ActionScript 3.0 :: Modifying Text Field Child Of MC By Array Call?
Feb 9, 2009
Ok.. so here's the basics of the code:
ActionScript Code:
var stackNum:TextField = new TextField();
stackNum.everythingcondensedhere = everythingcondensedhere
stackNum.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
[Code]....
It creates a textfield (and an image, but not important) and a movieclip, adds the MC to the stage and adds the image(itemLoader) and the textfield(stackNum).
And then it adds it to an array at [x][y].
Then later it calls the .stackSize, adds 1 to it, and tries to update the textfield.
Everything works except for updating the textfield, I just can't figure out what I need to use to point to it and have it change.
I'm trying to take a variable from the parent movieclip and use it in the child movieclip inside of a dynamic text field.
The variable has a value that is taken from a php file.
I'm completely lost at the moment and know that my code is probably completely wrong.
here it is:
parent movieclip: var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onLoaded); loader.load(new URLRequest("../SC/FLA_cont-btn.php"));
That class has a loop that creates / instantiates a number of copies of another movieclip from the library. This second movieclip has a textfield child in it. When I convert this textfield to a movieclip I can access the properties of it fine, but just as a dynamic textbox I can't access it.
This is the custom class of the second movieclip that gets instatiated a few times by the first custom class...
This custom class relates to a movieclip that has a child MC called recent_text (which I can access ok) and in that child is another child (a dynamic text field called "aDynamicTextBox", which I can't access)[code]...
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Is there any way to get around creating dozens of variables just to display array items?
Someth. do I wrong :rolleyes: I tested it simply with this code and the textfield aslo displays only the last index c even if the array has content a,b,c and trace() outputs abc :confused:
Code: var a:Array = new Array (); var myArray:Array = new Array ("a", "b", "c"); for (i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
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stop(); baby_B.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, letterB); function letterB(event:MouseEvent)
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[Code]...
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Tree.as package com.treediagram { public class Tree extends MovieClip {
[code]....
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