translate this piece of code to AS2? Don't ask why
var pictureIndex:int = 0;
var pictures:Array = [];
mc_animation.gotoAndStop(1);
mc_animation.visible = false;
mc_animation.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, animationCompleteHandler);
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I consistently seem to run into an issue. When I addChild(mc), features and assets that need to be rendered on the display list, are not available immediately for actionscript access. For example, the use of MovieClip(root) and alpha manipulation (right? or not?) of the movieclip being added (or of it's children) does not seem to be available immediately. So, I have tried the following, which didn't seem to work either, but maybe it's correct and I had a complicating issue?
Let me know the "proper" way to know that a movieclip has been rendered so that I can access features requiring the asset to be on the display list? What I've tried is below:
var mc:MyMovieClipClass = new MyMovieClipClass():
this.addChild(mc);
this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED,mcReady);
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I've got these Flash students I TA for a course, and they are doing drag and drop exercises and have come across some weirdness.(They are using a frames based design to represent different pages of activity, with a menu to goto each frame under user control.)At author time:
1. they set up drag and drop as3 for an object on a particular frame.
2. when startDrag is initiated, they moved the dragged object to the top of the display list, so it appears to float above all other objects as the user drags.
at runtime,a problem appears:the object seems to have been pulled out of the frame, and now floats in a display list above any frame that may be advanced to.What's going on here? It's like the object got pulled off the authortime stage and now is disconnected. Going back to the drag and drop frame shows the original object again, reinstanced, along with this copy that got pulled out.
I have very simple code for a class: package {import flash.text.TextField; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Greeter extends Sprite { public function Greeter(){var txtHello:TextField = new TextField(); txtHello.text = "Hello World"; trace("hi"); addChild(txtHello);}}}
The above file is saved as Greeter.as in say folder C: est I then create a Fla file named test_display.fla (saved in C: est) and its contents are: import Greeter;var tt:Greeter = new Greeter(); Now the Output window shows hi due to the trace statement but the addChild method should show World in the Flash movie but it does not. The only way to get Hello World to the Flash Movie is to change the test_display.fla to:
import Greeter;var tt:Greeter = new Greeter(); addChild(tt);
In other words I have to use the addChild method twice ( once in Greeter.as and once in test_display.fla ) to get Hello World to display in the Flash movie. Does anyone know why this is so?
I am trying to read a XML file and display its content in a simple list component or at the console. The problem is that the event listener is triggered in an infinite loop.
The code:
var myXML:XML;
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
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I want to separate the data from the PHP call to Different CollectionArrays So that I can use the data for a bar-graph;
I created a static version of the bar-graph and separated the Collection array manually I don't want this done manually I need to do it dynamically. So what I am trying to understand is where to put the event-listener how to add to a collectionArray then once the collection array(s) are built. use that information to build the bar graphs...
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I have a list containing display objects from throughout the application (insertion order). I want to process the list either top-down (parent, child) or bottom up (child, parent). The only requirement is that either a parent is processed before any child or vice versa a child before its parent. What is a good approach? This question is not about sorting a list. It's about retrieving the depth of a particular display object.
Example
Display list:
A (root)
B1
C1
C2
D1
B2
......
My list:
list = [E1, F4, A, B2, B1, C3, ..., N9, N8]
Bottom-up:
N9, N8, F4, E1, C3, B2, B1, A
Top-down:
A, B2, B1, C3, E1, F4, N9, N8
Does not matter if N9 before N8 or N8 before N9. Important is that any N is before M (first run) or any M before its children N* (second run).
Is there any way to test if a display object has been added to the display list?
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View 1 RepliesHow do I identify all the display objects in the display list in ActionScript, bellow the one that I have clicked? All the other objects are shadowed by the first one. What if other objects have visible parameter as hidden?
View 1 RepliesI was wondering if there is a shortcut so i can always set a MovieClip to display at the tippy top of the display list?
Also i understand that WebViewLayer will always display above the display list.
It's my understanding that a display object cannot be in the display list more that once.So if I add something to the stage shouldn't a second addition of the same object replace the first? for instance:
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there should now only be one "myDisplayObject" on the stage.
I am new to XML and I have tweaked a mp3 player from a [URL] file to do exactly what I need it to except for one small thing.... I need for each song to be able to load different album artwork independently, right now the jpeg is assigned to all the songs in the playlist. I did the tutorial and while it made sense. this "final" example goes far beyond the scope of the tutorial (he leaves it as an example of what could be done if you know what you are doing (I don't))
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i want to implement a simple list containing 6 items in action script 3.0. The screen shall show 4 items at a time and it has to get the key presses just to move UP?DOWN in the list.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to create a simple list menu that will load my .swf file is a scrolling panel.
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import fl.controls.List;
import fl.data.DataProvider;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
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I want to create a simple high score list of 10 high scores of a game. From reading the forums I seem to get the idea that flash cannot create a simple text file. I don't have php or asp but do have cgi capability. Does anyone know where I can find a simple cgi-script that will allow me to write the text the cgi receives to a simple text file: game.sco I want to be able to write a single long string to it so that I create a string of values and can load it back in using flash loadvariables. I can create the string in flash... but how do I write it to a text file using a cgi script? the text file would include this string...I already know how to read it and split it to parse it into arrays:
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I am trying to load simple html text from xml using AS3 in flash. Here is my sample xml tag.[code]...
