i never really worked with .as files a lot, and i can't seem to get it right, not can i find a good tutorial. Well, in this case here's my problem:I got my main file which imports MakeButton.as. It then instantiates a class of MakeButton in order to call it's method makeButton. But how can i just call the Methods in MakeButton.as without having to instantiate anything?
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Okay, so i have a bunch of simple shapes in movie clips... THen, i have "levels" that are each in their own movie clip... Sometimes in the levels i have to instantiate these random movie clips on the fly and create multiple instances, so ill just do something like
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This works great..but... in another movie clip now on my "level 2" movie clip I literally take the same exact code, that worked in level one...But now it will not work in this other movie clip.... I get this error whenever i try hexagonOne = new hexagonOne(); or ANY other shape movie clip i try to instantiate. Symbol 'lvl1-2', Layer 'Layer 2', Frame 1, Line 99 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method hexagonOne. I don't understand because it worked fine inside the other movie clip, which is just like this one...It makes no sense.
I've written a pre-loader for my game, it uses Loader, URIRequest and LoaderInfo to display a bytes left/total counter as the main game SWF loads - this all works fine.
However what then happens is that the main SWF constructor is called, so the game starts running "in the background" while the pre-loader finishes off.
I moved the 'start game' code from the constructor into a different function but I'm now left with the issue of how can I actually tell the main game SWF to start?
You can't do loader.content.go() (where go() is the function I want to call).
How can I access methods of a loaded SWF? Or is there another way? I tried dispatching a custom Event from the pre-loader, but the game SWF just never heard it - but is this the right way to go about things?
I really want to pass some bits of data from the pre-loader into the main game SWF too, but until I can figure out how to make them both talk I'm totally stuck! Is there a way the game SWF could reference any variables set by the preloader?
I'm trying to call methods from a class to no avail. It just tells me that I have undefined methods.[code]
View 3 RepliesI'm interesting in following methods:
Code:
Function.apply ();
Function.call ();
I tried to copy Function.call () example in my custom class, but errors occurs.
If i instantiate class B (not a display class) in class A whats the best way to call some methods in class A from class B ?
View 3 Repliesi have a main movie. i use a loader to load a "example.swf" file. then i place that file inside a holder movieclip. in example.swf, i have an instance of a class i just wrote. this class has some particular methods. from my main movie, i want to call the methods of the instance of my class i have in example.swf. how can i do that??? i know it's a kind of casting, but none seems to work.
View 1 RepliesI hav created a pure actionscript project which defines few methods.What i want to do is to expose an interface for the .swf file generated through this actionscript project created in flex to call swf's methods.This is the following code that i tried writing in mxml:
<mx:Application>
<mx:Script>
import mx.managers.SystemManager;[code]....
what error i get is cannot convert AVM1Movie to mx.managers.SystemManager.How can this be rectified?
How to call java/c++ methods from flash cs3/flash 8.0 ? i required both flash and c++/java codes... tell me wher to keep those places.... to run and see the desired output..
View 2 RepliesHow to call a javascript method from flash ?? am having a simple javascript code ie
<script type="text/javascript">
function helloWorld() {
alert('Hello World');
}
</script>
Now how to call the method helloWorld() from flash ??
Similarly how to call a php method also ?? am having the php code as,
<html>
<body>
<?php
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now i want to call writeName() from flash ?? how to achieve these things from flash ?
Wats the code i have to write in flash cs3 ?
i've been struggling with this issue. I need to load a flex swf into a flash as3 shell and then call its methods. I can see the flex swf no problem - but calling its methods - nothing works. Now considering LocalConnection or even ExternalInterface to communicate between the two.
View 2 RepliesI have a parent class that instantiates a MenuClass and handles transitions between pages.[code]And here's the MenuClass which creates forward and backward buttons. Clicking each will tell the above ParentClass to transitionForward() or transitionBackward() respectively.[code]One one hand, I feel like the MenuClass is too tightly bound to its parent and is thus less reusable. On the other hand I feel like, in the interest of keeping everything self contained, it's not the ParentClass's responsibility to reach into the MenuClass instance and add event listeners there. This seems like there should be some kind of OOP rule-of-thumb to govern this kind of relationship.Is my MenuClass too tightly bound to its parent? And if so, do you have any suggestions that would loosen that coupling?
View 4 RepliesI am talking about doing something like this: [URL]
from flash by using ExternalInterface probably
I m working in flex3.0 and i just want to know that how can i call a function from fms server to my AS3.0 (Client Side) code.i tried the syntax client.call(methodname,null,null); but my flex code throw exception unable to call the method.here can i use clientobject.call (methodname,null,null) and is there some special way to declare that method at client side.
View 3 Repliesi have some actionscript that makes a
ExternalInterface.call('someFunction');
call.is it possible to reference the html object that made the call to someFunction directly using the ExternalInterface.call call?
Assume that the object that makes the call also has some Callbacks (via ExternalInterface.addCallback) that are accessible via javascript.
