ActionScript 3.0 :: Sorting Movieclips According To Y Values?
Nov 6, 2010
In the project I'm working on, there are towers the user can place. However, it you place a tower higher then another one, it appears infront of that one, which looks weird.I want to be able to arrange all the towers so that that does not happen.There is an sprite called towerHolder holding, which all the towers are children of, and an array called towerArray, which the towers get pushed to when they are created.I tried clearing towerHolder, then running the sortOn() function on the array, and then adding each tower back to the towerHolder, but the towers just seem to be randomly placing themselves irrelevent to their height.Here's my code for the relevant parts:
Actionscript Code:
function clearTowers():void { while (towerHolder.numChildren > 0) { towerHolder.removeChildAt(0); }}function orderTowers():void { clearTowers();
I'm trying an an excersise of showing random products from a feed in a flash movie. I want to make a game where boxes fall from the sky and a user can click them. I have made the game, which was a fun learning curve. However, in each box i want some text to appear when clicked -a product, it's link and it's desciprtion. I really need to know the best way of pulling an RSS feed in this way, and also how to seperate the various values and to make only one product appear in each box.
I've got five movie clips (called horse1 through horse5) and I want to sort them to find out which has the highest x value. I thought putting them into an array and sorting that would be the best idea but I can't seem to get even the array to work.
This is the code I have so far;
for (n=1; n<6; n++) { var hr = "horse"+[n]; myArray=[["horse"+[n], _level0.hr._x]];
I've got five movie clips (called horse1 through horse5) and I want to sort them to find out which has the highest x value. I thought putting them into an array and sorting that would be the best idea but I can't seem to get even the array to work.
I have been working on sorting Arraycollection like ascending , descending the numeric list. Total length of my collection will go up to 100. Now I want to preform sort to nested data like this
Data Structure
Name : String Categories : Array ["A","x or y or z","C"]
Categories array will have maximum 3 items , out of that three items the second item can have 3 different values either X or Y or Z. My result data looks like here
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this problem. I have 2 unsorted arrays that need to be compared, array2 must contain all elements of array1 and array2 can any number of extra elements without affecting the result. I don't see any benefits from sorting the arrays and comparing the string values as array2 can have extra information causing noise.
I have a question on coustom sort..I have a datagrid for which one coloum has a itemrenderer. I need to sort a coloum based on the value in the item renderer. In the dataprovider for the datagrid i have a numeric value. Based on the numeric value in dataprovider i have a String associated with that value which is shown in UI. I need to sort based on the statusLabel associated with the numeric value.
I have 6 movie clip objects and I want to assign them all a value for when the user clicks on them. This value is to be hidden from the user but I will later use it with an additional software to capture the value. I assume this will be done by using a dynamic text field for when the movie clip is pressed.
point in the right direction if there's been a post previously on this, I did a search but didn't find anything. So my problem is that I'm creating objects dynamically and adding them to a movieclip container. I.e. click button -> generate new instance of Item class -> container.addChild(item).
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What on earth am I missing?! I've googled and found working examples of that, but it just does not do the trick for me. I'm compiling the project as an Adobe AIR file, but as far as I'm concerned, it should not intervene with the x and y values of the movie clips. I also tried getting the values by methods in the Item class, but with no luck.
I have an MC on stage containing user interface elements.Within that MC, I have another MC with an onRelease event that calls to a function.The function it's calling sets/toggles a variable.
The problem is this: It's setting the variable in a scope that's available for the function and the MC within the user interface container, but I also need to make it available to _level0 (to be written to a file via an existing CGI script we have). I've tried setting this from within the function, having a loop that copies all the values from that scope to _level0, but I haven't gotten it to work.
The existing software I'm creating this for is convoluted, and we're stuck with it, so the goal is really just getting those variables into _level0, and not something that might be cleaner or make more sense.
I am creating a card game application in that dynamic movieclips created on stage and inside those movieclips different cards can drop, which have some values.
If one movieclip contains one card and another movieclip contained two cards and all the other movieclips 3rd,4th,5th.. etc contains some cards then, if i want to go back and want to drop another card at the top of the old one, than how i can do this, because when i go back and drop a new card inside movieclip than it replaces the old one. i don't want to create a new array for each movieclip.
I've gotten these sliders to work but can't get the output values to add up. For instance, depending on the values for slider 1, 2 and 3, I need the total to show up in a separate text box. I keep getting a NaN message in the text box.Here's the code I have so far:
I have been deveolping my new site, which is in it's early stages and have most things working ok but i need to open new windows from buttons in the main swf file. please check out my link to see for yourself! new windows load in the same window ad the main swf. [URL] I have been using this code on the thumbs on my design and illustration sections
on (release) { getURL("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('url.html ','newWin','width=1133,height=425,left=425,top=113 3,screenX=1133,screenY=425');NewWindow.focus();voi d(0);"); } each of the thumb windows being a different specified size.
Is there any way in Flex where in we can sort an arraycollection based on strings .I have a dataprovider with strings like "Critical" "High" "Medium" "Low" where in I need to sort it in such a way that I need Critical to be displayed on the top and next High , Medium and Low follows.
I have an advancedDataGrid and I would like to sort the adg according one AdvancedDataGridColumn(studyDate) which use strings in format DD/MM /YYYY(I receive like this from the server):But i find another problem, I need to sort the columns of the adg the first time it displays so I used the following function but It doesn't sort from the recent day to old one, I do not know what I can I do cause I set sort.descending= true, any ideas?[code]
I have a one comboBox that I fill as: for (var key:String in values) { conns.addItem(key); }
After that I sorted my ComboBox as: private function sortConnection():void { var dataSortField:SortField = new SortField(); dataSortField.name = "data"; dataSortField.numeric = true; var numericDataSort:Sort = new Sort(); numericDataSort.fields = [dataSortField]; conns.sort = numericDataSort; conns.refresh(); }
And on finish I want to select item on my specific value in ComboBox. How can I do that? I try: for (var ii:Number=0; ii<combo.rowCount; ii++) { var item:String = combo.getChildAt(ii); if (item == name) { index = ii; }} But does not work. I do not know where I made mistake, and how I can select on specific item in my combobox.
i just started with isometrics. i got the 3d to 2d coordinates working but i cant seem to get the z sorting to work. please check the fla if you have knowledge in the subject.
Trying to re-sort an array of objects from: var arr:Array = new Array({num:0},{num:1},{num:2},{num:3}) to var arr:Array = ({num:0},{num:3},{num:1},{num:2})
I'm trying to bring XML nodes into an array so I can sort them in alphabetical order, then display the data in some textfields in a movieclip.I've managed to get the XML displaying fine in the movieclips and all the data in the arrays, but the problem is I'm not sure where to use name.sort();. Right now you can see I have it at the start of the loop that places all the data in, but it will only sort as it populates and hence becomes pointless.Is there a way to add all the data into an array, sort it, THEN display all the data in my movieClips?My XML looks like this:
Rows B, D and E do not sort correctly, basically because I am assuming they have numbers with unmatching or too many places. I can not find any help online with this. The columns with percentages work fine unless they go over 99%. ?[code]...
have a twodimensional array that consists of 6 other arrays(like array[0 to 5][0 to 4]). The [4] of each sub-array is a indexnumber that i'd like to use for sorting the array[0][x] toarray[5][x] according to their array[x][4]-value. How would I do
would anyone beable to help with sorting out an XML file, what I have is a tooltip that loads in via XML and exported from flash. the XML loads in 2 text fields, field and field2. what I am trying to do is add a button also to the tooltip so that you can click and go to a url. this is what I have in my XML file;
