am a cample";