I am trying to return an int value from actionscript inside a symbol.
function flytt():void{
var flyttInMb:int=Math.random() * 8;
if(flyttInMb==0){
[code]....
This is the code I have tried for returning the flyttInMb to the actionscript that is the game, instead of inside one of the symbols, and what I get is this: Return value must be undefined.
I have a project in Flash Professional CS5 and ActionScript 3.
I have a movieclip symbol (referred herein as "background" with scripts on various keyframes inside of that symbol. I need to hide or show another symbol (referred herein as "object") sharing a stage with "background".
To put it another way, I need "object" to be hidden when "background" reaches a certain internal keyframe. However, as "object" and "background" are both children of the same stage, how do I do this?
I animated eyes blinking inside of a movie clip symbol and placed the symbol on a face outside of the symbol.The eyes are stuck on the first frame. I am using CS5. What do I do?
View 5 RepliesI have one function "Login" and function "_urlSended" inside of function "Login". So i want that sub function returned value as a parent function. I just want that script to work
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function onButton1click():void {
Label1.text = Login('irakli', 'password1');
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I got canvas objects stored in an array. Every canvas has it's name property.Is there a way to return a specific name?Actually I need an index number from that array, where I pass a name property of object inside this array (name is taken from event). Something like this:x = array.indexOf (canvasName=event.currentTarget.name)
View 2 RepliesI am trying to find the index from an array using a loop function, but I am getting an error:
private function findMatch(matchValue:int):int {
for (var i:int = 0; i < playersList.length; i++) {
if (playersList[i].value + matchValue == levelTarget) {
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Is it possible to add a Symbol inside another Symbol? [code]...
View 1 RepliesI need to set the X axis 0 to the left of the stage, and I dont know how to do it.
View 3 RepliesI have one swf (swf A) which loads swf B inside itself.
is it possible from swf B (when it loads) to get to the library symbol inside swf A?
So, in my base flash file I have movieclips playing inside of a container.
They are cued from external .swf files.
When one is pushed another checks to see if that movie is at its "midframe" and then plays the remainder of that movie before playing the movie that was pushed.
ALL OF THIS, works fine. The problems is that I have a button inside of these movieclips that I need to play the remainder of the movie to then return to the main menu.
This is the code on the buttons which cycle through the movieclips:
on (release) {
if (_root.currMovie == undefined) {
_root.currMovie = "illustration";
container.loadMovie(illustration);
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If I wanted the movie to only return to to the main menu I could use this code, but it's flawed for two reasons:
on(release){
_root.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
a. This doesn't play the rest of the movie before returning to the main menu.
b. Once it returns you to the main menu, none of the other movies will play again.
I've created an animated scene in Flash, with a bar chart.The bar is a MovieClip symbol containing a large rectangle and a TextField.I'd like to access the TextField using actionscript, but I can't seem to reference it.
Each bar in the scene has its own instance name, so that's easy to find.
But how do I modify the text in the textfield within the symbols?
How do you change the home location inside a symbol?The little crosshair that denotes the 0,0 x,y inside a symbol? Yea I know its a noob question, i've tried searching!
View 1 RepliesI have a symbol which I want to contain several loops, but when I play it, it simply stands still. Example:[code]As I understand it, if I start the movie clip at frame 1, it should loop frames 1 and 2, and if I start it at frame 3, it should loop frames 3 and 4. Why won't it work ?
View 1 RepliesI have made a dropdown menu on the main timeline as a symbol. I need to create listeners to the buttons on the dropdown menu to make the main timeline go to a specific frame.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to make a login function that receives the username and password as arguments, does all the proper URLRequest and URLLoader stuff inside it, and retrieves some values from the database. Then, it puts those values inside an object (a little associative array really) and returns them. I've put 'trace' sentences all over the function, and it seems to be working without a problem and is retrieving the right values from the database. However, when I try to assign the returned value with something like:
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I currently have my own class, for arguments sake, lets say it's called User and is for logging into my own system.
I would like to call a function from the user class called, say, login(), which would send the username and password attributes to a service (in my case, PHP), and then get the data back with the response (either successful or unsuccessful).
This would ideally make my code behave like this:
Code:
var user1:User = new User("Jim", "password");
var loggedIn:Boolean = user1.login();
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I don't know of a way of getting the login function to return a boolean based on the result of the HTTPservice it sends, so does anyone know of a better way of doing this?
