ActionScript 3.0 :: Dynamic Access Of A MovieClip Created On Stage In Flash?
Mar 26, 2010
I am confronted with a simply yet annoying problem: I manually created a row of MovieClips inside another movieclip container_mc on the stage in the Flash CS4 Editor. The MovieClips are named in the same convention (eg. target_1_mc, target_2_mc, ...target_200_mc).
When I try to access a property of it via AS3 during runtime of the SWF like this, it works:
container_mc.target_0_mc.alpha = 0; But how do I access the MovieClip dynamically? During runtime, a script will determine of which MovieClip i need to access a property. I will get the ID number of the MovieClip I want to access. So I need to be able to to something like this:
var mc_ID:int = 2; ["container_mc.target_"+mc_ID+_mc""].alpha = 0;
Obviously, that doesn't work. When I would create all the target-MovieClips dynamically at runtime, I would simply put them in an array. But in this case I need to work with the existing MovieClips manually created in the Flash Editor.
There are multiple MovieClips that will be dynamically placed on stage. These MovieClips are coded to be buttons. I'm trying to figure out--when a user clicks on the MovieClip...figure out which object on the flash stage the user clicked on.Inside function toggleClick I put the trace statement: trace("movieClip Instance Name = " + e.target.name);
In the OUTPUT window: movieClip Instance Name = instance5 movieClip Instance Name = instance12
This may be a stupid questions but I can't find it.I'd like to refer to movieClip onStage by looping though it for example, I have 10 movieclips name slot1 - slot12 then in my code
var hole:MovieClip; function checkHit():void { hole = pirate.slot3; // My problem is here how do i change this slot3 to slot 4,5,6 ...
How do I access the methods of a dynamically created movieclip/object?
For simplicity sake I didn't post code on how I dynamically created the movieclip. Instead, assume its already created. It is an object. It is called field_2. Below it is referenced by using getChildByName('field_' + field.id);
Check_box_component.as
public var testVar:String = 'test'; public function testReturn() { return 'value returned';
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When I trace temp.testReturn, why does it show "function Function() {}" instead of "value returned"?
I have a "box_mc" movieclip on the root of my stage and I need to select it from within my Document Class. I thought Stage.getChildByName("box_mc") would work, but it just returns null.
I have created a game in flash, and due to the nature of the game, I have many movieclips placed on the stage manually in Flash CS4. They are not programmatically added as children to the stage, and so I am having difficulty getting access to them in the document class. So far the only method I have been able to use is to do stage.addChild(active_area); (for example), but there are many movie clips, all very differently named, so this method seems incorrect.I've discovered that my MovieClips are not children of the stage, but in fact MainTimeline, as when I for loop through stage.getChildAt(i);, only one child, root1, is traced out. How can I access movieclips that were placed on the stage in the timeline from the document class, without having to manually add them as children to the stage? So it looks like my problem wasn't that I couldn't access the MovieClips, it was that I wasn't modifying the MovieClips' values, so I wasn't registering any change in them.
Here is the code after I fixed it: function manage_cursor(e:Event):void { prevX=currX;
I'm trying to build a Flash-based controller application to go on the web interface for the rack-mounted units which my current employer builds. The interface is defined in an XML file which is parsed and processed when the Flash application is started.
I've created some library symbols which act as various controls - sliders, toggle buttons, etc. I can add these fine to the stage. What I would like to do is group them together in a container of some sort so that I can show and hide them en masse without having to loop through all the controls. All library symbols I'm using are linked to ActionScript classes.
If I use a symbol I created earlier and added to the library as this container, everything works fine and the controls display correctly on the stage.
However, if I dynamically create a MovieClip and use that as the container, it never appears on the stage. The code is identical in both cases except for the class names being used. I am calling addChild() on the MovieClip instance to add the controls to the MovieClip, and then call addChild on the document class to add the MovieClip to the stage. As I mentioned above, this all works perfectly if I use a pre-created symbol from the library as the container.[code]...
I'm making a game in flash and am using arrays to dynamically create items and place them inventory. LongSword is a MovieClip. I place the movieclip in the array like so:
How do you set up a hit test for a dynamic movieclip that hasn't yet been created?I have a movieclip on the stage, and I want it to change colour when a yet to be created dynamic clip touches it.
