ClassA passes a reference of a Sprite instance to ClassB.
Code:
//This is inside of ClassA
classBInstance.referenceSprite = parent as Sprite;
If I do not use "as Sprite", I get error 1118.I understand the error, and know that the code above fixes the error, but my question is: Is this bad practice? Is this a sign that my design could be changed to avoid using the "as Sprite" portion?
When I rotate a sprite - it ends up blurred - or smoothed.
Code:
// rotate sprite
_person.rotationY = 180;
How can I avoid this?
I've googled out a lot of different stuff on this matter but nothing seems to work. I have a Sprite object which is used as a main container for other objects.The lowermost child of this sprite is a Bitmap which represents a background, the upper ones are MovieClips. These movie clips contain bitmaps. There are also DropShadow filters applied to these movie clipsThe problem is that when the main container moves, e.g. 1.3 pixels to to the right or to the left (doesn't matter) all those objects (movie clips contained inside of it) move like they snap to pixels. Well,it's obvious, they do. But is it possible to avoid pixel snapping for movie clips and sprites?I tried to set pixelSnapping of the bitmaps inside those MovieClips to "never", but it doesn't work. Removing all filters or drawing movie clip to bitmapdata doesn't help either.
View 3 RepliesI am creating an animation with sound.The sound syncs with objects.Everytime I synch an object with a sound, I test the animation out by hitting cmd+enter.Is there a way to only test out a certain portion?It's a big time waste to test the whole animation every single time.
View 3 RepliesI created a class, extended the sprite class, and now in the constructor I am trying to set the Sprite's width and height properties which are inherited from the DisplayObject. However, after I set this.width and this.height, and print the values, I get 0 for both.
What the heck is going on? When I view the livedocs I see that DisplayObject has width and height listed as public properties. I have been able to instantiate a Sprite directly, and set the width and height after it's been instantiated, so I don't get it.
package {
import flash.display.*;
public class ScrollBar extends Sprite {[code].....
I've got a sprite which I want to temporarily hide... But changing the .visible property doesn't do what I expect. The code looks roughly like this:
[Code]...
I created a new AS3 document (550px by 400px) and added the following code to the first frame.
However, when I run this, I see nothing painted on the screen at all, the screen remains completely white.[code]...
I'm doing a simple rotation on a sprite but there's a weird behavior where the sprite does not rotate around it's top left. I think I'm rotating along the top left of the test class instead of the sprite child. I would like to rotate the rectangle around it's top left corner (kinda like a clock hand). The code is pretty short so I'll let the code + pictures explain my problem:
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
[Code]....
I've read a lot of stuff about rotating around a fixed point, I've tried doing it with movieclips instead of sprites, I even copy pasted a tutorial on rotation and nothing works.
[Code]...
Then the numericStepper is drawn as if it is squished to 20% its normal height. If I pre-set mySprite width and height before adding the numericstepper, the trace output is 0,0 after adding it and it is not displayed at all. Is there some way I can make the sprite only adjust to correctly fit the numericStepper OR resize it afterwards without distorting the numericStepper component?
The problem is not playing part of an mp3, I know that can be done. But I'd like to cut down on bandwidth by loading a specified two-minute portion of each mp3. These files can be up to 20mb, and since users will play many of these songs (and probably move on after a minute or two of listening), it would be very inefficient to load the whole mp3. Can this be done or is there another method you can suggest? Possibly a server side script that slices and/or lowers the mp3's bitrate?
View 2 RepliesThis should be straightforward, but I'm having problems getting a portion of a string from a dynamic textfield, which I need to manipulate. Say I have a dynamic textfield onstage that successfully gets populated with some data from a query string e.g.
Code:
FlashVars: 352746583part1
So basically I want to get a hold of the part after FlashVars: for further manipulation. I've tried something like this: (assuming that above text is visible in a textfield called t1)
Code:
testvar = t1.text;
testvar.toString();
finalvar = testvar.split(":");
[Code].....
I have a Template that I bought for a client that wanted it. It has background looping music and my customer wants to add videos (FLV), no problem. Now she wants the background music to sop when the FLVs are playing and start when I exit the FLV and go to another portion of the site. I hope I am being clear.
I need the background music to sop playing when the FLV videos are playing. I have Google and found nothing really.
I am trying to use a MC instance name inside of a function from an event listener. How the hell do I use only part of the instance name example: MC instance names are "size1", "size2", etc. I want the numbers only. I have been looking for hours.
View 2 RepliesBoth of sprite.width and sprite.scaleX can be used for scale a sprite. Is possible sprite.scaleX depends on screen size?
