ActionScript 3.0 :: Resize Child Clip From Parent
Aug 12, 2010
I'm working on a project for my elementary school students using a book, some mp3s, and some images of text. The main movie clip is called "halloweenWitch" and it's about 10,000 frames long. Every 500 frames or so there's a keyframe for new images of the text. I'm trying to access child movie clips (mc0-mc18) to tween (resize) using code that I found here. [URL] However when I try to access the children with:
Code:
Effects.resizeIt(halloweenWitch.mc0,1,2,2);
From the main timeline I get an error.
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
When I debugged the program it said that the problem was this line in my Effects.as file.
Code:
targetMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, resizing,false,0,true);
targetMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, resizing2,false,0,true);
I think it has something to do with initialization but I'm not sure how to write a function that would tell the stage to wait until all objects inside halloweenWitch are present, nor even if that's what I'm supposed to do.
Code:
targetMC.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
??
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