ActionScript 3.0 :: Programmatically Populating Movieclips?
Jan 23, 2010
While it's clearly possible to create MovieClips, I want to know: Is it possible to make multi-frame movieclip animations programatically? That is, is it possible to decide how many frames there are in the MovieClip, and specify the contents of each frame?I was intending to programatically generate a small MovieClip containing three frames, each with the text "Loading." "Loading.." and "Loading..." respectively, so that I wouldn't have to set up a timing event to change them manually. When I tried to figure out how to do this, however, I found that I couldn't set the number of frames in a MovieClip object, and there didn't seem to be any way to alter them directly.
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Jul 23, 2009
I can place the movieclips randomly on the stage but I am trying to randomly populate shapes with movieclips.
Code:
ball_mc.x = Math.random() * stage.stageWidth;
I tried just replacing stage.stageWidth with box_mc.width but that didnt work. Also, I wanted to create more complicated shapes for their bounding area then just a movieclip's rectangle.
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Oct 21, 2009
I have a movieClip(contentMC) that contains numerous movieClips for my site. I have set the color matrix of contentMC to be black & white. This works fine by itself but once I start duplicating and populating movieClips inside 'contentMC' the color matrix settings are lost.
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I've even tried to populate the content and THEN turn it B/W thinking that it would be better to convert the contentMC to BW after it was done building itself. This didn't work either. So I started to comment out code until the color matrix settings would stick and this line of code is the killer but unfortunately is essential to rendering the site. contentSC.samplesMC.sample._y = contentSC.samplesMC.sample._y+621; (this line offsets a duplicated movieClip)
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Sep 16, 2011
In my main .fla file I have a movie clip onstage called "square". The movieclip is empty. Below that are five buttons (black, red, blue, green, remove) which, depending on the color button clicked, would load into the empty "square" clip either a movie called "black_square.swf", "red_square.swf", "blue_square.swf" or "green_square.swf". Only one such movie at a time is loaded into the clip. Clicking the "remove" button empties the clip. I've also got a "submit" button, which, when I click it, I'd want to submit the name of whatever .swf file happens to be loaded to a database. If nothing is loaded I want the record created to show the "square" movieclip was empty.
I've been able to make an application that has a central movie clip containing 20-something other clips. The application lets people create their own design of a particular item, choosing the colors of every component to this item (each of which is loaded into its own component-specific movie clip). One of the movie clips can be populated by a .jpg or .png file a user himself uploads. Once finished, people can print or save this design by choosing the appropriate button on this app. What I'm trying to do is find a way to also pass this design, created from multiple movie clips into a central clip, into a database as well.
The movie clips are "driven" by 21 color chip buttons each which has an instance name of a color, i.e. "black", "brown", "dark_green", etc. By a series of switch/case statements, when one clicks a "component" button (there are approximately 13-15 components) they load into the clips a movie named "(model)_(view)_(component)_(color (event.target.name)).swf". There are many "models" to choose from but within the stage only one "model" is selected at a time, so that wouldn't change here.
The design can be viewed from front, back, left or right, so that's what the "view" is - the colored components that are the same save for the view (i.e., an object which can be seen from either the front or left view) are loaded into movie clips that are either visible or invisible depending on which view one selects. Is there a way I can attach a variable name to a movie clip which is selected (bearing in mind that the application viewer can change the color of each component (and therefore the clip loaded) at will) to be read by the database? Or would the name of whatever movie clip itself that happens to be loaded be sufficient? "populating a database from contents of a movie clip".
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May 3, 2010
I am trying to programmatically queue MovieClips on the scene to play one after the other. I have tried onEnterFrame with Event.ENTER_FRAME that gotoAndStop() to next fram each time, but this does not show the MovieClip playing somewhy.Is there a way to programmatically link (in AS3) MovieClips to play one after the other? One I tried is at URL... and I have tried creating actionscript at last frame for each movieclip, but this goes directly into function I specify as an event at the time of creation (MovieClip.addFrameScript(MovieClip.totalFrames1, MyEventFunction) )
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Jan 3, 2012
I want to accomplish the same thing with code that Flash's Align - Align Bottom Edge button does within the IDE. I have a series of move clips of different heights which are all added to the stage dynamically via XML. When they are all added, I want to then align them - does flash provide a method for doing this with code? Or is the only way to do it to detect their heights and adjust them by the height difference?
