ActionScript 3.0 :: AddChild Can't Add Dynamically Created Mcs?
Aug 30, 2009
I used a loop to create a series of instances of a class called "Ball": ball_0, ball_1, ball_2, etc.But then somewhere else I need to add them on the stage. When Iusestage.addChild(Ball("ball_"+ballNum)) it gives me this error:TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert "ball_3" to Ball.(ballNum was set to 3 at that time)it seems there's a new syntax (or something) that I don't get. I get the same type of errors when using other functions such as stage.contains()
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May 24, 2010
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
var index:int = 0;[code].......
I am relatively new to flash and action script as well and I am having a problem getting the sprite to be removed after another is called.I am making emission spectrum's of 3 elements by dynamically generating the mask over a picture on the stage. Everything works perfectly fine with the code I have right now except the sprites stack on top of each other and I end up with bold lines all over my picture instead of a new set of lines each time i press a button.I have tried using try/catch to remove the sprites and I have also rearranged the entire code from what is seen here to make 3 seperate entities (hoping I could remove them if they were seperate variables) instead of 2 functions that handle the whole process.
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Feb 17, 2010
I'm dynamically creating movieclips with dynamically created movieclips inside them and am having trouble with targeting them.Below is a simplified example of what I'm trying to achieve, in the real file there are a lot more movieclips and I'm creating and naming them with a for loop.
This one is just one Sprite created inside another sprite. I can target the top level sprite named "testname". However when i try target the nested MC it throws an error.The bottom couple of traces are just test MCs I've made to make sure i got the syntax right, on targeting nested movieclips.
PHP Code:
var holder:Sprite = new test1();holder.name = "testname";this.addChild(holder);var holder2:Sprite = new test2();holder2.name = "testname2";holder.addChild(holder2);trace(getChildByName("testname").x); //this one traces finetrace(getChildByName("testname").getChildByName("testname2").x);//this throws up an errortrace(testclip1.x);trace(testclip1.testclip2.x);
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Oct 13, 2009
The following code adds 10 instances of circleMC to the stage. Inside circleMC is a dyn text field that increases in number from 1 - 10 so I have numbered circles on the stage.Each circle needs to open an infoBox which will contain variables unique to that box. I can't figure out how to address each infoBox. How would I say something like on circle1 set infoBox1.visible=true?
code:
var jurNum:uint = 0;
addBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAdd);
function onAdd(evt:MouseEvent):void {[code]........
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Feb 10, 2010
i created a "for" function who īll display an X number of buttons with addChild, and give a name for each using button.name = "name" + variable but later if I want to listen for the buttons using their name donīt work, already know that there is getChildByName so i tried but give me the same error who tells that there no object with that name.My question is, how i can listen for the objects created if i already have a name for each one of them? here is the code im doing.
for(var i:int = 1; i <6;i++){var miBoton:boton = new boton();var miTexto:TextField = new TextField();miBoton.x = i * miBoton.width + (i* 10);miBoton.y = 20;addChild(miBoton);miBoton.name = "boton" + i;miTexto.text = "hi";miBoton.addChild(miTexto);trace(miBoton.name);trace(miBoton.parent);}
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Aug 10, 2010
So I'm adding these movieclips which have textfields inside them and I'm trying to space each new movieclip. Currently they are being placed on top of each other. _taskX and _taskY are variables which I define down there.
Code:
public function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
_taskX = 300;
_taskY = 100;
[Code]...
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Jan 20, 2011
i tried a lot but couldn't fix the problem..
why is the following code is not working?
[Code]...
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May 18, 2009
Essentially, I've got a MC container that's created dynamically based off an XML file (basically for every <title></title> I've got, it makes a new "card"). Now within the context of each <title></title> grouping I've got <imgs></imgs> in which I specify the path to images that are related.All of that works perfectly, save for the external jpg files actually appearing on the stage. The MC I add them to does, but the external image doesn't.My problem is- I can't add the external images until they're completely loaded (or so it appears). The thumbnail BG I use is blank. So I know for a fact that the thumbnail BG isn't occluding the loaded thumbnails.
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Jan 26, 2009
I was wondering where did go the for statement with attachMovie from library in AS 3.I mean i was having in AS 2:
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
attachMovie("sim", "sim"+i, i);
}
Now in AS 3:
for (var i=0; i<5; i++) {
addChild(new sim());
}
I can't figure out how to name every instance of the "sim" object from library that i add to the stage without using string.How do I dinamically name the added instances of the object from the library for future reference and usage throughout the code?
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Feb 10, 2009
I'm trying to dynamically set the addChild linkage identifier, but am having little luck.
Code:
for(i=0;i<6;i++){
if(i==this.myId){
var section:MovieClip = "section"+i
this.addChild(new section);
}}
In AS 2.0 I could simply do this:
Code:
attachMovie("section"+i, "section",0)
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Apr 10, 2012
I want to addChild to stage dynamically using a variable. In AS2, i would have done it using eval().
In the attached page1.as file, I want to be able to use the for() loop instead of the commented out code.
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Dec 27, 2010
I have an application in which I need to create mx.states.State objects on the fly, as I'm reading external data in order to create the states. Each State only has a single child, so here's my code which I was using to accomplish this[code]...
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Sep 12, 2009
I am dynamically creating a movieclip,
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Then when I add something else as a child in this class, the mask is still applied to the gallery and it crops it accordingly, however the background in it turns white and hides whatever was behind it. For instance, there is space between the rectangles in the gallery movieclip and then a backdrop from the main class's movieclip shows behind it. When I called "addChild", the space between the rectangles becomes white. The background of gallery renders totally white.
