I have a bit of a problem because i'm new to as3 and want to create a field around the object in which it could later on notice things. Things inside this field are seen and those outside not.
View 8 RepliesIn my game, Ive got a HUD, (heads up display, life bar, points scorer etc...) and when an enemy comes onto the stage, the lifebar is appearing behind everything else, and it should really be the thing that's infront of everything else. Is there like a line of code and a function or variable I should declare or import that allows me to create depth and put my lifebar at the front.
View 2 RepliesIm creating a website for a client who wants to be able to update it themselves and so i'm using AS3 to create a textfield which calls text from a txt file to display and uses the UIScrollbar to scroll the area. What i'm wondering is, is it possible to load images into this same textfield so they are easily added and updated (like the text is) and so they scroll with the text as if it were all one part?
View 6 RepliesIs it possible to create a search button inside of a "button" symbol? aaaaaaand have it only appear on the "over" state of the button?
What I want to do is have an image and then when the mouse hovers over it, it reveals (over the image) a search field where you can then enter information and search. I don't want the search box to be revealed when the mouse isn't hovering over it. I've tried alpha, everything.
I've got an xml file that is providing text to the swf. The flash file is supposed to go through the xml file and each time it reads a node it is supposed to create a text field on the stage with the text from the XML file. Then it is supposed to animate along the y axis for a short time, pause for a few seconds, and then continue animating along the y axis. (like a news ticker on a News Channel). Anyways, I've got the FLA reading the XML file fine and it even creates a text field populated with the text. But I can't get the text fields to animate inside the loop.[code]I can get the first text to animate. But I don't understand why the "i and j" version doesn't.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to enter a student name into a textfield (student1_txt). I just can't seem to work out the correct syntax. The student numbers and names are in an array. I have the fields working fine outside of the movie clip but not inside.
I wonder if anyone can see what is wrong in the statement below:
_root.desk1_mc["student"+heidedata[0]+"_txt"].text = myStudents[0];
I have a textfield, and I put the field legend inside it. I want the text "type your name" to be erase once user click inside the textfield. How can I do that? And the reverse, if the text was lived empty show again "type your name"?
View 7 RepliesI'd like to know if it is possible to have a search field �nside a flash site that search for text content
View 3 Replieshow to make a label appear inside a input text field. As of now I am just using a static text field to the left of the input field, bt due to lack of space I would like the text field name to appear inside the actual input text field and when the user clicks to insert their text the title or label for that input field dissapears.
View 1 RepliesI have value object that one of its field is meant to be filled trough a dropdown chooser. I'm very new to flex so I'm not sure what is the best way to maintain this field.
Should I make it a simple string in the value object and a table in the DB, and each time I have the dropdown to send a request to read it from the DB? That what I would have done with JS but in flash I thinkl it might be better to somehow keep that information in the flex app instead of keep asking the server to send the names every time.
The field has about six options and it is choosing htat field happens a lot during work with the app.
I have created two text boxes one is source and another is output. I want to place the output box inside a movie clip so that i can move it. How can i possible this ?This is my code,
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
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This is probably easy stuff for most of you guys but have tried to have this working for the past hour and it's not working.I basicly have made my own button which is a movieclip. Inside the movieclip on the normal/roll off state i've put a dynamic textfieldwith instance name "textbtn" my button is supposed to span 2 frames on my mainstage, thought is need to say something different in each frame.
Sofar I have this inside the movieclip on Frame 1:
textbtn.text = MovieClip(parent).buttonText;
on my mainstage in frame1 I have:
back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonRollOver);
back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, buttonRollOut);
back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);[code].....
I've got a dynamic text field in my button object. I have named the text field "myText". How can I modify the text within it? myButton.myText.text = "test"; won't work, because it can't access myText.
View 2 RepliesThis goes for a football (soccer) game. The guy ("messi" is the name of the mc in the script down) is supposed to run all over the field following a random curved trajectory. That works fine, but i cant make the mc to stay inside the limits of the field. I dont wont it to turn (no scale = -100), i want it to keep the curvy movements inside the document dimensions or increase the rotation when it comes close to the edge in order to avoid desapearing. Heres the code:
Code:
var nTurnFactor:Number = 7;
var nBaseTurn:Number = 2;
messi.nAngle = 0;
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How can i put an input text field inside of a movie clip?
View 9 RepliesHaving a problem displaying a dynamic text field inside a movie clip - when I test / publish the movie, the text field is empty my movie clip has the instance name: Main
In main Movie Clip there is another movie clip instant name is : login The dynamic text field (Inside the movie clip login) has the instance name: myText How can I chang the dynamic text inside the login movie clip using AS3 ?
Is there a way to add an inner drop shadow using TweenLite? I'm trying to add it to an input text field that I've created. I don't want to have to load an image, but I think i might have to.
