In AS2 I used to be able to reference a movie clip using a variable like this: Code: var target = nameofmovieclip; I've been looking for an answer on how to do the same thing AS3 but with no luck. I'm trying to create a dynamic homing missle, but unfortunately everything I've tried just generates errors.
View 6 RepliesI have been struggling with what I suppose is a very simple issue: I am importing content into my application via a text file, this all works fine. I have about 10 different movie clips on the parent timeline that I have hidden (dc_mc.visible = false.So what I need to do is take one of the variable names that I've got from my text file and use its value to "turn on" one of these hidden movie clips.So I'm trying stuff like:
var directory = e.target.data.directory; // Grabs the data, sets var
var raceNameButton:String = directory+"_mc"; // Set data into new var
raceNamesButton.visible = true; // display movie clip with var name
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I have a label I am referencing form a movie clip inside the movie clip which contains the "label_2." Here is the code I used: MovieClip(parent.parent).gotoAndPlay("return_2"); Now I need to reference a instance name of a movie clip in side the same scene.
View 10 RepliesIt's me again and I'm running into a problem. So, I have this movie clip that is nested inside multiple movie clips. I want to tell Flash to perform an action when that movie clip hits another movie clip in the main timeline. It's just collision detection for a game using the hitTestObject code. I was thinking of using MovieClip(root), but that won't work since it's nested so much.
View 15 RepliesCurrently i am working on a project and i need the gallery to appear when a movieclip boxp_mc gets to frame 11 i have this in a function that i call onRelease of a button. However it donsnt seem to read this write. As soon as i click portfolio_btn it traces "dosnt work" i feel its reading it right away. I want it to wait till it gets to frame 11 then to this.
_root.portfolio_btn.onRelease = function() {
gotoAndPlay("bportfolio");
gallery();
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I normally write javascript code, so I wonder how to do this. In JS "Microsoft IS" you'll write code like this:
document.onclick = func;
function func()
{
var obj = event.srcElement; //And there I have reference to the object;
}
The graphic designer creates flash drawings and then converts whatever objects to movieclips. Then passes them over to me. All these "mc" need the same action applied to them. So I don't need to know how many they are or their names.
I have this problem since many weeks ago, I can't figure out how to resolve it. My partial code is:
function checkCollision(rect) {
for(j=0; j < drop.length; j++) {
temp2 = eval(drop[j]);
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I send to the function a movie clip that I use for drag and drop, so when I drop this function is called. The problem is that of the three rectangles that I use for contain the others, only the last senses the drop target.
I'm trying to do something like this, but for some reason it isn't working...
Code:
function mouseClickHandler(t:MovieClip):Void
{
if(!t){
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Hmm, I replicated this situation in a blank movie and it works as it should.
In my project are pages of text with each word having a button that when pressed will display a movieclip presentation about that word (its pronounciation and spelling etc..). In the project I am working on now I have over 450 unique presentations of words to deal with. I don't want to have all of these hundreds of movie clips on the stage and tell them one at a time to stop and rewind and then have one play each time a word button is pressed. That seems to be very inefficient to me.
add movieclips to the stage using addChild(movieclipname) and remove them using removeChild(movieclipname) but there is a problem. I have hundreds of unique movieclips and I don't want to have to manage hundreds of variables containing the indivudual movieclip instancess. It is a real pain having to figure out what instance is still on the stage before i delete it.In Adobe Director all I have to do is this:
I'd like to invoke a function inside a mc from it's parent, but I want to have the reference to the clip be dynamic. When I path the mc directly and invoke the function it works, how would I make that same reference work dynamically.
Here's a sample of what I'm trying to do:
Code:
var myArr:Array = new Array();
myArr[0] = "galleryContainer_mc.eventGallery1_mc.imgContainer_mc";
trace(myArr[0]);
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I'm creating a movie clip button and for the out state I have this:
web_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, at_out);
function at_out(event:MouseEvent):void {
web_btn.gotoAndPlay(30-(web_btn.currentFrame-11));
}
It gives me this error when I click the button: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at index_fla::web_mc_37/at_out() I know the error is in this statement: web_btn.gotoAndPlay(30-(web_btn.currentFrame-11));
On frame 1 of the main timeline I have a movieclip. The 1st frame of the movieclip stops, and requests a password. When the password is correct, the movie clip plays and stops again on frame 2 - where the user enters their name. I've named this variable 'name_txt', and the submit button will only continue if the variable is defined.
