Actionscript 3.0 :: Dynamically Add MovieClips To A Parent Clip?
Aug 12, 2009
I want to dynamically add MovieClips to a parent clip and display the most recently added at the to with the rest moving down as each new clip is added. So far I have it working but I get a gap right after the top-most clip.At the moment I'm just adding instances of one clip with a view to adding different ones later when I get the display sorted.
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I m trying to make sense of how to load a swf into a parent MovieClip and allow them to communicate.I ve attached two zip files � one which works fine and the other doesn�t. Unfortunately (for me), the one which doesn�t work is closer to my current project.I need to load movieclips into the parent movieclip. The parent movieclip has controls which rely on values parsed from the child movieclip.In the parent movieclips I wait until the loading is complete and so the values should be passed. However, the values aren�t passed unless I use a button (or timer), to pass the values (see the working exampes).The code which doesn�t work is:
Parent movieclip:
ActionScript Code: stop(); var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();[code].............
if I add a clip to the stage as a child and remove the parent and set the parent equal to null, does the child get collected and removed from memory? What if the child has an image loaded into it as its child?
In my application I'm loading a series of png images as overlays that can be tinted for customizing in this app. When I trace my memory, the basic app idles at 64,000 k. The exact second I load those overlay images it goes up to 205,000k. If I remove those clips and "clear" the stage I should go back down to 64,000 k if everything is removed and collected correctly, right? It's not, it's hanging at 215,000 k. Are my images being cached and that is the reason for the memory staying up? If so, how do I prevent that. Or upon removing the parent of the image how can I un-cache the image.
If a user switches between models and loads several different items then the application actually crashes the Flash environment because of too much memory usage. It also does the same to browsers.
I've struggled with this for a long time and have thrown in the towel. How the heck do you climb the ladder, then go back down again into another clip?
Can we make something, ie a close button, that onRelease will close the parent Movieclip, regardless of the name of that parent? I'm going to need a lot of close buttons, and I don't like the idea of coding each to close the relevant MC. I've done a bit of experimenting, but not had any luck yet.
I'm having problems with something somewhat simple. We're going to a trade show and needed a video that would randomly load a SWF clip on one scene, then I have the timeline move to another after a delay and then go to the next part to load an image, then I have it restart and do it again, for a never-ending looping video at our booth.
I'm running into an issue though, when it loops and plays the SWF for the 2nd time, the old content still remains and the new content plays over the previous one. I figured the issue was I needed to remove the previous clip before loading a new one. I found some code that I thought SHOULD work but can't seem to get it right.
I am making my first flash game, and I have very little experience. How would I make a parent of MovieClips, so I can hide all of them onLoad at once, without having to do every single one?
I have a set of movieclips that are added as children to a parent mc. I want to scale the parent mc up but keep one of the mc's in the same place on the stage. I think the easiest way to do that is to scale the mc up, calculate how far the child mc moves and move the parent an equal amount in th opposite direction. Everything works but I can't for the life of me wrap my head around the math required to calculate the distance to move the parent mc. Has anyone else tried this? Is there an easier way that I don't know about?
I want to loop through a movie clip and assign a function to each of the clip's child movieclips. when i do a for...in loop and then do a typeof() trace I get "string" and obviously it won't let me assign lets say 'onRollOver' functions to the children.
var lightBox:mc_lightbox = new mc_lightbox(); lightBox.x = 300; lightBox.y = 200; addChild(lightBox);
I get a lightbox up on the screen, within the lightbox is some more script, there are three menu options for that new window. So far when you click on it the loading part comes up just fine but whenever I have it go to another scene it leaves behind the lightbox above. I'm able to removeChild(loading) because its right there just a function above but I'm unable to removeChild(lightBox) because it's one up. How can I access that child? I tried many variations of parent, MovieClip, and root relationships but still couldn't get flash to find it.
I have two main clips with clickable clicks within each. I am using swapDepths on the two main clips in a tab navagation fashion. The problem is that if I click on the space between the nested clips in the top clip it actually is hitting the buttons(movieclips) on the other clip under it. Any suggestions?
I am creating a pile of stackable movieclips. The dragging function is not a prob but I have a problem with the parent/child relationship in the "bringtotop" function.
Code: package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.display.Graphics; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.MouseEvent; public class Colorbox extends MovieClip { [Code] .....