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Mar 10, 2010
I have brought in an XML document into Flash (AS3), and can pull any string that I need to into the output window. That is all fine and good - but what I need to do is set var values to be used later.
Here is the simple XML:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
<setting type="buffer">5</setting>
[Code]....
This outputs what I want, but the problem is: if I try and trace newVar our assign another variable the value of newVar outside of the processXML function, it isnt there.
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May 31, 2009
how to get this to work, but I've finally gotten Loadvars working dynamically. However, now I need to take the "avatar" variable and use it to populate a list component. I keep reading dozens of different ways to do it - turn your variable into an array in Flash, etc. What is the best method?
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Feb 1, 2010
So I have a list box on stage with the instance name "lb" I'm trying to get some text from my xml list into this list box? In this case the @TITLE data.
I'm able to trace the data from the xml file into the output window, but I can't figure how to display that text in the list box.
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Feb 6, 2007
Why is this not populationg the fiedls with images? The XML is well formatted (I tested)myThumb has a Loader called myPicMC, where the pics are supposed to load. I supposed the proble is with the code in bold blue. [code]
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Nov 19, 2008
I have main-swf that loads external swf. I made a combobox where user can choose another external swf and main-swf loads that after user have made selection. Everything works fine as long as code combobox labels and datas directly to the actionscript. When I tried to populate combobox with extrernal XML-file, it didnt work.[code]So, what I would like to do is get rid of that "varlehtivalikko: Array = new Array" where combobox data and label info has been stored and load that info externaly from my XML..
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Jul 14, 2009
I am creating a RSS Feed application based on a data, and I have the following:
I have an ArrayCollection that is pre-populated with data. I am sorting through the ArrayCollection, get 1 piece of data (condition), and need to connect to an RSS feed which returns me the title, and I set my ArrayCollection in correspondence to condition -> title.
public function updateArrayList(list:ArrayCollection):ArrayCollection {
trace(list);
for(var i:int = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
//Alert.show(list.getItemAt(i).condition);
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Jul 1, 2010
I have have a problem loading and accessing data from a value object in my new project.. I load an xml file via a service, which contains title and locations of asset files, I need to be able to access the location of an asset file by specifying the title and retrieiving it from a value object.. I'm using the Robotlegs framework, here's an example of the xml:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<files id ="xmlroot">
<file title="css_shell" location = "css/shell.css" />
[code].....
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Jul 13, 2010
I'm trying to wrap my brain around getting data into my project in a way that I can use.. I want to use MySQL & PHP my Flashbuilder app and I'm not populating a datagrid so......
For simplicities sake, In my database table I have 3 columns "ID, Title & Content". I want to use this to populate the different states in my flashbuilder project.
Normally in a web page I could say in the sql statement "SELECT * FROM table WHERE ID = 1" to get the first row of info and I could put my Title and Content where I want them on my page I can change the query to "SELECT * FROM table WHERE ID = 2" to populate page 2 to get it's title and content.
In flashbuilder it all on the same page and I'm not understanding how to populate a singular text field for a title or content area with a single field from the database.
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Sep 21, 2010
my required tree structure is as follows
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where the component before / represents parent and the children of the corresponding parent are separated by , Can anyone provide me the logic to create a array collection for this hierarchy to set as dataprovider to my tree.
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Oct 31, 2010
In the below code.If buttom 'A' is pressed the text box should be populated with A, and if button 'B' is pressed it should be populated with B and so on..
s='A';
for(i=0;i<button.length;i++)
{
txtLogin.text+=s;
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Dec 22, 2010
When receiving an array from flash, in C, how do I populate that array when its size isn't constant but the values types are?
In Alchemy's documentation, the example given is:
S3_ArrayValue(arr, "IntType, StrType, DoubleType", &arg0, &arg1, &arg2);
But this means that if I my array is of size 100, I need to create a string describing each of the cells types.
Isn't there a way to populate it by saying something like "fill the following 'int * array', with the first 100 value from this AS3_Val int array?"
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Oct 7, 2011
What is the best way to populate a multiple Comboboxes when using Flex 4.5 and PHP 5?
