ActionScript 3.0 :: MovieClip Reference Nightmare - Update The New Widths Into An Array
Nov 9, 2010
I've been working on a project the last few days in AS2 and decided I'd try and re-write it in AS3 as I'm yet to venture in to the AS3 world. I've done most of the conversion, but I'm stuck on what should be an easy problem. I'm loading images from an xml. The images get put into movieclips.
I have a function that resizes the images when the stage is resized. This then runs another function to update an array of the image widths. The problem I have is trying to update the new widths into an Array. I just can't seen to reference my MC's to get the widths!
I am trying out the following code, so that whenever I make a movieclip null, the array containing it's reference too becomes null. I understand the following code cannot do this, but I want somehow, the array can provide information, if the movieclip has got null.
import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.Event; var a_arr:Array = new Array(a_Mc,b_Mc); trace(a_arr); a_Mc= null ; trace(a_arr);
Output is: [object MovieClip],[object MovieClip] But I want something like null, [object MovieClip ]
I am trying to get a bunch of attached movie clips have a different widths for certain clips var words_list = [["a"], ["a", "-", "b", "ou","-" "t"],["we","-","jk"-"h"] I am attaching each letter into a separate movie clip. When I get to a "-" sign I want to clip to be smaller in width. The problem I am having is that all the clips are the same distance apart and I need them to be different widths depending on if its a "-" or a letter. for ( i=0; i
I realize this is very basic but i need a quick way of referencing all my objects in an array,I have a series of movieclips with instance names "block1" "block2"... etc.
I there a quick way to reference these in an array something like "block"+1 ?
If n=1,b1.gotoAndStop(2); is to happen.n=2,b2.gotoAndStop(2); is to happen.But i don't want to put conditions like this.I want to putting something like this:b[n].gotoAndStop(2); or something.Is it possible.Is there any other alternate logic.
I created an Array of lrgIcons that contains several MovieClips, they are then positioned within a second MC and pushed to a second array of lrgIconsOnStage, they are enabled as buttons and assigned an event listener (all of this works fine). Problem is, I want to know which lrgIcon is selected and react to it with an if statement. When I trace the array of lrgIconsOnStage I get [object amazonLrgIcon],[object emailLrgIcon],[object gmailLrgIcon],[object messagesLrgIcon],[object missedCallsLrgIcon] and when I trace e.target I get [object amazonLrgIcon] (depending on which item I selected, which in my mind, should trigger the code correctly, but it does nothing, Why?
Code: var currButton:String; var lrgIcons:Array = new Array(amazonLrgIcon,emailLrgIcon,gmailLrgIcon,messagesLrgIcon,missedCallsLrgIcon); var lrgIconsOnStage:Array = new Array(); var lrgIconPosY:int = 69; var lrgIcon:MovieClip; [Code] .....
I have what I think should be a very simple problem. I have an array and can access an element of it like this:
var test = finalArray[0]; Will be a number between 1 and 7
say this will trace a number.No there is a movieclip on the root of stage whose name is a letter (always the same, say "R") and whatever the number is. I'm trying to get this movieclip to gotoAndStop at the frame corresponding to the number that is test. However this isn't working:
I've got a movieclip, which has got a dynamic text element.The movieclip uses a package for its codeThe package if obviously derived from the MovieClip classI've got a timer, that updates the dynamic text field every second.When debugging the code, I see that the timer works well. Its updates the value of the dynamic text field.
I've only recently gotten into action-scripting, and this has really stumped me !! I've got a simple drag & drop movie involving a key and a lock. The movie contains two mc's named lock and key on layer1, frame1. The movie works as it should, but I want the key to disappear once it's been used for it's purpose.
The lockmc is a simple black X with five frames and an instance name of 'lockmc'. There's a 'stop' action on fr.1 and a 'red' label on fr.5. I changed the colour of the X to red here.
The keymc has an instance name of 'keymc'and contains a button which is a simple red X. The button has the following actions.
I've only recently gotten into action-scripting, and this has really stumped me !! I've got a simple drag & drop movie involving a key and a lock. The movie contains two mc's named lock and key on layer1, frame1. The movie works as it should, but I want the key to disappear once it's been used for it's purpose.
The lockmc is a simple black X with five frames and an instance name of 'lockmc'. There's a 'stop' action on fr.1 and a 'red' label on fr.5. I changed the colour of the X to red here. The keymc has an instance name of 'keymc'and contains a button which is a simple red X. The button has the following actions...
I have a full-flash site which is fixed size, most controls and assets are added to the stage at runtime, the aligment is set to center, and it is embedded in html with 100% width and height - you can visit www.janelaurie.com to get a better picture of what I mean.Everything here is working perfectly, but I would like to add some stuff to the very edges of the browser and I cannot find the values that I need and its driving me crazy. I've added a listener to the stage.resize and stage.stageWidth / stage.stageHeight are giving the correct values but obviously that is not enough, I also need the coordinates of the top left corner which should be negative something - but I cannot find those values anywhere. I've tried getRect and getBounds but they don't work obviously as they only measure the full contents of the stage.
