Actionscript 2.0 :: Assigning Functions To Multiple Buttons?
Aug 24, 2009
I have been trying to figure out this by myself for a while and needless to say, I have been completely unsuccessful. I have various a loop that creates multiple movie clips called: movie1, movie2, movie3, movie4... (you get the idea...) i want to assign roll over,roll out, press functions to all of theme.g. when you press on one movie, it highlights it.but I am trying to find a summarized way over writing each one out:
movie1.onRollOver=function(){
something happens
}
someonne once told me to use chartAt to do this, to reference different mcs, but I cant figure out how to do it.
If you had a set of buttons called: bt1, bt2, bt3 etc all the way to "bt11" and you wanted to assign the same eventlistener to all of them how would you go about this? ie:
I am building a Flash site with a boombox animation. I have the below code I am using. I am using just two frames. First frame, is where I put the code in the actions layer, boombox is still. In the second frame, I placed my movie clips on layers (woofers vibrating & tape deck spins). No code in second frame. So, if you hit the play, previous or forward button a song goes on and the animation start. If you press the pause button, animations stop with music. I have created 2 functions per button.
2 questions: 1 - Is this the best way to do it? If I press the buttons quickly, sometimes a song gets stuck and I can't stop, forward, etc. I was wondering if this was the code?
2 - I am tweening in my pages using AS3 - not timeline. I have a music and video page (each a movieclip). Is there a way that once I tween in the new movie clip (non-music of vid page) that the music or video can shut off?
I'm using the below code to have a button that adds a MC to the stage. The problem is that I have over a dozen of these buttons and I'd rather not have to write out the event listener and function for every single button. Is there a way to use a single function for all the buttons and just change what MC is added based on which button is clicked? So if the user clicks on the draw5 button the function adds the deck5 MC to the stage?[code]
I'm trying to get the arrow keys on the keyboard to control timeline navigation. The AS3 code i'm using works the first time, but then goes a bit crazy and stops working for some reason. Please see my attached fla. In the example you're supposed to be able to navigate along the timeline using the arrow keys (going back and forth) I'm sure there's a really easy solution to this problem but I'm new to AS3 and can't figure it out.
I am working on a page where three differnt buttons effect one movie clips properties, the one movie clip will go to its rollover state when any of the buttons are on rollover, hmm, that sounds about right] i have assigned functions within a loop and the rollovers, rollouts and instance in the loop have been defined for all but the movieClips dont go to the right place. the code i have used is this....
I have a few rows of movie clips making a menu. Because I will be adding to the number of MC's I use a variable called "menuitems" and run a FOR loops to assign all of these MC's onrollOver, onrollOut and onRelease functions. I'm doing this to save having to assign these functions to them individualy (as they are the same functions). Its works fine, but when the MC is released it is told to jump to frame 2, where there will be nested mc's that need to be able to clicked and rolled over. Because the parent movie has event functions assigned to it they seem to overide them. Is there a way around this? I tried placing a transparent MC on the 1st frame of the movie and trying to assign the onRelease function to the "hotspot" but it doesnt work. Here is my code:
Code: function buildthumbs () { for (i=1; i<= menuitems; i++) {[code]...........
I am working on a page where three differnt buttons effect one movie clips properties, the one movie clip will go to its rollover state when any of the buttons are on rollover,i have assigned functions within a loop and the rollovers, rollouts and instance in the loop have been defined for all but the movieClips dont go to the right place....the code i have used is this....
Code: for (var i:Number = 1; i < 4; i++) { // attaching ALL rollovers to effect the interactive button this["invis"+i+"_btn"].onRollOver = this["chart"+i+"_btn"].onRollOver = this["inter"+i+"_mc"].onRollOver = function() {
[code].....
all the traces show up correct but not the gotoAndStop on the movieClip (inter+i+_mc_)'s.
I have a array of MC that are placed on the stage to make up a logo what i would like is to fade through the clips. I thought i could creat an array and atach a fade function to it but it dosn't seem to work.
is that possible? i'm a complete beginner when it comes to flash and actionscript... so if it sounds like i dont know what i'm talking about... it's because i don't!let me describe my situation...I have about 20 boxes... and on each box i want to assign the onPress to trace the value corresponding to an Array at element "i" in the console...instead of doing:
Code: box1.onPress = function() { trace("the value is: "+hypotheticalArray[1]);
I am in the process of writing a scrolling image viewer that dynamically updates from an xml file. I have written the scroll function (with a lot of help from Kirupa and other sources), and the pictures are updating beautifully, but when it comes to adding the function for the buttons I am encountering an unusual error.
Using the following code:
Code: initButtons=function(){ for (var i in btnArray) { var btn:MovieClip = btnArray[i];
[code]....
from this site results in the doClick function being called for each of the buttons in the btn array at runtime, and then not working afterwards.
