ActionScript 3.0 :: Link Buttons To External Movie Clips?
Sep 10, 2009
On one of the pages, i've posted 6 pictures, and make them buttons. And when i click on them, i want to pop up a player with a FLV video clip. FLV video clips that are located on my hard drive and in the root directory of the site. I didn't want to use one of CS3 players, so i have embedded a flvplayer (JW, i think).And, for two days, i search the forums for the AS3 code to make this work, and no luck. And here, i observed that the users get help. Probably it's easy enough for AS3 users, so nobody have problems with this, and for that reason i didn't find posts with this problem. However, if that doesn't work with an external player, i'll do it with whatever player you say.
I have multiple movie clips on stage (all in separate layers, of course) as well as buttons on stage to play each movie clip. There are buttons inside each movie clip. The problem is that the buttons inside the top layered movie clip work, but the others in the movie clips below don't.
I have just completed the "Transitions Between External SWFs" tutorial and I'm now I'm at the stage of altering a few things in there to suit my needs. But I've run into a problem...For my buttons, intead of "Button" symbols, I want to use "Movie Clip" symbols - reason being is that I've got some specially animated Movie Clip buttons that I wish to use.To get this... err "working"... with my Movie Clip buttons I have needed to use "_root." when referencing to the container Movie Clip. Now that works to an extent, but for some reason each button plays only "red.swf" even when there is no mention of it in the ActionScript and is instructed to play "blue" for example ("red.swf" happens to be the first appearing movie).Normal method with Button - works fine!
Code: on (release) { if (_root.currMovie == undefined) { _root.currMovie = "red"; container.loadMovie("
I Have 3 Movies:MAIN.SWF, contains loading movie actions for Nav.swf and Home.swf.NAV.SWF, contains navagation menu loaded on Level 2 in Main HOME.SWF, contains slideshow for home page loaded on Level 1 in Main In NAV.SWF, there is a MOVIE CLIP "graphmc", which contains a BUTTON "graphicbtn", When this button is clicked, I'd like the HOME.SWF (which is loaded into Main.swf on Level 1) to fade out and unload, and load and fade in Graphics.SWF in place of it.
I had a small question regarding 'linking' two movie clips together. I have set up a design where the user drags cubes around the stage. I now decided to add in a reflection to the cubes but cannot put the reflection inside the 'cube mc' as it will be effected by the rollovers.
Is there a way using actionscript 3 to tell the 'reflection mc' to always follow the main 'cube mc' around the stage?
i just started tackling Flash and Actionscript 3.I know how to have a button react to a click by going to and playing (gotoAndPlay) a certain set of frames within the same scene [code].themselves are in a movie clip, and the "aboutpage" frames are in another movie clip back outside in the main timeline... How do I tell it to target that other Movieclip thats on the main timeline and contains the frames called "aboutpage"?Ive seen somethign like: currentTarget.gotoAndPlay ("aboutpage");But currenttarget i think looks for stuff within the target/Movieclip it lies in.. what is the code to do this:
I have a menu bar that has 2 Drop down menus. Each drop down is a separate movie clip, with 3 buttons inside that are separate movie clips. I have a class set to the buttons that are movie clips for a roll over effect. But when I mouse over it does not work. Also on the main time line I tried to add a like to a web page but it did not work. But I only have this problem with the movie clips that are inside the drop down movie clips.
Why is this? How do I add roll over actions and external links to movie clips that are inside of another movie clip? I really need some help this is a problem I have been having for about a month or more. I am still a AS3 newb and this is my first time using classes. The other classes I have work with everything else, Im just having trouble with the movie clips that are inside movie clips.
I have connected 2 pages to the index page with movieclips and buttons. I have used this action script on the button "fotoalbum"; [code]This takes me to the page called "bilder".My question is: how do i get from the flashpage "bilder" directly to the other page called " tekst" using the button "om meg"? As it is now i have to use the Home button to go back to the index page...and from there to the other pages.I have attached some test files as im sure my explanation is a bit akward.
I'm creating a timeline of events with about 50 different points to click on. When each event is clicked on, a movie clip needs to appear (or tween onto) the screen. Then, when another event is clicked on, the previous content needs to go away so that the new content can appear.
A prefect example of what I'm talking about can be seen here:
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I've created a custom class of "TimePoint" that has a public property of date, so that I can assign a date to each individual instance of my TimePoint class.
In my fla, he timeline itself is a movie clip that needs to scroll back and forth as the mouse is moved. It contains the nested instances of my TimePoint class. I already have the scrolling movement taken care of, and I also have a tooltip date appearing over each point in time. Now I just need to figure out how to manage 50 different movie clips, each with and without graphics, bitmaps, etc.
I'm just wondering if there is any way to do this without having to create 50 different event listeners and 50 different classes just so that I can add/remove children. I'm thinking I need to use an array, but I don't know how I would implement it. I'm also not very familiar with XML.
My progress so far can bee seen here: Timeline version 2
For my online gallery, I'm using movie clips as buttons to navigate. I was having the movie clip play when you scrolled over it and off of it. Now i have it so when you click on it, it stops at the mid-way point. What on is to get it to go back to its original state when I click on something else. So basically I'm looking for a way to go back to frame 1 when a different movie clip/button is clicked on. I want it to revert back to what it was in an inactive state when I click on a different part, but I don't know how to do that
I'm working on my own personal website for my graphic design work and I'm using flash for the intro movie, which you can either skip or after an elapsed time, sends you directly to the home page. On that intro movie (which ill call animatedface_mc) i've put two other movie clips with the eyes blinking (left and right). The eyes would be constantly blinking, as this page is open. That one is working. Off to the side are buttons of names of famous celebrities and once clicked it adds movie clips to the main animatedface_mc. For example if i clicked on the monroe_mc, it adds that famous Marilyn Monroe mole (using either mask or opacity, depending on the facial feature) on the animatedface_mc. If I clicked on tyson_mc, it adds his face tattoo. I've used the following code for this:
I have 2 movie clips on my main timeline (let's call them MovieClip1 & MovieClip2). I have buttons inside MovieClip1 that I'm trying to (on release) direct to a specific frame in MovieClip2. Is this possible? I've tried COUNTLESS different gotoandplay and gotoandstop codes, but nothing works.