The only solution I can think of at this point is to set my stage.align to topleft, but that would mean i need to readjust the entire app and all of the main controls etc. are directly on the stage and I really do not want to change all that. All I need are two numbers, the coordinates of the top left corner of the stage in the resize event of the stage, is there anyway of retrieving that?
I've been having a right nightmare with this one. So here goes: I've created a dragable MC with a button assigned the following AS:
[Code]....
When I publish, the button does not load test.swf. I have created a blank MC 'container' for test.swf to load to but I need the button to be inside of the dragable MC. The .swf loads when the 'container' is cut and pasted into the dragable MC but to my novice suprise the .swf and the MC would be now both dragable My question is how do I load the .swf with this button inside of the MC and the 'container' outside?
filterFunction is a method to apply a filter on the content of a collection.But the filter is not apply into the orginal Array (the one which use in the ArrayCollection) So, after apply a filterFunction, the original Array lenght doesn't change, neither the content because the Array is not update; Only the Arraycollection does changes after filterFunction method.is there anyway to synchronise the content of an arraycollection with an array ?
I'm trying to write some code for a simple product scroller.I have an array of product items and when the user clicks the next button I want to remove the item at the last index of the array add add it to the start index and then update the stage with the results.
I have an inputbox and a submit button and prev and next button in my screen. Whenever users enter a text in the input box and clicks on the button, the text value is stored in an array. Then users click on the next button and again enters new value in the inputbox and click the submit button. The new value is added in the array.
Now suppose if users want to make correction to the values that they have entered for previously entered values, they can click on the previous button and make correction and click on the submit button.
For this I think, we have to remove an array value and add a new value to it. I am confused on how to remove and add a new value to that particular place.
Do I have to use Array.splice method. I think using the splice method I can remove an array item but how can I add the new value to that particular place. For example if users want to make correction to the second item, we should replace myArray[1].
I think I must be missing a step here; I have different data being pulled from an array created from xml depending on a variable (_currentTrackNum).. and the data changes if I set a different initial value for it; but if I change the variable once the program is initialized, none of the data changes even though I rerun the call with the changed variable.[code]
i'm running a simple nested for loop (code below) that when you go over a tile makes it change its color, so far so good but i also want to make it so that when you go over a tile you can then continue only on the tiles connected to it
Code: for (var colum = 0; colum < field_h; colum++) { for (var row = 0; row < field_w; row++)[code].....
i think i should be able to do it using arrays but i can't seem to understand how after the tiles are placed and the array updated accordingly to update the tiles with the new array value (enter frame event ? )
I have two text fields and the user can use a button to underline text in either field. I have a listener on each field that keeps tracks of the last clicked in field.
public function setLastActiveTextField(event:FocusEvent):void { lastTextActiveField=event.currentTarget; trace(lastTextActiveField.name); }
[Code]....
lastActiveTextField is defined as an Object. When the highlight button is hit, it reports the correct the range, but I can't figure out how to send the formatting to the actual textfield without setting up another if (lastActiveTextField.name==field2) control. Also, stage.focus won't work because the object isn't really on the stage, I guess. There has to be a way to refer to the textField object.
I am trying to create a text box which I can dynamically update from an XML file and move around in 3D at the same time. Is it possible?
I can create a dynamic text field and update if from an XML file and.I can create a dynamic text field, convert it into a Movie clip allowing me to move it round the screen but I can't do both without losing the text (I have also tried embedding the font).
Is it fundamentally possible in CS4 or CS3 to dynamically update a text field once it has been converted to a MovieClip/Symbol?
I have a DataGrid and I am manually setting the widths of the columns and they are working when i test through the flash application but in the browsers my column widths are not being set at all?
I am trying to make a reference to a movieclip instance that is in another movieclip.
Here's the deal: I have a main timeline for different pages of a website...then within that I make all of the art on each page into a movieclip so I can do animations every time that main timeline frame is called to, yet still keep my main timeline clean.
Within one page's movieclip I have a few buttons that I want to use to go to other pages by referencing them on the main timeline.I have been using this: (home_about is the about us button on my home page, and frame 31 is on the main timeline).
home_about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_6); function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_6(event:MouseEvent) :void {[code].............
Since this home_about is within another movieclip,I get the access of undefined property error. Do I need to change the code I've pasted above or add in variable definitions to fix this?
I have 3 textfields. they're in a sprite container. 1. date 2. pipe_mc movieclip 3. title field. I need to set it so that the textfield/mc/textfield;s x property changes dynamically when a shorter or longer date gets added into the field, via XML.
I need to create a horizontal menu with adding textfields with different widths dynamically on x axis. I have been doing this manually arranging the textfields on stage and get the x co-ordinate. I would really like to be able to do this with scripts, so in the future if I need to add/delete/change the numbers and positions, I can do it easily by just changing the scripts, But my maths knowledge is limited.
I'm currently working on a project for a simple scroller left to right gallery, images get loaded from an xml file, but the width of my images variate, therefore i need to find a way to vary the attribute else I get black blocks before images.. here is my source code for the main comp..
import caurina.transitions.*; var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("pics.xml"); var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); var xml:XML;
