I want to generate movielclips dynamically using xml nodes in a circular fashion (lets assume 360 degree circle). Suppose if i have 5 nodes in xml, then it has to generate only 5 movieclips in a circular fashion. and if it was 50, it has to generate 50 mc's in a circular fashion again.
View 1 RepliesI want to generate movielclips dynamically using xml nodes in a circular fashion (lets assume 360 degree circle). Suppose if i have 5 nodes in xml, then it has to generate only 5 movieclips in a circular fashion. and if it was 50, it has to generate 50 mc's in a circular fashion again.
View 2 RepliesI want to generate movielclips dynamically using xml nodes in a circular fashion (lets assume 360 degree circle). Suppose if i have 5 nodes in xml, then it has to generate only 5 movieclips in a circular fashion. and if it was 50, it has to generate 50 mc's in a circular fashion again.
View 3 Repliesbasically i have to generate some movieclips dynamically and then eidt their content...
Code:
for(j=4;j>=0; j--){
var mc = _root.bottom.panel.duplicateMovieClip("copy"+j, j);
if (j===(4)) {posit=50;
[Code]....
how i can acces the generated clips... i tried _root.bottom. "copy"+j).company._visible=false; and does not work...
Inside one of the mcs I have included a piece of code with the of this forum that allows the user to both click on and drag the mc about the stage. However when the user clicks on the mc I want two things to happen, firstly I want it to position itself in the centre of the stage, already accomplished (with the of the forum - same thread), and I want a number of the other mcs to be positioned around it in a circular pattern. Now I have two main problems with this.. first of all I am using all of the above code inside of a single mc and I am confused as to how I can actually take the other mcs and place them around it, calling it from inside the mc that is, another problem is that I am using an xml file to load data dynamically into the mcs, I am doing this from the main timeline and then as I said before using iterative processes to fill each mc with their relevant data. Inside of this xml file I have a number of items, each having a tag called owner, what I want to happen is for the user to click on the mc in question and then for each mc that is "owned" by the mc in question to then be positioned in a circular pattern around it
View 1 RepliesI've got a movieclip in my library called primaryCommMC.I'm loading these 5 times onto the stage and naming them commMC0-4 using the following:[code]Right now they're all obviously loading on top of each other. I want to stack these movieclips on top of each other so the first movieclip will be at y=0 and the following at y=(the height of the proceeding MC + 5 (a little gap)).
View 1 Replieshow can I generate and address Instances of Movieclips like Original --> riginal2...Original3....in a for-loopInside pure Computerlanguage we can use a counter to fill up and read out an array. But how to address a series of Movieclips?Further Question: Can I produce a serie of variables, indexed by the index being part of the name of the variable? And read it out again?Already forgotten where, I read of a procedure like
equal("Original" + String(i)).dosomething();
instead of
Original1.dosomething();
[code]......
I was just curious and wanted to know whether its possible to generated swf files using c#, php or java. I know it can be done in c++, however I am not comfortable with it. swf I plan to generate would be mostly using flash drawing api or images.
View 1 RepliesI have a for loop in action script which I'm trying to use to dynamically create variable.[code]...
View 2 RepliesI have a script that parses some complex XML. When the XML element is of a certain type, it generates a comboBox using the XML element's children to populate the box. I then want to check all of the values of the all the generated ComboBoxes against their correct answers (which is also info stored in the XML file). When creating the ComboBoxes, I added an "id" property. However, it seems that I cannot them use:
dynamicQuestion.id.selectedItem.labelField
to check the answers. However, I am able to get the labelField if I know the variable name used to create the ComboBox.
dynamicQuestion.selectedItem.labelField
This indicates (to me) that I need to dynamically generate the variable name as I'm creating new instances of the ComboBox. But how do I dynamically generate a variable name? If I use
var thisBox:String = "box"+boxCount;
var newBox:ComboBox = thisBox as ComboBox;
I get an implicit coercion error. I also tried changing the creation statement to a function that accepted an argument, "thisBox," but this didn't work either. Conceptually, this seems quite simple, but I'm having a hard time putting it to practice. It seems that the comboBox's id is what is generated by created the box using script (e.g., var thisBox). How do I dynamically generate this name?
