Can I have an Array, that is at the same time a function that contains it's own data?
ActionScript Code:
//Level 1
var allA:Array=new Array(a1,a2);
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And how could I detect if there's is a 2nd layer in an Array and what isit?
I would like to know how to detect on which layer is an instance located. For example I put a circle named bob on the first layer and a square named test on the second layer. In actionscript, can I detect on which layer is test. I want to use this because in my game I will put all the non solid objects on the first layer and all the solid objects on the second layer and I want to detect in actionscript which instances are located in which layers.
View 1 RepliesIn my Timeline I have 4 layers, each with labels on different keyframes. I have the following code, which obeys to my first layer:[code]How can I make AS3 to detect the specific "currentFrameLabel" of a named layer?
View 6 RepliesI have a Flash movie that is embedded in an HTML page that has a DIV in a layer over the top of the movie. The Flash movie scrolls based on the mouse position over the movie. The client wants the scrolling to stop when the mouse is over the DIV. I've tried using the mouseLeave event, but that is not triggered by the DIV.
Is there a way that the Flash movie can detect when the mouse is over the DIV?[code]...
Don't know if the flash layer on the view stack contain only the compiled flash swf file
View 1 RepliesI wondered if anyone that uses multidimensional arrays can tell me how to get an array length value for each 'layer' of data.[code]
View 6 RepliesI've got an array of sprites which I'm animating by incrementing their rotationX property. What I want is for them all to disappear once the last item in the array has come full circle. The problem is that their rotation speeds are being generated by a randomized function, so I can't just go to the end of the array to find the last one. Each time it will be a different one.
So I have an array of Sprites:
for(var i:int=0; i<arrSprites.length; i++)
{
addChild(arrSprites[i]) ;
}
Then I have my event listener:
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
And my handler:
private function loop(e:Event):void
{
for(var i:int=0; i<arrSprites.length; i++)
{
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So I want to use some functions that only work if a word in an array is present.
The pseudocode would be something like this
Quote:
if(array contains "word"){
perform function
}
first time here.. want to ask a question which i have been thinking for quite sometime ..
say i have an array be it of any length ..
var Myarray= new array("apple", "pear", "apple","orange", "apple","pear" )
how shld i write a function that will detect and group similar items into each individual unqiue counter,
item "apple" :3
item "pear" : 2
item "orange":1
also does anyone here have resources(books or website) for problem solving for actionscript.. problems like the one on top.. ? I really need to learn to improve in different approaches in solving a scripting problem.
If you have a group of movie clips stored in an array and the movie cliops are placed on the stage randomly, and use your arrow keys to move a box on top of one of the movie clips - how can you "tell" Flash which movie clip you clicked on?
Right now I've got a for loop going which loops through the array that has stored the movie clip instances, presumably the hitTestObject would eventually get a hit...But this doesn't work, especially inside an event handler where when I press the right arrow on my keyboard.
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I'm loading some text from a xml into flash. Now for each piece of text needs to be a Click event. So if i click on xmlData.location1 i need to go to the info about location1. If I click on xmlData.location2 i need to go to the info about location two. See code blow.
Code:
public function HotelLocations(){
LocationsLoader.load(new URLRequest("hotellocations.xml"));
LocationsLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
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I'm using a video array to load external flvs randomly for a movie quiz game I am building. Is there a way to code my actionscript so that I can identify which flv is playing randomly so that I can choose and use a specific animation that is to go with that video?This is my code:
// video array set up
var videoArray:Array = new Array({vid:"question1.flv", ans:"school of rocketeers"},
{vid:"question2.flv", ans:"supermanhattan"},[code]......
I am doing some research on creating clcikTags. I read a few places that the clcikTag should be on the top layer. That has been fine, but now I want to loop it and I usually put my actions in the top layer. Will this cause a problem? Am I better off just putting my loop action on the last key frame of the clcikTag layer?
View 3 RepliesIm creating a program that is designed to allow the used to select 3 pictures (movie clips) and print them off on a single peace of paper.
The program works by allowing the user to select 3 graphics (the graphics are actually instructions for various exercises) and then moving the desired movieclips onto the stage. This all happens on a layer named "Content"
So far the program will allow the user to select the movieclips and will move them into place on the Content layer as well as move smaller versions of the pictures into a preview box the only thing it does not do is print. (the most important bit)
Is it possible to create multiple layer masks over a single layer using Actionscript3?Below is the flash effect I wanted to create with masks.First it starts from A and goes to B and C simultaneously.Then from B it goes to H and D simultaneously (the same applies to C).This is how the end result will look like.ps. I need my background to be transparent. I'm embedding it into a web page later.
