ActionScript 3.0 :: Possible To Access TextBox Directly In SimpleButton?
Apr 22, 2010
I need to have a button that contains a text box, and have the text change. First, is there a way to access a text box directly in a SimpleButton? While I know this doesn't work, it would look something like
Code:
btn.upState.textField.text="Text"
Second, since I could not get that to work, I made a movie clip, put the button i made in it, and simply put the text box over the button. The problem this creates is that when the mouse is hovering over just the button it is in the over state. When the button moves over the text box it goes back to the up state. Why it does this and if it is possible for the button to still be in its over state when the mouse is over an object that is on top of the button itself?
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i have a simple navigation system with three buttons, each button have a text field in it. On mouse over they change color to blue. I can achieve all these without a single line of code. I simply make a button of my text field in flash, and change the color of the text in the timeline.
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I've been trying to build a new base class for my button that extends SimpleButton, and from there access the embedded child object, but the problem remains.
In this example i'm trying to simply change the text of the text field inside of my new MyButton instance. But i get the same old Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
package
{
import...
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[Code].....
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This is a problem that's best explained in code. I don't see how active_button.upState, which I know is a TextField (see trace statements), mysteriously turns into a DisplayObject when I try to access the textColor property. I've included the error messages below for reference. Also, why is it that when I have an object that I know is a SimpleButton (again, see traces) I need to cast it to SimpleButton in order to store it in a var? That doesn't make any sense to me.
[Code]...
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...but I keep getting these errors (i will post them in order below):
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOver through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOut through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOver through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOut through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
[code]...
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thumb1.onRollOver=function(){
this._alpha=100;
}
thumb1.onRollOut=function(){
[code]...
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