ActionScript 3.0 :: Xml :: IgnoreLeft() Doesn't Exist?
Apr 27, 2010
My aim is to construct a search tool, but I need it to ignore "The" from company names, and from the search, just in case the user searched the company name with The and its not on the xml, and vice versa... you know how it is...Anyway, i basically need something like "ignoreLeft(4)"... 4 being T H E and a space... but ignoreLeft() doesn't exist...
ActionScript Code:
//If the user searches with "the"
if (Search.text.Left(4).toLowerCase() == "the"){[code]...........
The trouble is the XML file isnt ammedable so I have to make changes during the search, otherwise I could just remove "the" from the xml file...I know this is fictitious code, but this is how I would imagine it to sound?
i have a script that load pics (named as "1.jpg" "2.jpg" "3.jpg" ...) in a movieclip.to load pic i use a variable +[i]+.jpg and so with i++ i load others pics..but i need a way to restart "i" if there aren't no more pictures..
Im attempting to create a class which cleans all the mess it's done by itself. If i make some instances of this class in an external class, i want the base class remove itself, or in other words, if i linkage this class to any movieclip, i want to remove this movieclip not in the file I created it in, but rather would like it to automatically remove itself if i want it to. I don't know if it's even possible. A simple removeChild(this) isnt working.
I have made it this far with much help and all was working well until the xml changed. Sometimes the c_Result node does not exist and my c_points text box returns 'undefined'. I have tried if(c_points != undefined){ etc which works to a degree but I don't know how to make the text box blank if the node doesn't exist and load the c_Result node if it does.
import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration; _global.styles.TextArea = new CSSStyleDeclaration(); _global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor" , "transparent");[code].......
if I put in the contentPath of a FLVPlayback component a file that doesn't exist, how can I catch an error event? (All files are loaded locally, without a FMS) I tried to dodge the problem using other events, but if the file doesn't exist, pretty much none of the events will work.
I'm doing a project using ActionScript 2 where I'm loading in text from an XML file to dynamic text boxes. I'm loading everything in on the first frame, but there are boxes that do not exist in the timeline until frame 5 or so. Is there anyway I can access those to set their text property from the first frame
I am working through an audio player demonstration in the book "Foundation Actionscript 3.0". When I try to publish my AudioDemo_final.FLA file I get the following error, "Adobe Flash CS3 - Error creating flash movie file. Destination directory does not exist. Change your publish settings."The following is displayed in my output panel >> Error opening URL 'file:///C|/Sites/flashcoder.net/FAS3/Audio/AudioDemo%5Ffinal.swf'My file directory is set up like this:AudioDemo_final.flasong1.mp3com.fas3.smc (folder)Main.asSounds.as
I would like to know what my visitors will see when they visit my site without flash installed. Obviously I could uninstall flash to find this out, but I was just wondering whether there's some gimmicky add-on out there that can simulate 'no Flash'. Would be handy...
A while back i wrote a function that ran through various frames of my main time line, and looked to see if there was a movieclip on the stage at that frame with the instance name of "printMe" i wrote it in AS 2.0 and it worked fine just by saying
ActionScript Code: if(printMe!=undefined){ // do this // }
in as 3.0 how ever it does not seem to work.. if i put three different movie clips at three different frames with the instance name "printMe" and run a trace(printMe) on any of those frames,
I have xml values already and I am trying to add a xml value to it myxml.value[i].@myset = "02"but when I try to add it with the code below it won't work properly and I was trying to figure out if the code is right for checking and adding xml if the xml does not exist.[code]
after some time debugging I found you that a script on a clip in my project is executed even then when it is not on stage. I just jump to a fame later in the timeline where the clip does not exist. But the load and unload event is executed.
I'm wondering if there is an encoding like UTF8/16 that can account for characters that are bold, italic, underlined, and super/sub-scripted? If not, is it under consideration by the powers that be? Reason for the question is that I have a large excel file where many cells contain rtf text such as italics, bold, superscript; and I need to access the information on a row-by-row basis. I know I can save the file in html or xml, but I would like to import the data into MySQL - keeping the formatting - and then being able to access the data a row at a time.