View 4 RepliesI have a problem with a button.It has 4 keyframe and a text field with the same instance name "myText".I use this button in a MC, and its instance name is "myBtn".I'm trying to change myText with actionscript in the MC without any results.Debugging it I find a text field insiede this button named "instance6", so i think there is some problem with instance name.
I trying with:
trace(myBtn.myText);
and it says "undefined"!
How can i correctly give instance name to this text field?Is there any way to find out the name of the instance of an object (the text field) knowing the instance name of its parent (the button)?
How to detect (in AS3) whether cursor is no longer inside Input Text Field?
I've been trying Mouse events, Focus events, Text events but with no success.
Is it possible to ignore white space between characters inside a text input field let's say a user types in "bri an" instead of "brian. Is there a way that white space is ignore and treated it as one word?
View 1 RepliesI have created two text boxes one is source and another is output. I want to place the output box inside a movie clip so that i can move it. How can i place the output text box inside a movie clip ?
code is bellow,
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.Stage;
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I have combed the Web and I can't seem to find the answer. All I want to do is display some html-formatted text, located within an external XML file, in a dynamic text field in Flash CS3.
I don't have any code to supply because at this point the only thing I'm trying to display in the text field is "<b>This</b> is a <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a>." For this hypothetical example, I could call the text field myTextField. I just need to know how to format the AS3 code to get the XML to display inside myTextField.
Using php to declare a few Flashvars. No problems - they all arrive and behave. One of these populates a dynamic text field inside an MC. Simple enough stuff right? But.... when I try to test equality on that text field I get nothing. I've tried EVERYTHING I can think of. The MC is called "fake2". The text field inside it has a variable name of "choice_dyna" and an instance name of "fd2".
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I have a search box in my flash file and I'm trying to have it execute a getURL() when the enter key is pressed inside the text field, but nothing is happening. Can someone let me know what the issue is?
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I have a simple Google Maps API with external data loaded from XML file (location, lat, long, info etc.). I also have a custom marker as a MovieClip (marker_mc), which works fine, but I want to add a Dynamic Text Field (label_txt) to this MovieClip and load a simple data (<label>) to it from same XML file (distribubtion.xml), so as a result every location would have it's own label on the marker.I know how flash loads XML data, but what I don't know is how to include that in Google Maps API (if it's even possible).
Here's the code:
Code:
// Import
import com.google.maps.LatLng;
import com.google.maps.LatLngBounds;
import com.google.maps.Map;
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is there any event dispatched in HTMLLoader class when any of the input text field is being selected inside the HTML? If yes how to track not onlyt the Event but the input field also?
View 3 RepliesHow do I make some text inside my scrollable text field linked.
EG:
(Scrollable using the UI scrollbar)
Test1
Test2
Test3
I want to link Test1 to frame 1, Test2 to frame 2, etc.
Is there a way to have it so a Preloader only loads necessary things for the game? I want to have it so you don't have to wait for all the cutscenes(all located in their own MC) in the game to be loaded in order to play it: you can just wait until the cutscene is needed, and when it is, the AS can be told to load an MC which contains it.
View 1 RepliesI'd love to know how to make click and drag two different things. As it believes the drag function is also a click. Also I'd love to know how to set it so that ALL movieclips stop when they reach say -10px from each side?
View 2 RepliesI'll try to explain the general operation of my program, and that might shed some light on my issue. I have a menu with 50 different small postcards. When one is chosen, the program zooms it up in order to fill the screen, populates some data which is unique to each postcard, and "flips" it so you can see the writing on the back. The postcard is a movieclip which imports a front image, 3 back images, and some XML text. There are some buttons on the "back" of the postcard to choose to look at a few images and text.When you choose to close the postcard, it flies away. I use the same movieclip for all 50 postcards, and just change the images and text that I load.
Once the postcard flies away, I want to remove it from memory. It won't happen with removeChild() as that keeps it there in case I want to reference it again I guess, and I have tried setting the postcard variable name to "null" without much success.I add listeners to the buttons on the postcard when I instantiate its class, so I am not sure if I have to remove them in order to get the garbage collector to deal with it. But, I also don't know what I don't know about removing things from memory. In one section of the Flash docs (Working with display object containers) it says:
"The removeChild() and removeChildAt() methods do not delete a display object instance entirely. They simply remove it from the child list of the container. The instance can still be referenced by another variable.(Use the delete operator to completely remove an object.)"And, at another place in the docs (the script reference about removeChild()) it says:
"Removes the specified child DisplayObject instance from the child list of the DisplayObjectContainer instance. The parent property of the removed child is set to null , and the object is garbage collected if no other references to the child exist. The index positions of any display objects above the child in the DisplayObjectContainer are decreased by 1.