I am developing a Flex app that displays about 20 Comboboxes on the screen - each combo showing different data. I would like all of the comboboxes to be populated at once when the app starts. I used the default "Data/Service" wizard in Flex that automatically creates the PHP that returns an ArrayCollection to Flex. For example, below is the current PHP function I use that populates each ComboBox:
public function getListsByCODE($code) {
$stmt = mysqli_prepare($this->connection, "SELECT a.IDCODE, a.CODE, a.DESCR, a.NOTES FROM DROPDOWN_VW a WHERE (a.CODE = ?)");
$this->throwExceptionOnError();
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Oct 2, 2009
I am currently trying to write a simple class that handles form validation with a backend script, how the backend script works is that you POST a variable type and it's value and an XML is returned with any errors. The problem is, I want to be able to dynamically generate the variable names so that they don't have to be hard coded into the class. Is this possible?for example:instead of
ActionScript Code:
var urlVariables:UrlVariables = new UrlVariables();
urlVariables.first_name = "foo";
[code]......
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Apr 25, 2010
I've got the following in an .as Class file called PIX, there is another .as Class file for the Sprite object 'px' that contains a dynamic textfield called pxText I'm trying to populate with the value of the variable 'j'. here's the code I got to work:
Code:
public function init():void {
pxRow = stage.stageWidth / 10;
for(var j:uint = 0; j < pxRow; j++) {
[Code].....
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Feb 28, 2011
I'd like to populate a datagrid from an array I created from an external text file. The array looks like this: 422239;24H.SE;20100507;1;1;0.00,I'd like to use the second to sixth item to populate the grid, but I have no clue how to get into a datagrid since it has the array data has no colums or names
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May 22, 2011
private var _initVector:Vector.<uint> = new Vector.<uint>(8, 4, 1, 3, 2, 6, 7, 0, 5);
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May 30, 2011
I'm trying this for creating and populating a 2D Vector of Integers:
Code:
var vector2D:Vector.<Vector.<uint>> = new Vector.<Vector.<uint>>
[
new <uint>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
new <uint>[10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]
];
And well, that's not working...For this program I'm working on I'll also need to declare and populate a 3D vector.
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Oct 25, 2011
I have a movie clip called "colors" that contains five clips (squares of different colors). I want to see only one of those colored clips at a time and I want them to be chosen at random (which i've accomplished). I would also like to make sure the same clips isn't selected again until all the other clips have been selected. On frame 1, I set up each main clip as a class:
function clipsClass(){}
clipsClass.prototype = new MovieClip;
clipsClass.prototype.onLoad = function(){
pickClips(this);
}
Object.registerClass("colors", clipsClass);
[Code]....
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Aug 23, 2009
I have a combobox and a datagrid that are both populated by an xml. The combobox works perfectly. The datagrid is loading something cause the auto scrollbar comes up and is longer or shorter depending on what category I select from the combobox. For some reason the datagrid simply isn't displaying any text. I'm sure it's something small that I'm overlooking, but I just can't find it.Here are the source files for the issue I am having.
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Jun 13, 2004
Okay so I am new to using txt files, and not too great with arrays, but I think I should have this right. But when I try to trace the array, I get undefined!I found this on another thread, and changed it accordingly.
Code:
_root.textArray = new Array();
_root.text_lv = new LoadVars();
[code]...
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Apr 13, 2003
I want to dynamically create a menu based on an XML file, which will specify the categories and sub-categories.PRoblem is, I'm not sure where to start as far as getting Flash to read the XML, create a menu item, and then move onto the next section.
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Oct 14, 2006
i seem to be having a problem with populating a text box, for example: i have 4 buttons with for differant email address in, when i click on one of those buttons i want a textbox on the next frame automatically to display the email addy in the to box of my email form. this is my code:
Code:
on (release) {
_root.form.toemail.text = "david@myemail.com";
[code]......
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Oct 8, 2009
I have a short xml file. I want to populate it using some kind of loop inside an empty 3D array when the file loads, I want it to look like this:
Code:
["LOL", "Laughing Out Loud", "0"],
["OMG", "Oh My God", "0"],
["BTW", "By The Way", "0"][code]....
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Apr 25, 2010
I've got the following in an .as Class file called PIX, there is another .as Class file for the Sprite object 'px' that contains a dynamic textfield called pxText I'm trying to populate with the value of the variable 'j'.here's the code I got to work:
Code:
public function init():void {
pxRow = stage.stageWidth / 10;
for(var j:uint = 0; j < pxRow; j++) {
px = new Pixie();
[code]....
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