Currently:
Actionscript source
ExternalInterface.call("someFunction");
ExternalInterface.addCallback("someCallback",someASfunction);
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Migrating to AS3 is being harder than I supposed, because the way things are referenced. I have a stay movie clip instantiated from library like this:
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var mcMyMain:MovieClip = new mcMain();
addChild(mcMyMain);
var mcMyChild:MovieClip = new mcChild();
mcMyMain.addChild(mcMyChild);
Within mcMyChild I have a timeline with some animation, and, at the end of this timeline I want to instantiate another movieclip in mcMyMain (that is in stage) like this:
Code:
stop();
var mcMyTest:MovieClip = new mcTest();
stage.mcMyMain.addChild(mcMyTest);
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I would like to know if its possible, to use a string in order to create a UI element.I think many people have this kind of problem, they want an easy setup in flash to generate a dynamic UI, through code.It should look like this (pseudo code):
addToStage("Button","add");
addToStage("TextInput","name");
private function addToStage ( o : Object, str : String ) : void {
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What is the proper way to instantiate one tween after another? How do I get one tween to play, complete, and then have another one play?
View 1 RepliesI keep getting this error: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 0.Probably just something stupid... but I'm struggling...I have two classes (ribostrand.as and nucleo.as) in a folder called architect. The main FLA file is outside the folder.I'm trying instantiate the nucleo class with parameters, from the ribostrand class... but its not working.
var ribo:nucleo = new nucleo("A",50,50)
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I have been trying to get buttons to work when linking back from an html page to a frame in a .swf movie for a couple weeks now, I have searched exhaustively to no avail. I am out of resources, I have searched every variation of the issue in multiple places and just cannot find an answer.
In a nut shell, when the "home" page (.swf in an html container page published with html anchors) runs first time all is well, buttons function goes to certain frames no prob. But once the links go out to another html page, and then back to the frame in the .swf, all links properly back to correct frames, but then the buttons don't function anymore. The closest I have gotten to solving this is it was mentioned that the mouse event code is not instantiating for some reason that I cannot understand.
The code IS on all the fames that are in question, but just will not work after linkback.
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Is it possible to instantiate MovieClips that exist in the library (that have been exported for actionscript) with a for loop using an array that holds their link name?
var fruit:Array = new Array("apple", "banana", "blackberries");
for (var i:int = 0; i < fruit.length; i++)
{
var aFruit[i] : fruit[i] = new fruit[i];
}
As simple a problem as the title says. I must be doing something really stupid. I've got a large section of a site, built a month ago runs fine. Went to make some changes. Now when I compile the video instantiantion fails. I've gone back to basics to test this problem out and it persists.So, here's my document class:package sections{import flash.display.MovieClip;import flash.media.Video;public class LocketVideo extends MovieClip{private var _vid:Video = new Video(200, 200);public function LocketVideo() {trace("hi there");}}}When I compile the swf I get the following error:/Projects/[omitted]/Src/sections LocketVideo.as, Line 9 1137: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected no more than 0.( line 9 is the _vid line )Now, if I pull out the parameters of the video object it works fine... well compiles fine. A video object without a size isn't much use. Note that if I don't set parameters... all other calls to the object fail.My first thought was that my default Flash classes got corrupted. Nope. Ran this compile on two other computers, same issue. Also thought maybe I had the fla set to the wrong .
View 3 RepliesI was chatting with my buddy about this, he is convinced you can do this and says he has done it, but I cannot get this to work.
I am wondering if it is even possible at all. I tried typing a var as a Class that is within the externally downloaded SWF and then making an instance but no can do.
some code
private static function onCompleteHandler(e:Event)
{
dashboardObject = e.target.content;
// registerClassAlias("Dashboard", ); doesnt work
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So it seems you cannot make an instance of a class unless it is complied within the project SWF. Which if true is what I want it to do. I do not want people trying to make instances of my classes just from downloading the SWF file for what I am building here.
How can i call and instantiate soundclips in my library dynamically.[code]
View 1 RepliesI have an abstract class which gives specific 'base' behavior to multiple sub classes. I want to instantiate a Singleton inside this abstract class. Is it good practice to:a) instantiate a class within an abstract classb) do this with a Singleton (I know these may be frowned upon)For clarity I will give an example, the method instantiating the Singleton is:
public function createErrorRepository(repositoryType:String):void {
this._errorFactory = ErrorFactory.getInstance();
this._errorRep = this._errorFactory.createErrorRepository(repositoryType);
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How can I instantiate a TabViewNavigator from actionscript for the playbook? Currently, I add the necessary spark frameworks and have this piece of code in the Main of my actionscript project:
[SWF(width="1024", height="600", backgroundColor="#ffffff", frameRate="30")]
public class Main extends Sprite {
private var waitDialog:BaseDialog = new BaseDialog ();
public function Main() {
super ();
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When the button is clicked, the button disappears as you would expect but the tab navigator is not added/does not appear. I tried without removing the Main class but that does not work either. What do I need to do to set up a tab interface. I can get similar code working through Flex and MXML but not in actionscript.
In a static method, how can I instantiate an object of the supertype, or at least know what the supertype is?Consider the following code:
Code:
class A {
public static function clone(obj:Object) : Object {
var us : Object = new <superclass>();
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What should <superclass> be?
The following addEventListener does not instantiate spotlight. Why?
public function loaded(evt:Event):void
{
var myGlowFilter = new GlowFilter (0xffffff,0.6,10,10,3,5,false,false);[code]......
when you have some kind of module for a website for example, what is a better way to code you application?If i load external swf, then i obviously need to compile it before from fla, but i can have some symbols in the library directly in that fla file.if i make an instance of a class, then i dont need swf file but then i need to take care of library stuff (if any) differently...
View 6 RepliesI've got a large section of a site, built a month ago... runs fine. Went to make some changes. Now when I compile the video instantiation fails. I've gone back to basics to test this problem out and it persists.[code]...
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