i am making a simple "tank-type" game in flash using Actionscript 3..the gun rotates according to the where the mouse is and it also fires bullets (which are movieclips dynamically added from the library)...i would like to know the simplest way of detecting if the bullets are already outside the stage so i can call removeChild and remove them...
View 1 RepliesI want to be able to have my ketchup cursor and click on the buns and the buns go to the ketchup frame and vice versa with the mustard, but if the ketchup is already on then it would go to the frame with both mustard and ketchup.I would post my code but I dont really have much to post except the basic eventlistener function. I have googled it a million times and cant seem to find what im looking for.
View 6 Repliesi am new to flash AS,i have 4 movieclips, those have the 4 option of a question, when i select the answer,if it correct means my score will increase otherwise it will show alert,for that first i have to press the any one movieclip out of 4 options, in AS3.0 addEventHandler will work for AS2.0 what will i use to achive this
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in this answer1, answer2,answer3,answer4 are the movieclip for 4 options
Is there a way to check the method that has been attached to the stage?I have stage as global.. and need to fire some function in a object on mouseup...Now it fires 2 or 3 depending how many objects i add..I need something like..
if($.stage.hasEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, this.mouseUp) === false){
$.stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, this.mouseUp);
}
how to detect mouse is ideal for 3 or 4 sec.if it is than a flag will set true.[code]
View 7 RepliesAS3 and have been searching the internet looking for an answer without much success - hence this post.What I am trying to do is detect if the stage (flash object) is on the screen or if the person has scrolled and it has gone off screen. Does anybody know how to do this?
View 0 RepliesIn the past, using Flash CS3 when I needed to remove timers or event listeners from a swf that had been loaded into a parent swf I'd use this inside the loaded swf:
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this.addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, deactivate, false, 0, true);
function deactivate(e:Event):void
{
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Now that I've upgraded to CS5 and am outputting to Flash Player 10 this no longer seems to work. The event fires right away. Does anyone know why this might be and if there's an alternative that I can use?I tried the unloadAndStop() method in the parent swf but I'm trying to remove some TweenMax delay timers and it doesn't seem to be working.
Is there a clean efficient way to detect when the mouse enters the stage? I want to achieve something similar to the iPhone Notification Centre, drag down onto the stage and something will happen.
View 2 RepliesIn the past, using Flash CS3 when I needed to remove timers or event listeners from a swf that had been loaded into a parent swf I'd use this inside the loaded swf:
Code:
this.addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, deactivate, false, 0, true);
function deactivate(e:Event):void
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I am wanting to write an if statement which says that when the mouse cursor exits the stage area, remove child.
Was thinking something like if mouse cursor is less than stage.stageWidth or stage.stageHeight?
I've written a bit of code that will allow users to move objects around the stage and detect if one has hit another. The problem is that it only works for a limited number of objects. how to rewrite the code so that it works with an unlimited number of objects?
View 4 RepliesI am working on a small section of my game and am attempting to detect key presses from an external class but I cannot get it to work. This code worked just fine when within the document class but now it's unresponsive. I'm not getting any errors, simply no activity whatsoever.[code]...
View 4 RepliesHow can I detect how fast the mouse accelerates on the Y axis of the stage?
View 9 RepliesI've just finished a flash projector for my company's lobby that displays all members of the staff in a dynamically generated grid with a page for each department. Flash reads an xml file generated from our Active Directory using php.
I've just discovered a bug. We have several employees that don't wish to have their images displayed; the autogenerated path to their images are therefore false. When the screen loads, a blank space appears where the movieclip is supposed to load.
How do I detect that the image link is bad (must be simple as flash gives out debug errors)? I would like to load an alternate image for staff with missing images.
Here's a snippet of where the movie clips are generated:
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for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++) {
attachMovie("container", "new"+i, i, {_x:xPos, _y:yPos});
//load the image from the xml nodes array
this["new"+i].photo.loadMovie("images/staff/"+nodes[i].attributes.photo);
}
What is the correct event listener to detect a child added to the stage? I tried:
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which doesn't work. I also tried ADDED_TO_STAGE but that doesn't fire it either. Do you know the correct way to detect when the child is added? Perhaps I should be attaching the listener to the parent instead?