View 7 RepliesI am just looking for a tutorial for a simple loader bar. My flash site is quite large and as a result, a simple loading screen leads people with slower connections to believe that maybe it has crashed during load and don't wait till it's finished. A load bar would obviously show that the site is still downloading.
View 1 Repliescreate a button, create a movie clip with two frames.
place a button instance in frame 2.
place a mc instance on the stage.
create another instance of the button to change the movie clip instance to frame two.
the button in the movie clip is pressed and executes a function.
here's the code
Code:
// create the button to show the button!
_root.button_instance_2.onPress = function() {
buttonClick1();
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if, however, i use the same code on a movie clip that has only one frame it will work fine. do i need to tell the function to target the button instance any more specifically than that?
I have a flash file which I want to loop, and have used this action on the last frame:
on(load) {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
Seems to work, but I need to convert the file to FLV and am losing the loop when I do this.
I need to move between (rotated) object in flex along x, y, or z as an independent observer. The movement relative to x, y works ok, but when I go along the z axis, the observer behaves as it was apart of the xyz system of the objects and doesn't go straightforward to the object but in diagonal for example. Here is some tryout code
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is there a site out there that has a translation from all the common AS2 commands?I'm just learning AS3 now and i have no idea how to do the basic things such as _root.mc.loadMovie("asd.swf"); anymore
View 6 RepliesDisplay simple html string with <img> <p> tag in builder 4?
View 1 RepliesThe MovieClip art Gallery is added to the stage just fine, but it's .as class can't even display a simple image 'elephant.jpg'.
ActionScript Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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what i want to do is display a set of items by 10, so clicking next_btn shows the next 10 items and also adds 10 items to the start_count var so that the next set starts at the first count (ie 21,31, 41..). counting seems to work fine even if the limit_count var is 54, which shows only 51,52,53,54.
The problem is the backward counting, the operation looks normal but the logic is wrong, when i click the prev_btn the set is repeated (ex. click next appears 1-10, click next again shows 21-30, click prev shows 21-30).I've attached the code below so that you can see what i mean. I think my logic seems wrong somewhere along the code.
Code:
var limit_count = 54;
var start_count = 1;
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Where can i get the weather, in realtime (let's say each 10 minutes), of a specific place like Newyork, Dubai etc and display it in flash ?. I want to incorporate the information into the design that I have made.
View 1 RepliesI've noticed a bit of discrepancy of using the public AS3 API for the GlowFilter strength property. All the others seem to make sense when comparing the visual effect using the Flash CS5 tool on a MovieClip. However the strength seems to baffle me. The API lists strength being a number from 0 to 255:
http:[url]..........How does a number between 0 and 255 translate to a number between 0 and 100% as listed in Flash CS5. In other words what would be the parameters I should use to repeat the same effect as this:
If I try to apply this using code this is what comes to mind for each of the properties:
blurX = 5blurY = 5color = 0xFF0000quality = BitmapFilterQuality.LOWstrength = 255
So does strength of 100% act the same as the max value of strength allowed by the API, which is 255? Here's what happens when you do this with this code:
clip_mc.filters = [ new GlowFilter(0xFF0000,
1,5,5,255,
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When I test this I get different results. Here's the filter effect as applied at design time:And here's the filter effect applied dynamically using the GlowFilter class (see code above):
Notice the slight difference in the strength? How can we accurately replicate filters given these two strength scales? I need to apply a class to a load of MovieClip objects at run-time and don't want to have to go into the library and paste the filter preset 100+ times.
OK so inside one of my object classes i have this function
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My preferred simple way of having animations in flash (im not fond of flashes drawing tools ) TA is a movieclip inside the Movie clip that the class is linked to, and TP is the one inside that one which contains the bitmap. Running this function in my enter frame gives me a
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I'm attempting to take a process that previously ran multiple remote object calls in parallel and make them run in serial.I know it's a hackish approach (bandaid!), but so far my approach has been to take this for-loop that started each parallel request:[code]Where _pause_queue is a private global boolean for the class. In the fault-handler and response-handler functions, it is set back to false, so that the infinite where-loop is released and the for loop will continue.This is functional, but the UI only updates after the while-loop ends, which causes the negative side effect that it looks like the application is hung while waiting for a response.
Is there something I can put inside the while loop to allow flash to update the display? In VB (ugh!) I would use DoEvents, but I don't know of an equivalent for Actionscript.Alternately, is there a way to add a simple queueing system short of completely rewriting the application? This is legacy code and I'm on a tight deadline so I'd like to modify it as little as possible. (Otherwise I would rewrite it from the ground up and use Swiz to get the Event Chaining.)
I want to make a language translation app, like google translate. I want to know if there are any libraries I could use to translate from one language to another like: spanish to english. I need to translate between the languages: spanish, english, italian, french & portuguese. Please tell me if its possible to import and use dictionaries to translate like, for example a spanish-english dictionary, for the above languages.
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