The problem comes when I try to get a dynamic text box in the main timeline to show the user's name - it just stays blank even through i've experimented setting the var / instance names to 'name_txt'. I think I have to set the variable to global or something, but cant seem to get it to work.
I am trying to duplicate a move clip and then set some of it's properties with actionscript. What's the notation to do this?
Here is my guess:
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duplicateMovieClip(_root.event, ("event"+i), i);
[event+i]._y = ([event-i]._y)+([event+i].height);
[_root.event+i].eDate = ("4/2"+i);
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I've got a simple ActionScript 1 FLA. The SWF will take incoming variables from SWFObject. e.g. txtVar01, txtVar02, txtVar03 On the first keyframe on the main stage, I have a dynamic textfield, whose 'Variable' name is 'txtVar01'. When I view the SWF in a web page, via SWFObject, the value in the textfield matches that taken from the SWFObject variable. BUT - I have a MoveClip in the FLA, which has 2 other dynamic textfields, called txtVar02 and txtVar03.
When I view the SWF in the web page, these are empty, even though variables are being passed via SWFObject. I guess because the dynamic textfields are within an MC and not on the main stage, they can't access the variable names. I tried adding this to the first frame on the stage:
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I have been using this line of code to fade in a movie clip:
new Tween(background_mc, "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, .5, true);
Now, I want to accomplish the same thing, only this time by using an element from an array (bg_array[currentSlideNumber]) that stores the instance name "background_mc"
I've tried the following, but it doesn't work:
new Tween(bg_array[currentSlideNumber], "_alpha", None.easeNone, 0, 100, .5, true);
I found this tutorial which seems to do exactly what I'm trying to do (the only one I've found to date), except his technique doesn't seem to work for me at all. It doesn't really seem to say anywhere which version of Actionscript he uses, but at least it seems to show that what I'm trying to do is possible for someone, which is a start.I'm trying to do exactly what he describes--I have several squares on a grid that are numbered, eg.grid_0101, grid_0102, grid_0103, and so on, for about 100 squares altogether, and I want to be able to target a given square dynamically.This is the basis of the code I started with:
Code:
var digsquare_x:String = "01";
var digsquare_y:String = "03";
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I've been animating with flash for a while but I've recently wanted to get into game programing. I've learned a lot in the past month and I'm trying to create a fairly simple point and click adventure game with some basic stats and scoring. I'm facing a somewhat simple problem and I'm not sure how to get it to work in AS 3.0.
At the beginning of the flash I've established my variables to keep score while exploring the game.
var Health:Number = 1000;
var Day:Number = 1;
var EXP:Number = 0;
var Money:Number = 1000;
What I'm trying to do though is set up a movie clip with menu options that, when clicked, brings up a screen that displays those stats as well as a couple extra menu options. What I can't figure out to do is how do I display those variable inside the movie clip.
When I create a dynamic text field and place "info_day.text = String(Day);" i get an error unless I create a variable within that movie clip. And when I do that the variables in the movie clip are not affected by the chances of the variables in the main flash.
how do I have the variable in the movie clip to accurately display the variables established in the main part of the flash?
i am doing a photo album type site where all photos (which are movie clips) appear small and when clicked they enlarge. when the enlarged photos are clicked the movie clip continues and they go small again.
as you'll see from the code below i am doing this by basically saying if the photo is small, play the movie clip from frame 2 which enlarges it until a stop value at 30, and then change the variable value. if the photo is large and then it is clicked play the movie clip from 31 to a stop action at the end and then change the variable value.
everything is working fine except i am not receiving the initial value of the variable "picbtn_position" which is set on the main timeline to value "mainscreen". can anyone help me as to what is going wrong here? maybe i have to do something else to get a variable value from the main timeline to the mc.
here is the code on my movie clip:
on (release) {
if (picbtn_position == "mainscreen") {
trace(picbtn_position);
gotoAndPlay(2);
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and here is the code on my main timeline for the initial variable value:
var picbtn_position:String = "mainscreen";
I want to use a variable in my movie clip code. Right now I generate a random U.S. state name and assign it to "correctAnswer". Then I want to assign that to myMovieClip.correctAnswer.gotoAndStop("down"); The problem is that the variable is not recognized and is seen as correctAnswer instead of the U.S. state that was assigned to it. My code is below.
