ActionScript 3.0 :: Making Movieclip Instances Global?
Apr 28, 2010
Is this possible AS3? I've been searching everywhere for a way to make Movieclip Instances globally accessible and haven't had any luck.I know I can make variables global by making them public and static in the class constructor, but I can't find a resource for objects.
I hear this is typically bad form, but I have a portfolio site where the entire site and it's contents change scale and position for every thumbnail.If I could make things like the BG, border, header, footer etc. globally accessible, I could change them all with a one or two global methods.
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I seem to have a bit of a problem with getting the collision detection working in harmony with the rest of my code. Basically i have an array that creates multiple instances of a movieclip named mcPlatformStandard with the following piece of code...
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Jun 4, 2009
I mostly use flash for the animation, so my action script tends to be mostly functional.
I am now however having an issue, i am using a variable called language which I am setting in frame one as "dutch", "english" , "german" etc... Im then using this to set dynamic text as appropriate in each frame as necessary.(and yes i may switch this to case statements )
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Sep 17, 2009
I am just making the move to AS3, and in particular - moving my code to classes and packages. And right now, the penny hasnt dropped. I understand that packages group a group of related classes, but my brain just hasnt seemed to grasp a few concepts.
As a start, i thought i would port a dropdown i built in as2, to as3. The problem i am having specifically is making instances of the dropdown aware of each other. For example, I have a Dropdown Class that adds my dropdown to the stage. This class is responsible for building the dropdown, and adding the items to it.
But lets say i make another instance of this class. This brings up several issues that i dont fully understand. For example: - when one dropdown instance is open, it is the current_selected. When I open another dropdown, i want to send an event to the other instances that says "hey, if you are open you need to close" - a reset all function. Which would work similar to above. It would send an event all all instances of the dropdown class and trigger their internal "reset()" method
In as2, i would simply create some variables to keep track of these things. As far as i am aware, you can't add package level variables that instances can all see?
So, Do i need to add a customised version of the event dispatcher? and if so, how do i tie all these instances into a group of sorts.
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Feb 10, 2010
I have a movie clip called "myMC". I set its x value as such:
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var myMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
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I know I could proboly acheive this with a math equation but is there a function that can get the exact global position of "myShape"? So that I can position another movieclip or sprite around that movieclip?
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I have one movieclip A within another movieclip B , and I use button to move movieclip B up and down. Then how can I get the position value of the movieclip A ( the global position not the relative position to movieclip B ).
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I have a global movieclip named globalInstance, but now I need to duplicate this movieclip and position them 5 x cordinate away from each other , how can I do it?
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I have a global movieclip named globalInstance, but now I need to duplicate this movieclip and position them 5 x cordinate away from each other , how can I do it?public static var globalmc: DisplayObject; ( this is how I created the global mc)
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Mar 27, 2009
I have a movie clip on my stage and it is named quest. Within quest, there are several frames representing the entire game (it's a text based adventure). Every once in a while, there will be an inventory item in one of those frames that has the ability to be dragged and dropped into the inventory box (which is a seperate movie clip on the main stage).
All of that works fine, however, since the movieclip that can be dragged was defined in the 'quest' movieclip, once the user needs to move on to the next frame in the quest panel, the inventory item disappears from the inventory box.
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Mar 21, 2011
I have a movie clip of an explosion which is done in code because I am randomizing the direction and amount of debris from the explosion, so it's a movie clip with one frame, and all animation is done in code. Problem is, I'm trying to pause the game from the main timeline when the player presses "p". Right now I have it so it turns the variable gamePaused = true and calls the function pauseGame() which stops everything else. However I don't know how to access the variable gamePaused from inside the explosion movie clip's code. If I can somehow check that variable in the movie clip, I can pause that animation until the player presses "p" again.
So basically, how do I access a variable in the main timeline from a movie clip?
Also just to point out, all of these explosions were created as Sprites in the main timeline's code, any solutions I have found online didn't like that. So just keep that in mind.
Here's the main timeline code:
//This Creates An Explosion<br>
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Apr 2, 2010
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May 18, 2010
Let me try my best to explain this... On the stage I have a master movieclip, for explanation purposes, let's call this movieclip "body". Nested inside of body are several other movieclips (we'll call them anatomy items like: arm, hair, foot, etc) Now let's say we scaled body to 200% (body.scaleX = body.scaleY = 2.0)
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Feb 25, 2007
Is there a simple way of determining a nested movieclip's global rotation?I have several nested movieclips that need to know what their rotation is to the main stage.
