ActionScript 3.0 :: Set _bounds So That Rectangle Drags Correctly?
Mar 15, 2011
I have a movieclip that's longer than the width of the stage. I've put a mask over the stage so that whatever's outside the stage won't be seen. I want the user to be able to drag the movie clip left and right to get to the buttons. However, right now if I have the movieclip where it's left edge is at the left edge of the stage, it will drag off and you can see all this empty stage. If I move the movieclip in the center and try it, you can only see the part of the movieclip that the mask allows, therefore making the dragging useless because it doesn't reveal the rest of the movieclip.
Should I take off the mask and is there some way to set the _bounds so that way I can place the movieclip in, and if can be dragged left and right without it revealing empty stage? Here's what I have:
import flash.geom.Rectangle; var rx:Number = 0; var ry:Number = 0; var rwidth:Number = 550; var rheight:Number = 400; var _bounds:Rectangle = new Rectangle(rx, ry, rwidth, rheight);
I am building a sliding image movie. It takes two photos and compares them by using "startDrag" to slide a "setMask" MC horizontally to reveal one photo under another. The idea here is to compare two photos taken 50 years apart.
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As you can see I have two MCs here one is a mask and the other is a handle of sort. They work fine separately but I would like to have the two function in unison or as one MC. The handle MC is just that a handle that appears on the left edge of the masked image. So when user drags the handle the masked image moves as well. (or vice versa)
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So I tried adding the TextFieldExtended instance to a Sprite instance using addchild.A problem occurs here that I do not know how to handle. It seems that a Rectangle is drawn and the Text is drawn on that. I say this because the scrollbar moves the Rectangle up and down a bit, but the text doesn't scroll, just the Rectangle it is positioned in and the text then moves along with it.My question: can this be fixed, or is does this implementation of scrollbars need a lot of adaptations before this is possible?
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public function HopperMouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void { event.target.startDrag(true); //start dragging tile[code].....
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I know how to create rectangles with:
Code: var newHotRect:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); newHotRect.graphics.beginFill(0x00FF00); newHotRect.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 100); addChild(newHotRect);
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- Notice the rectangle around the text boxes ('anti-alias for readability' applied, it doesn't matters is it static or dynamic text)
- Notice the rectangle around the middle dark-gray box with glowing effect applied
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The kicker: When i run it on the display, there's a lot of extra vertical space at the bottom. When i change the resolution to 1280x1024, it fills the screen vertically properly, but then shortens it horizontally.
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Draw the rounded rectangle:
roundRect = new Sprite();roundRect.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);roundRect.graphics.drawRoundRect(0,0,50,15,4,4); //Original Height: 15roundRect.graphics.endFill();addChild(roundRect);
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