ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing A Loading Movie
Sep 17, 2009
is there a way to keep a movie being loaded externally from playing while it's loading?
here is the scenario:
i have an external SWF being loaded
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();var url:String="movie.swf";var urlReq:URLRequest=new URLRequest(url);
ldr.load(urlReq);
addChildAt(ldr,0);
it is a rather large SWF and i don't want it to start playing before the whole thing has loaded and i don't want to hardcode a stop() function into the externally loading SWF (i'd like to do it in the clip it is loaded into).
i tried:
ldr.content.stop
ldr.content.stop()
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.content.stop()
nothing seems to work
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I have a function to resize my stage which is located in the main movie. There is another movie which is loaded into the main movie and I want the loading movie to call the resize function which is located into the main movie. In short how can I access functions which are located on the main loading movie.
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Feb 8, 2012
Here is my code in my main timeline:
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Apr 20, 2010
What are some methods of accessing/loading external SWF's aswell as there variables inside them. I've been using URLrequest and loader methods no luck yet.
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Aug 23, 2010
OK, it's probably easiest now to explain my problem like this, I am able to write the name of my xml file that needs to be loaded to a dynamic textfield on the stage, however, I don't seem to be able to access it after this and strip the necessary data from it, here's my code:
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May 6, 2009
I'm new to AS3 and dealt with AS2 before (just getting the grasp when the change it). Is it possible in AS3 to load an excel .csv file into Flash using the URLLoader (or ???) and the data as variables?I can get the .csv to load and trace the values (cell1,cell2,cell3 but I'm not sure how to collect the data and place it into variables. Can I just create an array and access it like so.... myArray[0], myArray[1]? If so, I'm not sure why it's not working.
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Aug 30, 2006
I began with a class for a movie clip rollover function FigureRollOver. It works marvellously. Three things happen:
1) it loads XML from a file "mod1_fig1.xml" and uses another class, XMLMember, to retool the scoping of the XML so that I can get at it
2) an onload call inside of XMLMember calls the myOnLoad function and transfers the XML into an array.
3) so long as the array is finished building, rolling over a movie clip attaches a new movie clip with the rollover text in it.But I don't want all those functions in one because I need it to be more dynamic, starting with being able to load any old xml file instead of just "mod1_fig1.xml", plus it seems lik overbuilding to have all of that in one class, so I've separated out the loading of the XML and building of the array into its own class, FigureXMLLoader. FigureRollOver is then left to just attach the rollover with text in it, extracted from the array built by the new class.
Problem is, though the array builds inside FigureXMLLoader, I can't figure out how to make it available outside the class. I know that I'm constructing things in the wrong order, and that the array needs to be somehow built inside the class function to be available, but I can't figure out how to do that. A cruddy work-around is to put a function call at the end of the building of the array, which calls yet ANOTHER function on the main timeline of my .swf to put the array I've just built into a new variable.This works, but it's messy. It seems like I should be able to have one line of script in the .swf that generates an array on the main timeline (or just a public array) which I can then access from my FigureRollOver class:
var myRollOvers:Array = new FigureXMLLoader("mod1_fig1.xml");
Here is FigureXMLLoader (see comments in the code for more details) which obviously does not return an array as it is, because of all the working around I've had to do. Note the "testing" variable, which can be traced from the main timeline of the .swf, but I will get "not what I want" because of course the array hasn't been built yet, and never will be, inside of the declaration as it is. How do I get it in there so I can return an array?
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Dec 30, 2008
First, please click on the link below to see the mockup that I did:
Link
to mockup
First of all, the Flash makes use of an XML file to grab some data. Basically in the first frame I am loading the XML, then what you are seeing on the stage is in frame 2. On the stage there are 2 movies:
1. scrollPane_mc
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1. scrollPane_mc
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var startY:Number = -0.8;
for (var cableName:String in VPN_Utils.cables) {
var listItem:cableListItem_mc = new cableListItem_mc();
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[Code] .....
So basically now what I want to achieve is to control and talk to the cables from the scroll pane. So when I uncheck "Cable1" in the scroll pane, "Cable 1" on the stage should turn invisible for example.
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Apr 16, 2009
here's my problem/code:
I have a mc in the main timeline named contactBox_mc, within this mc I have another mc named closeBtn_mc. I have added an EventListener to closeBtn_mc to set the visibility of contactBox_mc to false on MouseEvent.Click.. but no matter what method I try, I get the following error:
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method contactBox_mc.
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ActionScript Code:
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Code: Select all/* ---------- LOADER ---------- */
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