ActionScript 3.0 :: AddChild() And Keyframed Mask?
Apr 30, 2009
The title should read:Ack! addChild() and keyframed mask... Bug, feature, or my own stupidity?Hehe, anyway, this is a weird one... Or I am just too tired to see the obvious answer.Long story short, I am trying to add a swf to a movieclip which has an animated mask applied to it.Problem: The swf will disappear as soon as the first masked keyframe occurs.Here is the ASAnd the SWFThe CS3 created FLAThe loaded SWFThe loaded
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[Code].....
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import flash.display.MovieClip;
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[code]....
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What I have is a function that occurs every second. Every time this function is called, it will add two movie clips from the library onto the screen. I am wondering if there will be a problem if my function keeps on continuously adding children to my scene?
Code:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
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I'm new to programming in general, so not only are the basic concepts new to me but OOP and all of the various underlying rules are keeping me very frustrated in this learning process..I've reached a point that I'm simply stuck and can't find the solution through trial and error, and perhaps am not grasping how addChild works. traces just fine, but then when I try to run addChild I get "error 1023: stack overflow occurred: at Bullet$iinit()".Ignore the commented out lines, they're just for some testing and some trial and error).
//Bullet Class
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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where addChild comes from? Is it pre-built in or does it com from importing Flash.display. Sprite (and if it is from Flash.display.Sprite, does it mean it gets imported whenever you display *any* subpackage of Flash.display?)
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"TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert "Floor2" to flash.display.DisplayObject."
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Code:
var rollstr:String = this.toString();
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How to pass the xml Content to each addchilded button, so it can then pass that Content to a function when it's clicked.
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I had a previous old script working with AS2 and have tried to convert it as the new system requires AS3 .the below script :
function displayItems() {
var xPos = 0;
var yPos = 0;[code].....
This gives me the following for the bolded line
Scene 1, Layer 'as', Frame 1, Line 44 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type flash.display:DisplayObject.
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