I have this code (for now, but there will be much more eventListeners) and i want to generate them dynamically.
Code:
s1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function1);
s2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function1);
[code]........
I am making a flash toy in which the user correctly places an object to its correct base. I've managed to get object preplaced onto the stage to snap to the right base. But now I'm trying to get randomly generate a single object from each array I've made to be placed on the stage and to be placed on the correct base.[code]...
View 1 RepliesI'm using AS 3.0 to generate movieClips to display external data from XML in Flash. These data need to update every xxx seconds. But at reloading it just writes the new data on top of the old data... Since not every update will have the same number of lines or clips next to eachother I need to clear the whole stage at once before writing the new data.
View 1 RepliesI'm making a game and I an in-game editor that is able to create entities on the fly (rather than hard coding them). I'm using a component-aggregation model, so my entities are nothing but a list of components.
What would be the best way to obtain or generate a list of components? I really don't want to have to manually add entries for all possible components in some giant registerAllComponents() method or something.
I was thinking maybe somehow with reflection via either the knowledge that all components inherit from the base Component class, or possibly via custom metatags but I haven't been able to find ways to get a list of all classes that derive from a class or all classes that have custom metatags.
I'm using a compination of actionscript's getPixel and php's imagecreatetruecolor and imagesetpixel to generate a png image of an swf movie inside a browser. At the moment it will output a 72 dpi image at the same resolution as the swf movie, but I've been asked about the possibility of generating a 300 dpi image instead.
View 4 RepliesI have tried using the FBML to display the flash statically. it is simple.and I have used the FBJS to dynamically display normal content.So, how to use FBJS to create the tag for displaying Flash?I have tried setInnerXHTML but doesn't seems working.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to dynamically generate xml using php and passing the xml file to flash, so my flash movie can use the information generated from php. Everything works fine when I test the movie locally. However, when I put my flash movie on the server, it doesn't load anything.[code]
View 2 RepliesI am trying to write a script that dynamically lays out images in rows of 3. I've written the following script to test out my idea, but it isn't working. in this script, the height is being determined too. I've attached the .fla too,
[Code]...
The main thing that intrigues me about the project is that it can create FLV thumbnails on the fly using the VideoThumb.as file included in the project download. Unfortunately, the project was made to be used on Flash Communication Server, and I am using Progressive FLVs on my site. I have been trying to figure out how to convert the VideoThumb.as file to work with progressive FLV instead of streamed FLV. I must say that I'm quite surprised no one has done this yet, as I think it would be a valuable contribution to the Flash FLV community.Anyways, as far as the code in the VideoThumb.as file, the main part I don't understand is this snippet...ok, so it's a pretty big snippet
Code:
// str is the suggested string to render from the tree (based on the node)
// node is the entire XMLNode for the row
[code].....
I am trying to generate this line of code dynamically...
movieclip.somefunction = b2._x;
and below is what I'm using...
movieclip.somefunction = ("b" + thisnum + "._x");
and I am storing a variable called thisnum. My line of code seems to return the correct value when I 'trace' it, but will not call the function correctly.
I am trying to generate variable names dynamically to get the X coordinate for many MovieClips on my stage.
This sort of works:
stop();
var End_X_mcArm01_Dot0:Array = [];
for (var Four_counter:int=1; Four_counter<=1; Four_counter++)
{
[Code].....
It stores the X coordinate in the variable End_X_mcArm01_Dot0[Four_counter] which is great. But I want to store these values for use later in my FLA.
If you turn the comment off on the second trace it errors although it appears to have created a variable called "End_X_mcArm01_Dot01".
