ActionScript 3.0 :: Loop AddChild Then Target To Add To Top Of DisplayList?
Jul 18, 2009
I am just trying to grasp a simple concept of utilizing loops, addChild, and eventListeners.My goal is to use a loop to create multiple instances of the same type of object from my library (called Ball), and when one is clicked, have it move "above" all other instances on the stage (and eventually drag, but that's easy enough to make happen later).My current code attempt is:
for(var i:uint = 0; i<=10;i++)
{
var my_ball:Ball = new Ball() //new instances of Ball from library export
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Jan 29, 2009
i add eventlistener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER) to some movieclip. but when i write: addChild(event.target) it doesnt work.
More info: i have several rectangles on the stage. when movie starts, they all get alpha 0.3, when you mouse over any of them they get alpha 1 with tween. But i made it so that, rectangles are located over the each other. and i want to make it so, that when you mouse over any rectangle it comes to front, but it doesnt work with addChild(event.target).To try it at your own, just create 3 different sized boxes and give then instance names: square_mc, square2_mc, square3_mc and copy+paste this code.
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Feb 11, 2011
I haven't found my answer with a search of the forum, sorry if this is a redundant question. I am having problems with targeting a MovieClip that is inside another Movie Clip that is placed on stage from the Library using the addChild(); method. This is my code for creating the MC instance on stage:
var pMenuSlide:plusMenuSlide = new plusMenuSlide();
addChild(pMenuSlide);
Now, inside of pMenuSlide there is a MC called cloze, how do I target this MC? This does not work: var pMenuCloze:MovieClip = Object(root).pMenuSlide.cloze
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Oct 15, 2011
I have a button that was added to stage using addChild when the page load, the button is suppose to be removed using removeChild and redirect into its specific page using event.target.name...somehow i got this error: Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2035: URL Not Found.
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my code as below:
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Mar 29, 2011
I had a previous old script working with AS2 and have tried to convert it as the new system requires AS3 .the below script :
function displayItems() {
var xPos = 0;
var yPos = 0;[code].....
This gives me the following for the bolded line
Scene 1, Layer 'as', Frame 1, Line 44 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type flash.display:DisplayObject.
This line used to be addmovieclip which worked. I'm not sure how to edit this to suit the new addchild method.
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Feb 8, 2012
Is there a simple equivalent to what I used to do in AS2 to add a bunch of new objects to the stage and throw them into an array so they can easily be referenced? I'm finding this more difficult than it used to be.
Old code:
ActionScript Code:
mc_array = new Array();
for(i=0;i<5;i++){
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Jan 20, 2010
Is there a simple equivalent to what I used to do in AS2 to add a bunch of new objects to the stage and throw them into an array so they can easily be referenced? I'm finding this more difficult than it used to be.
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Aug 14, 2009
I've a loop that adds a child (loader that loads image) to the stage.
This is working fine but when I go to the other page the images just stays on the screen.[code]...
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Mar 5, 2011
Ok what i want to do is to put MORE than one instance of a MC on stageFor that i try to create a name to the MC inside a (FOR) loop (working)what dident work is to put multiple instance of it on stage.Seem preety basic but i can figure it out
function generateHex(e:MouseEvent)
{
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Mar 10, 2008
I want to load multiple different movieclips from my library(mc1, mc2, mc3 etc.)with a loop and I can't seem to succeed with this..
each movieclip is unique and it would be a nightmare to code them.
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Jan 7, 2011
I cant get addChild to work withing a loop (while).
I have a range of movie clips in the frame hidden away. These are called item_1, item_2, item_3 etc.
It works FINE when Im adding say item_1, then item_2, but if the code tries to add "item_1" twice, it seems to just overwrite the first new "item_1"!?!
This is what I need to do, and it just wont work!
ActionScript Code:
while(i<10){
this["item_new_"+i] =new MovieClip();
this["item_1"].y = 0;//I put this in just to make sure they line up right
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May 13, 2006
How do you target the previous MC in a for loop. Basically I am attaching MC's to the stage that are 90 Pixels apart from the top and bottom. I want to check the _x location of the previous MC and move in 90 pixels. Use an If statement so the _x location is not beyond 260 and if it is it moves _y 90 pixels and resets the _x. Is this the best way to do it.
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Jun 27, 2007
I have the below code which attaches a movieclip "btn1" to another movie clip within this loop I wish to setup up different functions for each different button but it only lets me set them up for the last one in the line of buttons. How to I target each button seperatly by using a string and then the value of miniLoop? i.e
subnav.test_mc.item1
subnav.test_mc.item2
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Jun 17, 2009
Is it possible to reference an event target in a loop, something like the following?How do I reference the Thumb1 object?
Code:
if(event.target == Thumb1){
trace("yes");
}
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Jan 30, 2011
I'm working on a small project right now, and it consists of three toggle buttons that control various displayed data. I'm trying to make another toggle button, that once selected, will set the three existing toggle buttons to their "on" state. I'm pulling my hair out trying to target these individually through a loop. I'm currently working in the "//Begin Turn All On" section.