I am new to SWCs in Flash (I have CS5.5). I would ike to know if there is any documentation out there that shows how to create a SWC from an existing FLA and then access a symbol inside that SWC via its class name linkage via Action Script 3 from a different FLA.
View 2 RepliesI bought Flash recently and I'm getting started on making a game, a platform shooter game, thing. What I have, is a button on the main stage that I want to activate a function in an instance. But that instance is inside a symbol. So it's Stage->Character->Gun. But if I put down:
Shoot.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Fire);
//Shoot is the button on the stage
function Fire(evt:MouseEvent):void{
Derp(); //This being the function I want to be activated
}
This is the code in the Gun instance:
function Derp():void{
//epic code goes here
}
It will give me an error saying "1180: Call to a possibly undefined method Derp." So basically it's telling me it can't get to this code because it's not on the same stage. How can I get an instance to be recognized by all code in my project, regardless of we're it is in the project? I want to keep all my symbols where they are, so external ActionScript file won't be good if I have to recreate the object on the stage.
I have a button inside a movie clip symbol.
I have scripted it to go to the next scene but all it does is replay the movie clip.
Basically I have an movie clips which contains various other movie clips. These other clips are named clip1_mc etc.This big movie clip is dropped onto a frame in the main timeline so it plays when the program loads. I have my main actions on the timeline and I want to access the movie clip instance names inside the big clip. Is there a call to maybe get the children or contents of a clips using an event listener?
View 2 Repliesare you allowed to put Insert Symbols inside of movie clips? because mine don't seem to work...
View 2 RepliesI created a movieclip symbol and exported to actionscript, I created the .as file:
class BRIQUE extends MovieClip
{
function BRIQUE()
{
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"graphics" is an image imported on the stage inside my symbol, but it seems not to be accessible this way (I get an error), nevertheless it works this way in as3 then what is the right way in as2 ?
How can I define Movie Clip inside symbol from the library?e.g. if i have symbol of enemy and i want that enemy follow movie clip has instance name HERO_MC.and i have hundreds of enemies want to kill the HERO_MC after chasing and i don't want to write the code in main time line frame and add loops so i want to writing the code inside the symbol of enemy in library but the problem is i don't know how to define Movie Clip "HERO_MC" inside symbol of enemy!
View 3 RepliesI have two flash files (say screenOne.fla and gameA.fla). After importing the main symbol of screenOne.fla into gameA.fla as a movieclip symbol (call it screenOneSymb), the simple buttons in the instance of screenOneSymb do not work. By "do not work" I mean they have no rollover, not mouse action, nothing. If I go into the edit "screenOneSymb" in gameA.fla and turn on "Control->enable simplebuttons" the buttons will work while in edit "screenOneSymb" but not on the main flash stage. I've worked around it, but this is driving me crazy. How do I import multi-layered movieclip symbols (with buttons and animations, etc, etc) and get them to work out of the box?
View 4 RepliesI would like play head of a movie clip to return to a certain frame of that clip so a MC inside it would loop. I now have: stop(); as the action.
View 2 Repliesi'm loading some data from an xml-file and dynamically create movieclips with textfields inside of them, but I'm kinda stuck. I'm not up to the point where I completely understand how you can refer to a nested object using this syntax: _root[movieClipName]. If you want to nest something inside of that movieclip, you have to work like this:
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I'm looking for a way to have my main timeline code interact with code inside of a symbol.I'm tying to get my timeline inside the symbol to gotoAndPlay(10) when something happens in my main timeline code.
View 3 Replieswhat i want to do is, when certain button is clicked, replace a certain symbol(button) by another symbol(movieclip) stored in the library. i try things like loadmovie("","") to replace the symbol from a external jpg, but some how it does not align even both images are exact dimension. can i replace an image straight from the library?
View 1 RepliesHow do i get the hitTest() function to test if a certain symbol is hitting another symbol, but, only if drawn parts of the symbol are touching, not thier outer bounds.
View 2 RepliesBasically there's an object in a movieclip. I want to find the location of that object in relation to the movieclip, not of the object's symbol. So when i look at the x and y of it, it wont show 0, it will show the x and y location in the movieclip it's in.
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