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Apr 28, 2004
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Nov 4, 2003
I have a button in a movie that I want to set a global variable to a new value when clicked. I want it to access a parameter of a movie clip that this same button loads onto the movie for the new global variable value. I have the final line under this button's onrelease script with something like this:
globalvariable1 = movieclip.parameter;
Everything is on level 0 and I've tried prefixing everything with _root. but it didn't make a difference, the global variable still wasn't changed. I'm a newbie so don't laugh if this is a really dumb question!
BriCar77
brian_carey77@ou.edu
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Aug 24, 2009
I have a movieclip that inside have secuence of image, I will like 1000 instances of this movieclip, but I not like reload the 100 of images inside the movieclip
It is posible.That the movieclip have a child share with more objects
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Sep 11, 2009
The zipped attachment for this post, contains two files trial.fla and img.jpg. In the flash movie, I have done the following: Created three frames with stop() on all the three. "Prev Frame" & "Next Frame" buttons allow us to move to all the three frames. There is a movieclip instance with the name: "abc" common to all the three frames. The button "Show/Hide Abc" makes "abc" visible & invisible. In the second frame, I am loading the external image "img.jpg" and setting the child index of "abc" to numChildren - 1.
Now if I move to frame 3 and try to hide "abc" (using "Show/Hide Abc"), it works fine. But once I switch back to frame 2 or subsequently to frame 1, I can see two instances named "abc" in the trace window. (I display all the children of the displayList on every frame). Why do two instances named "abc" appear? Due to two instances of "abc", the button to hide "abc" no longer works. Its very important. NOTE: If I do not change the childIndex of "abc" to numChildren - 1 then everything works fine. But I have to do this in my project where a similar problem has crept up.
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I'm trying to make a simple maze game. I have movement working, and now I'm trying to implement collision. Here's what I have:
An 8x8 grid, with walls of length 1 to break the grid up into a maze. the walls are instances of a movieclip I've named "mc_wall" a guitar-pick-shaped chip I'll control the movement of a cross-hair called "arms" that will check if there are walls immediately surrounding my chip by way of collision. "arms" is a movieclip made up of four individual movieclips: "uparm", "leftarm", "rightarm", and "downarm"
I have currently named each instance of "mc_wall" to be "wall" this is the code I have now (using only right as an example):
function moveRobot(event:KeyboardEvent):void
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this will work, causing the chip to remain in place if the rightarm detects "wall", and move if the rightarm does not detect "wall". My problem is that, although I have named every instance of "mc_wall" to be "wall", the only "wall" flash will recognize is the last one.
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The code below creates new instances of 2 MovieClips, seems all fine.
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var myOnStageClip:MovieClip = this.text_mc;
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I'm trying to do a drag and drop game, where I have to drag the same movieclip several times...
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I've built a dropdown menu movieclip that I need to use in a contact form- or more specifically, I need 2 dropdowns with different options in them in the same form. My problem is that when I change the properties in one instance of the dropdown_mc, it changes the properties in the other as well. The two clips have different instance names, and I've been changing labels of the list items by clicking through to the actionscript imbedded in each dropdown (not through the dropdown_mc in the library). There must be an obvious solution to this that I somehow didn't catch....I've even tried dragging each dropdown from the stage back into the library and creating a new movie clip with a different symbol name and they're still connected. Do I need to create an entirely new copy of this dropdown with different instance names
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I'm having some trouble trying to duplicate movieclips randomly. I have created an array with the instance names of the MCs i have on stage. Then I'm trying to create a variable that selects one random element from the array. Finally I want to use that variable as a target to duplicate my movie Clips... but it doesn't work.
Here is the code:
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var Items = new Array('bombon', 'regalo', 'corazon');
pos = new Object();
pos._x=random(550);
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How to I get the instance names of all the movie clips currently attached to "_root.contentMain"?
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Is there a code to remove all instances of a particular movieclip on stage? The code removeMovieClip(target);removes just one particular instance. That wont do for me at all! I need to remove all the instances. How do I do that?
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Aug 24, 2009
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I'm trying to convert an old AS 2.0 file to 3.0, but keep getting this error:
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I've been pulling my hair out trying to find the problem spot. Can someone take a look at this file and find where the problem lies? NOTE: the file needs to be updated to use strings within the Case statement: "Button_1", etc.
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