I tried the drag and drop demo at [URL]. It works well allowing me to drag an item and have it register when it is dropped on the correct target. I want to modify it so that I can drag an item to multiple locations... not just one. My desired application is the ability to drag pendents or charms onto a bracelet or chain and have them "snap" to the chain. With the above demo, I can see how 90% of it would work, but I cannot figure out how to have multiple targets named the same. The bulk of the code is attached.
The line I believe needs to changed is this one: if (event.target.dropTarget != null && event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget){ I need this part :event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget to read something to the affect of: if item being dropped is over object A OR object B OR object C OR object D than ... rest of my code
If you had a set of buttons called: bt1, bt2, bt3 etc all the way to "bt11" and you wanted to assign the same eventlistener to all of them how would you go about this? ie:
I have 4 mc on my stage which i want to tween to a specific size (400x400) on MOUSE_OVER. I would like to assign each mc the same function to achieve this. I have half achieved this with the code below, however when I MOUSE_OVER one of the mc, the stage also resizes. I would like to avoid using XML if possible.
This is my code. Select allmc1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, thumbOver); mc1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, thumbOut); mc2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, thumbOver); mc2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, thumbOut); mc3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, thumbOver); mc3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, thumbOut); [Code] .....
Is there a simple shorthand for assigning the same value to multiple movieclips? For example, I have 25 MCs with names "img1", "img2" etc. and I want their _alpha value to be zero.
Is there a for loop or something I can use so I don't have to type "img1._alpha = 0;" "img2._alpha = 0; etc.
I have a fla/swf file, with 6 buttons on it all with their own hover effects and such, however they're all on the same layer. So assigning a link to each one through actionscript is confusing as I've only done it if they were on different layers.
I'm trying to assign Event Listeners to buttons in an array and increment the function referenced in those listeners by 1 so the functions have unique names, is this possible?
ActionScript Code: //ROLLOVERS FOR MENU var btnsAry:Array = [hs1_mc, hs2_mc, hs3_mc, hs4_mc, hs5_mc, hs6_mc]; function setButtons():void { for (var i:int=0; i<btnsAry.length; i++){ btnsAry[i].id = i; [Code] .....
I am trying to assign events to a bunch of buttons at once. To test out to see if my theory works i tried this code with 3 buttons on the stage named test1, test2, ect.
I have is a movie with a button in it called button.i've duplicated the movie (manually) several times on the stage.the movies have been given instance names of movie1, movie2 etc.i've then used actionscript to assign actions to the buttons.i have the following code:
I have some basic knowledge in PHP and am learning XML, and basically have decided to prepare my site for the future by switching to strict XHTML / php (plus it needs to be updated anyway). It is a hybrid site with HTML and Flash elements, and each HTML (soon to be .php) page has a single .swf as the nav bar. Is there a way to externally assign hyperlinks to the nav buttons within this .swf? I've done basic external assigns (with .txt files into dynamic text boxes), but this seems a bit trickier. Basically, I want to be able to update the .swf without opening flash, changing the links, and then publishing a new .swf.
i'm pulling my hair out over this one. I have is a movie with a button in it called button. i've duplicated the movie (manually) several times on the stage. the movies have been given instance names of movie1, movie2 etc. i've then used actionscript to assign actions to the buttons. i have the following code:
I am trying to assign events to a bunch of buttons at once. To test out to see if my theory works i tried this code with 3 buttons on the stage named test1, test2, ect.
Code: var e=0 while(e!=4){ _level0["test"+e].onRelease = function() {
[code]....
they each trace something, but its the same thing?! tester4<<<
im new to flash actionscript and i am trying to create a very simple game. in this game i have about 50 walls that i want to stop the player if they collide with it. i cant figure out how to assign the same code to multiple instants and im still fuzzy on alot of the terms flash programmers use but im learning.on an unrelated note i am also having the player push the ball and when i add a collision.block to the ball when it hits the wall it goes right through it because of the ball repositioning itself based on the players location.
I am following along this tutorial: [URL]. And I get to the part where I need to add code to get my buttons to work, and I copy and paste the code and then change the frame labels to match mine, but then I get a syntax error: "About_Project_mc, Layer 'hit area', Frame 1, Line 1 1086: Syntax error: expecting semicolon before leftbrace."
I want to get my movieclip "dial_graphcis_mph" to start at X position 0, move to X position -292.35,move back to X position -220, and then yoyo between -230 and -220.Is it possible to do this without using the TweenTimeline class or similar?I want to keep all the code on the stage with the movieclip if possible...The following code only yoyos between 0 and -292.35.
stop(); import fl.transitions.Tween;import fl.transitions.easing.*;import fl.transitions.TweenEvent; var tweenMPH = new Tween(dial_graphics_mph, "x", Strong.easeInOut, 0, -292.35, 6, true);