The error generated is : RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds. at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/setChildIndex() at Colorbox/bringtotop()
I am trying to implement a "card shuffle" animation using MovieClip instances on the stage. The instances are linked to the same class. From the class I am able to look at the numChildren of the parent: trace(this.parent.numChildren);
Let's say I have three cards on the stage with these instance names: "orange_mc", "green_mc" and "blue_mc". They are all linked to a custom class I created. On a MouseEvent I would like to bring the selected card to the top depth. I know that this would do the trick: this.parent.addChild(this);
I would like to animate the effect and it seems that to be able to do this I would need to know the depths of all the MovieClips on the stage (or at least to determine if the selected is at the top - for this, no animation would be required). I tried the following, only to get an error: this.parent.getChildIndex(orange_mc); and MovieClip(this.parent).getChildIndex(orange_mc);
i am trying to use the Tween class to change the size of movie clip to certain height.the code works for me but when resizing the parent, it effects the child.i tried the height and scaleY property for the thum, but does not work.
Let's say I am loading a movieclip from a remote url within another movieclip on another server.
This movieclip now needs to load another child movie clip on the same server as itself.
How can it get its own url and not the url of its parent container so as to load this child ? Because if it refers to "child.swf" it will be relative to the super parent container insted of the first server isn't it ? So it will not be able to load the child correctly if all it can get is the url of the parent.
I am generating some dynamic movieclips [reading polygons from SVG] and then adding them to a container movieclip [it happens to be a movieclip/class which was exported from FlashMC]. Now all these new movieclips are generated at runtime and I am not assured of their X and Y coordinates; I want them to be at a place where parent MC's co-ordiante falls.... say x:10, y:10.
Now the issue is i can not use MouseEvent.localX / stageX as I want the placement to happen soon after the MCs are generated. I hope I have described it to major extent...
I have placed 3 movieclips named mcParent, mcChild1, mcChild2 and 1 textbox in flash. child are childrens of parent movie clip. child1 and child2 both are of sizes 300 whereas parent movieclip is 600px, textbox is placed inside child2 movie clip .
I have made the flash to auto resize according to the screen area. Everything works well, but after resize it resizes parent and all childrens and textbox which is correct. The problem is with the correct placement of textbox on mcChild2. I have seen that after resize, mcParent width and scalex both changes but the child clips doesn't changed its sizes even they are stretched but there sizes are not updated due to which I am unable to get the exact location of where to place the textbox.
Is there an easy way to make a parent container (eg Group) resize when it's children resize?
Below is a little example app. When I put the 200x200 'food' in the 'stomach' the stomach & it's containing 100x100 'body' should resize to contain the food.
I have a MC with an instance name MovieClip_1 and I create another like this:[code]So basically, what I want to know is how to nest MovieClips using code, display them, and change their positions reletive to their parent MovieClip, and not the root/stage.
[code]All clips are squared.Ok, on the PlayerPlane, there are little soldiers, which have hotkeys. The effect I'm trying to create is I want to position the GameStage so that the currently selected soldier appears in the center of the GameClicker clip.The GameStage is movable by the player (to scan other areas of the map)by holding the CTRL key, so it's easy to kinda lose track of where your players are.I have tried using localTo Global and globalToLocal techniques, but I think I'm lost on the actual math of getting the GameStage to move the correct distance so that the selected soldier is centered to the GameClicker.[code]
getting hold of a reference to the object that loader might be created in So in the below example I am creating a new loader in a movieclip called "item" When the "complete" event fires, is there away for me to reference "item" through the event.I thought this might be e.currenTarget.parent or somthing...But that doesnt work.
Im trying to control a movie clip that is part of a swf from another swf file. For example. My main flash file is called index.swf. this flash files loads another flash file called image.swf within image.swf are several movie clips (mc_1, mc_2) that I need to control show hide. I need to do so directly from index.swf.This would be flash 9 action script 2.Here is the code i am trying to work with. "filter" is a movieclip on index.swf. mc_1 and so on are movie clips on image.swf. What is the path i need to define before "mcfadeTo..."[code]
I have a swf which contains a main menu bar along the top which has been added dynamically at run time. ALl the controls for this bar live inside btnHold One of these buttons loads in a new swf. There is a button within this second swf that I want to use to control the main menu bar in the top layer (I want to make it invisible for a time, or get its layer and then ensure that its not too high etc etc)However, I just can't work out how to target this btnHold from within the newly loaded swf.
button_mc (i click this and it runs the code in sampleStageNavigation timeline) sampleStageNavigation_mc (timeline that holds the ActionScript and the button_mc) sampleStage_mc (timeline - this is the one I need to access) main stage (timeline)
Within ninja.swf, there are six scenes, and in the later 5 scenes, there is an movie clip (consule2)with has a halfdozen buttons (of which one is home_btn) that serve as the navigation across the site. So, in the consule2, I set up an Actions layer, and for Home_btn, have created this piece of code:
I have movie clip A and move clip B (in the root). Move clip A load data form external swf. The swf also load data from xml (the data is xml file name) till here work perfectly.What I want is, to pass the xml file name from the move clip A swf to movie clip B on button click. What Movie clip B do is load the xml file passed from the move clip A swf.