View 2 RepliesIt has been a great resource of the years. No my problem. I am trying to dynamically resize a sprite that has a line drawn into it. Here is my code:
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I need to know which part of the text is been modified by the user inside a Flex TextArea. I'm listening to TextArea's Event.CHANGE and my code run on everychange but i don't know what the user have done to the text and it's too long to process it again at every keypress or paste
We are still with Flex 3.5 but i may consider Flex 4 if the solution is easier.
I'm have a huge MovieClip on the screen that I need to take screenshots for only portions of it.
Here is my functions that handle this,
This function calls a function in the camera to take a picture and then displays that picture on the screen[code]...
I have done this a million times in AS but not quite getting it in AS3.. maybe my brain is just fried..i have a rectangle_MC that is moving around the stage.. inside that rectanlge_MC i want to constantly redraw the stage, well only the portion of the stage that is covered by the rectangle..o if my rectangle for instance is currently at x:60 and y:80, and its demensions are 200x200, want it to redraw just the ares of the stage that starts a x:60, y:80 and goes to x:260 and y:280..
View 4 RepliesI have multimoduled application and I need to monitor when the mouse is moving or not moving on a protion of my swf file.The app is consisted of video player , text part and video list on the right.So I want monitor when the mouse is moving just over the video player not the whole swf application.I have this function
Code:
vidPlayer_mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, checkMouse);
function checkMouse(e:Event):void {
if (sw==0) {
[code]....
I use vidPlayer_mc.mouseX/Y; property but i doenst seem to work.I need the functionality when mouse moves over video player the playbar on the bottom shows up and vice versa.
i am loading an external .swf that has a quicktime movie emedded in it. is it possible to only preload a small portion (say a quarter) of the file and then load the rest while it is playing?[code]
View 1 RepliesI just saw one of the Sears websites in which you can "copy" a portion of the swf using a selection window. Once they click and drag and release the selection window, another swf pops up with their selection in it. Can someone point my in a direction for this copying functionality?
View 2 RepliesI am loading an external .swf that has a quicktime movie emedded in it. is it possible to only preload a small portion (say a quarter) of the file and then load the rest while it is playing? [code]...
View 1 Repliesportion of a movieClip invisible with AS?For instance, make the 200 first vertical (y-pos) pixels invisible on a movieClip thats 500 pixels high?
View 3 RepliesI have a page with a "Tip of the day" section.I have at present about 30 different tips.I would like to set that section up so that every time the page loads a different tip appears, in random order.
View 1 RepliesI am currently making a banner ad. Within this there is a note about an event that happens at a certain date.Is it possible to make this note play until that date, and then stop playing while the rest goes on?
View 3 RepliesI am making a Flash CS5 application in which the user draws transparent overlays on a Sprite placed on top of an image. The user needs to be able to erase his input as in MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop, or GIMP. Because the Sprite is on top of an image, there is no safe clear color I can think of to draw over the section that the user has just rubbed his eraser over
View 1 RepliesI am writing a screen scroller for a game I'm making. There's a BitmapData object which holds the background graphic, yet I do not want to show/render it on screen all at once.
For example, I want to show only a 500x500 section of the data but the entire BitmapData is 1000x1000. I wanted to use the scroll() method to scroll the data but my problem is that I cannot restrict how much of the BitmapData is drawn on the Bitmap. I tried setting the height/width properties of the BitmapData to 500x500 (and draw all the 1000x1000), but any data drawn beyond the boundaries I defined is not really drawn.
Another option I considered is to store a different BitmapData object which holds the entire data, and then use copyPixels() from it to the one used on the Bitmap itself, although then I cannot use scroll() and have to use different methods to achieve scrolling.
I am so stumped. How on earth do you remove a portion of a multidimensional array?
For example:
var myArray:Array =[];
myArray[0][0] = 0;
myArray[0][1] = 1;
//trace(myArray[0]);
//[0,1]
How do I remove the second portion ([1]) of myArray[0][1] so that when I do a trace, it produces just 0?
I want to measure a portion of a textfield in pixels (let's say from index 3 through 10 in a 20 character textfield for example). Is there a method or simple way to do this or would I have to create a new temporary textfield and copy that portion over to the new textfield and measure it's width? I'd like to know because I've made style changes to the original textfield that affects it's pixel width and it would be a pain to make all the same style changes to the temporary text field just to measure it's width.
View 2 RepliesI am working on a project and need to allow someone to access a social media site like twitter for example. I need a way to display their twitter page from within flash.
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