ActionScript 3.0 :: Swc Giving Generic Parameter Names?
May 18, 2011
I've been creating .swc files lately but I keep having one nagging little issue. When I call methods from a .swc I created my code hinting shows my parameters with generic names instead of their actual names.For example here would be the source code of a function:
ActionScript Code:
public function traceMessage(message:String){
trace(message);
}
Once I export the .swc and use it my code hinting shows this instead:
ActionScript Code:
traceMessage(param0:String)
Notice how my parameter says param0 and not message.I'm exporting with CS5 setting the export .swc checkbox on the publish settings.
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Dec 13, 2009
Ive been using adobe flash cs4 for a while now and have had little trouble giving things instance names. Now though, whenever I double click on something like i normally do to give it an instance name, the blue box no longer comes around it, I click on properties, and change the instance name. I now get a dashed line along the lines of the picture. And when I go to properties, it just says shape, and I cant edit the instance name. Just position and size, then the fill and stroke. What is going on?
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Jul 31, 2009
I have this movieclip that i made in flash. How would I go about duplicating it and giving its parts instance names using AS3?
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Dec 12, 2011
I have a folder full of SWF files. Each SWF is its own animation. I have several people submitting their animations for this project. I would like to embed all these SWF's into my project and use .play() .stop() and other movieclip related commands on them as a whole. By this I mean, the artist sends me the SWF, my AS3 script embeds it, then I can access it with say animation_1.stop(); without the artist ever having to enter a instance name, or export for ActionScript name.
I plan to create a shell script which will take all the swf's in a folder and create a AS3 file with all the embed statements. The instance name that will be given to each one by the shell script will be the file name. Is this possible to embed a SWF and access it without giving any movie clips instance names or exporting for Actionscript? UPDATE: @annonymously answer below helped a lot. Here are some other resources that helped me: Great Resource - [URL]
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Mar 8, 2012
I'm trying to find out if a Flash application can create a POST request, where some of the names of the posted items include the "." character?
The background: I'm working with someone who is writing a Flash application that has to POST data to the server. I'm working on the web application which receives and saves the data. As such, I know little about the inner workings of Flash myself.
To allow automated data-binding at the server (within Microsoft MVC), I want the names of the POST items to use a particular naming convention. So if I want to receive the results of two tests, I would like the POST items to use the names:
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Dec 14, 2010
Can we skip an optional parameter and assign value to the parameter after the skipped one?
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I can easily call the function with a message and a title:
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Aug 26, 2010
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Mar 20, 2011
I started a thread about a reference to a symbol House, in the output window, which was: House_1. A lot of people said some useful things about that. All day I've been thinking about it, and I came to the conclusion that I don't understand things, at a very basic level.
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Dec 8, 2009
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Nov 5, 2010
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Aug 28, 2009
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Jul 30, 2008
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ActionScript Code:
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Apr 16, 2009
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May 14, 2004
Alright so... I really don't know the best way to approach this. I had a LOT of code that I thought could be generalized into a function. I don't know how to explian it... here is the code:i attached it...I know it's a lot of code... I just... I don't know what to do with it anymore! When it was in a bunch of small functions, it worked (sort of) just seemed reallly messy and annoyed me.Oh btw its causing the hero to jsut go to 0,0 and then a hit symbol appears there, and then nothing happens, the hit doesnt even dissappear.
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My requirement/need is the AS3 code for placing any type of Component(viz., Button, CheckBox, ComboBox, ListBox, radiobutton, Slider, Scrollbar,Label,TextField, etc.,) on the stage with desired width,height, X and Y parameters(values) which we mention in "Properties" tab of Properties Window in flash. Hence, What i need is, (say)a generic ActionScript 3.0 method/function, which places any of the components present in "Components Panel" onto the stage. the function prototype or signature may be like this:
function addComponent(int <width>, int <height>, int <XPos>, int <YPos>)
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