ActionScript Code:
// Correct answer is randomly generated and can be any U.S. state name
correctAnswer = "utah";
// Using the variable correctAnswer this should come out as myMovieClip.utah.gotoAndStop("down");
myMovieClip.correctAnswer.gotoAndStop("down");
I want to cycle through several movie clips for a training application. I plan to use an array to hold the clip names, and a variable (CurrentClip) to set visibility and allow me to use a single pause/ play button throughout. For the visibility, I've found that...
CurrentClip._visible = false; does NOT work. But... setProperty (CurrentClip, _visible, false); does work.
how to refer to a movieclip's name through a variable.If I set root variable "currentMovie = bigRed_mc;", how can I use that variable name to instruct the movie to address the movie clip name stored in said variable?
for instance "_root.currentMovie.gotoAndPlay("destroy");" wouldn't work because it would simply look for that movie clip name and come up empty.I thought "_root[currentMovie]gotoAndPlay("destroy"); would work, with or without parenthesis, but it comes up with syntax errors either way. Can you use a variable to store and refer to a movie clip name and it's properties?
I couldn't find anything with Google on how to do this, so I'm posting it.I have a code on the first frame of a movie clip that goes to and stops at a different frame in the movie clip depending on a variable that was set outside of the movie clip. It doesn't work, and the movie clip just plays through like normal
View 2 RepliesI have a movie clip that is executing some code. When this code is complete, I want it to change a variable that is defined on the stage (root?). I know how to get the condition part of it, but quite literally: what do I put to change a variable located on the stage from within a movie clip?
View 1 RepliesI just need to call a variable or function from a movie clip to main timeline. In AS2 I would use something like:
_root.myvar = "Hola";
or
_parent.myfunc(4,2);
But this doesn't works on AC3. I tried to remove the "_" but its the same.
I have a flash file which uses php to manipulate a database and returns a variable (data_xml) of xml formated data from the database. This happens, along with other things, within the parent. Now I have a child movieclip that displays the parsed data but I am having trouble accessing the variable from within the child movieclip. The code related to this is:
var myXML:XML = new XML();var myXML = XML(event.currentTarget.root.data_xml);
and I get the following two errors which point to the second line as the problem:
1151: A conflict exists with definition myXML in namespace internal.
Warning: 3596: Duplicate variable definition.
I have unchecked "Automatically declare stage instances" because I've seen that suggested for the 1151: error, but I still get the same two errors.
I have been searching for ages and just cant find out how to do this. i have set a boolean variable inside a movieclip and would like something to change outside the movieclip, using an if statement, depending on whether the variable is true or false, but cant find out how to do it anywhere.
View 2 Replies(problem 1 is that I cannot call buttonmoce this way!)I am really trying to imporve my code writing and using arrays and for will save me writing this code over and over again Cheers sub
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how to add a movie clip to the stage from the library but i'm strugling to do it when the I need to load a movie clip from the library when the name of the movie clip is held in a variable.
for(var i:Number = 0; i < 64; i++)
{
var blueIconS:blueIcon = new blueIcon();
addChild(blueIconS);
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The above code works for adding the blueIcon but I have a variable in that loop which tells which icon to load.
sectorsMCs[jewelsIDs[i]]
The above will tell me what MC name to load but how do I load a MC from library by that variable value?
How to access variable of parent movie clip in child movie clip in Action script 3.0
View 1 RepliesI'm in class file right now and made a new movie clip using the linkage name
var mc = new ExampleLinkageName();
addChild(mc);
all good, I can see mc on the stage. In the ExampleLinkageName movieclip, I have a variable defined in it (on the physical timeline) called test.
In my class, I try trace(mc.test) and I get null. how I can read that variable?