I have the following in a class and get an error message. CaseStudyQuiz is my constructor method. I want to detect when the mouse moves via the stage.addEventListener.
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I want to know how if a movieclip is going += ._y or -=._y
View 1 RepliesWhich is the easiest way to detect when a child movieclip is ended ? use a variable in the parent movieclip?Does exist a sort of method myMovieClip.isEnded() ?
View 3 RepliesI'd like to remove a MovieClip instance from the main timeline (and do a few other things) once that movie is over.
Scenario: I've got a frog catching a fly with his tongue. Once the frog-tongue movie clip is over, I want to remove both the tongue, and the fly from the timeline. Both the tongue and the fly are MovieClip objects. The tongue animation starts based on a TimerEvent. I'd like to say something like: when the tongue MovieClip ends, call removeChild() on tongue and fly.[code]...
I'm trying to load different images from xml to movieclips by detecting the movieclips name dynamically via xml.
Pratically i have 2 movieclips named "sera" and "diurno".I take the names and the relative urls via xml then i try to add the images to the moviclip that have the same name as the xml, so i know that the "sera" movieclip have the "sera" image.[code]...
I want to have an event with a movieclip like with a button...
"on (mouseOver) {
whatever };"
how can i detect the mouse over the movie clip without it being a button?
How do you make a movieclip move horizontally from the start of the stage to 3/4 of the stage. Stage size is 700 px by 600 px i want just one row in the middle of the stage. i want that movieclip to disappear right after it reach the end of the 3/4 mark.
View 1 Repliesi saw a thread while ago .. that always position a movieclip in the middle of the stage even if the stage or window resize any1 can point me to it
View 3 RepliesIs there a way to detect what events have been attached to a movieclip?
I want to remove an event listener only if it has been added, and add it only if it hasn't been added yet.
I'm having trouble having my flash file detect when my mouse goes over and/or leaves a movieclip. I want to have a mini slideshow in my menubar which, when my mouse goes over the movieclip containing the slideshow, the pictures 'enlarge', and when the mouse leaves, the clip becomes normal size again.
This is the code I've gotten the best result with, as of yet, but it only seems to notice that my mouse leaves the movieclip half of the time, and sometimes there's a 'glitch' where the clip zooms and unzooms uncontrollably when my mouse is just next to the clip.[code]...
I have a game and i use function gotoAndStop in actionscript to play frame "moving" in my character game.And in this frame have movieclip. How can i detect when movieclip inside frame "moving" end ?
View 1 RepliesYou might think that this is a stupid question, since everyone who knows a little bit of actionscripting, knows that this can be achieved with onRollOver ... But that's not exactly what I'm looking for.
I have a small tooltip which follows the mouse and asks the user to click in order to close a picture. The tooltip follows the mouse using startDrag("tooltip", true);
But I'd like to remove the tooltip once the user moves the mousepointer outside the picture.
Though, when you use onRollOver, the mousepointer changes into a finger. This is not what I'm looking for since the picture than functions and looks like a button.
So is there any way to detect if a mousepointer is over a movieclip, without changing the cursor?
what Actionscript to put in a movie to detect whether that movie has been loaded into another movieclip?
In case that isn't clear: movie A loads movie B into a myMovieClip. What code can I put in movie B to detect that it is now a child of myMovieClip, or indeed any movie?
Am just a begineer with Actionscript but am picking up quite quickly. I been racking my brains and can't seem to find a solution. Basiaclly I've got 5 movieclips on the stage which are draggable. How can i get a message to appear in a text box if the first movieclip is moved higher than the second movie clip?
View 4 RepliesI have a draggable item, a MovieClip that calls startDrag() on itself when it is clicked, and another MovieClip on the stage.I need the MovieClip to receive ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT events while the draggable MovieClip is being dragged over it, but the lower clip doesn't receive these messages while a clip is being dragged over it.Essentially, ROLL_OVER is only sent to the topmost MovieClip under the mouse. Normally, you'd fix that with some combination of mouseEnabled or mouseChildren on the overlapping MovieClips, but if you do that to a draggable MovieClip, it breaks dragging. I need to detect when the mouse is over the lower MovieClip, regardless of what MovieClips are above it.
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