I am having problems while creating object with actionscript, I am new to it and I am getting some errors. I am creating my object this way
Code: var myMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); myMC.x = 50; myMC.y = 50; myMC.name = "hunterToken"; tCursos.addChild(myMC); And it is created, so far everything's good
Later I try to access the visible property, and I get an error Code: tCursos.hunterToken.visible=false; And I get this error: Code: TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. at newSiteHTR_fla::mCursos1_1/go()[newSiteHTR_fla.mCursos1_1::frame1:157]
I am running a script in a movieclip that captures date and time but the actual fields are on the _root or the stage. How to I access my dynamic fields? I put the prefix stage. in front of the instance name but I am getting the errors on all the places where I am trying to access the instance name "Symbol 'date-time', Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 14 1119: Access of possibly undefined property ampm2 through a reference with static type flash.display:Stage." Here's the code:
flash.display.Stage //==== TIME ==== // // This line puts the date object into a variable we can use more easily var nowate = new Date();
Short version : Im confused on the difference between the two when accessing something on the stage from a package. Longer version: I passed in a ref to the stage to the constructor on a class, and was unable to use it to access a dynamic text on stage. I pass in this instead and am able to access it.
There is a movieclip ("abc_Mc") on stage. I know, to access it, i can simply use Document class, and add a variable named abc_Mc and thus can access it.
But i wanna access it via stage property. ( As it must be a child of stage)
I added a movieclip "a_Mc" on authoring time, and used the following code :
import flash.display.MovieClip;
for ( var i = 0 ; i<stage.numChildren ; i++) { var a = stage.getChildByName("a_Mc")
I'm trying to access a text input that I've already placed on the stage (inside a movie clip) but with no luck.I've defined an instance name for this dynamic text field which is currentUserCount.I've got something like this set up in the document class actionscript file:
public class MyClass extends MovieClip { public function MyClass():void { my_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, action); } private function action(e:MouseEvent):void {
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I can't able to access the my_mc(placed in FLA) movieclip. How do I access?
I've created a custom class (not the document class, otherwise there would be no problem) and I want to be able to access a MovieClip that is sitting on the stage.
How? MovieClip(parent), MovieClip(root)... don't work. What's the proper procedure?
Also, can I pass the MovieClip from the Document Class to another custom Class?
function LoadXML(e:Event):void { xmlData = new XML(e.target.data); var list:XMLList = xmlData.snipper;
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I add alot of containers to the stage, but I would like to be able to remove the containers again outside the function. I was thinking that I could maby write removeChild(snipper1), but I can't acces them after they are created ?
I have create a Flash EXE in AS3. At the time of launch the exe loads a XML from a web link to validate itself.
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://abc.com:8090/validate.xml"); var urlLoader:Loader = new Loader(); urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, startLoad); urlLoader.load(urlRequest);
I have also place a crossdomain.xml at the root. When I launch the EXE, the debugger shows "SecurityError: Error #2000: No active security context."I just found a strange thing that when I'm writing the code on the timeline, its working (no security errors). But when I'm writing this code in the document class its not working.
So, you have a sprite, you draw some graphics, you set cacheasbitmap=true... I can't seem to access the newly created bitmap data, to access the dispose() method.
There is a lot of code that I have but here is snippet to get to the point. I have created a Movicelip called via actionscript called "McButton". Then I created 10 MovieClips within that MovieClip ("McDot0", "mcDot1", etc). I need to know how to access mcButton.mcDot3 to change its color when button3 (mc already on stage) is clicked but can not figure it out.[code]...
What I want to do is be able to access score5 within the movie clip so as to compare against the score of the current game to work out if the player has scored a top 5 score. However, I try I can not access any of the scores within the movieclip.
I am new to AS 3 and I tried to solve this (probably really simple) problem, but I couldn't, so I gotta ask here. All I did was create a child through a function in my document class.It is in fact an altered version of the rotate circles tutorial from kirupa.
Code: function makeCircle (e:Event):void { var circle:BlueCircle=new BlueCircle ;
Using CS3 Flash Pro, AS2 or AS3Once the dynamic TextField is converted to a Movie clip symbol,access to that TextField is lost / broken.Could this be a "Class" issue?How do I enable the dynamic text to be passed into the Movie clip symbol?
I have a movieClip named MC, and it's enabled with action script, with the class name MC_Rectangle and a Stage.I override the MC_Rectangle class file in a mc_rectangle.as external file.here is the code:
1. how can i access the variable "sequence" in "mc_rect"
2. how can i pass parametre from main stage to mc_rect via function setSequence(data:int)?
3. how can i call the function in addSequence() in mc_rect.
in asp.net, i usually use mc_rect.sequenct,mc_rect.setSequence(data), mc_rect.addSequence() to achieve my goals......btw, can function in mc_rect return out result to main stage?
I got a video background where I have a button (which is a movie clip) inside the button I need to have a movieclip to be centered on the stage. My stage is dynamic and therefore changes according to the browser of the user.