I've considered using Markdown or Textile, but that means a whole lot of time changing each cell - we're talking about 5,000 records. Also, I want to continue to use Flex and I'm not sure if Flex can display html formatted text in their text controls because of their their text engine...
I think I broke my Flash. I'm using Flash CS5.5, and when I use AS3, any references to the Math class give me errors like this:1061: Call to a possibly undefined method sqrt through a reference with static type Class.1061: Call to a possibly undefined method pow through a reference with static type Class.1061: Call to a possibly undefined method pow through a reference with static type Class.The code in error is this:var dist:Number = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(initPos.x - pos.x, 2) + Math.pow(initPos.y - pos.y, 2));What the heck is going on here? Math is a top-level class, so I don't think I should be getting an error like this. Is it possible to somehow "break" the Math class? If so, how do I fix it?
I have a whole bunch of objects that are linked to the collisionDetect class but when I move from frame 1 where they are on the stage to frame 2 the class starts freaking out wondering where its objects went.
I was wondering if there a way to check if a variable(x) exist.. Let me try to explain a bit more: Let's pretend i load 5 variables from a text file named myvariable1 , myvariable2, ... , myvariable5 How can i check if "myvariable(x)" = true where x = 1 or 2 or 3 ... as they were incremented..?
I've seen a lot of places talking about the technique, and citing codes like:
factorial = function(n) { factorial(n-1); }
I don't understand the concept of calling a function within itself. What precisely does this accomplish, and how is it legal? Shouldn't the function definition fail because while its being defined its calling a function that does not yet exist.
Im building a preloader queue thingy and i have one big problem.
firstly - the goal of this class is the possibility to add movie clips to the queue that arent yet loaded in by their parent movie clips (which are also in the queue). this is a very important function of this object, and one of the main reasons im coding it.
so - when i pass a reference to a MovieClip Object to my addToQueue function, if the movie clip exists, all is well and good. But if the movie clip happens to be a child of another movie clip that is in the queue, it doesnt exist yet - so the reference returns "undefined" as expected.but very soon into the queue processing function, the child movie clip will come into existance, but unfortunately that doesnt matter cause initially the movie clip wasnt there, so the pointer variable still is set to undefined....
how do i store a pointer to a movie clip that doesnt exist YET but i know will exist? i want to be able to pass a reference to any movie clip in any scope, possibly as a child of many parent movie clips that may or may not exist...is there a sure way to set up a variable to reference a movieclip so i can use it, for example, in loadClip() functions, when the movieclip does actually appear? even if it doesnt exist yet?
For example if I had an input field and i could not allow the characters like <space> and ony <underscore "_"> how would I do this??
I am guessing you would have to somehow check through ecach character to see if it was a " " with an if else statement.. but that would take forever.. so.. =S
In my application I have a class Map, which is an as file that extends MovieClip. Map is used by the document class Core. I have multiple .fla files whose document classes all extend Map, and in each .fla, in the library, there's clip map_1, map_2, map_3, etc. Now I load one of these maps into Core.
Map has a method addFirst(): public function addFirst(){ stg.addChild(new map_1()) }
but this generates the error "Variable Map_1 is not defined" when I use it in Core, I guess it's because in Map itself map_1 is not defined, but it is in every children.
I was wondering if there a way to check if a variable(x) exist. Let me try to explain a bit more: Let's pretend I load 5 variables from a text file named myvariable1 , myvariable2, ... , myvariable5 How can I check if "myvariable(x)" = true where x = 1 or 2 or 3 ... as they were incremented..?
Does anyone know how to accomplish this in AS 2.0? I'm using Flash CS3 and it appears that the Actions Parameters don't even exist anymore. [URL] Ultimately I'm trying to make an ecard, passing text from a form SWF via PHP to the final card (A SWF embedded in the PHP document).