I'm trying to create math tutorials using Flash and would like to generate math typesets dynamically using LaTex or comparable system. How do I go about doing this?
View 1 RepliesI am having problems understanding arrays. More exact, how to output them in a fashion. Say i have this array of five items, and i want to output them items starting first with a random number and then increasing by one until the array reaches the last index. But say the random number is 2? It would diplay 2 through 4 but not display 0 or 1. I would like to display 0 through what ever the initial random number was. In this case 2 through 4 would display, i would then like the 0 through 1 to display after. [code]...
View 1 RepliesWell i want to duplicate clips so they are in a grid fashion. I thought about something similar to this tutorial:[URL]..
But for that, you can't have for example, 27 of the same clips. It will always be 25, 30, 35 - depending on your i and j values of course.
So the question is how can you chagne the code from the tutorial, so the grid isn't actually a grid. In other words, have 5 clips in row 1, 5 clips in row 2, but 2 clips in row 3.
i want to duplicate clips so they are in a grid fashion. I thought about something similar to this tutorial:URL...But for that, you can't have for example, 27 of the same clips. It will always be 25, 30, 35 - depending on your i and j values of course.So the question is how can you chagne the code from the tutorial, so the grid isn't actually a grid. In other words, have 5 clips in row 1, 5 clips in row 2, but 2 clips in row 3.
View 4 Repliescreate those mix and match things that you often see on those fashion websites (You would select what variety of clothing you would want by clicking through the different items until you get the combination that you want, and then submit that choice to the store). I heard that it can be easily done in flash and so I am asking if it can be done.
I have nothing made at the moment. I just want to be able to know what the heck the client was talking about before I send her a contract. It'd be really messy if I come off as a guy who doesn't know what he's doing.
What I'm working on is a spinning menu, and it's sort of working, but there is a particular spot where in order to achieve the rotation that I want, the menu spins entirely around instead of just going the 3 degrees or whatever that it needs. I can't quite figure out how to fix it.Note how when you get to the 9 o'clock position it spins around in a weird fashion.[code]
View 12 RepliesWorking on a website that has an image of a sticky note which will change text somewhat frequently (every month or so) as new "todo" items are created on it. Font I'm currently using is not Web Safe and the text is slightly angled to match the skew of the sticky note as well. Now I'm a pragmatist, and in situations like this I would normally cede defeat and opt for something more CSS/HTML practical. But no more! I'm falling a bit behind on what's going on with HTML5, CSS3, PNG graphics, Flash (ugh), and/or any other rich visuals. I'm decent with PHP/CSS/JS (jquery), have dabbled in Flash/actionscript too. My question is: what tools/method should I be looking at here? EDIT: I've switched to Comic Sans MS/Cursive -- pragmatism is fighting back furiously.
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to create an XML driven menu for my portfolio site. I'm basing the code concept off Senocular's tutorial on this site, but I'm basing the aesthetic/operational idea off portfolio menus such as those seen on [URL] and basically every other portfolio site that uses small thumbnails as icons to present larger versions of the work.
Functionally, I think I've got it down (it's basically the tutorial code with the submenu functions stripped out), but I'm struggling with trying to figure out how to display my attachMovie'd items in a logical row/column fashion... i.e. if I had 7 items in my XML file and wanted the row to exist in threes, I'd have two rows of three and one row of one.
I'm sure there's a very simple solution to this that I'm simply overlooking. I was just thinking about trying to implement this via some type of counter/multiplier for the _y property.
Ok, I've been climbing the walls trying to figure this out, looked everywhere for an answer, learned a few bits and pieces along the way, but still can't do it.I've made my Class which is a little movieclip called 'block', it's fine and does what I tell it to do ie. I can reposition itstretch itotate it and stuff.The problem is.. I want to make more of them and reference them individualy so I can change the properties of them individualy ie, the x and y values etc.
for (var i=0; i<2; i++){
var newBlock:blocks = new blocks();
this.addChild(newBlock);
[code].....