View 2 RepliesI got it working for using the e.target of the mouse but now I need to filter through the array on enter frame and detect whether a collision is detected.[code]
View 4 RepliesI can't seem to go to a master edit file that is supposed to show both the body (layer 1) and wing (layer 2) of a flying bird animation. Is there a way to merge these two since I'm planning on shrinking it down and making a lot of birds?He merged the two layers at 14:24 of the video without even explaining how he went to this so called "Edit Master Movie Clip" that seems non-existent on Adobe Flash CS4.
View 1 RepliesI want to create a simple mask. A white oval on a second layer on top of a bottom layer that just has a word of type. I want the oval to travel from the upper left down to cover up the type. When I create the second layer, create the oval, and choose a distant frame for the "end" of the oval's positioning, my type in the first layer disappears as soon as I press F6 on that second layer. Why? Why is it nuking my first layer?
View 3 RepliesI have a container MovieClip called Drags where I can drag stamps (other MovieClips)--they are added to the Drags container via addChild. I have a second container MovieClip above that one (display order-wise) call Paint that contains a bmp, and some sprites used for adding a layer of paint.
My question is this: I need to be able to click on the Paint layer when I am above a draggable MovieClip and trigger the MouseEvent for the correct object to drag it around, but the item must always remain below the Paint layer.
I'm trying to do a little comic comedy type video in Flash. I've done an outline sketch with the pen tool of my first character, now I want to color it BUT I want to keep the colors and the outline sketch separated on two different layers. Is there a way I can select the path (outline) on layer A and then colorize it with the bucket tool on layer B? The problem I'm having is that every object I select it automatically jumps to that corresponding layer.
One reason why I want to do it this way is I still want to continue working freely on the outline sketch since it's not fully finished, so that I just can blend the colors out and keep working on the outline, at the same time I want to color it while I go just to see where it's going and to make sure that I'm not wasting my time unnecessarily with trying to do a outline just to find out that it won't work out at the end.
how to do a comic type animation, how to create the characters, how to make them move and talk? It can be a free or paid resource.
Why this code doesn`t work?
tip_052.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,ove rSub);function overSub(evtObj:MouseEvent) {
tip_052.visible = true;
else[code]....
appear this error "Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 3', Frame 1, Line 291083: Syntax error: else is unexpected.
this is the END of the code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("pos", total);
pos.moveTo(radius.b, 0);
pos.beginGradientFill("radial", [0xCCCCCC, 0x999999], [100, 100], [0, 255], {matrixType:"box", x:-radius.b-radius.b/2, y:-radius.b-radius.b/2, w:radius.b*2, h:radius.b*2, r:0});
for (var radians = 0; radians
I get a error for the last line. The error is this:
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 11: ';' expected
for (var radians = 0; radians
I cant get it working.. I have flash mx 2004 pro..
Is it possible to add layers, re-order layers, move movieclips from layer to layer or specify which layer a duplicate movieclip appears on at runtime with AS3?I am aware of the depth properties and the functions associated with that but it would be easier to have a concept of a layer because I am dealing with masks.I have a nasty feeling I'm gonna be told that layers don't really exist within an swf and that depths and setmask are all there is to work with.
View 4 RepliesI think it would be simplest to explain it like this:
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How do I add a title/label name to a key frames on a layer? After I create a key frame, I should be able to add a name to that frame. I am creating several stops along the timeline and want to name each one to make it easier to follow.
View 1 RepliesI am loading a drop down menu file into another animation. It's working except the menus should drop over the animation below. As the images change in the lower animation they cover up any drop down menu that is displayed.
The command I am using to load the menus is as follows:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader(); addChild(myLoader); var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("ncjhs_Menus.swf"); myLoader.load(url);
I need to load the menus - with all its layers - into the uppermost layer. Is there a simple way to set the target layer when loading a movie? I'm assuming you need to specify a target container/object in the target ... ?
I am trying to build a fireplace in flash where the mantles, surround type and face plates are changable when a value from a drop down menu is selected.I put each of the objects(mantles, surround types and face plates) in a seperate layer and am making them visible/invisible by controlling the alpha property of each of the objects. It worked fine till i had about 30 layers/images on the flash file, but as i try to add new layers/ images the new layer sort of covers the first layer making it invisible.
View 5 RepliesI am trying to get a SWF to load behind other layers in the root timeline - right now it loads over everything - that is on the top most layer. Is there a way to make it load to a specifc layer on the root timeline?
View 2 RepliesI am _very_ new to flash, and im making a simple flash sidescroller game to get things running, and I've run into a problem. So lets get straight to the point: I have a layer that i want to always be the top layer, because it is a "foggy" effect on the foreground.
But the problem is, that my enemy-characters spawn on top of it, and it looks odd when my main character is under the fog but the enemies (or ammunition) arent. So is there any way to force a layer to be always on the top?
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I'm trying to display a shape using a mask in a way that it unhides the shape from left to center and in the same time from right to center.
--shape--
---><---
Is there a way to create a mask layer that animates two masks or to create two masks above one layer?