ActionScript 3.0 :: Animating Movieclips Through Loop
Jul 26, 2010
I'm trying to create an accordion menu that contains three submenus. The idea is that when you mouseover one submenu (or rectangle, to keep it simple) that the rectangles which were previously covering it will move to reveal it. Menus of this type can be found at the bottom of nvidia's site [URL] for reference.
At first I tried creating each function, which will make the rectangles move, separately but this resulted in three very repetitive functions and there seemed like there should be a better way, especially since I'd like a good way to add and remove submenus. The animation did work then. I tried to clean it up by creating a for loop that would move each rectangle but now, for some reason, it doesn't work. It is still missing some key points such as utilizing the mOver variable to figure out when each rectangle is moused over and act appropriatly
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For the majority of projects that I create, I have an intro animation for all the movieclips on the stage, so that they do not just appear like HTML at once. The problem with this is that I do not animate in buttons and interactive movieclips on the main timeline (I use internal frames to animate. Frame 2 is always .onRollOver, Frame 11 is always .onRollOut, Frame 50 is movieAnimationIn, etc). This means that Frame 1 needs to have an alpha level of 0, so that no one sees the MovieClip until I fade it in with intro animation.
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Feb 23, 2012
I have many buttons in my flash, its function is when a button is clicked it will animate. The problem is when I click the button, it animates, but when I click it again, it does not animate. It should animate again when clicked. Someone told me to have a loop so that it will animate again but I have no idea regarding looping in flash.
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stop();
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Dec 25, 2009
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for (var i=0; i<h.numChildren; i++) {// This loop is suppose to populate my "bitArray" Array with all of the attached clip's childclips
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I use to do this in AS2, but find it impossible in AS3. The commented code is what I need to achieve through my for loop.
/*
TopIcons.btText01feedback1.visible=false;
TopIcons.btText01feedback2.visible=false;
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Mar 8, 2011
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Jun 29, 2010
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Here's a rough shot of my code:
ActionScript Code:
for (i=1; i<7; i++) {
"answer"+i.onPress = function() {
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Jul 20, 2011
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for(var i=1;i<=4;i++) {
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Jul 21, 2009
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Code: Select allvar pic1:MovieClip = new Pic1();
pic1.x = 10;
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Code: Select all1120: Access of undefined property rpg0.
1120: Access of undefined property rpg1.
1120: Access of undefined property rpg2.
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Code:
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I have a bunch of movie clips on a layer named s1, s2, s3, .. s16.
I need to add them to an array so that I can select a random number to play.
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I realized that you cannot make duplicates of movieclips that have loaded images, so here I am with bitmapData to solve the trick but I cannot get it to render all the movie clips from the loop.
ActionScript Code:
XMLParser.load("resources/images/file.xml", onFinish, null, false, true);
function onFinish($success:Boolean, $parsedObject:Object, $xml:XML) {
var Items:Array = $parsedObject.item;
for (var i:Number = 0; i <= nTotalItems; i++) {
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Jun 14, 2010
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create movieclips in a for loop.Basically I am trying to create a series for movieclips and add these to my stage based on an array of values.
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product_mc.name = productid[i]
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i'm having a problem with a for loop. The problem is that it doesn't create multiple movieclips with an unique instance, i think it copies over itself.
for( var i = 1, x = -20; i < 4; i++){
if(this['plaatje' +i] != undefined){
_root.again.createEmptyMovieClip("image", i);
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Everytime I press a movieClip, i -1(on the output window) should be equal to the number of the movieClip (ex: myClip17, when pressed, should produce in the output window a value of 17 for i-1). Please copy paste this code to a flash document and you'll see what I mean (please don't forget that you have to have linkage in the library for a movieClip symbol that you have to create - it's a circle only with stroke that has w=15 h=15). Every time I click on a number it should appear a circle on it. If the circle is already there it should disappear. But that's not the case. Somehow every movieClip has the order to attach one of the instances of movieclip marca_mc to myClip31.
var mcAcoplado = [false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false];
var diasDoMes = 31+1;
var distEntreTexto = 10;
for (i=1; i<diasDoMes; i++) {
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Aug 12, 2010
I'd like to have my movie clips on the stage and run a loop to return their x and y positions, these positions will be stored in an array (startPos:Array) for use later in some other script. I have 7 movieclips on the stage, each with an instance name startobj[a number]
AS2.. Nice all works:
var numberOfElements:Number = 7;
var startPos:Array = new Array();
for (var i:Number = 0; i<numberOfElements; i++) {
var startObjs = eval("startobj"+[i]);
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But when I trace all I get is 0,0,0,0. Is this something to do with in AS3 there is no connection between names and things?
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