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Feb 9, 2009
The following creates movieclips from XML. Everything worksgreat.One problem however. I need each MC to have it's own mouse event listener anddon't know how to achieve this because I don't have specificinstance names to refer with. I want to update textfields etc, with specific data when a
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Nov 19, 2009
I have a function that appends 7 movieclips to the timeline in a loop. The name of the clips is generated automatically:
[Code]...
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Nov 16, 2010
I'm creating receives xml from the asp server its on.Because of this, there isn't an xml file that I can open and add to in the places I need carriage returns.To compensate for this, I've been using the split and join method.[code]Essentially I'm looking for certain nodes in the xml and adding a carriage return to the beginning of it.I had to add the extra quotes around the otherwise it doesn't work.The problem with this is, the carriage return works but it leaves the single quotes in the text.I tried adding another split join method that looks for the single quotes left and replaces them with nothing.The problem with this is, it deletes all the single quotes from the contractions.
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Nov 17, 2009
now a customer wants me to make a Flash intro in her (ASP MVC) site. The scenario is this: images are stored in the dbms. Every image belongs to a category. Depending on what category is selected, the corresponding images should be fetched and played in a flash player with "transition" effects (hope i used the correct words).How can a slideshow (swf) be created dynamically?
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Sep 14, 2010
how should the path to the MC look like in case when his "parent" is dynamically created? i want to target my_FLVPlybk, which can be found in every duplicated "movie".
ActionScript Code:
for (i=2;i<21;i++) {
duplicateMovieClip ("movie1", "movie"+i, i);
newclip = _root.container.multimovie["movie"+i];
[code]....
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Jan 29, 2004
If I create a mc within a "xml function" like this:
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Feb 28, 2003
Is it possible to have dynamically created variablenames in AS?What I was thinking was something like this:
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
"myVariable_" + i = "Whatever";
}
[code]......
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Nov 1, 2007
I am guessing the onLoad event handler doesn't work for dynamically created movie clips (with attachMovie) because it never gets loaded.. Is there any other way i can do something when it first gets created?
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Feb 20, 2008
I've made xml gallery which has simple slideshow in starting and after clicking on that its takes to the xml loaded scrolling mc which is not scrolling properly like the tuts here in Kirupa. I've following code for that
function ScrollingCollectionTimeLine(target:MovieClip, speed:Number, dir:Number) {
var mousePercent:Number = page_collections._xmouse/725;
//trace(mousePercent);
[code].....
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Nov 14, 2008
So I have this code to create and load an external swf. I am trying to write a simple function to target the mc within the loaded swf. Once clicked I want it to load a new swf inside the same mc (container_mc). I'm having trouble even targeting that button though. Any thoughts?
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Jan 10, 2010
here is a snippet of code in first frame of the movie I have trouble with:
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for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
var container:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
this.addChild(container);
[Code]....
I am getting an error message: A term is undefined and has no properties. I checked list of objects and container0.one and it's there but I can not get to container0.one.usecase
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Jan 29, 2004
If I create a mc within a "xml function" like this:
[AS]
item_mc = _root.container_mc.attachMovie("content_mc", "content_mc", 0);
[/AS]
How can I then delete it? this doesn't work
[AS]
delete _root.container_mc.content_mc;
// or
delete _root.container_mc._level0.content_mc;
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Feb 4, 2009
Movieclips created on the stage and instanced behave differently from dynamic movieclips in that they are destroyed when you go to the next frame (I have a stop on every frame). If I create that same movieclip dynamically then it will stay on the stage forever regardless if I go to the next frame or not. I understand that it needs to be removed from the display list but I can't find any event that is fired on a next frame basis. I could use onEnterFrame but at 30 fps, that's alot of overhead. The idea is to have all the code contained in my .as file.
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Mar 4, 2009
The following for loop dynamically creates 4 instances of the same button. Each button is then populated with its own textfield.I have given the textfield(s) an instance name of option0, option1,etc, etc. I want to populate the text in each field with something different (Home, Contact, etc, etc). I am trying to call the textField by its created instance name "option0", but I get an error saying it's not recognized.
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Mar 17, 2009
If objects are created dynamically in AS3, using code like this:
for (var num:Number = 0; num<10; num++){
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
txtFld.text = 'This is the original text';
this.addChild(txtFld);
}
then later, i want to changet the text of one of the TextFields, how can I do that? The only instance listed in the variables is a single instance of "txtFld" and it is the last one that is created. How can I access the others?
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Oct 24, 2008
I finally found what I was looking for with regards to creating a dynamic flv player using ac3 in flash cs3. The skin appears in the browser but nothing else. Here is a link to the tutorial. [URL].
Below is my actionscript code
try {
var keyStr:String;
var valueStr:String;
var paramObj:Object =
LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters;
[Code]...
The the player is coming up and the seeking bar is moving but you cannot do anything else and you cannot get the footage to play.
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Nov 21, 2008
I have an application that I am adding movieclips to a container movieclip through a for loop and repeatedly calling myClip.addChild(theNewClip). Now I have a dozen clips in my container and it seems like the only way to access the clip is to use the getChildByName() method and cast it into a temporary clip so I can get at the its properties.
Is this the best and/or only way to do this? Does the old AS2 myContainer["theName"].property not work with dynamically created movieclips? It doesn't seem to work for me anymore.
access a dynamically created movie clip.
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