Code:
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Oct 9, 2010
i have 3 check box's and input text fields on stage that i would like to null out using the reset button however i seem to be targeting the objects incorrectly as i am getting this error:
Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
Code:
package
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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Mar 31, 2011
I have a MovieClip called item with the same linkage set and my first task is to display 10 of these items on the stage nested inside a movieclip called MainItem. I have dragged MainItem to the stage and have the following for loop:
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May 26, 2011
I'm trying to use a SWFLoader to load an Application and add the loaded Application to my Displaylist.
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May 28, 2009
I am having some trouble understanding the display list. This might sound silly but how long does it take until a sprite is added to the display list?
My understanding is that the root variable is only accessible once the object is added to the display list.In the following code I add the TLSEntry_Text to the display list and then on the next line I try to trace its root variable without luck. The root variable appears only in the enter frame event... I guess a little bit later.
What am I missing here? Is there a way for the display list to "force refresh" itself?
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Feb 7, 2011
Is there any event dispatched in ANY place of the display list if the order of display list items change?Or is there any other way to track that without manually keeping track of all display list order or needing to override all "setChildIndex" and "swapChildren" functions?
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Jan 4, 2011
I'm working on a game for the iPhone using flash, and since memory is crucial i want to clean up displayObjects not needed. All the objects i need to delete is MovieClips taken from some array to another using splice(). Here is the [code]...
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Mar 25, 2011
I'm working on a drag-drop solution, and acting when a item is dropped on the current target (let's say an "intelligent chess-board") is a breeze, as the board fires DragEvents when items are hovering over on dropped on the it.
What I'm looking for is a way to make the board act when an item is dragged OFF the itself. Of course - when the item is dropped somewhere else, I could fire an event there and tell the board that change has been done. But this is what I want to avoid.
I wonder if there is some way to monitor a change in the displaylist of the "board", so it fires an event when a child/element is removed from "outside"?
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Jan 13, 2010
I've been working on an application (with ComboBoxes) that requires scaling the entire application based on screen resolution. I thought it would simply require changing the "scaleX" and "scaleY" properties of the top-level application, but discovered that the ComboBox dropdown doesn't appear to scale accordingly, as in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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which results in the dropdown appearing (sliding down) unscaled until it reaches it's extended length and stops at which point it scales up and remains at that scale until it is closed. I have also found that if you call "invalidateDisplayList()" on the comboBox or the dropdown, then it undoes the scaling, so it appears that whenever the updateDisplayList is called, the dropdown only applies it's parent ComboBox's scaling, and not the ComboBox's parent container's scaling.
I understand that, as a pop-up, the dropdown isn't in the Application's or ComboBox's displayList tree, which appears to be the root of the problem (no pun intended).
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Jan 24, 2012
I have a library MovieClip Class that consists solely of a dynamic textfield contained in a MovieClip. I want to instantiate this MC, populate the textField with text, get the width of the resulting text and, if the width is less than a predefined MIN_WIDTH value, append more text. When the width is equal to or greater than my MIN_WIDTH value, add this MovieClip class to the display list. My question is, does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the length of text in a textField using Textlinemetrics BEFORE the textField has been added to the display list?
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Nov 20, 2009
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Oct 11, 2011
I've found myself in a tricky place, I've built an app that loads in swfs as external libraries so they can easily be changed at run time, all works well. I now need to separate the code from the art in these libraries so that external developers can change the art without getting their mitts on the code. Trouble is to do this my new code only library elements will need access to my overall manager class, which is the main document class, so that they can access the library manager class to add the appropriate art assets to themselves.
Now there's a couple of clumsy solutions I've thought of:
1, Store a manager class reference in a static var but that seems like a cop out.
2, Go through a few hundred thousand lines of code and alter every instantiation of a library element to include a manager reference - erm, let's not go there.
3, Have the library element send a custom event to the stage from its constructor which passes a return handler to the event listener so that can pass back a manager reference. Sounded like genius initially up until I realised that at constructor stage the library element won't be on the display list so can't bubble up to the stage
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Apr 15, 2009
i have two classes:
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May 7, 2010
Iv'e been slowly moving over to AS3 in the past few months and I think I have learnt quite a considerable amout. However I am completly dumbstruck by the behaviour of the DisplayList. The kind of work I do requuires that the flash movies I make are timeline based (I know spitting in the face of OOP) because of the amount of animation used. However within these animations I also use snippets of ActionScript to have interactive moments such as drag and drops or tabs for the user to select a section. Now in these cases I as you would expect have to redepth some stuff (like the currently active panel of some tabs or currently active drag item etc). Using the display list I think is dead easy and I actually prefer it to the old Depth based system of ActionScript 2. This is where the odd problem starts.
On my stage I have 2 insences of the same MovieClip ("Clock1" and "Clock2") which has a child named "hand", also I have 2 text boxes just to dictate which movie is which. These clips and text are nothing special just author created in flash so no code involved for adding them to the display list.
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Oct 28, 2008
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Jun 15, 2011
I'm trying to have a class file which can add objects to the stage via addChild; however, when I call addChild from within the class file, I get the error "1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild." I've tried importing flash.display.* and that doesn't fix the problem. Does the class file have to extend Sprite or MovieClip to be able to add objects to the stage?
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