Being rather "green" with actionscripting, I am having difficulties using a sliding menu (very similar to the "infinite menu" tutorial here on kirupa) in conjuction with some actionscripting to interact with some external movies outside the main movie I am working with. What I want to do is to use each button within the menu to reference a flash movie outside the menu bar (which is a movie clip). Before I sound even more vague let me show you the code first....
So here I have a button instance (aboards) of one of the 10 buttons in the menu. I want to then reference a movie clip called "target" in the main scene of my movie to then load and display the movie aboard.swf at this reference point.
This code works well with static buttons on the main scene, but here each of the 10 buttons are located within the movie clip that makes the sliding menu work. The instance "aboards" of course works if I assign the instance to the movie clip, but then that of course means that ALL 10 buttons then will be assigned "aboards". What code change can I make to fix this issue so that each of the 10 buttons (within the movie clip) carry their own instance that can be referenced from the main scene?
I have assigned a movie clip to a hit state of a button, but alas, it refuses to work. Can anyone suggest a way of using actionscript to play a short movie clip on release of the mouse?
- my main movie is (a) and when i click a button there, it will go to external movie (b)
- under external movie (b) there's a movie clip that includes my animation and content button
- if i click on the content button on movie (b), external movie (c) will pop up [ it will not replace movie (b) but will just overlap it, it's like a small pop up ]
i did the actionscript and when i'm testing external movie (b), it's working... it's showing/popping up movie (c) but when i tried it on the main movie (a), the movie (c) is not popping on the (b) err, sorry if it's a bit confusing / how i explained it. but hopefully somebody will get the idea. and it won't also return on the main movie (a) when i click on a link from the external movie.
im having an issue with a cursor i made following this tutorial...http:[url]........the cursor works fine with a regular button however i have buttons inside movieclips, i tried it but it isnt working, i keep getting an error in the output...
Error: A 'with' action failed because the specified object did not exist.
I am a Flash newbie and I've probably bitten off more than I can chew with this one...it sounded so easy! Okay, so here's what I want to do: There are 5 people layered across the screen. When you rollover the person, they change color and come to the foreground (over the other pictures). On rollout, they go back to the background and change back in color. On click, they go to a new screen with just their picture and some information.
I first started setting this up and did each person as a button. Then I realized that in doing that, the button would not come to the foreground on rollover if it was below other buttons in the layers. So I put all of the buttons in movie clips and applied AS to the buttons (inside the movie clips, with the buttons on the main scene) and the AS2 looks like this:
I'll try and make this as clear as i can, so as not to waste your time. I think it's something really simple i'm just missing...On the main timeline, i've got a movie clip ("mc_A") that contains two other movie clips ("mc_1" and "mc_2").at the end of it's timeline, I put a button in "mc_1" to play "mc_2". I'm using
on (release) { telltarget ("_root.mc2") { play () ;
I'm taking an intro Flash and Action Script class and for my final I need to create a portfolio project that contains 5 unique buttons that trigger 5 unique movie clips. I'm having a hard time with this. I've been able to trigger the 1st movie clip with the first button (although I can't stop it) but I can't trigger any ohter movies with any other buttons.
Here's my code: stop();chuck1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie); function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
I've created a button and placed it inside a movie clip. I've added the below script (as2) on the button however when I Test Movie, the button does not work.
So ive set up some buttons into a movie clip, but i want to get them performing actions in a movie clip that is within another clip.For example, the code below is what I have attached to one of my buttons. The Movieclip 2photosMC2 is inside a DIFFERENT movie clip to the ones where the buttons are stored. How can I script so that the button actions activate the correct clip?
This is quite complex, in simple English, I have some folders (mc's) which I need to enter the stage when a button is clicked, when a different button is clicked I need the previous folders to animate out, before the new ones animate in! The folders feature there own functions and animations, which are viewable when clicked (they bring in external imagery and text)?
I've got a scrolling thumbnail movie clip.Inside the movie clip are 5 buttons.I can't get the buttons to work.I know to put the actionscript(2.0) ON the button and not IN the button.The sripting is a simple on press gotoandplay frame# command.yet it won't work.Is there something specific I'm missing when putting buttons inside a movie clip?
I am somewhat new to flash and am having some trouble trying to control two different movie clips with two different buttons. Currently when either one of the buttons is pressed both movie clips start to play. How can I set file up so that if button 1 is pressed movie clip 1 will play and if button 2 is pressed movie clip 2 will play
Im trying the following menu, and Id like to make them to have rollover, and rollouteffects, staying in the "over" position when clicked.When clicking in a different button, the previous clicked button should go back to normal position, but not just jump right a standard button.How can I do that without using a prototype, because is a horizontal menu and the buttons have different width sizes
so...i've got these buttons in movie clips. the buttons are animated for mouseover and i've also got an action on the first frame of the main timeline to get the buttons to stay active when clicked on, so the view knows where he is.the problem with this is that any time i go to put an action on the button itself to pull up an external .swf or whatever, the buttons stop animating and/or stop staying "depressed" on the active sheet.
