ActionScript 3.0 :: Spawning Several Instances Of A Button With A Different Names By Using Array
Mar 4, 2009
where each of my buttons have a dynamic text label.
So this button is a symbol, and the instances are named let say btn1, btn2, btn3. The label tag name inside the symbol is btnName.
How I can make this work if I define my array on top level? How I can make sure that the label btnName will have the correct array name for each btn instances?
found out the benefits of .children usage...
btn1.children.btnName = xArray[0];
btn2.children.btnName = xArray[1];
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Jul 8, 2011
I've continued with it and have hit another hurdle. When I run the loop to load in the XML images, inside the same loop I add instances of a "thumb" movieclip onto the stage. It's just a little graphic that I want to use as thumbnail buttons. So for example, if the XML loads in 3 images, 3 instances of the "thumb" mc also load onto the stage. I currently give then unique names in the loop but that name gets overwritten each time the loop runs. How can I record each name of the instance? I'm guessing an array but how do you populate an array with a loop?
Then, I'm hoping if those names are recorded in an array, then I can reference the different thumb instances (so they can do different things with the images) and also use removeChild on them when I close the gallery and load in the next gallery. Here is my code so far,
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Jul 6, 2009
i'm creating an application using AS3.0 and class files. in this application i have a MovieClip in the library i'm using that contains several symbols and configurable textfields and have already defined the functionality for these symbols. my question is, if i'm creating an application and through actionscript and i'm spawning instances of a symbol, do i have to define the functionality and initialize this symbol in the main application class?
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May 17, 2010
i have sprites in the library with linkages in them.. how would i create new instances of them if they are stored inside an array?
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Mar 24, 2012
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Dec 19, 2011
I made a ball that moves and when it hits a border it bounces back.I want to make it so that a new ball will spawn every few seconds and does the same as the first ball. So i tried making it with an Array, not sure if it's the best way to do it, because it didn't work out as i wanted The ball's instance name is mcBall, if you need it.
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Is there a way to group a bunch of movie clip instances into a single variable? Reason is, I have a lot of movie clips acting as buttons that I have added to event listeners. All of the movie clips with do the same functions and I have a few different functions created.
For example. How can I change this
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mc_aitkin.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, changeAlpha);
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Dec 6, 2009
I have the following code below which creates two movie clips on the stage dynamically. How would I give the two movie clips different instance names, so I can add separate event listeners to them?
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Jul 30, 2009
I have a number of loader instances (loader1, loader2, loader) which I will use to load pictures. I tried to create a loop and run the command
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Apr 18, 2011
i made a custom class where i would like to create x instances of a movieclip. But the following doesn't work:
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Is it possible to create one or several instances of a movieclip from the library with variable names
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Mar 14, 2011
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Dec 14, 2010
I was wondering if it was possible to create the name of a NEW array dynamically. I have tried the following with no success. Does anyone know if this can be done?
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Oct 21, 2010
I have an array called mclipArray with the names of movie clips stored in it as follows:
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Nov 22, 2010
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Apr 19, 2005
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Jun 24, 2009
Why I can't set properties to instance names with Array
Code: Select all// instance names:
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Nov 27, 2007
I am making an XML multiple-gallery flash site for a client. The chunk of code I am having trouble with is populating the thumbmails section of the site with all the pictures in all the galleries. The image paths are brought in and stored in an array - one array for each gallery's image paths. The problem is that when I try to cycle through all the images to put them into movie clips (using a fore statement) I am having trouble dynamically addressing the arrays. More specifically, flash interprets them as strings, and does not evaluate the variables in them.
Code:
function images(i){
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